The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3500

Chapter 3500: Light a Fire

When Ketis proposed Bravo as the design spirit for their current mech design, Ves initially thought she was joking.

Then he thought she wanted to minimize the influence of a design spirit on their work as much as possible.

Now, he began to see that his assumptions or rather prejudices about Bravo were mostly inaccurate.

He still recalled the process of creating this spiritual product for a custom mech called the Adonis Colossus a long time ago. He just wanted to form a macho design spirit that fully complimented a macho mech.

Of course, Ves hadn't been entirely earnest when he brought Bravo into existence. He not only implanted his own exaggerated ideas about masculinity in Bravo's design, but also threw in Gloriana's notions about 'men' into the mix!

For a long time, Ves labeled Bravo as a vainglorious design spirit that only had a limited purpose. While he entertained several ideas on integrating him into several possible mech designs, he had yet to realize any of them up until this point.

Now that he finally made use of Bravo in earnest, he found that there was a surprising amount of depth to the design spirit.

Where did all of these facets come from? Ves did not remember putting in all of these extra dimensions in one of his simpler design spirits.

"Did Bravo develop like this with the help of his connection to Vincent Ricklin?" He briefly wondered.

That was absurd! Vincent was a dunce as far as he could tell. Even if the man managed to become an expert candidate, he was still an idiot who obsessed way too much about protecting his manhood than his clan!

Ves suspected that he was missing a part of the story here. Either he put a lot more into Bravo's creation than he thought or the design spirit went through a unique experience that caused it to grow in an unexpected direction.

Regardless, Ves was pleasantly surprised by the unexpected positive traits that Bravo brought to the table.

What impressed him the most was the more benign form of competitive drive that Bravo was able to evoke.

"Now that I think about it, Bravo is always competitive by nature."

The whole point about emphasizing masculinity was to prove one's superiority over other peers. Contests just happened to be all about that. There was no better design spirit than Bravo when it came to amping up the need to perform better than any other competitor!

Though Ves was able to tell that Bravo also possessed all of its original traits that he was not enamored with, it was easy enough to manipulate how the entity was expressed in a mech design.

A mech design could channel a design spirit in its entirety or make use of a filter to block out certain elements.

Ves had already implemented this solution in three out of four of his Four Aspects of Lufa.

The Aspect of Tranquility conveyed Lufa's glow in its entirety while the Aspects of Healing, Rationality and Transcendence all channeled the angelic design spirit's glow through different filters.

This was how Ves was able to come up with three extra substantially-different glows from the same design spirit!

Though Ves saw no reason to make heavy use of this new capability in his previous mech designs, this time was different.

Bravo might possess a few more favorable traits than expected but he was still a mixed bag at best. Yet as long as he had redeeming factors, Ves could still work with that. He just had to block the way of Bravo's less desirable traits so that only his virtues came through.

As the hours went by, the effect this made on the mech design became increasingly more obvious.

Though most of the audience still didn't notice anything, Ves and Ketis could already feel that Bravo was exerting a significantly positive influence on the mech.

Though Bravo still didn't instill any special abilities such as Ylvaine's prediction abilities, neither of the two mech designers minded that. Just the way that this influence was able to stimulate the desire to win to any mech pilot was already a valuable ability in itself!

The addition of Bravo helped shape and strengthen the three main themes of their swordsman mech design.

The first theme revolved around swordsmanship. Ketis was mainly in charge of this aspect as she had extensively analyzed and deconstructed Lyain Kepper's sword style.

She not only gave Lyain tips on how to fix his flaws and bad habits, she also taught him a couple of new techniques. The mech pilot was avidly training them even now while his mech was slowly coming together.

"Normally, a swordsman who isn't training in an existing sword style should be relying on his own efforts to develop his own fighting approach." She explained to Ves. "That is a process that can take years or decades, though. We don't have the time to wait until Lyain has found his stride. We can quickly boost his combat effectiveness by guiding his swordsmanship."

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