The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5453

Chapter 5453 Secondary Life Forms

Alexa looked astonished as her companion spirit clearly witnessed what her mentor had done.

He not only bestowed life to a collection of free-floating water energy, but actively leveraged it to form a water-empowered spatial barrier!

During the design process of the Lionheart and the Blood Star Mark II, Ves had worked hard to learn the working principles of azure shield generators.

It was challenging for most mech designers to learn how transphasic energy shield generators worked.

Figuring out how these powerful shield generators could become even more effective by leveraging the power of water hyper materials added another layer of difficulty to their operation!

Fortunately, Ves not only possessed a good grasp of phasewater technology, but also possessed an existing foundation in E-technology and cultivation science.

While he might not be able to develop any iterative improvements to the existing processes of azure shield generators, he was still able to replicate a part of the relevant working mechanisms when he formed a spatial barrier!

Though the effect was still rudimentary, the main reason why he succeeded this time was not because he was depending on Blinky's control over water energy, but because he outsourced this function to his newly born 'water elemental!'

The water elemental was a relatively simple life form. Its sapience roughly matched that of a second order living mech. There was no reason for Ves to improve this further as its current level of intelligence was already enough to fulfill its programmed directive.

Ves' enlarged face smiled as he saw that his whimsical idea actually bore fruit.

The successful experiment not only granted him a means to refine his combat methods while he was in his true body form, but also provided a starting point for a new design application!

"What is it you are trying to accomplish, sir?" Alexa asked.

A mech designer as smart as her definitely generated a few guesses in her mind, but it was better to just ask and receive a clear answer from the source.

Ves smirked even wider as he studied the interaction between his water elemental and his spatial barrier.

"DO WE HAVE ANY ARMED BOTS IN RESERVE? PLEASE SUMMON THEM AND COMMAND THEM TO FIRE AT MY MODIFIED SPATIAL BARRIER. WE NEED TO COLLECT PRECISE DATA ON ITS PERFORMANCE."

"Acknowledged."

"AS FOR YOUR QUESTION, THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE. YOU HAVE TAKEN PART IN THE DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF THE FEY FIANNA, SO YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT IT ACTUALLY CONSISTS OF MULTIPLE LIFE FORMS. MY LATEST IDEA THIS TIME IS THAT SINCE A DRONE MECH CAN HOST MULTIPLE LIVING ENTITIES, WHY NOT OTHER MECHS?"

Alexa immediately realized what her mentor tried to accomplish.

"Is it possible for you to design a mech that contains sub-lives without living fey?!"

"WHY NOT?" Ves grinned as he continued to rely on Blinky to feel out the properties of his water elemental. "IF YOU THINK ABOUT THESE DEPENDENT LIFE FORMS, I SHOULD AT LEAST BE ABLE TO INSERT THEM INTO EXTERNAL EQUIPMENT SUCH AS SWORDS AND RIFLES. HOWEVER, I THINK I CAN TAKE THIS A STEP FURTHER AND ADD THEM TO INTERNAL MODULES SUCH AS AZURE SHIELD GENERATORS AND POWER REACTORS."

This would add another layer of complexity to his living mechs! It was like evolving a single-celled organism into a multi-celled organism! This was such a major advancement of his design philosophy that it had the potential to qualitatively improve his living mech designs going forward!

The Fey Fianna mech line was just the harbinger of this new variation or rather new generation of living mechs!

Even Alexa understood the explosive implications of these advancements. She wasn't even able to design any actual living mechs as of yet, but she had already learned enough about it from her mentor to foresee how much more versatile and powerful they could be with multiple intelligent controllers!

However, she wouldn't be a good mech designer if she only paid attention to the benefits of this new design application.

"Wait, won't combining different life forms in a single mech frame lead to E energy attribute conflict?"

"THAT IS POSSIBLE, BUT THAT IS WHY THE PRIMARY LIFE FORMS AND THE SECONDARY LIFE FORMS HAVE TO BE ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER FROM THE BEGINNING. THIS MUST BE ESTABLISHED BEFORE THE MECHS HAVE COMPLETED THEIR PRODUCTION."

The fabrication of the Elemental Lord already taught Ves that mixing multiple elements together during production would inevitably lead to a volatile buildup of conflicting energies.

The closer the opposing hyper materials were put together, the more violent these interactions may become!

However, one of the advantages of living mechs was that they could consciously exert control over these rioting energies and tame them into submission.

Ves was banking on this advantage to keep his multi-life mechs stable.

"Will hosting multiple life forms in a single mech slow down their collective growth?"

"I CANNOT SAY FOR SURE. IT IS LIKELY THAT THEY WILL GROW SLOWER BECAUSE THEY MUST SHARE THE SAME RESOURCES. THE SECONDARY LIFE FORM IS TECHNICALLY AN OFF-SHOOT OF THE PRIMARY LIFE FORM. YOU CAN THINK OF IT AS BESTOWING A 'COMPANION SPIRIT' TO A MECH. HOWEVER, I CAN COMPENSATE THIS SHORTCOMING BY ENABLING THE SECONDARY LIFE FORM TO ABSORB E ENERGY OF AN ATTRIBUTE THAT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE MAIN LIFE FORM."

For example, a living mech that was primarily aspected towards metal could carry an azure shield generator that was occupied by a water sub-spirit.

In this case, the defenses of such a mech should be much stronger than normal. It was able to rely on its excellent hyper armor system as well as its 'living' azure energy shield to resist a lot more damage than before!

This was one of the possible research directions that Ves had come up with to design a powerful defensive mech of the Hyper Generation.

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