The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7312

Chapter 7312: Vestigial Body

Integrating TDAM into the Riot Mark III ended up a lot less stressful than expected.

Due to the Riot's Chaos Armor and its nature as a D-mech, the living machine had turned into an inherently unstable product.

As the first genuine adversarial mech designed by Ves, the Riot not only posed a threat against its own pilot, but also the people who serviced the mech frame.

Gloriana prepared detailed and extensive plans to modify the Riot Mark III's mech frame while it was still in a volatile state.

However, it turned out that her preparations turned out to be redundant.

Though Saint Rosa Orfan had only recently broken through, her willpower had already reached a height where she was able to suppress much of the Riot Mark III's inherent instability.

What Chaos Armor? What Prophet's Bane? Neither source of instability could overcome the resolve suppression of a genuine ace pilot!

This massively reduced the difficulty of upgrading the Riot Mark III. The mech designers should be able to complete the upgrade swift enough to give Saint Rosa Orfan enough hours to familiarize herself with the power of Terran Destroyer Amplification Material.

This was crucial for her upcoming participation in the imminent decisive battle.

After all, it was not a good idea for her to fight against the powerful voribugs without having stretched her new power at least once.

In fact, it was already rather hasty to deploy her on the battlefield so soon after recovering from her traumatic breakthrough event. Her case was especially bad due to partially fusing with her own machine.

By all rights, the Larkinsons should give her a few weeks or months of rest so that she could slowly figure out her new condition and get used to fighting with her adversarial mech.

However, there was no way an ace pilot as restless as Saint Orfan would remain calm under the circumstances.

Since she felt good enough to fight against an army of voribugs, then she should be allowed to participate in a hearty battle!

While Ves wanted to help with the upgrade process, Gloriana quickly made a decision after she found out that Saint Orfan was able to utilize her Saint Kingdom to suppress activity of her machine.

"Your assistance is not needed here." She flatly told him. "So long as the Riot Mark III remains stable, I alone can complete this task myself. Jovy here can help me complete the steps faster. I always found it regrettable that he hadn't been able to participate in the last upgrade run. Now that he has returned, he can make up for that by assisting me with my work."

Ves frowned. "I get the feeling you are not that eager to receive my help."

"That is your fault. Out of all of the mech designers that I know, you are by far the greatest and most unpredictable improviser that I have had the 'pleasure' to work with. Although many of your ideas and innovations have produced amazing successes, I am not looking forward to encountering any unexpected variables today. The conversion of the Riot Mark III into a proper ace mech needs to proceed as flawlessly as possible. I will not tolerate any risks. Not today."

"So am I supposed to move to the side and twiddle with my thumbs?"

"No. You can still do something useful for Saint Orfan. Haven't you developed those new exploding spears? Why not spend your time on fabricating a handful of them? I think that Saint Orfan will not refuse to wield them in battle. They can serve as a surprisingly strong weapon against the Goliath Hive."

Ves widened his eyes. "You're right! This is a much better use of my time! My exploding spears are already powerful when they are wielded by human phase lords like myself, but we don't have the ability to enhance them with true resonance. Ace pilots are different. The power of an exploding spear will be much greater in the hands of the Riot Mark III! Perhaps they may become strong enough to put a large dent in the Incubator!"

This was not a fantasy, but a very realistic possibility!

The only regret was that there was not enough time for Saint Orfan to familiarize herself with the Sacrificial Spear Throwing Method. The efficacy of the exploding spears was partially dependent on technique. Without mastering it to a sufficient degree, it would be hard to trigger the weapons to explode.

Still, Ves did not hesitate for long. He first imparted the Sacrificial Spear Throwing Method to the ace pilot. Whether she could skillfully make use of the technique during the decisive battle remained unclear. It was not particularly complicated, but it demanded a certain level of intelligence and rationality.

So long as Rosa Orfan still retained a human mind, then she should be able to get started with the method in time.

If her partial fusion with the Riot had caused her to become more irrational, then her learning ability would definitely be affected. If this was the case, then expecting Saint Orfan to burst out with greater power would remain a pure fantasy!

Several hours went by as the mech designers went to work.

Ves did not experience any particular challenges in his work. He already possessed multiple existing designs of exploding spears, and he could easily adapt them according to the availability of local resources.

Gloriana and Jovy worked together quite well over at her workshop. The Riot Mark III hardly held any secrets to her. While she did not understand the principles of Demoncasting and so on, the mech frame hadn't been distorted quite as much as expected.

Saint Orfan's resolve played a pivotal role in this. She had become the master and the ultimate controller of the mech frame.

That said, no one turned complacent after witnessing this amazing degree of control and power projection.

Ace pilots would not be able to maintain the full expression of their Saint Kingdoms for long.

This meant that it was best for the Riot Mark III to stay in reserve for a while longer.

"Based on past patterns of voribug invasion, any assault against the defensive network of Philaster Crestia III would encounter a lot of setbacks!" Ves grinned. "Even if the Terrans or the mechers are able to hold the line for a day, there is no telling what the Incubator would do if no one is around to stop it from advancing."

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