The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2962

Chapter 2962: Between Two Tigresses

Ketis returned from the Heavensword Association as a new woman. She had undergone such a drastic metamorphosis that Ves and Gloriana still exhibited some difficulties in adjusting to her new status!

The principal reasons for that were the dual identities of the Larkinson Clan's latest superstar.

To the utter bafflement of them both, Ketis somehow managed to elevate both of her professions to an extraordinary level.

This should have been impossible.

When Ves figured out that swordmasters were analogous to expert pilots, he felt it was even more incredulous for Ketis to break this rule.

Journeymen Mech Designers reconfigured their spirits into a mysterious spiritual construct which he labeled as a design seed.

Expert pilots, and by extension swordmasters, fused spirituality with their willpower to form what Ves called a force of will.

Both design seeds and force of will were powerful spiritual phenomena that only came into existence after exceptional people pushed their abilities to their limits.

When the prodigious daughter returned to the expeditionary fleet, Ves invited her over to a lounge aboard the Spirit of Bentheim in order to explain herself.

When Ketis narrated her amazing adventures on Omanderie III, Ves certainly understood that she had gone through enough situations that stimulated her to stimulate her potential as a swordswoman.

Yet what did this have to do with mech design?!

Why did Ketis simultaneously broke through to Journeyman Mech Designer in the middle of a martial arena where there were no mechs to be found?!

It didn't make sense!

The only theory that Ves could reluctantly accept was that her extraordinary nature as a 'swordmaster' had somehow become an intricate part of her design philosophy.

In other words, Ketis might be the first mech designer in existence who was able to leverage her strength as an extraordinary warrior in her design work!

Though she had yet to embark on any mech design work, Ves could already tie the clues together. Ves had ample experience in tying external spiritual design spirits to his own mech designs in order to enhance their performance beyond what he could manage by himself.

He hypothesized that Ketis would be able to adopt a similar approach, though this time she would be leveraging an internal factor rather than an external one! This was because no matter how separate Sharpie appeared to be, the evolved spiritual construct was still an intricate part of her spirituality!

"So what is the matter with all of the followers that you have brought back to the fleet?" Gloriana grumpily asked as she stroked Clixie's back in consternation. "You brought so many people back to our fleet that you could start an independent organization that is not that much weaker than our clan. Do you still consider yourself a Larkinson, or have you developed new ambitions now that you've become a big girl all of a sudden?"

"Miaow…"

Even her cat became a lot more guarded towards the new Ketis!

"Hey, cut it out, Gloriana." Ves patted her shoulder as he pressed closer to her. "She's not a threat to us. I know her well enough to be assured of her loyalty. She's a Swordmaiden, and that should be enough of an answer."

His remark caused Ketis to smile. Ves indeed understood her quite well. As a Swordmaiden and swordmaster, she took her oaths seriously. She pledged to join the Larkinson Clan and had no intentions of reneging on that promise.

There was no particular reason for her to consider otherwise. The clan never mistreated her or her fellow Swordmaidens. In fact, Ketis and her fellow sisters gained an unimaginable amount of assistance. Now that she finally acquired the strength to pay back her debts, she was looking forward to being of more use to Ves and the clan.

"I am a Larkinson." She spoke with force and in a way that left no doubt that she was being utterly sincere. "Each and every clansman is my fellow brother and sister. You are all kin to me. Back when I was still an Apprentice, I appreciated that I could be a part of a new family. That hasn't changed at all even if I have the opportunity to strike out on my own. I am still proud to be a Larkinson. The only difference is that I can contribute more to the clan. The followers that I have brought back are my first gifts to you all. We're short on manpower, so I did my best to help you solve this shortcoming. I even managed to bring back a lot of ships and mechs as well in order to alleviate our insufficient combat strength. Isn't that great?"

Ves awkwardly coughed. "That… uhmm… even if only a portion of them have access to mechs, bringing back 10,000 mech pilots at once is a tad bit excessive. You've practically recruited an entire mech division of Swordmaidens when the rest of our mech forces can barely scrape up 10,000 mech pilots at the moment. Do you see how imbalanced our force disposition has become?!"

Ves and General Verle always advocated for balanced development when it came to the growth of the clan's mech forces. None of them should become too strong and numerous in order to prevent them from exerting an excessive influence on the Larkinson Clan's martial culture and combat approach.

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