The Mech Touch

Chapter 6595 Variation is the Spice of Life

Veronica and Helena had lived alongside each other for years, but they never collaborated with each other as extensively as this time.

Both siblings became incredibly enthused about their new collaboration project.

Veronica deeply wanted to invest in a reliable method of producing Middle Demons on a regular basis. In fact, her sights did not stop here. She was already thinking about the next step.

The demon gu cultivation approach that she was trying to invent from scratch should not be limited to producing Middle Demons.

The Demon Summoning Circle explicitly mentioned the existence of Greater Demons and Demon Kings.

If they truly corresponded to the level of a True God and a God King respectively, then the ability to produce them on a regular basis was a game changer!!

In theory, poison gu cultivation was one of the several pathways to becoming a True God. It should be capable of producing a poisonous creature that had breached one of the biggest barriers that separated mortals from gods.

It was actually possible to artificially breed True God-level creatures!

Of course, the methods and resources needed to produce such a high-end poisonous creature was anything but trivial. Veronica could not even imagine the scale of the ritual, the sophisticated use of runes and the large quantities of powerful creatures, the gigantic amount of E energy and the huge amount of time needed to produce such a god-like creature.

Trying to convert a process originally designed to breed powerful poisonous organisms to cultivating a powerful Greater Demon would be even more difficult!

At least poison gu cultivation had an existing track record. Perhaps the Five Scrolls Compact and the Red Collective may have preserved a few records of this exotic cultivation approach that latecomers such as Veronica could reference.

She was pretty sure that no one had come up with an idea as crazy as artificially producing high-quality demons through a similar approach!

If Demoncasting and Demonforging was not so obscure to the point that almost all of its traces had become lost over time, then others may have already pioneered this means in the past.

Veronica therefore felt safe in the assumption that she and her eldest sister were truly breaking new ground.

At this time, the two were still at the beginning of their ambitious effort. There was no need to consider the production of Greater Demons at all when they had yet to come

up with a working proof of concept.

They still needed to find out whether it was possible to convert a bunch of Minor Demons into Middle Demons through their chosen method!

"I will get started on designing and crafting the demon gu container. Veronica said. "The principal material that I will be using is Unending Alloy. Our mother has claimed most of it that can be found for herself, but I can still take out just enough to make 5 containers in the specific dimensions. They won't be as big as I wish due to resource constraints, but I will make sure I can make the most out of what little I can requisition."

Back in the Red Ocean, Ves could obtain all of the hyper materials he wanted. It was a little more difficult to import large quantities of highly desirable high-grade hypers, but ever since his income and reputation had soared, it would only take a little more time for him to gain the goodies he needed!

Here in the Milky Way, Veronica was working under much more limited circumstances. Even if the Oblivion Empress managed to import a large batch of Red Ocean-exclusive hyper materials recently, she had already reserved them for her own projects.

There was no way their mother would be generous enough to give away these precious and incredibly scarce hyper materials just to indulge her children.

What Veronica was attempting to create was massive for herself, but Cynthia probably thought of her research project was probably child's play!

The Cyborg Cat was pretty sure that what she attempted to do with the collaboration of Helena did not escape the True God's perception.

However, so long as the Oblivion Empress did not send a missive that indicated that she approved or disapproved of this initiative, Veronica could safely assume that she could continue with her efforts without interruption.

The two cats soon began to split up as they split up their responsibilities.

Helena began to gather a larger amount of souls so that she could convert them into Minor Demons.

She just happened to learn the Soul Whip technique from Veronica and already began to modify it to suit her needs.

With an abundance of 'test subjects' in her grasp, Helena could readily test her changes and make further adjustments depending on the feedback!

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"Hm. This is trickier than I thought." Helena furrowed her brows.

She continued to puzzle out how she could make her Soul Whip better at bringing captured souls to the depths of despair. Only by speeding up this process would she be able to increase the efficiency of producing demons.

It did not cost too much for her to produce a single Minor Demon, but what if her little sister needed more?

If Helena took on the obligation to supply tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Minor Demons, then even she could get drained of her energy! Therefore, Helena did not despise this process and tried to make it as efficient and optimized as possible.

The Daughter of Death took after her mother in this regard. One of the reasons why the Oblivion Empress was able to succeed as a qi cultivator where everyone else failed was because she made sure to master every important technique as thoroughly as

possible!

Cynthia always made sure to hammer home this lesson into Helena's head. "In an environment where many cultivators learned from the common base of knowledge that the Sacred Scrolls have so graciously passed on, it is not enough to gain proficiency in the arts. If you want to stay ahead of the competition and never fall too far behind, you must comprehend more knowledge, master the arts that suit you best, and combine these efforts into original new techniques that do not exist in anyone's library. Only then can you take your enemies by surprise, overpower their best techniques and maintain your standing in the long run. Those who solely rely on mastering the inheritances of the past will always get swept away by the geniuses who are brave and hardworking enough to create their own paradigms."

Young Helena looked impressed. "That reminds me a lot about how the current mech industry operates. There are so many mech designers that have been able to accomplish great feats. It is amazing to think of how many new technologies they developed in the span of just 400 years."

"The rebels of the Compact have the right idea." Cynthia half-smiled and half-sneered. "The power of a united technological civilization is larger than the efforts of a collection of selfish cultivators. It is not impossible for the latter to defeat the former, but these cultivators need to do far more than learning past theory and methods without having any serious intention to continue the development of their arts. The more you learn, the more your cognition becomes captured by the past." "Is that why you refrain from teaching Veronica anything serious?" "Partially. The other reason is that she has no need for my lessons. She has the Mech Designer System that I have gifted to her long ago. She can already gain enough knowledge from her special trinket by earning it through her own efforts. She needs to be able to stand on her own four naws. If she approaches me for a handout once.

she will do so again. I do not desire for her to be reduced to a beggar who cannot do anything great without receiving my guidance. That is not the posture of a strong

cultivator."

"I see."

The Oblivion Empress pinned her daughter with an intimidating stare. "If Veronica shifts her target to you, I hope that you will keep my words in mind and refrain from sharing too much. Even if you possess enough knowledge to solve her problems, you should keep it to yourself and leave her to work out her own solutions. I have observed her long enough to understand that she is largely capable of doing so as long as her goals are not excessive. If she cannot invent a solution at her current state, then she is not ready yet for the undertaking that she has in mind. Let your younger sister fumble around. Failure will only feed into her growth"

"Very well. I shall keep your instruction in mind."

Whether Helena withheld knowledge about gu cultivation from Veronica was unclear.

Perhaps Veronica suspected that her sister held back a thing or two about the details of gu cultivation, but she did not voice any complaints.

The Cyborg Cat already knew that it would be useless for her to make a fuss about it. Helena most definitely acted on their mother's orders. Nothing would change unless Cynthia finally changed her mind, which was unlikely to happen anytime soon. Rather than creating tension between Veronica's relationship with Helena and making herself sound weak in front of the Oblivion Empress' imperceptible attention, it was better to work honestly.

Veronica actually did not mind that she would have to develop the concept of demon

gu cultivation by herself.

She was quite confident she could develop it on her own. Her design philosophy already gave her plenty of understanding of what it took to create life from scratch as well as promote its growth and development.

Demons were still relatively strange and unfamiliar to her, but they still shared a few

traits in common with other intangible life forms.

That was enough for Veronica.

She combined her scattered knowledge on multiple different fields and crudely mashed them together to form the initial plan of a demon gu container. "Traditional poison gu containers basically consist of jars." The Cyborg Cat recalled as

she called up a design interface. "There are definitely good reasons to maintain this shape, but what if I turn it into a mech?"

Instead of working on unfamiliar containers, Veronica would much rather design and fabricate a bunch of mechs instead!

This would not only allow her to impart her design philosophy to her experimental

products to the fullest, but also turn it into a 'living mech' that was able to perform advanced instructions!

This was Veronica's answer to runes. She had already discovered that runes were able

to substitute some of the functions of a living mech and vice versa.

In fact, Veronica even developed a theory that all applications related to design

philosophies was ultimately grounded in runes.

Mech designers just weren't aware of them, but through secret shenanigans involving

the Kingdom of Mechs or the Red Kingdom, they were able to leverage their mech

design cultivation to automatically embed the necessary runese in their design workings!

This was a very advanced theory that Veronica created to explain the root of the mech design profession. She had yet to gather enough conclusive evidence to prove its validity, but she had gathered a few clues here and there that increased her

confidence level in her personal theory.

One of the conclusions that Veronica could draw from this was that it wasn't necessary for her to mess around with runes. She could achieve similar results by

designing the right living mech!

"The outcome won't be as consistent as I want due to the lack of precision engineering, but who cares. Variation is the spice of life!"