Chapter 5654 The First Big Step Forward
5654 The First Big Step Forward
Sword forests held way more significance than commemorating the dead, but Cynthia did not bother to explain them all. Ves received enough clarification to do a better job at interpreting one of his prophetic visions.
When he shared the findings that Veronica had made, Gloriana looked thoughtful.
"If a sword forest is truly a graveyard to commemorate their fallen wielders, then the act of cutting all of those planted swords in half is a great sign of disrespect. The consequences are undeniably grave. Either the sword forest belongs to an enemy force, or the individual doing the culling has developed a strong frustration towards the group that owns the site."
Ves grimaced. "We can't narrow the answer any further. The image is too abstract. There are too few details to give us any further context. The biggest mystery is who the sword forest belongs to. Figuring this out will give us much greater clarification why this prophecy is meaningful."
"What are your guesses?"
"Well, there are three main possibilities that I can think of. The most obvious candidates are the Swordmaidens and Heavensworders who hail from our own clan. I am pretty sure that they must have already created a small sword forest of their own, though I need to look this up to be sure. Another possibility is the original Heavensworders back in the Milky Way. If passage back to the Milky Way has been restored, then the many years of separation may have produced a lot of ideological differences between the two groups of traditional swordsmen."
If Ves took a couple of the prophetic visions seriously, then there was a distinct possibility that red humanity gained the possibility of returning home to the Milky Way.
However, why would people in the Red Ocean want to go back to that boring place?
Ves saw no reason why red humanity should return to this barren place and lose all of the advantages of exotic radiation.
It also made no sense why original humanity was willing to allow their red cousins to come back home.
If the Red Ocean was about to become engulfed in a disaster, then the last thing the natives of the Milky Way wanted was to draw the attention of powerful alien forces from Messier 87!
Ves liked it here. There was so much more he could do now that he had E energy radiation and hyper materials at his disposal. All of his mechs had become so much more powerful and capable of further growth with the help of these new variables.
Even if human-occupied space in the Red Ocean was about to get taken back by the native aliens, Ves would rather take his chances with the Whale Ark and journey directly to Messier 87 than to come crawling back home! N♡vεlB¡n: Unleashing Imagination, One Read at a Time.
Besides, unlike everyone else in the Red Ocean, Ves happened to retain an incarnation back in the Milky Way!
He did not suffer from any homesickness because his cyborg cat incarnation was already living the good life with his father and mother.
The only shortcoming was that there was little for Veronica to do aside from helping Ves design his mechs or keeping up with his extensive studies.
Ves no longer bothered to think about a possible return to the Milky Way. Red humanity needed to construct a much better version than the original greater beyonder gate in the Red Ocean in order to cross 50 million light-years of distance.
That was clearly impossible in the short-term!
"This is enough talk for the time being. The future is not set in stone." He told his wife. "This is especially the case now that we have received a lot of advance warning. All red humanity needs to do is to forestall the shattering of the greater beyonder gate, the last stand of the Fist of Defiance and the cultivation deviation of the First Flame. Once we are able to prevent these domino blocks from falling, the other cascade of disasters are much less likely to occur."
Once these three major events unfolded in a much different manner than foreseen by Ylvaine, the ripple effects would be so big that the remaining prophetic visions may have become invalidated.
Red humanity entered into a radically different timeline by that time!
Ylvaine would have to make an entirely new set of predictions to replace the ones that have become out of date!
Ves continued to wonder how he could prevent the first dominoes from falling as his main consciousness faded into slumber.
The next day, Ves and his wife followed their usual morning routine before they entered the design lab once again.
Gloriana spent a bit of time on instructing the new batch of Journeyman Mech Designers before she came back to her husband.
She decided to announce her first big move.
"About the Dark Zephyr Mark III..."
"What about it, Gloriana?"
His wife looked incredibly serious at the moment. She hesitated for a few seconds before she decided to share her latest idea.
"It may be somewhat premature, but I believe this is the best way for us to go forward. I do not want to settle for the current draft design of the upcoming iteration of the Dark Zephyr. There is nothing inadequate about it, but there are not enough features that stand out in my opinion. Heavy applications of hyper technology and phasewater technology may give the expert light skirmisher a powerful edge, but other mech designers can design comparable machines if they have access to comparable funding and resources. We need to take an extra step to further differentiate our mech from the competition and serve as a testbed of a new generation of revolutionary tech. The Lionheart is already good, but I think we can do even better."
Ves furrowed his brows. "What are you talking about? What do you want to introduce to our upcoming expert mech design?"
His wife activated a projection that showed a revised draft design.
Much of the high-tier expert light skirmisher's configuration remained the same.
However, the new draft design looked radically different in Ves' eyes!
This was because his wife had taken the bold decision to to integrate archemetal into the living expert mech's design!
"This... certainly constitutes a radical step forward." Ves spoke. "How much of the mech is converted into archemetal?"
"Over 90 percent. I want as much parts as possible to be based on archetech rather than conventional human technology." Gloriana replied. "The advantages of the former are abundantly clear to us. The arche may be an unusual race, but their exotic interpretation of technology is truly ingenious in many ways."
Ves agreed with this assessment, but that did not mean it was a good idea to adopt archetech ahead of time.
"Archetech is really difficult to understand. In fact, I doubt anyone has fully deciphered its technological principles from top to bottom. Even if there is enough available knowledge to get started with reproducing archetech, we'll have to study a lot of difficult treatises before we can responsibly apply it to our own work outside of a purely experimental mech. It is several years too soon for us to start working with tech that we do not fully understand!"