The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2775

Chapter 2775 - Dispute

Though Gloriana acted all dramatic after they failed to make a masterwork mech, Ves was already used to her tantrums. He simply stood still like a rock and let her vent her emotions.

Perhaps his wife had become aware that her current actions didn’t accomplish anything meaningful, because she ran out of steam remarkably quickly this time.

After ten minutes of raging about all of the errors and imperfections that prevented her from reaching the goal she set for herself, she crossed her arms and glared at Ves.

"We can’t keep failing like this, Ves. Where is your drive? Where is your enthusiasm?"

"I did my best!" Ves defended himself. "I may not have entered into a special state or anything, but I have never let my attention slip!"

"That’s not enough! You know as well as I do that passion is essential! You need to shape yourself up, Ves. You’re losing your drive."

After she said her piece, she grabbed Clixie and left the workshop. The mechs they fabricated had already been moved elsewhere aside from the Ferocious Piranha.

Ves intended to work on it further as it served as an excellent base for a dueling mech.

The upcoming design duel loomed closer and closer. Ves was eager to begin his preparations for his upcoming design duel.

"I need five good mechs."

He needed to prepare two different Bright Warriors, one Ferocious Piranha, one Valkyrie Redeemer and one Transcendent Punisher.

The rules for this design duel were rather elaborate and intricate. This was because each mech had to fight at least twice, with different mech pilots each time.

This meant that each of his dueling mechs would fight against Dr. Navarro’s biomechs under normal dueling conditions. Both machines would enter the dueling arena in pristine state, but once the fight had ended, it was very doubtful whether they remained undamaged.

The damage might not be so bad for the winning mech, but the losing machine would definitely be in an awful state!

This was why the design duel was split up in two phases. Once the first phase ended, both Ves and Dr. Navarro had three days to repair their respective dueling mechs and ready them for the second phase.

"Three days is not enough." Ves grumbled.

This was especially in the case for mechs that had suffered defeat. Ves might have to make a strategic decision to abandon one of his dueling mechs in order to divert more resources to his remaining four machines.

He also had to make many more decisions on the spot. For example, it might not be worthwhile for him to repair a broken arm when other areas needed his attention more.

"I’ll have to make sure my dueling mechs are robust enough to work even if they are no longer in good condition."

According to the rules, the dueling mechs still had to reflect their original designs. Ves and Navarro were only allowed to make a limited number of adjustments. No matter what they did to their machines, their mechs still had to match their normal work. They weren’t allowed to present something completely new and different that was clearly only used for this specific duel.

There were a bunch of other rules that limited what he could do. They all existed to make the duel as fair as possible, though there were still a few issues.

For example, it was quite challenging for Ves and Navarro to put forward dueling mechs that belonged to the same price category.

No one thought it was fair to pit a mech that cost 400 million hex credits against another mech that cost 600 million hex credits!

Though Dr. Navarro designed quite a lot of biomechs over his longer career, it wasn’t possible to create completely fair matchups based on their design budgets.

This was why each mech design either had to slim down and remove some parts or do the opposite. In the end, all five pairs of dueling mechs had to be even in value!

"This is going to take a bit of work." He frowned.

This was because Ves based the budgets of his mechs on hex credits. For example, the design budget for his Bright Warrior IB model was a simple rounded sum of 500 million hex credits.

However, Dr. Navarro was used to thinking in a different currency! This caused the closest equivalent mech models to be worth the equivalent of 435 or 523 million hex credits!

This was why every design had to be corrected. Of course, Ves also had to make sure his dueling mechs weren’t exclusive to specific mech pilots.

His Bright Warrior, Valkyrie Redeemer and Transcendent Punisher were all exclusive mech designs. For his dueling mechs, Ves had to alter their spiritual design so that they became open to neutral mech pilots who didn’t have any ties to Hexers or Larkinsons.

Ves had never really done that on a larger scale. "This is going to be a challenge."

It was easy enough to convince an open-minded design spirit like the Golden Cat to open herself up to strangers. After all, her spirit connected with newcomers all the time.

Ylvaine was a lot more picky, though. The Transcendent Punisher was a powerful artillery mech as long as its mech pilot matched its design spirit!

Even if it was possible to prepare a special Transcendent Punisher that did not judge its own mech pilot, how would it be able to show its special feature when the mech pilot did not respect the Great Prophet?

While his artillery mech was still a strong gun platform without its iconic ability, it was not enough in his eyes. Dr. Navarro wouldn’t be holding back during the design duel so Ves could not afford to weaken any of his dueling mechs in order to increase their compatibility.

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