The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3050

Chapter 3050: Gloriana Therapy

Perfidious Steel and Bissonat weren't the only resonating materials that Master Willix integrated into the Disruptor Project. They were the most potent and prominent ones that would determine how the expert light skirmisher fought and became known for. They were the reasons why the work on the project would result in a middle-tier expert mech rather than a low-tier product!

"The materials we invest in not just the Disruptor Project but all of the other ones as well are not common at all." Gloriana self-satisfyingly explained. "Though our expert pilots will have to endure greater challenges in mastering their upcoming machines, in time they will realize the potential that we are painstakingly trying to add to their designs."

Their approach differed from convention. Military organizations like the Mech Corps and the Hex Army always started off with designing an easy and basic expert mech for newly-promoted demigods.

Though it would be nice to hand over more powerful machines to them, the cost and effort required to do so was excessive at a larger scale.

Therefore, expert pilots had to make do with low-tier expert mechs and steadily train until they outgrew their first expert mechs.

As long as they survived and performed well enough to prove they deserved a greater machine, the military would eventually come around and provide them with a middle-tier expert mech…

Though this was not the most luxurious treatment, it ensured that the military and the state did not waste an excessive amount of money on an expensive expert mech only for it to get trashed in the first battle!

There were many differences between expert pilots. While they started off at roughly the same level of strength at the beginning, their growth over time might have followed wildly different trajectories!

One of the reasons why Venerable Foster received so much attention was because her talent was exceptionally high compared to the vast majority of other mech pilots. Even advancing to expert pilot was not enough for her to exhaust her potential!

In those cases, it was not a mistake to hand her a better expert mech!

The expert pilots of the Larkinson Clan were not as talented as Venerable Foster, though. Their genetic aptitudes definitely did not come close to matching her A-grade. Even if this factor became less relevant after undergoing apotheosis, the advantages that the most talented mech pilots enjoyed in the past did not disappear so easily!

What all of this meant was that Ves and Gloriana had no guarantee that the expert pilots they were servicing would ever live up to the potential of the expert mechs in development.

Still, Ves had his own thoughts on the matter. Unlike their peers who served in other organizations, the expert pilots of the Larkinson Clan had the benefit of receiving special assistance.

Whether they powered up with the help of Ves' spiritual engineering or other forms of aid from his helpful design spirits, the Larkinson expert pilots did not have to figure out everything on their own!

As Ves and his wife continued to discuss different aspects of the Disruptor Project, they did not see much reason to reconsider the major design choices that they had already made.

Sure, they had plenty of disagreements about the smaller details, but they could steadily work them all out when they commenced with the main phases of the design project. What mattered most at this point was to lock in all of the essential, high-level decisions that could not be changed once the project progressed past this point.

"The lack of defenses can be excused by the fact that it is good at evasion and is clad with a layer of Unending alloy." Gloriana eventually concluded. "This is not a mech for the faint-hearted, which Venerable Tusa is definitely not. From the moment he chose to specialize in piloting light mechs, he committed himself to a career where he needed to dance on the edge of a knife every time he deployed into battle. That won't suddenly change now that he has become a lot more valuable than before. He wants this. He thrives when he knows that his mech cannot afford to take too many hits."

Ves sighed. "I know all of that. I guess I'm just too nervous about dispatching one of my relatives to battle in a relatively fragile shell."

He recognized that he was being irrationally worried about this issue. Unlike many other light mechs, the Disruptor Project was clad with sufficient Unending alloy to fend off most attacks.

The biggest concern was that enemies might come up with all kinds of strange and unusual attacks that could bypass the protection of this hardy material. Gravitic weapons for example could completely ignore physical defenses and deal substantial internal damage unless protected by special materials.

Fortunately, gravitic weapons that were effective enough to be used in battle were not common in second-class mech battles. The wielders of these fragile and expensive weapons had to get very close to their targets in order for them to be lethal enough, and that was quite dangerous!

Expert mechs were able to wield other strange effects. Humanity had lots of different resonating materials at its disposal. Both natural and artificial ones could achieve amazing effects when they resonated with the right expert pilots.

One of the main reasons why the combination of expert mech and expert pilot earned such a high regard was that it could break the rules!

Gloriana did not say anything more, but her silent presence provided enough comfort in itself for Ves to get back into gear.

Though he had not managed to get rid of all of his concerns, he resorted to a solution that had often worked for his problems.

He shoved them to the back of his mind and tried his best to forget about them. As long as he didn't actively think about any unpleasant thoughts, his mood no longer deteriorated!

"Are you ready to get back to work?" Gloriana asked.

"Sure."

Ves kissed Gloriana's cheek, causing her to release a pleasant giggle. She soon switched back to work mode though as she returned to studying the latest documents on the Disruptor Project.

"I have already gathered enough feedback from Juliet and Ketis to know what we have to watch out for when we design this expert mech. In general, we always have to make sure we prioritize its mobility but not to the extent of sacrificing too much in other areas."

"That's easy to say." Ves scoffed. "We have very wide ranges to consider, especially since the performance of expert mechs are so good. Who determines what level of performance is good or bad?"

Gloriana smirked and crossed her arms. "That's my job. You don't need to worry about that. I already ran a lot of numbers and have set some overall guidelines on the performance of every expert mech in development. Don't dip any lower than the minimum specifications that I have set and you'll be fine. Just try and do your best to exceed them if you can. Anything extra that we can get will give us a lot more leeway."

At the end of the day, the Disruptor Project was the first one to pass to the next design phase. While Ves and the others aimed to progress the other expert design projects as well, there was no doubt that they wanted to complete the expert light mech design first!

According to Gloriana's estimates, they might be able to finish the design in just four months if they poured all of their attention on it. However, a more realistic completion date was six months as they could not afford to neglect their other design projects.