The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4930

Master Benedict Cortez had gone through a similar journey as Ves. He had lived for over 150 years, and spent much of it struggling to progress his design philosophy and explore his way forward.

As a pioneer of his own field, he had to make a lot of difficult choices on how he wanted to allocate his time. No mech designer could spend his time on pursuing every possible application of their field of specialization.

Aside from monstrous outliers such as the Polymath, every other mech designer eventually had to give up on pursuing other ideas to the limit in order to make sure they retained the capital to break through.

Ves understood that the choice between Superpublishing the Dullahan Project or the Ghost Project indirectly affected his subsequent career.

"You are at the point in your life where you have started to move beyond the limitations of a Journeyman Mech Designer." Master Benedict accurately pointed out. "What are Journeymen in your opinion?"

"Journeymen are explorers." Ves replied according to his own views. "Mech designers at this level have set a rough research direction, but they still need to invent many distinctive design applications from scratch. Since it is difficult for Journeymen to know what is good or what is valued by customers, it is always recommended to travel around and try out a lot of stuff."

"That is a good perspective, Ves. You have succinctly described the essence of Journeyman Mech Designer. The key here is developing an initial recipe of successful design formulas that you believe in. It doesn't matter how you accomplish this initial goal. Journeymen such as your colleague Ketis knew exactly what she wanted to design as soon as she advanced to this rank. She has spent all of her time on furthering her ability to design swordsman mechs. You on the other hand have devoted much of your time to exploring much of the limitless possibilities of your own design philosophy. As a pioneer in your own field, your competitive pressure is different, so there is a logic to delving into multiple different design applications."

Ves slowly frowned as Master Benedict lectured to him. "Are you suggesting that I won't be able to explore so many research directions once I become a Senior?"

The older mech designer smiled and leaned back on his chair. "Before we speak about that, I think it is better for you to gain a greater understanding of what Senior Mech Designers actually are. There is much I cannot reveal to you yet no matter how close you are. What I can tell you is that Seniors only have one overarching priority: to realize their design philosophy and advance to Master Mech Designer. Nothing else can surpass this goal. As such, do you think that a Senior who dabbles in three different research directions can break through as easily as a Senior that dedicates all of his work hours on deepening their progress in a single branch of their design philosophy?"

Ves grimaced. "I understand your point. A Senior that devotes all of his time on further developing a single research application has a greater chance of advancing to Master within his remaining lifespan."

"Why the glum face, Ves?"

"It's just… I don't really want to be forced into giving up on other interesting ideas." Ves admitted to the Master. "I once received a lecture on how a mech designer could develop his design philosophy into differently shaped trees. You can either shape it into a thin tree that can grow really tall, or opt for a wide tree that happens to be a little short."

The fact of the matter was that Ves didn't want to make a choice. His greed was too great.

He just realized that he possessed a Superpublish Voucher in his Inventory. He had obtained it from the System a long time ago but always kept it in storage because he rarely utilized the normal Superpublish ability to begin with. He would have left it in the dark for many more years under ordinary circumstances, but the current situation just happened to be an excellent opportunity to take advantage of this possibility!

Ves still wasn't certain whether it was worthwhile for him to use up this precious voucher at this junction.

"You have obviously chosen to grow a wide tree with many different branches." The former Skull Architect observed. "And now you have come to a point in your career where you are reluctant to nurture a single branch at the cost of neglecting all of your other ones. This way, your wide tree will eventually transform into a misshapen tall tree as one branch grows higher than all of the other ones."

Ves nodded. "I know what I am like as a mech designer. I can never stick with spending all of my time on exploring just one narrow design application. I like to travel around, gain lots of inspiration from interesting discoveries and find a way to create new possibilities. Choosing to give all of that up just so that I can increase my chances of realizing my design philosophy goes against my nature."

"It sounds as if you have become so attached to your development strategy as a Journeyman that you want to persist with it at the Senior stage. That is uncommon but not completely unheard of in the mech industry. Mech designers that fall within this category do not enjoy a good reputation in the industry. Certain circles have taken to calling them infantiles and other pejorative terms. The meaning is that while a mech designer has grown to become a Senior, his mentality has not grown in accordance. Like children, they still get distracted by whatever catches their fancy. Their inability to follow priorities and focus on a single research direction means that their chances of advancing to Master is miniscule."

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Benedict studied Ves closely. "Are you feeling unreconciled?"

"I do, Master. It's just… my brain is telling me one thing while my heart is telling me another thing. I don't want to narrow my options."

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