The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5054

The leaders of the Golden Skull Alliance couldn't decide on their next course of action.

Their current strategy was not that impressive at the moment. For now, the expeditionary fleet had settled on Intercepting any nearby alien raiding fleets in order to earn easy sums of MTA merits and bulk salvage.

So long as their scouts diligently scouted the environment and prevented any alien forces from sneaking up without notice, the expeditionary fleet had a good chance of taking down three to five raiding fleets while incurring only minimal losses.

Ves did not necessarily object to doing this for a time. The Larkinson Clan needed a lot of MTA merits to acquire high technologies and gain access to greater services that were necessary to form a small but fully-fledged first-class fleet.

However, what Ves desired even more was phasewater!

Many of his new and upcoming Larkinson mech design projects demanded the acquisition of a huge amount of phasewater!

Without thousands of kilograms of this highly desirable substance, there was no way for the Larkinson Clan to fabricate all of the Storm Swords, Elephant Projects, Transcendent Punisher Mark Ill's and other transphasic mechs needed to comprehensively upgrade the Larkinson Army!

What he needed was gigantic quantities of phasewater, and the only way of obtaining what he and his clan required was to attack a more important alien target.

Right now, that either meant attacking the Ophidia System or the Eminent of Torment.

The former was a lot easier to accomplish, but it still entailed a relatively tough fought against large quantities of alien assets!

The amount of phasewater that the expeditionary fleet could obtain from this alien staging area would also be limited. Numerous interrogations already revealed that the aliens periodically shipped away all of the truly valuable goods.

No, the real goal that Ves and his clan should be striving for was claiming the Eminence of Torment's bounty!

Not only would the Golden Skullers gain the right to field a genuine warship, but they were bound to harvest much greater quantities of phasewater!

The phase lord's fleet was bound to accumulate a lot of phasewater.

This was because the staging area at the Ophidian System occasionally transferred batches of this vital substance to the Eminence of Torment rather than any important alien strongholds in the rear.

Even if the so-called Torment Fleet did not have a lot of readily available phasewater on hand, the Golden Skull Alliance could always extract it from the phase lord's flesh!

The Eminence of Torment's apparent body was only a condensed version of his true form.

Just like the Trampier of Torment, his real body must be at least as large as a small starship!

Even if the concentration of phasewater in his enormous mass of flesh and blood did not exceed 0.1 percent, that still amounted to a huge quantity of phasewater in absolute terms!

Ves felt pained by the fact that the bodies of the phase whales that the expeditionary fleet defeated in the past ended up in the hands of the Mech Trade Association.

Aberrant or not, any phase whale could easily contain thousands of kilograms of phasewater on account of their substantial mass!

The MTA merits he received for defeating the unclean whales and criminal whales paled in comparison to the profits earned by the mechers.

The Red Two were the greatest scammers in the Red Ocean! No other organizations had become so proficient at robbing people of their spoils and making their victims feel grateful in the process!

Ves narrowed his eyes.

If the Golden Skull Alliance somehow managed to track down and Intercept the Eminence of Torment, he did not believe the Red Two would be able to arrive quickly enough to claim the carcass for themselves.

The rules and regulations surrounding the bounties did not state anything about needing to surrender the entire bodies to the Red Association or the Red Fleet.

This was not always possible as the carcass of a dead phase lord may be too big and heavy to ship back to human space in a short amount of time.

The additional risks and troublesome logistics might also deter a lot of pioneering organizations from putting a lot of effort into hunting down the native gods.

In short, this was a good opportunity to defeat a phase lord and carve up his exceptional body before the Red MTA arrived to steal away the best spoils!

Ves met with Calabast in private in order to ask a few additional questions.

"Do you have any indication of the concentration of phasewater inside's Eminence of Torment body and blood stream?"

"No. That is not the sort of information that mortal aliens should be aware of." Calabast replied. "We can only draw from a variety of sources that the Eminence of Torment has only barely become a phase lord. He is over 800 standard years old but he has never made any progress due to his injured condition. The other orvan gods hold him in contempt because of this. There are rumors that the reason why the Eminence is assigned to oversee the raids on human space is because he has taken refuge in the Red Cabal. He is hoping that the phase whales will agree to cure his condition in exchange for his service."

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