The Mech Touch

the latter would feel affronted!

He took the context of the emergence of the Ylvainan Faith into account as well.

”Prophet Ylvaine lived during the twilight of the Age of Conquest.
Even if some prototype mechs have already been developed at that time, they haven ’t achieved widespread exposure as of yet.
This was still a time dominated by warships and weapons of mass destruction. ”

Some of the prophet ’s predictions possessed some relations to the circumstances of this time period.
He said almost nothing about mechs before he was assassinated, which left the Ylvainan Faith with a lot of gaps when they adopted this new technology.

In fact, critics of the Ylvainan Faith pointed out this distinct gap in Prophet Ylvaine ’s predictions as proof that he was a charlatan.

If Prophet Ylvaine could really predict the future, why did he not say anything about the advent of the Age of Mechs?

”There ’s always an explanation. ” Ves muttered.

The standard retort of the Ylvainan Faith was to claim that the Prophet only uttered relevant predictions.
While the rise of mechs was a historically-important turning point, it didn ’t change the essence of the Ylvainan Faith.

With this excuse, the Attendants of Ylvaine deflected any accusations that their prophet was just pulling predictions out of his butt based off his limited perspective of his time!

He turned his attention back to the seed.
Regardless of whether the prophet was less than he claimed to be, his religion acquired a life of its own.
The Grey Martyr and many other Ylvainans developed a sincere belief in the Ylvainan Faith.

”Even if the core of it is based upon lies and figments of imagination, it no longer matters.
Belief is belief. ”

Ever since he arrived at the Protectorate, Ves discovered that strong belief sparked some strange interactions with spirituality.
The church service at the grand church was a very significant event to him because he felt that the weak spirituality of tens of thousands of people began to resonate with a common frequency.

Ves managed to determine some of the attributes related to the Ylvainan Faith, though he lacked the sensitivity to identify their exact nature.
Perhaps other faiths shared the same attributes, while others were exclusive to individual beliefs.

Identifying imprints was a lot easier than identifying attributes.
Being able to do the latter required him to understand the makeup of spiritual energy on a very deep level.

Another way of describing these attributes was to equate them as flavors.
Each flavor possessed a different quality.
One was hot.
One was cold.
One was sweet.
One was spicy.

Not every flavor fit in every circumstance.
For example, if Ves wanted to drink some old-fashioned coffee, he didn ’t want it to be salty!

As for imprints, the best way that Ves could describe it was like leaving a scent on spiritual energy.
Each person possessed a unique scent, and as long as Ves managed to associate a particular smell to an individual, he ’d be able to recognize it anywhere.

Scent and flavor.
While they possessed some relations to each other, they were still distinct.

”It ’s just a metaphor to make it easier for me to understand.
I don ’t need to take it too seriously. ” Ves shook his head.

For now, Ves didn ’t intend to to manipulate the flavors.
He only wanted to remove all of the unwanted smells until the most pleasant one was left behind.
Then he wanted to make the scent stronger so that it provided the same level of stimulation.

This was the simplest method he could come up with that would allow him to get what he wanted.

He recalled some of the procedures that Qilanxo ’s spiritual fragment performed and attempted to replicate the methods.

The outcome..
was both promising and disappointing.

”Looks like I ’m too clumsy. ” Ves shook his head.

It was like trying to handcraft a miniature mech while possessing the limbs of an exobeast.
He exerted too much strength at first.
It was a lot more strenuous than he thought to suppress his Spirituality!

Not only was he having trouble controlling his strength, but his precision was abysmal as well.
He felt like he returned to his youth where his mother handled him a data pad to play with.
He remembered one game where he had to color the depiction of a mech with his fingers.

Being the little kid he was back then, he often splashed his colors across the lines of his mech, which resulted in a very smudged depiction!

Ves did not despair at these setbacks.
He always knew his finesse was not up to snuff.
”This is only the start.
I don ’t believe I can train myself to improve in both aspects. ”

He became engrossed in his practice.
This was the first time he was doing something so remarkable, so he cherished the opportunity to exercise his Spirituality in such a fine-grained manner.

An hour went by as Ves became engrossed in his experiments.
Lucky hissed resentfully every now and then, but he remained vigilant and guarded against any spying and intrusion.

Although an hour was not a long time for practice, Ves was a fast learner.
The procedure he attempted to do wasn ’t very complicated to begin with.
He just needed to comprehend some tricks that made it easier for him to apply his Spirituality the way he wanted.

Once he managed to succeed once, it was a lot easier for him to replicate the process!

In fact, he already succeeded within the first thirty minutes, but only through chance.
He spent the rest of his time refining his method and training his Spirituality into performing it with more precision.

He wanted to practice more, but he already wiped out all of the unwanted spiritual imprints for the seed ’s spiritual accumulation.

”I should proceed to the next step. ” He whispered as he momentarily rested his mind.

He was capable of removing unwanted imprints.
The question right now was if he could apply the imprint that remained to the ’ownerless ’ spiritual energy.

”This is a very significant technique.
There are many applications of such a powerful technique! ”

Manipulating the imprint of spiritual energy was the key to forcing a mech pilot to advance to an expert candidate!

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