The Mech Touch

could not summon much sincerity at all towards his home state.

He didn ’t give up.
He tried to worship various other entities and concepts.
He switched from worshipping the Larkinson Ancestor, humanity and the Milky Way Galaxy.

Nothing worked! He simply couldn ’t summon enough sincerity and devotion to worship something greater!

In his mind, his arrogance and confidence in himself had reached a very high level!

Even though Ves did not like to call himself a Holy Son of the Five Scrolls Compact, he knew that ever since he obtained the System, he was not inferior to anyone!

This kind of pride along with his secularist background made it virtually impossible for him to mentally diminish himself in front of other entities!

In an act of desperation, Ves attempted to worship two of his design spirits.

He first made contact with Ylvaine ’s spiritual fragment and attempted to devote his mind to it.
However, the fragment instantly cut off the connection on its end as if Ves ’ prayers tainted its purity!

”Goddammit! Am I really that bad?! ” Ves whined, causing Gloriana to look at him oddly.

In truth, he could guess why the spiritual fragment rejected his worship.
He did not respect the fragment as a powerful entity at all.
How could he when he literally took a tiny spiritual remnant and somehow managed to revive it into a strong and growing entity!

Though its strength was not comparable to when the spiritual remnant was locked inside Ylvaine ’s nutrient pack wrapper, Ves still placed himself above it as if he was its parent!

Since Ves essentially created Ylvaine ’s spiritual fragment, he decided to turn to a more powerful spiritual entity which Ves did not look down on as its creator.

His selection was very limited.

On one hand, he could try to worship Nyxie, the tyrannical alien spiritual entity that was locked inside the Ancient Sarcophagus.

On the other hand, he could try to worship Qilanxo, a Sacred God who had been literally worshipped by the degenerated descendants of the crew of the Starlight Megalodon for centuries!

Naturally, Ves instantly opted for the latter, especially considering that he possessed a very friendly relation to the former lizard.

He adjusted his posture on Gloriana ’s prayer mat and began to make contact with the powerful entity.

As soon as he did so, he began to feel the strength and richness of her radiant spiritual strength!

While she was merely the design spirit of the Aurora Titan, which didn ’t sell nearly as well as his Soldier product line, the quality of spiritual feedback was still incomparable!

Before he prayed to her, he communicated his intentions to her without obscuring his main motivation.

She replied with an amused emotion.
It was as if she didn ’t think much of his prayers!

Ves was relieved that she allowed him to pray to her.
Qilanxo used to be a creature who received a lot of worship from all kinds of people.
She wasn ’t as picky as Prophet Ylvaine in this regard.

As Ves began to empty his mind and worship Qilanxo, the outcome he hoped for hadn ’t taken place.

Just like before, he didn ’t look up to Qilanxo as a greater entity! At most, he thought of her as an equal who was worthy of respect!

Not only that, but Ves instinctively felt that his prayers fell on deaf ears! Qilanxo remained completely unmoved by his attempts to grow closer to her on a spiritual level!

He wasn ’t sure why his prayers weren ’t being received.
It actually didn ’t matter what Qilanxo thought about him.
As long as he convinced himself that he was being sincere, he could sink himself deeper in his meditation.

It was too bad that he got stuck at the door without any hope of entering inside!

In the end, either his method was wrong, or unsuitable!

He couldn ’t replicate one of the essential conditions that Gloriana easily managed to attain!

”I can ’t do it! ” Ves lamented as he opened his eyes and stood up from the mat.

”Of course you can ’t, Ves.
You ’re faithless! As long as you don ’t recognize how small you are, you won ’t be able to surrender yourself to something greater! You ’ve never prayed to something in your entire life, right? ”

”I ’m a Brighter. ”

”Exactly.
Do you think it ’s easy for you to be sincere in your prayer? Like most Hexers, I learned how to pay my respects to the six phases of existence when I was young! I received instructions from fellow followers who are much more devout than me! A layman like you can ’t comprehend the glory of praying with people who share the same beliefs! ”

Ves sighed and lowered his head in defeat.
”You ’re right.
It was disrespectful for me to look down on your prayers. ”

In the end, he gave up on trying to imitate her achievements in meditation.

They were two completely different people in this regard.
Gloriana ’s faith made her exceptionally suitable to rely on this method to accelerate her spiritual energy recovery.

As for Ves, he already benefited hugely from his Grand Dynamo.
While he was essentially relying on an external object to address one of his shortcomings, the Grand Dynamo was simply too potent!

His spiritual energy recovered so fast that Ves did not have a very strong desire to develop an alternative means of speeding it up.
At most, he would develop a backup solution in the event the Grand Dynamo stopped working for some reason!

With all of the work that Ves had to do, exploring this direction was a very low priority.

”Cheer up, Ves. ” Gloriana soothingly patted his back.
”I can keep up with you to an extent! This is just the start! I ’ll definitely improve in the future! ”

Both of them exited the office after a few hours.
Strangely, Ves looked a little down while Gloriana appeared more energetic!

It was a complete reversal from before!

The pleasure exuded by Gloriana was so strong that she partially managed to overcome her mental exhaustion!

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