The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2138

Chapter 2138 Planning Against Luck

The decision on whether he should go all-out or hold himself back did not occupy him for long.

He wanted to win. Even though he would still be able to earn some rewards if he lost, he really wanted the extra MTA credits and the right to permanently own the Darkbreak module. This might be the only opportunity for him to get his hands on a superb communications module.

In addition, with his crazy hat, he didn't fear exposing his ability to empower any of his mech designs with an immediate boost by instilling them with one of his existing design spirits.

In fact, such an act played right in his hand! Ves would reveal to Master Willix and the MTA that he truly did have access to the so-called proto-gods!

No matter how hastily he designed his mechs, as long as their spiritual foundation was strong enough, he could immediately impart with a powerful glow!

Though this would reveal a lot about his current capabilities, Ves did not mind it very much. Not only did such an act reinforce his current facade, it also obscured his more sensitive secrets!

Now that he made this choice, Ves had to decide what kind design spirit and what kind of glow he wanted to instill in his mech.

"It would be nice to have something that embodies fire or heat."

Sadly, his current arsenal of design spirits lacked such an option. Ves had to adopt a more indirect approach, just like he did with the Doom Guard.

Even though the Doom Guard was a striker mech that depended heavily on its flamethrower, Ves nonetheless managed to add a different dimension to it by bestowing it with a terror glow.

He would have to do something similar this time!

"Alright. Time is up! The design phase starts now! You have 72 hours to design and complete your competition mech!" Master Willix announced.

Gloriana kissed him on the cheek and wished him good luck before she scurried away.

He already missed her warmth as he called up a design interface.

Ves began to sketch some outer contours of the mech in his imagination. Due to losing access to his implant, his precision and mental calculations grew worse, causing his sketch to look very crooked!

Nonetheless, the lines already provided him with an impression of the mech that he wanted to turn into reality.

Ves wanted to design a hefty mech. Though its mobility would probably be awful, that wasn't a big deal if the duel ended up as a battle of attrition.

Only the mech that lasted the longest would win the duel!

The heat resistance of a mech depended on many factors, but two of them stood out.

First, the more armor, the better the mech could cope with heat.

Thinner armor plating not only held less heat, but also transferred it faster to the vulnerable internal components of a mech.

However, the type of materials also played a role.

Some materials warmed up faster than other materials when injected with heat.

Therefore, the thickest mech did not always outperform the thinner mechs when it came to absorbing heat. The quality of their armor system played a major role!

However, due to the current budget constraints, Ves did not have much choice. He could only choose between a large selection of cheap armor systems that didn't boast a stellar heat capacity.

To put it simply, his striker mech was already destined to be fat and sluggish. He just had to choose how much he was willing to weigh down his design.

"Should I lean towards offense, defense or strive towards balance?" He wondered.

Most of the time, Ves disliked balance. He would rather add some pronounced strengths and weaknesses to his mechs in order to distinguish them. Therefore, he only considered the first two options.

"If I pick offense, my mech will have to end the battle quickly. My machine won't be able to hold long against enemy attacks. If I pick defense, then the duel will veer even further towards a battle of attrition."

Which one fit his strengths better? Which one fit Jovy's strengths better?

The main advantage that Ves enjoyed was that he was able to affect the moods of mech pilots.

However, Ves did not forget that MTA personnel exhibited a remarkable degree of resistance against the Doom Guard's glow. Some of them even acted as if they were completely immune!

Therefore, Ves did not think it was a good idea to focus on demoralizing the opponent. He would have focused on empowering Joshua.

"It's a good thing I specifically picked him out as my champion." He muttered.

Of all of his mech pilots, only Joshua understood his glows the best. He could adapt to any design spirit no matter how incompatible they sounded.

As the only non-Ylvainan to be able to pilot a Deliverer mech, Joshua fully deserved to be one of the few adopted Larkinsons without a compound name!

With such a fantastic mech pilot at his disposal, Ves did not have to worry about potential incompatibilities or lack of immersion.

He made his choice after exploring both options.

"I need to end the battle quickly." He concluded. "I'll take an offensive approach."

The main reason why he wanted to focus on offense rather than defense was that the latter would result in a longer match.

Against a mech that had been designed with 'probability manipulation' in mind, that effectively gave Jovy's specialty more opportunities to flip a coin!

Therefore, Ves vaguely guessed that time would be against his side. The longer the match dragged on, the greater the chance an unfortunate development would cripple his competition mech.

Now that he had settled on his approach, he went over his stable of design spirits to see which one fit this emphasis the best.

He first went over one of his oldest design spirits, the Black Phoenix.

"Too weak." He shook his head.

Even though it seemed a natural fit, it didn't possess any special powers and its spiritual strength wasn't all that impressive. It was mainly a product of his earlier years when he mainly focused on the X-Factor.

At best, Joshua would only receive a modest enhancement to his aggressive instincts.

That wasn't good enough as far as Ves was concerned.

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