6014 A Quick Trip
After a long moment, Ves ultimately decided to entrust the responsibility of improving his Locos organ to the Larkinson Biotech Institute.
It was no longer as limited as before. Years of continued investment had allowed it to grow in size and scope.
With the establishment of the Premier Branch, the Larkinson Clan had already begun to hire first-class biotech researchers on a limited scale.
The new hires may not be the best in the first-class biotech industry, but they crushed all of their second-class counterparts when it came to intelligence, knowledge accumulation and scientific rigor!
Even if they did not possess any existing expertise in phase lord physiques and phasewater organs, they could still build it up by conducting a lot of examinations on Ves!
Of course, if Ves wanted the Larkinson Biotech Institute to raise an entirely new department specialized in phase lord biology, then he needed to subject his true body to regular examinations!
After all, there was no way the biotech researchers could obtain sufficient understanding of phase lords and phasewater organs if they did not have access to enough research material.
"This shouldn't be a major inconvenience." Ves determined. "I just have to let the researchers poke around my body once in a while. The more they understand how my body works, the greater their ability to successfully upgrade my Locos organ."
Upgrading his Locos organ was a serious matter to Ves. It was not like upgrading a mech where a botched attempt could easily be corrected due to the mechanical nature of the subject.
The Locos organ was one of the three most fundamental and important biological components of a phase lord.
One of the challenges that many phase leaders faced was that messing around with their own phasewater organs always came with an element of risk.
There were too many potential pitfalls. The phase lord trusted the wrong people. The phase lord attempted to integrate a phasewater organ that was too powerful for him to control. The phasewater organ accidentally mutated beyond recognition due to inadequate research and processing.
Ves only possessed a single Locos organ. It also happened to fit him perfectly as the heavenly authority of the Red Ocean had gifted his initial set of phasewater organs to him for free.
It would be a massive shame if the researchers of the LBI mishandled his Locos organ and either destroyed it or caused it to deteriorate.
The Transhumanists were better at biotech research in almost every way. They already possessed an enormous head-
start and could easily develop better and more optimal versions of his Locos organ.
His expression turned grave. "If I give them the responsibility of upgrading my Locos organ, then I will likely remain stuck with them going forward."
This sounded like a potential trap!
It was the same story as companies that depended on proprietary software or a powerful brand of production equipment from a large enterprise.
Once a smaller player got locked into the products of the large enterprise, the latter could easily abuse its control over its dependency relationships with the former to extort more fees or worse!
While Ves maintained a good relationship with the Transhumanist Faction for the time being, what if that changed in the future?
What if the Evolution Witch turned from an ally into an enemy?
What if he completely ruined his relationship with the Red Association?
If anything like that took place, then Ves would definitely lose access to the expertise he relied upon to upgrade his complicated phasewater organs!
Even if Ves turned to the LBI, the biotech researchers of the Larkinson Clan would probably struggle to decipher the advanced and obtuse bioprogramming and organic design of the Transhumanist Faction's proprietary biotechnologies.
Ves felt as if he had been on the verge of making a huge mistake that he would regret for the rest of his life.
"It is no wonder that the phase whales all prefer to spend hundreds of years researching their own improvements for their phasewater organs. It is simply too dangerous to entrust such a critical responsibility to others."
The unfortunate part about his own situation was that Ves could not upgrade his Locos organ by himself.
Intellectually, he was confident that he could study enough biotechnology and perform enough examinations on his true body to develop a few basic improvements.
However, he could meet the requirements of the Mission within just 3 years! He was not good enough of a biotech scientist to achieve such a result in such a short span of time!
Sure, he may have learned enough biotechnology in order to design a basic biomech or cyborg mech, but his understanding of this field was too shallow to conduct high-end research into phasewater organs!
"I don't necessarily have to complete this Mission by upgrading my existing Locos organ, though." Ves speculated. "I can also get away with replacing it with a more developed Locos organ taken from the corpse of another phase whale or phase lord."
Ves immediately became repulsed by this idea!
There was no way he wanted to stuff weird and foreign organs inside his body! The incompatibility problems alone would probably torment him for a long time!
"I am not going to imitate the methods of an unclean whale!"
Now that he became a phase lord himself, he understood much more why the general alien community treated the phenomenon of unclean whales as an enormous taboo.
None of the descendants of the Elder Gods and their imitators wanted to be hunted down, lose the phasewater organs that they had painstakingly developed over many decades and allow their murderers to enjoy the fruits of their labor!
Conducting honest research on developing new phasewater organs and upgrading existing ones was the proper way for phase leaders to advance their phase lord cultivation.
It might be slow, costly and troublesome, but it was the safest and most stable method of improving their extraordinary capabilities.
Ves chose to accept the Mission with the intent of giving the Larkinson Biotech Institute a chance to upgrade his Locos organ on his behalf.
He would give them 2 years to produce an adequate result. If the biotech researchers working for the Larkinson Clan failed to meet his requirements, he could always turn to the Transhumanist Faction as a backup option.
It shouldn't take more than a couple of months for the Transhumanists to upgrade his Locos organ, especially if it was based on an existing template.
"This is the advantage of a big organization."
That reminded him of the Red Collective. Its mandate meant that it would likely take over wholesale research and supervision of human phase lords. Perhaps he might have to knock on the doors of the Collective as opposed to the Transhumanists in a couple of years.
Ves did not get too hung up over this issue and went back to picking up other Missions that he could feasibly complete in the next few months and years.
[Design a high-acceleration light mech]
[Alien Heartcrusher]
[Spreading Faith]
[Consume 100 Mutated Beasts]