The Mech Touch

edly disrupt and push back the pirate mech swarm until the Vesians finally gained sufficient room to regain some of their organization!

After that, the Vesians counter-attacked! They charged into the uncoordinated pirate swarm and used superior formations and tactics to mow down the pirate mechs with the expert mech in the lead!

Eventually, the Temple of Haatumak and her pirate escorts ordered a full retreat, pulling back their mechs and burning away from the Vesian fleet as fast as possible!

The Vesians didn ’t pursue, likely because they already broke the pirates and gained nothing from stomping the overconfident pirates and cultists further into the ground.
Besides, they still needed to deal with the aftermath of the assassination attempts and the sabotage wracking their vessels.

Ves looked up from his comm.
”Have heard some rumors about how the Vesian fleet is doing right now? ”

The man in front of him shrugged.
”I ’m just a security officer, sir.
All that mech and spaceship stuff is out of my purview.
However, I did hear rumors of how the Vesian evacuated a couple of combat carriers and ships from their supply train.
Over two-thirds of their surviving mech force along with the expert mech resumed chasing after the attackers, up until the pirates voluntarily gave up ten random pirate ships. ”

The Vesians suffered the same problem as the Vandals, but to a much more serious degree.
Not only did they lose more ships and officers, but they also needed to obtain replacement ship to provide new homes to mechs that have lost their motherships.

The grit and discipline shown by the Vesian mechs on the field and the stellar performance of the expert mech frightened the wits out of the Vandal analysts.
Even in their damaged state, they likely still outnumbered the Flagrant Swordmaidens and their expert pilot alone already exhibited a much stronger resonance than Venerable Xie ever demonstrated!

”I need to return. ” He said.
”Please inform the captain of the Gorgon ’s Gaze to prepare a shuttle ride back. ”

He then turned around and sought out Miss Lisbeth.
The deranged mech designer still wore a hazard suit as she sat behind a console.
As best as Ves could tell, stared listlessly at past combat footage of the Parallax Star in action.

She acted like an addict who had her supply of stimulants taken away.
Ves shook his head.
She made for a pathetic sight.

”Miss Lisbeth. ”

”Yes head designer! ” The woman immediately turned around and gazed at Ves with pleading eyes.
”Please tell me you are finished with modifying the expert mechs! I need them back! It ’s been more than twelve straight hours! I can ’t sleep as long as they ’re separated from me! ”

Ves wanted to palm his face and give her another rebuke.
Eventually he held off because it wouldn ’t change anything.
Witnessing her appalled reaction made him feel rather sorry for Miss Lisbeth.
She had come into touch with knowledge and design concepts beyond her means to understand and became irrevocably warped by those experiences.

That made her a useful mech designer to help keep the expert mechs in tip-top shape, but the continued exposure only deepened the damage.

Ves could have ended up like that if he strained his design philosophy a little more.
It was a good thing he respected his limits and took a detour to achieve his results.

”Miss Lisbeth, I ’ve finished implementing the classified changes.
I suggest that Venerable Xie should first test out the adjustments in the simulator pod before taking the Parallax Star out into space for a spin.
I ’m sure I can get Major Verle to approve a live test when I return to the Shield of Hispania. ”

Her eyes immediately began to glow as all signs of glumness disappeared from her face.
”You ’re finished? Great! I will prepare the Parallax Star for deployment immediately! Don ’t you worry, head designer, with me in charge nothing will go wrong! ”

”Make sure to log the telemetry of the simulator pod and the actual mech and all the other relevant data you can gather.
Put that all into an encrypted data chip and send them over to me via shuttle.
Don ’t transmit the data remotely. ”

Once he issued his orders, he turned around and headed down to the shuttle bay.
He entered a prepared shuttle and carefully swept its passenger compartment for any uninvited guests before he took a seat.

Even though he didn ’t expect to meet an Acolyte this time, he could never be too sure.

As the shuttle calmly exited the Gorgon ’s Gaze and brought him back to his assigned ship, Ves reflected on what he had just done.

To say that he felt conflicted was an understatement.

While he eroded his conscience to such an extent these days that he shouldn ’t be disturbed at plotting to harm an expert pilot indirectly under his care, his design philosophy disagreed.

”My mind reluctantly accepts the necessity, but my heart is disgusted at my actions. ”

He hadn ’t just turned his back on his principles.
He ran them over with a battleship and threw down a few nukes for good measure!

Yet despite treating them so rottenly, Ves felt as if he could bounce right back to normal after his sordid actions faded from his mind!

The more he deceived, the easier he could maintain his doublethink.
Even though he performed a heinous crime, he still thought of himself as a good mech designer.
The mental gymnastics he performed in his mind became so sophisticated that he felt his conscience should go back to normal after it stopped making a fuss.

However, his design philosophy was another matter entirely.
Even if he could lie to his mind, he couldn ’t lie to his heart.

It had suffered a lot of stress from being bent in every direction.
Restoring it to its normal, pure, bright and aspirational form wouldn ’t be easy.
He had a suspicion that it took more than time to straighten it out into its original shape.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www.webnovel.com for visiting.

”Well, if my design philosophy is a little bent, then I ’ll just have to hammer it back into shape. ”