The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5082

Venerable Tusa arguably piloted the weakest expert mech of the Larkinson Army.

That did not discourage him at all. Instead, his lack of contributions in the last few battles spurred him on to work harder to develop ways to exceed his limitations.

This was how expert pilots were like.

Fortunately for Tusa, he made a lot of progress. He not only discovered that the Shadow Dance Dagger Style became a lot more effective with the addition of exotic radiation, but also found that his companion spirit could complement his actions!

Blackwing was an extension of himself. Imbuing him into a specific mech part enabled Tusa to resonate with it a lot more than before.

This was a trick that every expert pilot with a companion spirit had come to learn, but that was only a shallow method.

What truly enabled Tusa to draw out Blackwing's potential was when he performed a Shadow Dance!

The sight of the Dark Zephyr dancing in shadows was a show in itself. The expert light skirmisher's display of agility, finesse and charm seemed to conquer the power of heaven around the machine and cause the immediate area to become engulfed in a storm of shadow.

Ves could see that Venerable Tusa and his Dark Zephyr had actually come closest to forming a pseudo-domain akin to the Saint Kingdom of their betters!

By the time Venerable Tusa ended his demonstration and brought his expert mech back to his berth, the expert pilot looked proud.

"What do you think, Ves?"

"These new tricks of yours are certainly impressive, though they don't appear to be too relevant in battles against warships."

"I am still working on that angle." Tusa replied. "I have been working hard to develop a way for me to bypass the transphasic energy shields of enemy warships, but this is way harder and more complicated than anything else I have worked on. I am not even sure that I can pull it off at the expert pilot stage."

That sounded like an incredibly useful ability to have!

However, Ves did not dare to get his hopes up. The likelihood that Tusa would succeed was far too small. His judgment about needing to advance to ace pilot first was likely correct. Even then there was no guarantee that he could pull it off at that stage.

This was fine.

Venerable Tusa could develop a lot of other useful techniques to increase his effectiveness on the battlefield.

His current attainments showed that he had derived a lot of use out of the knowledge he learned from the enlightenment fruit.

He did not stop at mastering what he already learned. The expert pilot also displayed his ability to adapt and innovate by figuring out how to adapt his methods to mech combat and how to integrate Blackwing into his combat approach.

"Blackwing is kind of like a co-pilot in that sense." Venerable Tusa told Ves. "My companion spirit can carry a part of my power and has a mind of his own. He can allow me to put a lot of focus on a specific part of my mech and help me utilize it a lot better, especially in highly stressful moments when I cannot afford to get distracted."

He continued to explain how the addition of Blackwing made a positive difference in his fighting style.

"Thank you for explaining that." Ves said as he took in all of the information. "I think you will be able to do just fine. It is clear that the Shadow Dance holds greater potential. As long as you continue to explore and improve upon it, I think that you'll be able to make use of Blackwing in more powerful ways. For example, it may be possible for you to launch Blackwing at your enemies."

That immediately caused Venerable Tusa to come up with a new idea!

"Now that you mention it, I have never tried to attach Blackwing to the Dark Zephyr's transphasic grenades before. I should try it out next and see whether I can find a way to pass them through a transphasic energy shield. It will be a lot easier to bypass defenses with a small grenade as opposed to a full-sized mech!"

Once Ves concluded his meeting with Venerable Tusa, he met with a few other expert pilots such as Venerable Davia Stark and Venerable Brutus Wodin in order to see how they integrated their companion spirits in their own combat routines.

Their methods were fairly effective but also rudimentary. Each of them regularly sparred against each other, so they shared a lot of knowledge with each other.

However, it became clear that Venerable Tusa Billingsley-Larkinson and Venerable Isobel Kotin had taken a step ahead of the rest.

The knowledge granted by their enlightenment fruits enabled them to harness E energy radiation and other spiritual phenomena such as their companion spirits a lot more effectively than their peers!

Other expert pilots such as Venerable Joshua had little choice but to figure everything out from scratch.

Ves drew a number of conclusions from his latest investigation.

"First, our expert pilots and other mech pilots for that matter urgently need a cultivation method. Over time, they must also be able to learn applied cultivation techniques that are specific to their choice of weapons."

It was impossible for Ves to buy enlightenment fruits for so many mech pilots. He needed to find a more cost efficient way to increase the capabilities of so many soldiers.

Ves already had a few ideas on how to make that happen, but he wouldn't be able to realize any of them in the short term.

He focused on what he could do in a smaller time frame. After studying the interaction between companion spirits and expert mechs, Ves felt he figured out a way to increase their synergy.

"I can design a weapon or modify the mech so that it can specifically accommodate the companion spirit!"

It would be similar to how Sharpie empowered the Bloodsinger!

If Ves designed a new weapon or modified an existing one that was already being used to an expert mech, he could make it so that they overpowered to a degree never seen before!

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