Veronica was under great ti pressure.
Less than four days later, Ves and Ketis intended to initiate a Mission-clearing marathon at the sa ti.
That was a big deal. Ves not only intended to earn a large amount of AP, but also wanted to learn new stuff. This was a crucial opportunity for him to make a lot of advancents while practically no ti had passed in reality.
In order to make the most out of this special occasion, Ves needed to co up with several initiatives that he could work on during the ti he was spending inside the
System Space.
Given that the process of demon gu cultivation would likely take months if not years to complete and yield results, Ves already thought of using the System Space to let the demon gu containers do their work!
Once the marathon ca to an end, Veronica would hopefully be able to withdraw the demon gu containers and hopefully bring out a couple of recently evolved Middle Demons worth several hundred Ascension Points.
This was why Veronica ca under a lot of ti pressure. She needed to complete all of the gu containers in less than 4 days.
The tight deadline made her feel as if she had entered a ch design contest again. Once Veronica adopted a familiar mindset, she beca fully focused on completing the most essential requirents in as little ti as possible.
"This is no ti to be ticulous."
She needed to work quickly in order to produce a handful of readily usable gu containers once it was ti for Ves to et his appointnt with the premier swordmaster of the Larkinson Clan.
While Ves could always reschedule his appointnt with Ketis, he did not think he had much ti left in the Red Ocean to fool around.
The sooner he completed this marathon, the faster he could use his new gains into improving the strength of his clan!
Since speed was of the essence, Veronica ruthlessly shed any fanciful notions about his latest design project. She only wanted to design the bare minimum that was necessary in order to make his idea work.
Her paw began to trace a number of lines and contours on the projected design interface.
She initially ford the shape of a rather archaic-looking jar. It possessed a simple cylindrical shape that was slightly wider at the top. It even ca with a large lid that could still be sealed shut with the help of modern chanical scaling chanisms.
What Veronica designed so far was a large-sized version of a jar that she imagined that ancient gu cultivators used to produce their deadly poisonous creatures.
"This will be the base of my ch design." The Cyborg Cat determined.
She did not waste any ti in perfecting the shape and dinsions of the jar. She instead began to design the fra of a ch around this object.
"I am not designing a combat ch, so I can skip the arms. There is no reason to make it fly, so I can skip the flight system as well. As for legs, there is no need to invest too much in them as there is no reason to make it run fast. It should be able to remain stable and upright for extended periods of ti, so it is better to add four legs instead of two. That will massively simplify the balancing problem."
The product he was designing only t the definition of a ch on a technical level.
In practice, it was probably one of the most useless chs that ch designer could
envision!
Anyone who thought that an awful ch like this had any value on the battlefield should be shot for treason!
If Veronica did not intend to impart it with the magical property of being able to promote the gu cultivation of Minor Demons, then I was truly an awful waste of
resources!
Although the ch designer inside Veronica scread that it was an abomination of a ch design that should be burned on the stake, she still forced herself to rush the ch design to completion!
Since Veronica was shaless enough to skip out on every non-essential part of the system that could be found in more conventional chs, it did not take much ti to complete the first iteration of the design.
The end result could charitably be described as a demich that might be useful in a logistical center.
The starting premise was still the sa. The demich's main structure consisted of a large jar.
Four squat but curled legs extended from underneath that could provide basic locomotion.
However, the weak ch engine and rudintary design of the legs ant that the demich moved as slow as a snail!
In order to ensure this abomination of a demich could still be categorized as a ch flat and compact cockpit to the bottom of one of
at all, Veronica made sure to mount.
the sides.
This technically made the demich pilotable, but Veronica actually did not intend for
any human ch pilot to waste his ti on controlling the machine.
She integrated it with a rudintary Al whose only job was to move to different
locations on command.
In fact, the traversal speed of this demich was so slow that it was better to rely on floater platforms and other solutions to move it around.
"It's not important. It is fine as long as it ets the definition of a ch."
Veronica made an earnest enough effort to approach her latest work as a ch design, so she was able to exert considerable control over its E-technology.
She utilized the knowledge she gained about demons and tried to turn the demich into a qualified demon gu container.
To be honest, Veronica did not fully understand what she was doing. She completely let herself go and relied mostly on her instincts, her rudintary and flawed understanding of gu cultivation, her occasional bouts of madness and whatever scrap of science and technology that she deed at least marginally relevant to this difficult problem.
The result quickly turned into a ssy hodgepodge of improvised solutions that should hopefully yield the desired result.
It didn't matter if she had no idea whether it would work. The act of creating a living ch was to translate potential ideas into a living vessel.
That ant that once the living ch ca to life, it beca a product that was greater than the sum of its parts!
Life always found a way. As long as the demich beca alive, internalized its existing capabilities and perfected them over the course of its growth, it may be able to transform a defective experint into a functional design application!
So long as it worked, Ves did not care about whether the ch design failed to et any
other requirents.
Since Veronica held herself back and tried to prune as many unnecessary elents from the demich designs as possible, she managed to complete the design in less than a
day.
The physical structure hardly took any ti to design at all. All of the parts were made out of simple shaped alloy or very standard off-the-shelf parts that the fleet of the Oblivion Empire already had in stock.
She actually spent more ti on designing the demon gu cultivation aspect. Due to ti constraints, Veronica did not bother to design an Ultimate Module that could facilitate the gu cultivation process. She lacked enough empirical information about it to know what she needed to design to augnt the formation of a Middle
Demon.
"I should start with the most basic process and see how it goes before thinking about applying any advanced solutions."
Even without the inclusion of an Ultimate Model, the Cyborg Cat still considered her work to be a sixth generation living ch.
She had programd the spiritual foundation of the demich to perform a lot of actions to prevent any accidents and to make sure the trapped Minor Demons did not
die prematurely.
Veronica chose to add two design spirits to the demich.
She added Gaia for the purpose of regulating and potentially injecting life energy to keep the Minor Demons healthy and to strengthen them in other ways aside from mindlessly
devouring their own kind.
Helena naturally also beca the design spirit of this ch-shaped jar.
As promised, the eldest sister stopped by the design lab to assist with the design and control of additional solutions based on her formidable comprehension and affinity towards death energy.
"The intertwining of life and death can produce many powerful miracles." Helena comnted as she worked to augnt the incomplete ch design with the help of Veronica's expertise. "Gu cultivation can be considered a ritual that combines the extres of these two phenona to produce a breakthrough under extre circumstances. In order to produce the best possible outco, only the unworthy must die. Another important rule that needed to be implented was that all of the nutrients of the loser must be absorbed by the winner to the greatest possible degree."
Just like how poison gu cultivation was based on accumulating lots of poisonous substances into increasingly fewer creatures, the demich needed to be able to promote the concentration of power between the murderous Minor Demons to the greatest possible extent.
With the help of the two design spirits, Veronica already beca a lot more confident that her implentation would be able to yield successful results. However, the efficiency of the initial process likely had a lot of room for improvent.
Veronica could work on them slowly over ti. She still needed to gather a lot of data and form useful conclusions before she could work on an improved demon gu container. Once she beca assured that the basic demich design looked viable enough to work in reality, the Cyborg Cat did not hesitate to fabricate the demichs.
She skipped out on sleep and worked day and night with the workshops of the flagships
of the Oblivion Empire to produce her works.
Normally, fabricating a complete ch by hand usually took multiple days, but Veronica was able to pump out 5 of them by the ti the deadline had drawn close!
She was able to produce so many of them in a couple of days because she started early
enough and because the demich design was much smaller and simpler than other second-class ch designs.
After all, when it ca down to it, the ch fra basically comprised of a large hollow jar with legs, a cockpit and other bare essentials.
Her formidable fabrication capabilities also contributed to the speed. With the help of
the workshop facilities that the Oblivion Empire had recently brought to a higher standard, Veronica was able to add her own charm to her handmade products.
She tried to turn all of them into masterwork chs, but it appeared that she was aiming too high this ti.
The ch design was too rushed and poor in quality to produce such excellent works!
If Ves wanted to fabricate a masterwork, then she should at least start with a more
proper ch design that had been ticulously refined and optimized over a span of at least half a year!
When Helena learned that Ves had completed his set in ti, she inhabited her Helcat avatar once again and paid a visit to the workshop.
"So these are your so-called 'demon gu containers. They look... as if you crudely attempted to fuse ancient mysticism with modern ch engineering" "Your description is quite apt. That is mostly what I have done, though you should
replace ancient mysticism with my own ripoff version of gu cultivation. I have no idea how those weirdos did this in the past, so I just tried to monkey my own version together based on an awful amount of assumptions. I cannot guarantee whether it will actually work, but I have a good feeling about them. Even if they can produce a Middle Demon in the end, they should still be able to improve the strength and quality of Minor Demons.
The one that we produced at the start was still awfully weak and pathetic. If I am limited to using Minor Demons for my Demoncasting projects, then I at least want them to be as strong as possible so that they can produce more dramatic effects."
"Let's see how well they can hold the Minor Demons that I have prepared. By the way, do
these chs have a na?"
"Yes. They are called Demon Mixers."
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