The demands of designing a five elent variation of the Fey Project were harsh.
Ves needed to be skilled, proficient and knowledgeable in integrating five different types of hyper materials into his work.
Due to the short ti that passed since hyper technology beca accessible to red humanity, Ves had not worked with too many variations of hypers.
The last four expert ch designs gave Ves a bit of exposure towards hyper materials related to the attributes of tal, water, light and so on, but that was not comprehensive enough to cover the current range of elents.
Ves specifically lacked essential experience in working with the wood, earth and fire elents.
Fortunately, this was not an insurmountable shortcoming.
Many of the general thods and solutions he developed over the course of working on the other attributes were universal in nature.
He could readily apply his toolbox to the elents that he had yet to work upon after adapting his work.
Ves also had a basic degree of familiarity with handling the five elents through the spell manual that he had learned a long ti ago. The benefit of swallowing an enlightennt fruit provided by the System was that he could not only gain imdiate understanding of all of the theories, but he could also get started on many of the techniques!
Of course, enlightennt fruits did not grant him the highest level of comprehension and proficiency right away. Ves still had to put a lot of ti and effort into deepening his mastery. Much of this work consisted of moving beyond the basics and trying to adapt what he learned into adaptations that specifically fit his circumstances.
One of the characteristics of the Beginner Five Elents Spells Manual was that it was specifically designed to be broad and accommodating to many kinds of cultivators.
The theories were all based on basic fundantals that did not contain too much weirdness that increased the difficulty of understanding them. That said, they did not go too much into depth about the five elents, but that was not the purpose of this beginner book.
The associated techniques were all relatively clean and simple. They taught Ves how to shape an elent into different forms based on its various strengths and possibilities. The spells effectively taught Ves how to harness elental E energy in a safe and reasonably effective manner.
While none of the spells were particularly powerful, they were stable and had a low chance of producing any backlash if anything went wrong.
Right now, Ves was drawing increasingly more on the knowledge of the Beginner Five Elents Spells Manual to weave an intricate spiritual design for the Fey Project.
His ambition was great. He had co across plenty of warnings about recklessly toying around with the five elents. Combining three or more of them at once usually produced violent reactions and could easily cause any arrangent to go out of control!
However, Ves had beco so inspired that he believed he could overco a problem that had plagued many cultivators in the past!
Ves was not arrogant enough to combine the five elents on his own. He would definitely cause an accident if he tried to make such a foolish attempt.
What gave him so much confidence was the fact that he was attempting this fusion indirectly through his work!
Every living ch started off with a blank slate. Ves had a unique capacity to shape his products into living entities. Each of them could integrate certain traits and behaviors in order to strengthen and differentiate them from the competition.
Ves wanted to take this a few steps further by not only integrating multiple elents in his Fey Project, but also form a mutually reinforcing cycle that would cause each of them to feed into each other!
The most perfect outco that produced the strongest results would be if he was able to form five sequential relationships where the five elents attained complete harmony without getting into conflict with each other!
However, it was that last demand that vexed cultivators the most.
For example, mixing fire and water almost always produced explosive reactions, making this particularly unsuited for sustained effects.
There were many relationships that caused the elents to weaken, destroy, restrain or stabilize each other.
All of it was incredibly uncomplicated and made it a nightmare to combine the elents in any application!
Ves could not completely guarantee that the Fey Project would be able to maintain a stable elental cycle after he completed it. His ideas were too rough and his prior work and experiences provided far too little reference value.
If not for the fact that his current inspired state helped him co up with many inventive and promising solutions on the spot, he wouldn't have the courage to proceed at this point!
Vulcan's expertise provided him with a lot of assistance. Traditional craftsn earned their renown for their ability to harmoniously combine and balance out different hyper materials based on varying attributes.
Even so, a traditional blacksmith hardly dared to forge a weapon or other item that combined all five elents at once!
It took a lot of experience and comprehension in working with the five elents for an artisan to beco qualified. Even then, a blacksmith had to resort to secret thods and techniques that were specifically developed to channel the five elents in a stable manner.
Vulcan was way too immature as a creation cultivator to be able to make such an amazing work.
Even Divine Blacksmiths had to work a little more seriously in order to produce any work that incorporated the five elents!
How could Ves overco the insanely high threshold of working with the five elents and turn his remarkable variation of the Fey Project into a reality?
Ves smirked again.
"It is all in the spirit."
This was his main area of specialization. It was the key factor that granted him an unreasonable amount of confidence that he would be able to succeed in this experint.
The theoretical premise of his idea was rather simple.
The four fey and the main body each encompassed a different elent.
It was not that difficult to design five separate tallic objects that embodied the power of fire, water, wood, earth and tal.
The fact that the ch fra and its four fey could detach from each other already prevented a lot of possible dangers.
However, too much separation defeated the point of working with the five elents.
What Ves wanted to make was a drone ch that could fuse and combine the five elents.
This ant that the five objects needed to beco connected in a way that enabled them to transfer their elental E energies with each other!
He needed to integrate them well enough to produce strong enough synergies. His ultimate goal was to produce an outco that was way more powerful than the sum of its parts.
"If this ambitious idea works out the way I hope it will, it is not impossible for all of the amplification and reinforcents effects to achieve parity with an expert ch!"
This would be an astonishing result!
It was not unheard of for standard chs to gain enough power to fight against an expert ch on equal terms.
However, much of these incidents involved battles between low-class expert chs and high-class standard ch.
Any sufficiently powerful first-class multipurpose ch could defeat a second-class expert ch.
Ves did not take this seriously because the cost of the forr was far greater than the latter!
It was essentially a form of attaining victory by spending a profligate amount of money!
What truly attracted him to his current idea was that it gave an ordinary ch pilot the hope of defeating an expert pilot with a cheaper ch!
Even if Ves was forced to raise the cost of the Fey Project by adding additional modules and integrating several more varieties of elental hyper materials, it would still be cheaper than an expert ch of the sa class and tier!
Ves did not actually think his five elent ch could reach this amazing standard upon completion.
The interactions between the five elents were bound to be rough and imperfect at the start.
This was fine. The Fey Project was a living ch, which ant that its main personality and four sub-personalities would be able to grow, adapt and learn over ti.
His five elents ch would inevitably be able to master its endless applications after many years of growth!
"It is just like a qi cultivator in that regard!" Ves realized.
What Ves was attempting to do was nothing less than creating an artificial qi cultivator that possessed an inherent talent in working with the five elents!
This was absolutely unique and would probably be regarded as a miracle in both ancient and modern tis!
It was exactly because it was unheard of that Ves needed to work harder than ever to solve its many issues.
One of the dilemmas that troubled Ves a lot forced him to make highly consequential decisions that directly affected the success rate of this experint.
On the one hand, he needed to make the five living entities independent enough to prevent their elents from conflicting with each other.
On the other hand, he had to make them close and interconnected enough to enable them to reinforce each other!
These were two contradictory goals. Ves could not go too far in one direction without causing the Fey Project to weaken by a considerable extent.
Ves was unable to calculate the sweet spot that would lead to an acceptable balance between conflict and reinforcent.
A Fey Project that was overly prone towards conflict would be able to gain a lot of combat power at the cost of stability. The threat of a backlash would constantly loom over the drone ch's shoulder!
A Fey Project that erred too much on the side of caution would not be prone to producing accidents, but the reinforcents between the elents would beco so weak that the ch would fail to live up to its potential!
Neither of these outcos were acceptable to Ves.
He needed to resort to other ans in order to find an acceptable balance.
When Ves surveyed the spiritual design of his Fey Project, he paid constant attention to the strength and intimacy of the permanent spiritual bonds between the fey and the main body.
Ves had created many different spiritual connections over his career.
The relationship with the fey and the main body reminded Ves of himself.
"The fey are sort of similar to the companion spirits or the incarnations of their principal."
This comparison granted Ves another insight that might help him determine the elusive sweet spot!
If Ves regarded the ch fra of the Fey Project as an artificial qi cultivator, then its four fey could function as its companion spirits!
"Can chs have companion spirits?"
Ves asked this question multiple tis before. One of his original goals in designing the Fey Project was to find the answer!
In any case, Ves could use his own situation as a template.
He had created multiple incarnations of himself, each of which were at least sowhat separate from his core self.
Blinky and Vulcan were definitely connected to him, but they were also separate enough to develop their own powers and domains.
Despite the fact that they wielded their power differently, they still cooperated well with Ves!
Ves directed his attention back to the Fey Project. He felt a lot more certainty than before.
"Instead of trying to explore the unknown, it is better to settle on more familiar ground. I can use the spiritual bonds between humans and their companion spirits as a model for my five elents ch!"
He was not completely sure whether this design choice could lead to a successful result, but he felt confident enough in it that he proceeded forward anyway!
It took a remarkably short ti for Ves to redesign the Fey Project in the ch workshop. Only a couple of hours had gone by, which ant that he still retained all of the montum that he accumulated before!
His current situation was highly conducive to resuming his fabrication work, only this ti he intended to produce a remarkably different ch.
"Nothing will stop from realizing my vision!"
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