The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4983

The creation of the Phobos was a major accomplishment for the Larkinson Clan!

The new third order living mech was by far the most powerful masterwork expert mech in the clan's current mech roster.

Even though the Amaranto, the Everchanger and the Minerva had proven their worth in combat on many occasions, their illustrious battle records could not compensate for the harsh reality that their tech and material standards had fallen behind the times.

While the Phobos was admittedly not as strong in direct combat as the aforementioned masterwork expert mechs, he did not need to be. His powerful active stealth system along with all of his spiritual advancements enabled him to defeat powerful opponents before they had any chance to retaliate!

This was enough to acknowledge the Phobos as the masterwork that best reflected Ves' current strengths as a mech designer!

The Larkinson Clan would have praised the creation of the impressive expert stealth mech if not for the fact that the Phobos was supposed to be a clandestine asset!

The majority of clansmen did not even receive any notification of this impressive addition. They still thought that the Mars was the latest masterwork mech that Ves and Gloriana jointly fabricated.

However, it was pretty much impossible to hide such a massive development in certain well-informed circles.

Davute, the Friday Coalition, the Hexadric Hegemony, the Mech Trade Association and who knew what else already learned that the Larkinson Clan not only completed its long-awaited Ghost Project, but also attained a much better end result!

The implications of this were frightening.

There simply weren't a lot of expert stealth mechs in human space. The mech community considered them to be a rarity because most of the pilots assigned to this mech type simply did not possess the qualities of a demigod.

Venerable Zimro Belson was a rare exception to this pattern, and thus granted the Larkinson Clan an extremely potent weapon that far too many other parties lacked!

No matter whether they were Davutans or Fridaymen, many people who understood the ramifications of an expert stealth mech began to raise the threat level of the Larkinson Clan to a higher degree!

The most frightening aspect about the Larkinson Clan was not that it could muster up a lot of powerful mechs and raid another planet like Pima Prime, but that it could quietly eliminate a lot of enemies without leaving behind any trace!

No traces meant no proof.

No proof meant that the Larkinson Clan could essentially get away with a lot of dirty deeds!

Even if the Larkinsons built up a well-deserved reputation for honor and uprightness, no one was naive enough that it employed stealth mechs just to serve as sneaky scout units.

With so many rumors flying around, it was impossible for the Larkinson Clan to refute all of the stories.

In fact, it was more beneficial for the Larkinsons if other people knew that their chances of suffering retaliation became much higher!

Still, Ves was not entirely comfortable with exposing the existence of the Phobos before he had even completed his first serious mission.

He would have preferred to keep his new expert stealth mech hidden and use the element of surprise to utterly crush a powerful but complacent adversary!

"Oh well."

A day after the fabrication run had ended, Ves reluctantly applied to the MTA to inspect his latest masterwork mech and issue another batch of masterwork certificates.

He did not really care too much about collecting his eighth masterwork certificate, but he understood that it was a life-changing accomplishment for Miles Tovar and Cormaunt Hempkamp to receive their first award of this kind!

"I'm not sure whether the MTA will recognize their contributions, though." Ves furrowed his brows. "Their involvement in the previous fabrication run was not that much to begin with, and my insistence on taking over a greater portion of their assigned work makes them look even worse."

Miles and Cormaunt still benefited enormously even if the mechers did not award them with masterwork certificates in the end.

This was because the experience of contributing to the creation of a masterwork mech was already incomparably precious!

The subsequent masterwork transformation also granted the two Journeymen a lot of new insights and inspiration. They should make a lot of gains in their work after they digested all of the observations they made!

The same applied to Ves. The spiritual foundation of the Phobos was strong and highly developed despite being born just a day ago! No other living mech could have matched the latest expert mech on this front just after their own creation!

The only exception was the Dullahan Project, but that was a special case. The expert space knight not only inherited a substantial amount of power from the Shield of Samar, but also formed a Blood Pact with Venerable Jannzi, enabling the both of them to facilitate each other's growth!

"The Phobos has a lot of secrets."

He felt deeply uncomfortable about displaying it to the mechers. He knew from past instances that they would bring a small troop of mech designers and engineers so that they could meticulously examine and record a new masterwork mech from top to bottom.

Ves still did not exactly know why the MTA put such a high emphasis on masterwork mechs, but he had already formed a lot of possible guesses.

"Well, the MTA will find a way to examine it one way or another, so I might as well invite them and get this over with as soon as possible."

The Phobos was currently in his weakest and most rudimentary state, and Ves intended to keep him that way for the time being.

This way, the mechers would only be able to record the expert stealth mech's properties when he had only formed a single rune corresponding to the Path of the Hidden Stalker.

Ves had already studied the Phobos extensively enough to conclude that the new expert mech only needed to experience a small amount of growth to form his second 'rune'!

"If this was a roleplaying game, then the second rune corresponds to reaching the second stage of an evolutionary process."

It was similar to how the mech community divided expert pilots into low-tier, mid-tier and high-tier buckets.

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