The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4959

The momentous revelation session neared its end.

Ves could sense that Master Vayro Goldstein had almost shared every secret that he was meant to convey on this day.

The generous MTA Master even provided a lot of extra information on account of Ves' contributions and favorable relationship with the Survivalist Faction.

The knowledge of the Kingdom of Mechs completely changed his perspective on his entire profession.

Ves needed to spend a lot of time on thinking about the implications of what he learned. His future success and ambitions were directly affected by the variables related to the Kingdom of Mechs!

For example, he needed to behave a lot more honestly in the future in order to build up his favorability with the kingdom.

He also had to put more thought into what sort of innovations he wanted to use as the basis of the ritual needed to realize his design philosophy.

It was a pity that Master Goldstein declined to answer any questions related to the specific rules and criteria related to the realization process.

Senior Mech Designers just needed to employ their own judgment on this matter. They understood their work the best and should not let other people dictate their contributions to the Kingdom of Mechs and the greater mech community.

There was one subject that Master Goldstein needed to convey to a newly-advanced Senior Mech Designer such as Ves.

Both mech designers bowed in front of the statues of the Progenitors of Mechs in order to convey their deepest respect.

Neither of them worshiped these once-powerful human beings as gods, but that did not mean they did not revere the sacrifices that these heroes made in the past.

After that, Master Goldstein brought Ves to another section of the ceremonial hall. They stopped in front of the wall where a large and plentiful collection of antique firearms had been put on display.

"It is time to explain the secret of resonating exotics to you." He spoke. "Unlike typical journeymen, you have worked on many expert mech design projects. You have even led a number of them. Yet in each and every case, you had to rely on a more advanced mech designer to ensure that your expert mechs properly resonate with their expert pilots. This must be a frustrating limitation."

"It is." Ves admitted. "I have often thought that this limitation exists to prevent unqualified mech designers from messing around with high-end mechs."

"Do you still believe that is the case?"

"No more. With all of your revelations, I have a strong suspicion that the Kingdom of Mechs plays a large role in this process."

"You are correct yet again, Mr. Larkinson. It is not a difficult deduction to make. It is true that the Kingdom of Mechs plays an essential role in unlocking the power of resonating exotics to the mech community. Yet before I explain this method to you in detail, I must first explain what exotics are and where they come from. You have worked with them often enough to understand that they are not entirely compliant with the laws of reality."

Ves nodded. "That is true. Do they gain additional powers and properties to the Kingdom of Mechs?"

"No. The answer is not so absurd. The simple truth is that exotic materials are matter that is contaminated by the remnant energies of ancient, long-dead humans and aliens of great power."

"What?!"

Ves had uttered this word a number of times already, but it seemed he would never grow tired of saying it today!

Master Goldstein chuckled at Ves. "I surmised that would be your response. I am not lying to you. According to our extensive research, every exotic material derives its additional traits that cannot be explained through conventional science by the influence exerted by ancient beings. They may be regarded as gods in ancient times, but even gods can die. Once that is the case, what do you think will happen to the enormous reserves of energy that they have accumulated?"

"Their power… disperses into the environment."

"Exactly. The law of the conservation of energy still applies, even in the case of supposed 'gods'. The Progenitors of Mechs channeled all of their own power into the Kingdom of Mechs without any spillage as far as we know, but many other beings of great power were not as selfless or considerate. The history of the cosmos is enormous. Beings that have died centuries or even millions of years ago are still capable of leaving a legacy behind by contaminating random deposits of materials and empowering them in unknown ways."

This… sounded a bit similar to how Lucky produced his gems!

Ves bet that the two processes shared a definite relationship with each other!

The biggest difference was that Lucky generated his gems within a more reasonable timeframe while the transformation of the environment could take place over many eras!

"How fast is this contamination process?"

Ves did not like what he heard. He felt that mech designers were relying a bit too much on the Kingdom of Mechs to resolve numerous difficulties in their work.

"What does it take to do it manually?"

"You are not strong enough." Goldstein bluntly said. "You should revisit this topic when you have become a Master and consolidated your growth for a number of decades. You must also increase your understanding of multiple different fields related to energy, materials science and more. It is only then that you have the strength and expertise to learn and apply the cumbersome manual process to attune the resonating exotics to a human pilot."

"...Okay. I think I understand why the Kingdom of Mechs allows mech designers to take the elevator."

The threshold of designing expert mechs would become way too high if people like Ves could not outsource this essential task to the Kingdom of Mechs!

This process sounded similar to relying on outside developers and consultants to perform difficult and highly specialized work.

The biggest difference was that this time the work was done by a super-powerful evolving spiritual construct instead of a normal human engineer!

Ves looked enlightened. He finally understood the secret behind high-ranking mechs. He no longer felt upset at the fact that Master Moira Willix and Master Benedict Cortez always avoided him whenever they performed this step themselves in their past collaborations.

It was truly inappropriate to share this secret method to a Journeyman like Ves, no matter how much talent and ability he demonstrated.

He felt fortunate that he managed to get rid of his Journeyman status fairly early in his career. He would never know what he was missing out on if he lingered at this stage for 40 years or more!

It did not take a lot of time for Master Goldstein to teach Ves the ritual to enable a mech design to resonate as long as it met the requirements.

Though Ves still wanted to learn the method of making his high-ranking mechs resonate with their pilots by himself, he accepted Goldstein's warning that it was best for him to wait until he realized his design philosophy and became a much more competent mech designer.

"I have explained almost everything that you are supposed to know and more." The MTA Master eventually spoke. "You should be intelligent enough to understand everything that I have said, but I will allow you to ask a small amount of questions. What do you wish to know? Keep in mind that I will not divulge too much new information because you are not yet permitted to come into contact with greater secrets."

Ves needed to think about this. He had a thousand questions on his mind, but he needed to choose carefully if he wanted to obtain clarification on the most urgent subjects.