The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4482

After browsing all of the offerings of the Divine Bazaar, he failed to find a material that suited all of his needs.

"I knew it wouldn't be easy." Ves sighed.

The Divine Bazaar offered a random selection of high-end goods at various prices. Roughly half of the available products were tied to the mech industry, but the other half was obviously related to the Five Scrolls Compact.

This presented Ves with a dichotomy of options that were incredibly useful when used for specific purposes, but wasteful in many other circumstances.

As a mech designer, Ves found it easy to judge the materials that could be used to make a mech. He never heard of most of them, but that did not stop him from reading the descriptions and gaining an intuitive sense of what he could do with a particular resource.

"Just because they're useful for mechs doesn't mean they are useful for my current project."

He faced a different problem when it came to materials related to spiritual engineering.

The Five Scrolls Compact and its many off-shoots not only made use of a lot of very weird materials, but also labeled them with strange and superstitious names.

"What can I expect from a bunch of crazy cultists?"

Ves shouldn't judge the exotic materials utilized by the cultists too much, though. No matter what, their abilities and powers were real, so they definitely knew what they were doing when they made use of all of these strange materials.

As Ves compared the materials used by mech designers with the materials used by spiritual sorcerers, he found that the latter possessed an undeniable advantage.

"The Compact not only has access to spiritually reactive materials, but possesses the method to produce more of them. What is their secret?!"

Ves had spent a lot of time and effort to find more materials like P-stones, B-stones and Unending alloy without much luck.

There had to be some places in the Milky Way or the Red Ocean where he could find deposits of spiritually reactive materials, but he hadn't found any up to this point.

He suspected that it was pointless for him to search in ordinary places.

The two most likely locations where he could find what he needed was inside an anomalous region like the Nyxian Gap or an exceptionally energy-dense region.

Ves found it far too dangerous to stray in another hazardous region of space like the Nyxian Gap.

As for energy-dense regions, these were places like the galactic center in the old galaxy and the upper zones in the new frontier where the richest resources could be found.

Ves and his clan didn't have the qualifications to wander around an upper zone at will. Not yet at least.

"I guess the Divine Bazaar is my only available channel for spiritually reactive materials for the time being." He sighed.

He did have an idea on how he might be able to make a substitute for a P-stone. He just needed to conduct a lot of research and experimentation before he could be certain about his new theory.

Ves didn't have time for that, and any substitute material he could make wouldn't be strong enough for his needs.

His cyborg cat needed to be able to take a hit in order for Ves to feel assured about the safety of his divine artifact.

Fortunately, the Divine Bazaar offered several materials that seemed up to standard. Most of them were over his budget, but there were also cheaper materials that were just as strong but weren't valued as much.

"It mostly has to do with how useful they are and how widely they can be applied."

[Infected Lead from the Sixteenth Heaven]

Price: 109 Ascension Points

This metal bar bears the properties of lead originating from the Sixteenth Heaven. It is infected by an unknown influence that has corrupted and distorted its properties. The infected lead has gained new traits at the cost of weakening other traits. The infected lead can become an excellent carrier of one element after undergoing specific treatment, but will block and reject other elements.

This material sounded like a combination between Unending alloy and B-stone. It could probably absorb a lot of spiritual energy but only of a single attribute while rejecting the rest.

This was a useful property that Ves could use to make a lot of helpful products, particularly ones oriented towards defense!

"It would make for a perfect helmet material for my Unending Regalia! I can defend myself against spiritual attacks while also channeling my spiritual abilities without too many restrictions!"

If not for the fact that Ves didn't want to squander 109 Ascension Points, he would have bought this infected lead without question!

Sadly, he had to give up on this promising idea as well as many other ones in order to focus on what was important.

"I can't go for anything that is too extravagant. I need to settle for a more modest material that can still offer a specific benefit."

While he eventually planned to upgrade the exterior parts of his cyborg cat with superior versions made out of better materials, it might take years for that to happen.

In the meantime, his divine artifact was bound to develop and mature in a direction set by its initial form and functionality.

If he made a cyborg cat that was good at generating energy shields, then it would likely develop more abilities and become a lot better at this job over time.

If he made a cyborg cat that possessed an active stealth system and could hide its presence, then it would only become a lot more difficult to detect when it grew older.

This was why Ves did not necessarily pay attention to the strength of the materials. It was much more relevant for him to study and understand their unique properties.

Ves had always desired to gain the ability to defeat a larger threat on his own. Perhaps a divine artifact might be able to satisfy his need due to its special properties. _{freёwebnovel.com}

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