The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3398

Chapter 3398: Distant Point

The four Journeymen had all grown a bit numb at this point.

This was far from the first time they fabricated a masterwork mech. In fact, when it came to expert mechs, half of the ones they made had climbed the second rung of the craftsmanship ladder.

A success rate of 50 percent was unprecedented among Journeymen as young as them! Each of them was sure that the galactic mech industry would become shocked if they learned about this explosive accomplishment!

Ves even suspected that this was why Master Willix and her faction within the MTA weren't in a hurry to issue another batch of masterwork certificates to the Larkinson Clan. Their success was too astonishing. Journeymen simply weren't supposed to be able to make so many masterworks in a short amount of time. They definitely shouldn't even be able to make masterworks out of expert mechs, which was supposed to be a much harder challenge!

While a single unexpected success could easily be dismissed as a fluke, a string of three masterwork expert mechs was definitely a pattern! Even the stupidest humans would be able to figure out that the Larkinson mech designers grasped a secret method!

Ves needed to have a good talk with Master Willix after this. He could not allow the public to know that the Larkinson Clan possessed three masterwork expert mechs, which was more than most small states possessed!

When Ves and Joshua floated out of the cockpit, the remaining three mech designers didn't exactly know what happened inside.

Alexandria's design network was still in effect, but the connections had become a little frayed after maintaining it for so long. The two 'blood brothers' also didn't feel the need to share their inner thoughts to the others.

However, that wasn't important at the moment. All Gloriana cared about was that she had succeeded in making another masterwork mech!

From what she had observed from the outside, she already figured out that Ves used a gem to push the Chimera Project across the masterwork threshold. She had expected him to do that when she noticed that the mech suddenly grew stronger and more cohesive all of a sudden.

While Venerable Joshua ignorantly looked on as the Chimera Project comprehensively transformed in a different and less familiar sense, the four mech designers kept all of their senses focused on the expert mech as it fully settled onto the second rung of the craftsmanship ladder!

This was the sixth time that Ves witnessed such a profound change. The more he elevated his work to this level, the deeper he came to understand the nature of mechs and what it took to make them more exceptional.

He was already familiar with some of the subtle changes. He had already studied them before and figured out as much as he could at his current level of perception and understanding. There was no need for him to waste further time on observing these known processes.

Ves instead focused his attention on the other subtle changes that he could only sense at this special time as recordings were never able to convey the complete picture after the transformation had taken place.

What he was particularly interested in was determining how his design philosophy affected the quality of a mech.

What Joshua had done earlier provided him with greater evidence that improving the spiritual design of a mech directly increased its overall quality!

The implication here was that Ves might be able to pump out masterworks on a regular basis if he could impart each of his mechs with better spiritual foundations.

In fact, this rule didn't only apply to himself. This was probably the case for many other mech designers whose design philosophies enabled them to inject their own intangible elements to a mech or mech design.

As long as these mech designers figured out how to improve the application and utilization of their design philosophies to a certain degree, the quality of mechs would automatically rise and thereby allow them to climb the second rung of the craftsmanship ladder over and over again!

This was a much more reliable and systematic approach than striving for greater mechanical perfection as was the case for some of his earlier successes. This was a brute force method of making masterworks that could only be achieved through luck and serendipity.

"I see. I understand."

Each time he created a masterwork mech, his eyes opened a little more. Ves had already created more masterworks than many Seniors and even Masters had been able to make throughout their entire lifetimes.

The ability to make a masterwork mech did not depend on purely piling up a lot of knowledge and skill. Experience helped, but the true factor that allowed mech designers like Ves to make strides in this area was to increase the utilization of his existing craftsmanship abilities!

Designing a good mech wasn't the end of a mech designer's work. Only by realizing it into a concrete form would a new mech design truly become complete.

Knowing how to produce a better machine and how to maximize the potential of an abstract design rounded out a mech designer.

It turned out that Ves had reversed cause and effect.

His mech affinity did not increase because he made a masterwork mech.

Instead, it was more accurate to state that his exceptional efforts in trying to improve his mech craftsmanship naturally increased his affinity for mechs!

Each substantial increase improved a given mech to such an extent that they turned into a masterwork.

Mech affinity was ultimately a reflection of how much he intuitively understood and mastered the true nature of mechs. Perhaps other mech designers had other means to advance this personal trait, but Ves had always managed to increase his affinity by trying out new solutions.

After six successive increases, he was vaguely able to sense that he was approaching an invisible point. _{freewebnovel.cσ๓}

Although it was still too far for him to figure out anything more, Ves was able to guess that if his mech affinity continued to improve, he would eventually be able to undergo a metamorphosis in terms of his own mech craftsmanship!

During all of this time, Ves had constantly gripped the handle of the Hammer of Brilliance.

Just as he was able to derive numerous new insights from the Chimera Project's masterwork translation, Vulcan was also watching the marvel of craftsmanship reach a more transcendent state.

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