The Mech Touch

Chapter 6683 Testing the Improvised Cultivator Mech

The upgraded and modified Fey Fianna largely worked as Ves and Melkor hoped.

At the start, Melkor found it difficult to control the formation anchors. It turned out that surrounding the objects in a metal shell and adding extra modules onto it caused numerous disturbances that had to be corrected one by one.

Many of the changes did not require a lot of work. Ves was able to perform corrections by changing the settings and programming of the Fey Fianna.

Once the drone mech's configuration received a round of corrections, Melkor finally became satisfied with the current machine.

"I have to say that your work is excellent as always." Melkor said. "It is uncomfortable for me to lose access to the regular set of fey, but being able to control the formation anchors directly is a fantastic benefit. It opens up new possibilities that I haven't thought about before. Instead of sending the coordinates to other mechs in order to tell them where to plant the formation anchors, I can do it directly, saving valuable time and reducing errors. While I am concerned that the new formation fey may get intercepted along the way, I already intend to provide them each with an escort that includes at least one space knight."

"That's a good idea. The native aliens won't let them fly without interruption."

"There is another advantage to this new setup." Melkor added. "I can pre-prepare the qi formation by moving all 25 formation anchor fey roughly in the places where they are supposed to be. Once my fey and I have moved close enough to a group of enemy phasefighters, I can make fine adjustments that will allow me to find the optimal positions for the formation anchors in any environment, including open space. I can subsequently activate the spell formation with minimal delay."

"What does this mean?"

"The upgrades you made to my Fey Fianna has made it much easier for me to deploy the confinement spell array reactively rather than proactively. Do you understand the difference, Ves? It means that I don't have to plant the formation anchors at the chosen sight in advance! I can use them offensively by bringing the new fey to the front and deploy them while the fighting has already erupted. So long as the escort mechs do a good job of protecting the formation anchor fey, they should definitely be able to occupy the right coordinates. If not, I can make last-minute adjustments based on feel and judgment. This should allow me to activate them quickly enough before our enemies shift their priorities and attack the formation fey"

This was an important gain for Melkor.

He previously viewed sealing spell arrays as metaphysical traps. They had to be set up in advance on a site where he guessed the enemies would pass through.

This could easily work if he fought on land, but out here in space there were many places that were completely empty!