Chapter 5989 Gloriana's Frustrations

Chapter 5989 Gloriana's Frustrations

While all of the observing mech designers reacted with shock, concern, dismay or resignation towards Ves' antics, the man responsible for causing this distress was having the time of his life!

He had purposefully engineered this exceptional situation for multiple reasons. This included ones that he could not properly explain!

He just knew that if he arranged stuff in this specific fashion, he would gain a small but important boost to his productivity.

So far, the outcome matched his expectations!

His recently acquired affinity towards darkness added a very helpful dimension to his work process.

By acting according to the concepts represented by darkness, Ves experienced a range of improvements.

He became more excited. His passion burned hotter. He became more interested due to the novelty of these unprecedented circumstances.

Breaking expectations, raising the stakes, increasing his adversity and putting Tusa in an underdog position all conformed to the darkness in his heart.

Even though Ves knew that his outrageous actions wouldn't do his reputation any good, he still chose to act according to his whims because he sincerely believed that he would be able to produce the best iteration of the Dark Zephyr Mark III in these special circumstances!

Of course, not everything went well at first.

One of the downsides of surprising his wife was that she had been pushed far from her comfort zone.

The active design network allowed Ves to clearly sense his wife's frustrations towards him by pulling off this stunt.

Combined with the constant pain and resentment generated by Tusa, it did not surprise anyone that Gloriana failed to produce archemetal parts that were up to standard!

However, Gloriana was not that weak. She hated it when her husband messed up her carefully laid plans, but she harbored an even stronger hatred towards failure!

When two different hatreds assailed her at the same time, Gloriana could only set aside her lesser pet peeves and focus on making sure that she did not end up a loser due to an inability to adapt to changing variables.

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"Please bless my mind and help me stay in focus." Gloriana softly prayed to the Superior Mother. "Please save my work from your misbehaving son."

Whether the Superior Mother responded to her prayers or not, Gloriana did not wallow in her misery, but steeled her mind in order to ensure that she did not fail in this critical upgrade run.

Upgrading a living mech was much more challenging than fabricating a new one from scratch!

There was only one Dark Zephyr. Any attempt to upgrade his mech frame affected his spiritual foundation. A botched upgrade attempt could actually cause the living mech to regress, thereby becoming weaker instead of the opposite.

Even if Gloriana was able to repair the Dark Zephyr and bring him to his intended condition, the damage was already done at that point.

Therefore, Gloriana believed that she only had one real chance of upgrading the Dark Zephyr in the most perfect fashion possible.

That was not the only concern that weighed on her mind.

She briefly glanced in Tusa's direction.

After putting Tusa in lethal peril, Ves advised the expert pilot to not call for any medical assistance.

This left Tusa to resist the harmful effects of phasewater ingestion by relying on his own limited means!

As Gloriana continued to work under pressure, she gradually felt she was on the right track again.

Though the archemetal parts she fabricated with the help of the new machines still did not reach an acceptable quality standard, her output slowly improved on this front.

She had practiced with fabricating archemetal components in the past, but she never approached this task so seriously until today.

The archemetal components that she needed to produce were predominantly difficult and complex to make.

Archemetal parts never fulfilled a single defined purpose. They often blended a lot of different functions together in order to achieve greater levels of redundancy.

Gloriana had to mix in dozens more materials than usual and also make sure to transform them into a huge number of subcomponents that seamlessly integrated with each other.

Archemetal was nothing more than an artificial reproduction of an archeshell. The production method therefore demanded a lot of attention from Gloriana as she needed to form a lot of different integrated parts at the same time.

If not for her massive cognitive boost from her recent cranial implant upgrade, Gloriana wouldn't have been able to keep up with all of the critical processes!

She didn't have to make the production of archemetal so hard on herself. As long as she activated a few automated settings and drastically slowed down the fabrication rate, she possessed a lot more confidence in her ability to churn out higher-quality parts.

However, the additional sources of pressure prevented Gloriana from considering this alternative approach!

She needed to complete this project with greater haste than before.

Despite feeling frustrated about her inability to choose her approach, she did not remain upset for long.

She appreciated Ves' attitude and enjoyment towards fabricating a mech on a tight deadline.

Hours into the upgrade process, Gloriana did not need to borrow as much strength from Ves anymore.

This was because she had recovered her mood and adapted her mentality just enough to rely on her own motivations to persist in her work!

The archemetal components started to get better over time. Their quality gradually improved. Gloriana not only felt more comfortable with the abnormal situation, but she also gained a large amount of practical experience in producing archetech.

Her proficiency in operating the archetech fabrication machines rose quickly. Though she had already spent hundreds of hours operating the same kind of machines in virtual reality, none of those practice sessions could match the actual processes in reality!

It was the rapid accumulation of practical experience that allowed her to increase her speed while making sure the quality of her output did not deteriorate.

Though she still experienced difficulties in her attempts to fabricate the most challenging archemetal components, she did not experience the setbacks that she was afraid of. None of the work intimidated her to the point where she lost her confidence.

Part of it came from Ves, but another part of it came from herself. Both Ves and Gloriana possessed an unflinching belief that they could overcome all of the challenges and turn the Dark Zephyr Mark III into an archemech that they could take pride in creating!

Gloriana learned a lot of lessons so far, and not even an entire day had passed as of yet! She learned so much more about Ves, herself and Tusa that she felt the urge to spontaneously change the design in order to incorporate her latest insights.

She resisted the urge to do so. This was an action that Ves would gladly make, but she was not her husband. She possessed her own style and work approach. At best, she could implement her insights in her subsequent mech design projects. The Dark Zephyr Mark III design already satisfied her expectations.

When Gloriana eventually suspended her work and took a scheduled break, she became satisfied when she looked back at her output so far. Their quality might not be the best, but she was confident that they would perform adequately once they were put inside the new and improved expert mech.

She supposed she could do better by remaking a lot of inferior archemetal parts, but this would delay the completion of the project far too much.

Trying to remake all of the old parts would also disrupt her rhythm and weaken her momentum.

She quite liked her current mood to be honest. She knew that this approach suited Ves best, but it was not bad for her to embrace it as well, particularly given the circumstances.

She glanced over at Tusa.

The expert pilot was not doing much better than before, but he somehow managed to muster up greater strength than before. The phasewater circulating inside his body remained docile enough for the time being.

She just hoped that it would last.