Chapter 5999 Floating

Chapter 5999 Floating

Tusa felt unprecedentedly free.

His body was no longer as weak as before.

He managed to change it somehow.

He did not understand the first thing about biology, so he was not able to quantify the changes like a scientist.

The expert pilot could just feel that he was no longer inhabiting the same collection of meat and bone as before.

He could vaguely sense that his plan succeeded.

He managed to alter his body on a fundamental level.

The changes might not be too strong, but it already made a huge difference as far as he was concerned!

His willpower could still sense the presence of phasewater dispersed through his injured but recovering body.

As the doctors around him had already taken action to restore one of his lungs as well as the other parts of his body that had gotten torn, Tusa already started to laugh.

"Hahaha... I did it... phasewater... can't do anything to me anymore!"

While his statement was a bit exaggerated, he instinctively knew that his relationship with phasewater had changed forever!

His perception of space had changed on a small but fundamental level. As Tusa disregarded his physical pain, he became fascinated by how much he gained from vanquishing the threat posed by phasewater.

It was difficult to describe all of the changes.

His body felt... lighter somehow. His weight did not change, but... it was as if he had become a little less anchored in reality than before.

He had the illusion that as long as he flipped a switch that did not exist, he could phase his body out of the material dimensions in a similar fashion to Lucky.

This was an amazing gain if his judgment was correct!

Tusa no longer had any fears that he would put himself in any harm if the Dark Zephyr gained the capacity to phase through other objects.

What mattered the most right now was that he successfully managed to neutralize the threat posed by the phasewater that was buried in various parts of his body.

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However, there were more changes than that. His perception of space was rather strange. It was not an effect that he expected or desired. It was not that strong either as the sensitivity of this new awareness of space did not stretch across the entire mech workshop.

What mattered the most right now was that he successfully managed to neutralize the threat posed by the phasewater that was buried in various parts of his body.

Somehow, his body and the space occupied by it just refused to give in to the harmful effects produced by phasewater.

Even though Tusa and his companion spirit no longer exerted any active form of suppression against phasewater, it was fine.

As far as Tusa could tell, his transformed body simply... refused to allow the space it occupied to bend and tear.

He interpreted it as a more advanced form of evasion.

The most straightforward form of evasion was to physically move his body out of harm's way.

What he had done now was to occupy the same space, but somehow deceive reality into treating as if his body occupied a different location from where the phasewater was doing all of the harm.

It was a bit more complicated than that, but Tusa felt this was as good of an explanation as any.

All he cared about was that this new capability not only made him impervious to the harm posed by Ves' blood, but also gave him inspiration on how he should develop his ability to avoid harm when piloting the Dark Zephyr!

"This is our future!"

The Dark Zephyr had already been leaning in this direction from the start. The prime abilities and resonance abilities already granted his expert mech the ability to draw fire at his apparent location without actually getting hit.

The potential to allow his expert mech to phase through attacks that were certain hits on command was the next evolution of his piloting journey!

Normally, that should have meant that they had already witnessed this transformation enough time to harvest most of the insights that they could obtain from this sort of event.

The reality was different this time.

The Dark Zephyr Mark III was their first true archemech, and thus turned into a radically different masterwork mech than the two had ever made before!

Gloriana became delighted when she managed to harvest a dozen completely novel insights that she never came across in the past!

This was just the beginning as the masterwork transformation began to expose other imperfections and areas of improvement that she never noticed before.

It became clear that she was still so new to archetech that she had only scratched the surface of its greater potential.

There were still a lot of nuances that she had yet to master. This partially resulted in a rough and less optimal archemech design.

Gloriana briefly glanced towards Ves.

As much as she wanted to take credit for turning the Dark Zephyr Mark III into a masterwork mech, the decision to use archetech had dragged down the expert light skirmisher's quality.

If not for the fact that Ves had been insanely brilliant by inventing his first new Ultimate Module and using a strange gem that possessed a remarkably useful effect, the only other way for the Dark Zephyr Mark III was to rely on her god body solution to compensate for her many mistakes over time.

All of this reinforced the fact that the Dark Zephyr's intangible properties had become even more impressive than his tangible properties!

Soon enough, the new and unprecedented masterwork transformation had run its course. The Dark Zephyr Mark III finally assumed his final form in truth now that he had managed to climb up to the second rung of the Craftsmanship Ladder.

Silence descended onto the dimly lit mech workshop.

Though Ves and Gloriana had worked hard to successfully convert the Dark Zephyr to his current state, their exhaustion was nothing compared to that of Tusa!

Everyone wanted to find out how Tusa fared with his new expert mech.

The expert pilot did not disappoint the crowd.

With the help of a few more stimulants and a bit of emergency treatment, Tusa managed to regain enough energy and fitness to lift himself off the bed.

He activated the antigrav module of his piloting suit and steadily floated up to the cockpit.

"Can I...?"

"He's all yours, Tusa."

The expert pilot reverently entered the cockpit and settled onto the new piloting chair.

Almost nothing looked the same anymore.

Though Ves and Gloriana had tried their best to make the layout and so on identical, the use of new materials and more advanced tech had left their mark on the entire mech frame.

Tusa did not regret the loss of familiarity. Change was inevitable. What he cared about the most was whether he could adapt to all of the improvements of his machine.

From the moment he activated the Dark Zephyr Mark III, a very different neural interface began to form a stronger but also more comfortable man-machine connection with an archemech.

Tusa momentarily blanked out as he connected to a vastly different but unquestionably more powerful archemech!

As his mind and willpower began to resonate with the Dark Zephyr Mark III, his body began to experience sensations that made Tusa feel as if he was floating.

What delighted Tusa even more was that he could feel as if his new expert mech was floating in sync with his own body!

As the activation sequence slowly ran its course, the Dark Zephyr Mark III already began to move!

The gathered mech designers all moved back in order to distance themselves from the large but very threatening machine.

The Dark Zephyr's glowing eyes seemed to focus on the floating form of Ves.

The true resonance generated by the expert mech also began to lock onto one of his progenitors!

A strong sense of battle intent radiated from the freshly upgraded archemech.

The Dark Zephyr raised an eager fist.

"Let's fight!"