The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4854

Chapter 4854 Altered Weapons

There were a lot of possible explanations why Ves could work faster and more effectively than his fellow competitors.

The most obvious factor that enabled him to work so effectively was that he had augmented himself far beyond the level of a second-class Journeyman!

The sublimation that transformed his entire being and elevated all of his cognitive capabilities improved his productivity to the point where his performance started to match that of a first-class mech designer!

"What a rich bastard. Did he have to rub his superiority in everyone's faces? Why can't he move to an Upper Zone and take on mech designers of his own size? There is no need for him to show off in front of plebs like ourselves."

"You're just being jealous. Didn't you read his profile? He used to be a third-rater! For a mech designer from a third-rate state to rise to this point in less than two decades is nothing less than a miracle. Whether he has received help or not, you have to see that no other third-class mech designer is able to make so much use out of the opportunities that he has won. He's the definition of a self-made mech designer."

"I wonder how many mechers he has seduced to obtain so many MTA merits to augment himself to this point. I bet he is called the Devil Tongue for more reasons than the obvious..."

A lot of people had the mistaken impression that Ves had stuffed his body with advanced first-class augmentations. _{freewebnσvel.cѳm}

He wouldn't blame them if he heard their remarks. It was his remarkably high productivity that his wife wanted to catch up to him by acquiring her coveted 120 million MTA credits cranial implant!

Although 120 million MTA merits did not sound like an impossible figure to him anymore, in practice it was absolutely remarkable for any human to have that much MTA merits to spare!

Let alone second-raters, many first-raters never had the capability to earn so much in their lifetimes. They would have to settle with lesser cranial implants that weren't able to amplify their cognitive functions to the same degree.

It was rather ironic. Ves' cranial implant was originally an outdated CFA bioimplant that mainly granted him an insanely high amount of memory space.

Other than being able to dump a lot of digital junk inside its astonishing memory banks, it did not actually provide him with a lot of design-oriented conveniences during his work sessions.

Much of that changed during his recent sublimation. During the time he got hit with lots of inexplicable lightning strikes, his entire brain along with the integrated Archimedes Rubal bioimplant transformed in a direction deliberately established by Ves.

The Archimedes Rubal had evolved into a radically different product. It still retained its huge capacity to store a lot of data, but also received considerable enhancements to its processing power and other useful functions.

On top of that, his brain as a whole also transcended to a higher level, allowing him to perform mental calculations and make inferences far beyond the level of a baseline human.

Out of all of the mech designers taking part in this tournament, Ves was convinced that he was the furthest removed from normal humanity!

He normally had mixed feelings about distancing himself from humanity, but at this moment he fully embraced his transhuman advantages.

After going through much of the database of parts and materials, he had performed rapid comparisons and cost-benefit analyses before making the most optimal choices that best matched his vision.

There was nothing particularly special about most of the components and mech systems that he selected for his work. The database did not include anything too remarkable or exotic in isolation. This was likely an attempt to force the participating Journeymen to invest their time in building up their own custom solutions that could grant their competition mechs unique advantages that could not be duplicated by their rivals.

Some mech designers invested their precious design time into formulating better alloy formulas for the armor systems of their mech designs.

Other mech designers sought to increase the mobility of their works by enhancing their legs or mech engine.

Ves spent much of his time on selecting multiple different weapon systems and upgrading them with the help of his considerable expertise.

He did not start from scratch for the most part. There was nothing wrong with taking an existing weapon system and altering their design in order to quickly squeeze out extra power.

The greater challenge was to integrate them into the frame of the hybrid mech as seamlessly as possible. That was absolutely not a simple task.

He started with the easiest weapon module, which was the shoulder-mounted missile launchers.

The extensive rulebook of the tournament heavily restricted the use of missiles and other explosive weapons.

This made sense as the tournament organizers did not want the matches to devolve into a race of which side was able to saturate the enemy positions with as many explosive missiles as possible!

A lot more competition mechs would look like missile launchers on legs if not for this rule!

Ves still went through with adding a pair of small and relatively compact missile launchers because he had no intention of filling them up with explosive munitions.

Instead, he borrowed a page out of some of his previous works and designed these missile launchers to carry a number of utility warheads.

The database offered a selection of EMP missiles, smoke missiles, sensor-boosting missiles and more.

They weren't as useful as they sounded. Ves scrunched his face as he read through the specifications of these utility missiles. Their performance was incredibly weak and could only mildly inconvenience opposing mechs at best.

"Hm. I'm not surprised."

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