The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1788

After Ves and Venerable Brutus had their private moment, they moved the mech workshop along with Gloriana and Ranya.

It turned out that Gloriana tweaked and updated the Star Dancer’s design in the last couple of weeks. Because of her limited involvement in the design of her brother’s expert mech, she could only propose some minor improvements.

Gloriana brought her brother to a projection of the Star Dancer’s design and enthusiastically showed off some of her latest efforts. She improved considerably when she worked alongside Ves, so it wasn’t a surprise for her to be able to correct some of her shortcomings in her existing products.

Normally, a mech designer did not bother to update a mech design. Any revisions they wanted to do could wait until they comprehensively combined all of the corrections as well as tech upgrades in another revision.

Ves himself wanted to wait until he became more proficient in next generation mech design before he designed the Aurora Titan Mark II for example.

Of course, if a mech designer really cared about a design or customer, there was nothing stopping them from publishing minor updates.

Expert mechs were some of the most important machines to the mech community. With the insanely high skill of expert pilots, even minor differences might result in drastic swings in battles!

With so much at stake, mech designers involved in these prestigious design projects often continued to iterate on them despite finishing the job!

In this instance, Gloriana had an extra reason to pour more effort into updating the Star Dancer.

Her brother’s life depended on it! Since she possessed the capability to work on its design, she would do her best to draw out as much strength out of it as possible!

Ves made sure to keep a distance from the siblings. He held back his curiosity and tried his best not to listen in or study the projected design.

An expert mech always incorporated numerous advanced technologies and design applications. The Star Dancer almost certainly incorporated many innovations exclusive to the Hexers or the Wodins.

Since Ves wasn’t formally involved in the project, he had no right to be exposed to the Star Dancer’s design!

"Miaow."

While Gloriana outlined her improvements, Clixie somehow ended up in Brutus’ arms. The severe-looking brother finally softened his grave expression and played with the cat in his arms.

"Huh. Turns out being a cat person runs in the blood." Ves remarked.

"Meow."

Ves turned to the cat biting at his shoes and kicked his naughty pet away.

"I know you’re anxious to return to the Scarlet Rose, but we can’t leave yet! Be patient and make do with Gloriana’s snacks!"

"Meow meow!"

Lucky angrily swung his tail at Ves before skulking off.

Ever since they were rescued by the Glory Battalion, they hadn’t been given an opportunity to return to the ship they hijacked from the Fridaymen.

Neither Lucky nor Ves were pleased!

With all of the Breyer alloy the mysterious escape pod could produce, Lucky felt wrong to be deprived of what he considered to be his rightful prize! After all, it was mostly due to his abilities that they managed to conquer the Scarlet Rose!

As for Ves, he formed a lot of ambitions for this valuable material. It wasn’t any day that Ves randomly found a seemingly endless source of Breyer alloy! As long as the loop he discovered continued to supply him with materials, he could use it to build a lot of powerful assets!

He formed a lot of ambitious plans. Depending on the maximum sustainable output of Breyer alloy, he could completely transform his life in a couple of years of time!

Yet now that Gloriana not only dragged him away from the Scarlet Rose, but also placed a prize crew onto his newly-conquered ship, Ves couldn’t help but be worried.

It had already been several days. Before he departed, Ves made sure to halt the loop and keep the anomalous escape pod shut in its launch tube.

Would the escape pod and its frightening occupant remain in place?

Ves didn’t know the answer to this question. As time continued to pass, he couldn’t help but dread what might happen.

It would be awful if the Hexers discovered this secret! Any day now, the mummified woman might wake up, or her escape pod might start appearing on the Stellar Chaser!

Any change was detrimental to his interests. Ves was not among his Avatars, Battle Criers or Sentinels right now. Every single ship in the fleet belonged to the Wodins! There was nowhere he could hide this anomaly.

Once the Hexers discovered the potential worth of the self-replicating escape pod, they would probably claim it for themselves!

Fortunately, nothing happened so far. The Hexers didn’t appear to have discovered the unusual escape pod. The undermanned prize crew tasked with running the Scarlet Rose were too busy repairing all of the damage and neglect she accumulated over the past month.

While Ves chatted with Ranya, Lucky decided to take solace in Gloriana’s company.

At least she never kicked his body for no reason!

"Meow."

"Oh Lucky! Are you hungry, little buddy?"

"Meow!"

"Hihihi! You’re so cute. I’ve got plenty of shiny minerals stashed in my workshop. I’ll go grab some."