The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7538

Chapter 7538: Last Defiance Manual

The proposal centered around the Soulcutter Thesis sounded very compelling.

Ves had little doubt that it was the simplest and most direct plan that the four would come up with today.

Being simple and direct were not necessary problems, but Ketis’ proposal contained a number of very glaring vulnerabilities.

That made them hesitant to embrace it out of the blue. They still needed to weigh the other proposals before they could form a consensus.

"So who wants to go next?" Ves asked.

"I am ready to present my plan." Alexa Streon said as she stepped up and began to project a very familiar mech design.

The projection displayed a rather generic Woodsap mech.

The biomech did not show anything special at first, but when Alexa gestured with her hand, it suddenly gained a few additional branches.

These branches all happened to grow a couple of large and succulent fruits.

Ves and the other two mech designers grew befuddled.

Why did Alexa propose to turn a Woodsap mech into a literal fruit-bearing tree?"

"What... are we looking at, exactly?" Ves tentatively asked.

The youngest mech designer smiled back at him. "I can understand your confusion. To be honest, I only recently drafted this proposal right after we completed the edible mech design. I became inspired by the idea of designing a mech that is designed from the ground up to be eaten by humans. What if we weaponized this property? Food can serve as a weapon as well as sustenance. It all depends on its composition. I took inspiration from nature and devised a plan to develop a biomech or rather its edible components that especially attracts the deathborn. Hence the fruit. The goal is to lure these beings into eating the fruits, thereby absorbing the seeds hidden within."

Ves started to look thoughtful. He already had an idea where this plan was going.

"Go on, Alexa."

The projection began to display a very crude simulation of a deathborn approaching the odd Woodsap mech before taking a bite out of the fruit.

While the fruit was definitely a tangible object, it happened to possess a higher concentration of life energy.

This ensured that the deathborn would not be able to resist the temptation to take a bite!

The act of doing so would essentially seal its fate.

This was because absorbing the life energy from the fruit also meant absorbing whatever else that Alexa had hidden inside the same fruit!

The projection visualized this dangerous seed as a small red star. It did not glow brightly at first, but once it entered the ’body’ of a deathborn, it began to take root and germinate.

Somehow, the red seed transformed into a parasite that absorbed the energy that made up the deathborn!

Not only did it concentrate much of the life energy that the deathborn had originally absorbed, it also began to expand on it through a mysterious method!

By the time the dim red star turned into a small glowing sun, the deathborn had been practically drained dry.

This was not the end of the story.

Other nearby deathborn became attracted by the concentration of life energy and could not resist the urge to prey on their weakened kin!

They overcame their instinct to avoid attacking their own species and ruthlessly bit into the infected deathborn from all sides!

At the end of this little frenzy, 6 more deathborn managed to have their fill!

Yet even as they began to digest the life energies that they had just absorbed, they did not realize that their previous meal also caused them to swallow a portion of that red sun.

Even though they had only swallowed a fraction of this parasitical construct, that was enough for it to take root and begin the same process all over again!

As the projection continued to run the simulation, the sequence quickly unfolded into a chain reaction.

It began with a single deathborn.

Half a minute later, the infection spread to 6 deathborn.

Then 36.

Then 216.

Then 1.296.

Then 7.776.

Then 46.656.

Then 279.936.

Then 1.679.616.

Then 10.077.696.

Then 60.466.176.

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