The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3455

Chapter 3455: An Inevitable Choice

When Ves chose to design a lancer mech for the High Tide Tournament, he knew he would be riding a powerful shuttle that was barely under control.

If he made just a single mistake, his ride could instantly crash into a structure!

"I certainly haven't made things easy for myself." He muttered.

However, the added pressure on his shoulders motivated him to work harder. He became determined to turn his unusual interpretation for a competition mech into a success!

This was not an easy task. Lancer mechs possessed clear strengths but also a number of very obvious shortcomings.

Aside from their difficulty to nail down fast and elusive light mechs, their fighting style was also too monotonous. They usually weren't good at anything else outside of launching devastating charges.

The main reason for that was because of the configuration of their mech frames. Due to all of the armoring, cushioning and compensation systems loaded onto their physical forms, there was hardly any space for design elements that increased their agility, their reaction speeds and other traits relevant to close-ranged brawling.

What this meant in practice was that lancer mechs usually got their butts kicked by offensive mechs such as light skirmishers, swordsman mechs or spearman mechs!

As long as the opposition was able to dodge or mitigate a charge, their superior dueling capabilities allowed them to quickly dismantle a lumbering lancer mech that had lost its momentum!

For these reasons, Ves was very clear about the win condition of his lancer mech.

"First, it has to hit its opponent. Second, it has to make sure this hit is damaging enough to finish the deed."

If he specialized in designing lancer mechs, he could probably implement numerous clever systems and solutions that could straightforwardly improve these aspects.

The big problem he faced at the moment was that he didn't possess any relevant technological advantages that could amplify the performance of a lancer mech!

Ves never really minded this absence before, but ever since he worked alongside Ketis, he understood how powerful a relevant specialty could strengthen a mech design in so many ways.

Ves was certain his competitors were in the process of translating their advantages into mech designs with increased battle power, so Ves could not remain behind!

"The solution is to leverage my own specialty into a more effective mech design."

He already planned to do so by turning his lancer mech into a living machine that should interface a lot better with its mech pilot. Yet Ves found it difficult to imagine that these added features could deliver a significant boost in effective performance.

He knew quite well that the greatest advantage of living mechs was that they grew over time and adapted themselves better to their mech pilots. All of this required months or years of continuous use, something which was obviously impossible to realize in a mech design tournament that only lasted a single day!

Ves had to leverage his design philosophy in a different way in order to provide his competition mech with an immediate combat boost.

"I have to implement the right glow." He concluded.

Aside from making a third order living mech, which was virtually impossible for him to do in this challenging setting, only glows were able to make the difference.

The support of the right design spirit not only helped put the mech pilot into a better mindset, but could manipulate various other variables that could shift the course of a battle.

Ves briefly ran his thoughts through all of his available design spirits.

The most obvious option would be to employ the Superior Mother. The Valkyrie Redeemer already proved that it was able to make good use of the female ancestral spirit's death aspect.

Yet was it truly the best solution in this context?

He had serious doubts about that. On one hand, the mech pilots in the Red Ocean shouldn't be familiar with his glows. When subjected to a new and sudden mental influence, they should definitely become affected, enough for a lancer mech to take advantage of a short opening!

However, there were two reasons why Ves did not have much confidence that this would work this time.

"The mech pilots employed by a company as powerful as Hysphalin Industries shouldn't be too shabby. Their mental resilience might not match up against the military mech pilots of powerful states, but they shouldn't be much worse."

Any negative mental pressure could already impose a significant burden to their performance, but frankly speaking Ves was not sure if it was enough to make a crucial difference.

Rather than gambling on his competition mech's ability to mess with the mind of an opponent, Ves would rather resort to the more reliable option of boosting the performance of his own mech pilot.

As long as the pilot trusted the lancer mech, then he or she would surely fight more effectively.

Ves just had to pick the right glow for this situation.

First, he ruled out the Golden Cat. Technically, he could convince her to temporarily help out a stranger, but it was not the best use of her capabilities. She worked so much better with other Larkinson mech pilots.

More generic design spirits such as the Solemn Guardian, Qilanxo, the Illustrious One or Bravo weren't suitable either. Each of them were quite helpful in their own ways, but none of them provided any solid and concrete benefits to lancer mechs.

Part of this was because the glow of his competition mech wouldn't be that strong. Though Ves had improved his ability to design living mechs by a lot since he initially broke through to Journeymen, there was only so much he could do for a mech that he had to rush to completion in just 12 hours.

The spiritual foundation of such a hastily-developed mech simply couldn't match up against a project that Ves had been working on for several months.

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