Chapter 4066 New Ore Mine


    As soon as the momentum from the breakthrough disappeared, the MTA research team immediately teleported the exhausted expert candidate away.


    It was of vital interest to determine how the lucky woman''s advancement had changed her and whether she was any different from expert candidates who broke through during battle.


    Ves did not expect there to be any significant differences. He could already observe through various means that the new expert candidate was the real deal. Her strength, her outburst, her transformation of will and other indicators were all simr to the other expert candidates he had known in the past.


    He became distracted by other considerations.


    Two important consequences resulted from the breakthrough.


    First, the test subject''s breakthrough to expert candidate released a huge amount of spiritual feedback!


    Different from the previous breakthroughs that Ves had witnessed, multiple different parties became the beneficiaries of the energies unleashed by the female mech pilot.


    The prototype Tutor Project obtained thergest share. The mech became one of the few living mechs that was being piloted by an individual who had broken through while interfacing with it. This caused the prototype to be a unique mech that became stronger and more developed than any ordinary copy of the same design!


    "It also makes it rather troublesome to perform any subsequent experiments with it." Ves observed. "If I want to gather representative data on its routine performance, then I will have to change it out with a fresh and unadulterated copy of the Tutor Project."


    Still, the current prototype was already a lot more valuable than before. With all of the growth and strengthening it had gone through, it could follow in the footsteps of the Quint and be a powerful living mech that excelled at training mech pilots!


    The breakthrough benefited other parties as well. Since the test pilot and the Tutor Project were both connected to the MSTS, the design spirits that were responsible for maintaining its operations also received their shares!


    Vulcan obtained the greatest share while the Quint and Helena were only entitled to lesser shares.


    Even so, all three of them were satisfied with this ''bonus''!


    The feedback from an extraordinary individual was qualitatively different from the feedback of an ordinary individual.


    In order for his design spirits to evolve, it was not enough for them to umte a huge quantity of low-grade spiritual energy. They also needed to gather higher grades of spiritual energy that could help them reach a higher life phase.


    "Interesting."


    Ves was happy to see all three of them grow stronger, but he recognized that much of their gains came at the expense of the prototype Tutor Project mech.


    "It can''t be helped. The amount of energy released by a breakthrough event is ultimately finite."


    Aside from this, Ves also took note of another consequence of the unusual breakthrough event.


    The simted battle inside MSTS that tipped the test subject over the edge briefly fluctuated and grew unstable upon the moment of her breakthrough event.


    The reason why this happened was because the simted environment was not entirely capable of getting to terms with forced resonance.


    This was an outburst that briefly granted the simtion mech the power of an expert mech!


    Even if it onlysted for a short amount of time, the degree in which the expert candidate and her mech distorted reality was considerable!


    All Ves knew was that despite Vulcan and the Quint working together to maintain the realism of the MSTS, they failed to ount for all of the weird phenomena that forced resonance could produce!


    The two design spirits had to rely on their existing knowledge to construct a theorized model of forced resonance.


    In other words, the simtion mech that overflowed with power due to the test subject''s breakthrough entered into a fantasy scenario when it started to beat up the opposing mechs!


    None of it was a reflection of reality!


    If the test subject fought in the same scenario but for real, her performance and the parameters of her prototype Tutor Project mechs would probably be different from what the MSTS had tried to approximate!


    Ves frowned at this sight. He already expected the MSTS to be unable to model and calcte willpower and resonance phenomena properly. After all, Vulcan had only worked on it for less than a year, and he spent much of that time building the foundation and framework of the spiritual simtion program.


    It was already good enough that the MSTS was able to portray normal mech battles with a remarkably high degree of uracy. It would be too much to expect more out of such an immature new system!


    "That doesn''t mean it has to remain limited in the future." He whispered to himself.


    Though the MSTS failed to cope with this extreme properly this time, this didn''t mean it had to stay this way!


    He already made enough observations to confirm that the MSTS was not only capable of simting forced resonance, but also the performance of expert mechs and maybe more!


    This was because the MSTS was a spiritual program and was not subject to the limitations of digital software programs. It was already capable of depicting certain metaphysical concepts such as living mechs and glows. As long as Ves or Vulcan expanded its rudimentary framework to epass moreplex phenomena, it could model all kinds of irrational power manifestations!


    Ves slowly grinned. If his suspicions were correct, his Mental Simtion Training System had the potential of providing a proper simtion environment for expert pilots and expert mechs!


    "The costs are high, though."


    He tempered his expectations after thinking about how much he needed to invest to get to this point. In order to expand his spiritual simtion program''s scope and epass all of these ambitious phenomena that digital simtion programs weren''t capable of modeling, Vulcan would probably have to spend at least a decade on this task!


    Vulcan would have to start from the beginning and research how to quantify and model different forms of resonance. It wasn''t enough to feed Vulcan with data on breakthrough events and how expert mechs such as the Amaranto and the Everchanger performed during their practice sessions.


    The true challengey in trying to trante these data points into reasonably urate forms and rules that could predict how an expert mech would behave under many different circumstances.


    The difficulty was akin to predicting the weather patterns on a typical like Davute VII up to a week or a month in advance!


    Was it possible to aplish such a feat? Yes.


    Was it easy to do so? Definitely not!


    "In short, this is not a goal that I can fulfill in the short-term."


    He felt quite frustrated about that. He knew it was possible and he knew that he had the capability to turn the MSTS into an effective simtion program for his expert pilots.


    Ves knew without a doubt that if he could mature his spiritual simtion program up to this point, the growth and progress of all of his expert pilots would elerate!


    For the time being, people such as Venerable Tus and Venerable Joshua had little choice but to participate in tame practice sessions. The gains they made during their friendly spars were limited because they always needed to hold back their power for fear of dealing serious damage and because they never truly faced any threat of death.


    It would be different in an advanced simtion environment! As long as the MSTS could model their true resonance and the reality-breaking capabilities of their expert mechs properly, every Larkinson expert pilot could unscrupulously exercise their powers and test themselves against challenging opponents that could undoubtedly push them to their limits!


    Even if it turned out that his expert pilots could not make as many gains as fighting in actual battles, this was still a far better oue than the previous status quo!


    "Argh!"


    He constantly had to remind himself not to get ahead of himself. While he wasn''t sure whether the MTA secretly developed a solution to this problem, he was pretty sure that there was no publicly avablemercial product on the market that couldpete against his MSTS!


    "After all,pared to existing simtion programs who all share the same tech base that has been explored for millenia, mine is based on apletely different tech base that has barely been exploited to its full potential!"


    It was likeparing two different ore mines..


    The ones used by every existingpetitor were not only active for thousands of years, but had almost depleted all of its reserves.


    In contrast, the one that Ves had just started to dig was still rich with untapped ore!


    The only problem was that he was by himself and had to use a pickaxe to manually dig out chunks of ore! It would take a huge amount of time for him to gather any yield through his own efforts!


    That led him to consider whether he could employ more people to assist with the development of the MSTS.


    No one said that only Ves or Vulcan could work on it. The problem was that it was difficult to find helpers who possessed the qualifications to facilitate the development of a spiritual software program.


    "The Aducs can''t do it." Ves shook his head.


    Ever since he struck a deal with the Aduc Family, its family members had begun to take up positions within the T Institute.


    The Aduc researchers employed their limited spiritual abilities to perform rtively simple studies.


    Much of their tasks amounted to routine experimental grunt work. Although Ves had noticed that the Aducs started to develop their spiritualities after Gaia came into their lives, their pace of growth was not impressive.


    Ves did not expect any of the Aducs to turn into qualified spiritual sorcerers or spiritual engineers anytime soon.


    "In the end, I''m still suffering from the same problem as always. I don''t have enough manpower."


    He felt quite depressed about that. He had developed a lot of great ideas over the years. His to-do list had practically expanded into a library by now and showed no signs of shrinking.


    The development of the MSTS was a major project that could take a lifetime toplete. Though Vulcan was a highly productive creator, he alone was not enough to realize the potential of this revolutionary new simtion system!


    "It would be a different story if I had a thousand qualified programmers at my disposal."


    He sighed and decided to just muddle onwards like it was useful and hope his circumstances improved in the future.


    In any case, there was no need for the MSTS to amodate high-ranking mechs and mech pilots at the moment. It just needed to beplete enough to pair well with training mechs.


    The demands of mech cadets weren''t as high as real mech pilots. The current state of the MSTS was already enough to run routine training scenarios.


    When Ves finally ended his contemtions, he turned to Yarach Stimmons who lookedpletely excited.


    "I need to pass on this result to Master Dervidian as fast as possible." The MTA Journeyman said. "Due to the sensitive nature of this development, we must maintain its secrecy as best as possible. I will have to enter a securemunication chamber to pass on word back to the Paracelsus Optimus."


    "Uhh… okay?"


    "There is no need for concern. Master Dervidian will undoubtedly award you with a substantial sum of MTA merits should your new innovation prove useful to us. Our Association is always always grateful for any contribution that you can make to the mechmunity."


    Now that was a lot more reassuring to hear! Ves rxed a bit. The mechers might be scumbags in many aspects, but they were never ungrateful.


    "I will await his reaction." Ves calmly responded.


    The significance of the MSTS was no less than the transcendence glow that previously excited the Transhumanist Faction.


    Ves had no doubt that he had be even more important to the Transhumanists now that he came up with a second groundbreaking innovation in a short amount of time!