The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4779

Chapter 4779 Decayed

"...What are you doing, Ves?"

"Isn't it obvious, sister? I'm charging the skull!"

"I am not blind, brother, but what is the purpose of doing this?! You are expending your energy and wearing down your mind by doing this. Shouldn't you be conserving your strength for what may come?!"

"I am not losing any of the energies I am putting inside this skill." Ves stated as he waved the glowing skull that he held in between his armored hands. "If you look carefully, this container is doing an excellent job at isolating its contents. Besides, I am extremely curious how this skull is automatically separating spiritual energy provided by different sources and how I can best leverage this property."

To be honest, Helena was right to be concerned.

This was because Ves kept connecting with different design spirits so that they could deposit their unique energies into his latest toy.

Since David's skull could continue to store these energies without causing them to contaminate each other, Ves wanted to find out if there were any limits!

If his suspicions about not possessing a limit was true, then Ves could think about a lot of possible uses for the skull!

Of course, he needed to make sure he did not inadvertently damage it or alter its fundamental qualities in the process. He wanted to see if he could find a practical application for this object that would provide him with a bit of additional assistance in this time of need.

It certainly seemed powerful enough to hide a lot of potential uses.

He had a feeling that Master Benedict Cortez would probably go crazy if the man found this magical skull.

Although Ves did not have a good understanding of what primordial humans and their bones were capable of, he could already conclude that David's skull was absolutely more remarkable than Object 335 which was meant to become the heart of the Geist System that he developed for his upcoming expert stealth mech!

Ves interrupted his current activity of channeling different spiritual energies into David's skull and directed a perplexed expression towards his sister.

After moving on from the disassembled pile of bones, the two had resumed their journey to the bottom of the ancient prison complex.

His sister looked a lot happier than before. Finding the well-preserved skeleton of a powerful primordial human that somehow got stranded in the Red Ocean over 100,000 years ago had been an unexpected gift to her. The Oblivion Empire that their mother had built in the Nyxian Gap secretly spent a lot of effort searching for one, but the chances of finding one was practically nil.

Too much time had passed in the Milky Way for such remains to be lying on the streets. Helena knew that the influence of the Five Scrolls Compact was too pervasive. Whether it was the Age of Conquest or the Age of Mechs, the Compact maintained a lot of reach.

The secretive cult's tentacles had stretched to every star sector and it had raised countless subordinate organizations that could search for anything of interest. It was obvious that the Compact would have an extremely high interest in retrieving any primordial human skeletons that hadn't already been destroyed by aliens or the ravages of the galaxy.

After all, if Cynthia Larkinson could bring her corporeal self back to life and mend the wounds to her most inner core, then so could the highest practitioners of the Compact!

Aside from that, the Big Two would definitely not let go of the remains of primordial humans either. Helena's eyes narrowed for a time when she went over the horror stories that her mother passed on to her. The Mech Trade Association especially rankled her due to how far it was willing to go to chase after ultimate power.

Even if the Oblivion Empire managed to secure a whole and complete skeleton of a strong enough primordial human back in the old galaxy, her mother's problems still wouldn't be over.

Depending on how much it became exposed to the environment, it could have become contaminated with all kinds of messy elements.

If the skeleton also came from an individual who had only died fairly recently, then the strong imprint and attachment to the bones made it virtually impossible for others to make use of it. The remains would have to be refined over a long period of time with resources that were pretty much unattainable to the Oblivion Empire.

David's skeleton therefore came as an enormous relief!

The only difficulty that bothered Helena was transporting it all the way back to the Milky Way before subsequently sending it to the Nyxian Gap.

It was impossible to employ a normal courier service for this crucial task. The Big Two inspected every piece of cargo that passed through the greater beyonder gates and the lesser beyonder gates. There was no way a primordial skeleton could ever get through without triggering a lot of alarms!

The only other way to bring David all the way to the Nyxian Gap was to have Ves use his strange and surprisingly effective dimensional storage capability to his advantage to smuggle the precious primordial skeleton over in person.

She didn't know how her brother would respond to such a request. Ves had invested so much into the Red Ocean that even a temporary departure would mess up all of his plans and arrangements in the new frontier.

It was due to this heavy demand that she was reluctant to raise the request to her brother.

On the one hand, she wanted her mother to get healed from her affliction that constantly caused her to leak out her power as if she was a starship that suffered a hull breach that couldn't be repaired.

On the other hand, she wanted Ves to remain happy and keep thriving in a dwarf galaxy where the hand of the Five Scrolls Compact still remained weak. Sending him back to the old galaxy would bring him far too close to the agents of the dreaded cult.

Though she said nothing during these minutes, Ves was sharp enough to pick up on her unease. He could easily guess the reason why she felt so troubled.

"Let us discuss what we will do with David after I have survived this ordeal. There is little point in worrying about it now when I am still in unfriendly territory. We need to focus on the matters at hand."

Helena nodded. "You are right. By the way, I think we are approaching a site of greater importance."

Ves turned his attention back to the path ahead. They had passed through a few halls and moved down to the lowest level of the facility.

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