Though Ves occasionally paid attention to Joshua, he never really talked to the kid very often. A single one-on-one exchange therefore accomplished considerably more than he initially thought.
Joshua was like a boat that had gone lost in an endless ocean. Though the boat was clearly capable of traveling somewhere, it lacked a direction.
Now that Ves provided Joshua with a more concrete goal and destination to work towards, the expert candidate gained a strong motivation to grow stronger. freёweɓnovel.com
As Joshua's force of will evolved and grew a little more solid, Ves remained observant throughout the process.
This was not the first time he studied an expert candidate. He had a decent idea of what Joshua needed to do to catch up to the other expert candidates in the clan. As for taking his first true step to godhood, that was an opportunity that he needed to obtain by himself.
What Ves found curious was the potential cooperation and synergy he could achieve with a mech pilot who shared his domain.
Even now, whenever Ves reached out with his Spirituality, he always felt he could 'link up' with Joshua's force of will.
Naturally, he wasn't reckless enough to actually do so. Neural linking between two humans was exceedingly dangerous, and it shouldn't be too different if it happened over a spiritual link!
What Ves began to think about instead was trying to take advantage of this condition in a mech designed exclusively for Joshua.
If the expert candidate ever succeeded in taking the next step and advanced to expert pilot, then he needed a suitable expert mech to exercise the full range of his newly-acquired resonance abilities.
While Seniors and Masters were usually the ones to design expert mechs, Ves did not wish to pass off this responsibility to anyone else! There was no way he would rely on an external Senior to help him design an expert mech either.
No matter what, Ves had his own pride, and he believed that it shouldn't be impossible for him to design an expert mech at this stage!
Even if his work didn't measure up to the expert mechs designed by actual Seniors, he could always design a better expert mech next time!
Once Ves departed from the Redfeather and returned to the Scarlet Rose, he continued to speculate on the abilities he could bestow onto an expert mech.
Adding resonance abilities was a must. From what Joshua had briefly demonstrated back in the design duel, his domain allowed him to rejuvenate the parts of his mech.
On the surface, this made it seem as if he was made to pilot defensive mechs.
"It shouldn't be that simple." Ves shook his head.
Certainly, integrating resonating exotics that enabled a mech to repair itself should likely synergize extremely well with Joshua's resonance abilities. Ves did not dare to think how much damage such a zombie mech could repair in mid-battle!
However, aside from this application, it was rather difficult for Ves to imagine what else Joshua could do. One of the defining traits of a life domain was how both of them were able to communicate with other entities.
This meant that Joshua might be able to achieve a greater level of cooperation with design spirits than usual!
Ves could scarcely fathom what that meant for Joshua's future expert mech. Would he be able to meld with certain design spirits and be able to channel some of their distinctive powers?
That sounded incredibly wild, but Ves felt that it might not be as ludicrous as it sounded!
"Expert mechs are moving miracles. What they do defy common sense."
So far, Ves knew too little about the development of expert mechs.
If he really wanted to, he could ask Gloriana to explain what made expert mechs different. He was also pretty sure he could ask some favors from his allies and acquaintances.
So far, Ves did not feel inclined to pursue something that wouldn't be relevant for some time. He needed to focus his attention on his current projects.
When Ves resumed his work on his major projects, he continued to work together with Gloriana over the galactic net.
Even when they openly talked about controversial subjects such as proto-gods and the divine nature of mechs, Ves did not avoid them, but casually worked normally as if they were no big deal.
He knew that the Darkbreak module he was using probably gave Master Willix and anyone else in the MTA direct access to their transmissions.
There was no way to avoid these onlookers. If he refused to use the Darkbreak module and instead used a conventional quantum entanglement node, then the CFA and many other parties would listen in as well!
Ves felt pretty helpless at his inability to keep his remote conversations and collaborations with Gloriana private. He might as well accept this reality and use it as an opportunity to promote the illusion that he was a crank!
Therefore, instead of rejecting Gloriana's distinctive terminology, Ves embraced it. Design spirit became proto-god. Spiritual foundation became divine nature. Spiritual attributes became divine authorities.
Certainly, Ves believed that Master Willix must be probably learning quite a bit about his methods and approaches to mech design.
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