The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5184

Ves tried his best to impart as much essential information in his presentation. He felt he did a good job at conveying the essentials so that everyone could make a judgment on how much his companion spirits and the trees that enabled their proliferation could contribute to humanity.

Over the course of his presentation, Ves constantly paid attention to his audience. He gauged their receptiveness towards his proposal and tried to figure out if any of them showed any opposition towards companion spirits.

While Ves saw a handful of concerned individuals who justifiably thought that this invention had not undergone enough rigorous testing to be utilized on actual humans, they were just the minority.

There were still plenty of other people who were so greedy for power that they fell in love with both the short term and long term benefits of obtaining a companion spirit!

No one cared whether Ves was a young second-class associate anymore. Almost everyone recognized and acknowledged the value of his companion spirits. They could easily change red humanity forever as long as the supply of companion spirit fruit trees were abundant enough!

It made sense that the first question related to mass production.

"How easy is it to scale up production and produce millions of fruits a day? Are these fruits only available from these specific trees of yours, or can they also be produced through other means, such as materialization?"

"It is not easy to scale up production." Ves admitted. "These trees are made out of repurposed astral beast flesh. They possess certain properties that cannot be obtained from cloned organic tissue or other easily accessible alternatives. Materialization is not an option because the resulting tree will miss an essential life factor that can only be gained through organic growth. The good news is that there is a good chance that you can probably use any ancient ancient beast flesh as long as it belongs to a centuries if not millennia-old life form. No matter how different the properties may be, the resulting trees will conform to a standard template to prevent any incompatibility with humans."

He had partially incorporated aspects of the Blood Cult Scarlet Oak Tree Growth Manual that he had obtained in the past.

"My research capabilities are limited. I am good in a number of specific fields, but my expertise is nowhere near as comprehensive as that of your Association. I am sure that there are many experts among you who can address many of the problems and limitations of my work."

Ves already encountered enough bona-fide cultivators within the halls of the Khamatar Reign to know that the Survivalist Faction had a good pulse on cultivation!

The Survivalists did not reject this hidden heritage. They chose to embrace it so that they could use the wisdom of the ancients to quickly get up to speed on how to take advantage of exotic radiation.

Since the Red Association was so tolerant, it should have no problem bringing together the right experts to increase the practicality of companion spirit trees.

Perhaps they might even be able to improve the efficacy of its fruits!

Ves essentially handed over the responsibility of mass production to the Association. If the mechers wanted to make companion spirits available to the masses so badly, then they were free to allocate as much manpower and resources into this project as they wished.

One of the Masters sitting in the rear asked another important question.

"How well are your companion spirit fruit trees protected against theft and unauthorized use? If our alien adversaries have managed to obtain samples of your trees and fruits, what is your estimate on whether they can reverse engineer them and develop their own variants that work for their species?"

This was a real risk, but Ves had already thought about this problem in advance.

"I have implemented numerous safeguards to prevent that from happening." Ves responded. "You might not be able to see it, but the most critical factor that allows the fruits to create companion spirits is a rare variation of E energy. It is not present in background radiation and can only be produced through extremely limited means that are under my control."

Ves did not feel comfortable with explaining the real mechanism that ensured that others were unlikely to succeed in their effort to create unsanctioned imitations of his work.

He had made a deal with Gaia to manage and oversee every single companion spirit fruit tree.

Ves was not able to make this happen by himself, but the aloof True God was able to lend a hand to make it happen after implementing a few adaptations.

Just as Ves supported all of his products from afar, Gaia had become akin to a 'tree spirit' to every companion spirit fruit tree.

It was subtle, but Gaia's faint influence played an essential role in creating the right life energy that could make the companion spirit come to life!

If her contribution was absent, then the companion spirits would possess no real life. They would end up as flawed and malformed extensions of an individual's spirituality. Ves could not foresee the consequences of stopping the transformation process before the most critical step occurred, but he did not think it would end up well for the subject in question!

The more senior attendees found the answer to be overly vague, but they understood that it was not quite convenient to ask for further clarification.

Security was a sensitive matter. It was best for Ves to limit any further explanations in front of a more limited panel of mechers.

For now, they just had to take his word that the aliens would not be able to replicate the effect of his companion spirit fruits so easily.

Ves did not believe that his companion spirit fruit trees would remain limited to humans forever.

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