The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7078

Chapter 7078: Ves the Naughty Boy

Over the ensuing week, Ves met with more trade brokers and the sellers they found for him. He attended a lot of meetings and discussed business with plenty of people.

Ves felt as if he was rapidly integrating into the bustling business scene of Yernstall IV. He quickly became a known figure among this community.

The Larkinson Clan made a lot of small to mid-sized concessions during this busy week.

With the Saint Commander’s approval, Ves traded away bits and pieces of mid-grade and high-grade superdimensional matter, depleting the strategic reserves of the Larkinson Clan by a worrisome degree.

The only reasons why Ves and Casella did not feel more concern about giving away all of this superdimensional matter was because Ketis was close to opening up another dimension breach.

With the handful of upgrades to the Dimension Observatory, the next mining run should definitely deliver a greater yield than in the past two mining runs!

Of course, not everything deserved to be paid with this precious resource.

The Larkinson Clan freely exchanged strategic goods that it had plundered from the battlefield such as phasewater, salvaged high-grade exotics, mutated beasts, high-ranking alien prisoners and even phasewater organs.

Ves did not agree with exchanging that last part, but this was one issue where the Saint Commander insisted on standing her ground.

“We cannot keep piling up these gigantic phasewater organs inside enormous vaults that all require tight security in order to deter thieves from robbing them.” Her physical projection calmly explained to Ves. “It would be one thing if our researchers are actually capable and numerous enough to derive useful studies from them, but that is not the case. Despite your focused investments in the Larkinson Biotech Institute, it simply cannot scale up as fast as necessary to study and make good use of all of those phasewater organs. The fact of the matter is that we can get much more out of them if we sell them straight away rather than hoard them for no good reason.”

“But…”

“I am aware of your interest in them, but there are limits to what our biotech researchers can do.” Casella said. “The only way to quickly improve our ability to research the phasewater organs is to take over an R&D institution that has already developed the right expertise for it. That is impossible as the Red Association and the Red Collective control virtually all of them. They will never let them go even if we offer high-grade superdimensional matter in return. Given that our clan only has one human phase lord and a compromised one at that, I cannot think of any justification to maintain our heavy investment in the research of phase lord organs.”

“…”

The Saint Commander understood why this policy decision would make the former patriarch upset, but she had to take her duties as the new leader of the Larkinson Clan seriously.

This was not a problem where she could fudge the truth and get away with prioritizing private interests over public interests.

The pros and cons of each decision were too far apart from each other.

The clan could save a lot of expenses and allocate its research capacity a lot more effectively.

Since Casella was being so serious about this, Ves had little choice but to concede this argument.

He knew she was making the right decision for him as well. There were other organizations that could make much better use of the phasewater organs harvested from the greater phase lords felled by the Larkinsons.

This was a better benefit for red humanity as a whole as it needed to convert as much of its plunder into its armed forces as possible.

“Fine. I am not opposed to selling most of the phasewater organs, but I would still like for us to retain the rarest and most relevant organs for me. Even if my phase lord cultivation is more of a detriment than an asset to the clan these days, who knows whether that will change in the future.”

“Which organs do you want us to hold on then, Ves? Let me tell you that I will agree to retain 6 phasewater organs. That will give you enough of a selection and will keep all of our in-house specialists on phasewater organs busy for a long time.”

What a small quota. A total of just 6 phasewater organs was too restrictive for his tastes.

“Can I get a few more? There are a lot of attractive organs that have great implications for me if I am successfully able to implant a version of them into my true body.”

“No.” The matriarch flatly said, making it clear that she did not intend to quibble over this issue.

Ves sighed. “Fine. Let me think about it for a moment. I need to go over the list of old and new phasewater organs that are currently in our possession.”

He quickly pulled up the list of organs, including the most recent ones harvested from the carcass of the Fifth Lord of Bis’qet.

[2x Phasewater Production System – produces phasewater

1x greater Norigo organ – accelerated healing through rapid digestion

2x greater Marigal organ – increase density and durability of flesh

1x lesser Sympatico organ – remotely interface with archetech products

1x lesser Collie organ – split mass to form a miniature clone

1x greater Vaushkin organ – instantly propels a phase lord forward

1x greater Tarsei organ – anchors a phase lord in space and calms nearby space

1x greater Fareid organ – massively extends detection range of warp bubbles

1x greater Lodid organ – significantly increases warp factor of warp travel

1x greater Aenid organ – moderately increases reaction speed and strengthens reflexes

1x greater Zwein organ – generates organic beacon that transmit superdimensional signals]

Ves did not have a clear impression of it, but now that he glanced at the list, he had to admit that the Saint Commander was right to worry about all of the massive organs piling up in the LBI’s biostorage facilities.