The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3572

Chapter 3572 Dial Controller

Well, it wasn't everyday that Ves had to negotiate with a mech. The Quint was his own creation, even.

Though Ves could have employed more coercive means to get the Quint to cooperate, that would just piss the masterwork mech off. It was already valuable enough that Ves needed to be more considerate of its wants and needs. Now that he wanted to turn it into a design spirit, he had even more reason to treat it with respect!

With the agreement of the Quint, Ves fully proceeded to complete the Enlightened Warrior design. After swapping out its old galaxy rim-level parts for Red Ocean heartland-level parts, the entire mech performed a bit more powerful in almost every aspect.

Offense, defense and mobility all scored better across the board. The Enlightened Warrior only had two significant shortcomings.

First, the Enlightened Warrior did not benefit from the specialties of the other Journeymen in the Larkinson Clan.

It did not benefit from Gloriana's optimization, Ketis' sword enhancements, Juliet's mobility boosts, Pellier and Coslone's physical strengthening or Sara Voiken's defensive hardening.

These were serious shortcomings that meant that his Enlightened Warrior model would become even less attractive as a commercial product.

"I'll just have to drop the price by 20 percent or so in order to make it on par with other comparative mech models." Ves shrugged.

Price adjustments were the best and most convenient way to manipulate the popularity and sales volume of any product. Ves was even prepared to suffer a small loss just to make sure that enough third party mech pilots turned into his test subjects.

"That will be my real profit, hehe!" He grinned.

Dropping the price never failed to move inventory. Even if his products were much shoddier than now, there were always suckers that couldn't resist buying a mech that was sold far below its apparent worth.

As for whether those buyers possessed the expertise to understand why the Enlightened Warrior was not able to command a higher price, that was none of Ves' business.

He did not even plan to disclose that the Enlightened Warriors were truly able to help mech pilots break through. Though its users would quickly realize that there was something special about the model, unless a lot of mech pilots broke through in quick succession, no one would believe that Ves had managed to turn the impossible into the possible.

And if this opportunity also came with certain unanticipated or undesirable side effects? Too bad. Everything had a price. Even cheaper products exacted their toll on their buyers one way or another.

"Well, let's proceed with finalizing the design."

He had almost entirely shut himself off to everyone in order to rush this design to completion. Gloriana had already stopped talking to him once she recognized he was in one of those obsessive moods again.

Though she was clearly upset with him, she was a mech designer as well. She fully understood when mech designers were struck by inspiration, they would not easily stop what they were doing.

As the expeditionary fleet almost reached the Pellysa System where it intended to stay for a while in order to sell off much of the plunder taken from the Titania, Ves was putting the finishing touches on his variant design.

Just like his other recent designs, the Enlightened Warrior centered around three major themes.

In the earlier stages of the design process, Ves placed a lot of emphasis on compatibility and tutelage. These focus areas comprised the basic functionality of his Enlightened Warrior design. They were the reason why it existed.

"That's not enough, though."

The reason why the Enlightened Warrior was called that way was because Ves hoped that it could increase the chance of mech pilots breaking through.

The mechanism that he wanted to use for that was to employ a weakened version of the glow of the Aspect of Transcendence.

It was easy enough to put Lufa in as a secondary design spirit for the Enlightened Warrior, though the Quint had to make a bit of room to accommodate the guest.

Ves didn't encounter any challenges in tuning Lufa's glow so that it suppressed everything except for the mech pilot's greatest obsessions and convictions. This was already enough to turn the Enlightened Warrior into a mech that was capable of inducing breakthroughs.

"It's too strong, though."

Even if Lufa only arrived at a later stage and only occupied a relatively small portion of the design, his altered glow was already quite powerful!

"Probably too powerful!"

Ves had to dampen it so that it did not produce any unintended messes in the cockpits of his Enlightened Warriors. His customers certainly wouldn't be happy if the glow based on the Aspect of Transcendence blasted his heads apart!

Forget about his customers, the MTA would definitely intervene if it turned out that his mechs were lethal to his own users! With the Simile Halifax constantly monitoring everything that went on inside the Spirit of Bentheim, there was no way he could shift responsibility!

"I wonder what Jovy thinks about my work." Ves deliberately said aloud.

He didn't worry too much about the MTA understanding the true nature of the Enlightened Warrior. Jovy and his staff could watch all they want, but the spiritual design of his latest project was only visible to himself.

That reminded him of something. The MTA Journeyman never got back to him on his offer.

"What's taking him so long?"

Ves thought that his offer was fairly simple and that Jovy should be pouncing on this opportunity.

Evidently, he underestimated the decision making process surrounding this issue.

He turned his attention back to his almost-complete mech design.

The issue he was trying to decide upon was how he should set the strength of Lufa's transcendence glow.

If he made it too strong, then Ves was afraid of inducing severe distortions to the personalities of users of his new variant. The Enlightened Warrior didn't necessarily have to explode any heads to constitute a threat to its own users!

Yet if he made the glow too weak, then what was the point of including it in the first place? Ves seriously doubted that it would make any difference if it was this weak.

The stupidity of mech pilots knew no bounds. Despite their training and despite their courage, they were not known for making the most rational or optimal decisions. Ves could already envision them turning it to the maximum even when their mental conditions were unable to cope with the pressure. _{frёeωebɳovel.com}

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