The Mech Touch

s enabled Qilanxo to speak to the Flagrant Swordmaidens directly, they understood each other much better.
Qilanxo was able to teach them much, but the problem was that she was an exobeast.

What would she know of the sciences? She didn ’t understand any of the mechanisms and theories behind her body structure, metaphysical powers or even the purpose of her own existence!

Therefore, it took one long month for the god crystal project to reach this point.

”Prepare the experiment! ”

The god crystal resting in the center of the chamber was not alone this time.
For one reason or another, an exobiologist grafted a bulbous piece of flesh onto its surface!

It looked like the god crystal became infected with some kind of horrible alien parasite!

”What ’s the deal with that mass of flesh? ” Ves asked.

”It ’s the solution we finally came up with. ” Chief Dakkon grimaced.
”We tried many ways of inciting the god crystals to activate and perform a function.
It turned out for all our methods, we missed the most obvious one.
The sacred gods are able to activate the god crystals by coming in touch with them and using their thoughts to direct their functions.
So what the exobiologists did is to clone Qilanxo ’s tissue to create an artificial nerve structure. ”

”That doesn ’t sound like much. ”

”That ’s because there ’s more to the point.
We believe strong thoughts are needed to activate the god crystals, so we ’ve captured a dwarf chieftain and took out its brains and put them into that fleshy ball that ’s responsible for keeping it alive.

”What?! You ’re depending on dwarf brains?! ” Ves was amazed at this crazy but ingenious solution.

”Sounds crazy, right? ” The chief engineer grinned.
”Yet according to our rudimentary theories, a single god crystal doesn ’t require much input to do its work.
However, for some reason, only the natives are able to unlock them.
There ’s no use in cloning brains from scratch or to use mouse brains or dog brains.
Only an actual individual who grew up on this planet fits the right category. ”

All of this sounded extremely convoluted.
If Ves asked someone like Dr.
Tillman directly, she would likely spend half a day to lecture him about the greatness of using transplanted dwarf brains as a way to excite the god crystals.

In the storm lands, the wildlings roamed in lesser numbers.
However, they were twice as ferocious as gathered together in large tribes more often.

Each large tribe also inevitably enjoyed the protection of at least one bonded wild god.

The Flagrant Swordmaidens generally chose to detour around them when the scouts detected a large tribe on their way to prevent any conflict.

Overall, the wildling tribes weren ’t afraid of competing directly against the wild gods for territory.
Since a bonded wild god benefited from the intelligence from its dwarf rider, they usually obtained the upper hand.

”Chief, the preparations are done.
We can start the experiment right away. ”

”Commence the experiment! ”

Someone behind a control panel activated a command to the fleshy growth.
The dwarf brains inside had been crudely reprogrammed into an organic computer of sorts.
While it was impossible for the Flagrant Swordmaidens to wipe the mind, the exobiologists did their best which managed to impart them with the command to send out a specific thought pattern on command.

This time, the dwarf brains received the instructions of discharging a small amount of energy in the god crystal in the form of electricity.

The control panels displayed various parameters beginning to spike.

Something was happening!

Several experts and specialists reported various changes, but Ves didn ’t pay attention to them.
Instead, he looked at the god crystal and the fleshy growth and faintly sensed a tingling in his sixth sense.

Ves understood what the Flagrant Swordmaidens missed for several months.

The god crystals could only interact with spirituality!

Since dead and non-living objects generally didn ’t possess any spirituality, it was no wonder the god crystals didn ’t react to any external stimuli.
Pushing it, electrocuting it, heating it, blasting it with radiation and more had nothing to do with spirituality.

Only a living mind possessed this elusive trait!

Even though a wildling or any other normal human for that matter possessed a negligible amount of spirituality, they still possessed a tiny flame.
Normally, this untouchable bit of spirituality had no meaningful interaction with the outside world, but the god crystals were very different from the norm.

The dwarf brains might only possess a feeble flame, but it was more than enough to turn some kind of switch in the god crystal.

A simple electronic apparatus connected to the other end of the god crystal.
Shortly after the god crystal began glowing, the apparatus glowed as well as it absorbed an uneven amount of power.

”We ’ve detected direct current! The god crystal is powering the testing apparatus! ”

”The current is unstable! Power levels are rising! They ’re spiking! ”

The god crystal suddenly discharged a lightning bolt ’s worth of energy to the apparatus at once, and the fuses blew immediately!

Nonetheless, none of the experts cared about this disaster.

”We did it! We generated electricity! ”

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”It won ’t be long before we can turn the god crystals into power generators! ”

Chief Dakkon smiled, though he didn ’t join the jubilation.
”Why are you celebrating?! We ’re nowhere done right now! Our dwarf brains have friend and the fuses are blown! More than that, the god crystal is out of juice and we have no way to recharge it yet! ”

The Flagrant Swordmaidens still hadn ’t figured out the method to excite the god crystal into siphoning higher-dimensional energy and matter from the astral winds.

Still, now that they proved that making use of dwarf brains as controllers worked, they were on the right track! The god crystal project expected to make brisk progress now that they no longer ran around like headless chickens.