The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1100

After over four months of intensive design work, the Aurora Titan had essentially reached a feature-complete state. All the parts that needed to be added had been added to the mech.

Meanwhile, Professor Ventag already completed the design’s internal architecture a while ago. For a mech designer of his ability, he didn’t have to wrack his brains too much to pair the Aurora Titan with a fantastic internal architecture.

Professor Ventag offered to perform the testing entirely on his end, but Ves refused.

"It’s my design, mostly, so I need to see whether the mech performs up to my expectation."

"You have never designed a spaceborn mech before." The professor frowned over the comm. "Even though your theoretical knowledge of spaceborn mechs is surprisingly extensive, that does not change the fact that your company doesn’t have the requisite infrastructure to test spaceborn mechs."

Eventually, they decided for Ves to come over to Bentheim and fabricate the first prototype of the Aurora Titan design at one of NORA Consolidated manufacturing complexes. He would then take the prototype to the larger mech company’s testing facility in an isolated star system in the Green Nebula region.

It entailed quite a bit of travel, but it ensured that Ves would be able to take advantage of NORA Consolidated’s best facilities. The professor was right in stating that Ves and the LMC weren’t equipped to put the Aurora Titan to its paces.

"I guess we’ll be returning to Bentheim again." He said to Lucky as he ended his comm call with the professor.

"Meow."

"I know Bentheim isn’t safe for us, but we’ll be spending most of our time at NORA Consolidated. It’s not as if we’re going to be strolling down the middle of Dorum’s boulevards."

"Meow!"

"Oh, alright. I’ll purchase some exotic treats for you when we’re there."

Lucky climbed on his shoulder and affectionately rubbed his cheek against Ves.

After Ves exited his lab, he called up Ketis to inform him of their impending departure.

"You’re taking me along?" Ketis asked.

"Yup. I think you’ll benefit from visiting Bentheim and witness the scale of NORA Consolidated’s production facilities. I’m sure you’ll also be able to learn some lessons when we test the prototype in space. Just because the design is feature-complete doesn’t mean it is fit for the market. All the simulations we’ve performed so far does not account for every quirk that can happen in practice. Mech designers like us have an obligation to make sure that our mech designs won’t inadvertently blow up and kill our own customers."

Hearing this already made her excited. "I can’t wait to help out!"

Ketis quickly raced off to her apartment to pack her luggage.

To be honest, the help she provided so far didn’t amount to much. Even the sword she designed was something Ves could come up with himself. Rather than include her in the design process to benefit from her assistance, he was merely preparing her for a time when her specialty truly became distinct enough to provide value to his mech designs.

Every mech designer needed to start from somewhere. Not everyone benefited from the advantages that enabled Ves to skip over these learning experiences.

Before he departed to Bentheim, Ves enjoyed a short period of respite from his intensive design work these last few months. Working time after time on refining the Aurora Titan design with the help of the spiritual fragment in his mind was still arduous to his mental capacity.

"This is not the easiest way to design a mech, that’s for sure."

Yet he considered these pains to be worth a necessary price to pay. The Aurora Titan’s X-Factor became increasingly more potent and more defined under their cooperative efforts.

Drawing from the observations he made during his last Mastery experience, he learned that the strength and potency of the X-Factor largely came from the mech designer!

More specifically, Ves learned that he could take measures to accelerate the growth of the X-Factor of his design by employing a number of methods.

The most direct one would be to replicate what Qilanxo had done by transferring his spiritual energy to the X-Factor of his design.

Ves felt very leery about this option, though. Ves hadn’t quite developed a complete picture of how scarce spiritual energy was and how hard it was to replenish it. Right now, he maintained the notion that while spiritual energy could regenerate or be replenished from within his mind, it was quite a slow process!

Ves had only recently topped off the spiritual energy I’ve lost during my previous Mastery experience!

All of this pointed out that just like Qilanxo, Ves could not expend his spiritual energy willy-nilly to perform feats of wizardry. Imbuing the Aurora Titan with raw spiritual energy from his own mind was the crudest way of empowering it. Aside from being wasteful, Ves also didn’t master the technique to blend his spiritual energy with the X-Factor of his designs.

Therefore, aside from fixating on quantity, he would much rather focus his attention on the quality and uniformity of his design’s spirituality.

A good and coherent set of values and beliefs that Ves wanted to impart to his design served as the basic foundation of its X-Factor. It didn’t matter how strong the X-Factor measured to his spiritual sense if it all became a muddled mess at the end due to engaging in too many flights of fancy!

When Ves kept track of his design’s developing X-Factor, Ves faced a notable increase in heterogeneity when Professor Ventag began to work on the internal architecture.

Ves always expected something like this to happen. Even if Ventag didn’t consciously mean to contaminate the X-Factor of the Aurora Titan with his own spiritual imprint, his design philosophy exerted so much influence that it could not be ignored.

Having anticipated this problem, redoubled his effort into overriding the professor’s imprint with his own. In this aspect, Qilanxo’s spiritual fragment again proved to be a lifesaver as its strong and potent energy remained undefeatable even against the influence of a Senior Mech Designer!

Even without running a prototype of its design through realspace tests, Ves and the professor could already glean that much from their own work. It gave strength to the argument that they should start with an asking price of 100 million credits for the most basic model. _{freeweɓnovel.cѳm}