The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7126

Chapter 7126: Athena’s Strength

Athena Jameson was a qi cultivator.

She already possessed a strong spirituality by nature, but she actively developed it early on by practising a qi cultivation method that was unfamiliar to Ves.

While he could not glean too many details about the qi cultivation method devised by the Red Fleet, Blinky was perceptive enough to figure out that it had to be centered around a specific application of time.

Yes, time.

This was the first time that Ves had met a proper if somewhat young and immature time cultivator.

That was not all. Athena’s cultivation was very focused. She did not try to bite more than she could chew. She was still young, so her capacity to understand extremely abstruse concepts was far from the best. She already faced an uphill battle in getting started with a cultivation method based on the time attribute.

As far as E energy attributes were concerned, time consistently entered the top 10 in popularity and desirability, even managing to beat out space.

Unfortunately, just as space, ordinary people virtually had no chance of developing any special powers based on time.

It was just too difficult to get started. From what he heard, the few success cases within the Red Collective all relied on powerful external reagents in order to help them get past the insanely high threshold.

Ves believed that the Jameson Spaceborn Clan must have invested a huge amount of capital in order to get Athena started on her exclusive cultivation method. It made no sense if that was not the case. She was too young, and even if her inherent talent gave her a leg up, that was far from enough to wield a fraction of the power of time.

It was not his business to get to the bottom of this matter. No matter how the Jamesons managed to get one of their descendants to become a time cultivator, the important part was that they managed to attain initial success.

Athena managed to overcome one of the most difficult hurdles, but she still had plenty of other challenges ahead of her journey. The difficulty of making further progress was undoubtedly high.

She would definitely have to push herself beyond her limits on a repeated basis in order to overcome her many bottlenecks.

Yet all of it would be worth it. As long as her special cultivation method was powerful enough, she would gain increasing proficiency and control over specific aspects of time.

If Blinky’s examination of Athena’s structured spirituality was correct, then the young naval cadet had chosen to forgo much of the advantages of time in favor of viewing short glimpses of the future.

In other words, Athena had aspirations to become a prophet of sorts, but not the mysterious and confounding kind like Ylvaine.

She only wanted to observe a preview of what might happen a few seconds or a few minutes from the present.

"Clever." Ves said as he directed an appreciative gaze towards Athena. "My experience with prophets and foresight is... mixed. Don’t get me wrong. You can get an early warning and find out a great deal of stuff from a prophecy, but the further you look into the future, the costlier it gets. The consumption and difficulty gets even higher if you try to predict the actions of phase leaders and high-ranking mech pilots over such a lengthy span of time. If you limit your future glimpse to just thirty seconds in the future, then that is an excellent way to minimize your consumption and reduce the reliability of your predictions."

Both Astrid and Athena looked surprised at Ves.

"You have a sound understanding of some of the main variables involved with Athena’s specialization." The female lieutenant-commander said. "We have indeed devised a time-oriented cultivation method for her that seeks to grant her more accurate and reliable insight into what will unfold in the short term. This is all she needs in order to become a more effective naval officer at a station where she is able to make good use of the information she has obtained from her near-future vision. Whether that is at a gunnery station, the bridge or a command station, even a few seconds worth of foresight can mean the difference between victory and loss."

She explained a bit more about the principles and goals of Athena’s special cultivation method.

While she did not recite the specific mantras and cultivation steps, she supplied enough specific information to Ves to get a better idea on what sort of companion spirit would best compliment the young girl.

Ves grew more and more impressed with the layout of the fleeters who had devised this cultivation method from scratch.

They were already scientists with a good grasp on theoretical physics. In order to devise a time-based cultivation methods, they went deep into the Red Fleet and Red Collective’s archives and read every scripture that contained even a hint of prophecy and time manipulation.

Much of that knowledge was obscure, abstruse, incomplete and likely incorrectly translated.

There was so much that could go wrong if they attempted to make use of all of the bizarre and contradictory information.

Yet the scientists ignored all of it. They instead collated everything they learned and cut all of the dubious, dangerous and outright fabricated contents.

That left them with only a fraction of rules and principles that sounded at least somewhat consistent and reliable.

This was what they used as the core building blocks of the time-based cultivation method that Athena successfully practiced.

This explained why her spirituality was so focused and lacking in complexity. The RF cultivation scientists did not dare to mess with powers beyond their comprehension, so they cut everything aside from the bare essentials.

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