As soon as Venerable Jannzi Larkinson pressed the button, the Dullahan Project started to wake to life.
Numerous electronic systems booted up. They activated slower than usual because they needed to perform extensive internal diagnostics to confirm that they were performing normally.
At the same time, several needles and tubes extended from the piloting chair and abruptly poked into Jannzi's body!
In order to make sure that she did not make any dangerous movements, the chair also clamped down on her body so that it remained firmly in place while the crucial blood channels connected to her bloodstream!
What happened was not completely outside of her expectations, but the actual experience was much worse than its description!
In order to ensure that she did not botch this crucial process, Jannzi bit her lip and tried her best to suppress any strong reactions. She clearly understood that she needed to maintain as much control throughout this process as possible.
As soon as the needles poked into place, they first injected different chemicals into her body.
This was not the artificially cultivated blood that played an essential role to the working mechanisms of the Carmine System.
It was highly irresponsible for Jannzi to absorb a lot of foreign blood while losing much of her own. Her physical body needed to be put into the right condition first before it was ready to endure more extreme circumstances.
Jannzi felt warm as her body heated up a bit. Her veins became warmer and her heart started to pump more actively than before.
Her piloting suit efficiently absorbed all of the sweat produced by her more active body.
While all of this took place, the expert mech continued to execute its first startup process. More and more advanced mech systems came online. The powerful reactor integrated in the Dullahan Project started to kick into a higher gear so that it could fulfill the increasing demand for energy.
The expert space knight was beginning to exude more heat!
Soon enough, the neural interface started to establish a connection between Jannzi's mind and the control systems of the Dullahan Project.
This was a crucial step!
In the case of a normal mech, this process allowed the pilot to extend his awareness beyond his physical body and gain access to the functions of a mechanical machine that was countless times more powerful!
Venerable Jannzi experienced the rush of connecting to a powerful new expert mech for the first time, but the experience was not as good as the time when she first interfaced with the Shield of Samar.
However, the formation of the man-machine connection was just one of several steps needed to fully activate the Dullahan Project.
Outside of the cockpit, Ves floated in front of the torso of the massive machine.
He did not hesitate to stray closer in order to better feel the changes that took place inside.
Of course, he also kept watch over the telemetry transmitted by the Dullahan Project. His cranial implant received a direct feed that allowed him to keep track of the precise fluctuations of the booting expert mech.
A sense of power began to surge from the Dullahan Project. The customized neural interface especially designed by the Larkinson Clan's recently hired neural interface specialist was doing its job.
The Dullahan Project faintly began to glow as the man-machine connection enabled Jannzi to resonate with her new machine.
The magnitude of the resonance was not high. Part of this was because Jannzi did not want to produce a strong and dangerous reaction, but another part of it was because she had yet to recognize the new machine as her battle partner!
Ves did not look concerned. He monitored the situation closely and recognized that it was almost time to perform the most crucial steps.
After Jannzi received enough adjustments, half of the channels connected to her body started to pump foreign blood into her bloodstream!
At the same time, the other half of the channels began to siphon her native blood away from her body!
These processes took place simultaneously.
Not only that, the blood did not flow continuously through the transparent channel, but instead pulsed in or out in the cadence of a heartbeat.
No, not a single heartbeat.
There were two heartbeats.
The small and tiny human heart inside Jannzi's body did not have the strength to circulate the enormous quantity of blood flowing through the organic veins of the Carmine System.
In order to make sure that its blood circulated effectively throughout its massive biological components, Ves embedded it with an artificial heart.
This heart, which was largely based on Jannzi's DNA, began to beat in perfect synchronicity with the expert pilot's own key organ.
It was as if the Carmine System's gigantic heart machine was not a foreign component at all, but one that was always meant to circulate blood in Jannzi's physical body!
The neural interface which previously granted Jannzi awareness of the expert mech's mechanical systems now began to connect her to a part of the machine that she had never experienced before!
The sensation of connecting to an organic system was like nothing else she had ever experienced before. Yet as the Carmine System opened itself up to her influence without any rejection or complications, Jannzi instinctively felt as if she was always meant to assume control over its organic parts.
The connection and intimacy she felt towards the Carmine System exceeded that of anything that she had ever experienced in the past!
Not even the Shield of Samar in her former peak condition could match the strong sense of unity produced by the Carmine System!
This weird and novel addition to the Dullahan Project made her feel as if she and it were one and the same!
If not for the fact that the rest of the Dullahan Project was fully mechanical and operated under an entirely different and inhuman set of standards, Jannzi might have been able to embody the entire machine as if it was her own body in truth!
Although the process of connecting her body to the Carmine System turned out to be much less scary and much more pleasant than she anticipated, Venerable Jannzi did not gain the result she wanted.
She did not set out to turn the Dullahan Project into a perfect vessel that she could fully embody.
She wanted to reconnect with her long-lost battle partner.
As impatient as she may be, she understood that she needed to wait a bit longer.
The more Jannzi extended her awareness to the new and powerful expert space knight, the more she sensed the void inside the machine.
It was not a physical void. The mech frame was completely filled with matter when examined on a physical level.
No, this was a different kind of void. The more Jannzi interfaced with the Dullahan Project, the more it became obvious that there was a metaphysical void!
She found it extremely strange that this void had been deliberately left unfilled. All of the living mechs designed by Ves were completely opposite.
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