The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1399

As Ves returned to Lady Miralix’s compound, he sought out a break room in the mech workshop and began to think about a way to deal with his spiritual salvage.

Its damaged and incomplete state likely rendered it useless in its current state. Trying to instill it into a mech or mech design as a design spirit would probably lead to chaotic and erratic behavior.

Ves predicted that if he idiotically tried to infuse it in the Kinslayer for example, the incoherent instincts and impulses of the spiritual remnant would probably make the mech go out of control at times! At the very least, Lady Miralix might be forced to work against her own mech in the middle of a battle, which was the exact opposite of what he wanted to happen!

In order to shape the X-Factor of a mech into something beneficial, the design spirit had to be alive.

An incomplete collection of spiritual body parts that missed the spiritual equivalent of the head and brains was not what he considered alive.

\"Can the dead be brought back alive?\"

Perhaps not when it came to biological forms of life, but weirder things had happened with spirituality.

For example, back in the Ylvaine Protectorate, the spiritual fragment he refined out of a miniscule portion of Prophet Ylvaine’s spiritual remnant started out weak and as clever as a newborn baby.

Yet as time continued to pass, the spiritual fragment started to grow. Its liveliness grew more active and its intelligent consciousness started to become increasingly sophisticated.

Now that so much time had passed, Ves scarcely dared to imagine how far the spiritual fragment developed, especially now that it housed a fantastic mech design!

This precious experience with spiritual remnants gave Ves some ideas on how to make use of his spiritual salvage.

\"First, I need to find a purpose for it. Which project fits it better?\"

Right now, Ves involved himself in two different projects. The existing Kinslayer mech and his unfinished Devil Tiger designs were both based on the tiger mech archetype.

This meant that the Dragon Cat’s spirituality could be applied to both of them if he wished.

After a bit of thinking, he decided to apply his gains to Kinslayer. As the more immediate project, Ves could quickly make use of his spiritual salvage before it deteriorated further. Though Ves had taken it out of the imaginary realm and its corrosive winds, that did not mean the remains stopped deteriorating!

Its condition was so awful that Ves didn’t trust its integrity to hold up for long.

Its instability also made it unviable for Ves to use it as a design spirit right away. He needed to do something about the damage before he could take the next step.

Aside from its deteriorating state, the other reason why Ves declined to apply the spiritual remnant to his Devil Tiger design was because too much had been lost.

\"It’s not worthy enough to be applied to my own designs.\"

Ves cared less about the Kinslayer than his Devil Tiger design. The latter was his own work, while the former was just a mech he agreed to modify. His emotional investment in the Kinslayer was so low that he regarded it as a good platform to do some experiments!

\"Let’s see if I can put my salvage to use on this mech!\"

Though the consequences were fairly awful if Ves failed to make effective use of the spiritual remnant, Ves didn’t care right now. He couldn’t wait to play around with what he obtained!

As Ves thought of ways to convert the spiritual remnant into something usable, he began to look at it from a salvager’s perspective.

Salvagers made their living searching through trash belts in space or on forgotten battlefields on the grounds.

Mech wrecks were still worth quite a lot of money!

Most outfits knew that too and tried to retrieve the fallen wrecks as much as possible, but sometimes this wasn’t viable. Salvagers swooped in to obtain the lesser value wrecks.

Sometimes, all they managed to pick up was a bunch of loose parts separated from the frame of a broken mech!

Even so, salvaging incomplete wrecks and disparate parts was still worth it. The savvier salvagers even found ways to repair the damage and piece the parts back together onto a working mech frame!

Of course, the quality of those restored mechs left much to be desired. If the salvagers were unable to obtain or reproduce all of the original parts of a mech, their resident mech designers usually designed the missing parts on the fly.

This led to the creation of mechs made out of a mix of salvaged and freshly-fabricated parts.

\"Some of them are real abominations!\"

This was how most frankenstein mechs came to be. The salvagers completely perverted the original designs and the intentions behind them in their quest to cobble together mechs on the cheap!

As much as Ves hated the practice, he had to admit it was an efficient use of trash. Right now, Ves contemplated doing something similar to the spiritual remnant of the Dragon Cat.

\"So what if it’s incomplete? I’ll just fill up its holes with something else!\"

Of course, that ’something else’ had to be something substantial and compatible.

To be honest, Ves was dealing with something completely new here. He didn’t have the guidance of Qilanxo’s spiritual fragment or any existing example to draw upon. The risk of messing up was quite significant!

Solving this problem fell into the domain of the path of life. If he wanted to come up with a viable way to turn his salvage into something useful, he had to delve deeper into the mysteries and potential of life.

Right now, the answer he came up with substituting the missing spiritual parts with other parts.

Nonetheless, it wasn’t as simple as obtaining a random chunk of spiritual energy and throwing it at the hole-ridden spiritual remnant of the Dragon Cat.

That sounded as idiotic as trying to plug the gaps of a damaged mech by pouring water into its holes!

If he wanted to turn his salvage into something useful, he had to encourage a transformation, something which didn’t happen normally.

Usually, spiritual energy with different attributes and imprints repelled or clashed against each other. Rarely would they merge or meld together into a greater whole.

As Ves thought about how he could overcome this problem, he came up with three important points.

First, the spiritual remnant was rather weak. Weaker than his own Spirituality. Combined with its lack of consciousness and liveliness made it extraordinarily malleable to manipulation.

Second, since Ves intended to use it on the Kinslayer in order to give its X-Factor a big boost, why not make use of the spirituality of its mech pilot while he was at it? Perhaps something surprising might happen if he tried to blend the spirituality of Lady Miralix with the Dragon Cat’s spiritual remnant.