The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1083

Something hidden within Ves’ consciousness echoed in response to that strong desire. Eloise’s motherly instincts attracted a response from an entity that Ves never knew was present in the mind of his host.

A sharp mental strain suddenly wracked Ves’ consciousness as Qilanxo’s augmented spiritual fragment flared to life! It wanted to respond to Eloise’s desperate straits!

Ves screamed as the spiritual fragment that somehow managed to hitchhike on the System’s Mastery journey outputted a huge burst of spiritual energy.

All of that potent spiritual energy poured into Eloise’s mind and blended into her strong desires and emotions, strengthening them and transforming them into a more spiritually active state!

Something incredibly profound went on as Qilanxo’s strong spirituality reacted with Eloise’s emotions. The spiritual energy from Qlianxo did not enter Eloise’s mind without direction.

If that were so, the spiritual energy would have shattered Eloise’s mind to pieces!

Instead, the energy moved with intelligence and direction. They avoided burning Eloise’s pale spirit, instead opting to nurture it by blending in! The spiritual energy did so by voluntarily letting go of some of Qilanxo’s imprint and instead made use of Eloise’s strong emotions to impart her own imprint on the potent energy!

Even as Ves tried to remain coherent through the pain of being used as a funnel for Qilanxo’s spiritual energy, he couldn’t help but take note of some of the more important processes.

He learned that spiritual energy did not behave like neutral energy such as electricity or heat. Instead, one of the defining aspects of spiritual energy was that it always carried the imprint of its source!

For example, Ves’ Spirituality consisted of a cloud of spiritual energy within his mind that was uniquely his. No one else would be able to wield his spiritual energy because of his imprint.

The same went for Qilanxo’s higher quality spiritual energy. The Sacred God was an impressive creature whose spirituality definitely could be placed on par with ace pilots.

For Qilanxo’s spiritual fragment to exert such precise control as to wipe away her own imprint and to blend in Eloise’s strong emotions with the temporarily ownerless energy was nothing less than miraculous!

The remarkable amount of control and skill exhibited by Qilanxo’s spiritual fragment aroused a suspicion within Ves. He had a feeling that something similar took place when Qilanxo first interfaced with Orfan and Dise through the man-beast connection!

The channeling kept going, putting Ves under increasing strain. Eloise somehow hadn’t fully become aware of what took place within her mind. Right now, she only cared about saving the Stained Salamander so that she would be able to retain her chance of returning home!

For Eloise to be reunited with her son, the Valiant Warden must stop the ravenous feral Starspawn from destroying the carrier at all costs!

Even as her mind became increasingly more suffused with spiritual energy that truly belonged to herself, Ves felt an added drain on his mind. Somehow, the strong suction that resulted from the channeling siphoned away a portion of his own spiritual energy in the mix!

While his spiritual energy was much less potent and energetic than the energy that belonged Qilanxo, it nonetheless carried a mix of properties strongly related to his design philosophy and his understanding of mechs.

"That’s my spiritual energy! Give it back!"

Instead of fulfilling request, Qilanxo’s spiritual fragment exerted strong control over his stolen spiritual energy. Instead of blending them into Eloise’s mind, the fragment instead directed his energy through Eloise’s man-machine connection and vigorously blended it into the X-Factor of the Valiant Warden!

Although only a small portion of Ves’ spiritual energy had been siphoned away, he still opposed the procedure! This Mastery experience was meant to expand his horizons on space knights. He already paid 40,000 DP for this opportunity! Why should he pay even more to help out a complete stranger?!

No one listened to his complaints.

The spiritual transformation of the mech continued. Qilanxo’s spiritual fragment forcibly erased Ves’ imprint on his own spiritual energy in order to empower the Valiant Warden’s X-Factor. The Valiant Warden somehow came to life in a sense and began to resonate with the strengthening mind of its sole mech pilot for over ten long years!

When Ves turned his attention to Eloise’s mind, he noted with alarm that her emotions and desires took on such a strong shape that it began to resemble an expert pilot’s force of will!

There was no confusion in Eloise’s mind. While fear hounded her from behind, it only strengthened her motherly desire to be with her son again!

Strengthened by a large amount of potent spirituality, her increasingly strong force of will become more real and substantial by the second. At some point, it reached an invisible threshold that prevented it from growing more solid!

Nonetheless, Qilanxo’s spiritual fragment appeared to be a bottomless well of spiritual energy. It continued to feed more of her potent energy into Eloise’s mind, freely wiping out Qilanxo’s imprint and before blending into Eloise’s force of will.

It was as if Eloise’s mind became increasingly more crowded with spiritual energy. As Ves was present in her mind, he became alarmed at the proceedings! Would Eloise’s mind blow up from the flood of energy?!

He also started to note some signs of instability at the edges of Eloise’s mind! Eloise mind and spirit were struggling to cope with the influx of energy. It was eating away at herself!

Yet before her mind reached the point of breaking, Eloise’s force of will eventually broke through an invisible threshold! It grew past the barrier that held it back and rapidly gained strength as various inexplicable processes happened at the same time!

The rapidly-strengthening force of will swept through Eloise’s mind, transforming it on a fundamental level! As an unwitting bystander of this event, Ves’ consciousness rolled with the tides, giving him no chance to regain his wits!

The transformation of Eloise’s force of will resulted in immediate effects. Not only had her mindspace expanded significantly, but the explosion in strength also spilled beyond the boundaries of her mind!

Her spiritual energy started to bleed over into realspace!

Out in space, only half a minute went by, though it felt like longer to Ves. A sheen started to surround the increasingly more lively Valiant Warden. Some of her colleagues who were trying to race back towards the Stained Salamander quickly noticed the strange phenomenon.

"Lieutenant Pelican! Your mech! It’s glowing!"

"That.. that’s forced resonance!"

"What?!"