The Mech Touch

ceived frequent reports on the accusations lodged against the LMC ’s mechs.
How many sales had his company lost because his customers bought into the conspiracy theories?

Though Ves and the LMC could issue as many denials as they liked, the effect would be limited.
After all, it was a given that he would support his own products!

He grinned.
”It ’s a different matter if other authorities put in a good word! ”

As long as he cultivated support among his customers, he could mitigate the damage and even neutralize it to a great extent! This was because a mech that revolved around duty was exactly what was needed to address the current crisis!

”If something is illegal but also highly needed, it won ’t stay illegal for long! ”

As long as he managed to obtain the buy-in of many powerful individuals by making them value his Desolate Soldiers, then they would naturally back him up! Just like how the Kinner Tribe ’s polite form of slavery earned acceptance, Ves wanted his Desolate Soldiers and other mech designs to be accepted as well!

”All I have to do is to make my Desolate Soldier model indispensable to the desperate states whose citizens are wavering! ”

Ves predicted that his Desolate Soldiers would enjoy a lot more demand in weaker and more unstable states such as the Reinald Republic.
The Bright Republic on the other hand did not lack in fighting will, but even the Desolate Soldiers could still play a role in keeping morale high.

He felt a lot better about himself and his current design project now that he came up with a way to solve this increasingly more intractable problem.

Though the solution sounded a bit distasteful due to its parallels to the Kinner Tribe ’s practises, at least it had been proven to work!

”Heh, there ’s no need for me to trouble my conscience any further. ” He grinned.
”It ’s fine as long as it works! ”

He began to enact some of his plans.
First, he contacted Captain Silvestra to divert to a specific star system.

”Sir, this course adjustment will delay our arrival to the Hertog Dominion by several days. ”

”That ’s fine.
Some business has come up and I really need to stop by this star system. ”

Once he did that, he began to work on his mech design.
While he hadn ’t created his spiritual product beforehand, Ves believed it was fine if he created it later.
He already had a very good vision in mind.

If his spiritual product didn ’t conform to his mech design, then Ves would simply hammer it into shape by force!

”Whatever.
I can ’t waste any time! ”

The border states already started falling like dominoes and it was only a matter of time until the sandman invasion reached the third line of defense.
Ves needed to be ready to publish the Desolate Soldiers by that time!

Though Ves came under a significant amount of pressure, he never saw that as a detriment.
He threw himself in his work and converted his draft design into a proper design.

Starting with the internal frame, Ves immediately fleshed out a proper internal architecture for his mech.
Despite the lack of quality materials and components, Ves easily worked around the limitations.

Due to his expanded knowledge base, older problems which frequently forced him to pause and think up a solution no longer hindered him any longer.
A Sub-Skill such as Internal Structure Specialization I provided him with so many theories and approaches that he rarely resorted to improvised solutions in his current design project.

”What a time saver! ”

One of the principal reasons why he spent so much time on designing his mechs was that he often had to puzzle out solutions to difficult problems.
With so many choices available to him, Ves had to develop several different alternatives at once and calculate which ones delivered the best results.

All of that took valuable time and effort.
Yet now that he gained a number of relevant Sub-Skills, he no longer needed to reinvent the wheel all the time!

While Ves recognized that developing his own solutions by hand were valuable learning experiences, he couldn ’t care less about developing his own solutions right now.

He just wanted to design the soundest and most efficient iteration of the Desolate Soldier that he could accomplish!

The amount of time he saved with his selection of upgrades was considerable.
What took three months to design back when he was just an Apprentice now took only three weeks!

Time flowed like water as Ves completely immersed himself into designing his Desolate Soldier.
The mech looked increasingly more detailed and real with every passing day.
The more his mech design approached his vision, the more enthusiastic he became about completing his work.

His passion burned like wildfire, motivating him into working faster while also encouraging him to put more of his heart into his efforts!

Even if he didn ’t pair his Desolate Soldier with a living design spirit, its inherent X-Factor already carried a strong hint of duty and the other traits that Ves wanted to impart into his work.

Ves believed it was his duty to design the Desolate Soldier! He was doing the Bright Republic and the Komodo Star Sector a huge favor by making his vision into reality!

Soon enough, Ves rapidly completed the basic design of the mech frame.
By keeping the design as simple as possible, he saved himself a lot of work.

Even though he aimed to keep the mech frame simple, the Desolate Soldier was anything but a shallow mech.
Its internal and external structures incorporated many ingenious nuances derived from all of the advanced theories he recently acquired.

”If a Senior could see my work, they would probably suspect that I borrowed the assistance of one of their own kind! ”

He was anything but done, though.
Not only did he have to pair his mech frame with a fitting ballistic rifle, he also had to subject his design through a large barrage of tests in order to refine and optimize his work.

Even so, Ves was well on his way to completing his mech design on schedule! He might even be able to finish it ahead of schedule if he skimped on the iteration process!

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