The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7533

Chapter 7533: The Power of Four

They found a loophole.

At least they thought they found one.

When they studied the framework of the rules inside the Mission Hall, the four mech designers found a clever means to circumvent the restriction that multiple individuals could not concentrate their Ascension Points.

"The rules do not expressly forbid according to my interpretation." Gloriana spoke in a precise tone of voice. "It did not seem obvious at first, but now that we have drawn our attention to this dynamic, it looks far too much like a deliberate loophole than anything else. Perhaps this is the System’s attempt at a teaching moment."

Ves nodded in agreement. He held the same idea. His repeated interactions with the Mech Designer System had long convinced him of the idea that it was anything but a rigid and inflexible tool. It possessed a strong degree of cunning and intelligence. What may seem coincidental to ordinary people was definitely deliberate in some way!

"Given that the rules do not expressly forbid it, I think it is worth a try." He evaluated. "I will accept the Missions and perform most of the core tasks required to complete them. The rest of you will have to stay by my side and perform contributing and assisting tasks. As long as you guys don’t do all of the work, I am sure the Mission Hall will credit me for all of the work that has been done."

"We will have to establish a very deliberate balance between contributions and assistance." Ves emphasized while he mused about the System’s tolerance. "The main ideas have to come from me. I should at least construct the framework of a solution. The rest of you should try to avoid giving me too many ideas. It is best if you stick to following my direction and do much of the grunt work that does not require a lot of imagination. You should try to emulate our smart AI’s as much as possible in this regard. As long as we stick to this approach, I doubt the System will give us grief."

"Are you certain about that, sir?" Alexa asked with a skeptical expression. "I do not believe the System will let you exploit its rules too much. You once said that the Mission Hall rewards overcompletion of Missions if you have gone above and beyond what is asked. Is there a possibility that it can do the reverse? If you offload too much work to third parties, would that not diminish your rewards on a proportional basis?"

"..."

That sounded way too logical.

Gloriana did not look too concerned, though. "Let us find out for ourselves. We should start with the shortest and least rewarding Mission that is still available. We will work according to the plan we have set. Once we have finished it, the System’s feedback will tell us how much it will tolerate our clever thinking. If the plan turns out to be unviable, then we have only lost a modest amount of opportunity costs at most."

The others agreed with this course. All of their discussion so far consisted of ungrounded speculation. The best way to proceed was to put their assumptions to the test. Only real empirical data could guide them forward.

Ves accepted a tedious Mission that everyone else had avoided so far because it called for him to design over a dozen mechs.

Fortunately, they did not have to be completely original. He only needed to design a single base model and derive lots of different variants.

The reason why this Mission had remained open to this date was because none of the mech designers looked forward to investing so much time on doing fairly monotonous work.

However, that just happened to make it ideal for their experimental approach!

The workload was excessive when handled by a single mech designer, but it was different if 4 of them pooled their manpower together.

Two of them were Senior Mech Designers, both of which possessed complementing strengths.

Ves not only possessed a broad knowledge base and a highly creative mind, but also possessed a unique comprehension of hyper technology and E-technology.

His companion spirit Blinky also served him well in his work sessions. He could produce any E energy attribute on command, but also possessed a vast amount of relatively primitive E-processor banks.

Although their sophistication was low due to their lack of development, their quantity was so vast that they covered a significant proportion of the central planet’s surface!

All of those spiritual processors working together could act as a barely adequate substitute for a modern supercomputer.

These were ideal for processing huge amounts of relatively simple and straightforward calculations. Ves did not have to borrow the manpower of other mech designers for this purpose.

Relying on these advantages, Ves already possessed the confidence that he could complete this particular Mission by himself. It just would have taken a lot of time.

This was why he welcomed Gloriana’s help. The two had worked together for many years now, so their collaboration had reached a very high degree of efficiency.

The familiarity and mutual respect that they had built over almost two decades of designing the same machines had not eliminated all of their disagreements, but made it so that they reduced the impact of any friction to the lowest possible extent.

Complete agreement was neither possible nor desirable. Both of them knew that if one of them fully agreed with the other, their collaboration would have lost much of their value.

The entire reason why they were called the ’Miracle Couple’ was because of the sparks they generated whenever their strong ideas collided with each other!

Unfortunately, in the interest of staying within the framework of the System’s rules, Gloriana had to work hard to restrain herself from expressing much of her personal ideas.

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