Ves Larkinson's Orders of Life erged as a ans to systematically categorize the living qualities of different chs.
First order living chs barely possessed any coherent signs of life. They were chs with a weak degree of X-Factor. Ves had been able to produce first order chs since the mont he first ford the building blocks of his design philosophy.
Second order living chs beca Ves' default standard. They already possessed a rudintary amount of sentience, intelligence, awareness and autonomy. Each ch pilot could easily get in touch with them as long as they interfaced with the machines.
The spectrum of second order living chs was quite extensive. There were massive differences between a living ch that was mass produced at a third-party ch factory and a living ch fabricated by Ves in his own workshop!
While there were noticeable differences between the two, even the best living chs fabricated by chs had never managed to breach the upper threshold upon their creation!
The requirents to make a third order living ch were too high!
Let alone Ves, no one else who possessed a slight understanding of living chs could ever hope to fabricate such a potent machine through their efforts!
The only ch designer who could solve this problem and develop a viable thod to make third order living chs on demand was the pioneer in this new field!
Not even Ves himself expected to be able to fulfill one of his smaller but no less significant ambitions!
The best part about discovering this new thod was that it was not a fluke nor an accident.
Ves could easily reproduce the conditions needed to repeat this feat!
This newly discovered approach which he had taken to calling the Living Workshop thod had endless potential.
His techniques were still rudintary as he mainly relied on brute force and passive contamination to infuse the production machines and the raw materials with the elents of life.
What would happen if he refined his techniques and contaminated the aforentioned objects in a more sophisticated manner?
What would happen if he beca a better ch designer and developed the strength to channel a lot more spiritual energy?
More refined techniques combined with a greater quantity of energy would allow Ves to make stronger and more superior third order living chs!
This may very well serve as an essential step to his eventual goal of birthing a mythical fourth order living ch!
Still, as Ves grew a lot more tired now that he had successfully converted the Ghost Project into a third order living ch, he imdiately recognized that his new approach had two major flaws.
The first flaw was that it was not applicable to delegation mass production. Only Ves could replicate these conditions. Unless there was another ch designer who could project a similar glow, there was no way anyone else could perform the sa feat!
"For now, at least…" Ves murmured under his breath.
His thoughts briefly drifted to his son. Marvaine not only had the makings of a great ch designer, but was also endowed with a companion spirit that was already attributed towards life.
Although Denny was still a young and growing spiritual kitten for the ti being, what about a decade later? What about two decades later?
Once Denny grew up and realized a portion of his potential, it was not impossible for Marvaine's companion spirit to pull off the Living Workshop thod by himself!
However, there was another major flaw to this technique that made it a lot less likely for his son to pull it off by himself.
This was because the energy requirents were too high!
Where did life co from? It did not erge out of nothing!
The Living Workshop thod was just a particularly creative way to brute force the creation of a third order living ch by spending spiritual energy like flowing water.
It was the stupidest and least efficient way for Ves to create a third order living ch!
If Ves did not have free access to the nearly limitless supply of low-quality spiritual energy accumulated by a bunch of friendly design spirits, he would never be able to fuel this extravagant process by himself!
Ves would have sucked himself dry in an instant if he only relied upon his own spiritual energy!
Though he did not like the fact that he beca dependent on external sources of energy in order to keep up his Living Workshop pseudo-domain for an extended period of ti, he had no other alternative for the ti being.
He estimated that he would either have to beco a highly developed Master ch Designer or an outright Star Designer to gain the strength needed to support this thod by himself!
If it was already this bad for Ves himself, it was worse for everyone else!
Blinky allowed Ves to cheat his way out because his companion spirit derived his main ability from the spiritual remains of the Unending One.
As far as Ves could recall, Marvaine's companion spirit did not contain any ingredients related to Blinky or the Unending One. This was a serious shortcoming that signified that his son was probably unable to follow his exact path.
That was fine. Though Ves deeply wanted Marvaine to inherit his design philosophy, it would be wasteful for him to beco a clone of his father.
Marvaine should be allowed to figure out his own goals and develop his own design style.
In any case, Ves did not have to worry about these issues for the ti being. It would take at least two decades before Marvaine was ready to set off as a ch designer.
Ves directed his attention back to the Ghost Project.
Although Ves had elevated its spiritual foundation to a third order living ch, the ch was not complete.
This was an important distinction.
So long as he and his fellow ch designers did not put in the final parts and regarded it as complete in their own hearts, it would not completely co to life!
The current condition could be likened to a highly developed fetus that was a single step away from taking his first breath of life.
As Ves carefully scanned the spiritual design of his own work, he grinned as he saw an opportunity to pull off his follow-up plan!
"There is still room for manipulation."
One of the more special qualities of his living products was that once they ca to life, it was not possible to reengineer them without putting them at enormous risk.
However, so long as his living products were still 'in construction' for a lack of a better phrase, Ves could still keep building up his work as long as he had a way to improve on their current state!
From his current perspective, the Ghost Project had surpassed the threshold of a third order living ch, but that was all. It had only taken a step into this territory, but had yet to do anything special.
The reason for that was not necessarily because it lacked the energy to go forward.
The real cause why it started out as a blank third order living ch was because it lacked further direction!
Normally, whenever a third order living ch erged within the Larkinson Clan, the machine itself slowly directed its own growth and evolution based on its own experiences.
The feedback and interactions with the ch pilot also influenced the adaptation and specialization of the third order living ch.
All of this took a huge amount of ti and could only be done after the living ch was complete and put into use.
These conditions were clearly invalid in his workshop at the mont, so if Ves wanted to expand upon the Ghost Project's life, he needed to employ a new approach and assu more active control over its spiritual developnt?
This was a way for him to help the Ghost Project start off on a stronger footing!
To put it in another way, if the Everchanger and the Minerva beca third order living chs by virtue of being masterwork chs, they most certainly started at level 1!
Even if the bonus provided by becoming a masterwork ch gave these expert chs enough resources to reach level 9, the machines themselves did not know how to spend them all to reach this height!
In contrast, if Ves was manually created a third order living ch and took an active hand at shaping its subsequent spiritual developnt, then he might be able to make the machine reach level 5 right at the start!
When Ves beca stronger and refined his Living Workshop thod even further, it was not impossible for him to make his third order living chs reach level 20, level 50 or even level 99!
His eyes burned brighter as he thought about what would happen if he was able to do even better!
If Ves developed his third order living chs to such an extre that they surpassed a distant threshold such as level 100, would he gain the chance to create a fourth order living ch?
He strongly believed that this was the case!
Perhaps all of his current third order living chs such as the Amaranto and the other two aforentioned expert chs could evolve to the next order through their own efforts, but how long would that take?
Ves couldn't wait a century for these living chs to evolve into powerful myths!
It would be a lot better and more convenient if he could fabricate them in his workshop on demand!
"Hm, let's not get distracted."
He shook his head in order to clear his mind of distant possibilities. What mattered the most was what he could do with his current conditions and resources.
Aiming to make a level 50 living ch or a fourth order living ch was way too far away for him. He would already be happy if he could turn the Ghost Project into a level 5 living ch.
"Let's see. The spiritual foundation has been set in the initial shape of a third order living ch, but there is clearly room for expansion and modification."
Ves understood the differences between a fresh third order living ch and one that has grown for a number of years. He periodically inspected all of his expert chs in order to observe and record their changes over ti.
He possessed a rough understanding of how third order living chs grew and developed beyond their starting point!
In the past, Ves had been content to let these powerful living chs dictate their own growth direction, but this ti he intended to make these decisions on behalf of the Ghost Project!
What Ves wanted to do was not as simple as make a few initial decisions. He wanted to shape the entire evolution trajectory from beginning to end!
However, it was easy to make a plan.
It was much more difficult to ensure the Ghost Project would realize it and acquire the abilities that Ves had theorized when he drafted the plan!
In order to direct the Ghost Project's growth and ensure it would gain a set of powerful abilities that not only fit its circumstances, but also synergized well with each other, Ves decided to draw upon resources that could play a helpful role in this process!
"The design spirits can act as the supervisors!"
They possessed the age, life experiences and abilities that any freshly fabricated third order living ch lacked.
Although not all of his design spirits were wise and powerful enough to fully undertake this responsibility, they would only grow older and more capable over ti.
Once a design spirit becos as powerful and knowledgeable as the Superior Mother, it should be easy for the spiritual entity to optimize a living ch's evolution and maybe even bestow the spiritual attributes that were needed to develop a specialized ability!
"This new spiritual frawork shall be known as an Ascension Path!"
Ves couldn't help but laugh when he thought about the endless potential of implenting a more systematic approach to the growth of living chs!
The significance of developing systematic Ascension Paths for all of his living chs was groundbreaking to his design philosophy!
If it wasn't for the fact that he had already used the creation of the Carmine System as the trigger for his recent advancent, he would have been able to break through on the spot by coming up with this brand-new concept!
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