The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7153

Chapter 7153: Resources Are Meant To Be Used

The subject on how to control the Ascended Giants in the event that Ves won the leadership challenge already induced a headache.

Ves did not look forward to tackling this issue, but he could not avoid it if he and the Dark Apostle gained control over the Phase Lord Department.

Becoming its department head meant assuming responsibility over the Ascended Giants. Their problems became his problems. Ves and his alter ego needed to make the hard choices in order to make sure the Phase Lord Department continued to occupy a productive place in human society.

Though Ves loathed it, he realized that implementing an ’enhanced’ kinship network may ultimately be the gentlest out of a collection of bad solutions.

Implementing it would violate the rights of the Ascended Giants, but then again, they were not quite human anymore. They had more in common with dangerous exobeasts, which demanded a lot of restrictions in order to keep them in check. The Larkinson Biotech Institute even had to cull the mutated beasts it kept under captivity because the cost of containing them began to exceed any reasonable expectations of profiting off their unique evolution.

He inwardly shook his head.

There was no need for him to solve these problems just yet. He first needed to tackle the immediate issue first before he could think about subsequent problems. Who knew whether these ideas would turn useless if he lost the leadership challenge.

"As you may have already surmised, I called you here in order to find out whether you can lend me a hand with the leadership challenge." He said. "I am about to browse the Divine Bazaar and the Tree of Possibilities for goods and enlightenment fruits that can give me an extra boost in the upcoming duels. However..."

"You need more AP." Gloriana already guessed his motivations.

"Yes. Can you... can you spare a few hundred AP?"

"..."

"..."

Neither Ketis nor Gloriana were amused by this request.

"You came way too late, Ves." The wielder of the Heavensword said. "The two of us have already completed a few small marathons and painstakingly earned the Ascension Points needed to upgrade the Dimension Observatory and open a larger and more long-lasting dimension breach. I already invested 100 AP into Breach Expansion - Level 2 in order to increase the maximum height and width of the dimensional portal by 5 meters each.

"And I fulfilled the demand that you imposed on me well on time." Gloriana mentioned with a hint of pride in her voice. "I worked hard and solved all sorts of difficult and tedious Missions in order to accumulate 500 AP. The instant I reached this threshold, I spent it all on Breach Extension - Level 3, which grants us the option to extend the longevity of the dimension breaches to 5 standard days."

Ves swept his gaze back and forth between his wife and his former student.

"So... how much AP do you currently have in your accounts?"

"13 AP." Gloriana answered.

"414 AP." Ketis responded. "Before you think about laying claim on any of my points, 400 AP is already reserved for the dimension breach that I intend to open next. I have already given out hints and told the Larkinson Clan to make advance preparations. Many parties have gathered at the current location of the expeditionary fleet in anticipation of an imminent mining rush into the Blue Dimension. If I spend my AP for your benefit, then that will massively delay the next opening."

400 AP was a large sum!

Ketis could easily spend it on 1 or 2 decent enlightenment fruits that could give Ves much more solid fighting skills.

She could also exchange it for interesting gadgets or raw materials that could give the Dark Apostle an edge in combat.

Yet instead of spending it all on those items, Ketis was adamant about using her current reserve for its intended purpose, which was to significantly expand red humanity’s stockpile of superdimensional matter.

In a few days, Ketis would once again appear in public while pretending to use the Heavensword to create a larger and much more long-lasting gateway into the Blue Dimension.

It was not an exaggeration that all of red humanity was holding its breath for this critical opportunity.

Superdimensional matter was crucial to upgrading god pilots to the next level while strengthening red humanity’s ability to counter enemy phase leaders.

The Red Cabal had already begun to distribute more products made out of alien-grade superdimensional matter to its phase lords.

If red humanity did not keep up in this arms race, then its forces would suffer increasingly more damage and lose more battles over time. Entire territories might fall and billions of humans would perish!

Both Ves and Ketis could easily figure out the consequences of opening a dimension breach in time or delaying it by several weeks or even months.

This was why Ves felt ashamed for making a request that sounded painfully selfish and short-sighted.

It was not. Control over the Phase Lord Department ought to be worth at least a modest haul of superdimensional matter.

If Ves and the Red Collective truly regained control over all of the rebellious and unruly Ascended Giants, then that could help the war effort just as well as the addition of a dozen superdimensional ace mechs!

"What about giving me half?" Ves asked. "With 200 AP, you can create a dimension breach that is just as large, but will only last a single day. I know it sounds bad to lose 4 whole days of extra mining time, but this is the same duration as last time, which means that nobody will know that you had a better option. We can always make up for the lost opportunities to mine additional superdimensional matter in the future. An opportunity to conquer the Ascended Giants and put them at our disposal only comes once."

While his argument may sound decent, neither woman looked convinced.

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