The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4235

Integrating the Rage of Ayef gem into the Mars made an enormous difference to the Golden Skull Alliance.

The ARCEUS System of the Mars was already considerably powerful due to its extremely high specifications and the fact that it integrated 650 grams of phasewater in total.

The designers of the Mars would have to make far too many sacrifices in order to increase the firepower of the Mars by just 5 or 10 percent.

Yet after successfully installing a single gem in the ace mech, its firepower truly increased by 50 percent without any side effects!

During a few short but highly impactful testing sessions, Master Benedict's jaw dropped so many times that it should have been dislocated by now! The Master Mech Designer simply couldn't explain how such an unassuming object could produce such a massive difference!

"This doesn't make any sense!" He roared as he studied the incoming telemetry and sensor readings. "The ARCEUS System isn't consuming any additional power! Its efficiency hasn't increased. All of its parts are exactly the same. The Magma Vein System and the Endex System are both operating exactly as before. Heat levels have remained within normal parameters. How can the output of all nine integrated energy weapon modules increase by a factor of 0.5?! There isn't even any variance in the amplification factor between the different hardpoints! The tiny energy weapons mounted on the head of the Mars have been boosted by the exact same proportion as the main energy weapon module mounted in the middle of the chest!"

Perhaps a younger and less accomplished mech designer may have been ignorant and flexible enough to accept the changes without asking any critical questions, but Master Mech Designers were different.

Their understanding of mechs had reached an insanely high level, and it was because of their strong ability to comprehend their mechanisms that they could not handle these situations well.

It would have been one thing if Ves brought out an alien device salvaged from an alien ruin or a product of high technology that he had redeemed from the MTA.

At least there was a solid technological basis that Master Benedict could eventually deconstruct and reverse engineer.

This was different!

The gem was not only as small as a thumbnail, but also did not contain any obvious presence of mechanical components, advanced circuitry or pocket dimensions that could be hiding an enormous machine.

It was just a gem!

Ves looked at the increasingly more unhinged Master with evident amusement. Even people at this level could still be stumped by unexplainable phenomena.

"Don't bother yourself too much over my gems. You need to possess a certain kind of expertise in numerous obscure fields before you can unlock the truth about them. As good as you are at designing mechs, I doubt you have been able to master every field of science like the Polymath."

In fact, Ves doubted whether the Polymath was up to the task of cracking the secret behind Lucky's gems, but he did not need to mention that little detail.

Master Benedict eventually closed his eyes and sighed. "You are correct. I suppose you know better since you hold them in your possession. I am still curious about them. Are you open to trading one of them to me? I will owe you another favor."

"No thanks." Ves shook his head. "It's not easy for me to get my hands on them. If it wasn't for the risk factors of Operation Saturday Market, I wouldn't have chosen to offer one of them to you guys."

In fact, a part of him even regretted the decision to allow Patriarch Reginald to choose his own gem.

Though the Rage of Ayef gem undoubtedly matched well the Mars, the problem was that its compatibility with the Promethea was even higher! _{ƒгeewebnovёl.com}

The fire-oriented expert rifleman mech placed an even greater emphasis on energy attacks. It did not have any good offensive solutions aside from relying on its luminar crystal rifle and flamethrowers to defeat its opponents.

The Mars was a much more rounded mech in comparison. Though the ARCEUS System was its bread and butter, it possessed so many other options to beat up its opponents such as its transphasic axe and its powerful shotgun.

Given how the design of the Mars was stuffed with so many powerful transphasic mech systems, Ves would have chosen to integrate it with the Tear of Nerys gem that could directly increase their overall performance by 25 percent across the board!

Ves did not actually regret the current outcome, though. If the origin or the 'character' of the gem also played a hidden role in how it functioned, then it obviously made sense to match an aggressive gem with an aggressive mech pilot!

Besides, the Tear of Nerys gem was also powerful in its own right. It was not a bad choice to reserve it for the moment he was able to develop another 'phasewater supermech' comparable to the Mars for his own clan in the future!

After confirming that the Rage of Ayef gem did what it was supposed to do, Ves no longer paid attention to the Cross Clan and went back to handling his own affairs.

Time continued to pass until all of the primary fleet elements of the Golden Skull Alliance and the Hex Army gathered together in an empty star system.

At this location, they were only one FTL transition away from entering the Pima Prime System.

If they wanted to, the combined assault fleet could still change course and head to other, more vulnerable star systems.

Rotes Cewma and New Rammes remained attractive choices, but the attackers could also opt to attack many other core colonies within the Friday Colonies if they wished.

Still, most of those choices weren't port systems, which meant that it took a lot more time to reach those targets.

If all of the starships chose to travel to Pima Prime at this junction, then that was the equivalent of crossing the Rubicon.

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