If he continued with his actions, he was liable to hurt his daughter, and that was absolutely taboo as far as he was concerned!
"Is this why your mother hasn't been able to get you to say mama?" He questioned.
"Waaaa….wuuuuu…"
Both he and his wife were competing on Aurelia's first word. Given Gloriana's compulsion to be the best, she was working hard to encourage their daughter to say 'mama' before 'papa'.
He didn't put it past his wife to employ Alexandria's design network to teach Aurelia how to say mama more directly.
In fact, that was exactly why he attempted to connect to Aurelia's spirit as well. He was afraid that Gloriana had already started her dastardly plan. If he didn't keep up, how could he still have a chance in this contest?
Apparently, his fears turned out to be overblown. As Ves lifted up his daughter and used his spiritual senses to examine her entire body, he discovered something amazing.
Her entire body had become inviolable.
Passive observation worked fine, but as soon as he tried to intrude into any point of her body, her smooth baby skin turned into an impenetrable shield!
"This… is actually amazing."
It took a lot of probing and theorizing for him to gain an answer on why his daughter became so good at defending against spiritual intrusions.
"It's my mother!"
He recalled the instance where the Superior Mother descended and channeled a portion of her prodigious strength in her 'granddaughter'. Ves had always wondered what Cynthia's incarnation had actually done, and now he finally learned what she truly had in mind.
Aurelia's flesh and blood had become infused with so much spiritual energy that they had become a lot more extraordinary than normal. Ves had never seen this in any other human and had long grown both hopeful and concerned about these unfamiliar changes.
Now, he knew. The Superior Mother somehow blessed Aurelia in a way that made the baby girl strong in a special way.
"You're quite amazing, you know that?"
"Hihihihi!"
In fact, during his probing, Ves discovered an additional defensive measure. When he probed her head instead of any other part of her body, he found that his spiritual projections weakened by a considerable margin.
The reason why this happened was not due to Aurelia's spiritually-enhanced flesh, but her remarkably strong spirituality!
"Miew…! Miew…!"
To be more precise, it was a product of one of the seed abilities that he had bestowed on her companion spirit.
Ves picked up Mana and studied the intangible Persian kitty. Compared to before, he found the cat to be even more innocent and pure than usual.
"You… you activated one of your seed abilities already?!"
"Miew!..."
Mana innocently mewled while she wagged her short tail back and forth.
When Ves originally designed a companion spirit for Aurelia, he had to take her extremely weak mind and spirit into account. Back then, she was still a fetus inside Gloriana's belly, so how could she possibly accommodate a companion spirit as powerful as Blinky?
Ves therefore created a highly-reduced companion spirit that was supposed to rely on growth to get up to strength.
In order to ensure that the companion spirit gave Aurelia plenty of choice on how to develop herself in the future, Ves did not bestow it with a single strong spiritual ability like he did with oher companion spirits.
Instead, he inserted six different ability seeds into Mana so that any of them could activate and grow according to Aurelia's needs and desires.
According to his original expectations, the seeds should quietly accumulate strength and germinate a few years later.
They weren't supposed to activate when Aurelia wasn't even able to speak a coherent word yet! This growth rate was way too fast!
"And how come you activated your purification ability seed at this time?"
The six ability seeds that Ves had inserted into Mana were derived from the spiritual fragments of different sources.
Life, which corresponded to the heart, came from Ves himself.
Family, which corresponded to the tail, came from the Golden Cat.
Purification, which corresponded to the brain, came from Lufa.
Protection, which corresponded to the front paws, came from Qilanxo.
Light, which corresponded to the eyes, came from the Illustrious One.
Duty, which corresponded to the abdomen, came from the Solemn Guardian.
Ves had high hopes for Mana for this reason. She was a completely new sort of companion spirit from Sharpie, Blinky, Respa, Alexandria and so on. Aurelia was the first human to have a broader choice in how to develop her other self.
He expected her to grow up into an energetic little girl who came up with big dreams about her future.
He expected his daughter to come to him so that she could receive his guidance on what kind of career path she should try to pursue.
He expected her to make up her mind and consciously work together with Mana to stimulate one of the six ability seeds that aligned best with her future ambitions.
Instead of all of that happening, Aurelia activated one prematurely.
Though there was no rule that stated that Mana could only ever unlock the potential of one ability seed, the first one was undoubtedly the most important one that would define how Aurelia lived her life!
"How did this happen?"
There could only be one viable explanation. Someone tried to intrude in her mind. Aurelia or Mana sensed this was wrong and tried to evoke whatever means they had to defend against it.
This inadvertently caused Mana to activate her Purification seed ability so that she could provide Aurelia with an added insurance against spiritual or mental intrusions!
A part of Ves was quite happy to see this. If Aurelia retained the protection of her inviolable body and purified mind, it would be impossible for her to get brainwashed or indoctrinated!
Powerful spiritual entities wouldn't be able to mess with her either!
That didn't mean he was okay with this, though. He could only think of one culprit who might be responsible.
"Gloriana!"
"Miaow?!" Clixie grew alarmed.
"I need to have a good talk with my wife!"