The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5572

Chapter 5572 Future Proofed Products

The fourth and final challenge match impressed everyone!

Their attention rested entirely on the two quasi-first-class mechs that struggled for dominance in the mech arena.

Neither machine wanted to give ground in this fight. Their pride, their reputation and the very reason of their existence was on the line at the moment!

The Elite Edition of the Fey Fianna and the Dustweaver both exhibited very different signature technologies as the match progressed.

The Elite Fey Fianna showcased many familiar qualities, but amped up the power level to the point where it could easily crush multiple copies of its lesser cousins with ease!

The huge disparity in performance amazed many people and caused more and more of them to yearn for this amazing machine.

Sure, the Elite Fey Fianna was not comparable to an expert mech or a first-class mech, but its greatest advantage was that it was much more attainable than either of those machines!

An expert mech could only be paired with an expert pilot. So long as anyone had reached this level of strength, there was no reason at all to worry about obtaining a suitable machine. Their employers would be glad to invest in a customized machine so that the demigod in question could properly channel his power.

A first-class mech cost way more money than the mechs in the arena. They could easily cost millions of MTA credits and imposed high requirements on the skills and knowledge of the mech pilot.

The support crew also needed to be insanely qualified in order to maintain and repair these high-tech machines, and the cost of spare parts and materials was already enough to bankrupt many second-class outfits!

The biggest issue to many mech forces was that fielding just a single first-class mech would automatically classify them as first-class organizations!

This was not good development for organizations that lacked the strength and foundation to support their new status.

The greater the power, the greater the obligations. First-class organizations needed to abide by an entirely different set of rules. They also lost the protection afforded to second-raters and third-raters.

In short, it was impossible or impractical for second-class mech pilots to gain control over machines that were way beyond their reach.

Their only realistic chance to take charge of mechs that could overpower other standard mechs was to advance to the rank of expert pilot.

An innumerable number of pilots chased after apotheosis, but only a small minority of them managed to succeed.

Even if the frequency of breakthroughs mysteriously rose over time, it was impossible for everyone to advance to expert pilot.

Many mech pilots despaired and gave up on their pursuit of godhood as they grew older.

Anyone who reached the age of 50 and higher usually developed their piloting skills to such an extent that they were more than qualified to pilot better mechs.

However, the bitter irony was that older mech pilots usually lost the fire and vigor that made it easier for them to break through to the rank of expert candidate.

If these pilots failed to exceed their mortal limits by the time they were 50, the statistical probability that they could become expert candidates and expert pilots dwindled to almost zero!

Researchers came up with many theories in order to explain why this was the case. Willpower was a key variable. It was simply easier for younger and less jaded mech pilots to exhibit the extreme emotions needed to produce miracles during stressful situations.

As such, aside from a handful of outliers, all of these aging pilots had no future in this desirable progression trajectory. There was virtually no chance that any of them could pilot an expert mech for the remainder of their careers.

That did not snuff out their desire to pilot stronger mechs, though.

As the Elite Fey Fianna and the Dustweaver both displayed distinctly different styles of mechs that pressed against the limit of second-class mech combat, many veteran mech pilots began to feel a calling for one of the two machines on display. _{frёeweɓηovel.coɱ}

WOOOOM!

The Dustweaver was a marvel of powerful and exotic offensive technologies.

Though nobody knew how all of the advanced alien-derived tech worked, that did not stop them from dreaming about what they could do if they piloted such a cool and thematic quasi-first-class mech.

WOOOM!

WOOOM!

WOOOM!

From the transphasic hyper oscillator hammer to the medium-range hyper molecular disintegrator, the Dustweaver adopted the form of a hero mech that had turned into a rugged but determined champion.

It didn't look as gleaming and heroic as the other models of its archetype, but that was precisely why so many veteran pilots felt drawn to the Dustweaver.

Most hero mechs tended to be inspired by the brightly colored machines piloted by the youthful protagonists of popular action dramas. These machines matched the tastes of younger prodigies and descendants of powerful groups that had the luxury to pilot such difficult but dashing machines.

The Dustweaver did not align with this trend. Its faded, rusted color scheme along with its strong alignment with the power of decay was like a nightmare to younger mech pilots. Few of them possessed the desire to pilot a machine that already made them feel older just by staring at this hero mech!

This was clearly a mech designed for the older pilot demographic. Master Xieliq Quan was a centuries-old veteran of his craft, and he knew his customers far too well.

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