The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4168

Chapter 4168 Deep Exchange

Although Cormaunt Hempkamp only conducted a single experiment, the results exceeded Ves' expectations!

It was one thing to accelerate the training of a rookie mech pilot and speed up his familiarization process with a specific mech.

It was another thing entirely to achieve the same effect on a veteran mech pilot!

Ves had read the profile of the Ylvainan mech pilot carefully and understood that while the fellow did not possess excellent talent, he made up for it with diligence and devotion.

The mech pilots of the Eye of Ylvaine had always stood out for their dedication to their holy service, but the test subject who volunteered for this test had already mastered the Transcendent Punisher to a high degree.

Common sense dictated that it took a disproportionate amount of time and effort to achieve further incremental improvements. Ves had already been certain that the pilot had approached his skill ceiling!

Were his assumptions wrong, or did Hempkamp's mysterious procedure involving an add-on to the Transcendent Punisher's neural interface open up a possibility that did not exist before!

As Ves accessed the data logs and studied the numbers and graphs, he tried to determine what exactly happened.

By comparing the data from the two separate practice runs, one conducted before the procedure and one conducted afterwards, Ves was able to compare the results of both.

Since the two simulated battle scenarios were almost identical to each other, Ves easily picked up a lot of clues by looking at where the data sets contrasted with each other.

His first preliminary conclusion was that the biggest area of improvement was the skill of the mech pilot.

The Ylvainan soldier had somehow broken through the ceiling that he had never been able to surpass until today.

Indicators such as hit rate, target prediction, tracking accuracy and so on had all improved by a small but significant degree.

These were aspects that were notoriously difficult to improve in leaps and bounds!

To the vast majority of mech pilots, it took weeks, months and even years of training to achieve measurable improvement in these areas once they already attained enough proficiency!

"There's more."

As Ves studied the data further, he noticed that the mech pilot improved in many other areas as well. These concerned areas that were a lot subtler, to the point where many mech pilots didn't even know they could manipulate these areas!

For example, he noticed that the Ylvainan mech pilot had become a bit better at juggling the energy management of his mech.

As a heavy artillery mech, the Transcendent Punisher was both massive and powerful, but that also meant that it needed to be fed with a lot of energy!

It was anything but simple to supply the right amount of energy to the right part at the same time.

What made this factor even more complicated was that all of the activity also generated a lot of heat. No matter how many heatsinks the heavy mech possessed, its heavy positron cannons generated so much waste heat when it was firing at maximum capacity that the machine practically turned into an oven!

Therefore, every mech pilot assigned to the Transcendent Punisher had to learn how to manage its energy consumption and heat buildup while at the same time keeping its damage output as high as possible.

While Ves knew enough about the Transcendent Punisher to know how to best juggle all of these changing variables, he was not a mech pilot so it was impossible for him to demonstrate what he could accomplish in the cockpit.

The mech pilots assigned to the Transcendent Punisher did not know any of the science or the exact tolerances of every part or system, so their ability to control their mech to such a fine degree was limited.

Until now.

When Ves swept his gaze away from the data, he came up with an answer that explained much of why the performance of the Ylvainan mech pilot had improved so rapidly.

"The test subject understands how the Transcendent Punisher works on a much more profound level, is that correct?" _{freeweɓnøvel.com}

Hempkamp grinned and nodded. "That is one of the changes that my process has produced. Much more has taken place than that. This is because my procedure is much more profound than what is apparent on the surface. Look at how much better the mech pilot is able to get along with his machine."

Ves turned and observed the mech pilot. Even as the test had come to an end, the Ylvainan pilot was not in a hurry to leave the cockpit.

The man remained in his seat but closed his eyes and concentrated towards his mech.

He was actively communing with his machine outside of a man-machine connection!

While it was theoretically possible for any mech pilot to interact with a living mech, in practice the two had to be quite close. The mech in question also had to experience a lot of growth before it was capable of reaching out on an independent basis.

For both the mech pilot and the mech to reach this level of intimacy and mutual understanding was remarkable!

The degree of synergy between them had approached the level of a pairing between an expert pilot and expert mech!

Ves grew a lot more interested at what exactly Hempkamp managed to do with his odd addition to the Transcendent Punisher.

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