Combining several spiritual constructs with different properties together was a basic application of spiritual engineering. Since physical objects consisted of different materials, why shouldn’t spiritual objects be the sa?
This was a very simple feat of engineering, yet it wasn’t as clear-cut as it seed with regards to spiritual engineering.
When Ves concentrated his mind and studied the Grand Dynamo that churned out lots of spiritual energy in his mind, he was amazed at how it consisted of one, seamless construct!
Despite its apparent simplicity, it was nonetheless capable of performing many different functions. The spiritual engineering principles used in the creation of the Grand Dynamo were obviously much more sophisticated than what he ca up with. Ves had barely co any closer to deciphering its chanisms from when he initially obtained this reward.
It was like comparing the wall painting of caveman to a vivid, modern projected image!
"Well, I have to start sowhere." He sighed.
He did not think his implentation was weak or ineffective. It may be rough, but its relatively simplicity ant that there were fewer ways it could go wrong. Ves had a good feeling about the death spear when he observed it with his spiritual senses.
The only downside was that the compound spiritual construct already took up a considerable amount of real estate.
While he could have used spiritual energy to form the death spear, Ves wanted to beef it up in order to resist any attempts at weakening the Valkyrie Redeer’s most important spiritual tool!
The Marked For Death ability not only allowed the Valkyrie Redeer to stand out from other aerial flanker and harasser machines, but considerably increased the success rate of an all-out dive attack!
Ves made sure to emphasize three different aspects in the formation of the death spear.
First, it had to induce a sense of imminent death against the target.
Second, it had to provide the ch pilot with enough control to affect the right target.
Third, the suppressive glow had to be strong enough to resist any interference and overco any hindrances.
Ves looked forward to seeing whether he attained all three goals once the project proceeded to the prototype-testing phase.
"There’s still room for another ability." He thought.
Inducing the terror of death in soone augnted the offensive capabilities of his ch. There was no need for him to strengthen it further.
What Ves sought to do instead was to enhance the survival of the ch. Even if it was a dium ch, the Valkyrie Redeer could not take a lot of hits. This was one of its biggest shortcomings and sothing that concerned him quite often whenever he worked on the design.
The problem was that the death spear already took up quite a lot of ’spiritual capacity’. The spiritual foundation of a ch could only support a limited amount of spiritual constructs before starting to lose too much strength.
Going any further would be no different from trying to build a castle above a couple of wooden twigs. The entire layout was liable to collapse!
He couldn’t create sothing as strong as the death spear, but he didn’t need to in his opinion. Ever since he and his partner added the Starburst module to the Valkyrie Redeer, Ves mulled over whether he should add a spiritual dinsion to this disengagent tool.
The strong but localized ECM pulse along with the spontaneous release of disruptive energy particles were mainly targeted towards confusing various sensors. Each activation montarily overwheld various kinds of optical sensors, heat sensors, acoustic sensors and so on, thereby preventing the enemies of the Valkyrie Redeer to track its subsequent movents for at least a second!
However, the Starburst module possessed a fatal flaw that caused the Hex Army to limit its implentation.
It did not disturb a prepared and well-trained opponent.
chs were controlled by humans. The Starburst module only confused the forr, but not the latter.
Certainly, if the enemy ch pilots did not anticipate getting hit by a burst of disruption, they would probably grow muddled for a mont, giving the Valkyrie Redeer ample ti to escape!
Yet Ves did not believe that the Fridayn would remain ignorant for long. With the Blessed Squire making such a huge impact on both sides, he believed the Valkyrie Redeer would definitely attract a lot of attention.
It would be quite bad if the Fridayman ch pilots studied the Valkyrie Redeer’s properties and morized how to fight the marauder ch!
Against elite and prepared enemy ch pilots, they could just shield their sensors beforehand or simply let them get blinded while launching their attacks blindly!
In such a critical situation, a triggered ability which allowed the Valkyrie Redeer to induce a spiritual shock to nearby enemies could be a life saver!
Living through several successive Mastery experiences provided him with a deep understanding of the importance of rhythm and focus. Disrupting them with a sharp spiritual shock was enough to make enemy ch pilots pause, and at a crucial timing this was enough to allow the Valkyrie Redeer to retreat unscathed!
When it ca to triggered abilities, Ves had learnt that symbolism and intent mattered the most. The constructs he shaped carried his touch, and therefore his frawork on how they were supposed to work.
To put it simpler, as long as Ves believed sothing would happen, a well-designed construct would do its best to make it happen!
Of course, it wasn’t as simple as he sounded. There were many nuances and unknown variables at play that Ves did not fully grasp. He could only resort to trial and effort to co up with a viable spiritual construct.
He initially started to form a spiritual construct in the form of a bomb or an explosive. However, Ves did not wish to risk the construct blowing up and dealing damage to the Valkyrie Redeer’s spiritual foundation.
He experinted with other constructs before he settled on creating a traditional bell.
As long as the bell rang once, the spiritual construct released a pulsing wave that was supposed to shock anyone within the range of the Valkyrie Redeer’s glow!
The soul bell consisted of two spiritual constructs. The main body was filled with death attributes in order to induce fear, while the clapper that was responsible for ringing the bell compressed the active effect in a pulsing wave.
The soul bell wasn’t strong if it was constantly active. Ves overca this problem by designing the spiritual construct in a way that allowed it to acc.u.mulate its energy. Once the ch piloted triggered the ability, the bell imdiately rang, thereby releasing all of the pent-up energy at once!
He called it the Shock Pulse.
One of the most crucial properties of this Shock Pulse ability was that it aid squarely towards non-Hexers. Any Hexer or believer in the Superior Mother should be able to remain unaffected, which was very important as Ves did not wish for the ch pilot of the Valkyrie Redeer to pause at the crucial mont of activation!
Ves hoped that this implentation was sufficient to disrupt any nearby enemy. The Valkyrie Redeer would be able to activate this ability to facilitate its retreat as well as its advance!
"The ch doesn’t necessarily have to leap back into the air. It can also perform a follow-up attack!"
At this point, Ves believed the Valkyrie Redeer could accommodate no more triggered abilities without weakening its fundantals. That was unacceptable!
"I wonder how they will hold up against any possible counters to my ch." He whispered.
He could no longer assu that glows would be able to empower the users of his chs with impunity. Once the Masters who targeted his design philosophy rolled out their counter designs, Ves was not certain whether the two triggered abilities of the Valkyrie Redeer would function correctly under adverse circ.u.mstances.
Nonetheless, he did not believe that any competitor could negate his glows entirely. If ch designers were able to completely negate each other’s specialty, then why develop in the first place?
In every conflict he studied, he rarely encountered any ntion where the work of one ch designer completely negated a specialty!
Nonetheless, he knew too little about Masters to say for sure.
Ves felt grateful that he ca up with the Sanctuary Project. Designing a ch that was expressly designed to counter his own work seed crazy at first, but with the advent of competition, it was actually quite a clever response!
The difference between his own counter and the counter developed by his competitors was that he exerted no control over the latter!
He couldn’t just call Master Olson and beg her to take it easy on his chs.
In contrast, selling the Sanctuary chs to the market would ensure that Ves would be able to control exactly when glows worked and when they were suppressed. The hidden backdoors and rules that he planned to add to the Sanctuary would make sure of that!
Most of the counters developed by Masters probably ended up in the military rather than the private sector. As long as the Sanctuary offered the best value for money, Ves would definitely be able to gain a lot of market share of chs that countered his glows!
Now that Ves completed the triggered abilities of the Valkyrie Redeer, he felt tempted to do the sa to his other projects.
So of them were a bit further ahead than others, but they had all progressed to the point where Ves was able to play with their spiritual foundations.
Gloriana picked up his exhaustion and excitent when they next contacted each other.
Her physical projection stepped close to his and touched his arm. Ves felt a strong pressure on his skin, which caused him to look at her in puzzlent.
"This isn’t supposed to happen. Why is your touch so strong?"
She grinned at him. "I upgraded the physical projection tech of my stateroom aboard the Stellar Chaser! Doesn’t that sound great?"
"High-quality physical projection machines are expensive. Why would you possibly spend so much money?" Ves frowned.
"To do this." She snapped her fingers.
A sll suddenly tickled his nose. Ves widened his eyes. He could actually sll one of her regular perfus! A hot and rosy sll intoxicated his nasal senses as he breathed the distinctive sll generated by the Darkbreak module.
He wasn’t able to determine whether the sll precisely matched the perfu, but the fact that the Darkbreak module was able to convey this much was already impressive!
"You.. upgraded your physical projectors just to make your projection sll better?"
"No, silly. I also wanted to do this!"
Her physical projection threw itself at him, causing him to feel a strong pressure exerted on his body. Before he knew it, her projection kissed his lips!
Though Ves knew he was just feeling simulated pressure generated by the Darkbreak module, the illusion was very close to reality!
When the two began to engage in so tongue action, Ves found to his surprise that he could sense plenty of moisture on his tongue and lips!
What an amazing function! Physical projection technology had evidently advanced considerably since the ti he interacted with the virtual officers of the Starlight galodon!
Once Gloriana withdrew her lips, she gazed at him with an intriguing look. "Did you know why humans originally developed physical projections? In space, it’s very hard for couples to live apart from each other. There is so much you can do to sustain the love you have for soone if you are just limited to talking to an intangible projection. There’s also a lot of lonely bachelors aboard vessels who can’t go to a club and aren’t allowed to fraternize with each other."
"Wait a minute.. are you suggesting that.."
"Hihi! You guessed it! Technology is so amazing. Let us test whether modern physical projection technology is good enough for you to be able to ’discharge your energy’ to across light-years..."
The hands of her physical projection already started to unbutton and peel off his shirt uniform. Though Ves felt excited, he also felt reluctant to engage with her any further!
"Wait! This channel isn’t secure! Our lovemaking will probably end up in the archives of the MTA. Master Willix is probably watching at this very mont!"
"Then let her. I don’t mind, hihi!"
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