The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1756

After giving up the chase, the Echo Spears no longer had any chance of completing their primary objective. The distance to their mission target constantly increased until it was far too late for the mechs to catch up no matter how much power they dumped into their flight systems!

The fleeing ship’s FTL drive calmly continued its cycling process as if nothing special happened.

Without any engineers to optimize this process, Ves had no way to hurry up this highly-regulated process.

After a total of five agonizing hours had passed, the FTL drive finally became available.

Ves instantly instructed the ship to punch in the coordinates of his next step. The ship’s navigation system took care of the rest, automatically calculating and forming the right configuration to reach his intended destination!

As soon as the Scarlet Rose transitioned into FTL, Ves could finally relax.

"Finally!"

He looked up at the four slightly-marred battle bots that had saved his skin a few hours ago.

Despite confronting an entire mercenary corps, the four former mechs exhibited no major battle damage!

Even their more vulnerable weapons made it through the battle largely unscathed!

"This is the might of true second-class mechs!"

Each of the mechs designed and built by Aisling Curver fell in the premier price category of the Coalition mech market.

Ves did not even dare to guess the exact market price of these mechs! He feared he would faint at the amount of cols it took to build or buy one of these custom mechs!

At the very least, Ves would have to fork over billions of coalition credits to obtain mechs of comparable quality and performance!

It felt nice having all of this might at his disposal. Though the lack of mech pilots meant that most of their potential remained dormant, what little he could bring to bear was already enough for him to fend off opportunistic outfits like the Echo Spears!

Now that he gained some self-preservation against weaker opponents, Ves believed his journey through the Great Zona Republic would not be as fraught with peril as he initially expected.

The performance of his battle bots exceeded his expectations!

"These are some really good machines!"

If possible, Ves wanted to retain them and bring them back to his new base and take the time to study them from top to bottom.

There was much that Ves could learn about the characteristics of second-class mechs. Each of the four machines incorporated many interesting design principles and standards.

Each of the mechs carried the character of Clarion University, a top mech design institution of the Gauge Dynasty. Lady Curver also inherited many design principles from Master Huron, a very distinguished mech designer who enjoyed a high position in the Friday Coalition.

Though studying the machines along with all of the related files risked contamination, Ves believed he was strong enough to endure any undesirable changes.

"If nothing else, I can just drain my spirit and temporarily turn myself into a rational mech designer." He muttered.

In the past week, Ves personally experienced some of the benefits that Patricia had alluded to. In his low period, his emotions might be muted, but they also became much less susceptible to outside influence!

It was as if his mind and Spirituality became out of phase with the rest of reality. Whenever Ves delved into the design of Aisling’s mechs while he was converting them into battle bots, he noticed that his design philosophy didn’t even come close to being threatened!

Ves realized the implications of this reaction. As long as his design seed and design philosophy no longer became affected by outside impulses, he could study or explore all kinds of knowledge regardless if they clashed with his original ideals!

"It’s like working with fire and ice at the same time!"

Ordinarily, fire and ice always clashed. Neither could survive while the other was there! Yet upon forcing himself into a low period, the fire in his body suddenly became shielded from reality. Even if he placed a clump ice next to the fire, only a faint reaction would occur depending on his spiritual energy depletion rate!

Ves fully understood the value of rational mech designers at this point.

No wonder the MTA valued them so much!

Rational mech designers might not necessarily be good innovators, but they excelled at integrating all manner of existing inventions no matter how obtuse they were! As long as they obtained enough theory, they could definitely assimilate them in their own body of work to a certain extent!

Did Ves want to go this far? Not necessarily. He did not feel any desire to do what Aisling could do. Messing with neural interconnectivity sounded like a good way to piss off the MTA.

Since Ves sought to earn a lot of merits and redeem a beyonder ticket from the powerful organization, he could not afford to get caught with breaking one of their major rules!

"That doesn’t mean there is nothing for me to learn."

Aside from learning the characteristics of second-class mechs, Ves also wanted to gain inspiration from Aisling’s design philosophy.

Just like with exchanges between mech designers, careful exploration of another mech designer’s work might yield new ideas and perspective that enriched his application of his own design philosophy.

In recent times, Ves became somewhat intrigued by the possibility of replicating the effects of a neural network on a spiritual level.

From his limited understanding of spirituality, Ves believed it was possible to facilitate a spiritual connection between two different mech pilots.

After all, his design spirits were already capable of maintaining connections with many different mechs.

Yet a human was different from a powerful spiritual entity.

How could any human mech pilot, particularly those who lacked spiritual potential, be capable of forming a spiritual connection with a fellow comrade-in-arms?

Ves lacked the answer to this question, hence why he became so interested in exploring Aisling’s works in depth.

He hoped he might gain some inspiration that pointed him towards a possible solution.

"What would it be like to form a network between mech pilots that transcends the man-machine connection?"