The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7165

Chapter 7165: Dulo’s Input

Ves exited the System Space with renewed determination.

He finally addressed a major shortcoming that diminished his chances of winning the leadership challenge.

That did not mean that victory was about to fall on his lap. He still had to work for this outcome. It just became a lot more accessible to him than before.

That was all he could ask for under the circumstances.

One of the first actions he took after he exited the System Space was to revise his equipment designs and alter his demands to the Red Collective.

He added further specifications to the raiments that the Red Collective was supposed to develop for him for the upcoming fights.

Now that he became a competent spear wielder, he knew a lot more about which armor sections needed additional layers and which ones had to be slimmed down to facilitate his moments.

Not every spear wielder fought in the same manner. The fighting style imparted by the last enlightenment fruit was fairly expressive in terms of moves and techniques. It was excellent for dueling as it incorporated far more than simple stabs.

In order to perform all of the spins and other wide sweeps with a fairly lengthy polearm, it was best if the raiment did not get in the way, or worse, limit his range of motion!

Meeting his demand did not come without a cost. His raiments had to forgo adequate protection in numerous areas such as the armpits and such, but there was not much he could do about it if he wanted to fight without his armor getting in the way.

What was more important was that Ves wanted his raiments to provide greater support for channeling his abilities. The two enlightenment fruits granted him many new ways to turn his power into powerful effects.

His gear could either hinder or complement his new fighting methods, and it was best if the latter happened more often than the former.

There was not enough time for Ves and the RC to test everything out and develop the most optimal set of equipment for a deviant Demonic Possession Spearman. They all had to make do with lots of guesswork.

As a mech designer, Ves understood how frustrating it was to work on short notice with frustratingly little solid criteria, but he was in the same position.

His sparring session with Ketis enlightened him to many different aspects about his new fighting style, but he still did not have a more complete overview of what he was capable of. He still had to make a lot of adjustments and adaptations to how he executed his techniques in order to make them work with a non-demonic entity such as Blinky.

There was not enough time for him and the Dark Apostle to complete this enormous endeavor in a short amount of time.

The best they could do was to pick the low-hanging fruit and solve the problems that hindered them from executing the simplest and most straightforward techniques.

Anything fancy or more specialized had to wait until much later when the leadership challenge had already passed.

Ves was not too worried. He believed the simpler fighting techniques should be enough to tide him over. He would just have to rely on his equipment to make up for the difference. He had great confidence that he could enter the dueling ground with much better gear than any of his opponents.

Ever since the Phase Lord Department became estranged from the Red Collective, it had ceased to receive any resupplies.

Its headquarters no longer received any phasewater, exotics, hypers and so on. Its scientists and engineers also lost access to the Red Collective’s internal network, which meant that they could no longer keep up with the latest R&D advancements made by the collies.

Sure, the headquarters had already been supplied with a lot of riches prior to its isolation, but these were known quantities that could only be stretched up to a point.

Ves was not arrogant enough to assume that the leaders of the Phase Lord Department did not make their own preparations.

Their gear was probably receiving last-minute upgrades as best as their staff could accomplish given the limited conditions.

Ves and the collies just had to ensure that they did a much better job. Their conditions were so much better that there was no excuse if his weapons and armor did not have an obvious gap with the gear used by his upcoming adversaries.

In order to help him develop a better set of spears for his upcoming duels, he called over Dulo Voiken and brought the EdNet graduate up to speed.

The Journeyman Mech Designer scratched his head in utter perplexment. "I knew that the new frontier had changed far more than anyone of us could have imagined during the time I was studying how to design first-class mechs in the EdNet, but this is something else. This doesn’t make any sense. How have you managed to become so good at spear fighting? I may not be a fighter, but my eyesight is not poor. There is no way you could have trained in spears until you have reached this level of proficiency in the few years that has passed. It is impossible no matter how ridiculous systematic cultivation has turned out. There is a limit to how much you can defy the laws of reality."

Ves knew it was difficult to explain to Dulo how he suddenly became so good at combat, and he did not intend to offer a reasonable explanation at all. With his current status and prestige, he could get away with keeping people in the dark.

He did not need an informed Dulo. He needed a compliant Dulo.

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