In just a single remote conversation, Ves became utterly overwhelmed by the information conveyed by Hugo Fournier.
The batch human revealed that the Cybernetic Empire had dedicated massive amounts of manpower, funding, resources and so on to the development of living mechs and other related products!
Although Hugo did not go into specifics on how much progress the so-called Living Machine Tower had made, the fact that it not only had the backing of the Polymath but also employed millions of incredibly smart and well-educated Cybers meant that it probably made a huge amount of progress!
Ves did not think it was likely that the Cybers had made too many revolutionary innovations that deepened the foundation of living mechs and living products.
He refused to think that other people could make so much progress in a field that he painstakingly pioneered.