The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4980

Ves came up with the concept of an Ascension Path after getting inspired by recent events.

?α?dαsηθνε| To be more precise, the source of inspiration that enabled him to connect the right theories and assumptions together was the Kingdom of Mechs!

Ves had become incredibly fascinated by it ever since he learned of its existence and a part of its mechanisms in his most recent visit to the MTA.

One of the more amazing capabilities of the Kingdom of Mechs was how they granted all humans the possibility to ascend to higher existences in two highly defined advancement trajectories.

Any mech pilot could work towards becoming a god pilot by unconsciously following the trajectory set by the Kingdom of Mechs.

Any mech designer could work towards becoming a Star Designer by doing the same!

This was extremely remarkable and an incredible gift to humanity when Ves thought about it. An age where humanity did not have access to the Kingdom of Mechs would definitely be a lot worse!

This was because outside of a small group of talented and knowledgeable people, it was impossible for common humans to ever ascend to the level of a True God!

Compared to an age where the power of ascension was monopolized by the Five Scrolls Compact and its splinter organizations, humanity benefited a lot more if billions more individuals set off on one of the two advancement trajectories opened up by the Kingdom of Mechs!

It reminded him of the System's new expansion. It had gone from a pure Mech Designer System to a weird hybrid where it also sought to facilitate his own Spiritual Ascension!

Without this recent change, Ves would have no chance of sublimating himself and creating Veronica!

All of this taught Ves that systematic evolution was much more effective and efficient than randomly groping in the dark!

Ves only had to look at the contemporary state of traditional swordsmanship in order to notice the difference.

While the mech community had become more prosperous than ever due to the assistance provided by the Kingdom of Mechs, the swordmasters of the Heavensword Association found it impossible to go any further!

The Heavensword may be an extremely powerful artifact and a suspected grand work, but even it was not built to carry forth the complete inheritance of traditional swordsmanship.

At most, it could only convert a single swordmaster into a sword saint by force.

When Ves looked at these examples, he concluded that if he wanted a specific population to grow stronger in an easier, more systematic and more universal manner, then he needed to create a brand-new spiritual framework that any qualified candidate could follow to the end!

While Ves was not arrogant enough to create a third advancement trajectory for the human race, it was a different story when it came to living mechs.

"I am the progenitor of living mechs." He told himself. "I brought them into existence. While other mech designers may reluctantly be able to turn their works into first order living mechs by turning them into masterworks, I am the only one who can design or make second order and third order living mechs."

There was no one else who understood living mechs better than Ves!

If Master Willix couldn't do it, Ves did not believe that anyone else could match or exceed him in this capacity, at least so long as he did not realize his design philosophy!

The story might be different once he made his design philosophy available to the entire mech community through the Kingdom of Mechs, but that did not erase his enormous head-start.

Ves possessed a lot of confidence in his ability to further develop the power and evolution parameters of living mechs.

His next idea that he wanted to apply to the Ghost Project was rather simple but incredibly ambitious.

He wanted to become the mech designer to impart living mechs with advancement trajectories that were suitable to their nature!

If the Progenitors of Mechs had been able to pull off a similar feat, why not Ves?

Sure, Ves was nowhere near as powerful or knowledgeable in spiritual engineering as the founders of the Age of Mechs, but there was no need for him to wait until he became a Star Designer!

He only needed a sufficiently strong living mech and at least one cooperative design spirit to put all of the pieces into place.

"There is not much point in meddling with the evolution of first order and second order living mechs. They are still too young and rudimentary to do anything special."

They were akin to human babies or teenagers. Perhaps they could develop minor powers if they specialized a lot, but it simply wasn't worthwhile at these stages.

Once a living mech reached the third order, they essentially turned into adolescents that were ready to choose their own jobs.

An Ascension Path was simply a combination of a study programme as well as a career plan.

Just like how mech designers started off their journey to become a Star Designer by attending a mech design university, a living mech could set off on its own Ascension Path from the moment they reached the third order!

While it was all well and good to come up with this idea in theory, it was a little more complicated to put it in practice.

Ves frowned for a moment. "Let's see. I can choose from at least two possible approaches. I can either set a common Ascension Path that is either associated with a specific design spirit or a mech design, or I can set a custom Ascension Path for an individual living mech."

The first of the two possible approaches were more applicable for mass production models.

The latter approach was clearly more suitable for a high-value product like the Ghost Project!

There was no question that Ves should impart the Ghost Project with a unique Ascension Path.

"Let's begin."

Ves made contact with the design spirits of the Ghost Project.

When he designed the expert stealth mech, he had decided early on to connect it to three different spiritual entities.

Kalo, the Ghost Chameleon, was the natural design spirit for every stealth-oriented expert mech!

Although Ves had only used this design spirit to make his Buzzy Bee model a lot less noticeable on the battlefield, Kalo could play a powerful role in dampening the spiritual fluctuations of the powerful expert mech.

As Ves quietly communicated and cooperated with Kalo, he slowly built up the foundation of the Ghost Project's Ascension Path.

"Since a stealth mech relies first and foremost on remaining as undetected as possible, this Ascension Path must continually provide the Ghost Project with easily accessible means to improve its ability to hide itself against different adversaries and in different environments."

Kalo was the dominant design spirit of the Ghost Project, so the Ascension Path was largely themed around the Ghost Chameleon's intrinsic spiritual attributes and abilities.

Since the Ascension Path was technically a plan and not a powerful tool that could force the Ghost Project to grow into a much more formidable living mech right away, there was no need for Ves to inject it with lots of energy or add too much definition to the abilities.

He only needed to add a lot of details to the beginning of the plan. This was enough to set an initial evolution structure that could successfully elevate the Ghost Project from level 1 to level 5.

It would be up to Kalo along with the Ghost Project to figure out how to realize the plan step by step after this level. Both of them would have plenty of time to flesh out the Ascension Path.

Ves expected this to be difficult for all third order living mechs in the short and medium term. It was only until the design spirits accrued more experience and understanding that they would be able to complete much of their associated Ascension Paths by themselves!

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