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Vessel: Tuned Jaw 0AJ22 Weight: 4.1kg
Faces: 503
Raw Materials:
Tempered Steel (any kind): 281 Faces
Flexweave sh: 200 Faces
Aurum Nullite: 22 Faces
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"This is still Proving Class, but far stronger. The naming convention changed a bit as well."
The first chanical jaw was designed extrely simply. It made Grey look almost like that one robot from The Iron Giant.
’Loved that movie...’ Grey thought absentmindedly.
This version wasn’t too different from that one. The only change was that where the bolts for the hinges should be were a trio of gears instead. It was a more complex chanism, probably designed both for more precision and increased biting strength proportionally as well. Almost like a lever system but for your mouth.
Grey didn’t want another Proving Class chanical jaw right now, though. What he actually needed was an Established Class one that he could convert to Curved Faces and hopefully get rid of the rest of this fat.
While Grey didn’t like the fat, he also wasn’t an idiot. He knew that it had a very real purpose.
If he could change the fat from sothing that felt like a suit stuck on top of him, to a true integral part of his body, there would be a real change.
He had seemingly completely forgotten about building a vessel for the Wolf Spirit. He honestly didn’t give a damn about that right now.
He flipped to the third page, and then the fourth. They were also Proving Class, and more powerful as well. But still not Established.
The fifth page, though, made him raise an eyebrow. This was the first of the blueprints that very clearly demanded Curved Faces be used. It was impossible to even use the normal Polygonal Faces to finish it.
The jaws had little differences here and there. At so point, they seed to optimize for certain things, like there was one that used a hydraulic system to increase biting power but required a water type Spirit to be used.
There was another that changed the tongue as well as the jaw, giving you a long, whipping attachnt similar to Barkeep Ji. Though, after seeing the frog man in action, Grey had a feeling that this Proving Class attachnt was nothing to him.
There was one that even had fangs attached to it and was ant to be used the sa way a poison snake would use theirs. When Grey saw it, he felt like that actually might have so pretty good synergy with the Wolf Spirit.
While it sounded odd, the Wolf Spirit seed to represent the Vampires sohow.
Grey was unashad to admit that he had seen the Twilight movies more than once. Was it just to get so? Maybe. He would plead the fifth on that front.
But what he could say was that if those fangirls ever found out this world combined the vamps and werewolves into one, their panties would explode.
’Well, if they’re anything like , they’re finding out right about now anyway.’
This continued through, but when Grey tried to flip to the 17th page, it stuck and didn’t let him.
Grey frowned. He still hadn’t seen an Established Class chanical jaw.
It didn’t take him long to figure out what was wrong. It seed there was a safety chanism.
He had only downloaded and succeeded in crafting one of the jaws, the to wouldn’t let him continue for fear he would hurt himself.
’Fuck it.’
Grey wasn’t in pain anymore anyway, and as far as he saw it, even the more complicated chanical jaws wouldn’t take him long.
Just in case, he started with the hardest one, hoping it would save him so ti.
This chanical jaw was interesting because its attachnt went up to his ears, attaching to them and forming almost elven bronze ears. It continued and ford a shield over his Adam’s apple and throat.
It was the largest of them that he had seen, and the precision required demanded Curved Faces.
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Vessel: Tuned Echo Jaw 0SSE01
Weight: 3.7kg
Faces: 1201
Raw Materials:
Tempered Steel (any kind): 671 Faces
Flexweave sh: 478 Faces
Aurum Nullite: 42 Faces
Tuning Crystal: 10
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’Hm...’
Grey pressed a hand down on the blueprint and it was quickly downloaded into his Cyber Space.
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Tuned Echo Jaw 0SSE01
Points of Error: 7
Modification Cost: 15,000 Energy Units
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Grey paid the cost. No point in building sothing imperfect.
Once the modifications were done, Grey got to work.
The Form stage was a lot harder with Curved Faces. When you were working with Polygonal Faces, you only really had the three dinsions to consider: up-down, left-right, and backward-forward. It could only slot into one place, one way.
But with Curved Faces, there were more points of contact. While technically you were—obviously—still working in three dinsions, a piece ant to show up on the surface might have a piece within it that extended all the way to the core of the ch.
Rather than smooth, simple cubes, you had odd, irregular shapes with curved and sloping surfaces that accumulated errors a lot faster.
The more Grey worked with Curved Faces, the more he realized why Polygonal Faces were used. It was just... easier.
It was probably easier to craft a Polygonal Face Established Class, or maybe even Vector Class ch, than it was to craft this Curved Face Proving Class one. That said...
Grey had crafted a Prosthetic ch before.
Sure, it was a Prosthetic ch with only Polygonal Faces, but it was still far harder than any of this.
Still, Grey spent the longest on the Form stage this ti than he had any ti else, only to be greeted by a Loading stage that was its own headache.
This ti, the Curved Faces wasn’t the issue. The software of this ch was just that complicated.
It was a sound type chanical jaw. Not only could its ear components pick up far more sound than his ears could, transferring them directly to his inner ear, but it could amplify his voice, use sonar detection, and even attack.
The energy transfer balance needed was exceptionally delicate.
It took Grey three hours before he finally reached the Intent stage and fused Protheus to it.
’If it takes this long to do every one...’ Grey sighed, why was nothing ever easy?
The chanical jaw shimred into existence and he placed it on his face, his body quaking as he fused it.
Protheus began its rampage once more.
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Sync Rate: 0.22%
Energy Reserve: 550.7/550.7
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Grey’s head snapped up, veins writhing along it as his body convulsed.
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