The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4662

If Ves wanted to conduct an experiment relating to 'ghosts' with Helena's input, then he had to make it a little more convenient for her to interact with him aboard the Spirit of Bentheim.

"It shouldn't be a problem for me to create an animated totem for you to walk around and explore." He told her. "In fact, I already promised that I would do the same for our third order living mechs. I have been holding off on this side project so that I can work on my existing backlog, but I guess I can make a mechanical avatar for you first."

"You better make a pretty doll for me then!" Helena demanded. _{freēwēbnovel.com}

Ves already stood up and was making his way out of the design lab so that he could go down to his personal workshop.

"Let me start with making a quick and dirty prototype that can serve as a proof of concept. I want to test whether it is even possible and practical for you to inhabit a mechanical avatar and control it effectively enough. I have never really tried this out before with any other spiritual entity."

"I don't think there is a cause for concern, brother. I've become pretty strong, you know. I will definitely be able to control any device you make!"

"Let's see."

Once Ves reached his workshop, he only spent a few more minutes on finalizing a rough mechanical avatar design.

The rush job was incomparable to his serious products. Its design not only featured a lot of obvious suboptimal design elements, but also lacked a lot of originality as Ves just straight up copied design solutions from his older works!

Still, it should be able to function decently enough while also maintaining a fairly serviceable connection to Helena, and that was enough.

When Ves went ahead and fabricated the design using generic second-class materials that were already available in the workshop, the AP-VEX superfab quickly chugged along and completed the job in less than fifteen minutes.

As a quality first-class superfab endorsed by the MTA, Ves was continually amazed at the capabilities of the AP-Vex. It had become even more powerful in his hands after his recent evolution. His increased skills and cognitive abilities enabled him to better make use of the more advanced and intellectually-demanding features of the high-tech machine!

Ves actually spent a little more time on fabricating Helena's experimental mechanical avatar because he couldn't completely get rid of the habits he inherited from his wife.

Helena might be a self-proclaimed goddess, but she possessed a superficial understanding of technology.

Perhaps she might be able to master enough science and engineering to make her own gadgets just by existing long enough, but that would probably take decades if not longer.

For now, Helena had no idea what was going on because she did not have the necessary knowledge to interpret the complicated technical readouts of the superfab's interface.

It might as well be gibberish in her eyes!

"When are you done, brother?" Helena clung onto his back like a koala.

"Almost. You'll have your avatar in another minute or two. Look, this green light over here says that the last parts have already been fabricated. I just need to make sure to add them to the construct and complete a few checks before the machine is done."

By the time the AP-VEX superfab opened up the tray that displayed the finished product, Ves looked at his latest work with a decent amount of appreciation.

"So what do you think, sis? It looks quite pretty despite how little time I spent on its design."

"..."

"Helena?"

The spiritual entity that was clinging onto his back had grown a lot colder and more frigid this time!

"...Ves…?"

"Yes…?"

"What… is… the… meaning… of… this?!"

"It's a convenient body that you can inhabit whenever you want to extend your presence in our clan."

"Your work looks nothing like me! It's a cat! A gray cat!"

The freshly fabricated mechanical avatar turned out to resemble a black mechanical cat!

The newly-designed and fabricated cat avatar shared a great resemblance to both Lucky and Veronica. In order to make sure to differentiate the gray cat avatar from the two existing cats, he made sure to shrink its proportions by 20 percent.

Ves thought that his new cat avatar looked cute, but his sister held a different opinion.

"BROTHER!" Helena roared while she attempted to pull on his ear! "I wanted you to make a doll, not a cat! Do you think I want to go around pretending to be a cat?! I'm a death goddess! I am far more powerful than any feline!"

"Hey, don't knock it until you try it! Besides, there are good reasons why I opted to make a cat as opposed to a humanoid avatar."

"What sick and twisted reasons did you have for forcing me to become a cat?!"

Ves patiently explained his concerns with regards to the MTA. The same reason why he was reluctant to give his living mechs a humanoid interface also applied to his design spirits.

No matter how helpful they were to everyone who utilized his living mechs, there was no denying that his design spirits weren't entirely human.

Spiritual entities derived from alien life forms such as the Illustrious One, Qilanxo, Titania and the Phase King never thought of themselves as human in the first place.

Their frequent and regular contact with human mech pilots did not give them any reason to humanize themselves. They merely became more familiar with the human species, that was all. The alien design spirits all possessed a strong sense of identity and their fixed spiritual attributes made it difficult for them to deviate from their nature.

The 'human' design spirits occupied a gray area more or less. Entities such as the Solemn Guardian, Lufa and the Superior Mother possessed undeniable human roots, but their thinking patterns were completely unrecognizable.

In fact, even if a design spirit was almost perfectly identical to a normal human, Ves still didn't want to take the risk!

As Helena impatiently listened to her brother's serious concerns, she let go a bit of her anger.

She still felt pissed, but she did not blame her brother as much as before.

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