The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4503

As soon as Ves made the connection between his current state and Lucky, he became astonished by the similarities.

He never expected that he would be put in a position where he could reproduce Lucky's functionary in this early stage of his career!

A crazy grin appeared on his face.

"Damn, doesn't that mean I can take over Lucky's job and produce my own gems?!"

He had always been dissatisfied with the limited production rate of Lucky's gems. If Ves could make it so that he could produce his own gems, then he no longer needed to cater to the whims of his lazy cat anymore. He could rely on his own 'output' to empower his mechs!

Now that Ves latched onto this idea, he eagerly tried to turn it into a reality!

Unfortunately, his efforts could not keep up with his ambitions.

"Damn!"

He had no choice but to suspend his current activities. He got stuck because he understood far too little how Lucky was able to work. Though it wasn't necessary for him to understand everything, the lack of any foundation meant that he was unable to direct the incoming creation energy to produce the functionality he sought!

"I'm also missing a lot of essential materials."

A lot of advanced and powerful systems required the support of exceptional materials. Ves could not reproduce materials out of nothing. He could only gradually increase the amounts of materials that were already at his disposal such as Unending alloy.

"Oh well."

Ves was only reluctantly able to modify his digestive system so that he would not poison himself to death by putting raw metals in his stomach.

Instead, it would digest the metals that it was strong enough to handle and void the ones that were too tough or troublesome to bother with. He had to make sure that none of the metals got stuck on the way out. He did not look forward to visiting the infirmary one day in order to request the doctors to 'clear' the congestion!

Ves did not have much confidence in the capabilities of the digestive system that he had shaped through his haphazard actions.

He could probably digest most low-grade exotics, but he was iffy about anything better.

"This will probably improve over time. The more my body evolves, the more it can transcend the boundaries of reality."

He could attain much better results if he implemented the same sort of digestive system to his cyborg cat. The divine artifact had absorbed the bulk of all of the exceptional energies, after all. It was much closer to reaching the state of a True God than Ves himself!

Ves turned his attention back to his self-augmentations.

In order to prevent his teeth from breaking if he ever bit on a piece of metal, he strengthened them to an unnatural degree.

Though he didn't expect to be able to chew through mechs as easily as Lucky, the strengthening was sufficient for the time being.

He moved on to adding an energy weapon to his leg.

This time, he decided to integrate a small laser weapon into his big toe. He possessed a great understanding of how energy weapons worked, and he even found a way to fool the creation energy into making tiny luminar crystals!

"It's a good thing I integrated a few luminar crystals in my Unending Regalia."

The laser weapon was incredibly small by necessity, but Ves did not ask for much. He didn't think he would ever have to depend on it to get out of trouble, but who knew what the future might hold.

In the end, Ves stopped with adding any further weapons at this point. He could think of much better ways to make use of the limited internal volume than adding more weapons.

"The CyKin Gun and the CyLas Gun should be enough."

The two names corresponded to the Cybernetic Transphasic Kinetic Ankle Gun and the Cybernetic Transphasic Laser Big Toe Luminar Crystal Gun. Though the names were a bit too unwieldy, he didn't have the time to come up with more elegant labels.

One of the factors that made these compact weapons so powerful was that they were both transphasic in nature.

The galactic energy supplied by the Red Ocean was already making its mark on Ves. Not only was his entire body slowly morphing into a state that allowed him to start integrating minute amounts of phasewater, his intuitive and theoretical understanding of phasewater had also been boosted!

It was as if he had spent years in a foreign country while struggling to learn the local language, only for him to 'get it' one day!

Right now, all of the difficult textbooks about phasewater and transphasic technology that he painstakingly read in the past became a lot more comprehensible than before.

It was as if he had whacked himself with his Hammer of Brilliance and understood all of the theories and associations that eluded him in the past!

"So that is how phasewater works!"

While he had hardly turned into an authority on phasewater, he no longer felt as stupid as before.

This was why he was able to make both of his weapons transphasic in nature.

As for where the phasewater is coming from? The creation energy directly converted a small portion of his blood into phasewater!

This was not as impressive as it sounded. His evolution was not that great, so he estimated that only 0.01 percent of his total blood volume had been converted into phasewater.

Increasing the concentration any further would begin creating health problems that Ves was highly keen on avoiding!

Ves already figured out that the concentration of phasewater was an important variable. He guessed that reaching 100 percent phasewater blood concentration was the end state for many indigenous 'gods'.

"If my guess is right, then the local versions of True Gods are incredibly powerful organic beings that have successfully converted all of their blood into phasewater!"

The fact that pretty much all of the indigenous alien races referred to phasewater as 'godblood' made a lot more sense all of a sudden!

In other words, this was the alien variety of divine ichor!

So what did it say that 0.01 percent of his own blood had turned into phasewater?

"I guess I can pass myself off as a demigod in front of the natives of the Red Ocean."

This was starting to become confusing as humanity already attached the label of a demigod to expert pilots.

"Urgh, I can think about the semantics later."

Ves took a close look at his cyborg cat.

Compared to himself, his divine incarnation was much further ahead in its evolution. He estimated that approximately 5.3 percent of his cyborg cat's total blood volume had transformed into phasewater, and this proportion was slowly rising over time!

"I knew it was a great idea to add blood circulation to my divine artifact."

In any case, the large disparity between himself and his cyborg cat showed how much weaker he was compared to his divine artifact.

Ves had to show a lot more constraint as he continued to work on himself.

"Let's finish the remaining features."

He proceeded to add a lot of systems that might be handy one day.

For example, he added a mineral scanner that would allow him to prospect for ores and metals from the environment.

He also concentrated a lot on life support systems. He added a life support suite that consisted of many small systems that could help keep him alive if he ever got stranded on an untamed planet.

The oxygen extractor could pull out oxygen from both water and air. The moisture extractor could prevent him from dying from thirst. The heat generator could keep him warm in a frozen environment. The refrigeration module could vent a lot of excess heat when it was too hot.

While these features were all useful, they took up a lot of leg real estate. Ves did not have much room left, so he needed to be careful about his remaining choices.

"Let's add a few mobility systems next."

He worked to integrate a miniature antigrav module that could allow him to float and support his entire weight under standard gravity conditions.

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