It was impossible for the Devos Ancient Clan to miss the large and violent storm forming in the skies above New Constantinople VIII.
The dark and unnaturally powerful lightning storm covered a significant chunk of the surface of the planet!
Not only that, but the storm did not behave anything like a normal one, but instead discharged much of its concentrated energies at a single location.
It did not take much snooping to figure out what the storm was targeting.
"It's the aliens! We are being attacked by the aliens!"
"Our defense forces should be trying to blow these dark clouds away with explosives. We can't let them spread any further!"
"I know that place! The aliens have employed exotic weather technology to assassinate our guest professor. We need to send in our rapid responders to evacuate our honored galactic citizens right away!"
"Why are we not allowed to sortie? There is an emergency taking place outside. It is our duty as Terrans to respond to any disasters that take place within our jurisdiction. We are violating our oaths if we stay in our places."
"My apologies, captain, but these orders come straight from above. The Red Association has taken over all responsibility for this affair. The mechers have strictly prohibited us from approaching the storm clouds."
Not many local Terrans understood what was unfolding. They found it inexplicable that the Devos Ancient Clan had made no move to address the strange anomaly that had swept the skies of one of their most important planets.
However, a select few leaders had better awareness of what was taking place.
In the upper floor of an office building located inside the campus of the Eden Institute, Master Laila Rebecca Devos stared at the distant storm clouds with an expression that conveyed both astonishment and interest.
"This storm..."
As an esteemed Master Mech Designer from one of the oldest and most traditional ancient clans of Terra, Master Laila roughly knew what it took to trigger this kind of phenomenon.
It was not completely unheard of for an anomalous thunderstorm to occur, but they were so rare that the vast majority of people remained ignorant of what it represented.
Though Master Laila had become repeatedly impressed by the young new professor that her school had been fortunate enough to employ, she never expected him to be able to trigger such a vast and powerful storm at this stage in his career!
"He is just a Senior..." She uttered in a disbelieving tone. "Even if he is a seasoned masterwork mech designer, there is still a huge gap to reaching this threshold."
Ves Larkinson had already broken the assumptions that governed their profession once or twice. It shouldn't have been that much of a surprise for him to be able to do it again, especially since the Devos Ancient Clan had already deduced that he had access to an extraordinary heritage!
Still, the Devosans were in a similar position, but the people that had received the right to study the digital scans of those ancient and forgotten tomes had barely managed to decipher the overly cryptic words and archaic phrases that obfuscated their meaning.
It took a lot more research to convert the wisdom of the ancients into practical inventions and applications!
This was why Master Laila valued the young professor more and more.
The event unfolding in front of her caused her to step up her plans to deepen her ancient clan's relationship with the talented mech designer.
"Perhaps we should offer our guest an opportunity to teach a class related to hyper technology."
Professor Ves Larkinson clearly had a lot more wisdom to share if he was capable of triggering such a large-scale event.
Meanwhile, Alexa Streon tried her best to keep her emotions in check as she witnessed an extraordinary event of great import unfolding right outside of Diandi Base!
The calamitous storm clouds above everyone's heads had repeatedly thrown down lightning bolt after lightning bolt after a mech that had drawn their fury.
The unerring accuracy and target fixation of these lightning bolts clearly indicated that this was anything but a natural weather event.
Her observations supported this conclusion.
Her naked eyes did not reveal anything too unnatural, but her companion spirit's senses easily observed the huge amount of energies clashing against each other!
CRACK!
"Myah! Myah!"
The spiritual ragdoll cat looked frightened as her senses clearly caught a huge torrent of destructive energy slamming against the defenses of the new Fey Project!
The newly constructed mech for its part did not receive the attack without any preparation.
Instead, Maia was able to observe the extraordinary mech working to shape and control the energies related to the elements of metal and earth.
The modified Fey Project did not demonstrate any particular skill or direction at first. It was only later that the machine started to work more purposefully with the energies that came from the environment.
The E energies attributed towards metal constantly filled up the main mech frame in an attempt to amplify its defenses.
This was similar to how regular hyper technology worked, but Alexa knew that the newly fabricated mech should not contain enough metal-attributed hyper materials to take in so much energy.
She knew this because she had assisted Ves in the fabrication of his spontaneously redesigned drone mech!
"How?"
What she was witnessing broke the rules that she had learned in her studies on hyper technology.
What was more remarkable was the way in which the new mech had begun to make use of all of the earth energy.
The mech channeled a part of this energy into itself, boldly forcing it to crash and merge with the prevailing metal energy.
Metal and earth energies shared a well-known synergistic relationship that had been officially registered in the Red Association's database.
However, most hyper tech applications related to combining these two elemental forces usually had to be designed and built in advance.
Alexa knew for certain that the Fey Project did not contain any mixed parts or systems of that nature, but it was somehow able to harness the two distinct energies through conscious manipulation!
It actually reminded her a lot of how the Ouroboros was able to combine the power of creation and destruction to produce special compound effects.
The difference was that the Ouroboros was a powerful ace mech, while the new Fey Project was just supposed to be a standard mech!
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