The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7288

Chapter 7288: Game-Changing Elixir

Ves knew that the policy changes regarding the safety limitations of neural interfaces could raise the frequency of breakthroughs. At the risk of suffering serious harm, mech pilots would find it much easier to stimulate themselves into exceeding their prior peak performance levels! He also knew that the Star Designers had secretly decided to change the Red Kingdom to loosen the breakthrough parameters. No longer were mech pilots restricted from triggering an apotheosis because their morality was too dark or because their minds weren't healthy enough. When Ves took into account that the changes to a neural interface could work together with the changes made to the Red Kingdom, then the combined boosts should result in a significantly higher breakthrough rate!

It was difficult for Ves to pin a solid number on it, but he wouldn't be surprised if pilot breakthroughs became 2 or 3 times more prevalent! Of course, the negative consequences of all of these changes were also considerable. Botched and tainted breakthroughs would definitely become more prevalent due to the Red Kingdom's higher tolerances. The average quality of expert pilots and ace pilots in the following years would also experience a noticeable drop. The mechers no longer cared if the champions of the next generation turned out to be angels or demons. Both were fine as long as they contributed to the war effort!

Ves thought about the implications of these actions. The mechers should know how dramatic these changes affected society. Desperate mech pilots would have a greater chance of attaining power, but they might not necessarily be the most stable of their kind. A lot of power would fall into the hands of future champions who would make the Evolution Witch look like an angel. Human infighting would exacerbate. Ves did not see any way for all of these messy and egotistical champions to remain friendly with each other. While the ongoing wars would keep most of them honest for the time being, it only took a handful of bad apples to provoke conflicts that severely violated public order.

The Red Association should have been able to predict these consequences, yet they persisted regardless of these concerns. This told Ves that even if many of the Association's leaders still wanted to maintain a certain degree of stability, they were willing to compromise their stance in order to make the mech community stronger. The weak and inadequate would perish in greater numbers, but their sacrifices would not be in vain because they could spawn many new expert pilots and ace pilots in the coming years. How much more of them would show up remained to be seen. Ves already intended to track the relevant statistics carefully.

Just as Ves thought that this was the extent of the Red Association's scheme to crank up the emergence of high-ranking mech pilots, Jovy suddenly made another shocking revelation. "Permitting the use of high tolerance neural interfaces is one half of our new measures to increase the rate of breakthroughs. The other half consists of releasing a new line of products that can be a game changer for many mech pilots hindered by their own bottlenecks." The Survivalist activated a projection that showed a vial filled with some sort of glowing liquid. Ves did not possess a lot of expertise in elixirs, but he could instinctively feel that the contents of the vial had to be stuffed with energy!

"What... is this?" He puzzlingly asked. Jovy began to grin with pride. "This is an experimental elixir that the Red Association has developed in collaboration with the Alchemy Department of the Red Collective. We developed the new line of products under great secrecy. It still remains confidential to much of the public as we are not quite yet ready to debut the new elixirs. For now, we are still conducting trials with the latest set of formulas. We are already confident that we have optimized the new elixirs to the best possible extent given the relatively young and low-quality reagents available to us. If everything proceeds as planned, we will be making the new elixirs available for redemption on the War Exchange half a year later."

The tone adopted by Jovy made it clear that the importance of this elixir line should be as great as the General Pilot Cultivation Elixirs that Ves was familiar with. The new products should have a different effect as their feel was a lot more potent. "What do they do?" Ves straightforwardly asked. Jovy did not delay any longer. "The T19-AEW26 series are classified as Pilot Breakthrough Elixirs. They work by forcing mech pilots who ingest them into a forced breakthrough process. I cannot explain how this happens. I am not briefed on the mechanics and I doubt that you are authorized to know this information. You can just assume that as long as you ingest the correct variant of elixir, a mech pilot will experience an 'artificial apotheosis' that may or may not end with an increase of piloting rank."

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