The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4342

Ves continued to discuss and explore his vision with Venerable Jannzi.

It was crucial that he obtained her buy-in from the start of the Dullahan Project. Its importance to himself, his clan and Jannzi could not be overstated.

He recognized that after a long time since he last achieved any major progress in his design philosophy, he was finally progressing his core work in a proactive manner.

The fact that he did not have a good idea of the outcome of the Dullahan Project was a great sign that he was embarking on a new and innovative feature.

When he looked back at how he began his mech design career, he split up his progression into multiple different stages.

The first stage was when he began to dabble with the X-Factor after the System guided him towards this direction.

The second stage was when his mother introduced him to the possibilities of converting spiritual entities into design spirits.

The third stage was the gradual discovery and realization that living mechs went through qualitative transformations at specific thresholds, leading him to develop his so-called Larkinson's Orders of Life Theory.

All of these advancements were mainly rooted in spirituality, life and growth.

Some of it required active intervention and effort from Ves, but a lot of growth-oriented changes happened naturally over time.

Lately, Ves felt that his design philosophy became overly slanted towards growth.

While he was happy to see mechs grow stronger and evolve into third order living mechs after sufficient growth and accumulation, Ves didn't feel much accomplishment from this phenomenon because he didn't really get involved in the process.

Sure, he may have set up his living mechs to grow into strong and amazing life forms, but aside from getting involved in the beginning, he surrendered all of the initiative to time and nature.

It was too passive. Lack of control translated into lack of determination.

Ves thought back on how he struggled with an old philosophical struggle related to his approach towards progressing his design philosophy.

He viewed his range of options as a spectrum between two extremes.

The path of determinism was an aspiration to become more actively involved and exercise greater control over growth of his living mechs. It was an explicit attempt to reduce variance and minimize uncontrolled and undesirable outcomes.

Nurturing and influencing living mechs as they grew through different means allowed him to exercise a high amount of control on how they matured. It was similar to raising a kid.

The path of life sought to do the opposite. Rather than trying to control an inherently chaotic concept such as life, Ves embraced its incredible variance in the hopes of obtaining incredible results.

He did so by creating the seeds of life at the start before releasing them into the wild where they could grow and develop under different circumstances.

Ves understood the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. He did not want to commit to a single path at the cost of giving up all of the benefits of the other path. He believed that his design philosophy would become a lot simpler but also a lot less promising if he aimed for simplicity.

Generally, he tried his best to balance his progression between these two extremes. Perhaps he would never be able to explore the extreme limits of either path, but the combination between the two could yield incredible results as well.

The problem that Ves faced as of late was that his work over the last years veered increasingly more towards the path of life.

Ves felt as if he had increasingly turned into an architect that was solely responsible for designing a city.

Once it was built and once people started using the various buildings and facilities of his design, Ves no longer needed to do anything. Everything seemed to go on the right track and no one needed his help any further.

Was this the sort of mech designer that he aspired to become?

Not really.

It was too passive. A mech designer's job should never be done. There was always work to do. There were always ways to update and improve his existing designs.

If all he needed to do to realize the best living mechs was to set them up once, then what was the point of staying in his profession?

He might as well retire after that point!

Therefore, Ves was eager to find a way to shift his design philosophy back towards the path of determinism and exercise greater control over his own products.

While there was nothing wrong with allowing living mechs to grow by themselves without any further intervention, his responsibility as a mech designer demanded that he should find more ways to actively influence the growth process to achieve more optimal outcomes.

This at least enabled him to affect the growth pattern of specific mechs that he favored more than most.

Larkinson mechs and more specifically the high-ranking ones played a vital role to his clan and his own career.

It was more than worth it for him to spend more time on improving their growth conditions and preventing them from being weighed down by their undesirable baggage.

As far as the Shield of Samar was concerned, Ves slowly became convinced that its recent setback was not that big of a detriment anymore.

After all, the Shield of Samar went through six major revisions, several of which drastically changed the mech to the point that it was almost unrecognizable from its previous iterations.

Ves did not forget that the Shield of Samar was never meant to become a powerful masterwork expert mech.

It initially started out as a weak, commercial third-class standard mech!

Though Ves was incredibly proud at how he was able to elevate such a humble mech into one of the most powerful machines of the Larkinson Clan, he recognized that its spiritual evolution did not keep up with its physical transformations.

Ves had plenty of ways to upgrade the Shield of Samar's technology and physical components, but his ability to improve the spiritual design of the same mech was not as great.

That might change in the near future.

The Dullahan Project was a chance for Ves to cleanse the Shield of Samar of its impurities and acquire a deeper and more promising foundation.

His hope was that the Shield of Samar would not only be able to make up for what it had lost, but also progress further as if it had transformed into a rocket!

This might even be a way for Ves to push the evolution of a living mech to the next level!

What did this mean? It gave him the hope that the Shield of Samar may be the first to evolve into a fourth order living mech, a classification that only existed in his theories up to this point!

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