Chapter 5419 Race Against Time
It was impossible for the Devos Ancient n to miss therge and violent storm forming in the skies above New Constantinople VIII.
The dark and unnaturally powerful lightning storm covered a significant chunk of the surface of the!
Not only that, but the storm did not behave anything like a normal one, but instead discharged much of its concentrated energies at a single location.
It did not take much snooping to figure out what the storm was targeting.
"It''s the aliens! We are being attacked by the aliens!"
"Our defense forces should be trying to blow these dark clouds away with explosives. We can''t let them spread any further!"
"I know that ce! The aliens have employed exotic weather technology to assassinate our guest professor. We need to send in our rapid responders to evacuate our honored gctic citizens right away!"
"Why are we not allowed to sortie? There is an emergency taking ce outside. It is our duty as Terrans to respond to any disasters that take ce within our jurisdiction. We are viting our oaths if we stay in our ces."
"My apologies, captain, but these orderse straight from above. The Red Association has taken over all responsibility for this affair. The mechers have strictly prohibited us from approaching the storm clouds."
Not many local Terrans understood what was unfolding. They found it inexplicable that the Devos Ancient n had made no move to address the strange anomaly that had swept the skies of one of their most importants.
However, a select few leaders had better awareness of what was taking ce.
In the upper floor of an office building located inside the campus of the Eden Institute, Master La Reba Devos stared at the distant storm clouds with an expression that conveyed both astonishment and interest.
"This storm..."
As an esteemed Master Mech Designer from one of the oldest and most traditional ancient ns of Terra, Master La roughly knew what it took to trigger this kind of phenomenon.
It was notpletely unheard of for an anomalous thunderstorm to ur, but they were so rare that the vast majority of people remained ignorant of what it represented.
Though Master La had be repeatedly impressed by the young new professor that her school had been fortunate enough to employ, she never expected him to be able to trigger such a vast and powerful storm at this stage in his career!
"He is just a Senior..." She uttered in a disbelieving tone. "Even if he is a seasoned masterwork mech designer, there is still a huge gap to reaching this threshold."
Ves Larkinson had already broken the assumptions that governed their profession once or twice. It shouldn''t have been that much of a surprise for him to be able to do it again, especially since the Devos Ancient n had already deduced that he had ess to an extraordinary heritage!
Still, the Devosans were in a simr position, but the people that had received the right to study the digital scans of those ancient and forgotten tomes had barely managed to decipher the overly cryptic words and archaic phrases that obfuscated their meaning.
It took a lot more research to convert the wisdom of the ancients into practical inventions and applications!
This was why Master La valued the young professor more and more.
The event unfolding in front of her caused her to step up her ns to deepen her ancient n''s rtionship with the talented mech designer.
"Perhaps we should offer our guest an opportunity to teach a ss rted to hyper technology."
Professor Ves Larkinson clearly had a lot more wisdom to share if he was capable of triggering such arge-scale event.
Meanwhile, Alexa Streon tried her best to keep her emotions in check as she witnessed an extraordinary event of great import unfolding right outside of Diandi Base!
The cmitous storm clouds above everyone''s heads had repeatedly thrown down lightning bolt after lightning bolt after a mech that had drawn their fury.
The unerring uracy and target fixation of these lightning bolts clearly indicated that this was anything but a natural weather event.
Her observations supported this conclusion.
Her naked eyes did not reveal anything too unnatural, but herpanion spirit''s senses easily observed the huge amount of energies shing against each other!
CRACK!
"Myah! Myah!"
The spiritual ragdoll cat looked frightened as her senses clearly caught a huge torrent of destructive energy mming against the defenses of the new Fey Project!
The newly constructed mech for its part did not receive the attack without any preparation.
Instead, Maia was able to observe the extraordinary mech working to shape and control the energies rted to the elements of metal and earth.
The modified Fey Project did not demonstrate any particr skill or direction at first. It was onlyter that the machine started to work more purposefully with the energies that came from the environment.
The E energies attributed towards metal constantly filled up the main mech frame in an attempt to amplify its defenses.
This was simr to how regr hyper technology worked, but Alexa knew that the newly fabricated mech should not contain enough metal-attributed hyper materials to take in so much energy.
She knew this because she had assisted Ves in the fabrication of his spontaneously redesigned drone mech!
"How?"
What she was witnessing broke the rules that she had learned in her studies on hyper technology.
What was more remarkable was the way in which the new mech had begun to make use of all of the earth energy.
The mech channeled a part of this energy into itself, boldly forcing it to crash and merge with the prevailing metal energy.
Metal and earth energies shared a well-known synergistic rtionship that had been officially registered in the Red Association''s database.
However, most hyper tech applications rted tobining these two elemental forces usually had to be designed and built in advance.
Alexa knew for certain that the Fey Project did not contain any mixed parts or systems of that nature, but it was somehow able to harness the two distinct energies through conscious maniption!
It actually reminded her a lot of how the Ouroboros was able tobine the power of creation and destruction to produce specialpound effects.
The difference was that the Ouroboros was a powerful ace mech, while the new Fey Project was just supposed to be a standard mech!
Thetter shouldn''t have been able to manipte these kinds of energies in such a freehand manner, but the new Fey Project somehow managed to do so with the help of its earth fey.
"Is this the true power of living mechs?" She wondered.
It was impossible for the mech pilot to be able to aplish this feat. Her work station had extensive ess to the telemetry transmitted by the new machine. The resonance meters did not detect any manifestations of true resonance, and Major Simon Jankowski was clearly not a high-ranking mech pilot.
It should have been impossible for a well-trained but purely mortal mech pilot to be able to wield serious amounts of E energies to such a degree!
The only answer that made sense was that the mech was doing the heavy lifting. Alexa was able to corroborate this guess through Maia''s observation.
Each time the surrounding E energies tried to aplish a specific purpose, it was because of the control exerted by the new mech and its fey.
The logic was clear, but that made it so difficult for Alexa to ept.
Before she became familiar with the Larkinsons and their impressive patriarch, the only mech she was familiar with that could perform this feat was the Ouroboros!
Even then, her grandfather and the many archival records of his battles indicated that it took several decades of growth for this initially weak machine to be so powerful at harnessing specific energies.
"This mech is not even more than an hour old..." She whispered to herself.
That was what boggled her mind the most. She learned from Ves that every living mech started out as babies more or less. Even the rare and much more capable third order living mechs were still considered juveniles rtive to their lengthy life cycles.
The mech in front of her was clearly supposed to be a third order living mech that had only received a modest boost in aging with the help of her newpanion spirit, but even then it should have only be equivalent to an adolescent.
Now, this young and tender mech was already demonstrating the strength and control far beyond its years!
Alexa realized that her new mentor and employer had managed to make a boundary-crossing product.
This was a standard mech that somewhat imitated the capabilities of an expert mech, all without an expert pilot in the cockpit!
If Vespletely mastered the design and fabrication of such an outrageously powerful and cost-effective machine, he would be capable of producing many more copies of this extraordinary drone mech!
With the unprecedentedlyrge potential and effectivebat power demonstrated by this new mech, Ves could easily raise entire troops of ''false expert mechs'' that could defeat any opponent with just a fraction of the numbers!
"Such a rule-breaking mech shouldn''t exist!" She gasped.
Alexa instinctively figured out why an astonishingly powerful thunderstorm had formed immediately after the mech had reachedpletion.
Perhaps this was the cosmos taking action to destroy this heretical creation before it could upset the bnce of this in of existence.
All other standard mechs would be obsolete overnight if it was possible to mass produce this kind of miracle!
CRACK!
Another golden lightning bolt shot at the mech from above.
Its power had increased at a worrying rate, causing the previous defensive measures to endure greater stress.
The Fey Project had cleverly manipted the earth energies to form shabby and malformed lightning rods.
Though the extraordinary lightning bolts did notpletely behave as expected, the lightning rods still managed to divert at least a part of the disastrous power, enabling the metal-reinforced mech to withstand the remaining current with greater ease.
However, the Fey Project did not settle for its current solutions, but worked hard to explore newer and more diverse applications of the energies at its disposal.
"Myah."
"Is that... a Faraday cage?"
CRACK!
The attempt to create a grill out of abination of metal and earth energies looked ingenious, but when a more powerful golden lightning bolt violently made contact with it, the Faraday cage exploded in an instant!
Perhaps the idea was good, but the Fey Project and its pilot were still too inexperienced andcking skill to seed in their attempts.
It was a fairly creative idea, though. The mech under duress was already attempting to form a thicker and more solid energy barrier, but the ephemeral and insubstantial nature of E energy made it difficult to shape them into a desired form!
"This is a race against time." She whispered.
The Fey Project was too weak to withstand the unending barrage of lightning bolts by relying on its quasi-first-ss mech systems.
Its only chance of survival was to be more proficient at harnessing the power of E energy.
While it was doing a decent job at that so far, the difficulty of mastering more effective applications was much greater!
Would the mech be able to learn these stronger methods quickly enough to make it all the way to the end?
Even Alexa did not dare to be too optimistic!
"Can you produce another miracle, Professor Ves?"
That was the only factor that she could think of that might reverse the current trend.
Whether Ves would be able to subvert everyone''s expectations and save histest work from utter annihtion was still in doubt.
However, she had already learned to never rule out any options when it came to her new patriarch.
That was the only factor that she could think of that might reverse the current trend.
Whether Ves would be able to subvert everyone''s expectations and save histest work from utter annihtion was still in doubt.
However, she had already learned to never rule out any options when it came to her new patriarch.
One of the defining traits of an excellent mech designer was to turn the impossible into a reality.
No matter the oue of this day, Ves would definitely be known as a mech designer who had broken the boundaries of reality!