The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7611

Chapter 7611: Mother Crystal

Ves transmitted a message that contained his thoughts about trading a large share of their spoils to willing trading partners.

He planned to discuss this subject with her in greater detail after this meeting.

The Larkinson Clan needed to take advantage of this opportunity while the prices for these deathborn trinkets were still ridiculously high.

The more time passed by, the greater the probability that the Red Three and the other major players managed to get their hands on a sufficient number of alien specimens.

After all, the Hypeh-Tekas System was still in the hands of the Blackwater Summoner and his new allies.

The source of the dark miasma remained untouched and still served as a notable stronghold of the deathborn race. There was no way that either of the two were willing to give up now that they had committed so much to this endeavor.

The deathborn was bound to rebuild their temple complex and expand their colonial infrastructure even further.

They may even begin to expand their presence in other star systems in order to prevent a decapitation strike from wiping out all of their progress at once!

In short, the deathborn were bound to flourish so long as the native aliens did not regard them as enemies that had to be eliminated right away.

That would subsequently make it easier for future human expedition fleets to drop in and pick up lots of samples of deathborn technologies.

Ves seriously doubted that the human raiders would have much trouble gathering large quantities of seemingly mundane items such as acceleration boots and reinforcement bands!

Of course, it still took a considerable amount of time and effort to organize these raiding runs. Many of the major players also could not afford to redirect a substantial force of mechs and warships without weakening their existing military obligations.

That made trade with the Larkinsons so attractive, allowing the latter to demand higher prices.

Still, as much as Ves looked forward to securing valuable concessions such as high-end cultivation knowledge and additional RF Warship Tokens, he still felt a little disappointed that he had yet to encounter anything truly powerful or dangerous.

He knew that the RC search parties had managed to salvage far more goods than these modest goods.

"All of this stuff is good and all, but... my clansmen haven’t fought and died just to obtain a bunch of research material." Ves said without bothering to hide his faint sense of disappointment. "I know you guys also managed to salvage more powerful specimens. Do you have anything that is both powerful and usable in the short term?"

The request caused the formation master to fall silent for a time. Several seconds passed before she slowly nodded her head.

"There may be one relic that meets your requirements, but... we still lack too much information to guarantee everyone’s safety. If you insist on examining it, we will have to bring you to one of our larger and most secure labs."

"Then let’s go."

The group exited the current chamber and moved down the corridors before passing through another secure checkpoint.

Ves noted that the bulkheads were thicker this time. The blast doors particularly looked as if they could withstand a number of hits from a mech-grade weapon. Once they passed through, he confirmed his suspicion that the entire secure lab had been designed as a self-containing block.

If the Moloch ever got threatened, she could eject the entire secure lab in the hopes that other vessels could successfully retrieve the block and its precious contents!

Of course, if a situation had already deteriorated to this point, the enemy would likely put a lot of effort into ruining this process.

"What you are about to approach is a known exotic radiation source. While not all of you are susceptible to it, please follow protocol and change into your hazard suits."

A set of lockers slid open. Everyone aside from Lucky donned their respective suits.

"These are new." Ves remarked as he donned his black-coated hazard suit. "I can see that you also incorporated some of the materials salvaged from the temple complex."

"They are. We designed a variant of one of the standard models. The most important difference is that we have reinforced the exterior with deathstone and hyper alloys that are much more effective at blocking death energy and other negative energies. We have also carved rudimentary spell arrays that further strengthens this purpose."

The suits certainly gave each of them a much greater sense of security.

"This feels stuffy." Andraste complained as her thick suit looked proportionally more clumsy on her smaller frame.

"Meow."

"Even Lucky agrees."

"Just bear with it, honey."

Once they completed this step, they entered an observation room where a handful of collies wearing similar hazard suits sat behind their workstations.

"Sir. Ma’am. Welcome to our lab."

"Report."

"The Mother Crystal still remains stable, but not completely inert. It is continuing to radiate a low degree of mixed negative energies as before."

"Mother Crystal?" Ves asked. "Is that what you call this big chunk of green crystal?"

"That is correct, sir. We originally referred to it as the Large Mother Deathcrystal Fragment. This is derived from the Mother Deathcrystal, which is our own term for the massive green crystal that used to power the temple complex at its center before its catastrophic destruction at the hands of the Riot. When our salvaging operations began, retrieving the remains of this priceless crystal was our highest priority. This fragment is one of the few that we have managed to obtain, and it is by far the largest of its kind. Other fragments are much smaller in comparison."

He could believe that. Compared to the size of the original ’Mother Deathcrystal’, the fragment cradled in the center of a highly shielded lab chamber was only a fraction of the former’s size.

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