The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1158

Although it took some valuable time, Ves succeeded in forming two empowered images for his upcoming hero mech design.

He had never performed this combination of actions before. Leaving out the totem animal portion of his mental superimposition technique seemed like he was only creating a half-finished image, but he didn’t feel that way.

"The meaning I instilled in the image of the base model and Axelar’s excellent piloting skill should be enough to fill in the gaps. A hero mech is a very simple machine to pilot for someone like him. His instincts don’t require any reinforcement."

A mech pilot as talented as Relia Foster also possessed a highly intuitive approach to piloting mechs.

Once Ves finalized the shape of his two images, he mashed them together.

As expected, they didn’t come into conflict. The base model of the hero mech and the human myth of a future Axelar didn’t possess any inherent conflicts with each other. In fact, it was quite the opposite. They complimented each other very well!

Without a hostile factor like the image of an aggressive and primal totem animal in the mix, the base model and the human myth didn’t put up a hostile front.

As Ves witnessed the two images blending into each other to form a single amalgamation that combined both of their traits, a strange feeling crept up his consciousness.

The base model carried his imprint while the human myth carried Axelar’s imprint. Both of them danced in each other’s presence before they started merging.

For some reason, Ves had the impression that he was making love with Axelar by proxy!

"Blegh! What a disgusting idea!"

The repulsion that radiated from his thoughts almost derailed the merging process. Ves hastily concentrated his mind again to avoid disturbing the process any further.

Fortunately, it seemed that one of the benefits of his design seed was that he could extend less than his total concentration to perform his design-related techniques.

"That’s convenient."

While he still preferred to dedicate his total concentration to his design work, Ves couldn’t exactly do that while maintaining control over Axelar’s body. Ves constantly had to split off his attention to allow his consciousness to remain in control.

The process didn’t take too much time. If Ves was honest, he predisposed the images to merge with each other from the moment he made them. After all, one image consisted of a mech, while the other image consisted of a mech pilot. How could they not get along with each other?

The merged image that resulted from the fusion process was a lively hero mech that possessed real presence!

Ves was very satisfied with the result. While it wasn’t the strongest amalgamated image he conceived of, it was one he felt very strong ownership towards!

It was as if it was his child with Axelar!

"Urgh!"

Ves quickly erased that thought from existence.

"Ahem, in any case, I’ve finished all of my preparations to design Axelar’s hero mech."

Now that Ves formed a complete vision and spiritual image for his mech, he was ready to start putting the hero mech together.

From an outside perspective, Axelar’s body spent more than an entire hour doing nothing but spacing out. Benny had been growing rather concerned, but not too much since he witnessed his charge spacing out all the time.

The only difference was that Axelar hadn’t taken any stimulants this time.

As Benny was wondering if Axelar enjoyed so many stimulants that he developed the ability to get himself high from memory alone, the body finally came back to life.

"Aha! I’ve come up with the perfect mech!" Axelar’s body gloated as his fingers slowly danced across the projected interface of the auto designer. "Just watch me design the perfect mech to beat the arrogant Haspel Asps!"

Although Ves quickly became frustrated at his lack of fine control of Axelar’s limbs, the auto designer wasn’t so finicky about precision. Even a six-year old child could design a completely functional mech with the sheer amount of assistance and automation the auto designer provided!

What a cheat! Ves had the illusion that he could perform months of work in a matter of minutes!

It was easy to come up with a functional mech, but it took a lot more effort to make it good enough for sale. Ves did not trust the auto designer AIs to come up with the most optimal solution to every problem. Instead, the AIs tended to skew towards safe and widely-applicable solutions instead.

Ves first started with selecting the components of his mech. He didn’t spend too much time differentiating between the countless possible selections. Instead, he used the search and filtering functions to select parts that met his criteria.

"Positron rifle, Destroyer Sword, armor system, power reactor, energy cells, heat sinks..."

As part of his deliberate strategy to design a hero mech that only depended on two weapon system, Ves didn’t want to overcomplicate his mech design in other areas.

The Terrans developed countless gimmicks to spice up a mech, from adding the capability to phase them out of existence for a brief time to disturbing the gravity all around them. A lot of these gimmicks resembled the manifestations of resonance from expert mechs.

"Looks like the Terrans have taken inspiration from resonance in their research." Ves mentally noted.

In any case, aside from adding a powerful shield generator to his list of parts, Ves deliberately rejected the use of any other auxiliary modules!

Oh, he felt tempted to add some extra features to his mech. The trend towards multipurpose mechs led to an incredible drive towards miniaturization among Terran component designers.