The new pri ch projects brought a lot of excitent to Ves and Gloriana. While their current ch design projects were already interesting enough, much of their work blended into a routine at this point.
They already settled most of the surprises and interesting design choices of the current round of ch designs. Aside from so design spirit issues, Ves did not expect to make any drastic changes or revisions to the current iterations of ch designs. All of the prototype testing and number crunching that would take place in the remaining couple of months were solely devoted to refining and polishing their current work.
Therefore, the novelty of designing and fabricating five new pri chs cast away a lot of boredom.
In order to deliver all of the pri chs as soon as possible, Ves and Gloriana already decided to split up so of their responsibilities. One of the problems they faced was that the production equipnt in their personal workshops needed a lot of ti to process Unending alloy. They had to put both workshops into use in order to make the best use of their ti.
Unfortunately, diverting so much ti on developing their pri chs would definitely affect the progress of their main design projects.
"It's okay." Ves spoke. "Even though I said that we should et our deadlines, I don't want to wait a couple of months until we are finally capable of supplying our remaining expert pilots with pri chs. Every day of practice counts."
Fortunately, they had Juliet. While it wasn't fair to burden her with supervising all six ch design projects, it wasn't as if Ves and Gloriana decided to isolate themselves.
The married couple could still drop by the Design Departnt every day and perform so essential guidance. Due to the nature of the current phase of the projects, they didn't need to perform all of the calculation and modelling work by hand.
Of course, it was still better if they were present all of the ti, but it wasn't strictly necessary. Juliet was always at hand if a project ever hit a wall.
Once they agreed on a plan, the pair imdiately went to work.
Gloriana happily stroked Clixie's back as she sat down behind a terminal. Her cat comfortably stretched across her lap and settled for a long petting session.
"Miaow~"
Since Lucky was working together with Calabast every day, Ves was starting to miss his gem cat.
Fortunately, he gained a new pet.
"Bygul, co out here!"
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The physical projectors in his workshop ca to life. They projected a distinct electronic cat. Once Bygul appeared into view, the cat floated over to Ves and hung on his shoulder like a needy feline.
Ves scratched Bygul's chin.
"Hehehe. You're a good boy, aren't you? You're not as naughty as Lucky, that's for sure."
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Once Ves satisfied his cat addiction, he began to tackle his first pri ch.
Due to the need to apply considerable changes or modifications to the Shield of Samar and the Bright Spear Pri, Gloriana took it upon herself to figure out how to apply Unending alloy to their designs.
That left Ves with the relatively easier and more straightforward task of preparing the Bright Sword Pri, the Bright Beam Pri and the Piranha Pri.
The Bright Beam Pri was the most interesting and uncertain of the three of the three pri chs. Whereas the Bright Sword Pri and the Piranha Pri were rely straightforward adaptations of their current ch design projects, the rifleman ch demanded greater attention.
How would Ves be able to integrate P-stone into Venerable Davia Stark's machine?
"Technically speaking, P-stone is also a pri material. It's actually much better at storing energy than Unending alloy."
The issue was that 40 P-stone didn't amount to a lot of material. It sounded impressive when Ves gathered them all together in front of his body, but compared to the scale of a ch, they were miniscule!
Therefore, any enhancent derived from adding P-stone to a ch needed to be implented in a targeted manner.
When Ves pulled up the design of the rifleman ch configuration of the Bright Warrior IB, he directed his sights towards the rifle.
"Hmm. Since I'm already at it, I can upgrade the entire weapon while I'm at it. There's no need to make the pri ch as economic as possible."
While it took a lot of ti to upgrade the Bright Warrior in a comprehensive fashion, it was not that difficult to perform so quick and easy upgrades to the weapon.
Ves replaced cheaper subcomponents with their more expensive counterparts. He reinforced and expanded the rifle in order to enhance its heat capacity, raise its energy throughput and strengthen its damage resistance.
Even though the rifle beca twice as heavy, it beca a lot more potent!
Since making the rifle larger ant it gained a lot of extra capacity, Ves filled up the extra spaces with P-stones and luminar crystals.
Ves wasn't sure about how the forr would interact with the rifle when Venerable Stark attempted to resonate with the pri material. There was a significant chance that nothing would happen at all because he completely misused the P-stone.
He shrugged. "Oh well. I'll just get back to the drawing board and try again if that's the case."
His lack of understanding on how pri materials and pri resonance interacted with the systems of a ch limited his options. He had no choice but to resort to trial and error to figure out the correct use of P-stone.
Aside from the weapon, Ves also integrated a couple of P-stones to the fra of the ch. He wanted to see if these additions could enhance other aspects of the Bright Beam Pri when it was under the influence of pri resonance.
Once Ves applied so other quick upgrades to increase the performance of the Bright Beam Pri, he implented a final change.
"Although I don't have any Unending alloy left to offer the best possible protection to this ch, I still have plenty of Breyer alloy to go around!"
Ves basically went old school with the Bright Beam Pri's design. The original Bright Warrior Version C used to be a bridge ch that relied on its Breyer alloy armor system to withstand powerful attacks.
While he had decided against implenting Breyer alloy in the Bright Warrior Mark I Version B due to his inability and the scarcity of the material, it was no problem to lavish as much of it as he could on a single ch!
He quickly revised the entire structure and armor system. With lots of Breyer alloy applied to the exterior and interior of the ch, the Bright Beam Pri beca deceptively resilient!
Although it was not capable of confronting expert chs and first-class chs, the pri rifleman ch was more than capable of coming on top in a duel against any other second-class ch!
That was the extent of the changes made to the unfinished Bright Warrior IB design. He transferred his work to Gloriana so that she could work out so of the kinks before he turned to the other two pri chs.
The Bright Sword Pri was supposed to be a straightforward pri conversion. However, Ves wanted to make sure that Venerable Dise adapted well to the ch.
In order to make sure she was happy with her pri ch, Ves decided to invite Ketis to his personal workshop.
"What do you need to do, Ves?" She asked.
"Co over here. You've already worked on the swordsman ch variant of the Bright Warrior Version B design. I'd like you to help customize this variant for Venerable Dise."
"I see. You're right to call on ." She replied as she sat next to Ves. Since she worked on the Bright Warrior IB Project, she was already familiar with its nuances. She imdiately outlined so quick adjustnts. "The Bright Warrior is designed to accommodate a general fighting style. Most of our Larkinson ch pilots haven't trained in any distinct swordsmanship styles. They're just utilizing a mix of standard techniques and so individual moves that are specific to a state, ch academy or ch instructor. As a result, the swordsman ch configuration is too rounded. It doesn't excel at anything aside from reliability."
This was typical to mass-produced chs. With thousands of Larkinson ch pilots, it was too difficult to please everyone. The Design Departnt had no choice but to find the most optimal middle ground as possible in order to ensure that every ch pilot was at least sowhat compatible with the Bright Warrior.
Ketis crossed her arms. "To be honest, our Swordmaiden ch pilots won't like the Bright Warrior. It's too… average. I'm not talking about its quality or its glow or sothing like that. The Bright Warrior is actually a good design for what it is ant to do. It's just that our Swordmaidens excel in an offensive, montum-based fighting style. We are used to swinging heavy greatswords, which the Bright Warrior doesn't exactly accommodate."
"Then let's change that." He said. "While we don't have the ti to turn the Bright Sword Pri into the perfect Swordmaiden ch, it shouldn't be a problem to improve so of its paraters. We can even reuse the Unending greatsword assigned to her Sword Hunter."
The Sword Hunter was the custom ch that Venerable Dise piloted during the Nyxian Gap campaign. While the older ch was too weak to be of use in second-class battles, its greatsword was too good to pass up! Besides, Venerable Dise was already accustod to wielding this specific weapon.
The two collaborated well on this project. Ves was pleasantly surprised at his first student's performance. Compared to half a year ago, Ketis demonstrated noticeably better judgent and applied her knowledge in a much more thoughtful fashion!
"You've improved." He complinted.
"Thanks." Ketis smiled back at him. "I worked hard to catch up to you. I've already completed a bunch of swordsman ch designs. Although I'm not proud of them, I've learned plenty of lessons along the way. I'm not as ignorant as before. I think I am getting closer and closer to advancing to Journeyman!"
Ves looked closely at her. Her spiritual potential had indeed grown stronger the last ti he inspected her mind. Whether she was one step away from becoming a Journeyman was still in question, though. The gap between Apprentice and Journeyman could not be bridged through steady accumulation. An Apprentice needed to accomplish sothing significant and impactful in order to break past the final bottleneck.
At least that was what Ves concluded from his own breakthrough experience.
"When are you ready to design your much-anticipated Monster Slayer ch?"
"Not until I reach Journeyman." She raised her fist. Her eyes burned with determination. "My first real ch for the Swordmaidens should not be a graduation project. I want to make sure my Monster Slayer is a full Journeyman-level ch design. Anything weaker is not acceptable."
Ves looked worried at her. "Don't you think that your reluctance to begin a major design project might be holding you back from breaking through? If you keep assisting in other projects while designing so unimportant and inconsequential swordsman chs in your free ti, I'm afraid your breakthrough might be delayed for years."
He had a very strong interest in seeing her advance as soon as possible. The more Journeyn in the Design Departnt, the more ti he could spend on other projects such as working on his pri chs!
"I get what you're saying, Ves. I've been thinking about this problem as well. I think I might propose a comrcial ch design to you. I want to take advantage of the LMC's sales and distribution network to propagate one of my personal works. Is that okay?"
Ves smiled and nodded. "You're welco to do so, Ketis. As I have stated earlier, any ch designer working for the LMC can apply to let us sell their own products. The only caveat is that it won't be sold under the LMC brand."
"That won't be a problem. While I don't think my work will sell for millions, it's enough to satisfy a couple of thousands of custors!"
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