章 6529: The Blood-Soaked Castrator

Due to the mental changes induced by the Deep Research State, Ves had become hyperfocused on completing the Amaranto Mark III Project.

While he kept himself informed of other developments, his emotional attachment and interest in them had dropped to a precipitously low level.

When phase whales and phase lords became engrossed in their own research and practice, they needed to be able to tune out every external distraction for extremely long periods of time.

They also needed to be able to endure the passing of entire ages. Few mortal organisms were able to withstand the mental impact of seeing thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years pass before their eyes without growing mentally unstable or unhinged.

Phase leaders therefore gained the capacity to deal with their changed relationship of time in different ways.