The Mech Touch novel Chapter 6949

Chapter 6949 The Power of Alien Delusions

As unpleasant as it was to speak to Sev Larkinson, the session already bore a lot of fruit.

The Larkinsons and their partners gathered plenty of information about Ves' alternate personality.

So far, they have already managed to form a number of preliminary conclusions.

The first and most obvious conclusion was that Sev most definitely existed as a full and separate personality.

He was not a drunken or impaired version of Ves.

Sev existed as his own person. He possessed radically different views on a large variety of topics. The real Ves would never harbor those thoughts, let alone voice them with so much confidence and belief.

Second, Sev was rational and capable of communicating normally.

Sev did not willingly cooperate with the Larkinsons, yet that did not stop him from spilling the beans under coercion. He did not stubbornly refuse to divulge his true thoughts like an idiot, but surrendered to reality and did whatever was necessary to avoid another painful smack to his head.

Although it looked rather silly for a phase lord as large as Sev to exhibit obvious vigilance towards a mech that was several times smaller than his true body, the ace mech was just too powerful.

Even without her superdimensional conversion, the First Sword Mark III still had a high chance of defeating the human phase lord in a duel!

This process would just take a lot longer due the presence of a strengthened spatial barrier.

Another conclusion the Larkinsons made while interviewing Sev was that he was an unequivocal bastard.

Sev did not care about the feelings and opinions of 'mortals' and 'weaklings'. He firmly placed himself above the rest and expected everyone to do his bidding without question. He genuinely believed that he was a god and that it was his right to lord over those that failed to match his strength.

One important curiosity was that he reluctantly regarded ace pilots as gods in equal standing to his own. It was only due to their impressive combat power that phase lords such as Sev were forced to make this admission.

Perhaps the most important conclusion that the Larkinsons drew from the interview was that Sev possessed at least a portion of Ves' memories, but also acquired knowledge about phase lords that he originally shouldn't know!

He sounded as if he was Ves who got corrupted by the heavenly authority of the Red Ocean until he turned completely native!

After Gloriana took a break, others picked up where she left off and began to ask the questions.

Vector Loban asked one of the most important questions that all of them had on their mind.

"Which side of the Red War are you rooting for? Are you siding with the native aliens, who all possess the stance on phase lords such as yourself? Or are you still willing to side with red humanity, who have killed more native gods than you can count?"

Sev pressed his lips. "The Red War is a war fought between machine gods and the descendants of the Elder Gods. The former are individually strong, but that is only because they are much more extensively integrated with technology than the latter. The phase lords and phase whales have made an egregious mistake by neglecting the difference that good equipment can make. They have already begun to remedy this problem. Once they are able to reduce the parity between combat gear, the real gods of the Red Ocean shall vanquish the foreign gods. We are the blessed sons of this dwarf galaxy. This war shall end so long as the right gods regain complete control over our blessed galaxy."

That was a lot of information. Sev expressed an unusual stance towards the Red War.

He unambiguously sided with the native aliens, not even caring that they were committing a huge amount of atrocities against the human colonists!

What was more important was that Sev did not consider the Red War a struggle between races.

He instead considered it to be a war between different kinds of gods. The alternate personality completely disregarded the worth of mortals and solely interpreted the ongoing conflict as a power struggle between 'machine' gods and 'real' gods.

If Sev's opinions happened to be representative of the opposing alien phase lords, then the unspoken implication was that the two sides might be able to find enough common ground to coexist with each other!

Of course, the premise of all of this was for red humanity to completely abandon its high-ranking mech pilots and put their human phase lords into absolute leadership positions!

As the listeners deduced the implications of Sev's words, they began to harbor even more doubts towards the Phase Lord Department.

Was Sev the exception, or the rule?

Had other human phase lords secretly gone native and chosen to side with the Red Cabal due to holding the correct stance towards the deification of phase leaders?

If this was the case, then the Phase Lord Department became a lot less reliable than before!

Even if the collies who worked for this department were disciplined and loyal enough to maintain their allegiance to red humanity, the brainwashing of human phase lords would definitely lead to undesirable changes in policy.

Nobody dared to voice their suspicions about the Phase Lord Department. This was way above their pay grade. They should just pass on this information to the bigshots and let them handle this hot potato.

"Welcome back, sir. Are you aware of dialogue that we just held with your alternate self?"

"Yes, but not directly." Ves replied as he inspected his own nanosuit-clad body for any unpleasant surprises. "I can recall what you guys said to each other through Blinky's memories. When 'Sev' takes control, I am completely taken out of the equation. It is quite disconcerting. There is no way that Sev will voluntarily relinquish control to me if he can help it. He's just like me in this regard."

"That is what we suspect as well. Please stand still and allow us to scan your body. This will take a while, so please remain patient."

Ves had to subject himself to a battery of tests and examinations before he could leave the main chamber.

He soon entered the control room where a large amount of personnel were still in the process of analyzing the data. He soon moved to an adjacent room where Andrea Vox, Vector Loban and Maria Abselon sat around a table.

"I hope you have answers for me." He said.

"We have already developed 4 different theories of what has caused you to develop an alternate personality with delusions of godhood." Maria said. "We have yet to gather enough data that can enable us to determine which theory is correct, but the ones we have formed so far should at least give us directions to work towards."

That sounded productive.

"So what do you have?"

"The first theory that we have devised is based on the assumption that there is a mutual exchange between the so-called heavenly authority and dominant thoughts of all of the intelligent life forms in the Red Ocean. This theory is based on the observation that E energy both influences and is influenced by the thoughts and emotions of sentient beings. If the vast majority of residents in this dwarf galaxy believe that phase lords are gods, then the environment itself will begin to enforce and propagate this norm. The arrival of humans to the new frontier cannot shake this dominant assumption because their population is too small relative to the native aliens."

Ves looked thoughtful after hearing this theory. It aligned with his own theories, though it went a lot further than he imagined.

The theory sounded surprisingly plausible, though it would be hard to prove its validity based on the hearsay of Sev alone.

Based on this theory, Ves spawned a second personality because a phase lord must embrace his own divinity.

A phase lord that denied his own godhood was a contradiction that was not allowed to exist by the Red Ocean!

Since Ves was crazy enough to cling to his own humanity and mortality, the heavenly authority which was shaped by millions of years of alien delusions essentially tried to fix the glitch by clumsily inserting a more pliant personality in his true body!

It sounded crazy, yet it may just be true!