The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5484

Chapter 5484 Change of Plans

After an extensive discussion, Captain Gheri quickly departed the hotel and returned to the Larkinson Clan's in Tixe City to prepare for the upcoming deployment.

Since Ves had sprung this mission onto the local Larkinsons on short notice, everyone had to forgo sleep and work all night to prepare for a dangerous hunt.

Before she left, Captain Gheri recommended a few other hunting teams that might be interested in hunting down the other exobeasts.

Ves contacted them, and while they were all surprised to be contacted by a high and mighty tier 3 galactic citizen, they would never joke around with their lives.

"I am sorry, Patriarch Larkinson. The Ochre Seals would normally be open to accepting your commission, but we usually sign contracts that allow us to study and prepare for our target at least a week in advance. No matter how high your need may be, it is industry standard on our planet that we are given 7 days to set ourselves up for a proper hunt in the Chasseur Continent. It is only in rare cases that we have shortened our preparation time to 5 days, but we will never do that in a hunt against a mutated beast that has is getting closer to becoming a calamity beast."

"Money is not a problem." Ves stated. "If you are willing to move out fast enough, 1 am even willing to spare a bit of phasewater."

The deputy commander of the Ochre Seals remained unmoved. "As I have stated before, your conditions are too unreasonable. The Chasseur Continent has grown more and more dangerous in the past half year. We have been lucky enough that we managed to avoid any deaths, but we have suffered numerous close shaves where we had to abandon our broken mechs. We have learned the hard way that it is not wise for us to tempt fate. Any experienced and well-established hunting team will say the same. You may have better luck if you approach the fresher teams that have arrived only recently, but against a monster as weird as the Evil Lake Tree, you will just be sending them to their deaths."

That was a harsh but fair assessment. Ves had already learned of the enormous gap in performance between the old timers and the newbies.

The quality of the mechs or the skill of the mech pilots mattered a lot, but in the complicated environments of the hunting grounds, experience was the greatest indicator of success!

It was not a coincidence that the hunting teams recommended by Captain Gheri had been rooted on this planet for a long time.

Yet it was exactly because these old hunting teams knew better that they refused to work for Ves!

Ves quickly ended the call once he realized that he could not get anything from the Ochre Seals.

He contacted a few other recommended hunting teams, but their reactions were all similar.

These hunters were successful enough that there was no need for them to chase after windfalls and quick gains. Their favorable reputation and hunting records meant that they could have their pick of commissions. They were not that short of money either after hunting down so many powerful beasts.

He was getting nowhere with this. The only other alternative was to contact the newer hunting teams that didn't know any better, but he did not want to push them into fighting a mutated beast that they were not ready to tackle.

Even if Ves did not care about these random hunters at all, he did not want to sacrifice their lives just to gain a benefit that was not a critical priority.

"1 guess 1'11 go with Plan B, then." He sighed.

Ves suspended his plan on contracting a third-party hunting team and called Captain Gheri yet again.

"What is it, sir?"

"I need to borrow your workshop. Is the inventory stocked with enough spare parts and materials?"

"Uh, yes, sir. The wear and tear of our Monster Slayers is not too great, but it is always better to keep enough supplies on hand."

"Good. I will need to do a bit of work. Oh, and make sure to keep your mechs on hand. I won't be able to do any extensive work on them, but I am sure I can tune them to run even better than before."

There was no way to say no to that. Ves rose from his seat and grabbed his coat.

"Clixie."

"Miaow?"

"Keep an eye on the children. If I don't return quickly enough, try and keep them in line. That goes for you too, Lucky."

"Meow."

"Miaow."

Time was of the essence. Though Ves originally intended to treat his stay here as a vacation, he could not resist the benefits of harvesting the powerful spiritualities of those notable beasts.

It would be a lot more difficult for him to harvest anything comparable.

Though planets such as Ocanon VI always spawned powerful new mutated beasts over time, Ves could not guarantee that they would have the same abilities and talents as the ones he had seen earlier today!

Ves deeply appreciated the value of powerful entities with their own signature abilities. Some of his best and powerful creations had been derived from the spiritual remains of those exceptional existences.

For example, Blinky would not have been able to devour so much spiritual energy and fuel the evolution of an entire internal universe without relying on the power derived from the Unending One!

Entities as powerful and useful as the Unending One were exceedingly rare and difficult to encounter in the Milky Way.

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