The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4891

Chapter 4891 Object 431

"Why did you call me over, Ves?" Venerable Jannzi asked as soon as she entered the private workshop. "As far as I know, you are still many months away from completing the reborn expert mech that you have promised. If this is another one of your attempts to convince me to pilot a stopgap mech, then forget about it. The Shield of Samar is the only mech in my life."

"It's not that." Ves called as he continued to put the finishing touches on his latest experimental work. "I need your help in testing a new defensive concept that I recently came up with. It is rather complicated and unconventional, but if it works the way I anticipate, I can add a powerful new defensive tool to your upcoming expert mech."

"Won't this cause its completion to be delayed?"

Ves paused his work and turned to face the newly arrived expert pilot. "The progress of the Dullahan Project is not entirely dependent on the workload. It is also affected by other factors such as my personal motivation and passion. You've been with me for a long time. I am sure you have learned how I operate. In short, the more enthusiastic I am about a design project, the more productive I become. My latest experiment here is the latest product of my passion. As long as it is viable, I will become so happy that I can get stuff done 50 percent faster than normal."

Jannzi continued to stare at him with puzzlement in her eyes.

"...I can understand that people tend to work harder if they are happier, but I never heard of anyone boast they can complete a mech design in half the time."

Ves snorted. "You're a protector, not a creator, Jannzi. You don't understand how creators such as myself work. Much of the work related to mech design consists of solving a million different design problems. If I can come up with all of the answers as soon as I have grasped the details of those problems, I won't need a year to complete a complex project. I can complete a high-quality mech design within a month. Reality is not so easy, however. It can take days if not weeks for me to solve the most difficult design problems. One of the most effective ways I can speed that up is to improve my mood and put myself in a better state of mind. You would be surprised how much more productive I become when I work at my peak."

This was how his Hammer of Brilliance worked whenever he whacked it on a person's head. The false inspired state it was able to induce on mech designers and artisans supercharged his mind and massively reduced the difficulty of solving all of those design problems!

The female expert pilot gave up on questioning the validity of Ves' claims and simply took him at his word. He may be a reckless bastard who made crazy decisions every now and then, but he unquestionably knew what he was doing when it came to mechs.

He was a mech designer after all.

"So what is it that you need me to do?" Venerable Jannzi turned her attention back to the matter at hand.

"Give me a few seconds to finish this up. It is a bit big and heavy, but it can't be helped."

Once Ves had completed his last remaining task, he lifted up the item he had been working on and placed it upright onto the floor of the workshop.

The tower shield produced a large thump when its bottom side collided onto a surface. Its appearance immediately caused Venerable Jannzi to freeze as she sensed that there was a connection between herself and the piece of equipment.

Her heart throbbed as a few long-forgotten associations came to the forefront of her mind.

"You... made it out of the materials of my Sammie?"

"Only partially." Ves admitted. "The exterior layers of this shield consist of salvaged first-class alloys. It is what I have placed inside that is important. I designed and created over a dozen discrete pieces of Unending alloy and put them into the center of this tower shield in an array. I believe what you are sensing right now is an echo of the true resonance that you used to produce when you interfaced with your old expert mech. The Shield of Samar may be gone, but its remains still contain a trace of its existence."

He never really paid too much attention to this, but it became extremely obvious now that Ves had been studying the primordial human bones for a while now. The broken pieces of debris of the expert space knight had yet to be cleansed by the power of time!

Jannzi stepped closer and reached out to touch the front surface of the power shield. It featured an odd metallic chromatic facing that made it look as if she was looking at a prop for a fantastical drama show.

"What is this? What am I supposed to do with this? Don't tell me you plan to make a bigger version of this ridiculous shield for my new expert mech!"

"Hey, please hear me out before you pass any judgment! I swear it will be useful to you! Think about it, Jannzi. You lost your precious Shield of Samar after you got beaten by the Skorpion Kommando."

The expert pilot immediately scowled. The mere mention of that hated Fridayman high-tier expert mech triggered her trauma!

"Are you telling me that it was my fault that I lost against that mech?!"

"Calm down, Jannzi! I am not passing judgment on your skills. I am sure you did your best and all! The circumstances weren't ideal back then, and one of the greatest shortcomings was that the defensive power of your Shield of Samar wasn't adequate enough to resist the phasewater-infused acid released by the Skorpion Kommando. This is a problem relating to the configuration of your expert mech. While we cannot change the past, we can make sure that a tragedy like this will never happen in the future. This is why I am working hard to develop an experimental new physical shield for your upcoming expert mech that should be able to resist a lot more attacks."

His explanation along with his earnest tone caused Venerable Jannzi to put away her irritation and consider his idea more seriously.

"If you have a fancy new idea for a tower shield for my mech, why don't you fabricate one that is scaled for a mech?"

"It's really expensive." He told her. "This is a piece of equipment that is tailor made for you and only you. None of our other expert mechs are defensive in nature. They are completely unsuited to carry a tower shield, and even if they do, their pilots won't be able to interface with it properly. Forget about all of that. Right now, I need you to keep this scale reproduction around your person and spend a few hours every day trying to resonate with it and make it do all kinds of different stuff."

"I can't resonate with equipment without interfacing with an expert mech, did you forget that already, Ves? I am not a swordmaster like Ketis who can resonate with any sword I hold in my hands."

"I'm not that stupid. I know what you can and cannot do. What you have just described is valid as long as we are talking about true resonance. My upcoming Rainbow Shield doesn't contain any resonating exotics. Instead, the Unending alloy that I plan to integrate inside its structure will serve as prime materials that can enable you to generate prime resonance."

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