With the increasing proliferation of LMC chs, more and more expert candidates and expert pilots erged from those who utilized the machines.
Their breakthroughs were different from that of other people.
Elr Conta, Josephine Isa and many other warriors were shaped by the chs they piloted.
In the ch community, everyone knew that a lot of factors determined the extraordinary character of a high-ranking ch pilot.
Their parents, their upbringing, their education, their work environnt, their friends, their colleagues and their individual views all influenced their guiding principles.
While state militaries invested a considerable amount of effort into steering the views of their expert candidates and expert pilots, they were only able to shape them within a broad range of ideologies.
For example, it was easy enough for the Friday Coalition or the Hexadric Hegemony to prevent their future expert pilots from developing any sympathy towards their enemies or turning against their own state.
Yet that still left a lot of options. How these ch pilots eventually developed was largely out of anyone's control. Not even the ch pilots themselves could consciously choose their own convictions.
ch pilots derived strength from their hearts, not their minds. The forr was a lot harder to control than the latter.
Fortunately, their specialization and the chs they piloted exerted a moderate influence in the formation of their guiding principles.
Knight ch pilots tended to dedicate themselves to protecting others. Light skirmisher pilots leaned towards attaining greater speed. Lancer chs often strove to exceed their attack power.
Yet even then, there was a lot of variance in how they ended up exactly.
For example, Venerable Tusa Billingsley-Larkinson was a light ch specialist. It would have been normal if his force of will was dedicated towards pursuing greater speeds or assassinating the most powerful chs.
Instead, his force of will strayed towards an unusual direction. Venerable Tusa longed for freedom, both literal and figurative. While he was fine with staying in the Larkinson Clan, he was not as attached to it as other Larkinsons.
This was why Ves knew he had to offer solid benefits to Tusa in order to keep him in the clan.
Naturally, Ves hated expert pilots like Venerable Tusa. He also hated sanctimonious, self-righteous expert pilots like Venerable Jannzi. Both of them developed force of wills that were oriented around principles that weren't entirely compatible with what Ves had in mind.
It would have been great if Ves was able to shape their progression in a more harmless direction.
This was why Ves took in the news conveyed by Gavin very seriously.
"Are you certain about this news, Benny? I have never heard of chs that were able to produce expert candidates and expert pilots with such a high degree of uniformity."
His assistant nodded. "While we are still in the process of gathering more data, the details of the known cases are very clear. When ch pilots break through while piloting our products, their guiding principles largely align with their chs to a much greater degree than usual.
Gavin transmitted a report to Ves. It contained all of the cases that the LMC was aware of and perford so analyses in order to prove or disprove so relationships.
What imdiately stood out was that out of the hundreds, many of them embodied their chs.
"Since the Desolate Soldier is our oldest bestseller, the data on its ch pilots is very rigorous." Gavin explained. "Over the past couple of years, we have surveyed hundreds of ch pilots who have broken through while piloting this machine. Over half of them live and breathe duty. Whenever they pilot a Desolate Soldier, their imrsion in their chs shoot up and they are able to harness the glows of their chs to a remarkably finer degree than ordinary ch pilots."
Ves let out a rueful smile. "That sounds useful, but only if their chs can keep up with their strength. A budget rifleman ch model like the Desolate Soldier is only fit for cannon fodder. It is completely inappropriate to assign an expert candidate or expert pilot to such a flimsy machine."
The value of an expert candidate far surpassed that of a single Desolate Soldier!
The value of an expert pilot was even greater!
It made no sense for them to continue to pilot the Desolate Soldier despite their amazing compatibility with this trust old ch model. It was simply too weak to keep up with their newfound strength.
According to the report, every Desolate Soldier pilot who broke through were no longer allowed to pilot their old chs. Their superiors assigned higher-quality chs to them so that they could express much more skill.
While all of this made sense, it was a pity to the ch pilots. Without piloting the LMC chs that shaped their convictions, Ves didn't know how many benefits they were missing.
This was why only regular ch pilots broke through while piloting the Desolate Soldier. No one was willing to allow valuable expert candidates to pilot a fragile ch. It was not that difficult for enemy chs to breach the cockpit of a Desolate Soldier!
For a long ti, the LMC lacked enough data on breakthroughs of expert candidates to expert pilots. Too few employers were willing to let their precious expert candidates pilot a regular comrcial ch.
"That has changed as our products beca more popular." Gavin noted. "In the last half year, we have begun to output newer ch models. Your Hexer commissions are especially noteworthy. Even though it has only been a short ti since the Hex Army embraced the Valkyrie Redeer and its variants, the early data paints a surprising trend."
Ves continued to read through the report and eventually arrived at the incidents of expert candidates breaking through to expert pilots.
With excellent LMC chs such as the Valkyrie Avenger and the Valkyrie Brunhild, the Hex Army wasn't shy about letting their precious expert candidates pilot these superior variants.
When so of the first Hexer expert candidates finally broke through while piloting these Valkyrie chs, the outco was very shocking.
Almost each and every expert pilot aligned with the Valkyrie chs!
While the sample size was very small, the fact that every expert pilot dedicated their hearts and souls to the Superior Mother was very extre.
Not just that, but the new expert pilots also beca aligned with the death phase of existence. This caused them to utilize the glows and triggered abilities of their Valkyrie chs to a much greater degree!
Unfortunately, these new Hexer expert pilots faced a common problem shared by every LMC ch pilot.
They outgrew their chs.
"The Hex Army is in the process of arranging expert chs for them. Without a machine that can resonate with them, the new expert pilots don't stand a chance against their Fridayman equivalent."
"What happens to their older machines?"
"Their Valkyrie chs are reassigned to other Hexer ch pilots."
"Try and keep an eye on what happens to the new recipients of these chs." Ves commanded.
"That's going to be difficult, boss. The Hexers are only sending us a limited amount of data that they think is necessary to design better Hexer chs. It's a bit difficult to justify why we need these specific data points."
Ves frowned. "I see. Well, just find a way without giving too much information away. It's quite important for to see how these specific chs interact with their new pilots."
According to his theories, every Valkyrie ch that hosted a ch pilot that managed to advance should have received a lot of high-quality spiritual feedback. This ant that their spiritual foundations might have been enhanced to the point of reaching the cap of 25 Ves.
This was a rather low level of saturation, but Ves was still interested in how other Hexer ch pilots fared in these machines.
His thoughts went back to the expert candidates and expert pilots that were shaped by their LMC chs.
He wasn't the only one who pondered over this issue.
"We might be attracting a lot more attention soon." Gavin warned. "Previously, there wasn't enough data to make any solid guesses, but it's different now. There is enough data to infer so patterns. The Hegemony and an increasing number of custors are inquiring about how LMC chs are able to shape the orientation of high-ranking ch pilots."
Ves attempted to puzzle out why his chs produced this pattern.
It didn't take much effort to develop another hypothesis.
Each LMC ch contained two vital spiritual elents that allowed them to stand out from the competition.
The spiritual foundation ford the root of their identity and character. While chs designed and made by other people were able to gain a spiritual foundation as well, they were usually muddled due to lack of focus.
Due to his design philosophy, Ves consciously cultivated the spiritual foundation of his chs. Their foundation grew stronger and purer than the products of other ch designers.
This was the most essential quality of his products. Even though a strong spiritual foundation did not necessarily do very much by itself, it breathed a lot of life in his products. It also made for excellent building blocks that Ves could shape into spiritual constructs.
The second spiritual elent was the design spirit. Though it was an external property instead of an internal one, the design spirit was responsible for bestowing his products with their most defining property, their glow.
Glows acted on the minds of people in a passive but irresistible way. Unlike other spiritual interactions, glows were a manifestation of auras. As Ves utilized it more in his products, he began to develop so theories why they worked so well on ch pilots when other spiritual attacks had to pass through the man-machine connection.
One of his more radical theories was that chs were just as susceptible to glows as living entities. Therefore, a glow acting on both the man and machine would not provide much inherent advantages.
Another theory he developed stated that glows were not active phenona. Instead, the interaction happened in reverse.
In other words, powerful spiritual entities such as the Golden Cat did not actively output energy. What happened instead was that ch pilots and other living entities possessed an intrinsic sense of beings of greater power.
This ant that a glow could not be blocked unless the ch pilot in question developed a thod to halt this instinctive spiritual sensing ability!
While Ves favored this theory, he had no proof to back it up. He could only leave it in the growing pile of other unconfird ideas.
In any case, understanding the spiritual nature of his products gave Ves a frawork that was able to explain the phenona described by his personal assistant.
Of course, he couldn't expose too many sensitive details. In order to keep his trade secrets secure, Ves spun out a vague story.
"Our living chs are different." He confidently grinned as he leaned back on his floating office chair. "Every other ch piloted by soone who has broken through is as dead as a piece of rock. From my own understanding of breakthroughs, these remarkable events are very mysterious. Expert candidates and expert pilots are not just shaped by their own beliefs, but also the chs they are interfacing with. An ordinary ch might not be able to react to their breakthroughs, but that does not necessarily apply to living chs. I can't say anything further than that as I have not perford any in-depth studies on this topic. Anyway, these are my thoughts. Please convey them to the Hex Army and any other curious custor."
"Will do, boss. I don't think that will stop them from asking other questions."
Ves dismissively waved his hand. "Just tell them that this is a confidential matter. Master Moira Willix of the MTA is already investigating this phenonon in greater detail."
"Okay. That works I guess."
The best part about this excuse was that it was probably true. Master Willix was so interested in his design philosophy that she never passed up on an opportunity to gather more unusual data related to his products.
As Ves dealt with this issue, he began to think about how he should make use of what he learned. If LMC chs truly exerted a powerful influence on the progression of ch pilots, what did that an for the Larkinson Clan?
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