The Mech Touch

of the most important grades of his mech design.

”So the X-Factor has reached an A.
I never expected to reach this height again so soon! ”

His first mech design with a solid A-grade X-Factor was the Aurora Titan.
Back then, Ves predicted that it might take many years before he could design a mech of comparable strength in this area.

The Aurora Titan only got this far because of Qilanxo ’s donation of a precious spiritual fragment!

There was no way he could replicate this feat! Just finding a powerful exobeast with the spirituality equivalent to an ace pilot or a centuries-old Sacred God was nearly impossible! Trying to negotiate a spiritual fragment out of them was unthinkable!

As for trying to steal a fragment from them, Ves could think of better ways to commit suicide!

Therefore, Ves did not actually expect that he managed to make it this far just by utilizing a mostly-whole spiritual entity as his Devil Tiger ’s design spirit!

”In the end, there ’s a considerable gulf in strength between a fragment and a complete entity! ”

The System essentially confirmed to him that using an expert pilot-level spiritual entity brought the same degree of benefits as an ace-level spiritual fragment.

Considering the scarcity and immense difficulty of securing the latter, Ves vastly preferred the former! Going on a Crown Hunt may have been rather perilous to Ves, but at least he had a realistic chance of success!

In fact, now that he confirmed the viability of harvesting usable spiritual entities from exobeasts who weren ’t as rare and exceptional as Sacred Gods, Ves even began to consider farming them.

”Why should I go out and risk my life on an arduous Crown Hunt when I can just buy a huge cat from the company who develops and sells their species? ”

House Laterna ’s research institutions cooked up a lot of experimental huge cats and released them into the Asco Continent to record their performance.
However, facilitating huge game hunting was not their principal source of business.

Instead, they derived a greater portion of their income from selling the best-performing huge cats to customers!

Though the occurrence of spiritual potential in the huge cats was minute, as long as Ves made a careful selection, he could potentially obtain a specimen as strong as Zeigra as long as he bought a batch of likely candidates!

”This is how a mech designer ought to handle this issue! To us, any problem can be solved as long as we throw enough money at it! There ’s no need for us to do all of the heavy lifting ourselves! ”

In hindsight, he shouldn ’t have participated in the Crown Hunt to begin with! Though he didn ’t regret accepting Lady Miralix ’s offer since the challenges he faced stimulated him into developing several new spiritual techniques, he couldn ’t keep wasting his time on needlessly-dangerous hunts.

He had better things to do with his time!

Since Ves did not suffer from any money problems lately, he could easily afford to go for the most expensive but convenient option.

”House Laterna isn ’t the only organization who develops genetic products.
There ’s a huge market for powerful beasts! ”

The idea had a lot of merit.
As long as he set up a large-scale private preserve on some rural planet he could collect as many weird exobeasts and genetic products as he wanted!

Other people would probably dismiss this new preoccupation as yet another weird quirk of his, which was completely fine to Ves.
As long as a handful of his collected beasts possessed spirituality, then it was more than worth it as each of them made another mech design with an A-grade X-Factor possible!

The entire arrangement introduced some much-needed structure, consistency and efficiency in his efforts to obtain powerful spiritual fragments and entities He would no longer have to get his hands dirty by stealing highly-valued relics or hunt down a dangerous beast in person to harvest its spirituality upon its death!

”It would be even better if I own a research institution myself! ”

Ves quickly shook his head.
That was going a bit too far.
The research and development of genetic products was an extremely difficult market to get into.
A lot of companies who had been in the business for decades or centuries accumulated strong advantages by excelling in their specialties.

Starting a biotech research institution from scratch could get very expensive as it needed decades to ramp up to the point where it started to break even.

As a mech designer, Ves mainly wanted to focus his business activities around mechs.
Trying to branch off in other sectors sounded like a good way to get distracted and slow down his career progression.

”I ’ll have to form some proper plans when I get back to the Bright Republic. ” He rubbed his chin in thought.
”Considering the benefits I can accrue, it ’s still worth it for me to dip my toes in this sector. ”

For now, Ves wanted to move on and see what the System had to say about his masterwork mech.
Once he dismissed the evaluation for his design, he finally received his anticipated announcements.

[You have personally assembled a masterwork mech based on your own Devil Tiger design!]

[Congratulations for assembling your first masterwork mech! As a mech designer, to create a masterwork mech is a grand achievement.
Only mech designers and fabricators who thoroughly understand and develop a strong intuition for mechs are capable of creating mechs that holistically surpass the intent of the original design.
Now that you have formed the first mech that passes this standard, your ability to produce mechs has undergone a holistic baptism that provides substantial benefits to your future works.
Please work harder to replicate this feat to improve your affinity for mechs even further!]

[You have acquired Masterwork Mech Assembly I! Create more masterwork mechs to upgrade this Sub-Skill!]

[You have been awarded with one radiant lottery ticket! Create more masterwork mechs to receive more radiant lottery tickets!]

Ves immediately focused on the last announcement.

”What the heck is a radiant lottery ticket? ”

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