Chapter 2848 - Exceptional Discovery (1/2)

Both Ves and Dr. Swindell had to step far away in order to escape the calming influence of the four works of art they made.

When they finally did, the significance of what they created sunk in. Both of them looked astonished!

They were astonished because the realized versions of the statues exceeded the initial sketches!

Compared to the totems that Ves initially made by himself, the vitality and liveliness of the organic statues exceeded almost anything that he had seen!

The full wonder and splendor of the statues could never be fully described with words. To someone who was almost completely new to the concept of glows and living mechs, Dr. Swindell briefly thought he had created a set of masterpieces!

How else could he describe the four similar but individualized organic statues that seemed to be surrounded with divine halos? Even though he used to be a typical Lifer citizen who believed in the power of science rather than faith, the biomech technician momentarily became swept up by the illusion that he had just played god, or at least worked alongside someone who was capable of breathing miracles into life!

Though his rationality quickly reasserted himself, Dr. Swindell would never be able to forget this magical moment. He had a feeling that he would forever look back on this moment in his career as a turning point of his life, as a moment when he ceased to be a mere cosmetic surgeon for biomechs but instead evolved into something greater.

While the flesh shaper immersed himself with all kinds of grand delusions, Ves was almost just as enraptured, if for different reasons.

”I never expected the statues to come out like this.” He whispered in a dumbfounded voice.

Most of his totems were rather ordinary works. While they were mysterious and provided a unique benefit to other people, Ves felt they were pale derivatives of his usual work.

As a mech designer, he derived a much greater sense of satisfaction and accomplishment from designing mechs.

His life centered around them. His entire career was based around developing better war machines.

Of course, every mech designer was also an engineer. He possessed enough expertise to design and craft simpler products such as statues and combat armor such as his Unending Regalia.

Each of these products possessed at least a shadow of the potential he inserted into mechs. Not much, but everything he made by hand with love and care received the gift of life, however small and faint it may be in his perception.

He considered this a side effect of his domain and specialty, much like how other mech designers such as Ketis were able to channel their domains in other ways that didn’t have anything to do with mechs.

The loyalty medallions he made in large batches showcased the practical value of these non-mech products. Their effects on people caused him to call them totems, which was not a word he especially liked, but served as the most obvious label in which he and other people could understand what he made.

The totems he made until now were all inorganic in nature. From the modest totems of the Golden Cat he made to decorate the halls of the Spirit of Bentheim to the reconstructed statue of the Superior Mother, which was by far his greatest and most magnificent totem up to date, they were all ’alive’ in a symbolic rather than literal fashion!

The four statues of Lufa sitting before Dr. Swindell and Ves broke that pattern.

At the start of applying the hastily-grown organic tissue prepared by the former Lifer biomech technician, Ves initially did not feel anything special about the process.

Sure, the processes performed by Dr. Swindell was novel and completely different from what he was used to. Assembling organic tissue was both gruesome and fascinating to someone who was accustomed to piecing together metal parts, but working with parts that were made out of living, squishy cells was an entirely different experience.

He did not particularly like it, though. His lack of understanding on how they were made, how they were put together and how every cell in every single piece of tissue worked frustrated any attempt to develop an affinity with them. He simply could not bond with strange flesh the way he did with metals he understood or knew how to use like Breyer alloy.

Fortunately, Ves did not work alone. With Dr. Swindell doing all of the technical heavy lifting, Ves was largely free to approach this project from an artistic and creative perspective.

As the director and decider of this endeavor, he determined how the statues should look in the end. He had already learned from his previous stints as project leader that this was a powerful position. The work being done conformed to his creative vision, so the end product primarily carried his touch rather than those who did all of the heavy labor such as Dr. Swindell.

It was rather ironic. Dr. Swindell led the crafting process, but Ves firmly maintained control over the creative direction.

This wasn’t the case usually. He was a mech designer, but his emphasis on craftsmanship often caused him to be personally involved when fabricating his more important works.

The mech industry also prized mech designers who knew their way around a mech workshop or manufacturing complex. It wasn’t strictly needed though, and plenty of colleagues achieved success without ever stepping foot in a production facility.

However, Ves was someone who always prized the ability to expand his understanding beyond just designing mechs. His work would never be as real to him if he forgot all of the steps to making them by hand.

Ves was missing this deep connection here. Compared to how he crafted the initial form of the statues, he experienced an obvious disconnect as he helped from the side.

He thought that this missing factor would diminish the quality of his new totems.

He was wrong.

All four of them blazed with life and attraction in a way that none of his totems could convey!

Only the lightning-struck statue of the Superior Mother surpassed the four statues of Lufa, but this was a completely unfair comparison.

Ves briefly recalled all of the steps he took to create the vessel that birthed the Superior Mother.

The statue was enormous and a match to any mech in height, though not quite in volume due to its slimmer proportions.

The Superior Mother’s statue had also been imbued with several exceptional spiritual ingredients, most notable the overpowering life attributes of his life-prolonging treatment serum.

It also served as the focal point of a massive, self-invented ritual that involved tens of thousands of people and objects that was so drastic that it even distorted the climate of an entire planet!