The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1563

Chapter 1563 Spiritual Dividends

"Right now, my boyfriend is engaged in a groundbreaking experiment." Gloriana softly whispered as if there was a recorder hovering in front of her. "Both of us are currently pioneering a special treatment for mech pilots who are afflicted with certain disorders that prevent them from unleashing their potential in battle."

Her comm lit up while it recorded a narrow shot of her face. In the background, Ves continued to put his total concentration on William Urbesh, thereby remaining ignorant of what his girlfriend was doing at the moment.

"GHRUERHGGH!" A garbled voice burst out from the speakers. "GhullZizne KWanHansha TOrInOZ ONONMENAIAKKA!"

Gloriana stifled her giggle. "Please don't mind the strange noises you hear in the background. Our volunteer ?— who the Mech Trade Association has entrusted to us for his treatment, by the way ?— is currently undergoing a painful but necessary procedure that will definitely fix his

"MR. LARKINSON! I WILL KILL YOU ONCE I GET OUT! YOU REAWNZ KkTANonzER VEONEW MOEneWINQA OPLZNNE!"

"Wow! Our volunteer is already showing improvement! Previously, he was too afraid to make any threats. Just listen at him now. Isn't he better? Our special treatment is working, hihi!"

She manipulated her recorder so that it zoomed in on Ves, detailing his focused expression and his Pride of Dusk ensemble.

"Just look at how handsome he is when he's so serious!" Gloriana swooned. "Ves is the best lover I can ask for, and he's all mine! Together, we're capable of achieving so many new things. We have some ambitious mech designs in the planning and we can't wait to astound you all with our revolutionary new products! What we are doing right now is merely a taste of what is to come!"

Some of the instruments started beeping alarms. However, Ves paid no attention to them at all despite how urgent they sounded.

Seeing that Ves did not respond to the alarms, Gloriana showed no concern either. She trusted in her boyfriend's judgement!

"To all of the mech pilots out there, have you ever wanted to become gods?" She excitingly whispered. "Well, soon we'll be offering everyone a chance! Whether you're a man or a woman, as long as you commission a custom mech from us, we'll do everything possible to design a mech that is literally touched by the gods! With our respective specialties, our mechs are guaranteed to be the most perfect machines that match your qualities, thereby maximizing the odds that you'll transcend your current place in the six phases of existence!"

As Gloriana kept recording an impromptu promotion for her Commbook page, Ves truly couldn't spare any attention to anything else.

He needed to invest his full concentration in manipulating the transformation that was taking place in William's spirituality!

Ves underestimated Nyxie. Even when he only cut off a tiny mote from a greater whole, its versatility greatly surpassed his estimates.

The mote employed tricks that were so profound that Qilanxo looked like an amateur by comparison!

This fellow was trickier than he thought!

Was this the difference between a sentient alien from an advanced civilization and an exobeast who solely relied on her natural abilities?

He even guessed that Nyxie might have been far stronger when he was in the prime of his life. Only until he was killed and locked up in the Ancient Sarcophagus had his lingering spirituality begun to fade.

Ves probably stood no chance at all if he faced Nyxie in his prime!

Fortunately, spending eons locked up inside a crystal coffin probably wore away a lot of the alien's strength. The only problem was that even if Nyxie lost a lot of strength, his refined abilities still gave Ves a lot of headaches!

The spiritual barrier surrounding the mote started cracking and leaking out all kinds of attacks. Nyxie fully committed to contaminating and outright taking over William's spirituality!

Even though Nyxie only took over a portion of his target, the newly-converted element immediately began to spread out into other parts of William's mind, including his core consciousness!

Just like with Ves a while ago, Nyxie only needed a small beachhead to use as a springboard for a greater invasion! As long as he managed to exploit a vulnerability, it was incredibly hard to overcome his dizzying attacks!

In fact, Ves found it puzzling how much more sophisticated Nyxie had become. The imprisoned alien tyrant hadn't shown nearly as much sophistication in his previous attacks!

Ves remembered back when he first probed Nyxie that the alien only utilized the simplest brute-force attacks that his B-stone lockbox perfectly blocked.

Now, Ves had the feeling that using such a crude method to defend against Nyxie wouldn't work anymore. The alien appeared to have revived some of his cunning and his brilliance from the long eons of isolation and decay!

Where did Nyxie obtain all of this strength?!

A sudden realization came to Ves. Didn't he recently sell tens of thousands of Desolate Soldiers and Holy Soldiers?

Both of those mech models utilized the Solemn Guardian as their design spirit.

The Solemn Guardian was his second spiritual product. Ves made it by combining the broken fragments of an expert pilot and Nyxie with his own spiritual energy as the glue and the spark of life!

Even though the wondrous life creation process resulted in an entirely new living spiritual entity, the Solemn Guardian still possessed some lingering ties to its 'parents'.

This meant that both Venerable Plinter and Nyxie certainly received a substantial spiritual supplement!

Ves regarded these transfers as spiritual dividends. In exchange for investing some of their spiritual energy into the formation of a spiritual product, they became eligible to receive a return on investment.

The more mech pilots used the mechs watched over by design spirits they invested in, the more spiritual energy fed back to them! When the numbers reached tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of mech pilots, the dividends probably reached a very substantial quantity!

Through this interaction, his previous design spirits such as the Black Phoenix, the crystal builder leader, Qilanxo and Prophet Ylvaine all grew in strength, becoming just a little bit more powerful!

It was as if Gloriana was right. They were all akin to gods who grew from the power of worship. With mech pilots as their supplicants, the spiritual investors only had to sit back and absorb the energies flowing to them through the man-machine connection!

The only consolation to Ves was that while Nyxie had revived some of his wits after eons of dormancy, he hadn't actually grown much stronger.

Ves guessed that the quality of Nyxie's spirituality was so high that the alien hardly gained a benefit from low-quality sources.

Even Qilanxo was being hampered by this growth, hence her attempts to elevate her chosen to expert pilots and higher.