The Mech Touch

Chapter 6726 Arboreal Project

The collaborative project that they already decided to call the Arboreal Project was not as ambitious as Ves expected.

That was a good choice as the Devos Ancient Clan set aside its typical Terran extravagance.

Master Laila Rebecca Devos and her extensive team had all become affected by the dark clouds generated by the escalating Red War. As the bleak reality settled in their minds, the Devosans did not foolishly attempt to waste their limited resources on unnecessary weapon systems and other luxuries.

Designing a hero mech was a good decision because they could readily use the Everchanger, the Ebony Everchanger as well as the much more powerful Ouroboros as references for the Arboreal Project.

The Woodsap mech was not supposed to be a pale imitation of any of them. The new Elemental Carmine mech had to acquire its own identity and strengths.

However, it was not necessarily problematic to borrow existing homework as long as there was enough of a justification. The mech designers could save a significant amount of time by recycling existing solutions.

After Ves, Lucky and Master Laila moved to an empty design lab, the two mech designers began to hash out their vision for the first proper Woodspa mech design. "The overall theme of the Arboreal Project should center around persistence" Master Laila Rebecca Devos explained her ideas to Ves. "Having watched the archival footage of your clan's operation against the Emperor Tree, we have found that the Ebony Everchanger and other wooden mechs were able to pose significant difficulties to several expert mechs piloted by high-tier expert pilots. The wooden constructs did so despite lacking true resonance, skilled piloting and many other advantages enjoyed by their metallic counterparts. The reason why they were able to do all of this was because they could not be effectively killed by your machines at the time. It took seconds for every damage they sustained to disappear as they regenerated back to their peak conditions."

She was right. The absurd regeneration properties of the ebony wooden mechs and to a lesser extent the purple wooden mechs had given the mech strike force a lot of grief at the time.

However, it would be a mistake to assume that the Ebony Everchanger and so on could put up so much a fight by themselves.

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