In the final days of the examination period, Master Willix seemed to focus less on the Quint.
Instead, she devoted an increasing amount of time on designing mechs that contained life!
The speed at which she designed astounded him. Though she put up an opaque energy screen around her to prevent contaminating Ves and Gloriana with her methodology, the fact that she could present a complete mech within thirty minutes absolutely shocked them both!
Her mastery of technical mech design had reached a very great height. What took months for Ves to design could easily be put together by someone who was much more senior in their profession.
This was what it meant to be a Master! The distance between her current state and the legendary mech touch was quite close!
Of course, as much as Master Willix tried, she never even got her foot in the door when it came to designing mechs with life!
Though her energy screen blocked most if not all forms of probing in a similar fashion to his Privacy Shield, Ves could still peek at her from a spiritual lens.
It was difficult to observe her in a passive manner. She was like a sun in his vision. Her formidable spirituality was so powerful yet so contained that it was very difficult to see what was actually going on inside her mind.
Nonetheless, Ves observed enough to guess that even though Master Willix concentrated fully on designing her mech, she lacked the most essential ingredient to convey her mechs with even an inkling of spiritual foundation.
She lacked the life domain!
Her spirituality exhibited a lot of light and heavy attributes, both of which interacted with each other in a delicate balance. This made sense as Master Willix originally specialized in gravitic systems according to her public record.
Whatever methods rational mech designers used to imitate other people's design philosophies, they could copy the theory and knowledge, but they weren't quite capable of copying other people's spiritual attributes!
Yet if that were so, why was she capable of copying Gloriana's specialization to such an accurate degree?
After a bit of thought and a lot of surreptitious observation, Ves formed a possible theory.
Rational mech designers did not really utilize their spirituality in the same way as other mech designers. Their spirits had become very tame and contained, thereby allowing their rationality to take primacy in any attempts to design a mech.
The value that spirituality brought to their work therefore had to be substituted by something else. freewebnøvel.com
What else could rational mech designers substitute this quality than their greatest strength, their rationality?
Ves began to suspect that each time Master Willix designed a mech, she kept her passion and most of her spirituality under lock and key while she let her mind work overtime in forming some sort of mental construct that served as a 'fake' design seed of some sorts!
It was actually quite similar to how Ves created masks and infused them with spirituality!
The advantages of this method were myriad. If Master Willix was truly capable of reconstructing the design seeds of other mech designers, then wouldn't she be capable of substituting their work to a reasonable degree? Even if the fake possessed a couple of shortcomings compared to the real deal, Master Willix wasn't limited to channeling just a single fake!
She could probably channel half-a-dozen fake design seeds and leverage the strengths of each of them at the same time!
If she chose the right design philosophies to imitate, then she might even be able to achieve synergies despite working as a solo mech designer!
Ves couldn't help but feel profoundly shocked at the limitless potential of such a mode of mech design!
No wonder rational mech designers were considered superior!
No wonder rational mech designers dominated the MTA!
No wonder the MTA developed such a voracious hunger for the innovations of other mech designers!
For a moment, Ves felt incredibly inferior. As he worked hard to deepen his design philosophy and tread new paths, Master Willix could just take advantage of his hard efforts to and effortlessly copy most of his hard-earned innovations as long as she possessed the right understanding!
Yet... it appeared it wasn't so easy to copy other people's understanding of mechs. Class IX design philosophies were especially known to be odd and unorthodox.
Ves had a suspicion that one of the primary reasons why Class IX were valued rather poorly within the mech community was because rational mech designers couldn't make good use of them! The difficulty of imitating an odd design philosophy like his own was ten or even a hundred times harder than Gloriana's design philosophy!
The much-vaunted rationality of mech designers like Master Willix worked against her in this case. The more rational she became, the less capable she was of violating basic truths.
For example, suppose a madman mech designer existed who was capable of designing reality-defying mechs. The premise of his design philosophy rested on the assumption that 1 + 1 = 3.
It was plausible for someone who didn't possess a right mind would be able to believe in such an absurd statement.
Yet it was impossible for a rational mech designer who clearly knew that 1 + 1 = 2 to delude herself into thinking otherwise!
The starting point of his design philosophy was that mechs were alive. Mechs were capable of possessing the quality known as life. Mechs needed to be treated with the same amount of respect as living beings.
This was not merely a case of regarding mechs as a vessel of life. Ves went beyond that and truly indoctrinated himself into believing that even if they were composed of a lot of metal parts, they still possessed the potential to be alive!
Since the start of his design career, Ves had always lived and breathed through this principle. He regarded it as his core ethos and never violated it like his other principles!
How could a passerby, even someone as mighty and superior as Master Willix, possibly embody all of his efforts within a matter of days?
He felt more relieved after making this realization. He lost his concerns and began to regard her feeble attempts at copying his design philosophy as an amusing pastime.
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