The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7478

Chapter 7478: Humans Are Untrustworthy

If Ves was being honest with himself, his belief in human supremacy had changed.

He no longer possessed the naivete of the past.

While still believed that the human race possessed a lot of superior traits, he was not blind to the fact that other races might not necessarily fall behind.

The Red War had long opened his eyes to the fact that most intelligent alien races deserved respect.

They all had their respective strengths and weaknesses.

If he had to make an honest evaluation, then perhaps the native aliens of the Red Ocean might score lower in terms of culture, society and technological mastery, but these were all surmountable faults.

So long as the alien races learned from their human foes and fixed many of the faults that impeded their civilizations, it was not impossible for them to grow rapidly and experience their own versions of the Age of Conquest!

Ves might despise their present incarnations, but he could not underestimate their future potential.

Among all of the alien races, Ves and most humans harbored relatively less hostility towards the arche.

This elusive race had always maintained a relatively low profile due to their lower population and their penchant for stealth operations.

Even if they had attacked human forces and holdings, they often did so in total secrecy, making it that much harder to lay blame on their feet.

This gave the idea that if red humanity had to pinch its nose and seek alliances with one alien race, it would have much less objections if it did so with the arche.

After all, the amount of human blood spilled by this mysterious race barely mattered compared to the much greater misery inflicted by the orvens, nunsers, jurgens and phase whales!

They just needed an opening.

Ves could worry about the reputational fallout later. He believed that he could overcome the controversy much like he managed to do with the last ones.

Those past experiences had taught him that as long as the benefits exceeded the costs, many people would be willing to accept the new status quo!

The main requirement now was to secure a high-level collaborator of the arche race.

The archecruiser captain definitely qualified. In the nomadic ship-based society that the arche had formed after their exile into space, those who earned the right to command such an impressively large stealth vessel definitely possessed a strong voice.

"#$&@%&#."

"I MEAN IT WHEN WE KNOW YOU, LARKINSON. YOUR OWN RACE CALLS YOU THE TONGUE OF THE EVIL GOD. YOUR INFAMY HAS ALREADY SPREAD BEYOND YOUR BORDERS. DESPITE YOUR QUESTIONABLE GODHOOD, YOU HAVE AMPLY DEMONSTRATED YOUR DECEITFULNESS BY SUCCESSFULLY MISDIRECTING HUMAN GODS WHO ARE MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU TO BEND TO YOUR SELFISH WHIMS. THE ARCHE RACE IS NOT IGNORANT ENOUGH TO FALL FOR YOUR DEVIOUS TRICKS. ANY POSSIBLE AGREEMENT THAT YOU OFFER TO US WILL ONLY CAUSE US TO DEGENERATE INTO YOUR THRALLS."

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Both Ves and Gloriana reacted with befuddlement after interpreting the heavily injured arche’s words.

Ves actually felt offended by the alien’s overly negative interpretations of his words and deeds!

Sure, he may have played fast and loose with the truth at times, but he had always tried to be as honest as possible when it came to his work and his public responsibilities!

As far as he knew, he enjoyed an excellent reputation among red humans for being trustworthy and empathic towards the common folk.

His many contributions to society had objectively improved the agency and opportunities for trillions of ordinary red humans!

Even the upper echelon of red humanity enjoyed fantastic benefits in the form of access to superdimensional matter and securing the rights to his advanced Carmine mechs!

Unfortunately, the title that he inadvertently obtained during his initial years as a mech designer still haunted him to this day!

The native aliens could not possibly appreciate all of the good that he had done for his own race. Their biases and inability to understand human nuances caused them to place too much weight on negative rumors and too little weight on positive achievements.

Ves sighed. "I am not the ’evil god’ in your imagination. I can be much more reasonable and accommodating in reality. Just give us a chance. If you think that it is harmful to negotiate with me, then I would be happy to put you into contact with our other leaders. Let’s face it. A war between our two races will not benefit anyone aside from the major alien races who greedily conquered your territories and turned you into space vagrants in the first place. What has the phase whale race done for your people over all of these years? Why would you possibly band together with your abusers and sacrifice your lives to protect their hegemony over the Red Ocean?"

A swell of contempt radiated from the crippled archeshell mech.

It appeared the alien leader did not think highly of Ves’ argument!

"#$@$#@#@."

"WE ARE NOT AS EASILY FOOLED AS YOUR HUMAN BRETHEN. OUR RACE MAY BE STRUGGLING IN THE PRESENT, BUT WE SHALL RISE ONCE MORE IN THE FUTURE. THE ORVENS AND THE NUNSERS ARE IN THE ASCENDANCY NOW, BUT THEY WILL INEVITABLY FALL WITH THE PASSING OF TIME. ALL STRONG RACES, AS LONG AS THEY DO NOT DIE OFF COMPLETELY, UNDERGO THIS REPEATING CYCLE. IT IS THE WAY OF THINGS IN THIS GALAXY. OUR RACE ONLY NEEDS TO BE PATIENT AND OUTLAST EVERYONE ELSE IN ORDER TO RISE AGAIN."

"#$&@#@%$."

"THE THREAT THAT YOU HAVE DESCRIBED IS REAL, BUT THAT IS NO REASON FOR OUR RACE TO SUBMIT TO YOURS. WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE RED STARS, AND SO ARE THE OTHERS WHO CLAIM THIS GALAXY AS THEIR ONLY HOME. WE WOULD RATHER FIGHT TOGETHER WITH THE RACES THAT WE KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THAN TO ENTRUST OUR LIVES TO A RACE THAT HAS WIPED OUT COUNTLESS OTHERS AND PROCLAIM THEIR SUPERIORITY OVER ALL. YOU DO NOT BELONG IN THESE STARS. TO ALL OF US, YOU ARE LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM THE VORIBUGS. BOTH OF YOU ARE HIGHLY DESTRUCTIVE PARASITES THAT SEEK TO DRIVE EVERYONE ELSE TO EXTINCTION."

"#@#&@#."

"DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CONVINCE ME ANY FURTHER. NO ARCHE SHALL EVER SURRENDER TO A HUMAN. THIS IS OUR COLLECTIVE CONSENSUS. "

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