The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7231

Chapter 7231: The Completion of the First D-Mech

After the pair of mech designers beheld their first D-mech, they waited in silence for a time.

Gloriana looked as if she was struggling to decide whether to cut all of her ties to the corrupted masterwork expert mech. She seriously thought about withdrawing from all future obligations to the machine, which mainly entailed conducting repairs and upgrading the D-mech in the future.

The original Riot Mark III presented by the mech design was still an acceptable product despite its many eccentricities.

The new Riot Mark III that had undergone Demoncasting turned into a completely different beast that she could not recognize anymore.

She refused to admit that this monstrosity could ever serve as the perfect vessel for its intended pilot.

Gloriana strongly believed that there should have been a better way to meet the needs of Venerable Rosa Orfan.

If she was a better mech designer, then she should have been able to design an excellent high-tier expert mech that could give Venerable Orfan the confidence she needed to stimulate her breakthrough.

Unfortunately, she couldn’t. Gloriana recognized that she had yet to reach this level. She could only work together with her husband and rely on his Class IX design philosophy to make up for her shortcomings.

This would not last forever. Once she became strong enough to design powerful enough mechs by herself, she would no longer have to tolerate her husband’s antics without having the ability to object.

She looked forward to realizing this future.

As for now, the only thing she could do was hold in her disapproval and make the best out of a bad situation.

"Strange."

"What is it, Gloriana?"

"The physical mutations of the Riot Mark III are much less severe than your previously made D-arms. Not only that, but it is also manifesting in a drastically different manner. There are no weird spikes. It actually still looks close enough to the original design. If not for the constant subtle distortion effect, I wouldn’t have been able to recognize it as a D-mech in the first place. Why do you think this is the case?"

"Hmm." Ves had already been thinking about this mystery. "I have several possible explanations. For one, unlike the Attack and Defense Enhancement Demoncasting Molds, the Prophecy Imbuement Demoncasting Mold works very differently. The former two take any form of useful energy and sloppily channels that into broad enhancements. The latter is more selective and precise. The prophecy-oriented mold cuts out a lot more pollution, which means that there is much less spare energy left to produce questionable and unproductive mutations."

That sounded like a decent explanation, but Gloriana was not entirely convinced.

"Another possible explanation is that the use of a much more powerful Middle Demon may have increased the efficiency of the Demoncasting process. It could also be that the Prophet’s Bane simply hates the Riot Mark III to the point it does not even desire to corrupt the mech in its entirety. It may also be that the fight between the Prophet’s Bane and the original living mech has prevented the former from wasting its energy on useless mutations. A final explanation may be that as the Prophet’s Bane won the contest of dominion and devoured the essence of the living mech, it has achieved a relatively perfect fit with the mech frame, thereby making further mutations redundant. Who knows what the real answer may be. Multiple reasons may be valid."

Ves truly did not know the answers. There were too many possibilities for him to consider. Lack of data and proof prevented him from figuring out the truth.

It didn’t matter. Ves was not obsessed over controlling the physical mutations triggered by Demoncasting.

The main lesson he derived from this attempt was that Demoncasting did not always result in an object growing sharp and mean-looking spikes.

Their physical transformations could be a lot subtler and low-key. The latest outcome was pretty much close to the ideal that Ves tried to attain when it came to Demoncasting. He wanted the physical transformations to be as minimal and restrained as possible.

Doing this would not only make it harder for enemies to recognize the tell-tale characteristic of D-mechs and D-arms, but also prevent enemies from purposefully hunting them down.

"I need to experiment more with the Prophecy Imbuement Demoncasting Mold." Ves said with growing determination. "I think that my theory that examined the broad applicability of the more general mold and the tighter focus of more specialized mold is true. I had my doubts about whether I came close to the truth, but no more. This outcome already explains much. It at least gives me hope that not all of my D-mechs and D-arms have to come in the form of evil-looking products that are covered with self-harming spikes."

That was a big relief. Ves did not want his work to become defined by this provocative visual style.

He quite liked the demonic manifestation on the Riot Mark III. It could still pass off as a normal mech. At most, people who observed the machine directly would feel as if the machine was under the influence of a powerful jamming or interference field.

The enemies who fought against the Riot Mark III in person would eventually discover that the strange distortions were not just cosmetic.

Gloriana glanced at her husband.

"Are you waiting for something to happen?"

"Hm?"

"You look as if you are hesitating on whether to approach the completed mech."

Ves responded with a sardonic smile. "To be honest, you are right. I was waiting to see if a lightning storm would form above our heads. It wouldn’t be the first time the heavenly authorities responded this way whenever I created a work that is... boundary breaking. I still do not understand the conditions which can trigger this response. Does my work have to exceed a power threshold or violate fundamental taboos? I have no idea. I was 60 percent certain that all of the stuff I have done to the Riot Mark III merits a lightning tribulation, but... nothing."

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