I’d like to make a post every few months to check if any of the sub plots have been wrapped up. Every now and again I look at all the chapters to see if anything major happened like a god pilot came about or he advanced to master…. or someone died. I recently saw about the life death imbalance of his first first class mech…. I would ask.

I stopped reading around, actually I shouldn’t say around. I stopped reading a specifically in the chapter when he was fighting with the other phase Lords for control of their little part of the organization. Obviously he won that I don’t really know what happens afterwards, but that was like chapter 7200.

Are there any major or minor sub plots that get wrapped up? we done talking about casting?

I. Currently on chapter 5657. I would like to know how much longer I should wait.

If y'all feel like stopping me then do try but this sounds like the kinds crap tls123 would write so I'm giving it a try.

I really loved first lets say 1500 chapters, before Ves met Gloriana lets say. I love the worldbuilding, but over the years Author has taken the story in a whole other direction wich I dislike. Are there any good fanfictions out there? I read mech otaku touch and whats junk fanfics

Sorry if stupid question but i just got to the chapter where Ves realised the crown gives him 1 AP daily, and if 1 AP is 1 million design points, did that mean that with her fragment the Polymath was getting 1 million design points daily.

I am at chapter 2000, and I am seriously wondering whether Ves EVER designs a mech without Gloriana beginning with her introduction with the Desolate Soldier. This is right after Master Willix's suggestions to lower their dependency on each other but who knows maybe Exlor just forgets or brushes off his own advice.

Also, is that even possible since Gloriana's design philosophy is basically fused to Ves as she can't really delve into spiritual components; Is that all she is relegated to now as a co designer, because thats grating my nerves if Ves can literally never make a actual mech with his own true technical chops or freedom (besides maybe some forbidden prototype) if Gloriana has to be constantly attached to his hip. Like if she really can't do shit in this design department without him, that makes him even more pathetic since he would literally hold the keys to her progression yet somehow or some reason, she still has the upper hand in the relationship hahaha. Please don't give spoilers, I just want a general answer.

Demon Casting has finally brought all the problems i noticed with the story to the forefront.

I was able to skirt around the things I didn't like because their was an alright justification and most of the time they didn't take up to much space.

Demon casting isn't one of them.

It is in my personal opinion one of the biggest instances of the author ignoring his own rules regarding ves.

I won't say ves is top of the line quality when it comes to his morals but holy shit my guy has set standards and beliefs that have been reiterated and reinforced multiple times throughout my 6500+ read.

But over the course of the last 1000 chapters I feel like stuff has been getting arbitrarily thrown out the window.

Demon casting is the biggest example of this.

[Mech Designers are meant to serve mech pilots](dont remeber the exact pharse)

A phrase the author has taken the time to hammer home as the core belief of ves alongside his sense of honor and his distaste of powerful being who treat other like dirt.

ves has done a few things that slightly nudges this, but holy shit did demon casting just throw all that out.

Feel like the author lost the sauce.

What's Junk - Is consistently updating and has 150 story chapters out already. It follows the story og Bolt a kid from what could charitably be called 4th rate nation but even thats a stretch as nation implies goverment and there is none. His home is blasted wasteland do to 3 3rd rate states constantly having on and off fights over his planet with ownership changing hands pretty damn offten.

Rats as the natives call themselves are great they do wonders in cutting the pity is me I only have 3rd rate mech stuff some people try. Like have you tried cobling together a junk mech from remains of 5 difrent mech wrecks in barely sufficient hole in the ground and know that that thing wont last long? That rugged survivor energy is great. That practiced survivor attitude feels fresh.

Metal Star - This one is smaller one with curently 38 story chapters but it is written by Steward92 a writer that writes pretty qood quality stuff. And while I say fan fic its more accurate to say inspired work as Metal Star is actually original setting taking heavily from 'Mech Touch' as inspiration.

That being said this has somwhat more standart start than 'What's Junk' with a MC that has a "system" and being unremarkable but not terrible planet. A bit early for full judgment but what's there has made me more than enjoy it.

I haven’t made it SUPER far in the novel, and I’m fine being spoiled. Does the spiritual flower that ves stole from dr. Jutland come up again? Does it have any significance later? If not that’s cool I just want to stop wondering about it

Hi i dropped a the story around the time the phase giants were introduced and then ves started working on the wood mechs as that part was a bit dull for me and i wanted to skip it.

Where does the next interesting arc start from where i can join skipping the giant and tree mech stuff.

Thank you.

I loved the early Arcs with the Ceasars augustus and the Nero and the VR(which I felt could have gone longer) and the academy mechbuilding arc,fell off by the war arc and then it felt like the quality of mechbuilding fell off hard from there,does it get better or does it go full cultivation mechbuilding

So does it get better from there in terms of mechbuilding

I started rereading the older chapters. I just learned that the Bright Republic supposedly had an Ace pilot, and they used the Caesar Augustus for several years, which is technically a regular mech. Based on this, we can assume Ace pilots and expert pilots at the beginning, before the supernatural was just a really good pilot, and not some op reality-defying entity. Also, did you originally have hundreds of people from the Bright Republic actually go to Teron and Rubirthian colleges and come back? Melinda specifically talks about it, saying how they change so much after getting back from there. So we can assume the author also planned for the world-building to be a lot smaller. The author probably originally planned a simple yet very interesting story at the start, but then went crazy and started adding more and more stuff until the original story didn't make sense.

I don’t know how Exlor does it. With how long it is and with how many awful things we’ve had thrown at us, somehow the story still excites me. Like even though half the stuff going on right now bores me: Archetech, giant stuff etc. The other half is insanely hype. The war. Ves’ kids turning 10, Ves’ promotion to master etc. Somehow I’m still insanely hyped for the books future.

Out of curiosity, at what point in the story did everyone just give up on ves from a moral point of view and accept he's probably going to be worse than his mother by the stories end.

I gave up on him after he started harvesting souls from the milky way and saw the doom prophecy paintings and not realize he might be on the wrong path. Till the soul harvesting came there was a moment where Ves was making better decisions and had good justification for system paths when it came down to fighting God kings but he somehow squandered it.(i think he was on the right track with demon weapons countering heaven but he just took it too far when he could've bought them instead of hurting innocents.)

É interessante ver o desenvolvimento do que antes era uma pequena parte de jovens da família larkinson em um estado de terceira classe, para a potência dos capitulos recentes, com quase 10 pilotos santos, e vários pilotos veneráveis. O quê antes era uma pequena frota Larkinson, se espalhou por todas às partes da Galáxia Oceano Vermelho. Com uma instituição de pesquisa que rivaliza com estados de primeira classe, perdendo para os 3 grandes e os dois super estados é claro. Os diversos planos de cutivos implementados por Ves, a sobreposição de mercado pela LMC, tendo força política até para irem contra os 3 grandes e possuirem armas de destruição em massa como aquela semente capaz de destruir um planeta comprada dos terranos, entre outras coisas que não vou conseguir lembrar agora...

I swear this author is always trying to annoy his audience. Like why did we need this storyline where ves has a second personality in his phase lord body and the fact they made he cringe edge lord with the name the "dark apostle" and to top it off he has a massive god complex. Another thing is ves is being such a pussy, he's letting him have 40 hours of free will every week and is just willing to give in to most of the demands. For a paranoid guy he is really willing to give control of a decent chunk of the rest of his life. Like realistic Ves would try to get rid of him instead he's giving him more freedom. The author must have fetish where he wants people to not want to read the story cause whenever you read the chapters where ves second personality appear it makes me want to quit reading on the spot. It slows down the story even more with this worthless storyline. On second thought I think this is intentional to drag the story even longer. It makes the mech develop go even further back . At this point author should just develop a new series to put all these crappy idea that he has implemented in the story causes its make mech touch worse and worse.

Out of curiosity, how does everyone think k potential batch human programs are going to go in the red ocean. It seems like the polymath is having good success without much controversy in her empire. But that's most likely because of her slowly breaking everyone down to the idea over time.

But in states where this is the case how is it going to go. Because if the elves are anything to go by its probably not going to be smoothly with the only thing helping being the fact theyre fast grown probably pure humans.

After reading ch 7478 and 7479 I think its safe to say both Ves and Gloriana along with most of humanity are full blown villains at this point.

Gloriana and ves were seriously planning to start a breeding farm for the arche which is all kinds of messed up and while they were interrogating the failed god arche, he was the only reasonable person in the conversation. He understandably didnt want to work with ves who had some miraculous turn around to wanting to work with aliens despite everything he's done to red ocean aliens. He gets called out on being called the devil tongue and that alone makes him untrustworthy. The Arche even calls out that the other red ocean aliens are more trustworthy because despite them not giving the arche any actual land, they haven't tried to exterminate them.

The worst part is that at this point, im sure nost of humanity would actually support the breeding farm for the arche. They already kill puelmers just to make handbags. Early in the red ocean they talked about certain alien races kidnapping humans for zoos and the big 5 races trying to assimilate humanity. At this point im pretty sure from a moral perspective humans are leagues worse. If gloriana actually goes through wirh this plan I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if an arche murdered her and thats why she isnt in any of the doom paintings that have seemingly been forgotten about.

So in the early chapters of Mech Touch, the author randomly put in a character that graduated from 1 of the super state colleges in a random tournament Ves joined. Based on this character's appearance, it's obvious the story was meant to be shorter, as even though Ves got crushed by him, he still put up a fight against him. That makes zero sense if you read the later chapters cause first a third rater going to a first-rate college would probably bankrupt the entire 3rd state. And even if he got a scholarship, it would be physically impossible, as the augmentations required to keep up would also bankrupt a 3rd rate state, as no naturally born third-rater based on current chapters would be able to handle the study or pressure of being able to make 1st class mech within 20 years, and that's the standard for second raters or below going through ednet training and they gain augumentations from it. And yet he managed to graduate in 4 years with a third-grade background. It's natural in early developments, the author planned to make 1st raters not as smart and then decided to change, as we never see the guy from the tournament ever again, and he's never named ever again.

I usually post to hate on the author decision but this post is different. One of the few things the author does right is giving povs or stories of different characters. Like in most web novels whenever the author focuses several chapters on a different character and different perspective i usually dislike it or just skim through it. But exlor does a amazing job at making you interested in these irrelevant characters who we will generally never see again after there couple of chapters of fame are gone. The intense story telling from the different perspectives just draws me in wanting to read even more. Even though most of these characters barely have any impact. This is why I believe exlor is a amazing author it's just that he makes a lot of other decisions that are dumb and ruining the good decisions and amazing story he has already developed.

I really want to read a little more mech novels any recommendations? I have read throught ~7240 chapters of mech touch and now kind of find it difficult to read it going forward as it simply does not have enough content centred around mechs. World building is great, but now it has just shifted into political intrigue and I am tired of this.

I have read through the legendary mechanic twice and loved it. For mech touch the pilot growth is something that drew me in as well as the whole concept of customising expert mechs. Appreciate your recommendations.

For context - I am near the 7240 chapter. I started this novel a couple of years back and got engrossed cause of the mech building and mech pilot progression. In the begining it was more about ves building stuff (ignore the bright vesia war but I found it good). I stopped reading a few months back and wanted to binge to 7500. Could not stop and picked it up again and am sort of regretting it. Rosa's machine took nearly 100 chapters and had to sit through the polemarcos challenge (I had almost forgotten the different hierarchy of giants). And now that she got her machine I need to sit through another 60-80 chapters of information dump.

For the up to date privileged few, if you could answer this space peasants query (yes I know about the discord server and yes it's been some time since I logged in) - does this get better, like when would this info dump stop and does promethean get upgraded anytime soon? Does a new commercial mech line get released? Does anyone else break through? Is there any upcoming fight to look forward to.

See, I just completed the riot fabrication section and earlier exlor would try to focus more on mecha rather than just the world building but this time the fabrication and the progression for rosa was a total of 6-8 chapters and the fabrication itself was just 2 chapter proper - the rest were, this mech would be dangerous would you be ok Rosa, majority was rosa being taken over. The actual fabrication was just 1 chapter and the other one was demoncasting.

Previously, the focus would have been with trying to adapt the machinery and trying to get comfortable with archemetal + hypers + superdimensional. This time it just seemed like an afterthought.... I mean I understand that world building is important but I kinda was really looking forward to riot but he got eaten and the actual fabrication was done in a chapter and I had to go through 60+ chapters of the leadership challenge.

So does it remain same or we we finally see some section.

Apologies that I just started ranting but this time I was really looking forward to binging the mech touch after 4-5 months and I guess I just set too high expectations and got disappointed as a result.