The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5143

Ves looked forward to the visit of an envoy of the Red Association.

The mechers were incredibly busy nowadays, but they had nonetheless confirmed that an inspector was about to drop by the Corellix System to verify the results of the battle and issue a hefty reward for saving the nearby colony settlement.

According to the rules of the game that the Red Two had set, the Golden Skull Alliance was already assured of receiving a huge reward. Being granted a billion MTA merits was not out of the question, but that was not the extent of the boons.

In order to muster more enthusiasm for volunteering to defend human space, the Red Association had also started to hand out other rewards.

From granting limited access to its restricted tech library to other privileges such as promoting one's citizenship tier, the mechers were willing to be uncharacteristically more generous so long as pioneers lifted a weight off their backs!

Although a lot of people would probably greet this development with greater enthusiasm and optimism, Ves had mixed feelings about this recent turn of events.

He was well acquainted with the Mech Trade Association's greed and profit-seeking behavior. The mechers might present themselves as the traditional 'good guys', but they sought to take advantage of every transaction.

For them to begin handing out rewards like candy indicated that the mechers no longer believed in their own ability to resist the incoming tide of aliens.

The Red Two's warfleets were already being pressed to their limits, and the native aliens had yet to bring over the bulk of the warships stationed in the more distant parts of the dwarf galaxy.

Ves recalled that traversing the stars by relying on indigenous warp drives was ten times slower than doing the same with the use of FTL drives.

All of this meant that unless the aliens started to equip their starships with human-style FTL drives en masse, it would probably take years if not a decade for all of those slowpokes to arrive at the edge of the Red Ocean that red humanity claimed.

However, once all of those slow but powerful warships finally arrived, the true test for the isolated red humans would commence!

Realizing this future trend put all of the recent decisions made by the Red Two into perspective. From introducing the Warship Quota Program to fortifying as many border systems as possible, all of these measures were meant to buy time and activate the greater potential of the human race!

Ves had the illusion that a giant clock hung over red humanity's space. The more the time ran down, the closer that everyone came to facing the true native alien offensive! _{freewebnσvel.cѳm}

Not only would they have to resist at least ten times as many warships as now, but there was also a significant chance that phase whales and phase lords might actually enter the field themselves!

Red humanity only had a limited amount of buffer time to gear up and prepare for a crisis that would affect every corner of human-occupied space!

Ves grew concerned about the approximate timing of it all. He had only recently advanced to Senior and still needed to accrue a huge amount of accumulation before he was even remotely qualified to advance to Master.

He had no idea how long that would take. It was unlikely that he could get it done in roughly a decade. The jump from Journeyman to Senior was only a practice run for the true challenge of trying to realize a design philosophy.

"There's a real chance that I will remain stuck as a Senior by the time the true onslaught begins." He guessed.

That was bad news for him on a personal level. The right to speak of a Master was much greater than that of a Senior. It also became a lot easier for him to proliferate his design philosophy and superior solutions. The Red Association might even take the initiative to propagate his innovations if the mechers deem that his work could make a substantial material difference in future battles!

He would miss much of that if he did not make sufficient progress during the coming decade or two. Unless he replicated the Polymath's famous speedrun, there was no way he could become capable enough to have a serious say in how red humanity resisted the war.

Even though Ves had a lot of faith in the power and the potential of living mechs in an age where cultivation made a resurgence, people needed widespread solutions that were effective right away instead of in a distant tomorrow where they may have already become extinct!

"I need to speed up my progress somehow." He concluded.

This might very well turn into a matter of life and death to him. It became clear that following the usual mech designer trajectory was no longer an option for him. It usually took at least half a century to advance by relying on steady accumulation and boring research, and that was in the best case scenario.

If he wanted to make faster progress, then he needed to break the pattern. He already had a pretty good suspicion that delving more into cultivation science and combining it with his mech designs might be a way to accelerate his progress, but he was not too sure whether it could make a substantial enough difference.

The Mech Designer System was another tool that could help him advance to Master within twenty years.

In fact, it had already played a crucial role in enabling him to become a Senior so quickly!

He needed to put more effort into completing its Missions. He disliked a lot of them for making odd demands or forcing him to go through difficult or time-consuming ordeals, but he really needed to get his hands on more Ascension Points so that he could redeem precious enlightenment fruits.

He still yearned to take a bite out of the juicy fruit that contained the Divine Blacksmith Records!

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