The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7344

Chapter 7344: A New Pandora’s Box

After Ves completed his inspection of the Riot Mark III, he entrusted all of the remaining matters concerning the D-mech to his wife.

Though Gloriana developed a strong interest in the captured Ixith Goliath, she could not contribute that much to the discussion and examinations at this stage.

She definitely intended to get involved when the research progressed to a stage where people tried to translate their gains into brand-new design applications.

Even then, her interest in the ability to generate stolen resonance was not as high as others.

After all, she became a mech designer to develop machines that fit their users perfectly.

Instead of designing mechs that already came pre-baked with borrowed willpower, she would rather design a mech that could draw out the potential of any mech pilot and allow them to undergo natural breakthroughs.

Only the strength that belonged to themselves was invincible.

Everything else was temporal.

That said, Gloriana did not discount the value of stolen resonance. The proportion of people who engaged in willpower cultivation was destined to remain small. Not everyone was cut out to become an exemplary soldier or warrior.

She would feel much safer if she ventured the stars on a warship that could generate her own form of resonance to protect herself against a wide spectrum of possible attacks.

Of course, she did not expect to see any results in the near future. This was why she reined in her expectations and managed to remain calm.

"Go have fun, Ves. Just make sure that you remind them all that the existence of our latest masterwork is the only reason why they managed to collect such a grand prize. Do not let them dismiss the contributions made by our clan. Saint Orfan deserves to be acknowledged for this historic accomplishment."

Ves adopted a serious expression. "I haven’t forgotten, honey. I will make sure those guys won’t forget us anytime soon."

As he left the workshop, he thought about how his forces fared in this battle.

The Ascended Giants definitely screwed up. He and the Dark Apostle already took the possibility of suffering losses into account, but when they actually occurred, he still felt caught off-guard.

He did not expect the human phase lords to perform so poorly against a single Level 8 Goliath.

While they had acquitted themselves decently well against Level 7 and lower Goliaths, that only meant that the giants were capable of bullying the weak and barely holding their ground against their equals.

It was very clear that the Ascended Giants was very much a work-in-progress. They lacked tempering and still struggled to find their niche in a fast-changing dwarf galaxy.

"They need to distinguish themselves and find a purpose that they can fulfill better than mechs." Ves made a preliminary conclusion.

The ability to harness the power of stolen resonance may be an opportunity for his subordinates to close the gap with ace mechs.

Even if borrowed willpower was only a fraction as strong as the Saint Kingdom of genuine ace pilots, the former had a powerful advantage over the latter.

The distributed intelligence model debuted by the mutated voribugs was highly scaleable.

This was an incredible data point, and one that drove many people mad!

Ves could not contain his excitement either.

Now that the urgency of battle had subsided, Ves was able to relax and let his mind wander.

He leisurely boarded a shuttle that flew towards the Rubarthan research vessel in charge of conducting initial examinations on the captured research specimen.

Many other people flocked to the same research ship.

Although the pre-planned evacuation of non-essential personnel left the Philaster Crestia System with a dearth of senior R&D personnel, there were still a number of mid-and-lower level personnel left that could perform scans and initial observations.

Every major player paid close attention to the Ixith Goliath, so the research vessel welcomed dozens of different shuttles from multiple important organizations.

Naturally, security became an important concern. One of the Rubarthan ace mechs had forgone rest in order to stand guard and keep an eye on all of the scientists and engineers.

Warships and mechs hailing from the Rubarthan Pact, the Red Three and the Cybernetic Empire jointly maintained an expansive perimeter guard around the vessel and the Goliath in question.

The Rubarthans even salvaged a large amount of metal debris to quickly construct a makeshift isolation chamber around the crown prize.

The spherical tomb did not look makeshift in the slightest. The Rubarthans utilized their best military construction machines on hand to process and reshape the random alloys into a structurally strong and sound space laboratory.

They had already begun to install azure energy shield generators to upgrade its protection even further.

Nobody wanted to see anyone causing any accidents. Security remained high due to fears that others might want to ruin this opportunity to study the first known alien creature that possessed the capacity of extraordinary willpower.

Word had already spread far wide across human-occupied space.

The news could not be suppressed considering how many different linefighters from the Rubarthan Pact and beyond participated in the recent battle.

The reaction from mech pilots and mech designers was surprisingly mixed.

While there were plenty of people who welcomed this development and looked forward to gaining access to the power of stolen resonance, others felt that the very existence of the Ixith Goliath and everything related to it should be declared taboo!

Many news portals and publications have already started to give voice to the opposition!

"Haven’t you forgotten where its stolen resonance came from?! The Incubator that birthed this hellspawn devoured several expert pilots! The big Goliath must have absorbed their bodies and kept them captive. Is this how you want to treat our demigods in the future!? We cannot allow our greedy leaders to transform our heroes into willpower batteries!"

"Mere mortals do not deserve to wield the power of resonance. The naming of stolen resonance apt, because it does not belong to them in the first place. Stop this research and destroy this abomination immediately! Do not let its existence tempt us into transforming divinity into another commodity!"

"Are you all stupid?! If those eggheads manage to reverse engineer the principles that the captured monster relies on to produce stolen resonance, how can we meet the demand for strong willpower? The only sources of that are exceptional human beings! Expert pilots are essential to defending our territories and keeping up morale with their powerful expert mechs. They cannot possibly be used for other purposes. As for swordmasters, each of them are model citizens who are infallibly honest and pure. Stealing their willpower will open up an ethical Pandora’s box that will stain our people and civilization forever!"

People voiced valid concerns and doubts about the latest discovered phenomenon.

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