Ketis pulled off a nice trick by hiding the components of a blade in the bottom of her footwear, but the material density and hardness of the stone material that surrounded the group of captive Larkinsons was unreasonable!
It became more and more probable that this facility had truly been built to contain extraordinarily powerful individuals.
The Red Ocean Dwarf Galaxy's native alien races all sought to attain godhood by integrating as much phasewater into their bloodstreams as possible. This was extremely difficult and could kill any organism without exceptional measures and a lot of risk-taking.
Nonetheless, anyone who succeeded in this wild attempt would gain power far beyond the limits of their race!
If the path to godhood was defined by transcending one's racial limitations, then the act of injecting phasewater into an organic body definitely met the definition!
Having met a genuine phase lord in the form of the Trampler of Stars, Ves found it extremely impressive that a nunser warlord was able to fight against an ace mech like the Mars to a standstill.
Patriarch Reginald Cross had pushed himself far beyond what any ordinary human could bear, and he was also a rare talent in the mech piloting profession who had received personal tutelage from his deceased father, who also used to be an ace pilot!
By combining his prodigious willpower with an extremely expensive and powerful masterwork ace mech, Reginald and the Mars produced insane synergies, allowing this fantastic combination to challenge many threatening warships by themselves!
Back in the old galaxy, it would have been ludicrous to think that a single human could challenge such a powerful mech.
Though Ves knew better now that he had witnessed the might of the upper echelon of the FIve Scrolls Compact, that did not take away the fact that it was improbable for any organism to be able to match the power of a fully functional ace mech.
The phase lords of the Red Ocean managed to do so! Ves understood the power of these native self-proclaimed gods a lot better than anyone else because he had inadvertently started to evolve in this direction as well!
Ves and more notably Veronica had both been infused with different concentrations of phasewater.
Though Ves barely benefited from this change due to replacing just 0.01 percent of his blood with phasewater, it still gave him a taste of what he could become if he chose to continue to evolve as a phase lord!
Veronica boasted a much more impressive 7.1 percent concentration of phasewater in her cybernetic body. It was a pity that his cyborg cat was hiding in the middle of Block M at this time.
Not only had the people assigned to Block M been spared from getting kidnapped, Ves seriously doubted whether the controller of this pocket space facility possessed the means to break through his transcendent cyborg cat's formidable anti-detection capabilities!
In fact, he should be grateful that his living divine artifact remained in normal space. Veronica provided him with a strong guarantee that he would be able to claw himself back to life if his main body failed to make it out of this ancient pocket space alive.
He would rather have Veronica in the same space, though. If she managed to utilize her material mimicking abilities to circumvent the security measures of these alien facilities and escape her cell, then she would have been able to roam the other areas and find a way to free the other captives!
The absence of his most powerful cat to date limited a lot of his options, but that did not mean he had reached a dead end.
He still had plenty of cards up his sleeve. The most valuable of them all was entering System Space.
Having accumulated a lot of Ascension Points due to completing one Mission after another, he could do anything from buying a ready-made weapon from the Divine Bazaar, to purchasing a powerful metal and proceeding to forge it into a serviceable greatsword to give Ketis a much more effective means of hacking through walls.
He was reluctant to resort to the Mech Designer System right away. Those Ascension Points were hard to come by and he would rather save them up for a powerful Enlightenment Fruit that could open fantastic new possibilities for his mech designs.
This was why he was trying to think of more economical solutions to get out of this cell.
He turned towards his gem cat, whose teeth still ached after he tried and failed to bite through the stone floor.
"Miaow miaow miaow."
"Meow… meow…"
Clixie tried her best to console Lucky by licking his metallic face.
It appeared that Ves could not expect any help from the gem cat for the time being. The ancient alien cells were so well constructed that they even countered the properties of Lucky's phasing and material chomping abilities!
Ves became more and more intrigued at the nature of the materials that made up the cells. He refused to believe it was cut out of a rocky mountain. The walls had to be manufactured.
He even thought about how he could claim this powerful material for himself!
If he could break this entire facility down and move all of the blocks of stone to his clan, then he could utilize it to build the most impenetrable fortress in Davute.
Better yet, he might even be able to use it to build a mech or a starship that was practically impenetrable against both phase lords and phase whales!
"Let's not get ahead of myself." He whispered to himself.
There was no way he could realize any of these dreams if he and his relatives still remained stuck in the same place!
In order to get back on track, he inspected his own gear. Aside from equipping himself with the Unending Regalia with all of the auxiliary features that came with it, he also carried a few of the tools he regularly kept on his person.
The mech designers stuck in the same cell were already making good use of his Vulcaneye multiscanner, which was probably the most useful piece of auxiliary gear in his possession.
Aside from that, he carried the Hammer of Brilliance, the Hammer of Melody, a signal jammer, his comm, an emergency one-use teleporter, a pouch of Lucky's gems and several other knick knacks not worth mentioning.
Each of these tools could play a useful role in the right circumstances, but none of them possessed the power to get him and his people out of this confining space!
For example, Ves was pretty sure that this entire facility inhibited teleportation unless it was done by its controllers. Forcibly making use of his teleporter would either waste this expensive gadget or produce a fatal outcome that would certainly be ugly!
"Wait a minute."
Lucky and Clixie weren't the only cats at his disposal.
They also had their companion spirits!
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