The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2868

Chapter 2868 - Path to Transcendence

Transcendence.

The word was packed with many different meanings. It held a lot of connotations.​​

It also featured prominently in many religions. The notion that humans were able to transcend their humanity and mortality was a popular notion. Who didn’t want to shed their weak and boring human existences in order to become a powerful god or other supreme entity?

The Ylvainan Faith centered around it, and so did hexism! Many other religions constructed myths where the faithful would be rewarded for their piety by giving them an opportunity to transcend into a higher existence.

Ves thought that all of these promises were false. The faiths merely dangled imaginary rewards in front of the faces of gullible believers in order to incentivize them to act in a manner that served the interests of the charlatans who perpetuated the delusions.

The reason why they got away with their lies was because it was impossible to prove whether someone actually transcended when they died. Almost every person in the galaxy lacked his spiritual perception, and no tools existed that could register whether someone’s souls ascended to a higher plane of existence, so every con artist could keep the lies going as long as the claims remained unfalsifiable!

Yet as much as Ves looked down on religions that offered promises that they could not possibly fulfill, transcendence was not an imaginary concept.

It was very much real.

While Ves did not know of any actual instances of transcendence before the Age of Mechs, it was a different story once the Big Two ascended into power.

The arrival of the MTA and the deliberate formation of the mech market and mech industry introduced a lot of changes to human civilization.

One of the most esoteric ones was the emergence of humans who had truly transcended their mortal and human limitations.

The existence of high-ranking mech pilots and mech designers proved that humanity was capable of transcending in a more controllable and universal process without needing to rely on any specific faiths.

What was great about expert pilots, Journeyman Mech Designers and so on was that they were concrete entities whose existences and powers could be verified!

For the first time in human history, people found not one, but several proven ways to make themselves better in an existential fashion.

Instead of praying to some imaginary god or whipping your back fifty times each day, a person who yearned to become someone greater could work earnestly to raise themselves higher!

Although reality soon proved that the success rate was abysmally low, the fact that there were cases where it worked drove many people to pursue a career in mech piloting and mech design!

In fact, if expert pilots, ace pilots and god pilots didn’t exist, Ves was sure that there would be at least 50 percent less potentates who decided to take advantage of their genetic aptitude!

The profession of mech designer also wouldn’t be as popular. Less people would apply to become a mech designer as this specific profession was less able to compete against other engineering professions, such as becoming a naval engineer or civil engineer.

Yet because unexplainable people like Journeymen and higher existed, students continue to flock to programs that caused the majority of graduates to become marginal figures who had no realistic chance to achieve transcendence.

"In the Age of Mechs, the importance of mech pilots and mech designers cannot be overstated."

As he began to travel the galaxy and explore different facets of humanity, he became more and more aware of how the MTA rigged society in its favor.

From allowing squabbling states to wage war against each other to enacting policies that actively aimed to drown the mech industry with a tsunami of mech designers, everything appeared to be set up to maximize the emergence of as many high-ranking mech pilots and mech designers as possible!

Ves wasn’t sure if any of their secret projects achieved success, but he was quite sure that any possible solution was bound to be impractical!

This effectively meant that the vast majority of humans had no choice but to rely on their own efforts to transcend mortality.

"That’s not all that bad, actually. As long as the requirements are high, then only the best and most deserving individuals get to go a step beyond."

People like himself for example.

This was why the quantity of high-ranking mech pilots and mech designers remained miniscule despite the huge amount of low-ranking equivalents that walled at the bottom of the pyramid.

Though it was easy for Ves to dismiss these losers as unworthy pretenders, his understanding of spiritual potential and how infrequently it occurred among people made him feel otherwise.

The truth was that he had met a lot of good, hard-working people who deserved a shot at transcendence, but got denied because they lacked a special sauce.

The most galling aspect about this was that developing spiritual potential was essentially uncontrollable!

Ves had observed a lot of people and beasts who possessed or lacked this critical trait, but so far he had yet to find a logical explanation. The only common factor that he managed to ascertain was that spiritual potential was tied to sentience, but that was not enough to do anything!

"It’s like a lottery. Some people just get lucky while the rest get left with nothing."

He had long been frustrated by this condition. There were plenty of assistant mech designers in the Design Department who deserved the opportunity to bloom, but wouldn’t be able to do so because their spiritualities were almost non-existent!

The same went for his growing roster of mech pilots. While numerous great and supportive Larkinsons like Venerable Joshua managed to realize their potential, too many clansmen lacked the same chances.

"How would Melkor react if he hears about this?" Ves idly asked.

If Ves revealed that Melkor originally never had a chance to become an expert pilot, the Avatar Commander would likely become crushed.

Yet if Ves revealed right afterwards that he could give him a chance, then Melkor would likely explode with glee!

"Should I even give him this opportunity, though?"

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