The Mech Touch

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”Just like what I did with the Transcendent Messengers. ” He nodded confidently, certain that his idea would work.

Back then, he varied the individual expression of each separate mech by messing with their spiritual components.
This time, Ves would extend the same idea to an entire variant rather than a couple of physical copies.

”I just have to make sure that the two components don ’t cancel each other out. ” He muttered.

He needed the Solemn Guardian and the mote to share the same space in the Holy Soldier design.
Ves had never done this before.

The time had come to finalize his designs and infuse them with their design spirits.

He faced an important decision.
He turned to Nitaa, who was standing guard from the side of the guest room.

”Do you think Gloriana can be trusted? ”

His bodyguard did not dismiss the question out of hand.
”I ’m not sure.
My judgement is that she is very sincere towards you, but that might not necessarily be the case of the people around her.
Her secretary Melody, the crew of Stellar Chaser and the Glory Battalion responsible for guarding her life all answer to Madame Constance Wodin or the Wodin Dynasty. ”

Her words pointed out an uncomfortable truth.
Unlike Ves, Gloriana had always been raised with the full support of her mother.
The Wodin Dynasty poured a lot of resources into her upbringing and always took care of many matters in her stead.

This led to a situation where Gloriana lacked the kind of confidantes that Ves slowly surrounded himself with.
He had no doubt that if her mother issued an order to recall Gloriana back to the Scimitar System in Hegemony space, the Glory Battalion would drag her back by force!

Gloriana ’s overreliance on forces that didn ’t necessarily answer to her was one of the reasons why Ves still persisted in cultivating his own forces.

”Okay, I think you have a point.
I think I will let Gloriana have a glimpse of what I can do, but only her.
No one else must pry. ”

”I ’ll be sure to keep an eye out on the guards. ”

Ves turned to Lucky, who was lounging lazily on his bed.
”You have to help me too, buddy. ”

”Meow. ”

Once he made his decision, he decided to call Gloriana to his guest room rather than head back to the workshop compartment.
The latter still possessed an intact monitoring system.

Some time passed until Gloriana and her assistant Melody entered the guest room.

”What is the meaning of this, Mr.
Larkinson? ” Melody clutched her hexagonal data pad tightly.

Ves innocently held out his hands.
”It ’s not what you think.
I just want to show Gloriana something in private.
You can stay in the guest room while we ’re busy.
I swear we aren ’t up to anything funny! ”

Though it took some convincing, Melody eventually acquiesced.
She stood next to Nitaa and observed Ves and Gloriana sitting on the bed.

Once they made themselves comfortable, Ves activated his jammer.
It was enough to interfere with the surrounding air without blocking Melody ’s view, so the latter did not object.

”What did you want to show me that ’s so important that you had to call me here? ”

”I ’ve been thinking about showing you some of what I can do.
It will be difficult for you to perceive, but you deserve to witness this moment.
What I ’m about to do is putting the final touches to our designs. ”

She looked curious at him.
”I thought we already completed the designs. ”

”Not quite. ” He smiled.
”While it ’s true that we have declared their physical designs complete, there is still one more component missing from both designs.
I think it ’s best for me to demonstrate. ”

For the first time in his life, Ves was about to reveal one of the methods that made his mech designs special to another mech designer.

While Nitaa already witnessed him in action before, her lack of understanding towards mechs had mostly left her in the dark.

Someone like Gloriana would be able to pick up a lot more.
Not only because she understood mechs as well as him, but also because she was a spiritually-strong individual.
Even if her spiritual perception was nowhere close to his own, she should still be able to sense something.

Ves silently activated his comm and projected two of his designs.
At the same time, he concentrated his mind while dragging one of the P-stones to his side.

”What does this exotic have to do with your designs? ” She questioned.

As the owner of the Stellar Chaser, she knew that Ves brought a bunch of containers when he moved onto the ship.
She never understood what kind of role his exotics played.

”Observe. ” Ves smiled at her.
”Try and feel what I do instead of relying on your conventional senses. ”

Ves started by placing his finger onto the surface of the occupied P-stone.
He utilized his Spirituality to lift the trapped spiritual product from its prison.

The Solemn Guardian hadn ’t matured very much since he put it into the P-stone.
This was exactly as Ves intended.
It still emanated a pure and innocent aura of duty.

The moment Ves pulled it out, Gloriana shifted a bit.
It appeared she sensed something remarkable, but she failed to spot anything with her eyes!

Without explaining anything, Ves ushered the Solemn Guardian into the Desolate Soldier design.

As if sensing the immense compatibility between the two, the Solemn Guardian did not resist the move.
Once it settled into the conceptual space of the Desolate Soldier design, the newly-installed design spirit quickly melded into its new home, instantly empowering its X-Factor to greater heights!

”Ves! ” Gloriana gasped.
”Your design suddenly changed! It feels so much more remarkable, just like the Aurora Titan and your other designs! Did you just infuse it with one of your proto-gods?! ”

Ves did not want to admit it directly.
”I added in the final component.
Pay careful attention to what I do next. ”

He retrieved the mote of Ylvaine ’s spiritual fragment and put it into the Holy Soldier design.
Next, he began to do something he always theorized but never put into action before.

He projected his Spirituality and applied it towards the Solemn Guardian.
He conveyed a request to the spiritual product.

Some time passed before the Solemn Guardian suddenly projected itself onto the Holy Soldier design!

The variant ’s close similarity to the Desolate Soldier made this interaction possible!

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