The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7142

Chapter 7142: Intelligence Support

Ves felt he had boarded a pirate ship.

The worst part of it was that he did so voluntarily.

He was supposed to be a mech designer, yet agreed to ’initiate’ a leadership challenge against the highest-ranking officers of the Phase Lord Department.

Those four leaders also happened to be among the most powerful fighters of that very same department, or it was not possible for them to maintain their ranks.

The prospect of fighting against them instilled his heart with fear.

What if the gap in strength was too big?

What if they pulled off a killing blow before he could issue his surrender?

What if the Ascended Giants did not respect the rules?

There were many uncertainties surrounding the leadership challenge. Ves felt as if his mind would explode if he tried to deliberate over them all. There were way too many breaking points!

Fortunately, he was not alone in this. Demetrius Sol Klavia noticed Ves’ growing distress and tried to pull him back to sanity.

"You are not alone in this." He said. "You have the broad support of the Red Collective behind you. Our resources, our expertise and our backing is yours. No matter whether you win or lose, we will not let you suffer unjustly as you are one of our own. Your loyalty and commitment to the cause is much greater than that of the Ascended Giants. That makes you far more valuable than these body cultivators gone rogue."

His words helped to ease Ves’ rational as well as irrational concerns.

Ves closed his eyes for a moment. "If we are about to do this, then I first need to know what I am dealing with. I have only read descriptions of the polemarchos and the strategoi, but that doesn’t tell me nearly enough how they fight."

"We are already preparing information packages that contain footage of their characteristic fighting styles before and after they have transformed into human phase lords." The department head promised. "The encrypted data that your cat had retrieved from their headquarters is continuing to reveal its secrets as we unlock them. This effort has already borne fruit as we have obtained scattered footage of training sessions, ability testing and instruction classes. The human phase lords are all enthused about their rapidly growing strength and capabilities. They cannot resist the urge to show off their power."

Ves could understand the sentiment. Unlike him, they were all professional soldiers and warriors. They had long been relatively powerless during the Age of Mechs. Their poor genetic aptitudes meant that they were unable to join the mech craze and could only get their fix by specializing in personal combat or serve the military in another capacity such as becoming a staff officer or serving on a carrier vessel.

The Phase Lord Department completely remade them. They had turned from weak and puny humans into giants that could crush the average mech with their bare fists!

The acquisition of so much power in a matter of months could cause any fighter’s ego to inflate!

The indoctrination of the heavenly authority of the Red Ocean was insidious enough to feed these impulses.

These Ascended Giants did not flirt with defection because they got brainwashed into becoming completely different people.

Instead, the influence of the alien galaxy merely amplified their hidden but wildly ambitious thoughts!

These heretical ideas should have remained buried in the depths of everyone’s minds, but the indoctrination merely brought it forward while almost completely removing any scent of stigma.

How the hell was Ves supposed to reassert their loyalty to red humanity?

The only answer was to perform convincingly enough in the leadership challenge that no one doubted his strength.

To do that, he needed to know what he was dealing with. Intelligence was crucial for him to gain an edge.

"Zariel-775 here is responsible for presenting our intelligence to you." The chief enforcer said as he gestured to the secret keeper. "He is also responsible for conveying your intelligence demands to us. Do not be afraid of asking him questions. One of the reasons why he is assigned to you is because he was one of the secret keepers tasked with monitoring the Phase Lord Department. He possesses greater insights into their thinking than others."

Secret Keeper Zariel-775 stepped forward. "An important development has occurred. The additional data that we have decrypted from the data cores has yielded a large amount of miscellaneous information. Not much of it is immediately relevant to you, but we have obtained a number of blueprints of raiments, weapon systems and other gear. Their completeness is not high, but they should give you a better idea of the equipment that you are expected to face."

That was incredibly valuable information. Ves was able to make much better use of such detailed technical information on account of being a mech designer. He could design his gear with greater certainty that they would counter whatever his enemies carried into battle.

Of course, who knew whether the polemarchos and the strategoi prepared a secret set of equipment that was different or much more powerful than usual. Ves could not assume that every piece of intelligence was reliable.

"What about their phasewater organs?" Ves asked.

"We can indirectly piece together a number of phasewater organs that they have integrated into their true body." The secret keeper responded. "We do not have direct access to medical records or other intelligence that can help us gain a more complete overview of their phasewater organs. That data is locked within more secure data cores, as it should."

That made a lot of sense.

This was disappointing news. Ves knew that there were phasewater organs that could do a lot of weird stuff. It would be nice for him to know what he was dealing with beforehand. He may even be able to build a special gadget that could counter a specific function.

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