The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7218

Chapter 7218: Clocking Out

The Dark Apostle spent the rest of his available quota on familiarizing himself with the underground headquarters of the Phase Lord Department.

The transition phase was still ongoing, so the HQ had yet to transfer in new personnel, introduce new policies or even completely clean out the Oscillating Fist’s office.

The secret keepers were crawling all over it. They refused to permit the Dark Apostle to step inside the former polemarchos’ office and private chambers.

While he could have forced the issue, he chose not to, even though he really wanted to go inside and rifle through the former leader’s belongings.

Whatever.

There was much more for the Dark Apostle to see at the headquarters.

There were bioresearch departments that studied how to promote the growth of human phase lords and develop compatible phasewater organs.

There were armorers, metallurgists and many other experts who were assigned to develop the weapons and raiments for every phalanx. Each of them worked in three separate groups in order to distinguish their works from each other and promote benign competition.

There were also large spaces that had been transformed into giant-compatible parks, sports facilities, dining halls and most importantly enormous exercise facilities.

The Ascended Giants stationed in the headquarters spent most of their time in the latter. They were all eager and hungry to strengthen themselves. The recent leadership challenge had fully showcased the combat power of the best of their race, and they were determined to bridge the gap!

The Dark Apostle gained a better feel of the Phase Lord Department. In his impression, the Ascended Giants all sought to prove themselves. They were the new kids on the block, but wanted to demonstrate their dominance and superiority over others.

Once the new organization charter came into force, the Phase Lord Department would give them plenty of opportunities to do so. The time for the giants to remain on standby had passed.

So far, the Dark Apostle was pleased with what he saw. Despite their big egos, the giants behaved well in each other’s presence. They did not start fights for random reasons or engage in any unpleasant behavior.

While the giants acted a bit too dismissively towards the human members of the Phase Lord Department, this was not a big deal.

The humans themselves were already accustomed to these reactions. They all seemed to look up at the giants and always showed awe.

The Dark Apostle decided to spend a bit of time on interviewing the human employees why they were so willing to let the giants boss them around.

It turned out that the answer was simpler than he thought.

Most of the people assigned to this department already possessed a strong interest or even obsession for human phase lords.

Once the Ascended Giants came into existence, the humans around them naturally looked up to them, both figuratively and literally.

There was just something about being in the same room of a humanoid figure that was many times larger and stronger than yourself that drove humans to instinctively worship the large figure.

While not every human worker immediately fell to his knees, constant exposure to several dozen human phase lords ultimately wore down the resistance of even the most secularist human!

It only took a few months for all of these humans to worship the Ascended Giants as gods or at the very least gods-in-the-making!

Ves would probably feel horrified at how easy it was for humans to worship human phase lords as their gods and masters.

However, the Dark Apostle merely smirked as a response. This was a natural response as far as he was concerned. The mortals all possessed a tendency to worship the strong, and as long as the difference was great enough, the former might actually regard the latter as gods!

While the Dark Apostle understood that the rest of red humanity did not want this phenomenon to spread outside of the Phase Lord Department, he seriously doubted that the Red Collective or other institutions could stop its spread.

Religion was still alive and well among humans.

Many people possessed a need to believe in a greater existence or narrative.

This was why every god pilot had a temple.

The Dark Apostle had no doubt that so long as his giants started to showcase their prowess in public, more and more humans would begin to worship the new race.

This was another reason why he was so eager to send the giants to the frontlines. They needed to rely on valiant actions in order to attract attention and worship.

Whether all of this worship made a difference remained to be seen, but the Dark Apostle did not think it was useless.

In fact, he thought that the opposite was the case. There had to be a very good reason for phase lords and phase whales to obsess so much over being treated as gods and demanding the mortals to worship them. The Dark Apostle simply did not understand it himself.

Perhaps he would find out as his phasewater concentration continued to move closer to 100 percent.

The Red Ocean might deign to give him another revelation along the way.

While the Dark Apostle wanted to spend more time roaming his headquarters, he knew that his period of freedom was coming to a close.

He sighed in regret as he moved back to the underground hangar bay.

By the time he approached the armored shuttle that originally brought him down, he took the initiative to fold his true body back to normal human proportions.

"You better appreciate what I have done for you humans. Get to work on creating those new spirits."

The Dark Apostle left.

Ves returned.

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