The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5549

Chapter 5549 The Master Gambler

Once Ves announced everything that he wanted to convey to the public, he finally made way for his first challenger.

There were no official rules for challenge matches as they were informal by nature.

However, they happened often enough during the Age of Mechs for mech designers to formulate a set of customs. _{ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm}

In any public challenge matches, the mech designer that issued the challenge deserved to enjoy his own moment in the spotlight.

Lights began to shine onto four distinct second-class mechs that had just entered the expansive arena grounds!

The Nelerat Mark I proudly flew forward. Each of them primarily functioned as rifleman mechs, but their arsenal and their notable defenses made them look as solid as heavy artillery mechs!

Their most distinctive feature was their excess armor. Unlike other rifleman mechs that generally eschewed armor in favor of mobility, the Nelerat Mark I had taken the opposite approach.

Not only was its frame thicker and more heavily armored than usual, but it also carried additional modular armor that made it looked as if the mechs had turned into industrial mechs all of a sudden.

"Deployable armor." Ves accurately identified.

The rifleman mechs weren't supposed to haul all of this heavy and bulky armor all of the time.

If they ever deployed with all of this additional cargo, they were meant to find a favorable firing location and deploy their excess armor into a small defensive cover that could resist quite a number of attacks.

Even though the Nelerat Mark I carried a lot of excess armor plating, none of them looked particularly expensive. They were all made of fairly cheaper materials that could easily be bought in bulk.

Ves bet that Master Kreshnik resorted to hyper technology to amplify the defensive strength of the deploying armor. That was the only way for this arrangement to make sense.

Another aspect of the Nelerat Mark I that attracted his gaze was the weapons loadout of this rifleman mech.

Instead of arming it with a large cannon, Master Kreshnik instead chose to equip his defensive rifleman mech with two identical gauss rifles.

Ves had to scratch his head at this design choice. It was not a decision that he would have picked as it was quite difficult for mech pilots to handle two external rifles at the same time.

There had to be a clever rationale behind this deliberate design choice, but Ves was unable to figure it out at the moment. He would have to wait until the match commenced before the truth would become clear.

The Nelerat Mark I possessed many other nuances that spoke of thoughtful and deliberate design. Ves gained a much better sense of Master Aulaus Kreshnik as a mech designer.

Much like other first-class mech designers, Master Kresnik preferred to calculate as many possible solutions as possible.

The Nelerat Mark I looked as if Master Kresnik had utilized his cranial implant and all of the processors he could muster from the Red Ocean branch of Pritchard & Terse to calculate and optimize as many aspects of this mech as possible!

That explained why Master Kresnik was so confident in his work.

Large megacorporations such as SKL Mech Industries most certainly had more design teams and processing power at their disposal, but it was impossible for them to allocate all of those resources on a single mech design project at a time!

Just like Ves and the Design Department, many mech companies tended to work on multiple mech design projects at the same time.

Pritchard & Terse evidently chose a different direction. Ves increasingly developed the suspicion that the company under the leadership of its new acting leader had completely put everything else aside and invested all of its resources into a single mech design project!

This enabled Master Kreshnik to concentrate on designing a single mech during the first year of the Age of Dawn.

With no other distractions and obligations in the way, Master Kreshnik could work day after day to turn the Nelerat Mark I into a true hyper mech that had the potential to win awards!

"What an interesting business strategy."

This was an extreme decision. If the Nelerat Mark I failed to catch on for whatever reason, then P&T and its new leader had essentially wasted a crucial year while their competitors released a bunch of profitable mech models during the same time period.

There was no way that Master Kresnik could take over the mech company if that happened!

"This guy is a gambler."

A highly calculative gambler, but a gambler nonetheless.

Ves could tell, because he was a similar sort of mech designer!

Sometimes, he did not even bother to do his math before he made his bets!

As Ves tried to imagine the approach towards designing the Nelerath Mark I, he guessed that Master Kreshnik had tried to spice up his work by making a number of risky gambles.

From the deployable armor to the double gauss rifles, Master Kreshnik boldly gambled on the chance that his creative design choices would pay off in reality!

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