Chapter 5411 Bncing Rtionships


    The demands of designing a five element 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 time that passed since hyper technology became essible to red humanity, Ves had not worked with too many variations of hypers.


    Thest four expert mech designs gave Ves a bit of exposure towards hyper materials rted to the attributes of metal, water, light and so on, but that was notprehensive enough to cover the current range of elements.


    Ves specificallycked essential experience in working with the wood, earth and fire elements.


    Fortunately, this was not an insurmountable shoring.


    Many of the general methods 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 elements that he had yet to work upon after adapting his work.


    Ves also had a basic degree of familiarity with handling the five elements through the spell manual that he had learned a long time ago. The benefit of swallowing an enlightenment fruit provided by the System was that he could not only gain immediate understanding of all of the theories, but he could also get started on many of the techniques!


    Of course, enlightenment fruits did not grant him the highest level ofprehension and proficiency right away. Ves still had to put a lot of time 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 Elements Spells Manual was that it was specifically designed to be broad and amodating to many kinds of cultivators.


    The theories were all based on basic fundamentals 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 elements, but that was not the purpose of this beginner book.


    The associated techniques were all rtively clean and simple. They taught Ves how to shape an element into different forms based on its various strengths and possibilities. The spells effectively taught Ves how to harness elemental E energy in a safe and reasonably effective manner.


    While none of the spells were particrly powerful, they were stable and had a low chance of producing any bacsh if anything went wrong.


    Right now, Ves was drawing increasingly more on the knowledge of the Beginner Five Elements Spells Manual to weave an intricate spiritual design for the Fey Project.


    His ambition was great. He hade across plenty of warnings about recklessly toying around with the five elements. Combining three or more of them at once usually produced violent reactions and could easily cause any arrangement to go out of control!


    However, Ves had be so inspired that he believed he could ovee a problem that had gued many cultivators in the past!


    Ves was not arrogant enough tobine the five elements on his own. He would definitely cause an ident 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 mech started off with a nk te. 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 thepetition.


    Ves wanted to take this a few steps further by not only integrating multiple elements 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 oue that produced the strongest results would be if he was able to form five sequential rtionships where the five elements attainedplete harmony without getting into conflict with each other!


    However, it was thatst demand that vexed cultivators the most.


    For example, mixing fire and water almost always produced explosive reactions, making this particrly unsuited for sustained effects.


    There were many rtionships that caused the elements to weaken, destroy, restrain or stabilize each other.


    All of it was incredibly uplicated and made it a nightmare tobine the elements in any application!


    Ves could notpletely guarantee that the Fey Project would be able to maintain a stable elemental cycle after hepleted 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 hime 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 craftsmen earned their renown for their ability to harmoniouslybine and bnce out different hyper materials based on varying attributes.


    Even so, a traditional cksmith hardly dared to forge a weapon or other item thatbined all five elements at once!


    It took a lot of experience andprehension in working with the five elements for an artisan to be qualified. Even then, a cksmith had to resort to secret methods and techniques that were specifically developed to channel the five elements in a stable manner.


    Vulcan was way too immature as a creation cultivator to be able to make such an amazing work.


    Even Divine cksmiths had to work a little more seriously in order to produce any work that incorporated the five elements!


    How could Ves ovee the insanely high threshold of working with the five elements 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 seed in this experiment.


    The theoretical premise of his idea was rather simple.


    The four fey and the main body each epassed a different element.


    It was not that difficult to design five separate metallic objects that embodied the power of fire, water, wood, earth and metal.


    The fact that the mech frame 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 elements.


    What Ves wanted to make was a drone mech that could fuse andbine the five elements.


    This meant that the five objects needed to be connected in a way that enabled them to transfer their elemental E energies with each other!


    He needed to integrate them well enough to produce strong enough synergies. His ultimate goal was to produce an oue 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 reinforcements effects to achieve parity with an expert mech!"


    This would be an astonishing result!


    It was not unheard of for standard mechs to gain enough power to fight against an expert mech on equal terms.


    However, much of these incidents involved battles between low-ss expert mechs and high-ss standard mech.


    Any sufficiently powerful first-ss multipurpose mech could defeat a second-ss expert mech.


    Ves did not take this seriously because the cost of the former was far greater than thetter!


    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 mech pilot the hope of defeating an expert pilot with a cheaper mech!


    Even if Ves was forced to raise the cost of the Fey Project by adding additional modules and integrating several more varieties of elemental hyper materials, it would still be cheaper than an expert mech of the same ss and tier!


    Ves did not actually think his five element mech could reach this amazing standard uponpletion.


    The interactions between the five elements were bound to be rough and imperfect at the start.


    This was fine. The Fey Project was a living mech, which meant that its main personality and four sub-personalities would be able to grow, adapt and learn over time.


    His five elements mech 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 elements!


    This was absolutely unique and would probably be regarded as a miracle in both ancient and modern times!


    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 sess rate of this experiment.


    On the one hand, he needed to make the five living entities independent enough to prevent their elements 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 calcte the sweet spot that would lead to an eptable bnce between conflict and reinforcement.


    A Fey Project that was overly prone towards conflict would be able to gain a lot ofbat power at the cost of stability. The threat of a bacsh would constantly loom over the drone mech''s shoulder!


    A Fey Project that erred too much on the side of caution would not be prone to producing idents, but the reinforcements between the elements would be so weak that the mech would fail to live up to its potential!


    Neither of these oues were eptable to Ves.


    He needed to resort to other means in order to find an eptable bnce.


    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 rtionship with the fey and the main body reminded Ves of himself.


    "The fey are sort of simr to thepanion spirits or the incarnations of their principal."


    Thisparison granted Ves another insight that might help him determine the elusive sweet spot!


    If Ves regarded the mech frame of the Fey Project as an artificial qi cultivator, then its four fey could function as itspanion spirits!


    "Can mechs havepanion spirits?"


    Ves asked this question multiple times 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 temte.


    He had created multiple incarnations of himself, each of which were at least somewhat 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 theirpanion spirits as a model for my five elements mech!"


    He was notpletely sure whether this design choice could lead to a sessful result, but he felt confident enough in it that he proceeded forward anyway!


    It took a remarkably short time for Ves to redesign the Fey Project in the mech workshop. Only a couple of hours had gone by, which meant that he still retained all of the momentum that he umted before!


    His current situation was highly conducive to resuming his fabrication work, only this time he intended to produce a remarkably different mech.


    "Nothing will stop me from realizing my vision!"