The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7272

The scope of the Promethea Mark Il Project vastly exceeded Ves and Gloriana's initial expectations.

They corresponded with multiple liaisons and head researchers. After receiving a large amount of data and feedback, the Miracle Couple gradually fleshed out the new vision for Saint Isobel Kotin's new machine.

“I feel bad for the Saint General," Gloriana said in the middle of their brainstorming session.

"Why?"

“Look at how luxurious this project has become," she said. "We are planning to add two new signature weapon systems to the Promethea Mark Il. We are collaborating with both Terran and Cyber mech designers. We have gained extensive leeway when it comes to incorporating CE tech into the ace mech design. Furthermore, we are making use of two artifact-level components, namely the mysterious Ice Fire Stone and the Artificial Fire Heart gifted by the Cybernetic Empire. That last one is truly exquisite. Its ability to generate a large amount of heat and fire-attributed E energy in a controlled fashion is truly a pinnacle of CE science and engineering."

There were only a few mechs that deserved to be implanted with the Artificial Fire Heart, but the Promethea Mark II was by far the most suitable choice.

Neither Ves nor Gloriana wanted to reserve it for another high-ranking mech despite the fact that the Promethea Mark Il already received a massive amount of investment. However, the Artificial Fire Heart was an exceedingly complex device, one that carried a fragment of a True God that embodied both fire and humanity.

its preciousness was beyond doubt. Ves felt tempted to use it for himself. He could think of many different ways to integrate it into a powerful weapon or a formidable raiment.

He ultimately forced himself to turn away from those possibilities.

As a mech designer, Ves should always look for opportunities to serve his clients better. Ves was not ashamed to reserve precious resources such as phasewater, superior superdimensional matter and unique resources such as the Corrupting Orb for his own uses.

He did so with confidence as he could rationally explain his selfishness. He had been elevated to a tier 2 galactic citizen, a man of supreme import, yet possessed a head that many would love to claim!

Who knew how the Red Cabal responded to his recent elevation. They already treated him as a tier 2 galactic citizen when it came to measuring the value of his head.

Now that his actual rank matched his bounty, Ves was afraid that the crusty old phase whales would pettily raise its value even further!

Given these fears, was it not reasonable for him to allocate a modest proportion of high- value resources in his direction?

He could justify the use of the aforementioned materials because the Larkinson Clan had enough of them to spare and because he could make better use of them than many other possible clients.

For example, he would never entrust the Corrupting Orb to another individual. It possessed an extremely insidious nature and could tarnish any honorable fighter so long as he exposed a single vulnerability.

Even the most confident and driven expert pilot or ace pilot could falter at different points of their careers. Ves had witnessed their vulnerable states too many times to convince himself that they were infallible.

The Corrupting Orb only needed one opportunity to taint their willpower and lead them to the road of damnation.

The case of Saint Rosa Orfan served as a particularly stark example of what could go wrong.

Even now that she was beginning to wake up from her traumatic experience, Ves had yet to detect any indications that her willpower would cleanse her of any of her existing taint.

It was as if the darkness had taken root in her being and turned into a naturalized part of her soul.

Ves frowned in thought.

Not everyone was qualified to wield the power of darkness. Ves was only able to do so because of the direct intervention of a higher power.

Without earning this literal deus ex machina for turning the Dominion of Man into a godship, Ves would never dare to come into direct contact with darkness-attributed E energy, let alone use it as fuel for his various techniques.

Ves had studied the reactions of other people when exposed to darkness energy or any other form of negative energy.

Each incident tested their ability to stay true to themselves, and not many were able to maintain a clear head.

The greater the exposure, the higher the failure rate.

Fortunately, mechs provided a substantial amount of protection, but it was still far from perfect.

Perhaps only the so-called true mechs that Ves had not seen much of provided much more effective protection.

However, Ves had also learned that piloting true mechs imposed a greater toll on the poor pilots.

The extreme neural interfaces used in those machines were much more invasive and prone to transmitting damaging feedback.

What was even worse for Ves was that the fundamental nature of true mechs prevented Ves from turning them into living mechs. They pretty much sat on opposite ends of a spectrum.

Therefore, there was no conceivable way for Ves to design a mech that could allow mech pilots to safely wield the power of darkness without contaminating their spiritualities in one way or another.

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