The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7385

Chapter 7385: Unions

Saint Conrad Morgenstern managed to complete the first phase of the Mech Body Merger Process without too many complications or delays.

This signified that his bond with his machine had certainly reached a qualified level.

Although it was often the case that ace pilots managed to attain operation union with their machines with relative ease, that did not necessarily mean it was a trivial step.

There had been ace pilots in the past who managed to get tripped up by the first but still essential step!

Of course, this was most often the case with ace pilots who had abandoned their old machines for brand-new ones that had been specifically designed for their breakthroughs in mind.

Though well-intentioned, the god pilot candidates overestimated their ability to acclimate to their new machines and gained a misplaced sense of confidence in how much help it could provide.

Performance remained extremely important, but fit also played a huge role!

The transition between an old mech and a new mech should not be too abrupt.

Adding too many bells and whistles could potentially cause a subtle degree of alienation that was difficult to ascertain. If the ace pilot did not recognize these problems and requested the mech designers to address them in time, the operation union phase may very well seal his fate!

Fortunately, such a case did not apply to the Voice of Liberty, but not necessarily for the right reasons.

The senior ace pilot ’impulsively’ chose to break through without going through the motions that real god pilot candidates went through.

One of them was to switch to a brand new god mech prototype, or upgrade their existing machines to the same standard.

The advantage of attempting a breakthrough with an ’older’ machine was that the fit between mech and mech pilot was often high.

The disadvantage of doing so was that the relatively lackluster performance of a mech that had never truly been designed to accommodate a god may ultimately prove inadequate when it truly mattered!

Of course, the latter factor was a bit... nebulous.

The technology and standards of mechs had evolved by leaps and bounds since the start of the Age of Mechs.

At the start, the boundaries between junior ace mechs, senior ace mechs and god mech prototypes were a lot blurrier and less defined.

The nascent mech community still had to figure out the rules of the game.

There had been enough instances where powerful ace pilots had managed to break through with machines that performed much worse than contemporary ace mechs!

Strictly speaking, the Voice of Liberty was correct that it was not quite necessary for him to upgrade his ace mech to the very limit of what current technology could achieve in order to succeed.

After all, until recently, full superdimensional mechs did not exist, yet plenty of god pilots emerged in the previous age!

Still, just because Saint Morgenstern did not take this matter too seriously did not mean that Ves agreed with this approach.

He was of the opinion that any reasonable amount of preparation should be taken if the occasion allowed for it. For the ace pilot to disregard the supreme importance of his machine may end up biting him in the back at a later date!

In any case, the Voice of Liberty currently faced much more difficulty in trying to attain domain field union.

This was the sacred process of merging one’s Saint Kingdom with the form of the mech.

That was not easy considering that a Saint Kingdom was a pure energy field while the mech was a purely material existence.

At least on the surface.

In truth, the boundaries between the two were not as absolute as most people thought.

As Ves knew extremely well, a mech possessed both a physical component and a spiritual component.

The latter was pretty much invisible for ordinary mass-produced mechs, but senior ace mechs and god mech prototypes happened to possess a much stronger and more obvious intangible footprint!

Whether mech designers specialized in spiritual engineering or not, those who were able to work on mechs at this level were never weak in this aspect.

Their ability to distort reality when it came to mechs was not as blatant as that of high-ranking mech pilots, but it was still impressive nonetheless!

Just like mechs, the domain field of a mech pilot was not as simple as it appeared on the surface.

The Saint Kingdom may be incorporeal in nature, but it possessed the power to alter and manipulate the material realm.

This was especially the case for particularly powerful high-ranking mech pilots!

The more a pilot approached godhood, the less the rules of nature could pose a constraint on their will.

Yet however much they could bend the physical laws as if they were their playthings, there was still a hard limit at the rank of ace pilot.

In order to force a Saint Kingdom to completely merge with a mech, the Voice of Liberty had to exert his willpower beyond its previous limit.

This did not come without a cost!

Though Ves was only able to observe the Voice of Liberty’s efforts from the perspective of an outside observer, he could still get an impression of his agony!

It was as if he was trying to compress his soul in a box that was at least a hundred times too small for its size!

The extreme compression rate could not be attained through normal means. The only way to make it happen was for Saint Morgenstern to use his willpower to distort reality and forcibly squeeze his Saint Kingdom into his machine!

This only amplified his suffering!

Distorting reality was easy when his willpower was in normal condition.

It became a lot harder when he actively tried to reshape it to attain domain field union!

Ves and everyone else watched on with awe and concern as the ace pilot experienced more and more pain.

Yet the will and desire of the Voice of Liberty could not be defeated so easily.

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