The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4381

It was hard to imagine that Ves was conducting serious research at this time.

For the last few days, he became so engrossed in his latest pet project that he behaved a little different from a little boy who had just received a brand-new toy.

The truth was not that far from the truth. Though Ves had created his fair share of innovations over the past few years, none of them were as powerful or impactful as the discovery of design spirit channeling.

By anchoring a design spirit to an object in a specific way, Ves could create a condition where the entity in question was able to interfere with the operation of the item in a material way.

This went beyond the traditional operation of design spirits in mechs and totems that had been implemented in the past.

Mechs such as the Ferocious Piranha or totems such as the Four Aspects of Lufa mostly derived their special value from their glows.

However, Ves always felt disappointed with his implementation of design spirits because entities such as Lufa could not really do anything aside from playing the role of a distant supervisor.

The only concrete actions that these spirits could take to influence the humans making use of living mechs or totems was to radiate their auras.

If they were feeling generous towards specific individuals, the design spirits could also reach deeper and communicate directly with people.

The only products made by Ves that were able to channel more than a symbolic amount of might from their design spirits were his living expert mechs.

The Riot, the First Sword and the Shield of Samar prominently demonstrated this capability in the last battle. Ves could have made the connection earlier if he studied these cases more thoroughly.

It did not surprise him that these three expert mechs happened to demonstrate power similar to what he was able to reproduce in his lab under different conditions.

Three aforementioned expert mechs were all living mechs as well as prime mechs. Not only that, but they all happened to be watched over by Qilanxo, a fairly old creature that had spent centuries growing up in an anomalous environment that was enriched with higher-dimensional energies.

The unique environment along with the wars and rivalries against other spiritually active exobeasts allowed Qilanxo to develop a rich mastery of spiritual manipulation.

Ves recalled that Qilanxo had also made a permanent pact with Venerable Orfan, Venerable Dise and Venerable Jannzi through a mysterious spiritual technique.

When Ves looked down at the weapon in his hands, understanding began to dawn in his eyes.

"It turns out that I have inadvertently reproduced this phenomenon in a simplified manner.

The relationship between Qilanxo and her so-called chosen was deep, profound and mysterious.

The relationship between the Phase King and the blessed weapons that Ves had made were not as complex.

However, these two phenomena shared a lot of similarities, which convinced Ves that their underlying principles were the same!

"It makes a lot of sense!"

The key principle was that Ves more deeply anchored the design spirit into a living product through the use of a crucial material.

Qilanxo was somehow able to substitute this material by paying another price, but Ves wasn't able to do so through his current means.

So far, the only way for him to anchor a design spirit into his living products was to use a material that possessed a high compatibility for a specific attribute of spiritual energy.

He identified two viable materials up to this point.

Black Demon Steel played well with Helena, but Ves had no way to obtain more of this metal. He had discreetly scoured the galactic net and the resource markets of Davute for any trace of it, but Ves had not even found a single record that matched its properties.

It was extremely unlikely for Ves to be able to gain more of this mysterious metal unless the System threw him another bone.

In comparison to the complete lack of availability of Black Demon Steel, phasewater could be found in every corner of the Red Ocean Dwarf Galaxy!

Sure, the demand of this liquid exotic was so extreme that ordinary people had no chance of obtaining a single drop, but the Larkinson Clan was different.

The deal he recently made with the Hexadric Hegemony ensured that the clan would receive 5 kilograms of phasewater a year!

While this was far from enough phasewater to meet all of the Larkinson Clan's growing needs, it was more than enough for Ves to build up a modest collection of powerful weapons and equipment that was blessed by the Phase King!

The central importance of materials that could anchor design spirits inside a living product was so great that Ves coined a new term to describe their role in this context.

"Let's call them sympathetic materials."

He used the word 'sympathetic' for multiple reasons. It was not only a word that described how a material might relate to a powerful living being, but also emphasized the conditional nature of this relationship.

If the design spirit refused to cooperate as was the case at the start of his first testing session, then the use of a sympathetic material made no difference.

The reality of blessed weapons was that they derived a substantial portion of their power from the source of blessing.

Fortunately, Ves had just forged a new accord with the Phase King.

The agreement essentially obliged the Phase King to lend his power to the blessed weapons that were tied to him without holding back.

In exchange, Ves would periodically bring more spiritual fish-whales to life. This way, the Phase King would have more little brothers to boss around.

Although Ves felt annoyed for adding another long-term commitment to his plate, in truth the price he paid was far less than what he got in return.

Blessed weapons performed so much better than their regular counterparts that they could truly make a difference in a battle!

Expert mech duels that would have ended in a draw or a defeat could end in victory by leveraging the strength of the Phase King!

This was because they could effectively gain more value out of the same quantity of phasewater than others. _{freeweɓnøvel.com}

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