The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4061

Chapter 4061 Untested System

Ves did not actually have to invest much time in order to set up his ambitious Mental Simulation Training System.

Vulcan had already begun to use his formidable expertise and capabilities to build it up from scratch. By borrowing Ves' expertise as well as the knowledge that he had absorbed from his growing number of 'associates', the spiritual incarnation achieved incredible progress in a short amount of time.

In fact, Vulcan's ability to construct the MSTS was so impressive that Ves even contemplated the possibility of outsourcing future work assignments to his incarnation!

The difference in productivity between the two was too great. Ves was still bound by mortal limitations while Vulcan was much less constrained in this sense.

Of course, Vulcan was not capable of replacing Ves entirely.

The design spirit did not have direct access to a design seed, so he was unable to fully replicate the performance of a mech designer, especially the higher-ranking ones with unique design philosophies.

Ves' hopes of imitating the strengths of rational mech designers by emulating other design philosophies were dashed.

What Ves did manage to find out was that Vulcan could still function like an assisting design team on his own! While the spiritual entity was not good at some assignments, he was pretty good in many other aspects!

"This is interesting." Ves rubbed his smooth-shaven chin as he thought about the implications of this accidental discovery. "Why didn't I think about this possibility before? I can single-handedly increase my productivity by as much as half or more by off-loading the more tedious design tasks to Vulcan!"

The increasing amount of design projects that he committed to working on became a lot more manageable all of a sudden once Vulcan came into the picture!

It was as if Ves suddenly remembered that he had a spare design team as well as a supercomputer laying around in his backyard!

The thought that he had access to all of this extra capacity but forgot about using any of it until recently made him feel as if he was stupid!

"You dummy!" Ves admonished himself and slapped his forehead for good measure!

Fortunately, it wasn't too late to begin with utilizing Vulcan if only to avoid wasting the available capacity.

Right now, Vulcan was still investing most of his attention on completing the MSTS, so Ves was not yet able to assign any mech design-related assignments to his incarnation. He would surely do so once the Tutor Project was finally complete in every aspect.

Whenever Ves paid attention to his other self's progress, he noted that Vulcan already developed a high amount of competence in spiritual engineering. This was what the design spirit excelled at because he was a spiritual entity himself.

Ves saw new possibilities in Vulcan because of this reason.

If his incarnation was good enough to develop something as innovative, complicated and ambitious as the MSTS, then Vulcan would surely be clever enough to work on other advanced spiritual engineering projects!

"Maybe I should have let you design the Death Lotus instead of me!" Ves muttered.

Vulcan had one big flaw, though. His domain was based on the spiritual attributes of dwarfs, mechs and craftsmanship. He also incorporated a tiny amount of high-grade metal attribute, but hadn't evolved to the point where he could freely make use of this element.

Nonetheless, for all of Vulcan's strengths, he lacked the life attribute that enabled Ves to make all of his products alive.

This meant that Vulcan could not take over all of Ves' work entirely. Both of them needed to work together to maximize the potential of their own creations.

"Oh well. This is already good enough."

Time continued to pass as Vulcan fleshed out the MSTS. Over time, he also brought in the Quint as well as Helena to the spiritual engineering project in order to properly incorporate their respective contributions to the simulation program.

The Quint's reaction to this initiative was rather interesting.

When Ves first brought up the topic to his colorful masterwork mech, the evolved machine's eyes flashed with excitement.

"THIS WILL BE FUN, HAHA!" The speakers that the Quint gained access to had boomed. Ves had already provided his most valuable and most developed living mechs extra privileges in order to keep them happy. "AS LONG AS YOU GIVE ME CONTROL OVER THE ACTIONS AND BEHAVIOR OF THE 'NPC' MECHS, I WILL MAKE SURE THAT THOSE CUTE MECH CADETS WILL LEARN HOW TO HANDLE THEMSELVES IN BATTLE."

Ves directed a suspicious glance towards his mech. "I can give you the freedom to construct your own battle scenarios based on the fights that you have participated in as well as whatever you managed to obtain from other sources, but they will not be the only simulations that the users of my Tutor Project can utilize. Some of them are younger and need to work on their basics, so it is not appropriate to throw them off into the deep end right away. The NPCs in these simpler battle scenarios need to be dumbed down as well in order to give the younger mech cadets a decent chance at defeating them with their inferior piloting skills."

"...FINE. I WILL DO MY PART IN ACCELERATING THEIR IMPROVEMENT AND TEACH THEM THE LESSONS THEY NEED TO IMPROVE THEIR SKILLS."

Ves feared that the main reason the Quint wanted to put in all of this effort was so that it wouldn't take as much time for the mech cadets to qualify for the more advanced battle scenarios that his crooked mech had in mind!

Oh well. No matter the Quint's motivations, as long as the users of the Tutor Project improved faster and became more competent in battle, it didn't really matter. Ves just hoped that the living mech would have a sense of measure and avoid torturing the immature mech pilots too much.

After hashing everything out between the participating design spirits and coordinating their respective contributions to this great spiritual engineering endeavor, the MSTS finally reached a state where its basic functions were all complete.

It became a lot more difficult to develop the spiritual software program any further than that. Vulcan might be a lot more competent in spiritual engineering than Ves initially thought, but even he was reaching his limits in working so long on something without testing its actual performance all this time.

"We need more data! We can't go on without seeing how it actually functions in its current state!"

This put Ves in a difficult position. As promising and revolutionary as it sounded, the MSTS was a highly experimental spiritual construct that was anything but safe.

Who knew what happened if the test pilot of a prototype version of the Tutor Project started to engage this function?

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