When Ves asked Tifi Coslone to bestow an official name to her Splitter Project, she paused for a few seconds.
"To be honest, I haven't actually come up with a good name for my work."
That sounded interesting. A mech designer and particularly a Journeyman was never indecisive when it came to their work. Tifi poured several months worth of effort into the Splitter Project. How could she still be stuck at this juncture?
"What's the problem?"
"All of the ones that I came up with contains words that are overused. Think of Berserker, Viking, Shieldbreaker and so on. While they can fit any axeman mech, I don't think they can do justice to the Splitter Project. It deserves to carry a more unique name due to its power and its glow."
Ves looked thoughtful as he considered various possible names.
Tifi's good bosom friend spoke up at this time.
"If I may make a suggestion, how about calling it the Redaxe?" Janassa suggested.
Everyone looked up at the dormant axeman mech. As a mech destined to become one of the mainstays of the Avatars of Myth, it came in the Larkinson Clan's iconic gold coating.
However, Tifi chose to make the mech's appearance stand out by coating the blade of its large axe in a bright red shade. This caused the total package to offer a contrast that gave the mech a more threatening vibe, especially when it was deployed alongside the more gentle-looking Bright Warrior!
"Redaxe… sounds acceptable. If Commander Melkor is okay with it, then I let it be known by this name." Tifi eventually said.
"Great!" Ves grinned. "The Redaxe will be sure to become a prominent presence in our armed forces once the Avatars are able to field it in greater numbers. For now, you need to be patient as we still don't have room for all of our new mech models."
After wrapping up all of the necessary administrative steps for the new Redaxe model, Ves moved on to the final two mechs in the workshop.
He had saved the best for last.
Although models such as the Light Hunter and the Transcendent Charger all had their good points, they were within the range of what he expected.
In each of the projects they surveyed today, Ves had become involved just so that he could make them alive. This added extra value to the mech designs, but they weren't necessarily better than what he could have designed by himself.
Sure, his design philosophy made it difficult to match the defenses designed by Sara or the advantages of other mech designers, but his work possessed its own charm, as evidenced by his Stingripper light harasser mech model!
The only products that he was not certain about matching were the ones designed by his former student Ketis.
Compared to ordinary Journeymen, the Swordmaiden mech designer was able to leverage her swordmaster capabilities to her advantage during the design process!
This was a massive advantage as it was almost equivalent to two different mech designers working on the same mech design project!
"No. This description isn't accurate enough." Ves shook his head.
The two mech designers actually possessed different but related specialties! They just happened to synergize so well with each other that the mech design would definitely possess strength beyond what even a talented Journeyman like Jovy Armalon could accomplish!
The only way that Ves could compete against such an absurdly powerful approach was to tie design spirits in his products. Without borrowing help from external parties, Ves wasn't sure whether his base design solutions were enough to achieve parity with Ketis' revolutionary new techniques!
While Ves tried to guess whether he was still the best mech designer in the Larkinson Clan, the woman he was thinking about proudly stepped forward.
Though Ketis wore a typical lab coat that mech designers usually wore while they designed their mechs, she was anything but a typical intellectual like the rest of them. The large and menacing-looking greatsword that obediently followed her from behind showed that she wasn't hesitant about eliminating her problems in a more direct fashion!
A part of him felt incredibly proud. Though he wasn't her first mentor, he was still her teacher in a sense. He also gave her the advantages that she needed to bloom into one of the most remarkable mech designers to have emerged in recent times.
Just the fact that she was able to pursue two extraordinary professions at once meant that she had great potential!
However, the more he recognized her formidable design prowess, the more he felt threatened by her rise.
Even though she had yet to introduce her first two proper solo mech designs, Ves could already tell that both of them were exceptional in their own ways.
Ketis was still lacking in experience! She had only advanced to Journeyman relatively recently. Although she had participated in the design of numerous Larkinson expert mechs, she hadn't been able to flex her full design capabilities due to the need to collaborate with many other colleagues.
This wasn't the case anymore. Both the Monster Slayer Project and the First Sword Project were completely under control.
Ves wasn't involved in them because Ketis was able to make her mech designs alive in her own unique way!
Was it detrimental to him and his clan if Ketis surpassed every Larkinson mech designer? fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
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