The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5342

The surprise test gave Ves an excellent overview

All 100 students who enrolled in his Advanced Manual Superfab Operation course came from different layers of Terran society.

While none of them came from the absolute top or bottom layers of the Terran Alliance, they all grew up under different economic circumstances.

This gave Ves enough diverse samples to study the overall level of performance of different students with different levels of augmentations.

Klaus Robar-Fulton was not the worst performer among the 100 students, but his augmentations certainly ranked at the bottom.

His performance was a testament to how much he was able to utilize his limited resources to a higher degree. He did not let his relatively cheap cranial implant hold him back from pursuing his dreams and make his way up in society!

His approach and determination reminded Ves a lot of himself. This caused him to grow even more sympathetic towards this earnest mech design student.

Of course, the main reason why Ves held a lot of interest towards Klaus was that his latent spiritual potential was among the strongest out of his fellow students!

It was a pity that talent did not determine everything. Ves had encountered plenty of bright third-class and second-class mech designers in the past.

However, their inferior backgrounds and cheaper cranial implants heavily limited their upper boundaries.

The only realistic opportunity for them to be promoted to first-class mech designers was if they advanced to the rank of Master Mech Designer and utilized their much higher earning potential to upgrade all of their conditions.

Even then, it would likely take decades of their precious time to complete this cumbersome transition.

This clear separation between the classes was yet another example of how much the quality and price tier of a cranial implant affected the accomplishments of a mech designer.

Ves continued to study the performance of his students. He moved from superfab to superfab until he stopped behind Kalister Devos.

As his name suggested, Kalister was a branch member of the Devos Ancient Clan. That automatically meant that his augmentation package was among the most powerful out of the 100 students in this class.

The fifth-year mech design student was superior to Klaus in every other way. Kalister had completed more advanced courses. He learned noticeably faster. The teachings of his powerful ancient clan also gave him a head-start in many important areas.

Still, even when Ves took all of these variables into account, it was abundantly clear that Kalister was able to leverage much greater processing power in his work!

Ves had deliberately come up with a scaled-down mech design that contained a lot of subtle deviations from the norm. It threw the students off-guard and forced them to devise a lot of small solutions on the spot if they wanted to fabricate the parts to a satisfactory standard.

A lot of the problems could be efficiently solved by adequate mech designers who could leverage a lot of processing power.

The stronger the cranial implant, the faster and better their output!

Given these conditions, it did not surprise Ves at all that Kalister Devos pumped out high-quality parts at a faster rate than his peers.

What did surprise him to a small extent was how extensively Kalister was able to surpass the likes of Klaus!

The enormous gulf between the two discouraged Ves.

The display illustrated the power of modern mech design-oriented augmentations.

Ves yearned for this power. He would have tried to make a deal with the Terrans of the mechers to replace his old Archimedes Rubai with a proper implant that was designed with his profession in mind if he could!

The fact that he had mutated so far beyond the scope of humanity that this was not possible anymore frustrated him beyond belief.

There was no easy way to lift the upper limit of his productivity.

This meant that he remained stuck in an awkward place in the mech industry.

Currently, Ves estimated that his design speed exceeded that of a typical second-class mech designer.

He could even catch up and surpass the likes of Klaus Robar-Fulton in certain circumstances!

However, Ves was far behind in these areas when he compared himself to the more deep-pocketed individuals such as Kalister Devos and Alexa Streon.

This did not bode well for his future as a first-class mech designer.

Sure, Ves may have been able to become a tier 3 galactic citizen in advance, but he knew extremely well that his current mech design capabilities could not support this extravagant status!

This was bad news. Once he became a first-class mech designer, it would become clear to everyone else he worked with in the future that he was still behind on this important aspect!

Even if his fellow colleagues still respected him for his innovative design applications and his occasional bouts of brilliance, they would still become frustrated at his inability to keep up in other aspects.

Ves needed to close the performance gap to other upper level mech designers.

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The easier solution was to embrace his differences and focus on strengthening his advantages at the cost of neglecting his weaknesses.

Ves looked intrigued, but quickly shook his head.

"It's not possible because my head is already occupied by my design flame. This is the part that is related to my profession as a mech designer. Now that I have become a Senior Mech Designer, it is crucially important for me to prevent it from getting contaminated by messy and unrelated influences. I can't engage in multiple competing forms of cultivation at the same time. There is not enough available capacity."

Ves was currently a creation cultivator and a body cultivator. While they entailed two completely different forms of growth, they covered drastically aspects of himself. Their overlap was minimal and did not interfere with each other.

The story would be different if Ves engaged in a form of qi cultivation or willpower cultivation. Doing anything like that would begin to intrude on his existing real estate and displace his existing cultivation!

This was why mech designers could never become mech pilots at the same time.

After they crossed the extraordinary threshold, they could only ever commit to a single path.

Of course, there were always exceptions.

One notable figure that managed to break this rule was Ketis. She had been able to become both a swordmaster and a Journeyman Mech Designer at the same time.

"Wait a second." Ves widened his eyes as he made an important realization!

At the same time, his wife chimed in as well!

Alexandria emerged from her head and began to fly around her body.

"Maow."

"I do not know too much about this cultivation science that you are so obsessed with as of late, but if there is no room in your body to accommodate a spiritual implant, then what about our companion spirits? If Ketis can imbue Sharpie with her potent willpower, then it should be easy enough for you to devise a means to turn your companion spirit into a supercomputer. I am not sure whether you can make it so that you can merge your mind thoroughly enough to directly upgrade your cognition, but if that is not the case, you may be able to make this happen by activating a design network."

"That's brilliant, Gloriana! You've given me lots of inspiration!"

Ves truly meant what he said! As he mulled over the suggestions made by his wife, he suddenly realized that compared to himself, Blinky was not short on capacity in the slightest!

After all, Blinky had already made decent attainments in the cultivation of the Imaginary Universe Method Version 3.0.

The Blinkyverse had already grown a lot larger after continuous cultivation. Blinky had recently completed the first stage and formed a complete planet!

Even if all of it was intangible and made out of spiritual energy, that did not change the fact that there was a huge amount of free space inside the Blinkyverse!