The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4305

When Ves participated in the design project that eventually yielded the Mars, he already held expectations that it could trigger the Cross Patriarch's second apotheosis.

Once Reginald advanced to ace pilot, it was logical for Benedict Cortez to upgrade the Mars into an ace mech.

Ves did not expect any further drastic changes after that. Reginald had already broken through at this point and exhausted his formidable accumulation.

If the leader of the Cross Clan wanted to become a stronger warrior, then he had little choice but to slowly grow his resonance strength while deepening his mastery with the Mars.

Ves also didn't expect the Mars to leap forward in terms of performance either.

The Cross Clan had invested a sizable proportion of its total wealth and assets into its development. The Crossers managed to obtain the cooperation of the top second-class development companies based in Davute and elsewhere.

Since the Mars already incorporated a lot of cutting-edge technology, it was impossible for the Cross Clan to upgrade the ace mech with significantly parts without spending ten times or even a hundred times more money!

As such, Ves simply assumed that Reginald and the Mars would undergo a slow and gradual growth process. The chances that either of them would leap ahead and gained a massive amount of strength were supposed to be minimal!

This was why Ves found it difficult to accept the dramatic changes that took place in a short amount of time.

As the Mars began to beat up the Neo Amadeus by firing concentrated attacks with its ranged weapon systems while using its superpowered flight system to stay out of the reach of its adversary's sword, Ves had no choice but to accept that the improbable had occurred!

Who knew that committing the first act of murder against a living mech could put Patriarch Reginald on this path?

"This shouldn't even happen." Ves sounded as if he couldn't accept the current reality. "There is no way that Reginald and the Mars should have gotten close to completing the first phase of the Mech Body Merger Process. This usually happens to senior ace pilots whose resonance strength has developed for a long time and has become a lot more powerful than when they have just broken through."

Ves never thought about Reginald initiating the Mech Body Merger Process at this stage because it almost always happened at the later stages of an ace pilot's progression!

In the past, Ves wasn't even qualified to know about this transcendent process. It wasn't until he became a tier 6 galactic citizen that he gained greater access to the MTA's internal library and got in touch with this high-level secret.

It turned out that when ace pilots believed that they had become powerful enough to advance to god pilot, they needed to start the long and dangerous transition to merge with their mechs.

The mech community did not understand anything about this transition in the past. Many ace pilots lost their lives as they made one mistake after another as they attempted to merge themselves with their mechs.

It was only after several hundreds years of trial and error that the MTA finally formulated a systematic roadmap for ace pilots to advance to god pilots.

The amount of casualties had dropped, but not by much, which showed how ace pilots literally had to bet with their lives in order to ascend to godhood!

The Mech Body Merger Process was split up into four phases.

The first phase was referred to as operation union. The ace pilot utilized his incredibly powerful force of will to baptize an ace mech that he had chosen to become his god mech over a long period of time.

As long as the ace pilot was powerful enough and channeled his willpower in the right way, he would eventually be able to form an indescribable connection to his ace mech that essentially turned it into his second body!

The mech industry was generally able to figure out whether an ace pilot completed this phase by testing whether the powerful individual still required a neural interface to pilot his ace mech.

If Ves and Gloriana's suspicions were correct, then Patriarch Reginald didn't even need a neural interface to control the movements and actions of the Mars!

The second phase of the Mech Body Merger Process was called domain field union. This was a process where the ace pilot was able to merge his Saint Kingdom with his bonded ace mech.

The third phase was called corporeal union. This was a highly metaphysical step where the ace pilot merged his fleshy body with his ace mech, allowing them to become one and the same.

The fourth and final phase was the most abstruse and difficult one of all. Ves had learned very little about this step, but from what he learned and what he could infer, total union described the near-impossible process where the ace pilot completely abandoned his last remaining ties to his mortality and completely merged his extraordinary willpower with his mech. This would make both of these elements one and the same, thereby causing the resulting combination to ascend into godhood!

Beginning the Mech Body Merger Process was an incredibly big deal. It wasn't supposed to happen when an ace pilot had recently broken through and only just started to make serious use of his first ace mech.

This was why Ves had incredibly mixed feelings about Patriarch Reginald's decisive act to convert the spiritual foundation of the Mars into his spiritual incarnation.

"Doesn't he know that completing the first phase of the Mech Body Merger Process has put him on the path of no return?!" Ves wondered. "There is no way for Reginald to change his mind anymore. From the moment he established a permanent bond with the Mars, they are bound in life as well as death."

Gloriana didn't look as concerned, though. "I do not think the MTA has neglected to inform Reginald of the consequences of this action. He knows. His powerful intuition should have warned him as well. Reginald has made his choice, Ves. Instead of spending decades to develop as an ace pilot and waiting for a mech designer to supply him with an ace mech that is designed to evolve into a god mech from the ground up, he has chosen to bet his future on the Mars without a second thought. I am honored that he appreciates my work so much to entrust his very life and career to our product. You should be as well, Ves. He would have never taken this step in advance if you hadn't provoked him into killing his own living mech."

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