The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4500

The lightning baptism continued. Ves and his incarnations continued to grow stronger in ways that made him fearful of how much of his original self would be left at his end.

Although he had already made peace with the fact that he had sacrificed his humanity, the depth and scope of the transformations went way beyond anything he could have anticipated from the start!

He did not believe the scope and magnitude of punishment by lightning was normal by any means.

The reason why it was so much bigger and more destructive was because Ves had lived a more eventful life than most entities despite his relative youth.

"It also doesn't help that I never received any proper warning!"

Nothing in his knowledge base taught him how to defend, mitigate or avoid the punishment from 'the heavens'.

Unlike his prior interactions with the Milky Way Galaxy and the Red Ocean Galaxy, the System was no longer able to provide him with any further VIP treatment.

This suggested that the lightning storm was sent out by a different and potentially greater authority!

Ves truly couldn't imagine what sort of living existence could exceed the power and authority of an entire galaxy.

Was it a galaxy group? A supercluster? Perhaps the force that was responsible for forming this lightning storm might be standing for the entire universe!

That sent a bolt of fright through his mind.

Ves could never possibly challenge a living entity of that magnitude!

He recalled his earlier words and would have sweated if his sweat glands hadn't been dried out by the continuous electrical shocks.

Why did he taunt such a powerful existence? He could never withstand the power of a great existence once it directed more of its attention in his direction!

While Ves did not renounce any of his principles and beliefs, he was not as stubborn and inflexible as a high-ranking mech pilot.

He knew when to bend and keep his head down when he was confronted by an overwhelming party.

He had done so towards the Bright Republic, the Friday Coalition, the Hexadric Hegemony up to the Mech Trade Association.

Ves merely bided his time during the moments where he bent the knee. He had already surpassed a couple of those parties by this time, and he had no doubt he would surpass the rest as long as he experienced enough growth.

No matter who was responsible for sending out this unjust and illegal punishment mechanism, Ves would eventually ascend high enough to be in a position to punch the culprit in the face in person!

Of course, that was a matter for the far future. He needed to solve his immediate problem first!

Employing Blinky was just a temporary solution. While his companion spirit was visibly growing stronger and more capable, the same problem existed as before. _{ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com}

He and his cats couldn't keep up with the growth in power of the incoming lightning bolts!

Ves performed a lot of mental calculations that compared the growth of his ability to resist the incoming destruction energy to the growth in power of the incoming lightning bolts.

Since the lightning storm appeared to be increasing the power of consecutive lightning strikes on a linear scale, it was quite easy for him to calculate how long it would take before his defenses might get overwhelmed.

"I have 7 minutes and 33 seconds to come up with a solution!"

Ves grew nervous again. Although the recent changes enabled him to tolerate the lightning strikes a lot better than before, it wouldn't take long before his flesh would start to get increasingly more fried.

A huge amount of pressure piled onto his shoulders. His thoughts were racing as he tried his best to figure out a means to strengthen his defenses further.

"It's as if I am thrown back into a design tournament again."

The circumstances were familiar to him. He was put into a position where he had way too little time to come up with a proper solution to the current problem.

There was no way that Ves could come up with a way to cobble together a proper means to resist the escalating power of the lightning strikes.

Material objects didn't seem to make a difference and his inability to leave the Sacred Hearth prevented him from buying an emergency solution from the Divine Bazaar.

Ves could only work with what he had at the moment, which wasn't much.

A normal person would have despaired and given up on the spot.

A competent mech designer was different, though!

This wasn't his first rodeo. He already understood the attitude he needed to assume to dig his way out of this hole.

"If I don't have the time to come up with a proper solution, then I'll just have to resort to a quick and dirty one instead!"

Ves needed to think outside the box and make use of any or every resource at his disposal.

He first examined his body. There was hardly anything that was originally human about his half-alien body. His genes and biology had been altered to the point where he was like a beast in human form, but even that was not enough to resist the power of high-level destruction.

Only his Jutland organ was able to fare well under the circumstances, but that only compromised a small part of his body composition.

He then glanced at his Unending Regalia and noted how little it contributed to his defense. Neither its Unending alloy nor its B-stone components played any role in blocking the incoming strikes.

The only contribution it made to his defense was futilely trying to ease his overburdened body by regulating the internal temperature and injecting his body with useless medicinal substances.

He glanced at his two cats. Both of his feline incarnations were doing much better at resisting the incoming energies.

There wasn't much he could do to improve Blinky's efficiency. The poor Star Cat was already working as hard as he could.

Ves had no way to improve his companion spirit's alien-derived digestion system because he did not understand any of its working principles.

It might as well be a black box as far as he was concerned!

"I need to remedy that in the future."

His cyborg cat presented a much more optimistic sight. He had personally designed and fabricated it not too long ago. The living divine artifact which was growing increasingly more conscious and aware of its own existence might be undergoing a massive qualitative transformation, but its fundamental concept should still be the same!

"Upgrading my cyborg cat's capabilities is the key to surviving this lightning storm!" Ves concluded.

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