Ves had witnessed examples in the past where two strong sources of willpower joined forces and combined their strengths.
The Embodiment of Love and Sacrifice piloted by Saint Sandro Gemini and Saint Kaia Gemini produced extremely impressive results during Operation Lighthouse.
The two ace mechs were not only able to merge physically with each other, but also seamlessly blended their Saint Kingdoms.
The result was an amalgamation that allowed the two junior ace pilots to exert much of the effective combat power of a senior ace pilot!
The synergy that Saint Sandro and Saint Kaia demonstrated at the time had made a powerful impact on Ves.
The Geminis successfully developed an approach where they could combine several weaker assets in order to produce results that they should not be able to pull off in theory!
The combination between the Embodiment of Love and the Embodiment of Sacrifice easily possessed the effective combat power of three ace mechs!
It was as if the Gemini Family obtained an entire ace mech for free!
Of course, this was a bit of an exaggeration. Saint Sandro and Saint Kaia had to endure additional strain and other burdens in order to maintain their merged state. They expended their resources a lot faster as well as they could not keep their heightened intensity for a long period of time.
"It's still a powerful advantage!"
Ves dreamt of replicating this powerful form of synergy. freёwebnoѵel.com
The problem was that even if he managed to get his hands on a suitable dual cultivation method, he did not want to turn his Larkinson Clan into a mirror of the Gemini Family!
He would rather slit his throat than command the close relatives among his mech pilots to marry each other!
This was why he started to build up an expectation towards making a living mech develop willpower as well.
First he had to find out whether it was even possible.
Ves only had access to only a single instance of an entity other than a human developing extraordinary willpower.
Even then, he wasn't even sure whether she could be classified as a human due to the nature of her existence.
He met with Ketis in her own design lab. The swordmaster was in the middle of tinkering with the configuration of the Storm Sword Project when his arrival interrupted her work.
"What's up, Ves?"
"Can I take a look at Sharpie? I am currently engaged in research related to willpower, so I need to take a good look at your companion spirit in order to figure out how she is able to form her own force of will."
Ketis looked skeptical at his request, but she obliged anyway.
The Bloodsinger floated into her arms. She drew out her personal greatsword and called out her companion spirit.
"Sharp! Sharp! Heaven! Heaven!" A cute and squeaky voice called as Sharpie dove out of the impressive weapon!
Ves observed the Bloodsinger for a few minutes. He could not help but notice that Ketis had essentially engaged in a form of artifact cultivation all this time.
Her greatsword had undergone years of slight willpower baptism, causing it to grow stronger, sharper and more extraordinary.
Ever since the Age of Dawn had begun, Ketis had been able to accelerate the Bloodsinger's transformation by making use of a part of the ambient spiritual energy in the environment!
What interested Ves quite a bit was that the processes utilized by Ketis and her companion spirit did not appear to be as primitive and rudimentary as other self-developed cultivation methods.
It resembled a more mature and structural cultivation method developed by cultivation organizations with long inheritances!
Ves immediately formed a guess.
"Ketis... has traditional swordsmanship become a lot more powerful now that we are all bathing in the light of Messier 87?"
"Heaven! Heaven!" Sharpie enthusiastically nodded.
Ketis smirked. "You're not the only one here who has access to secret knowledge. While I don't have access to the best swordmasters or the extensive libraries located in the Heavensword Association, our fleet has recruited a lot of people from that state. They have learned a lot of old traditions that turned out to be surprisingly useful in this new age. We also have access to a modest virtual library that contains a lot of textbooks, some of which have been written so long ago that we don't know the exact dates. Their contents had never been taken seriously by the Heavensworders because it was all nonsense, but now that E energy radiation has become available, that is no longer the case."
She elaborated a bit on what the Heavensworders had discovered. Their sword styles and traditional methods had become a lot more effective now that their conditions have changed.
"Now that traditional swordsmanship has reconnected to exotic radiation, many ancient and traditional training methods and sword styles have gone through a revival. Our swordsmen and swordswomen are progressing faster than before, and it has also become a lot easier for them to execute extraordinary sword techniques."
"Have their chances of breaking through increased as well, Ketis?"
"I think so. I expect more swordmasters to arise from our ranks fairly soon." Ketis said with a touch of satisfaction. "They won't be able to make much of a difference in the battles that we are typically engaged in, but you never know. If any of them have the opportunity to become sword saints in the future, then their ability to fight against larger opponents will not be small."
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