The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2141

Chapter 2141: Spiritual Construct

One of the inadequacies that Ves had recently recognized was his overreliance on his design spirits.

No matter how you looked at it, relying on design spirits to enhance the overall value and capabilities of his mech designs was much like hiring outside consultants to perform your own work.

There was always a price to relying on others.

Though Ves did not intend to stop his use of design spirits to empower his mechs, he gradually realized that it shouldn't be his only method.

He could do more with his design philosophy.

For a rather long period of time, Ves faintly felt as if he hit a bottleneck. At his current level, there wasn't much more he could do to strengthen his mech designs.

Even the exceptional creation of the Superior Mother had only been possible by relying on another external aid. Once his high-grade life-prolonging treatment serum ran out, what could he do? It was too difficult to develop an advanced form of spiritual life by relying solely on his own spiritual energy at this point!

Ves recognized that he had to address this inadequacy sooner or later.

If his own skills couldn't keep up with the development of his design spirits, eventually both would stagnate.

He always felt as if he should do something more with the spiritual foundation of his mechs. To that end, he began to study the building blocks he had already laid.

Even though his design still needed a day to reach completion, its spiritual foundation already looked respectable and solid. While it wasn't a completely accurate description, the spiritual foundation appeared as a solid platform where it could safely stow any design spirit of his choosing.

Of course, a rushed mech design was not as spiritually solid as Ves liked. There was no helping it as the act of designing mech was like showering it with love and life.

The more time he spent on nurturing a mech design, the stronger its spiritual foundation!

In the past, the spiritual foundation served as a platform for his images. Weaker and much less livelier than his design spirits, his living images had been borne completely from his mind.

This effectively made them his own strength and an extension of his own will. Though it sounded simple to create them, Ves had to pour in an unimaginable amount of concentration in order to keep everything straight.

Of course, with the growth of his Spirituality Attribute, it became easier to create an image.

Yet no matter how many of them he made, they all started without that much life. It took a considerable amount of spiritual feedback from mech pilots to transition them into greater lifeforms, but even then they possessed too many holes to count.

Creating life was not that simple. There was a very big reason why Ves chased after multiple ingredients that came from other lifeforms.

It was much easier for Ves to rearrange life than create it from scratch!

However… now that he thought about it, creating a fully-fledged spiritual lifeform without relying on spiritual fragments sounded like a very useful ability to have.

This might even be the key to advancing to Senior or Master!

"I'm too far away from that, though." He muttered dejectedly.

Yet as he studied the spiritual foundation of his competition mech, Ves began to develop the notion that even if he couldn't create new life, what about stuff that wasn't alive?

It wasn't as if he attempted it before. Inspired by spiritual engineering, he had already attempted to form constructs with his spiritual energy. From spiritual hammers to spiritual knives, these lifeless constructs acted as his tools whenever he wanted to accomplish something.

"It's just that they disappear when I lose my concentration."

His spiritual projections had to be actively maintained. Once he relaxed, his spiritual projections broke down into a disorganized collection of spiritual energy.

Would the same happen with the spiritual foundation of a mech?

"Not necessarily, but…"

He hadn't paid enough attention to the spiritual foundation of his mechs. He treated it as a bed for his design spirits, nothing more. Yet now that he looked at it, they seem remarkably bland and boring to his eyes.

Compared to real spiritual engineering, the spiritual foundations of his mechs were no better than empty ground!

Certainly, by themselves, the spiritual foundation laid the groundwork for the X-Factor of a mech. However, they were so simple and uniform that Ves began to think he had been wasting its potential for a very long time.

It was like he was staring at an empty plot of land. There was nothing on the plot except for grass and soil. This was hardly a nice place for his design spirit to live in. Being forced to sleep out in the cold and lacking too many amenities meant that his design philosophies needed to do all of the heavy lifting.

What if Ves tilted the balance back to the spiritual foundation of his mechs?

Making it stronger by injecting more thoughts and energy into it only resulted in a more solid plot of land. No matter how high the quality reached, it was still a barren site!

What Ves truly needed to do in his opinion was to develop the land. He had to bring in some materials or take it from the existing plot of land in order to build something.

At the very least, a simple bench or a tent could do wonders in diversifying the spiritual foundation!

Of course, all of the talk about plots of lands and building tents was nothing more than an analogy that helped him put the problem in perspective.

The main point was to see if he could transform the spiritual foundation into something more interesting.

He began to reach out his arm in order to visualize what he was about to do. He wanted to manipulate the spiritual foundation.

He started off with something simple. He took a piece of the foundation and molded it into a suppressor.

He wanted to suppress the Superior Mother's tendency to look down on boys. While Ves had no doubt that Joshua was flexible enough to adjust to any design spirit, it would still make life easier for him if the Superior Mother didn't treat him like a baby!

Though he wasn't exactly sure how to make a suppressor, he let instinct and prior experience guide his efforts. Eventually, he felt as if he accomplished something.

The moment he completed his endeavor, the spiritual foundation of his mech suddenly became remarkably less hostile towards boys!

Ves widened his eyes.

This was an exceptional result, yet it took relatively little effort to achieve! Usually, he had to create entire new mech designs or blend several fragments and motes together in order to achieve a change.

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