Visiting the Redfeather in order to observe the Shield of Samar up close bore fruit. Ves not only learned how it expressed its individuality, but also developed a strong guess how it ca about!
At the heart of it, the Shield of Samar grew alongside its ch pilot. The ch experienced Jannzi's every victory or loss, every boring patrol and every live practice session.
Each ti they bonded together, Jannzi gained sothing from her ch. At the sa ti, the Shield of Samar gained sothing from its ch pilot.
Ves believed that this exchange was a slow and gradual process in ordinary cases.
The spiritual foundation of his products started off weak. Giving too much of it away to the ch pilot risked damaging its root!
Normal ch pilots also couldn't give too much of themselves away. The spirituality of the majority of ch pilots was so small that they were almost invisible in his spiritual vision!
Only those with spiritual potential were able to donate more, but what they could contribute was very paltry compared to expert candidates and expert pilots.
In fact, now that Jannzi advanced to expert pilot, her force of will had grown by leaps and bounds!
Not only that, but as long as she continued to grow, her resonance strength and other spiritual paraters would likely grow exponentially stronger!
If she could only feed the Shield of Samar with a single biscuit with every piloting session when she was an expert candidate, now she was capable of serving an entire al!
In the future, this would beco even more exaggerated. Perhaps she was capable of feeding an entire container's worth of food when she reached the limit of an expert pilot!
"The problem is that her case is an exception. Most of my ch pilots don't have any hope of becoming expert candidates or expert pilots!"
Ves returned to his stateroom. He didn't look much better than Lucky, who was still splayed on his table while slowly waiting for his chanical body to recover.
"oow…"
Now that he thought about it, Lucky might have absorbed so life as well. According to Ketis, the gem cat bit the statue of the Unending One when it was actively releasing darkness.
Perhaps one of the reasons why Lucky's spirituality felt so weak was because it was having trouble 'digesting' the darkness he inadvertently absorbed!
Ves sharpened his eyes as he observed his cat for signs of abnormality. However, aside from intensifying the definition of his black tiger stripes, Lucky hardly looked any different.
There weren't any signs of contamination. Ves closely probed Lucky's spirituality, much to the cat's annoyance, and found no remnant influence or parasitic existence.
Of course, Ves wasn't arrogant enough to believe he was able to detect any signs of impropriety, but he intuitively knew that Lucky remained pure.
Lucky ate exotics all the ti. His ability to phase wasn't his greatest strength. Aside from his ability to produce gems, Ves most admired his absorption ability.
He beca whatever he ate!
Yet the downside of this was that it cost a lot of valuable resources to keep Lucky sated. Whatever entered his stomach disappeared from reality.
"It's a zero-sum ga."
Adding sothing ant removing sothing else. Ves couldn't cheat this process. Either he gave up so valuable exotics, or he kept Lucky deprived of his food. There was no way he could avoid both outcos at the sa ti.
"The sa should apply to growing chs."
Growth was a costly transformation.
Babies needed care and nutrition in order to grow up into healthy adults.
Seeds required soil and a source of energy to grow into vigorous plants.
Ves had to expend a lot of materials to build a ch.
In short, almost every process in reality consisted of so sort of exchange.
The sa should apply to life.
To grow the life of a ch, a price needed to be paid.
So far, Ves couldn't think of anything a ch pilot could pay except for his own presence and the life he bore in his mind.
The man-machine connection forged a convenient channel to facilitate this transaction. Yet the reason why most LMC chs weren't able to grow that much was because most ch pilots were too weak!
Certainly, it was not as if they were completely incapable. Ves sensed at least so progress in every LMC ch in the Larkinson Clan. It was just that the rate of progress was too slow.
Only Venerable Jannzi and the expert candidates jumped out of this pattern. Their stronger force of wills provided much more 'nutrition' to their chs.
"If this is true, then individuality is basically a luxury. Only stronger ch pilots are able to develop their chs!"
This was not what Ves wanted!
Sure, it was definitely good if high-ranking ch pilots gained significantly more from his chs. Ves did not object to the advantages they gained due to the rit of their strength.
Yet Ves was not like Gloriana, who would likely be content with designing expert chs for the rest of her life.
While he hadn't explicitly thought about it, Ves wanted his products to be available to everyone. It was fine if expert pilots gained more out of his products. What Ves didn't enjoy was if the main benefit of piloting his chs was largely deprived from his general audience!
So ch designers believed that they benefited the most if they designed the strongest chs. These passionate people were readily willing to give up on providing chs to the masses.
Such an outco did not sit well with Ves. While he didn't develop an obsession to push his chs onto every ch pilot in existence, he still wanted to offer those who were willing an opportunity to grow alongside a living ch.
Ves could forget about progressing his ch designer if he didn't solve this problem.
"How can I facilitate the growth of a ch when their ch pilots don't have much to offer?"
He scratched his head. "Maybe both of them have to work together. As long as they achieve greater synergy, perhaps a remarkable transformation can take place."
He developed a few preliminary ideas how he could accomplish this. The problem was that he wasn't sure about any of them without testing them for real.
"This is risky, though."
Unlike most of his spiritual experints, his latest ideas involved both chs and ch pilots in combination. How could he create a thod to accelerate the individual growth of his chs if he didn't test it out with actual chs?
Not just any ch would do. Ves had to conduct his experints with LMC chs. This was very troubleso.
"Do I have any other choice than pairing up my test subjects with my products?
The Battle of Ulimo Citadel delivered a lot of fresh test subjects to his holding cells. At least several of them were surviving ch pilots. Each of them possessed spiritual potential, but due to their chaotic lifestyles they were no close to advancing to expert candidates.
Regardless, their spiritual potential provided them with a greater degree of tolerance towards losses than other ch pilots.
This was good. It ant the chance his experints killed his ch pilots was low. Yet Ves still had to test his experints on ch pilots without spiritual potential as well.
Ves frowned a bit. Every pirate captive the Larkinsons picked up so far consisted entirely of people with spiritual potential.
Those who didn't possess this quality were deed useless! The Larkinsons outright executed the hardened pirates. Those who were innocents were spared from this fate. The clan rely left them behind at Ulimo and told them to do whatever they wanted.
It didn't matter. In ti, so other powerful pirate group would co to the half-broken pirate base and rebuild it anew.
"I should have grabbed so of them on the way out!"
Perhaps the Larkinson Clan would be lucky enough to stumble on a weak pirate outfit along the way out. If that happened, Ves could easily get his hands on so suitable test subjects.
In the anti, Ves spent a few hours on theorizing. He wanted to flesh out every idea as much as possible before he resorted to actual experints.
"I need to make so progress quickly. The Chiron and many of my other ongoing design projects can benefit from this innovation."
Individuality, not uniformity, was the key to progressing his ch design. Ves had already noticed that his design seed had beco more active than ever during the last few hours.
Ves believed he was on the right track!
As long as he discovered the right thod and developed it further, he believed that he could make it all the way to Senior. It might take a couple of decades, but once his chs started to develop their own individual characters after days of use, then glows should no longer be the primary selling points of his chs!
"Wait. I forgot about the third player in the ga!"
Glows! Glows ca from design spirits, which were very powerful spiritual entities!
Their power was imnse. They constantly grew stronger due to the sheer volu is spiritual feedback they derived from ch pilots.
His most popular model, the Desolate Soldier, was being piloted by millions of ch pilots spread throughout the Komodo Star Sector and beyond!
However, not all of it was useful. When Ves inspected the state of the Solemn Guardian, he already noted that the design spirit was already saturated with spiritual energy.
Even if tens of millions of ch pilots were added to the equation, the Solemn Guardian didn't actually benefit.
The spiritual feedback that all of those ordinary ch pilots provided was too low in quality!
The Solemn Guardian was flooded with so much low-quality spiritual feedback that the design spirit was forced to discard most of it! It was like pouring water into a mug.
At so point, pouring additional water rely caused the liquid to spill over.
"Where does all of that excess water go?"
Basically, all of it went away! This was a pretty egregious waste of spiritual energy. Even if it was very heterogeneous, it was still a resource that could be spent!
What if Ves took this excess spiritual energy and instead fed it to the spiritual foundation of his chs?
It would have gone to waste otherwise!
Though the spiritual feedback of a single ch pilot was miniscule, combining them all together resulted in a very considerable quantity.
Of course, it wasn't easy to accomplish his desired outco. All of that mixed spiritual energy was very diverse and mixed with a lot of junk. Recklessly feeding them into a ch would probably warp the chs.
This was where his design spirit ca in. Directly feeding the spiritual junk from millions of ch pilots into a specific was wrong. It needed to be processed, and what better way to do so than through the design spirit?
Ves glanced at Lucky.
In a way, weren't design spirits similar to Lucky?
They ate all kinds of junk, and produced remarkably uniform output in return!
What Ves had to do was to establish a spiritual chanism where the output of his design spirit was being put back into chs!
He suddenly halted. "There's a problem with this thod."
Feeding a ch with the spiritual energy of its own design spirit would only reinforce its uniformity. How could the ch pilot possibly develop a closer relation with his ch if it continued to align itself to its design spirit?
Ves needed to add another process!
He began to develop a headache as he tried to figure out a way to solve this new problem. He felt as if he needed to do more and more spiritual engineering to co up with increasingly more sophisticated solutions.
Despite these difficulties, Ves began to grin!
"At least I have found my direction! This is better than getting lost!"
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