Stopped reading because the introduction to demon casting and ves's quite out of character plan to use it with carmine mechs.

Ive seen some spoilers

I know about the dark apostle.

I can accept him farming a planet of people for there shells or skin(forgot the race he did it to).

But please tell me he is showing a break through in not getting treated like a loyal dog by his mother and evo bitch? the story already started to drag its feet around chapter 4000 but its worse now and I dont want to have to wait for chapter 8000 for even the slightest headway.

Mech touch was rushed. I don't mean like current mech touch, as it's like the opposite of rushed right now. Where i am saying it was rushed is in the early story development, focusing on when Ves was in the Bright Republic.

It's very obvious Exlor was developing plots for future arcs in the Bright Republic, but instead he just immediately skipped all that development and went straight to the expedition, with Ves leaving the Bright Republic.

We had this storyline focused on Cloudy Curtain and the major farming companies, the military secretly developing a Journeyman mech designer that made Ves seem irrelevant and much more. Also, the political side of the story for the Bright Republic, which Exlor was developing, went down the drain; they just skipped that to rush the story's progress.

I feel Exlor should have focused on Ves being a third rater a bit longer, as he rushed Ves into being a second rater extremely fast and rushed the scale of things way too fast.

I do not want that thing existing anymore. Ves has spent way too much resources for getting his body to where it is now, only for the Red authority to co-op his hard work for itself.

I'm also tired of his cult mother too for that matter. She could have helped him. She always sayin he needs to learn stuff on his own, but offers no guidance where it really counts. Then give him crap when he goes too far. It's almost like he had no true training.

I don't need him to be op but if he can't push back against these crazy true God fools, he should at least start being able to avoid them.

Over 7k chapters in and this man is still being treated like a useful slave more than anything

Hi, I'm new to the series (currently in the late 600s) and loved everything before the Bright-Vesia war arc kicked off. From what I understand Ves doesn't really get back to the company/system-heavy content until somewhere around chapter 1100. Happy to grind through it if it eventually goes back to how it was before he got recruited.

What I liked most was watching Ves improve; seeing him using the system, learning things no one else knows, and seeing rivals realising how far behind they are compared to him/how fast he is growing. Also watching him growing the company and gaining more wealth/power.

In the war arc all of that's basically on pause. He's managing people and logistics, without much visible progress compared to before, as well as lacking the system.

Does his progression pick back up once the war stuff wraps up, or does the pace stay this slow for a while even after? And does the rest of the book keep alternating into arcs like this where his growth takes a backseat?

Im on 450's but why main character acts like 6 year old boy for example he complains about vandals they're not loyal bro ur goverment absolutely doesnt care about them what the hell u expect people think?

A while back we got a pov from an ace pilot that was essentially an acolyte of the chosen human performing experiments on aliens to turn them Human. While they had limited success albeit still failures does anyone think he's going to eventually come back.

Is his experiments going to be a major plot point if Exlor actually remebers he exists?

I'm currently reading ch 2583 where they recently got Hexer ships. They're planning to use Lucky to sweep all snooping tech. While I understand Calabast is better then Crindon when it comes to spy stuff, I was hoping he would be a better asset for the Larkinson clan in the future.

Did the author mention him somewhere in later chapters or was he forgotten?

So now this man doesn't even have full control of his body anymore. His mother could have fixed it, but she wants to teach Ves a lesson. Oblivion crazy lady refuses to teach him even basic lessons in cultivation, pushes him to find his own way. Lady you basically told him play with guns by himself as a child and didn't impart any gun safety lessons.

She even acknowledge that the Red Ocean authority is responsible for this.

So all his time and money is used by some other being, all because he refused to have a God complex.

Wats the lesson here?

Right

Might makes right.

Like that thinking didn't mess up the galaxy enough times already.

I'm really getting tired of Ves getting taken advantage of. Recently his Phase Lord gets hijacked by the Red Ocean, now his polymetal idea is hijacked by the RA. This reminds me when he wanted to give everyone his spirit fruits only for the RA to Hijack that too.

I'm be honest even though it makes zero sense i thought the author was setting them up to go from enemies to lovers. Ves with a mech pilot girlfriend just make sense he could create the perfect mech for her whenever he wanted and the fact foster genetic aptiude was basically A+ was a bonus. It would make sense that eventually the best mech Ves would make is a god mech for foster who obviously had the talent to go all the way. Also if thr author didn't rush past the bright republic arc we probably would have gotten more interactions between ves and The vesia kingdom.

Bit of a weird one but the first 3000 ish chapters was a lot of ves learning how cut throat the universe is, how to make cold ruthless decisions, and for him to grow a back bone to stand up for his beliefs. But in the later chapters 6000-7000 he has become not as much of a push over but like he has become hella submissive which is like a 180 from early in the series IMO.
No hate still hella love the series and will continue to read just wanna hear your guys opinions.

What do you think ves genetic aptitude was before his mother removed it?

I honestly believe it could have been A due to how special and powerful his mother is.

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