The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7609

Chapter 7609: Huge Research Potential

The artifacts of the deathborn race all promised to provide their possessers a glimpse of completely foreign paradigms.

After the Farseer introduced the modest but promising acceleration boot, she began to show off a few other low-powered trinkets.

Though their immediate value was not high, they all possessed traits that made them priceless in the hands of the right researchers!

"This is a band that somehow increases a living wearer’s health and damage resistance. We believe the deathborn handed it over to workers assigned to perform particularly dangerous and physically demanding work. I do have to warn you that it also comes with a complication that makes it difficult to remove."

When the woman carefully placed the band around Andraste’s wrist, the grade 5 deathstone item automatically shrunk until it turned into a rather thick bracer around her skin.

Strange energies began to infuse into her body. Ves initially grew alarmed, but he resisted the urge to do anything rash when he saw that those energies did not corrupt her nor inflict any harm.

Instead, the deathstone band did exactly as described. They somehow empowered his daughter’s body through completely unfamiliar means. He had never observed anything like it in the past, yet he could sense his daughter responding well to this treatment.

They conducted a few tests. Trying to prick Andraste’s skin with a needle became a lot harder than before.

The skin barrier simply refused to succumb to the sharp object for a time!

It took a lot more force than Ves thought to finally create a breach!

Even then, hardly any blood leaked from the wound. The injury did not undergo accelerated healing, but the unfamiliar body-reinforcing effect practically made it inconsequential.

Of course, the reinforcement band did not remain active for long. Once the death energy stored within its relatively small deathcrystal ran out, the band ceased to fortify his daughter’s body.

"Aw." His daughter visibly deflated as she already began to miss the sensation.

She hadn’t felt so strong and healthy before!

It was difficult for her to accept that she wouldn’t be able to enjoy this remarkable state on a permanent basis.

Though the demonstration was brief, Ves already saw many possible ways to take advantage of this deathborn artifact.

If he was able to study and deduce the working principles of this item, he could develop a crude imitation that could strengthen any organic form!

Whether it would only run on death energy or other forms of input, he didn’t think it would be difficult for him to produce a batch of reinforcement bands to be worn by other humans.

If he was able to scale up the design, then he might even be able to incorporate them into his organic products, most notably his Woodsap mechs!

That would definitely delight the Terrans!

It would also be a considerable game changer to the Terran Alliance!

Given that the deathborn had initially emerged close to the borders of this colonial alliance, the Terrans were definitely bound to face organized deathborn armies in combat.

Woodsap mechs may be one of the few mechs that could fight against this unfathomable enemy more effectively.

Environments steeped in dark miasma hindered the performance of many machines, but his Woodsap mechs instead became tougher and more resilient!

This would especially be the case if Ves and the Terrans incorporated more than the reverse-engineered version of a reinforcement band into their designs!

Other deathborn applications that relied on death energy as their power source could also end up enriching the capabilities of his Woodsap mechs.

Ves already began to form preliminary plans to design a distinct variant that was explicitly designed to counter the deathborn!

As he grew eager to discover what more nifty inventions the deathborn had brought into the Red Ocean, his daughter struggled to remove the reinforcement band.

"It isn’t coming off! I need help!"

"Andrea?"

"That is the complication that I have mentioned. The reinforcement bands are apparently designed to remain permanently affixed to their wearers. They cannot be removed unless you break them or resort to other extreme methods."

That made it sound as if the deathborn treated the reinforcement band wearers as slaves or disposable workers more than anything else. The design choice said much about their mentality and priorities.

"If that is the case, how do you plan to remove it from my daughter’s wrist?"

"We have a theory. First, you should feed it with a small amount of death energy in order to get it operational again. Then, Yaika should attempt to command the reinforcement band to detach from Andraste’s wrist."

They proceeded to do just that.

Blinky breathed a wave of death energy at the band. This caused it to make a noise and resume the process of strengthening Andraste’s physique.

Meanwhile, a smaller and younger feline companion spirit stared hard at the band. Yaika tried various different ways to persuade the band to unlock.

It worked.

Both Ves and the Farseer looked a little surprised when the reinforcement band shifted its internal mechanisms and regained its previous size.

The young girl pulled the enlarged object away from her wrist now that it was no longer pressing against her skin.

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