"This…" Gloriana looked almost broken. "This cannot be… I was sure my theory was right… how can such a physically flawed mech become a masterwork…"
It was as if the qualitative transformation of the Ghost Project had nothing to do with her contributions.
She may have worked hard to prevent the expert stealth mech from ending up terrible in physical terms, but she had not been able to excel in this area due to her immature skills, her incomplete theoretical understanding and her lack of experience!
Even if her god body solution would eventually ensure that the Ghost Project's physical attributes gradually brought it closer to the masterwork threshold over time, this was not a real accomplishment in her opinion.
As Ves and everyone else continued to observe the Ghost Project as it reached a higher and more indescribable state of existence, it seemed that even the masterwork transformation was biased towards spirituality at this time!
Gloriana had another reason to feel upset about this event!
"How can this be?! Why isn't the physical structure being elevated as much as in the previous cases?!"
Ves smirked in her direction. "You should summon your companion spirit and take a peek through her perspective."
Gloriana along with Miles and Cormaunt all pulled out their respective companion spirits.
Maow…
Alexandria had been working hard in the past few days. The red spiritual cat looked much more tired than normal, but she did not need to exert much effort to witness the remarkable transformation taking place in a different realm!
It was as if the Ghost Project was bathed in a rainbow. Reality itself moved to improve and strengthen the spiritual foundation of the newly completed expert mech in ways that were both subtle but incredibly clever!
All of the Larkinson mech designers understood that this was the reason why the masterwork transformation did not affect the Ghost Project's physical construction all that much.
Its spiritual foundation was already claiming the bulk of the benefits!
"This proves one of my other theories." Ves grinned. "When a mech becomes a masterwork, its improvements are spread in proportion to its different aspects. A materially superior mech will receive a major improvement to its physical cohesion. A spiritually superior mech will receive a major improvement to its spiritual properties. Of course, the rest will also benefit, but not to the same extent."
What was weak became less weak.
What was strong became a lot stronger!
"What about a mech that is already strong in both matter and spirit?" Miles Tovar cautiously asked.
Gloriana's body suddenly shook! A daring theory suddenly entered her mind!
Even though she wanted to deny the truth, she could not argue against concrete proof.
Once she began to reconstruct her old theoretical framework in order to make it more consistent with the latest results, she immediately extrapolated the scenario that Miles had just mentioned.
The possible answers shocked her to her core!
"If a mech is exquisite enough in both areas, then it shall receive a major improvement in both areas. It will not turn into a masterwork mech that has barely climbed up to the second rung of Senfovon's ladder of craftsmanship. The mech will advance substantially further than that. If both the matter and the spirit of the machine have reached an extreme, then it is possible that it can reach the next threshold that comes after a masterwork."
This time, even Master Benedict grew shocked!
"You mean…"
"Grand work." Gloriana reverently spoke.
The entire workshop fell silent this time. Though all of the mech designers continued to track the changes triggered by the masterwork changes, a part of their minds were no longer in the present.
Instead, they were already fantasizing about what they needed to do in order to climb up the third rung of the craftsmanship ladder!