The Mech Touch Chapter 3770 - Crucial Epiphany

Chapter 3770 - Crucial Epiphany

The difficulty of producing universal life energy was unimaginable.

This was not a regular form of spiritual energy. Its core attribute centered a higher concept of life!

Ves had only encountered a few varieties of high-end spiritual energy.

From the high-grade life-prolonging treatnt vials, he was able to extract the universal life energy that served as the key ingredient to extending people's lives.

From Cassandra Breyer, he ca in touch with the five elents of earth, water, fire, wood and tal.

From the Polymath, he not only encountered the tal attribute once once again, but also tasted the power of truth!

Each of these high-end attributes were powerful. Each of them opened up a lot of new possibilities. Each of them also happened to be extrely difficult to reproduce!

If what he learned from various sources was any indication, then the only way for the Big Two and the Five Scrolls Compact to generate universal life energy was to squeeze it out of the brains of high-ranking ch pilots!

"What an incredibly barbaric and inefficient process!"

While Ves could easily imagine the deranged cultists of the Five Scrolls Compact undertaking such a dented activity, it was hard for him to accept that the Big Two also engaged in such a terrible activity!

The suspicion that the ch Trade Association, which had always stood up for the rights of ch pilots, eagerly sacrificed the lives of expert pilots and ace pilots in order to extend the lives of a cabal of geezers was too horrible to accept!

Although Ves still hadn't collected enough proof to clear his doubts, the possibility always remained.

He did not need to look any further than the research files that he had inadvertently obtained from the pinnacle lab on Prosperous Hill VI.

His eyes clouded over as he focused inward. He dug up a collection of research docunts that he had managed to steal from the Supre Sage's lab.

Project Cain encapsulated that forr top bioresearcher's attempt to extract a special substance from the brains of dead expert pilots. The goal was to improve the yield and make it easier to produce greater quantities of high-grade serum!

There was no way the MTA had no relations to this macabre research project!

Perhaps its upright principles did not allow the organization to conduct this research directly. Outsourcing this controversial activity to a disposable third party associate was a lot safer!

The more Ves thought about it, the more this sche made sense!

The MTA could just profess innocence if the public found out about the horrible experints that they had secretly commissioned one day. After all, the chers had done none of the actual work. It was the 'rogue scientists' that had gone down the wrong path!

Until then, the chers could reap all of the gains without accepting any responsibility! It was a devious sche that completely fit their behavior pattern!

Every external research partner was a tool as far as the MTA was concerned. The Supre Sage and other 'research partners' were not as honored as they thought.

Perhaps they might hold value as long as their standing remained high, but the chers would not hesitate to dump them as soon as any of them turned into a liability!

Ves even thought about his own relationship with the MTA. Were his friendship with Jovy, his acquaintance with the Polymath and his status as a contributor of restricted technology just levers to make him more useful to the Association?

What if he outlived his usefulness? Would he get cleaned up by them one day?

He shook his head. The chers shouldn't be ungrateful!

As long as Ves grasped their goals and motivations, he could ensure that he remained a useful asset to them. His relationship with the MTA was safe as long as this was the case.

It didn't take much for him to remain in the good graces of the Association. He just had to keep improving as a ch designer. The greater his contributions to the ch community, the more he facilitated the MTA's purpose.

As Ves thought about how to maintain his relationship with the MTA, he suddenly reached another epiphany.

"Wait a minute." Ves abruptly paused. "Why am I thinking about improving humanity through spirit trees when I can more easily do so with my chs?"

The grand design that he tentatively called the Spiritual Uplift Project was extrely imnse and far-reaching.

In order to develop the spirit fruits that could seamlessly rge their spiritual seeds with people's spiritualities, he needed to develop a self-renewing source of universal life energy!

The only way that Ves could accomplish this was to create a new spiritual product that excelled at this job!

It would be the mother of all spirit trees.

By forming a spiritual entity that was largely based on high-end universal life energy and little else, Ves hoped to create a 'Tree of Life' that could produce an endless amount of its main ingredient, thereby ridding him from his dependency on extrely rare and expensive serum!

This was a much more efficient way of producing universal life energy than squeezing it out of the brains of high-ranking ch pilots as if they were oranges!

"It's too difficult, though!"

As far as Ves was aware of, most spiritual life forms were unable to handle such high-end energies. They were too powerful and high quality to be handled by low-order life forms.

The thought of creating a life that could produce universal life energy right away was an incredibly arrogant goal!

The biggest challenge to creating this so-called Tree of Life was to ensure that the new spiritual entity did not instantly expend all of its high-end universal life energy into nurturing its low-end spiritual energies.

"Difficult! Difficult! Difficult!"

While Ves had a few ideas on how to start with nurturing this extrely special Tree of Life, it would probably take decades if not centuries for this remarkable life form to fulfill all of its functions!

Compared to the extres that Ves needed to go through in order to progress his ultra-ambitious Spiritual Uplift Project, it was a lot easier for him to achieve similar results by designing chs!

This was what his epiphany was all about.

"I was putting the cart before the horse. Before I can think about helping every human transcend their limits, I should focus on a more attainable goal such as making ch pilots stronger!"

As Ves turned his thoughts in this direction, he realized that even without the use of spirit fruits, he could use another dium to nurture a human's spirituality.

"The answer is chs!"

Although the limitation of using chs was that his solutions were solely confined to ch pilots, this was still a good start.

Ves recalled the fundantal creed of every ch designer. It was a goal that the MTA forcefully hamred into his head and that of his fellow colleagues.

"ch designers exist to serve ch pilots."

It was a simple statent, but not it gained an additional aning through the epiphany he had obtained.

The conventional way for ch designers to fulfill their creed was to design good chs that provided imdiate battle strength to ch pilots.

A strong weapon allowed ch pilots to put up a better fight!

"However… that's not the extent of my style."

Sure, his living chs always provided imdiate advantages that could help a ch pilot win a battle. The increased cooperation between a living ch and a ch pilot along with the remarkable properties of glows usually resulted in better results.

Yet what Ves actually fixated upon was imparting his chs with growth potential. By making them alive and giving them the possibility to grow stronger over ti, they could beco stronger and more useful weapons that could help their ch pilots achieve even greater victories!

"That's not the extent of what I can do, though!"

He didn't realize it until now that he was mostly prioritizing the growth of the ch.

His latest attempts to make the weapon stronger such as developing increasingly more sophisticated living chs and increasing his use of design spirits all served to strengthen one part of the equation.

He had subconsciously neglected the other part of the equation, yet that was illogical.

As a ch designer who was obsessed with man-machine symbiosis, how could he leave out the growth of the ch pilot!?

"If I treat my living chs as spirit fruits, how much help can they provide towards my ch pilots?"

The results would be massive! Any ch of his design that could induce targeted growth to its ch pilot would be at least ten tis if not a hundred tis more valuable than a competing machine!

In fact, the allure of piloting a ch that could actively help a ch pilot grow stronger was a fatal attraction to the entire soldier profession!

Ves wanted to smack his face for missing this incredibly promising possibility!

Unlike his previous ideas, it was a lot more attainable for him to realize all of these amazing new growth-oriented ch models.

The reason why he was so confident about it was because they had already co into existence!

"My Chiron, my Quint and my Enlightened Warrior are already growth chs in a sense!"

Even Ketis joined the party. Her Monster Slayer and her Second Sword was imbued with a portion of her swordsmanship which they could pass on to their ch pilots!

All of these existing chs proved that the idea of using machines to actively nurture the strength of ch pilots was viable!

In truth, Ves had only scratched the surface of growth chs up until this point. He had been too ignorant of the possibilities. All the tis he spent on improving the performance of his chs had caused him to neglect the greater potential of design philosophy.

If he turned his main products into the ch industry's version of spirit fruits, then he could revolutionize the ch community a lot sooner!

The entire body of ch pilots would beco profoundly grateful to his contributions as he introduced a much more accessible thod for them to improve their talents and exceed their congenital limitations!

As long as his growth chs lived up to their promises, they could change the face of the ch market!

Who would want to buy a ch that wasn't capable of actively nurturing ch pilots?

"The chs that lack this essential feature will all turn obsolete overnight!"

The only way for other ch designers to compete against machines that served ch pilots the best was to incorporate Ves' solutions into their own work!

As far as Ves knew, the only way to make that possible was for Ves to advance to the rank of Master ch Designer and 'realize' his design philosophy!

His eyes widened as his passion burned even hotter than before!

He no longer felt confused about his future direction as a ch designer.

Ever since he beca a Journeyman, he explored his design philosophy and developed a lot of new applications. He continually created more and more thods and techniques while at the sa ti fleshing out his theoretical frawork.

Yet no matter how much he expanded his spiritual toolbox, he never felt that any of them brought him closer to advancing to the next rank.

This was no longer the case.

Ves felt it in his bones that the concept of growth chs could be the key he was looking for all of these years.

It was not the key that he could use to unlock the gates that allowed him to realize his design philosophy.

Every ch designer could co up with many different ideas to progress their design philosophies.

However, not all of them were as good. So were more attainable. So were easier to research. So fit a ch designer better than others.

Ves had no doubts, though. From the mont he formally conceived of the concept of growth chs, he already knew that it was the best and most fitting innovation that he could embrace!

"This is it! This is the one! This is my path that will lead to Senior and Master!"