The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2890

Chapter 2890: Swish Swish

It made no sense.

That was what Ketis thought after reading and skimming through Venerable Trey Walinski's scriptures.

Obviously, the deceased Heavensworder expert pilot was not a scientist. Yet every decent mech pilot had to study at least some level of physics in order to gain an essential understanding on how mechs actually worked and how to fight in various environments.

Mech pilots who understood not just how, but why mechs that moved faster always consumed more energy faster would always be able to manage their energy reserves better.

Mech pilots who understood the basics of orbital mechanics and knew the difference between acceleration and velocity would be able to maneuver much more skillfully in space.

Mech pilots who understood the concept of heat capacity and knew how rapidly a mech dispersed its heat in vacuum, air and water environments would be able to keep their mechs cooler.

In short, learning just a little bit of scientific knowledge could comprehensively improve the judgement and subsequently the performance of any mech pilot!

Therefore, Ketis expected that a prosperous and well-run second-rate rate like the Heavensword Association would surely emphasize the basic sciences.

While it was too much to ask for mech pilots to learn as much as mech designers, they should at least be able to master high school-level physics!

Yet when Ketis read through Venerable Trey's chaotic and unedited ramblings, she sensed the man had probably forgotten at least 80 percent of what he learned.

Sure, the late expert pilot and swordmaster showed some indication of understanding. Venerable Trey readily referred to the concept of potential energy and kinetic energy.

However, that was where the science part ended.

Just as Ketis thought that Venerable Trey's writing would make actual sense, the scriptures went into a completely different direction!

For example, the books constantly emphasized the accumulation of energy, only to unleash it in a manner that completely defied conventional science.

According to the expert pilot's own words, the essence of the Annihilator Sword Style laid in destroying every obstacle in the path of the sword.

At its peak, the scriptures claimed that the sword style should even be able to cut through neutron stars, one of the densest and hardest objects in the galaxy!

Ketis almost fainted when she read this claim. What a shameless boast! Any mech that came close to such a dense and heavy star would probably fall apart due to the enormous gravitational stresses affecting its frame.

"It's like I have to turn my brain off in order to appreciate these scriptures."

The problem was that she couldn't. She was a mech designer. She learned enough science and engineering to know how reality was put together by a myriad of physical laws and phenomena. Even though humanity still possessed a shallow and incomplete understanding of reality worked, she was quite sure that a layman like Venerable Trey was absolutely wrong on many matters!

She listed a couple of glaring impossibilities.

First, where did all of the potential energy come from? Merely holding the sword did not magically charge it up with enough energy to generate antiparticles in an environment that was filled with conventional matter.

Second, how could a swordsman possibly generate antiparticles without any advanced technology? By wishing it into existence?

Third, how come those antiparticles didn't annihilate with the material of the blade or the molecules in the air and release a massive amount of energy, thereby causing an explosion that was violent enough to destroy an entire city?

Fourth, how could a swordsman ensure those antiparticles only annihilated the matter immediately in front of the blade and prevent the release of so much energy?

These were just a fraction of the many inconsistencies and impossibilities that Ketis stumbled upon. She grew increasingly more convinced that Venerable Trey didn't even know what he was talking about!

"It can't be antiparticles! It's impossible! His sword style must be doing something else!"

Yet try as she might, she couldn't even begin to guess at the truth of the Annihilator Sword Style. The best guess she could come up with was that Venerable Trey was able to form some kind of mystical force field that had the effect of erasing matter from existence.

This also matched with what she observed from Fred Walinski's impressive demonstration. It made no sense for him to create antimatter out of thin air. Generating an energy field was much easier, though still questionable considering the lack of advanced equipment.

However, the reason why she preferred this alternate theory was because she had already managed to accomplish this herself!

Only superpowers were able to defy physics, and Ketis had successfully demonstrated this ability many times!

Even though the effects were different, the process was roughly the same. Ketis obsessed over sharpness while Venerable Trey focused on a more direct form of destruction.

There were differences, though.

As a mech designer, her thorough understanding of the sciences granted her a very realistic outlook on what sharpness meant and how it could be achieved. At most, she chose to invest herself in a couple of unproven assumptions that could be made real as long as she furthered her research over the course of her mech design career.

"Mech designers wish to prove their assumptions real."

In contrast, expert pilots like Venerable Trey Walinski didn't see reality this way. They instead made bold claims that had no basis in reality and essentially utilized their transcendental strength to make it happen anyway!

This basically sounded like expert pilots possessed superpowers, but this sounded weird, because mech designers also possessed superpowers.

"Are we… more similar to each other than we thought?" She wondered.

Ves had never taught her much about his own secrets, so Ketis lacked the knowledge to rationalize this question. She vaguely felt that mech pilots and mech designers might actually be two sides of a coin rather than two completely separate entities.

"If this is so… can I drill a hole in the coin and connect the two sides?"

She shook her head. This was a stupid metaphor. High-ranking mech pilots and mech designers were much more complicated than she could possibly figure out at the moment.

After turning her attention back to the Annihilator Sword Style, she eventually concluded that she lacked the mindset to accept it. So many assumptions were so objectively untrue that she couldn't put it in herself to believe them at face value.

"I'm a mech designer, not an idiot!"

Mech pilots didn't necessarily know any better. Their shallow education in the sciences caused them to lack the background and critical thinking that was necessary to know what was plausible.

However, it was exactly because mech pilots didn't know the limitations that they were able to surpass the limitations of the laws of physics and develop superpowers for some reason!

Ketis grew increasingly more doubtful and confused. She knew that Ves had a hobby in figuring out the nature of expert pilots and how to facilitate their breakthroughs, but she had never touched upon this subject until recently.

It helped that she already knew a thing or two about expert pilots. Her regular interaction with Venerable Joshua allowed her to learn how he regarded his own abilities.

"Joshua told me that he simply saw reality in a different way than others."

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