After years of research, work and design accumulation, Ves finally managed to create a new masterwork ch!
Though Ves had high hopes for the Ghost Project and already felt that he had a good chance of elevating the quality of his expert ch, his wife had a different opinion!
The reason why Gloriana looked absolutely gobsmacked at the mont was because she had already started to write off the possibility of turning the Ghost Project into a masterwork ch.
Her internal model of chs heavily emphasized the physical qualities of a ch. In her opinion, a ch that was worthy to beco a masterwork had to match the ch design as closely as possible while also making small adjustnts in order to compensate for irregularities in materials and the environnt.
Although Gloriana also learned from her husband that it was important to provide a ch with a structured spiritual foundation, she had always treated it as an auxiliary component. Adding it to a ch was an easy thod to elevate the overall quality of a ch.
The stronger the spirituality of a ch, the less effort was needed to surpass the masterwork threshold!
However, one of the long-running disagreents between Ves and Gloriana was their view on how much weight the material and spiritual properties carried when calculating the overall quality level of a ch.
Gloriana for example believed that a masterwork ch was at least 90 percent about perfecting the material aspects of a ch.
Expanding on the spiritual foundation of a ch was definitely an easy way to score extra points, but even if it received a massive improvent that made it much more effective than before, it should not be alone to carry a ch to the masterwork state!
In Gloriana's theoretical frawork of chs, it was absolutely essential to elevate its physical and material qualities to the utmost in order to climb up to the second rung of Senfovon's Ladder of Craftsmanship.
Although Ves fully understood Gloriana's argunts, he disagreed with her conclusion.
Their design philosophies were ultimately different on a fundantal level, and that caused the two to regard masterwork chs from their own unique lenses.
Ves possessed an unconventional design philosophy, so it shouldn't be a surprise that his interpretation of chs was radically different from the mainstream.
In his view, a classically educated ch designer as Gloriana put way too much stock on what chs looked like in the material realm.
To a ch designer like Ves who spent much of his years studying how his chs looked in both the material realm and the imaginary realm, he felt that the latter was just as important as the forr!
A ch that looked visually exquisite but turned out to be a ss from a spiritual perspective was a defective product in Ves' eyes!
Perhaps it was still possible for such a ch to beco a masterwork, but the people who accomplished this in the past only did so by putting in an effort that was beyond human!
These rare masterwork ch designers made it so that the material properties of a ch overpowered to such an extent that its strengths fully compensated for the weaknesses of the spiritual properties of the sa machine!
According to the theoretical frawork of chs established by Ves, that was a valid but extrely inefficient way to make a masterwork ch.
There was no need for ch designers to perfect the physical engineering of the ch to such an insane degree.
As long as they did a good job at shaping the spiritual engineering of the ch, the combined scores of the two should make it so that the product had a higher chance of attaining masterwork status!
Ves theorized that whatever force was responsible for judging the craftsmanship of a ch based 50 percent of the score on its material form and the other 50 percent on its spiritual form!
Of course, Ves was also open-minded enough to accept the possibility that the spirituality of a ch was only 30 or 40 percent as important.
It was difficult to determine the exact weight of every criteria. Ves and Gloriana did not have access to enough samples to perform rigorous quantitative research on this difficult subject.
They also found it challenging to record concrete data without involving a lot of their own subjectivity in their asurents.
This was the reason why their disagreent remained unresolved for such a long ti.
This was like two people watching the sa drama show but coming away with different opinions on whether it was good.
Gloriana was the sort of viewer who heavily appreciated the graphics, the practical effects and the appearances of the actors of a broadcasted drama. She beca incredibly stimulated when the entire show looked fantastic to her eyes, so much so that she did not pay too much attention to any other criteria!
Ves on the other hand was the sort of viewer who appreciated both the visuals and the sounds of a drama show. The experience had to look good, but it was equally important for the sound effects, the voices of actors and the accompanying music to delight his ears!
Perhaps most people did not put much weight in the aural experience of a drama show, but Ves was different.
Not only that, but he believed that the cosmos or whatever else turned chs into masterworks applied a set of criteria that also shared a similar appreciation for sound and music!
Of course, it was also probable that this cosmic force also scored chs by other aspects that Ves and Gloriana did not consider such as the quality of the narrative plot or the dialogue.
None of that was important for the ti being.
What mattered the most to the two ch designers was that the Ghost Project's masterwork transformation may finally give the Miracle Couple a resolution to their long-running dispute!
From the increasing sense of dismay on Gloriana's face, it appeared that the proof provided by the expert stealth ch did not sit well with the female ch designer!
Ves was the opposite in this regard. His grin grew wider and wider as he observed plenty of signs that his innovative efforts to elevate the spiritual design of his Ghost Project to a greater height made the difference!
"Hahahaha! I knew I was right!"
The reason why he felt so jubilant was because he knew that the Ghost Project was not that impressive from a physical aspect!
His past masterwork chs were much more well-constructed even if Ves and his wife weren't as good at the ti.
This was because the technological sophistication of older chs such as the original Amaranto, Everchanger and so on was not that high.
These masterwork chs more closely matched the design and fabrication skills mastered by Ves and Gloriana.
The Dullahan Project and the Ghost Project were entirely different in this regard.
They ca much closer to first-class chs in terms of technological sophistication and material composition.
The addition of phasewater alone also made it a lot harder to fabricate a working transphasic ch!
The result of these changes was that the Dullahan Project ended up fairly sloppy.
Ves and Gloriana may have learned a lot of lessons and pulled off a significantly better job at improving the physical construction of the Ghost Project, but it should not be close to reaching the masterwork threshold at its current quality!
The only reason why it beca a masterwork ch without the use of one of Lucky's gems was because the act of turning it into a powerful and more structured third order living ch massively improved its spiritual properties!
This latest advancent raised the overall quality level of the Ghost Project so much that it essentially beca a masterwork ch by virtue of its elaborate and multi-faceted spiritual design!
"It's a combination of excellent features that has made the difference!" Ves guessed.
By combining the powerful and versatile Geist System, the newly forged bond between Venerable Zimro Belson and phisto and now a third order living ch that gained access to several promising Ascension Paths, all of these innovative additions enriched the expert stealth ch to such an extent that the cosmos would have to be blind if it did not recognize it as a masterwork!
"This…" Gloriana looked almost broken. "This cannot be… I was sure my theory was right… how can such a physically flawed ch beco a masterwork…"
It was as if the qualitative transformation of the Ghost Project had nothing to do with her contributions.
She may have worked hard to prevent the expert stealth ch from ending up terrible in physical terms, but she had not been able to excel in this area due to her immature skills, her incomplete theoretical understanding and her lack of experience!
Even if her god body solution would eventually ensure that the Ghost Project's physical attributes gradually brought it closer to the masterwork threshold over ti, this was not a real accomplishnt in her opinion.
As Ves and everyone else continued to observe the Ghost Project as it reached a higher and more indescribable state of existence, it seed that even the masterwork transformation was biased towards spirituality at this ti!
Gloriana had another reason to feel upset about this event!
"How can this be?! Why isn't the physical structure being elevated as much as in the previous cases?!"
Ves smirked in her direction. "You should summon your companion spirit and take a peek through her perspective."
Gloriana along with Miles and Cormaunt all pulled out their respective companion spirits.
Maow…
Alexandria had been working hard in the past few days. The red spiritual cat looked much more tired than normal, but she did not need to exert much effort to witness the remarkable transformation taking place in a different realm!
It was as if the Ghost Project was bathed in a rainbow. Reality itself moved to improve and strengthen the spiritual foundation of the newly completed expert ch in ways that were both subtle but incredibly clever!
All of the Larkinson ch designers understood that this was the reason why the masterwork transformation did not affect the Ghost Project's physical construction all that much.
Its spiritual foundation was already claiming the bulk of the benefits!
"This proves one of my other theories." Ves grinned. "When a ch becos a masterwork, its improvents are spread in proportion to its different aspects. A materially superior ch will receive a major improvent to its physical cohesion. A spiritually superior ch will receive a major improvent to its spiritual properties. Of course, the rest will also benefit, but not to the sa extent."
What was weak beca less weak.
What was strong beca a lot stronger!
"What about a ch that is already strong in both matter and spirit?" Miles Tovar cautiously asked.
Gloriana's body suddenly shook! A daring theory suddenly entered her mind!
Even though she wanted to deny the truth, she could not argue against concrete proof.
Once she began to reconstruct her old theoretical frawork in order to make it more consistent with the latest results, she imdiately extrapolated the scenario that Miles had just ntioned.
The possible answers shocked her to her core!
"If a ch is exquisite enough in both areas, then it shall receive a major improvent in both areas. It will not turn into a masterwork ch that has barely climbed up to the second rung of Senfovon's ladder of craftsmanship. The ch will advance substantially further than that. If both the matter and the spirit of the machine have reached an extre, then it is possible that it can reach the next threshold that cos after a masterwork."
This ti, even Master Benedict grew shocked!
"You an…"
"Grand work." Gloriana reverently spoke.
The entire workshop fell silent this ti. Though all of the ch designers continued to track the changes triggered by the masterwork changes, a part of their minds were no longer in the present.
Instead, they were already fantasizing about what they needed to do in order to climb up the third rung of the craftsmanship ladder!
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