The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4978

The Ghost Project was on the cusp of completion.

Ves, Gloriana and Master Benedict Cortez had carried most of the weight and put all of their prior experiences and insights to good use. Compared to what they imagined a few weeks before, the estimated combat effectiveness of the actual product had most definitely increased by a considerable margin!

While the newbies consisting of Miles Tovar and Cormaunt Hempkamp hardly contributed to the fabrication of the mech, their modest involvement already granted them unimaginable gains at their stage in their career.

Witnessing several excellent mech designers in action, working on a mech that was way more powerful than they could ever design by themselves and more importantly getting exposed to Ves' domain and design philosophy more directly had given them a much better understanding of the life that could be buried inside a mech!

The two mech designers had already distanced themselves from the nearly completed expert mech. They had already completed their tasks and sticking around would do nothing except get in people's way.

Their expressions displayed a mixture of awe and confusion as the two Journeymen no longer possessed a clear grasp of what was taking place.

"Ves… has gone completely off the rails this time." Miles softly spoke as his exhaustion at staying awake for five straight days became evident. "Everything started out normal, but once our patriarch activated his glow, our work quickly deviated from the plan. Now, I do not think anyone except for our boss himself knows what will happen next."

The much more recently recruited mech designer standing next to the former member of Tovar Family looked a lot more hopeful.

"The patriarch knows what he is doing. When we were still connected to the design network, we could all feel his overflowing confidence and certainty. Sure, even he might not be able to predict the outcome of his methods, but he just knows that he is working in the right direction. I believe the Ghost Project will end up just as powerful as the Dullahan Project if not more. He is a Senior now. He's a lot more capable than a two weeks before."

There was a clear delineation between Journeymen and Seniors in the mech industry.

It was not unheard of for outliers such as Ves to exhibit design ability that far exceeded that of his peers when he was just a Journeymen, but Seniors still possessed advantages that more junior professionals lacked.

What would happen once this exceptional Journeyman advanced to Senior?

Would Ves lose much of the advantages that made him so great?

No!

Ves would retain his strengths, and even take a few more steps forward due to becoming a Senior with a much stronger foundation and set of design solutions!

This was the way that mech designers were like. Early advantages led to even greater capabilities as they advanced!

It was not without reason why the mech industry paid so much attention to rising stars.

As long as they managed to retain their excellence and persist in their hard work, which was anything but certain, they were bound to become leaders in their own fields!

Miles Tovar started off as a third-class mech designer from the Bright Republic, so his understanding of the mech industry was not as good as that of his colleague. _{ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com}

As a genuine second-class mech designer who worked for several large mech companies in the past, Cormaunt understood a lot better that there was no Journeyman or Senior that was anything like his patriarch!

Just the act of producing a glow and turning the entire workshop into a pseudo-domain was straight out of a fantasy drama!

If that was not the template of a future overlord in the mech industry, then Cormaunt did not know what else Ves needed to do in order to prove his excellence!

?α?dαsηθνε| It was a great blessing and opportunity for mech designers such as Miles and Cormaunt to work for such a generational star.

The benefits they harvested this time were unimaginably valuable.

What about next time?

As long as they kept working for Ves, they were bound to get better at their jobs purely by osmosis!

However, it was also a curse for them to work for such an incredible genius. Their self-esteem took continuous hits as they constantly recognized their inadequacy when they compared themselves to Ves.

Anyone who worked in the Design Department for a few months would soon lose their confidence in their ability to excel. They would adopt a more subservient mindset and always let Ves take the lead.

This had happened to every promising Journeyman that Ves recruited over the years. From Sara Voiken to the most recent Beatrice Hendrix, each of these talented mech designers had consciously and unconsciously lost their arrogance and greater ambitions due to working in the Larkinson Clan.

The only Journeyman in the Design Department that remained immune to this effect was Glorian Wodin-Larkinson.

She refused to admit that she was inferior to Ves in any way despite her rationality telling her so. Her arrogance and conceit often made her come across as unpleasant to others, but they were also her greatest support.

Narcissists were often maligned by society, but they were also the source of many brilliant advances throughout history!

Much of what allowed improbable events to happen was to possess enough confidence and motivation to pursue unlikely goals.

Nothing would happen if everyone acted cautiously and conservatively, but people like Ves and Gloriana were both built differently somehow.

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