The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4786

Chapter 4786 Inventory Exploit

"Haha, the energy shields are no longer active. Phasewater, here I come!"

As soon as Ves returned to the storage hall that contained hundreds of alien phasewater barrels, he started to track down the containers that still contained traces of diluted phasewater.

He had already mapped them out during his first exploration, so he knew exactly where to go. He passed through the perimeter that used to be protected by an energy shield with ease and immediately sought to pry open the top of the long 'barrel' so that he could siphon away the phasewater. _{freeweɓnovel.cѳm}

Getting the phasewater out of the barrel was a bit awkward. Ves needed to fly into the barrel and maintain a careful distance above the stagnant pool before extending a pipe to suck the phasewater into a special storage container built into his armor.

Once he loaded up on the diluted substance, he entered the System Space and dumped his cargo into the so-called Vault of Eternity, which claimed to be able to hold anything at any quantity.

Ves repeated this process a few times until he encountered a new situation.

He couldn't enter the System Space anymore.

"What the hell? System! What's wrong!?"

[The user is currently exploiting an unintended interaction based on the Inventorization of his equipment. The Mech Designer System must bear an increasing burden to store the net inflow of additional material that is only tangentially related to your Inventorized item. 1 existing rule has been clarified and 1 new rule has been established. They are as follows:]

[Any Inventorized object can bring in additional material objects to the System Space provided that it does not exceed the volume of a standardized unit scaled to the Inventorized object. The Vault of Eternity will also only be able to accommodate objects up to the same standardized unit volume.]

[If the user wishes to acquire additional storage space in the Vault of Eternity, he must rent it from the Vault of Eternity at an escalating charge. 1 cubic meter can be rented for 10 Ascension Points, up to a limit of 10 cubic meters. Every cubic meter after that can be rented for 100 Ascension Points, up to a limit of 100 cubic meters. This pattern will repeat into infinity. The renting period is 1 standard year starting from the instant you have rented the spaces.]

Ves' expression grew incredibly ugly at this point.

Ever since the Mech Designer System completed its update and unveiled the System Space, Ves had entered it numerous times without noticing the full implications of what was happening.

Not only did he enter it with his full body, he also came with all of his clothes and all of the objects he carried on his person!

None of them had been Inventorized, but the System decided to pull them in anyway, which Ves was grateful for as it allowed him to keep his modesty.

However, this interaction also proved that it the System did not need to apply any special treatment to pull objects into its mysterious System Space. It could probably pull in anything provided that it wasn't anything exaggerated like an entire capital ship or a whole planet.

What really stopped Ves from bringing in anything substantial was the rules set by the System itself.

This was where his Unending Regalia came in. Ever since he used one of his tickets to Inventorize it and thereby bind it to the System, he noticed that he could pull it in even when he altered or upgraded its configuration.

This proved that any Inventorized object did not have to permanently remain stuck in its original form. It could be damaged, upgraded, downsized and even upsized and still be able to dematerialize and return to the Vault of Eternity as a whole!

What he did last time stood out as a particularly dramatic example of this interaction. Ves had stripped out the original Unending alloy exterior plating and put thin layers of transphasic first-class alloys in their place.

All of the plates remained attached to the Unending Regalia without any issue!

Ves then came up with the theory that he could continue to bring in objects as long as they were attached to his combat armor in a somewhat plausible manner.

The System's mechanism for bringing in Inventorized objects would conduct an automatic test that determined whether anything attached to it was 'part' of the combat armor.

Using glue to attach additional objects that had nothing to do with the combat armor or his personal loadout seemed to be enough. That was how he was able to import almost an entire skeleton into his System Space which included the whole pelvis!

He had hoped the System would stay shut and allow him to proceed as he wished, but the damn System didn't play along.

It was alive and it could think. It could spot damn well that Ves was trying to pull the wool over its eyes.

Treating it as a regular dumb automated system was a serious mistake.

Fortunately, the System did not impose any penalties. It just clarified the situation and implicitly acquiesced to his behavior.

After Ves spent the following minutes on testing the new limitations, he found that the maximum volume of free storage space that he obtained roughly corresponded to the dimensions of a rectangular container that could hold his Unending Regalia in an unpacked form.

If Ves could create a box with straight sides and put his Unending Regalia inside, then he could pour in a lot of additional water up until it reached the upper edge.

This was how much additional stuff he could effectively bring into the System Space!

Anything after that required him to pay precious Ascension Points to free up more storage space in the Vault of Eternity.

What rankled him the most was that the cheapskate of a Mech Designer System did not sell those spaces outright, but rented them on a yearly basis!

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