The Mech Touch (Web Novel)
chapter-6476

So far, Veronica planned to combine multiple new and innovative features in her upcoming Carmine mech design.

Although she casually explained her new proposal as if they were ordinary design applications, the truth was that they were incredibly dangerous!

She would never be able to get away with publishing a Carmine mech that contained any of these controversial, let alone multiple of them in a single design!

Veronica completely liberated herself from the restrictions imposed by the mech industry.

As a Senior Mech Designer, she was fully cognizant why those rules and restrictions existed.

She even agreed with them in principle.

The difference this time was that. Veronica could no longer afford to play by the rules.

Her mother and her fellow conspirators forced the Cyborg Cat to play a very different game this time.

Since Veronica did not have to pay any attention to the MTA, she may as well go all the way and incorporate all of the insane and controversial design applications that she previously imagined!

Veronica actually had a lot more dangerous and questionable design ideas in her mind, but she did not dare to bring out most of them. Her Carmine mech could only accommodate so much, and many of her more fantastical ideas were either too expensive or did not fit his vision for the current design.

However, the handful of subversive ideas that she intended to implement should already be enough to design an absolutely revolutionary Carmine mech!

It would definitely detonate the Red Ocean if the people over there ever received word of this insane mech design!

If there was one upside to the mission imposed by the Oblivion Gate Consortium, it was that Veronica actually enjoyed the opportunity to design a completely 'unrestricted' mech!

Naturally, the Mech Trade Association would absolutely grow horrified if they encountered his new Carmine mech in the wild. The mechers would definitely do everything in their power to prohibit its use, yet the fact that the Carmine System could actually enable norms to control mechs meant that their attempts were doomed to fail.

Unless the MTA secretly solved the genetic aptitude tyranny in advance but never published the solution for whatever reason, Veronica's Carmine mechs would most.

definitely be able to conquer the hearts of countless norms!

While Veronica felt guilty for using the Carmine System to lure a lot of gullible fools into bonding their lives to machines that might spell their doom one day, this was already the best she could do to give them a fighting chance.

When gods fought against each other, the mortals suffered.

At least Veronica was being a lot more earnest than others about giving the common people a chance to quickly grow strong enough to defend themselves... and maybe even take revenge one day.

However, the current layout was not enough to constitute a viable framework for her new Carmine mech designs for the Milky Way.

Master Willix no longer communicated with the Cyborg Cat with words, but instead raised her fingers to make purposeful and targeted changes and additions to the draft design.

For example, she fiddled with the power reactor and the cockpit of a draft mech.

This was essentially a way for the Master Mech Designer to convey her doubts on how the Carmine mech would be able to accelerate the growth of a Carmine mech pilot to such an exaggerated speed.

Not many mech designers were aware of this, but a knowledgeable Master such as Willix definitely knew that it took a lot of time for mech pilots to grow their willpower! It usually took decades if not a century or more for expert pilots and ace pilots to strengthen and expand their extraordinary willpower to the next threshold!

None of the solutions that the Cyborg Cat outlined so far addressed this particular issue.

So far, Veronica came up with the concept of HALM in order to turn Carmine mechs into basic but serviceable combat assets that could immediately be employed on the battlefield.

She proposed the development of Partial Convergence Blood Pact to quickly compress the training time of Carmine mech pilots and allow them to master their machines much faster than usual.

These two solutions were only relevant to low-ranking Carmine mech pilots.

Once any of these individuals broke through once or twice, they should quickly be able to close the gap with professional mech pilots and even break the limits of what humans were capable of under normal circumstances.

That was the point where the Carmine mech pilots of the Milky Way no longer had much use for HALM and Partial Convergence Blood Pacts anymore. After all, they should be able to control their bonded mechs with far better skill and precision!

The Transcendence glow might be able to speed up the progression of these Carmine. mech pilots before and after they surpassed the extraordinary threshold, but it did not function as a universal cultivation elixir.

As far as Veronica aware of, the transcendence glow mainly helped to solve a mech pilot's confusion and conflicting ideas. It strengthened the primary obsessions of mech pilots and amplified all positive and neutral emotions. It also diminished any negative thoughts and emotions, thereby cutting a lot of distractions of the affected individuals.

What the transcendence glow emphatically could not do was to supply the huge amount of E energy that the Carmine mech pilots needed to quantitatively grow their

resonance strength!

High-ranking mech pilots needed to develop their extraordinary skills in a quantitative as well as qualitative fashion in order to qualify for their next

breakthroughs.

Veronica's solutions only addressed the qualitative requirements up to this point. She had yet to address the quantitative demands, and unless she did that, her ambitious Carmine mech design would never work fast enough to produce the desired results.

If Veronica designed her Carmine mech according to this incomplete layout, then it would still take at least a century to produce the first god pilots among its adopters, and these were just the outliers!

By that time, the Oblivion Gate Consortium should have already pulled off their schemes long ago. Veronica did not think it would take a hundred years for all of the infighting and a potential civil war between the MTA and CFA to last for so long. Veronica intended to give the common folk a means to develop power quickly enough to fight against the monsters that sought to destroy their homes and eradicate their

lives!

To address the problem related to speed, the Cyborg Cat added another key feature to her Carmine mech design.

The cat very purposefully began to add more lines and technical specifications in the sketches. She too fiddled a lot with the power reactor and the cockpit, as if the two were intricately related to each other.

These actions were completely valid and legitimate from an engineering perspective, but only mech designers at the Senior level or above should be able to glean the true message that Veronica attempted to convey.

The Master Mech Designer sitting next to the incarnation narrowed her eyes. She definitely interpreted the message correctly.

Veronica intended to solve the E energy deficit problem by allowing her Carmine mechs to harvest them from their opponents!

In other words, she wanted her Carmine mechs to grow quickly in a quantitative

fashion by practicing a form of demonic cultivation!

If she was designing a Carmine mech for the Red Ocean, then she had no need to bother with such a dangerous addition, The Carmine mech and pilot should easily be able to speed up their growth by absorbing E energy radiation. This was the advantage of operating in a medium-energy environment.

However, Veronica needed to adapt her work to a low-energy environment, which meant that she had to resort to less ideal methods to achieve the same results.

Her solution was to impart a form of demonic cultivation to her MW Carmine mech. Instead of behaving as 'herbivores' like his Yellow Jackets, her upcoming Carmine mechs would turn into all-out predators that grew stronger by harvesting the spiritual energy of other life forms!

This included humans, living mechs and other mechs to a lesser degree!

Every mech possessed a spiritual foundation, but they were not necessarily as strong

as that of his own works.

The theory was sound, but the implications were heavy.

The most obvious problem was that it introduced a dangerous new incentive

structure.

Any Carmine mech pilot that had fought for a while would soon discover that they would grow stronger as long as they defeated and killed other mechs and people. More killing produced greater rewards, which encouraged the Carmine mech pilots to kill even more individuals!

In the worst case scenario, this might end up producing mass murderers who were way too eager to resort to lethal solutions!

Perhaps the Carmine mech pilots might become just as bad as demonic cultivators of

ancient times by wiping out all life in cities or planets in order to fuel their own

cultivation!

Veronica absolutely did not intend to let this happen. She would only end up

accelerating original humanity's demise at the hands of its own deranged people!

Fortunately, the Senior Mech Designer already thought of how she could prevent the rise of all of these genocidal maniacs.

The cat began to use her claw to tinker with the draft design. She raised the output of the power reactor, but then proceeded to cut the power lines. These little actions and more caused Master Willix to grow a little more reassured.

Veronica essentially conveyed her intention to limit the destructive behavior of Carmine mech pilots by disincentivizing any improper behavior.

While she did not want her machines to turn into nannies, she felt responsible enough

for her work to implement a mechanism that reduced the reward level when

the Carmine mech pilot crossed an egregious line.

Veronica was able to control the levers that determined the efficacy of the transcendence glow as well as the practice of demonic cultivation.

If a Carmine mech pilot ever went mad and attacked an entire city's worth of innocent civilians, then the Carmine mech would automatically dial down the effectiveness of all of the aforementioned features that sped up the quantitative accumulation of

resonance strength!

In the worst case scenario, the Carmine mech would permanently disable its ability to harvest gains from both the transcendence glow and the practice of demonic

cultivation!

Few if any Carmine mech pilots should be willing to cross the line once they learned of

the heavy consequences if they went too far!

Even so, Veronica did not think that would deter the edge cases from achieving

enough success.

In order to accelerate the growth of a large enough population of Carmine mech

pilots, Veronica could never impose too heavy restrictions on the gains made by practicing demonic cultivation.

What was the criteria that she intended to use to distinguish between permissible and

impermissible acts of killing?

Only honorable combat dialed up the settings of the transcendence glow and demonic

cultivation yields!

Honor was the one quality that should be able to prevent her MW Carmine mechs

from degenerating into completely evil machines!

While the Cyborg Cat only intended to use a loose definition of honor to make this

distinction, she was confident enough that this incentive system should be enough to limit the damage inflicted by all of her MW Carmine mechs!

Master Willix digested these implicit messages and began to tweak the draft design,

asking several questions about the less stable elements of the proposed Carmine

mech. Did Veronica fear that she may end up raising killers that were dangerous enough to destroy human civilization in the Milky Way even when they upheld their honor? Warfare involving mechs tended to produce a lot of collateral damage, especially if the

fighting had reached the surface of developed planets.

Many innocent people may lose their lives, homes and workplaces regardless of the restraint exhibited by the Carmine mech pilots!

Honor or not, these battle-hungry pilots may easily be regarded as monsters! Veronica knew that too many cases like these may end un happening as a result of releasing her upcoming work, but she still believed it was for the best. Carmine mech pilots could not afford to work under too many restraints. That would

just end up delaying the emergence and subsequent growth of high-ranking mech

pilots.

As far as she was concerned, a little collateral damage was no big deal as long as the most successful Carmine mech pilots grew quickly enough! Veronica began to sketch a few target dummies and loosely simulated the

transformations that the Carmine mech and mech pilot would undergo after participating in many battles.

The difference between the Carmine mech pilot and his enemies became smaller as time passed by. This hinted at another form of convergence. Veronica essentially conveyed the belief that if original humanity wished to slay the monsters that tormented them from above, people needed to make difficult sacrifices in order to gain the strength they needed to make a counterattack!

In the absence of better solutions, only monsters could defeat other monsters!

This was Veronica's way of dealing with the apparent truth that might was right!