The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4696

It turned out that the best craftsman working under the roof of the so-called Enlightened Church of Vulcan originated from the dwarven state that Ves had created and destroyed at his own hand.

There was a profound sense of irony in this confluence of events.

Ves thought that his meeting with the Iron Emperor was the last time he ever dealt with the radicalized and misguided members of the only true dwarven state to have existed in human space up to this point.

Of course, the legacy of the Vulcan Empire still haunted him to a degree.

He had most certainly caught the news about the ambitious dwarven ruler's attempt to gather the dwarven diaspora.

Vulcan even played a key role in furthering Rion Aaden's great ambition towards dwarvenkind.

Ves did not think that a strong-willed and visionary dwarf would go through all of this effort just to increase the voice of heavy gravity variant humans!

However, even if the Iron Emperor rejected the status quo and tried to implement a master plan that would most certainly shake the rest of human society, what did it have to do with Ves?

As soon as he completed the commission to make a fancy crown for the driven dwarf, Ves shed all responsibility for what happened next!

Human space was immense. The chances of encountering each other was next to nil unless either of them deliberately sought each other out, which shouldn't happen.

Ves had no desire to reunite with the Iron Emperor, while the former ruler of the Vulcan Empire sounded like he was having a good time hobnobbing with first-class dwarves.

Yet by making this assumption, Ves had made a huge oversight.

He treated the Iron Emperor as the only significant survivor to have made it out of the Vulcan Empire after its collapse.

That was a gross oversimplification as millions if not billions of citizens of that doomed state managed to hop into a ship and evacuate from the Smiling Samual Star Sector.

Most of the Vulcanites should have probably dispersed. Even if they had any desire to reunite with each other, they should have answered the call of the Iron Emperor and flocked to one of his dwarven refuges.

What was a Vulcanite like Master Blacksmith Rogha Dunnerhold doing in Davute and in the headquarters of the Creation Association no less?!

"The man toured our facility before we converted it to a church and insisted on being inducted in our organization." Director Samandra Avikon softly said to Ves as they both watched the craftsman at work. "He made this decision as soon as he studied the totems we put on display."

"Did he tell you why he wanted to be here so badly?" Ves whispered back.

"The man declined to offer too much clarification. He only shared that he was a Vulcanite and that he had always adhered to the traditional Vulcan Faith in the decades he was alive. After working with us for a longer time, we gradually learned more details about him. You can be assured that he does not pose a threat to you and us. His faith in Vulcan is as strong as ever, though he is confused how Vulcan and you tie together. One of the urges that drove him to come all of the way here was to seek clarification about the relationship between you and the god he has always worshiped. He will immediately question you as soon as he completes his current work session."

Ves wanted to groan. "Great. This could go quite badly, do you know that? If I don't satisfy this dwarf, we may potentially lose a fantastic master blacksmith and one who appears to be the closest to replicating effective totems for the Creation Association."

"I have faith that you will be able to navigate your fateful talk with Dunnerholm with great skill and benevolence.."

"Thank you for your completely useless vote of confidence."

It looked as if it would take a while for the dwarven artisan to complete his work for this session. He transmitted a message to his wife to inform her that he might take a bit of time before he returned. If the kids got bored of the church, Gloriana might as well take them out and explore the other venues in the bustling Commercial District.

After he had taken this step, he settled in for a lengthy wait.

Though he specialized in mechs, Ves appreciated all forms of sincere craftsmanship.

Master blacksmiths distinguished themselves from ordinary ones by their great skill, experience, creativity and philosophy.

Although these highly skilled and renowned creators might not employ any spiritual shenanigans to create works that transcended the average, that made them more impressive in his eyes.

It showed that individuals did not need to be Master Mech Designers or anything similar to it in order to create masterworks.

For all that mech designers transformed the industrial landscape of human civilization, their increasingly more transhuman traits also caused much of humanity's technological innovation to go askew.

The ability of high-ranking mech designers to create works that bent or distorted the laws of reality could not easily be explained through pure science, and that turned them into troublesome engineers.

One of the biggest foundations of human science was that their theories could be tested and that their inventions could be reproduced!

If either of these actions couldn't be performed, then it was extremely difficult for mech designers to advance the state of human technology to a significant degree.

Only at the Master Mech Designer stage could mech designers gain the possibility to deconstruct the scientific principles behind their amazing work.

That didn't mean it happened all of the time. The more difficult and convoluted the innovation, the more a mech designer had to depend on ingenuity and hard work in order to turn their work into systemic improvements!

Mech designers and other craftsmen followed two different trajectories. The former may have been able to help human civilization advance its technology by considerable leaps, but the latter also served a vital role to human society.

The persisting encroachment of industrialization and automation constantly tried to make human artisans extinct entirely, but fortunately there were still enough people who appreciated traditional craftsmanship.

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