The Mech Touch novel Chapter 6678

Chapter 6678 Investing in Melkor

While the human mech forces tried to delay the advance of the native aliens as much as possible, they ultimately only produced moderate results.

Many alien phasefighters went down, but the defending side also lost a higher amount of mechs than expected.

It became abundantly clear that the latest wave of reinforcements from the front consisted of phasefighters of a better generation than the ones that had been widely used in the recent past.

The technological progression of phasefighters was much faster than with mechs due to how little the native aliens initially cared about small craft.

While that caused the aliens to begin at a lower starting point, it was very easy for them to catch up to mechs and quickly implement all kinds of nifty technological solutions.

The other mech forces that had been sent to scout enemy phasefighters and skirmish them whenever possible suffered badly whenever they came across the most modern phasefighters!

People began to voice a lot of concerns when the mech forces gradually returned to the main stronghold planet.

They shared their observations and discussed the extent to which the aliens were making use of the more modern and advanced phasefighters.

The mech pilots started to suspect that the native aliens may have more surprises in store. If their elite phasefighters had already improved to this extent, then what about their warships?

The mech pilots couldn't forget about the phase lords either. Ever since the Red Tide Offensive began in earnest, many phase lords engaged in direct confrontations against human expert mechs and ace mechs.

They rarely gained an advantage as ace mechs proved to be too good in many areas. The biggest discrepancy between the two was the use of equipment.

Ace pilots always relied on the best and most cutting-edge materials and tech to amplify their combat power.

Their ace mechs were among the best and most powerful individual machines that were active in the Red War!

The phase lords on the other hand usually only wore giant garments and basic weapons and raiments that were merely adequate for their exaggerated physiques. However, that also made it easy for the native aliens to improve the gear of phase

but they could still get their hands on much better designed equipment that was not so difficult to develop and produce.

It was for these reasons and more that most of the defenders became convinced that the native aliens were probably planning to win the fight by leveraging their

technologies.

The rapid technological progression of the Red Cabal and the major alien races was making everyone feel uncomfortable.

Melkor knew his history lessons and so did most people. The history of humans during the Age of Conquest was a universal teaching subject in practically any school. It was important for people to understand where they came from and why they had grown so great.

They all knew that one of the principal reasons why humans managed to grow so quickly and surprise their complacent and arrogant alien opponents time and time again was due to their rapid technological adaptation and innovation.

Humans first started to imitate super alien technology. They learned more and more about how stuff worked, and used those insights to apply their own technological ideas and paradigms onto alien solutions.

This usually produced a lot of new results that the alien scientists and engineers had never thought about before. Humanity took advantage of this gap to push familiar alien technologies into new ground, thereby attaining a form of superiority that they weren't supposed to possess!

The explosive rise of humans in the Milky Way Galaxy was the archetypical example of how weak and technologically inferior race could ultimately vanquish over its much more powerful and developed peers.

Right now, most people began to feel as if they were in the position of the Seven Apex Races during the Age of Conquest.

Though their situations were not entirely the same, the sense of discomfort of being overtaken by aliens they used to consider technological primitives was deeply disturbing.

"Damn cosmopolitans."

Everyone blamed the human traitors for giving the native aliens so much

Despite his cognitive boost, Melkor still had little confidence in studying the full theories related to qi formations.

The borrowed texts only made him dizzy and confused. Just because his cognitive capabilities had improved by a huge extent did not mean he obtained the qualifications to work with qi formations at a higher level.

Melkor needed to study a lot of textbooks and maybe even attend virtual tutoring

sessions just to make effective use of the more advanced spell arrays. Sure, he got a formidable boost in brain power, but that sounded a lot less impressive

when it was an improvement based on his previous level of intellect.

In other words, the smarter the person, the more suited he was to become a

formation master!

Mech designers who converted to formation masters would be able to progress much

faster and produce much better results than Melkor.

While Ves had shown great willingness to use clan resources to speed up his own progression, Melkor knew that the only reason he was able to receive this extravagant. benefit was due to sentiment and familiarity.

It was much less likely for Ves to be so generous to a random Larkinson.

In other words, Melkor could only establish himself as a combat spell array master in the short term by relying on nepotism rather than his own talents! "You don't need to spend so much if there are better ways for the clan to spend its money and resources. Those high-grade hyper materials are very rare, you know. We are talking about materials that are on the same level as Mentalist Crystals!" Ves briefly frowned. "That is indeed a problem, but that doesn't change my decision. It is easy enough to raise formation masters from a bunch of clever nerds, but they are too vulnerable to deploy in an active war zone. You are a veteran mech pilot and mech commander. You know how to handle yourself on the battlefield, as evidenced by your latest performance. Sure, you are not perfect, but I am not asking for that. Just focus on becoming good at deploying a set of useful spell arrays as quickly as possible. There are many wonderful uses for sealing-type spell arrays in and out of combat, and there are even more great uses for other types of qi formations. I can probably make you a lot more powerful by designing a mech that is especially designed to complement your new capabilities!"

"Really?" Melkor blinked, though his visor blocked his expression. "You are already piloting the right kind of mech. Don't you think it is interesting if

your living fey are replaced by spell array fey? Who says that formation masters can only work with static and lifeless formation anchors?" Ves grinned.