The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1769

The doom that hung over his head never went away.

Ves just forgot about it when he became obsessed with exploiting the production loop. He came up with a lot of ideas on how to make use of this seemingly-endless source of Breyer alloy.

After several weeks had passed, the loop showed no signs of stopping! Whatever technique Cassandra Breyer performed, its programming obviously did not account for the absurdity that Ves subjected her to! If she was conscious, there was no way she would approve of his exploitation!

Fortunately, she never showed any signs of waking up after the forging machine burned her body up over a thousand times!

Just like a cleaning bot that kept bumping into a wall after its programming glitched, Cassandra Breyer seemed incapable of changing her current fate! Perhaps she wasn’t even aware of her current circumstances!

Ves was especially surprised when her spiritual energy levels remained constant despite the constant creation of Breyer alloy.

Matter didn’t come out of nowhere. Ves believed that not even gods were capable of circumventing this fundamental truth!

Matter was energy and energy was matter.

The human race had long invented ways to convert energy into matter and vica versa. It was just that this process was extremely inefficient. A humongous amount of energy was needed to generate a modest amount of matter. Tech constraints also made it impossible or impractical to create valuable exotics.

Otherwise, the Big Two wouldn’t have needed to launch an invasion of the Red Ocean Dwarf Galaxy! It could simply sit on its Dyson spheres and transform an endless amount of solar radiation into phasewater! _{ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm}

This was why Ves continued to find the current situation absurd. What Cassandra Breyer casually managed to do in her strange undeath state ought to be impractical at best and impossible at worst!

Ves had the sense that he had inadvertently come in touch with a facet of human civilization which was very dangerous!

Could Cassandra Breyer be an associate of his mother? Was she an agent of the Five Scrolls Compact?

Whatever the case, if some random mummified corpse casually performed a feat that could only be replicated with extremely advanced technology, then there must doubtlessly be other people out there who wielded greater powers!

Ves had a feeling that he would definitely be able to bump into these spiritual adepts if he traveled to the galactic center. The chances of bumping into someone as powerful as Cassandra Breyer shouldn’t be too large in the expansive galactic rim.

This was also why he suspected that the woman must be targeting him specifically rather than the Scarlet Rose.

"How troublesome." He muttered.

He couldn’t wait to return and find out whether he could sustain the loop while stepping out of the ship. If it turned out that he could only keep up production while he was physically present on the Scarlet Rose, then he wouldn’t be able to profit as much from this process!

Yet before he could return to safety, the Friday Coalition finally managed to catch up to his flight.

The Coalition Reserve Corps hadn’t been sitting on its thumbs all this time. Aside from putting a bounty on his ship and encouraging masses of mercenaries to do its dirty work, the people in charge also redirected their own assets!

The hunter frigate that showed up just happened to be in a prime position to intercept the Scarlet Rose. Not only did she emerge a stone’s throw away from his ship, but her relative motion to his ship even provided her with a head-start!

The Scarlet Rose’s navigation systems went to work. By measuring the relative position, speed and acceleration of the new arrival, Ves quickly found out that he had only 66 minutes left until the hostile ship came close enough to start a battle!

"What awful timing!"

According to the transponders, the frigate bore the name of Terrinac. Ves tried to search up her name and ship class in the internal database of the Scarlet Rose as well as Aisling’s personal terminal.

No match. The Terrinac was probably one of the CRC’s more clandestine vessels. Her amazing acceleration made it clear that she probably excelled in pursuits!

This signified that the Terrinac would definitely catch up even if Ves managed to escape this star system!

If she was fully crewed, the Terrinac’s comprehensive performance was leagues better than the Scarlet Rose.

Ves had to shake the Terrinac off right away if he wanted to complete the final leg of his journey!

Out of curiosity, Ves attempted to hail the Terrinac.

The other side did not accept his transmission request. It appeared that his hunters were very professional. There was no need to talk between each other.

As far as the crew of the Terrinac was concerned, the capture of the Scarlet Rose was inevitable!

Both sides knew the score. The CRC had slowly dug out many of the cards that Ves depended upon to escape from its clutches.

All of the earlier battles against the mercenaries gave the CRC plenty of footage to study his battle bots in-depth!

With Aisling Curver, their original designer, in their employ, the CRC probably figured out all of the weak points of her former mechs!

Ves briefly grinned. "Many of those weak points aren’t as vulnerable as before."

With a steady supply of Breyer alloy, Ves did not hold back in strengthening the overall structure of the battle bots.

He not only supplied the Paravin with a brand-new tower shield that consisted entirely of Breyer alloy, but also modified the structure of all four battle bots to vary their existing structure!

By and large, Ves substantially added a lot of armor plating to strengthen their resilience. While their mobility dropped, the boost in defense was more than worth the tradeoff in his eyes!

Yet will this unexpected change be enough to hinder the Terrinac?

"Probably not." He sighed.

The Friday Coalition came prepared! As the Terrinac slowly closed the distance, Ves tried to figure out every possible way he could avoid a confrontation.

To his distress, Ves failed to come up with a way to forestall the inevitable.

He entertained options he already ruled out such as overloading the propulsion system.