The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3745

Chapter 3745 - Heads and Tails

Ves designed a few more coins.

He also reimagined the purpose, uses and definition of the lark coins.

"They have become more than straightforward methods of payment."

He readily admitted that he had gone overboard and turned the coins into a full-blown side project that didn't need to be this complicated.

In a modern society, almost all transactions were virtual. Coins and other forms of payment such as bills, jewels, raw ore and cattle were all cumbersome and outdated. They were rightfully phased out of daily use due to their inconveniences and inefficiencies.

Nonetheless, coins still played a symbolic and ceremonial role in modern societies. Not just humans, but also aliens tended to make use of physical tokens of payment.

They made money more real to people. Being able to touch them, carry them and pile them up evoked all kinds of emotions.

Without coins or bills, money was just a number to many people. It was far too easy for individuals who lacked financial literacy to squander all of their savings, go way too deep into debt or fall for all kinds of unrealistic investment scams.

Having a physical anchor to remind people of what money was truly worth could do wonders in grounding their monetary sensibilities.

What Ves came up with went beyond this purpose. The coin concepts he developed in an hour were all alive and vivid in a way that no other coin could match.

That was valuable enough alone.

Their connection to greater existences and the possibility that they could grow in the future all added a lot of mystique to the objects.

After puzzling over the concept and design of the most expensive tier of coins, he finally settled on using the masterwork mechs of the Larkinson Clan as their basis.

He developed a total of five coin concepts, each of which stood for a different masterwork mech.

The Quint Coin, the Amaranto Coin, the Shield of Samar Coin, the Everchanger Coin and the Minerva Coin were all exactly what their names suggested.

Each of the sketches that he had made depicted different large, palm-sized coins with different faces.

Their front sides all depicted the contours and outline of the five masterwork mechs that were currently in service in the clan.

He found that it was a bit too awkward to fit the entire mechs into a circle, so he had cut the images of the mechs down to show off their heads and torsos.

Fortunately, the upper half of the mechs each looked distinctive enough that people would easily be able to tell the difference.

Ves was briefly tempted to color the images in different shades, but he found that the coins became too tacky. To him, coins still needed to convey a sense of dignity and timelessness in order for them to earn people's appreciation over the long-term. Making them too colorful would just turn them into a fad that would inevitably fall out of fashion.

Still, despite being limited to using shapes and lines to differentiate his coins, he was proud of the draft designs he whipped up. They were sure to impress many people as long as he fleshed them out and infused them with more life.

After staring at his projected drafts for a while, he wanted to obtain a second opinion.

"Lucky? Oh, I just forgot. You went with my wife."

Fortunately, he could still call on two more cats.

"Bygul!"

[Mew!]

The personification of the Spirit of Bentheim's AI core physically projected into view. The blue electronic cat brushed his form against Ves' side before studying the coin designs.

"What do you think about my coin designs?"

[Mew mew.]

Ves didn't really expect a serious answer from Bygul. The AI was not sentient and was incapable of experiencing irrational feelings.

"Blinky!"

Mrow!

A second cat emerged from his head. The purple companion spirit briefly glanced at Bygul in disdain before looked up at the various coins under development.

As a spiritual cat, Blinky was able to sense the hint of life from the sketches.

Mrow mrow mrow.

"Yeah I know the masterwork mech coins aren't worth 1000 MTA credits. This is why I have planned to compress the coin denominations. Anyway, the lark currency is even out yet, so we can easily change its exchange rate without anyone losing money."

Blinky hovered close to the smallest Golden Cat Coin sketch and tried to lick the projection.

Mrow!

"Its value may be low, but that doesn't matter. It's only for internal use."

The companion spirit lingered in front of the Golden Cat Coin for a moment before he surveyed the other draft designs.

The masterwork mech coins particularly attracted his attention. It was quite odd to base the coins on machines all of a sudden, but Ves had already proved with the Enlightened Warrior that not only his masterwork mechs, but any living mech could be used in the same roles as a design spirit.

The issue was that most of his living mechs simply weren't powerful enough to make that worthwhile. Only his third-order living mechs that had gained an impressive level of strength came close to matching the strength and capabilities of his traditional design spirits.

Mrow mrow mrow!

"Huh? That might actually be a good idea. Let me try and see whether it can work."

Blinky, despite being another part of himself, possessed an independent personality, so the cat occasionally noticed details or came up with ideas that were different from himself.

This gave the coin a substantially different meaning and appearance! _{freewēbnoveℓ.com}

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