5348 Alexa's Companion Spirit
Ves already had plenty of experience in creating custom companion spirits. There was almost no chance of failure.
Since Blinky was tasked with doing the heavy lifting, his abilities were extremely crucial to the delicate process.
Fortunately, the Blinky had only grown more powerful since the start of the Age of Dawn.
The Imaginary Universe Method mainly focused on increasing his energy reserves and building up his own universe, but it also advanced his qualities as well.
His control over energy had grown a bit more exquisite than before, allowing him to operate on Alexa's spirituality with a delicate and precise touch.
Compared to most people, Alexa's spirituality was already stronger than average.
Her superior background, her frequent proximity to her powerful grandfather, her persistent pursuit of living mechs and more all played a role in shaping her to become the woman she was today.
Of course, the passive absorption of E energy radiation also helped to strengthen her spirituality over time!
This gave Blinky enough room to create a relatively complete companion spirit from scratch.
Ves only made use of two spiritual ingredients.
While there was plenty room for more, he did not see the need to complicate this job by adding useless variables.
Unlike the companion spirit seeds he designed for his children, Alexa was already a mature mech designer who knew what she wanted out of her career.
This was why Ves devoted himself to creating a spiritual cat that was only made out of life energy.
Even if the resulting companion spirit was unable to breathe life into Alexa's creations, it would still come with a complementary ability that could serve her well in her future work!
Aside from that, she still had a chance of inheriting Ves' design philosophy.
As long as she managed to advance to the rank of Journeyman Mech Designer with a similar enough specialization, she still had hope of being able to create living mechs by herself!
With that in mind, Ves and Alexa both agreed that the latter's companion spirit had to possess a complimentary ability.
Just as Blinky was able to absorb, process and output a lot of spiritual energy, Alexa's own spiritual cat needed to give her a strong advantage that would remain relevant throughout the rest of her career.
Alexa's companion spirit gradually took shape. Blinky skillfully combined and sculpted the fragmented spiritual ingredients into a brand new life form.
Ves only utilized two spiritual ingredients this time.
He donated a considerably greater quantity of his own spiritual energy given that it played a much more important role this time.
He combined it with spiritual energy freely given by Gaia in order to add another dimension of life energy to the mix.
It turned out that Ves did not need to worry about Gaia refusing his latest request.
The recently emerged True God had already formed a cooperative relationship with General Axelar Streon.
As his granddaughter, Alexa benefited from the favorable circumstances. The fact that she used to be a Terran also helped to increase Gaia's favor.
The resulting companion spirit therefore combined some of the best traits of Ves and Gaia, leading to an outcome that Ves couldn't fully predict!
Although Ves was able to influence the traits of his creations to an extent, life was inherently complicated and unpredictable. This was especially relevant in cases where he played with forces that he didn't fully understand.
The most important variable that made this job more difficult was the fact that Ves was working with the spiritual energy donated by a True God this time!
Compared with the more low-level spiritual energy of other entities, there was a real qualitative difference with the energy utilized by post-divinity entities.
To be honest, genuine high-level spiritual energy was far too powerful and uncontrollable for Ves to work with. Even Vulkan needed to grow an entire Heart of Steel in order to reluctantly contain and digest the small amount of high-level metal energy that Blinky originally stole from Cassandra Breyer.
It was not a good idea to rashly expose a relatively weak Apprentice Mech Designer to any form of high-level energy. Alexa was far from qualified to harness the power of a True God.
Fortunately, once Ves made the necessary request, Gaia actively put effort into downgrading her spiritual energy to the point where it degenerated into an inferior form.
While the processed energy was not as good as the original, Ves only needed it for its attributes, not its potency.
The process of growth and evolution had to proceed step by step. If Ves wanted to give Alexa's companion spirit the best possible growth prospects, then he needed to focus on giving her a proper foundation instead of a speedy shortcut.
Although Blinky most certainly had to put more effort into processing the degenerated energy donated by Gaia, the Star Cat could still rely on his strong ability to manipulate all kinds of spiritual energies!
As time continued to pass, the newly created cat began to wake up as Blinky had managed to forge yet another companion spirit!
"Myah... myah..."
Alexa watched with amazement as her companion spirit had finally taken a life of her own. The semi-transparent ragdoll cat with a symmetrical pattern of white, gray and dark brown fur was more than just a creature.
It was another part of herself.
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