The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4900

The Ghost Project came a lot closer to completion once Master Benedict Cortez integrated it with resonating exotics.

The incomplete design truly took on the character of an expert mech at this point!

Although the Larkinson Clan had to pay an exceedingly high price to purchase and ship a batch of extremely valuable first-class exotics from the Zelmar Upper Zone, their effects were far too strong and useful to pass over!

When the mech designers involved in this difficult but increasingly more promising expert stealth mech started to simulate the performance of the Ghost Project in all kinds of combat and infiltration scenarios, they reacted with both glee and fear.

"Hehehe." Ves grinned as he observed a rerun of a simulated mission where the Ghost Project sneaked close to the Palace of Shame before activating its Geist System.

The ghostly fiends that emerged from the hidden expert mech completely turned the periphery of the alien asteroid base as well as many of the alien warships in the vicinity into purgatory!

Even after the aliens learned that they had come under attack by a hidden but nefarious enemy, their warships and starfighters failed to detect the Ghost Project in their midst!

The combination of Venerable Zimro Belson's intuition, the emission dampening effect of Emdar Alloy and the cutting-edge Seferath AQ-3M active stealth system, the inadequate sensor systems of the indigenous alien races had no way of detecting the Ghost Project!

The only measure that could stop the Ghost Project from attacking sensitive areas and the more interior portions of the Palace of Shame was solid transphasic energy shields, but even that was not a guarantee of safety.

This was because the fiends under the Ghost Project's control could theoretically bypass every obstacle, no matter whether they were energy shields or many meters of thick materials!

Although Ves did not have a solid idea how far these fiends empowered by true resonance were able to move away from their source, he did not expect them to be able to move too far away.

The Geist System was both their source of strength and the tether that kept them in control. If the spiritual specters were able to exceed their range limitations, then that meant that they had lost a lot of power but also became completely free and unrestrained!

For now, Ves assumed that ghosts such as Mephisto the Firstborn could only move a few hundred meters away at most.

Still granted the Ghost Project a lot of capacity for destruction, but it was not enough to infiltrate and sabotage large fortifications and capital ships so long as they kept up their energy shields.

Even so, the expert stealth mech in its current form already represented a terror off the battlefield!

"Imagine what it can do to the Friday Colonies." Gloriana gasped as she pulled up a graph that displayed how much damage it could do if it was left unchecked in a star system. "As long as we pair it up with a stealth carrier, the Ghost Project can ruin entire planets over the course of a week, maybe several if there are a lot of settlements. So long as our opponents do not have powerful detection methods, a single expert stealth mech can do anything from assassinating key leaders, sabotaging expert mechs when they are dormant and destroying key infrastructural targets. The Fridaymen's ambitions in the new frontier could be brought to heel with the power of a single expert mech!"

That was an outrageous story and one that Ves did not look keen on realizing.

"Please do not go overboard and exaggerate the Ghost Project's impunity, Gloriana. Our Ghost Project remains highly effective as long as we use it sparingly. The more it is used, the more it exposes its capabilities to our enemies. Its mystery will be gone and our foes will prepare more adequate countermeasures in order to guard against another attack. This upcoming asset of ours is best served as a hidden blade rather than an obvious hammer."

Master Benedict Cortez nodded his head. "I agree with your husband. The deterrence factor is far more useful than its actual implementation. It is enough to expose its existence and give your enemies a hint of what it can do. That is enough to make your rivals and enemies fear your retaliation."

His words rang true to Ves. Just because the Larkinson Clan invested a huge amount of time, money and resources into designing and building a lot of mechs did not mean that they wanted to throw them into battle non-stop!

The Larkinson Clan grew quickly because it was able to accumulate a lot of strength in times of rest and loot a lot of bountiful spoils in times of action!

Ves did not believe that his clan would be able to do nearly as well if it committed heavily to one or the other.

The same dynamic applied to the use of the Ghost Project. If he and his clan had to employ it against others on a non-stop basis, then something had gone terribly wrong!

"Even if I had a reason to take action against the Friday Colonies, I wouldn't be foolish enough to do what you have described." Ves told Gloriana. "Our Ghost Project may theoretically be able to circumvent the vast majority of detection methods, but the Seferath AQ-3M is not infallible, you know. Optaar Integrated Systems has warned me that there are first-class detection systems that can overpower its active stealth measures as long as they are fed with lots of energy. The Fridaymen can also call upon their ace pilots to hunt down our stealth asset."

It would be game over once an ace mech found a trail and managed to sniff out the Ghost Project!

All of the damage amplification bestowed by Denissium Maximum would not help at all at this point!

There were ways to make the Ghost Project even deadlier than now, but there were two reasons why that was not a good choice.

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