The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4576

The probes were impressively designed. Master Benedict Cortez only spent a short amount of time on their design, but his deep understanding of engineering along with his amazing understanding of energy allowed him to whip up a device that reluctantly met all of the criteria.

The most important demand was that it could survive the hostile environment of the upper reaches of a brown dwarf star. The second most important demand was that it would remain as obscure and unnoticeable as possible.

Under normal circumstances, Master Benedict would have preferred to design the probes and each of their individual components from the ground up, but he had opted to license existing probe and component designs to save a lot of time.

Starting off with existing parts and frameworks also enabled Master Benedict to split up the workload among many different mech designers and engineers. As long as he supervised the work and made a final pass on each individual assignment, he was confident that the quality would be sufficient.

He ended up making surprisingly small and low-profile probes.

When Ves shuttled over to the Hemmington Cross in order to gawk at the probes as they were being fabricated, he still struggled to wrap his mind around their design.

He initially expected that the Crossers would be making probes with the volume of an armored footsoldier, but they ended up as thin and sleek cylinders that were only as long as his torso.

Ves had a growing affinity for metal, so he was instinctively able to sense that the cylindrical probes contained surprisingly little alloys. Much of their structure was made out of non-metallic composites that were as durable as Master Benedict could make them without increasing their mass and density by too much.

When Ves whipped out his old Vulcaneye and scanned one of the probes, he saw that his device took a bit of time to make its readings, and that it had difficulty defining a lot of parameters.

He believed that the probes would truly be able to do the job. Their ability to resist the hostile environment of a brown dwarf star while blending in the background was excellent.

"This is truly impressive work." Ves spoke as he did not hold back in his praise. "My clan and I would have never been able to develop probes that perform so well while maintaining such a low profile."

Master Benedict nodded in satisfaction. "You are good at coming up with new and highly unorthodox inventions, but the fundamentals are also important. By building up a greater understanding and mastery of fundamental human science and technology over several decades and many different mech design projects, we can create products of engineering the likes that normal people can never make. Since we have mastered the creation of mechs first, it is much easier for us to develop other devices with common elements. If you go far enough, you will eventually reach a point where the boundaries between mechs and other machines begin to blur."

Ves looked up at Master Benedict with a solemn expression. "Is that… how a Master Mech Designer evolves into a Star Designer?"

"Hehehe." The Cross Clan's head designer. "It is far more complicated than that. The gap between the two ranks is enormous. Star Designers are not simply Masters who have broadened their specialty from mechs to technology in general. They are reality engineers who have somehow gained the capability to access a deeper and more fundamental layer of the laws of nature. The transition from being a civilian who has to obey these laws to being an administrator that can alter the expression of those laws is… immense."

Though Ves really wanted to hear more about the older man's views on Star Designers, Master Benedict controlled himself and refrained from saying more.

The reason for that was understandable. A Journeyman wasn't supposed to worry about this at his current stage.

Ves wasn't an ordinary Journeyman, though. He strongly believed that his recent sublimation that had partially turned him into a design spirit unlocked a lot of limitations that normally hindered the evolution of humans.

When Ves compared himself to the Polymath, he estimated that the gap between the two was still enormous, but not as much as before.

He already recognized that he acquired a few traits that he spotted from the Polymath during their only meeting thus far. The magnitude was still great as Ves was just starting to develop these additional extraordinary traits. He was like a baby who needed to design a lot more mechs and flesh out his design philosophy to a greater degree before he could come close to reaching her level.

When Ves briefly studied Master Benedict from a spiritual perspective, he could clearly sense the man's blazing power radiating from his mind. He was like a miniature star that could shine its light across the whole galaxy and perhaps beyond.

Yet as much as Master Benedict had grown by leaps and bounds compared to when he was just a Senior, Ves had met many Masters who were much stronger and more impressive in this regard.

It was rather interesting to compare the spiritual signatures of Master Benedict Cortez, Master Carmin Olson, Master Moira Willix, Master Termaneo Dervidian and the Polymath.

He met enough Masters in person to build up an incomplete model of the progression of the upper half of the mech designer profession. _{freewёbnoνel.com}

Master Benedict had grown quickly over the past five years, but he was still at the beginning stages of his current phase in his career.

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