"What do you think, Blinky? Are you up to the task?"
"Mrow..."
"I know it will cost you a lot, but all you will be spending is a renewable resource. Just focus on absorbing a lot of fire energy from the environment if you are so afraid of putting the Blinkyverse out of balance."
"Mrow mrow."
Ves came up with a relatively simple plan at this time.
What Ves envisioned for Venerable Isobel and Kiroshi was to enable them to leverage prime resonance to produce a powerful effect in battle.
More specifically, he wanted to replicate the way in which Venerable Irene Mox was able to attach Emma to a projectile and launch both of them at the enemy at the same time!
This was not easy considering that the circumstances were entirely different at this time.
Ves believed that he could still make it happen so long as he satisfied a number of conditions.
As long as Kiroshi was able to turn herself into a flaming and self-sustaining projectile, at least one condition would be satisfied.
However, if the Promethea was not able to properly make use of prime resonance in a targeted manner, it would be useless even if Kiroshi learned a new trick!
What Ves needed to do was to alter the Ignitron into a weapon that could effectively deliver Kiroshi to the enemy.
Yet how could he do that if the luminar crystal rifle fired continuous energy beams in short bursts as opposed to launching a physical projectile?
The answer he came up with was to incorporate a hyper material into the weapon and turn it into a prime weapon!
Another problem emerged when he settled on this decision.
Where could he get a sufficient amount of fire sympathetic material?
The T Institute only started to cultivate prime materials a short time ago, and Ves only had a batch of weak and fragile D-i in storage at the moment. This was completely useless to his current plan!
This was why Ves came up with an alternate idea.
It was based on an assumption that he only recently came up with after connecting a lot of different theories and observations together.
"Luminar crystal technology was originally developed in a time where the Milky Way was not yet broken." He speculated. "At the time, the luminar race was not only gifted in spirituality, but also developed their crystal technology to work the power of heaven that used to be abundant at the time."
If this guess was true, then that essentially meant that luminar crystals may essentially function as an artificial hyper material!
This was a shocking conclusion if it happened to be true!
Ves felt this idea made a lot of sense even if he lacked strong proof to back up this amazing assertion. He just thought that it made a lot of sense given what he learned about the luminar race and spending a lot of years researching and applying luminar crystal technology to his mech designs.
Though Ves had yet to see any existing luminar crystals undergoing any transformations so far, he had a faint guess that the intensity of E energy radiation was not high enough to meet the required threshold.
If luminar crystals were fairly powerful and high-end to the luminar race, then it may be a given that they could not be produced so easily!
"It does not cost that much to verify this new theory." Ves smirked. "At most, I'll only waste a bunch of time."
He did not delay any further and resumed his operations.
As the Ignitron's internal components became exposed to his sight, he thought about commanding a bot to take out one of the six attack phase crystals integrated into the weapon.
"Which one has the greatest relation to the fire element?"
He chose to set aside the positron beam attack phase crystal after a brief period of consideration.
A laser beam could inflict a lot of thermal damage, but its greatest advantage was that it propagated at the speed of light. This was ideal for attaining higher hit rates in long-ranged combat in space.
However, a positron beam consisted of actual antimatter, though at a scale and power that was far below the level of an actual weapon of mass destruction.
Since a positron beam weapon essentially emitted a large amount of positron particles at a distant target, it was a beam that actually possessed mass and substance, even if it was not heavy at all in absolute terms.
However, Ves prized this property because he guessed it would be a lot easier to enable Kiroshi to hitchhike an energy beam when she could attach herself to actual physical particles as opposed to tiny and much less substantial photons!
"Aside from that, a collision between positrons and normal matter releases a lot of energy that mostly comes in the form of heat. This reaction should have an excellent compatibility with the element of fire!"
Once a bot placed the positron beam attack phase crystal in a secure chamber, Ves proceeded with the next and most important step of his experiment.
Blinky slowly flew closer until he stopped next to the luminar crystal.
After a brief pause, the Star Cat slowly opened his maw and began to channel a small fraction of the huge fire energies contained within his Blinkyverse!
This was the essence of Ves' plan!
He wanted to see if he could force a luminar crystal's transformation into a prime material related to the fire attribute by essentially flooding it with energies of the same element!
"Come on, Blinky! I'm relying on you! Just dump out as much fire energy as you can channel!"
"Mrow!"