The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7608

Chapter 7608: The ’Simple’ Acceleration Boot

The alien data pad may serve as a valuable source of information, but Ves doubted it held anything that could catch his attention. It was merely an item used by a low-level alien overseer of sorts. Such a mundane information container was unlikely to hold high-level secrets.

Nonetheless, the Farseer showed greater interest due to the possibility that it could contain a dictionary of sorts between deathborn language and the common native alien languages of the Red Ocean.

If that was true, research into deathborn artifacts could progress by a huge extent, as deciphering the language of this mysterious race opened up a lot of new options!

Ves felt happy that his daughter had unlocked real value for the researchers, but he also felt eager to move on to more exciting stuff.

The leader of the Moloch Squadron clearly sensed his growing impatience. She gently took back the stone disk and laid it back on the worktable.

The item itself only remained active for a dozen or so seconds before it returned to its previous locked and inert state.

That was to be expected. This made it a bit more inconvenient to access and study all of the information contained within. Andraste would have to cooperate frequently with the collies until the latter managed to develop a more direct workaround against the alien security measures.

The older woman next picked up a boot and invited Andraste to wear it on her left foot.

Though the alien boot looked huge in proportion to the preteen’s miniscule limb, the collies had thoughtfully filled up much of the internal volume with temporary hardening slime.

It still looked ridiculous when over half of Andraste’s leg disappeared inside the opening of the alien item!

"This feels really weird." Andraste helpfully commented. "What is this supposed to do?"

"Walk forward, dear."

The little girl attempted to do so. Naturally, there was no way she could maintain a fluent and natural gait with such a large object strapped to her left leg, but she did her best to move forward.

"Huh?!"

"Meow?!"

Andraste suddenly whipped forward at a much higher speed than normal!

Lucky, who still flew close to her in order to guard against any possible threats, got left behind as his charge found herself at least 10 meters away!

"Interesting." Ves straightened his back as he finally found a deathborn gadget that was worthy of study. "What has happened?"

"The deathborn temple complex had only been recently built, but already covered a large expanse of territory." The Farseer patiently explained. "Much of the main facilities can be accessed through normal transit options such as aircars and underground rails. However, that still does not help with traversing large but confining buildings. In order to increase the efficiency of the native alien guestworkers, the deathborn has provided the more important among them with ’acceleration boots’. It is not difficult to deduce how they work. Each boot is embedded with a small green crystal, which serves as a multifunctional energy reservoir. This crystal can absorb and store small amounts of death energy, which can be used to drive a mechanism that amplifies the forward motion of the wearer of the boot."

The explanation did not contain enough details to satisfy an engineer like Ves. He seriously doubted that this so-called acceleration boot was as simple as she made it sound.

Her theory at least ruled out more esoteric possibilities.

For example, Ves briefly suspected that the boot somehow accelerated the passage of time around Andraste, essentially granting her more time to traverse a set distance!

That would have made the acceleration boot at least a thousand times more valuable!

It was too much to hope that this gadget could manipulate the power of time itself. It was much more reasonable to assume that it provided a simple and straightforward kinetic boost. At most, it might do something interesting with inertia in order to prevent the wearer from losing his posture.

"Whoa! Look at how fast I have become! This thing is so clunky, yet it can make me run so much faster!"

The red-headed girl certainly enjoyed it. She happily raced from one end of the lab chamber to the other end and back again without expending a lot of energy.

That was until her accelerated motion abruptly ceased. The transition happened so suddenly that she almost fell flat on her face!

"Huh?! It stopped?!"

Andrea Vos chuckled. "As I have said, the boot only contains a small green crystal. The energy capacity of this component is not large. Once you have used it up, you can no longer power the acceleration boot."

"Aww. Can you recharge it? I want to run faster again!"

"That is rather problematic. We have yet to devise a safe means of transferring death energy from one deathcrystal to another."

"What an inventive name for those alien green crystals." Ves remarked.

"It fits the pattern." The RC cultivator shrugged her shoulders. "Besides, our team and I have already decided to set aside our conceit and keep it simple. Millions, if not billions of people will work with some form of deathtech in the years to come. We refuse to make their lives more arduous than necessary than label these recovered alien artifacts with convoluted terms."

That was a far more noble sentiment than Ves expected from her kind.

"What are the properties of deathcrystals? You called them multifunctional. Please explain why."

"As far as our research has unveiled, the green crystals are largely uniform in material composition. What distinguishes them from each other is size and shape, though the deathborn may have other ways of differentiation that we have not yet discovered. Whatever the case, it is apparent that smaller deathcrystals are quick and easy to mass produce. The disadvantages are that their energy capacities are low and they are not able to bear too many functions. The larger crystals perform much better in that regard, but they are progressively more difficult to produce. As their volume increases, they become more potent in many aspects, but that also makes them more prone to fracturing."

In short, bigger green crystals were much more powerful, but also much harder to make.

That sounded simple enough.

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