Energy by itself was powerful, but only if it was being used.
Reality consisted of energy and matter interchanging with each other. Order arose when lots of processes took place that converted one form of energy into another form of energy, allowing soone or sothing to take advantage of the process to accomplish sothing useful.
An ordinary human converted the energy absorbed by the food he absorbed to perform his job and go about his day.
A simple ch consud the energy supplied by its energy cells and power reactor in order to move around or attack its opponents.
A star released energy at a massive scale due to the imnse gravity pressing a huge amount of atoms together, fusing them into bigger atoms that also happened to release a lot of energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation.
The entire cosmos, from tiny specks of space dust to astronomically huge galaxies, operated along these lines. The conversion of matter to matter, matter to energy, energy to matter and energy to energy basically explained every single process that took place from the beginning of ti.
As a ch designer, Ves possessed a deep appreciation of energy. It was the most essential pillar upon which human civilization rested. Without harnessing a sufficient amount of energy, how could humanity possibly fuel the enormous industries that produced the huge amount of weapons and war machines that kept humanity dominant?
Without developing and sustaining enormous power reactors, how could humanity's aweso battleships defeat the previously-dominant alien empires during the Age of Conquest?
Without powerful weapons of mass destruction, how could the human race almost make itself extinct in the span of less than a century despite spreading widely across the galaxy?
Energy could be used to create and destroy. No matter what form it took, energy was neither inherently good or evil. It was neither aggressive nor peaceful.
It just existed.
It was up to soone or sothing else to make use of energy.
After performing an extensive series of repetitive tests on the Valkyrie Pri, Ves had gained a slightly deeper understanding of all of the spiritual energy dumped into the ch.
First, the spiritual energy used to enhance the spiritual foundation of the ch did not vanish. The 'soul' of the ch appeared to be a self-sustaining entity that did not exhibit any changes in the short term. It did not need to be fed, though piloting the ch slowly caused it to grow and develop further.
While this largely ruled out many ans of accelerating its growth, at the very least Ves didn't have to worry about its upkeep, unlike his expensive factory ship.
"This also explains why the triggered abilities of my recent ch designs aren't that powerful." He suddenly realized.
The Marked For Death ability of the Valkyrie Redeer.
The Disorientation Pulse of the Doom Guard and the Ferocious Piranha
The Guided Aim ability of the Deliverer.
All of these triggered abilities were impactful in their own way, but that was mainly because they affected the human mind. In truth, none of the triggered abilities that Ves developed over the course of his career was ever able to affect reality itself.
It was only now that Ves explored other applications of spiritual energy that he understood the fundantal reason behind the limitations of glows and triggered abilities.
There wasn't enough energy!
Every LMC ch that was alive possessed spiritual energy in the form of spiritual foundation. Yet without any active enhancent, these freshly-made chs asured at almost 0 Ves.
How could a ch with only a tiny amount of energy possibly be capable of affecting reality? It was already a miracle that it was able to influence people's minds!
Even if a ch's spiritual foundation absorbed a lot of spiritual energy, either through spiritual foundation enhancent or by collecting the spillover of the breakthrough of its expert pilot, it still did not change anything.
This was because a ch's spiritual foundation was not set up to consu its own energy to power energy-intensive processes!
It was like any normal living entity. When a normal human like Gavin Neumann ran laps throughout the Spirit of Bentheim, he would probably collapse in less than an hour.
Even if the personal assistant felt as if his entire body was sucked dry of energy, in fact his body still possessed more than enough energy to sustain its normal physiological activities. Otherwise, his muscles would no longer be able to move, his brain would no longer be capable of producing thoughts and his digestion system wouldn't be able to replenish the body's energy levels!
"The spirit of a ch is akin to a normal human." Ves concluded. "It's not a power reactor that rapidly consus fuel in order to release a huge amount of energy."
The spiritual energy required to affect reality was massive. Ves couldn't help but recall the instances where Ketis demonstrated her 'superpower'.
That was actually a very good example of how spiritual energy could be used to achieve sothing energy-intensive but aningful.
It also illustrated how the price was very onerous. Ketis could only empower the edge of a blade for a single attack before she was done for the day!
This single case proved that spiritual energy could accomplish more if it was being expended in so fashion.
Ves himself also expended spiritual energy when he perford his more demanding techniques. Creating design spirits, channeling the strength of design spirits, donning a spiritual mask and performing remote domain sharing with Gloriana all drained a lot of his energy, but the results were always drastic!
"In order to get sothing, you have to pay sothing. The more you pay, the more you get."
Of course, it wasn't that simple. Every process and transformation generated waste. Not even spiritual energy was immune to the concept of efficiency.
In any case, the realization that consuming spiritual energy produced a lot of remarkable outcos was a very important insight.
It explained many powerful phenona that previously seed like mysteries to Ves.
Even the power displayed by high-ranking ch pilots and superchs was no longer inexplicable as far as he was concerned!
The successively greater power exhibited by expert chs, ace chs and god chs in combination with their pilots also resulted from a combination of expending spiritual energy and willpower!
Ves looked intrigued. "Is this also a part of the secret that ch designers need to understand in order to design an expert ch?"
Regardless, the realization he made was such an important acknowledgent of how reality worked that Ves was actually experiencing another round of sublimation in his mind.
His design seed evolved!
Even though the shift wasn't very drastic, Ves could definitely feel his design seed had reached another stage of growth.
This was because this fundantal realization had the potential to unlock many powerful ways of applying his design philosophy. Enabling pri resonance was only a preview of what he could accomplish now that he understood a new truth about spiritual energy!
"I have taken one step closer to becoming a Senior!" Ves joyfully guessed.
It sounded so incredibly simple and obvious in hindsight, yet he was still limited by his imagination.
Now that he knew more than before, Ves beca a lot more eager to explore the new thods he ca up with to employ spiritual energy in a greater fashion.
Still, as exciting as these new possibilities sounding, his enthusiasm dampened when he recalled the price he had to pay.
"Everything has a price."
The greater the value, the greater the price.
Ves winced as he recalled he lost his Grand Dynamo. While this sacrifice produced an incredibly powerful result, the fact of the matter was that he had lost a very powerful source of renewable spiritual energy!
In the case of pri chs, they continually needed to be supplented with additional spiritual energy when put into use. While Ves welcod the discovery that piloting the Valkyrie Pri exercised Venerable Joshua's force of will, it was by no ans a cheap process!
As Ves thought about developing more pri chs in order to give his other Larkinson expert ch pilots their own workout tools, he inevitably faced the problem of sustaining their energy consumption.
According to Venerable Joshua, he was only capable of arousing pri resonance with the assistance of his ch and its design spirit.
That essentially ant the expert pilot had to develop a good relationship with the source of the spiritual energy infused in a ch.
Venerable Jannzi, Venerable Orfan and Venerable Dise should be alright as long as they piloted a ch that was compatible with Qilanxo.
The problem was that aside from Jannzi, he didn't have a readily available ch to accommodate the latter two. They were offensive ch pilots who fit poorly with the Aurora Titan and were much less flexible than Venerable Joshua when it ca to befriending an entity like the Superior Mother.
Venerable Tusa and Venerable Stark were even worse off. Ves lacked the second-class ch models to adapt suitable pri chs for them. He needed to wait until his Design Departnt completed the Ferocious Piranha IB and the Bright Warrior IB Projects to even consider developing their pri chs.
There were many other problems and complications surrounding this issue. All of these headaches caused him to appreciate a flexible and adaptable expert pilot like Venerable Joshua even more.
Whereas other expert pilots beca more narrow and specific with regards to their demands, Venerable Joshua was just as tolerant to different chs and circumstances than before. He didn't present much resistance when being asked to pilot an Ylvainan or Hexer ch.
With Venerable Joshua, Ves did not need to adapt a ch for his specific demands and inclination.
Instead, he could rely on the eager expert pilot to adapt himself to a ch instead!
Joshua was a real treasure to Ves for this reason!
After making all of these profound realizations, Ves tried to figure out how he could put it all into practice.
Much like energy, theory was only powerful if he put it to use.
After considering a number of options, he quickly set his sights on one of his most powerful innovations. He had used his invention to very good effect during the Battle against the Abyss.
It was a pity that it was very hard to replicate the effects at the magnitude shown during the fight. Ves essentially relied on the one-ti outburst of forced resonance to achieve an outco that ordinarily required true resonance to produce.
"Forced resonance is like winning the lottery. True resonance is like earning a regular paycheck. Fake resonance is like begging on the street. Pri resonance is like… working part-ti because you can't get a real job."
This statent illustrated his views on the different forms of resonance. Forced resonance was more powerful than true resonance, but the latter was actually more desirable and sustainable.
However, as his expert pilots didn't have any ans of generating true resonance, Ves had to settle for the discount version, which was pri resonance.
Still, discount or not, it was better than nothing!
It was because of this that Ves issued a special mission to a large number of Penitent Sister chs and ch pilots.
When they realized what Ves wanted to do, the Penitent Sisters felt very mixed!
This was why they made a move when the fleet erged out of FTL and the chs were being prepared to sortie into space.
An angry group of Penitent Sisters led by their ch captain stord up to Ves as he was setting up his workstation in the hangar bay!
"Patriarch Larkinson! What is the aning of this?!" Captain Chelsea Vidovic indignantly demanded.
"What is the matter?" Ves frowned as he calmly turned to face the female ch pilots.
"While we Penitent Sisters are at your disposal, we cannot understand why you would put a male in charge of us!" She stated while waving her hand in the direction of Venerable Joshua and the Valkyrie Pri. "Why don't you give your new Valkyrie ch to us? It will be in much better hands when piloted by soone who is truly devoted to the Superior Mother!"
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