The Cerebral King had fallen silent after Ves elaborated on his offer of cooperation and explained the gist of the concessions that humans were willing to provide to the Evolver fish-whales.
Ves was incredibly confident in the success of this plan! He had gathered enough information about the king fish and its kingdom to know that insufficient access to resources was one of its greatest limitations.
Since the low amount of resources produced in the Evolution Kingdom was such a great constraint, relieving this condition just a little bit was enough to produce a qualitative improvement in battle strength!
This was an effect that Ves had experienced several times during his own past.
The first instance was when he initially got his hands on Cassandra Breyer's escape pod and had the bright idea of abusing its infinite resurrection property to 'produce' an endless amount of Breyer alloy!