The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7491

Chapter 7491: Second Configuration

"Whatever you did to the Riot Mark III killed the living mech and replaced it with an abominable being." Saint Isobel stated in a clear-minded fashion. "My Promethea Mark II does not deserve this treatment. I am not that hungry for power. If anyone must embrace evil in order to obtain power, then let that be myself. I am a saint. I can bear the consequences. If I am wrong, then let my battle partner be the one that can pull me back from the brink. I want my living mech to remain sober and in control over herself. She can play a far more useful role to me by serving as a friend and a second opinion. I never want to see you turn her into my enemy."

"Understood." Ves replied. "What about applying this treatment to a single weapon or functional module? This way, you can still obtain greater power and a higher intimidation factor, but also be able to retain your original living mech."

"My answer remains the same, sir. I do not want to be burdened with your dark experiments."

Saint Isobel conveyed her will and desire very clearly. She had put real thought behind this possibility.

This left Ves with no room to argue any further.

A part of him felt disappointed about that. Ever since he chose the latest System upgrade track, he still found himself with far too few opportunities to exercise his Demoncasting. He felt it was a bit of a waste to let this feature remain unused for multiple months.

Still, he could not bring himself to defy Isobel’s decision. Ves had no choice but to shelve any notion of creating a new D-mech or D-arm.

"Very well. The Promethea Mark II shall remain an honest living ace mech." He said with a conciliatory voice. "What other requests do you have for your upgraded machine?"

Isobel shifted her gaze back to the projected sketch and thought about her wants and needs a little further.

"This rifleman mech configuration looks incredibly high-end, and I am sure that it will be much more powerful than the older one, but... it looks too small and thin for my needs. Since I want to gain the power to raze whole planets with my flames, my ace mech must be able to project much more firepower than what is possible with such a skinny mech frame."

"The Promethea Mark II is designed for active repositioning on the battlefield, just like the original." Ves explained. "Even with better tech and stronger materials, compromises must be made in order to retain enough mobility to outrun powerful enemies, outmaneuver tricky ones and reach distant destinations relatively quickly with the help of a minidrive. I do not think you want to pilot an ace mech that has become so big and clunky that she cannot escape pursuit from enemy phase lords."

Isobel grimaced. "You are right. I don’t want to pilot a clunky ace mech against enemy champions that can pose a real threat. I also do not want to be lacking in firepower when I most need it. Why not... try and do both? Didn’t you design several sets of mounted wargear years ago? If it is possible, I want you to design two versions of my Promethea Mark II. The base version can stay light and slender to improve our ability to survive on a dangerous battlefield. The expanded version should be the previous one, but wrapped up by mounted wargear that is so big and powerful that we can single-handedly destroy an entire continent’s worth of cities by ourselves!"

That was a viable suggestion!

Mounted wargear would indeed solve several problems related to the Promethea Mark II.

At the very least, Isobel would not be forced to make a difficult choice between two configurations. She could retain access to both of them, though she could only ever make use of one at a time.

Even so, this would expand the Promethea Mark II’s versatility and usefulness to a very large extent.

It was essentially opening up the choice to convert the ace rifleman mech into a temporary artillery platform!

Ves ran with this suggestion and began to sketch out a very crude interpretation of the mounted wargear.

The parts and components looked exaggeratingly large and thick in proportion to the structure of the ace mech.

He did not hold himself back too much and readily resorted to expanding the wargear in order to fit more components and energy reserves.

In the end, the mounted wargear had completely transformed the look of the Promethea Mark II!

She had become much bigger to the point where people would not be able to recognize her anymore if not for the sight of a familiar rifle and identical colorations.

The mounted wargear version of the Promethea Mark II exceeded the mass and volume of typical heavy artillery mechs.

In fact, if Ves had to classify this configuration if it was built as a single whole, then he would probably be able to call it an ultra-heavy artillery mech configuration!

This was not just because the mounted wargear multiplied the size of the Promethea Mark II by a considerable extent, but also because it also added multiple new weapon systems!

The secondary cannons did not pack too much of a punch, but that was not important. Ves had added them in order to increase the Promethea Mark II’s quantity of attacks.

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