The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1423

Ves spent one more day in Kemila before he planned to depart. Having returned to his hotel, he took the time to study the reports written by his subordinates and get up to speed with various other developments.

One notable point of interest to him was the deteriorating security situation at the Tomaris Federation. Sandmen fleets continued to cross the fairly porous border into human space and wreak havoc in human-occupied star systems for reasons that escaped every human.

No one knew why the sandmen had suddenly gone mad and attacked in such an unbridled way!

However, Ves had a feeling that he might know more about what was driving these insane attacks. The sentient AI he inadvertently released from the Starlight Megalodon may be the chief culprit behind these developments!

There must be a reason why Sigrund drove his fellow sandmen to pick a fight with humanity!

However, even though Ves suspected Sigrund’s involvements a long time ago, trying to guess the motives of this bizarre artificial lifeform was an exercise in futility!

Sigrund thought nothing like a human! It didn’t seem as if Sigrund cared a lot about the race it used to belong to, because the relentless incursions were really stretching the CFA’s patience thin!

Ves even felt tempted to reaffirm his decision to visit the Tomaris Federation in person. He wanted to snoop around in order to figure out what in the hell Sigrund was up to these days!

\"Really. Some entities are too dangerous to be left alone!\"

He dearly wished to tip off the Big Two to the sentient AI’s existence, but the unholy pact he made with the sentient AI prevented him from doing so. Ves knew that Calabast, the only other person alive who knew of Sigrund’s existence, kept her mouth shut as well.

In fact, Calabast had previously warned him numerous times not to leak any hints!

Whatever damage he could do to Sigrund, the AI would certainly hit back twice as hard!

These constraints left him feeling helpless as he browsed the various alarmist news articles that spoke of the devastation the more successful sandman raids had wrought to the border states!

In particular, hundreds of thousands of citizens had died so far. The economic damage the sandmen inflicted affected the livelihoods of billions of Tomarans more!

Knowing that he could put a swift end to the incursions gnawed at his conscience. Too many people suffered from his inaction for him to dismiss the difference he could make.

So much for being an altruist.

\"Well, I can’t contribute to human civilization if everyone wants me dead or in captivity, right?\" He joked.

Since he couldn’t do anything about what kind of mischief Sigrund was up to, Ves completely pushed the issue from his mind. It wasn’t his problem anymore.

Instead, he shifted his attention to more immediate concerns, such as studying the two P-stones he possessed while he awaited the completion of a couple of special orders.

Ves holed himself up in his hotel room together with Lucky. Once his cat activated his ECM field, Ves finally couldn’t hold himself in and eagerly brought out both of his P-stones from their containers.

\"Fascinating.\" He whispered as he compared them side-by-side.

Lucky curiously floated down and rested himself atop the grey P-stone.

While to normal eyes the rock appeared completely inactive and inert, Ves picked up a lot of activity from his spiritual senses!

The rock that imprisoned Zeigra’s damaged spirituality seemed to leak out an angry aura as the spiritual entity inside detested Lucky’s show of disrespect!

No mere tiny cat was allowed to step onto Zeigra’s head!

Of course, Lucky arrogantly taunted Zeigra by settling down by patting the surface of the rock with his paws. The gem cat even bent down his neck as if to take a bite out of the P-stone!

\"Stop that!\" Ves admonished his cat. \"You’re not allowed to eat my P-stones! They’re too rare to be treated as your food!\"

\"Meow!\"

\"I said no!\"

\"Meow meow!\"

\"Okay, okay! If I find a few more P-stones, I’ll promise you can eat one!\"

Only then did Lucky stop making a move on his P-stones. The cat thumped his tail against the surface of the grey rock one more time before he jumped onto Ves’ shoulder.

Even though Ves felt a bit annoyed at Lucky, he did learn something useful out of the interaction.

While the P-stone did lock Zeigra in place, it did not prevent its prisoner from sensing other spiritual entities nearby.

\"Can it see outside?\"

Ves didn’t know the answer to this question, but he guessed the spiritual entity probably couldn’t see far outside its immediate vicinity.

\"Well, let’s see how similar these rocks are.\"

Both of them reacted to spiritual energy, but their interactions might differ. Perhaps they responded completely differently or possessed different capacities. Ves wanted to compare their respective responses in order to determine if he was dealing with just a single type of P-stone.

He first injected numerous quantities of spiritual energy into his second P-stone.

As far as he knew, the second rock behaved identically to the first rock. Ves was hard-pressed to find any differences!

\"Aside from their different physical makeup, their reactions are the same!\"

Next, he curiously pulled out Zeigra’s rebellious and violent spirituality from the first P-stone and quickly dumped it into the second P-stone.

Though the huge cat’s spirituality did not enjoy the experience, Ves noted with some satisfaction that the second P-stone apparently functioned the exact same way! It exerted a strong suction force that kept Zeigra’s spirituality locked within its center!