The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7154

Chapter 7154: Prospecting Other Dimensions

Ves, Ketis and Gloriana toured the System Space.

They browsed the various goods on offer that could make a difference in the upcoming leadership challenge.

Given his modest budget, Ves mainly directed his attention towards pill, potions, elixirs and other consumables that could give him a temporary boost in strength.

[Qi Restoration Potion]

Price: 80 Ascension Points

Ingesting this potion will quickly restore the qi energy state of a cultivator while also generating a temporary state of heightened focus. When the active effects have passed, weaker cultivators will crash and remain exhausted for several days.

"I have tried one of these potions out in the past." He told the accompanying women. "It works as advertised. It is truly worth the AP if you use it when you are tired but still have to finish the fight. If it wasn’t so damn expensive, I would have felt tempted to purchase one right away."

The Qi Restoration Potion did not interest Gloriana at all considering that she was a pure civilian, but Ketis might have a good use for it in the future.

"80 AP is not a small sum." The swordmaster looked almost pained. "I still need to improve my own design skills, and the Dimension Observatory demands its due as well. I have to earn 400 AP to open up another gateway to the Blue Dimension next time. I can’t afford to spend 80 AP on this luxury item, particularly when I am already thinking about diversifying my offerings."

Ves turned to Ketis. "What did you just say?"

"You heard right." Ketis grinned back at him. "Ever since the Red Three opened up their eyes to the possibility that there are high-quality resources that are ripe for the picking in the higher dimensions, they have offered to help me research and prospect them in order to learn whether they contain materials that can offer comparable benefits to superdimensional matter. Once they have found a few good leads, I will spend a few AP to make use of the Dimension Telescope to take a peek at them. It only costs 5 AP to do so. If I like what I see, I can spend 10 or 50 AP to open a short-lasting portal that can allow us to retrieve samples. Only then will we be able to confirm for certain whether the new dimensions are worth exploiting."

That sounded like a sound game plan. Ves particularly liked it that Ketis managed to entice the Red Three to do most of the ground work themselves.

Ketis had done her own legwork in order to pin down the Blue Dimension, but this was not a good use of her time. It was much better to let the professionals of the Red Three spend a huge amount of time and manpower on this task. She just needed to save up a bit of AP to confirm whether the research results were accurate before preparing to launch a full mining expedition in the newly discovered dimension.

While Ves found this promising, he doubted whether it was worth spending the extra AP on this endeavor.

"Hitting the Blue Dimension has already introduced huge advancements in human tech and top-level combat power." He said. "Right now, there isn’t nearly enough mid-grade and high-grade superdimensional matter to go around. In my opinion, it is best to focus on opening up periodic portals into the 365th dimension so that practically every ace mech is upgraded with at least a bit of superdimensional matter."

Ketis pursed her lips. "I do not necessarily disagree with you, but given how much we depend on senior ace mechs and god mechs to guarantee the existence of our race, I think it is important to keep finding more super-class materials that work on different principles than superdimensional matter. What if there are much more powerful hyper materials hidden in a higher dimension? If we can discover where we can find these resources, I can open a portal to their location and give red humanity another way to further increase the hard power of their best assets."

It was ultimately a question of quality or quantity.

Ves’ argument favored focusing on mining superdimensional matter in order to make it more accessible to red humanity.

Letting every ace mech gain access to superdimensional matter would be extremely helpful in stopping the enemy phase leaders and assault fleets from overrunning the contested border regions.

As far as Ves was concerned, red humanity urgently needed to stem its short term losses and regain stability in order to prevent its economy and industries from collapsing any further.

Ketis on the other hand paid more attention to the future phases of the arms race between red humanity and the native aliens.

The phase whales of the Red Cabal were producing as many Saint Piercers and Saint Armors as they could manage.

They would eventually become so ubiquitous that every greater phase lord and phase whale made use of superdimensional gear.

Even if the material quality of alien-grade superdimensional alloy was not the best, they were still competitive enough to give phase leaders a chance to fight and win the human champions, especially if they enjoyed a numbers advantage.

"There is another important reason why Ketis’ new initiative has received so much support, especially from the Red Association." Gloriana said. "Our community is still rife with peak ace pilots that have stalled before they could step onto the road to no return. God pilot candidates such as the Mace of Retaliation lack the confidence to survive the most dangerous breakthroughs of their lives. The introduction of superdimensional matter has given them a small measure of hope as a better machine can help them survive the infamous Mech Body Merger Process. If we can find more super-class materials to upgrade their mechs even further, we can potentially raise the success rate by 5 to 10 percent, which can result in 2 or 3 additional god pilots emerging in the next decade."

Though Ves questioned her numbers, he could not argue with her overall logic.

She was right.

According to Ketis’ increasingly more accepted Heaven Earth Man Trifecta, upgrading the Earth score could indeed help people increase their chances of breaking through.

Although god pilots also had to satisfy high standards in the other two criteria, a stronger mech always helped.

Ves looked thoughtful. "If that is the case, then I agree with you. Diversifying your high-quality offerings can potentially make a huge difference. We urgently need more god pilots, especially since it appears that they are the only combatants that are capable of completely cleansing a star system of a voribug infestation.

One of the most annoying traits of the mutated voribugs was that once they entered a star system, they could never be repelled without investing a disproportionate amount of time and combat assets into sweeping every planet, moon and asteroid belt.

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