The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7074

Chapter 7074: Fire Heart Tissue

After introducing a very valuable relic in the form of the damaged imperial banner of the Sixth Star Emperor, Raul Ottaviani began to present a number of less astonishing goods.

Ves’ enthusiasm cooled as he beheld the items that the trade broker had curated.

Each of them were valuable in different ways. They just did not fit his needs as well as he hoped.

These goods encompassed powerful exotics, rare hypers, a handful of alien relics, incomplete qi cultivation scriptures and samples of exoplants and exobeasts.

The trade broker was able to offer a surprising amount of the latter.

The claim that Ottaviani & Partners built up a good relationship with the Hunting Association appeared to be true. There was no way that Raul was able to present so many different organs of powerful alien exoflora and exofauna without getting into the good books of the Hunters.

Unfortunately, these organs were so weird that it would take far too much trouble for Ves to figure out what to do with them. Just because they held power did not necessarily mean that he could graft them onto a mech and call it a day. It took a lot of expertise and understanding to decipher them and learn how to extract the stuff that was the source of their power.

It was similar to the trouble with phasewater organs. The Larkinson Clan managed to harvest another batch of mostly pristine phasewater organs from the Battle of Screed Tanner VI-F, but all of them would probably remain stored in the freezers for a very long time.

The Larkinson Biotech Institute lacked the expertise to quickly and efficiently understand the more complicated phasewater organs and convert them into human-compatible ones.

The same applied to all of these bizarre organs. So what if he came across a gland that could produce a highly acidic slime that could dissolve transphasic and even superdimensional matter?

Without understanding the cause behind this effect and finding out how to increase the potency of the dangerous slime, it would take forever for its application to melt a hole through a warship hull.

Another organ that sounded valuable but was actually pretty useless to him was the fin of an aquatic calamity beast. It possessed the strange property of increasing the acceleration of a mech by 40 percent and larger vehicles by a lower percentage proportionate to their mass.

This might be a priceless relic to certain clients, but Ves already had access to Lucky’s gems.

He knew that the effects of these gadgets were strong for standard mechs and useful for expert mechs, but mostly lost their power for ace mechs because a Saint Kingdom overpowered everything.

Since that was the case, Ves had little reason to bid for the fin.

The only other excuse to purchase it was that it was not restricted to mechs. Yet even then he declined to acquire it because it was not cost effective to use this expensive calamity beat organ on anything else.

As Raul received rejection after rejection, he did not look surprised. He maintained a professional demeanor and did not convey any disappointment.

This was the reality of his business. Trade brokers tried their best to match buyers to sellers, but the nature of their demands were so strange that the two sides simply had no way of reconciling their demands with each other’s bottom lines.

A case like this took place when Raul presented an object of undeniable value to Ves.

It was a heart.

An alien heart, to be precise.

Ves happened to be familiar enough with phase whale physiology to recognize it came from this species.

The heart was massive in scale. It was a giant biological engine of power that ensured that phasewater-infused blood flowed through every vein of the phase whale’s titanic body.

What was unusual about this heart was that it was on fire.

The projection did not show a still image, but a video capture. Even when it was secured in a special preservation chamber, the heart still blazed with strong fire energy.

"What the hell is this?" Ves eventually asked. "Did a phase whale experiment on himself by trying to leverage the fire element and actually turn his heart into a furnace that eventually got himself killed?"