The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3394

Chapter 3394: Living Sword

Ketis inspected the giant mech sword that she had just forged and completed with great attention.

She hadn't actually made many swords for mechs throughout her relatively short career, but she had been preparing for this job for many years.

As both a wielder and a maker of swords, her comprehension and feel for swords was different from any other swordsman mech specialist.

She had dedicated her entire life to designing the best sword-wielding mechs, and just like many of her like-minded peers she trained and practiced in swordsmanship until she could actually hold her own in battle.

That wasn't unusual.

What made her different from other mech designers, even the highly-focused purists from the Heavensword Association, was that she had actually succeeded in becoming a swordmaster!

While there were Apprentice Mech Designers who managed to break through with their swordsmanship in the past, they turned out to be pretty unexceptional at designing mechs. Due to how their extraordinary willpower fundamentally altered their mentalities, they could no longer exert their creativity, ingenuity and intellect in pushing their design philosophies to the next level.

As for the more common situation of mech designers breaking through to Journeymen, they eventually devoted less time to keeping up their swordsmanship. No matter how hard they trained, they made no substantial progress once they hit their physical limitations. It was impossible for them to transform their willpower and take their first true step of becoming a sword god!

As far as she and everyone around her knew, Ketis was the first human to break this barrier. Through unconventional means, she had become both a Journeyman and a swordmaster, thereby enabling her to enter the ranks of a small group of elites who wielded the might of two different extraordinary professions at once!

And they happened to feed and synergize with each other in a wonderful fashion as well!

Since her remarkable double breakthroughs, she constantly tried to find ways to take advantage of the interplay between her two professions.

She used her technical expertise in swords and swordsman mechs to optimize her swordsmanship. Although traditional Swordmasters disdained science and engineering and relied instead on their exceptional willpower to make reality bend to their demands, Ketis held a slightly different stance towards this approach.

In her opinion, traditional swordmasters were too stubborn and ignorant. They never participated in any basic science courses at all since they had to devote so much time to practice and refine their techniques every day.

By understanding proper natural principles, Ketis could achieve the same results by spending just half of the effort of other swordmasters.

It was as if everyone was using their own arms to carry a heavy crate from one location to another while Ketis performed the same task but with a simple wheelbarrow. The amount of energy she needed to expend became much less because she actually bothered to use her mind!

Aside from using her unique advantages to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sword styles she came in touch with, she also used her background as a swordmaster to improve her ability to design and make mechs.

In her occasional exchanges with Ves during their working hours, Ketis gained a deeper understanding of the properties of both expert pilots and swordmasters.

What made people like herself as well as Venerable Joshua stand out was how they were able to distort reality according to Ves. Through the operation of their unnaturally high willpower, they were able to bend the conventional laws of nature and even override them with their own ideas on how reality should work!

Of course, the degree in which they could accomplish this was rather tentative. Ketis learned later on that this capability only truly lived up to its promise at the level of an ace pilot or a sword saint.

Venerable Joshua still had much to go before they were able to develop their own domain fields, but that did not stop Ketis from doing her best to close the gap!

To the young Swordmaiden mech designer, Joshua occupied a unique position in her life. He was not just another client like Venerable Tusa. His importance was on par with Venerable Dise who she saw as a sister.

As her boyfriend and the person who captured her heart, Ketis sought to give Joshua the greatest possible advantage that she could provide!

The first step to doing that was pairing the Chimera Project with the most suitable mech sword. She actively collaborated with Gloriana to design a melee weapon that fit the preferences and needs of both the expert mech and the expert pilot!

It was difficult to settle for a single configuration as both of them were so versatile. The Chimera Project's adaptable nature allowed it to function as a formation breaker, mid-range harasser, distant marksman, a closer-ranged duelist and many other conceivable roles. Some of these situations asked for different kinds of swords.

In the same way, Joshua's multiple styles allowed him to wield different swords in different styles. Although his skill in swordsmanship barely earned him a passing grade in Ketis' perspective, it was to his credit that he could fight proficiently with the greatswords preferred by the Swordmaidens to the rapier that some Heavensworders liked to wield. _{freeweɓnovel.cѳm}

Still, Joshua could not be equally good in all sword styles and sword types. Out of consideration for the weapon he trained the most with as well as the properties of his future expert mech, Ketis settled for designing a simple one-handed arming sword.

In her opinion, the Chimera Project was already a complicated and intricate expert mech design. No hero mech was simple, and Ves applied all kinds of fanciful ideas to Venerable Joshua's machine in order to make it a little more excellent than the other Larkinson expert mechs.

"What Joshua needs is not another high-tech gizmo, but a solid and reliable partner in arms."

Ketis initially wanted to design a more elaborate melee weapon for the Chimera Project. Since the expert mech was all about adaptability, she drafted an ambitious design for a transformable sword.

Inspired by the Chiron training mech that was able to adjust its physical dimensions to increase their fit to individual mech cadets, she envisioned a sword that was solid on the outside but mechanical on the inside.

With a material as hard as Unending alloy at her disposal, she came up with ambitious plans to design a semi-modular sword system that could fold in on itself or extend its reach during battlefield conditions. A crew of mech technicians could even add or remove modular elements in order to alter the mass and dimensions of the mech sword before a battle!

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