The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3172

Chapter 3172: Hesserian Bardine

Master Willix didn't appear to be in a hurry to talk about the Amaranto.

After reassuring Ves and the Larkinsons that the MTA was not about to take away their expert mech or retain them as 'permanent guests', everyone relaxed.

While working for the MTA was a dream to many mech designers, none of the four had much appetite to pursue a career in the Association.

Despite the immense wealth and power at the MTA's disposal, the Larkinson mech designers were more than confident that they would be able to climb up to the same height one day.

This especially applied to Ves and Gloriana. The former held a lot of confidence in his unique talents as well as the System. The latter was just confident because she was Gloriana.

The other two Journeymen did not have any thoughts either.

Juliet did not have any other thoughts because she took her vows to the Larkinson Clan seriously. As for Ketis, her status as a swordmaster made it impossible for her to associate too closely with the MTA.

Willix surely knew their attitudes, so she was quick to assure them that the MTA did not intend to take them away for too long.

"We'll return you and your expert mech to your factory ship by the end of the day."

"That long?" Ves raised his eyebrow. "What will we be doing here?"

"Ah, you don't seem to understand. Well, you should brace yourselves, because you have become quite the talk of the town within certain circles within the MTA. Why do you think that we would go out of our way to dispatch an entire battleship to your fleet and put extra effort into teleporting you over while in FTL travel?"

Ves had a lot of questions about that, but he refrained from asking them. Ever since he was moved over to this unknown vessel, he felt as if he was being observed by a million different sensors. His every move was probably being tracked and analyzed by both humans and AIs.

In fact, shortly after he had been unwillingly brought over to this supposed MTA battleship, he had already employed one of his own tricks to make him appear more calm and composed. He did not want to leak out anything too delicate such as the System or his extremely controversial mother through his words or his body language.

Though he wished he was wearing his more impressive dress uniform right now, his daily outfit would have to do. He offered the Master a smile.

"We shall be in your care."

"Good. Before we proceed, let us analyze your handiwork first."

A gap smoothly appeared on the ceiling. Hundreds of different people floated through this opening and began to surround the Amaranto from all sides.

Ves did not dare to sweep any of them with his spiritual senses, but from his passive spiritual vision, he could immediately identify that each of them were high-ranking mech designers.

There were at least fourteen Masters and thirty Seniors among the group of buzzing mech designers. The remainder were Journeymen who mostly assisted their superiors in scanning different parts of the mechs with their specialized handheld scanning equipment.

The exaggerated lineup of impressive MTA Masters momentarily floored Ves. Even if it was unusual for a bunch of Journeymen to successfully create a masterwork expert mech, he didn't think it would warrant so much attention from the mechers!

Was it because of the young age of the creators?

Was it because of the improved luminar crystal technology incorporated in the design?

There had to be a compelling reason why these impressive mech designers showed so much interest in the works of just a handful of Journeymen.

One of the Masters who was admiring the craftsmanship of the Amaranto turned around and descended as he flew in the direction of Master Willix. Once he reached the woman's side, he immediately said something critical.

"It is undeniable. I don't need to study the mech any longer to confirm that its design has been 'twewaked' by a mech designer who is far superior to you. From the integration of the resonating exotics to the mech frame to the clearly superior implementations of luminar crystal technology, I am 16 percent certain that the mech designer responsible is a highly advanced Master Mech Designer and 79 percent certain that we are dealing with the work of a Star Designer."

A grave silence stretched as the unknown older Master issued his professional judgement. The wave of silence stretched for so long that Ves bet that they were talking to each other through a private internal network.

The Master likely said those words for the benefit of the guests.

Ves finally understood what the excitement was all about. It turned out that the fake patron he invented had acted a bit too exaggerated lately!

He realized that he had inadvertently given a lot more credence that he was backed by an unknown Star Designer by employing the Superpublish function.

This seemingly simple-sounding System ability was supposed to improve the overall performance of a mech by 10 percent. This didn't sound too impressive until Ves realized that it had also applied to Master Willix's contribution to the Sentry Project!

Ves wasn't sure how powerful of a Master she was, but her relative prominence in the Association signified that she was quite powerful even among other Masters.

"It is good to hear that humanity boasts another Star Designer." Willix eventually replied in an even tone. "We are beset by enemies on all sides and face numerous great challenges that threaten our current order. It is a pity that he is among the more elusive of his kind."

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