The Mech Touch

ver its core values.
Now that he created a new form of spiritual life, he wanted to put Vescas to good use where it could develop into something more.

”It might be my baby, but it ’s also a product! Products are meant to be used, not pampered! ”

He wasn ’t running a charity, after all!

As Ves quietly studied Vescas further by probing it with his own Spirituality, he found out that the spiritual product contained a messy fusion of both his understanding of mech design and the Dragon Cat ’s rich experience in combat!

This was a very ideal fusion considering that both of them complimented well with a tiger mech once they combined their strengths!

”It ’s all about symbiosis! ”

His own Spirituality was highly familiar with mechs and mech designs, but it possessed no battle expertise.

The Dragon Cat ’s remnant spirituality knew nothing about how mechs worked, but it possessed an abundant amount of battle intent and experience.

Combining the two together resulted in an ideal fusion where the strengths of both covered the weaknesses of each other!

The spiritual product ’s familiarity and intimacy with mechs was the highest of any spiritual fragment he came in touch with in the past!

Entities such as Qilanxo ’s spiritual fragment and Prophet Ylvaine ’s spiritual fragment all possessed their own strong points.

However, all of the supplemental images he blended into them only supplemented some familiarity and expertise in mechs into them.
It did not change their fundamental makeup in a very significant way.

It was more like the previous spiritual fragments began to wear mech-themed coats.
Underneath their clothes, they still reflected their source, which possessed little to no familiarity at all with mechs.

This was why his latest innovation was so important.
Rather than drape his spirituality over the fragments in a shallow manner, he shoved it inside their spiritual makeup! This forced them to integrate a much larger proportion of his intimacy of mechs!

For this reason, Ves regarded Vescas as the next step in his utilization of spiritual fragments.
Despite its lack of strength compared to Ylvaine ’s spiritual fragment or Qilanxo ’s spiritual fragment, its depth and familiarity to mechs far surpassed the older spiritual entities!

”It ’s kind of a way of accomplishing more with less. ”

Ves had been driven to this point out of necessity.
The Dragon Cat ’s spiritual remnant had already died by the time he got to it.
What he essentially did was repurposing the spiritual carcass into something new and functional.

If he could already do this with some dead spiritual remains, what if he applied the same method to something stronger?

His eyes shone as he started to imagine the possibilities if he managed to harvest a living spiritual fragment from a notorious Crown Cat such as Zeigra!

In fact, his greed urged him to take more.
Instead of harvesting a mere fragment from the huge cat ’s spirituality, Ves aimed to capture it whole!

Of course, he didn ’t think it was as simple as yoinking Zeigra ’s spirituality out of his mind as soon as he caught sight of the Crown Cat.

He figured that he ’d only have an opportunity to do so at the moment of its death.
As the fate of the Dragon Cat ’s spiritual remnant already showed, when a powerful creature died, their spirituality became unmoored.

This would be the time when Ves would make his move!

”In order to get to that point, I have to make sure Lady Miralix and her hunters are piloting the strongest mechs possible! ”

His motivation towards his current assignment shot up into the sky! He deeply committed himself to improving the mechs of the Catstrikers, especially Miralix ’s Kinslayer!

As soon as he came off his inner contemplation, he dragged Lucky and Nitaa over to the mech workshops where he immediately went to work.

Aside from drawing up modification plans on the fly for the humanoid mechs, Ves poured his entire heart into tweaking and refining the Kinslayer.

Ves was like a bundle of energy as he completely immersed himself into his work.
While the other mechs of the Catslayers only received modest alterations, the modifications he made to the Kinslayer became much more pronounced!

With Vescas housed in his mind, he actively solicited it during the modification process.
Even if it was too immature to make its own decisions, just familiarizing the spiritual product to the mech was an important step.

”Look closely! This is going to be your new home soon! ”

Overall, the changes he made to the Kinslayer made it conform a little more to the Dragon Cat.
In fact, Ves spent more time and effort on applying cosmetic changes than altering its performance.

Appearances mattered! As Ves added various decorative elements to the mech, the tiger mech became more and more majestic.
Along with the latent X-Factor it developed because of how much Ves invested in the modification plans, the mech slowly began to take an entirely different air!

To the mech technicians working at the workshop, their leader ’s personal mech began to acquire the stature it deserved!

While Lady Miralix understood little of what Ves was actually doing, she applauded his efforts nonetheless.

”Fantastic work, Mr.
Larkinson! ” She clapped her hands in satisfaction.
”I knew it was worth it to involve you in my hunt! I can already imagine how well my new and improved Kinslayer will perform against Zeigra! The footage that we ’ll record will surely look epic! ”

Though he shared some of her enthusiasm, Ves did not let his feelings detract from the dangers they faced.

”Please don ’t think you ’ll be invincible when you pilot the new Kinslayer.
We ’re facing a Crown Cat, after all.
Or other preparations can ’t fall behind. ”

Lady Miralix quickly regained her composure.
”Ah, yes, you ’re right.
We can ’t take any Crown Cat for granted.
It ’s been a while since we last observed Zeigra in battle, so he may have grown stronger than we projected in the meantime.
Hopefully, your efforts have closed the gap. ”

”We can only hope. ” Ves said cautiously.

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