The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3162

Chapter 3162: Altered Timetable

The team of Journeyman solemnly prepared for their fabrication run.

Ves wanted each of them to take advantage of the exceptionally good mood they were in right now. The optimism that Gloriana and the others had held while they designed the mech along with the powerful rush of excitement from receiving a Superpublished version of their work produced a powerful effect that made everyone feel incredibly eager about their upcoming attempt to make the expert mech!

Of course, not all of the circumstances were perfect.

The technical fluency required to fabricate an expert mech was still daunting to mech designers at their level. Even if they poured more effort into studying more advanced fabrication techniques, they didn't know if they were able to handle the volatile resonating materials better this time.

Their understanding and sense of ownership in the Sentry Project was already less than ideal due to incorporation of the essential contributions of Master Willix. Now that a second external influence had made a pass on the expert mech design, Ves and the rest were not doing any better in this regard.

They couldn't do much about this, though. Not without spending a lot more time on preparation, but that was unfeasible. The Larkinson Clan needed its expert mechs sooner than later and Gloriana was eager to finish them before she was ready to give birth.

Therefore, everyone gathered at her personal workshop the next morning while looking eager and raring to go. Just like before, they had to work on the mech design for at least five days straight in order to complete the second major mech of their lives.

Despite their optimism and eagerness, there was yet another complication that threatened to disrupt their attempt.

"I can't stay awake for five days straight while expending my full concentration during this entire time." Gloriana told her husband. "I especially can't do so while injecting my bloodstream with a cocktail of stimulants that are designed to artificially keep me awake and in a hyperactive state."

She rubbed her belly as she did so. Enough time had passed by now for her normally-flat stomach to show the beginnings of a bulge.

Ves briefly concentrated his mind and swept his spiritual senses across Gloriana's body.

The constant effort he had put into feeding his unborn daughter with spirituality had made a substantial difference in her spiritual growth. Already his daughter's spirit had surpassed the average strength of a norm and was already on its way to reaching the level of someone who was spiritually active.

Ves did not spend a single second on thinking whether it was wise, safe or even desirable to make someone so spiritually powerful at such an exceptionally early stage. His daughter wasn't even born yet, but already her spiritual development surpassed most of humanity!

All he cared about was letting his daughter enter the cosmos on the strongest footing possible. The ideal result he was aiming for was to implant her with a companion spirit seed before her birth. _{freēwebnovel.com}

From what it looked like, his unborn daughter's current rate of spiritual growth was not fast enough for him to achieve his goal in time, but he wasn't worried. With each day that passed, her tolerance and capacity became a little greater.

She was growing more and more adept at handling spiritual energy. By the time his little baby was born, she should definitely give him a pleasant surprise!

Ves smiled and approached his wife in order to place his hand on top of hers. Pure warmth flowed between them as they both sensed their child in their own ways.

"I understand." He said. "I don't want to risk the health of our baby either. We'll have to adopt a different approach to our design work."

"I've already reshuffled the timetable and set up a rotation so that we can each take extended breaks where we can take naps and rest our strained and overburdened bodies. I won't be able to stay on top of the ongoing process as much as I want, but this is the only way I will be able to ensure the health of our daughter."

She had extensively consulted with Dr. Ranya and the other medical specialists before she settled with this decision. Though they were mech designers who were highly passionate about their work, the quality of a single machine could never trump the importance of their own flesh and blood!

As long as they invested enough time, they could easily design a lot of mechs. Birthing and raising a child with loving care wasa something different. Children were not products that should be discarded if they were defective somehow. Parental love didn't or shouldn't work that way.

Though the genes of their designer baby was substantially better than that of a baseline baby, at this early stage both of them were equally as vulnerable to negative external influences.

In fact, designer babies were even more sensitive because even a minor deviation from their design could ruin their ideal biological arrangement!

When they announced the modified schedule to Juliet and Ketis, neither of them reacted too strongly about it. They had never fabricated a masterwork mech before, so how could they possibly know what they were missing?

All of the changes meant that the fabrication time would likely be extended to six whole days. This was quite a difference but there were other expert mech designs in the pipeline that likely required even more days. Ves feared how much time he would have to spend in order to upgrade the huge Shield of Samar to its expert mech incarnation.

"I think you have made the right choice." Juliet gently said. "You are a mech designer, but you are also a mother. Between the two, the latter responsibility is much more important because you have only one chance to nurture and raise your current child properly. The Superior Mother will be pleased with your dedication. You carry her grandchild, after all. If you insisted on keeping yourself awake by pumping your body with chemicals, then I would have said something myself."

The two didn't always get along with each other, but ever since Gloriana had become pregnant, their relationship had mellowed out a bit more.

"Let's pray for the Superior Mother's blessing before we start." Gloriana suggested. "We worked hard on the Sentry Project not just because we want to protect ourselves, but also because we want to secure the future of our children. My daughter and the many children that follow will grow up under the protective shadow of our expert mechs. Each of them employ their great strength to guard all of our offspring on our behalf so that we can raise them in peace and without fear of death."

After sounding noble for a moment, Gloriana and Juliet both moved to the giant statue of the Superior Mother and fell to their knees in order to begin their ritual worship.

Ves simply shrugged at the nonsensical sight and turned his back to the display. "So, Ketis, are you excited?"

"Surprisingly, I am." She said. "It's strange. I'm only really interested in working on sword-wielding mechs, but there's just something about this expert rifleman mech that interests me. I'm quite fascinated by all of the improvements. The stronger this machine, the more support it can provide to my fellow Swordmaidens who will have to rely on support from the rear."

"In the ideal case scenario, the Sentry Project should be capable of sniping critical leader figures among the enemy ranks. Its ability to bend its beams will likely come as a nasty surprise to those who think they are well-protected behind their barriers."

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