Chapter 6495 Diligent Mayra

Chapter 6495 Diligent Mayra

As the family continued to partake in their dinner, Ketis eventually proceeded to shift. her attention to Mayra.

Unlike her son who possessed black hair but already started to shape up into a small swordsman, her daughter lacked the sharp edge that came with training weapons and learning how to kill in the most brutally efficient way possible.

Both Ketis and Joshua were already more than satisfied with raising their son into a mighty soldier or warrior. Fighting could never be avoided in this day and age, and they wanted at least one of their children to be able to protect their loved ones by themselves.

Mayra therefore had the luxury of pursuing other career options. The mother and father therefore made deliberate choices to steer Mayra away from more violent professions and develop a liking for more peaceful and productive pursuits.

Fortunately, Mayra developed an early love for designing mechs. She deeply looked up to her mother and built up a keen interest in learning how to play around with emchs.

Just like little Marvaine, Mayra had already begun to play with Mekano sets. Although her progress was not particularly fast, the fact that she was enjoying the process of putting different parts together and trying to invent better configurations was already enough to make her parents satisfied.

"How is your progress at school, Mayra?"

"My teachers say that I am doing well. My companion spirit helps me learn and remember the study material faster. I am also getting better at calculating sums. My math teacher even allows me to study ahead and try to solve equations from the textbooks meant for older students, but it is harder for me to do so. I get stuck more often and have to skip to other problems. Can you look at my work and help me solve the most difficult problems?"

Ketis smiled indulgently at her daughter. "Math is easy and fun at first, but it can quickly get more and more complicated. If you ever get stuck, don't try to look up the answer on the galactic net or ask me how to solve it. Just go over the latest chapters of your textbooks and try to find a connection between theory and problem. As long as you think hard enough, you will figure out the answer eventually. Only by doing this over and over will you train your problem-solving skills. Mech designers have to solve hundreds of problems like this every day, and their difficulty is much harder the more sophisticated your mech becomes. If you cannot solve the low-level problems of these textbooks, you can forget about designing mechs in reality"

It was not quite fair to expect her daughter to solve problems in textbooks meant for students who were several years older than herself, but Ketis believed her precious girl was up to the task.

"Can I cultivate as well?" Mayra pleaded. "I have heard that there are many methods that can directly make you smarter. I can solve these problems much easier after I have begun my practice!"

"No. Kirian may be old enough to dip his toes into cultivation, but you are still too young. The risks are too great, companion spirit or not. Wait until you are as old as Kirian before you ask me this question again. You'll be old enough to improve your control over yourself. We will also know much more how qi cultivation methods work with cases like yours. Right now, we still do not fully understand the positive and negative effects of cultivation in relation to children with companion spirits."

Unlike a certain infamous Larkinson Mech Designer, Ketis was not so eager to use her own children as test subjects.

The reason why she reluctantly allowed her son Kirian to practice an auxiliary qi cultivation method was because of his slightly greater age and the mental tempering that came with repeated swordsmanship practice.

Having taught Kirian herself, Ketis had already sought to mold her boy into an indomitable swordsman. This made his mentality harder and better able to resist

external shocks.

Mayra lacked this quality, so she wouldn't be able to endure as much stress. It was better for the girl to take it easy for a few years.

Ketis continued to chat with her daughter. Her lips curled in pride when she saw the shadow of herself in her daughter.

In fact, the mother felt proud of both of her son and daughter.

Kirian had taken after the swordmaster side of Ketis. The mother felt that Kirian would definitely be able to inherit her swordsmanship legacy.

The one regret that Ketis had when training Kirian into a swordsman was that he would not be able to join the Swordmaidens.

Unless he made the radical and somewhat risky decision to undergo a medical procedure that could turn him into a woman, Kirian would not be able to join the Swordmaidens.

"I suddenly had a good idea. One of the problems associated with systematic cultivation

is that people are unclear of their talents and affinities to different E energy attributes. I

was thinking... can we develop a way to measure the relevant data and calculate the talents and affinities of a human? I think we can prevent many people from making decisions that they would regret due to incompatibility"

That sounded like a helpful suggestion. Information about systematic cultivation was still

too sparse and inconsistent.

Modern society thrived on information. Bad or unknown data could ruin anyone's

calculations.

Even Joshua recognized the immense value of being able to precisely determine one's

cultivation qualifications.

"That sounds like a great idea, my dear. How will you be able to implement such a

device?"

"I have my ideas," Ketis tested as her thoughts spun for a moment. "The test has to be conducted on a spiritual level. The MSTS is perfect for this. It already exists and it has accrued a monstrous amount of data that allowed it to reach a more perfect state. It should be able to conduct discrete measurements on the mech pilot's spirit to quickly ascertain that person's qualifications.

"That only works for mech pilots and maybe Carmine mech pilots." Joshua retorted. "Maybe the Golden Cat can gather this information on her own initiative. She is already connected to every clansman."

Ketis still shook her head. "You may very well be right, but it is not a universal solution. The MSTS has the advantage that it can be accessed by people outside of our clan, though only after paying us in phasewater. We may as well introduce a new service while we are at it. These are also the soldiers whose qualifications we need to know the most." The swordmaster became more and more optimistic about expanding the functionality of the MSTS, but she needed to have a good talk with Ves in order to implement this

demand.

In fact, Ketis also wanted to talk to him about expanding the MSTS.

She understood a part of the reason why he had restricted its proliferation. It cost

energy to operate a new instance every time a mech pilot connected to it. The MSTS became a growing burden to maintain upon active use. Earning a profit within 24 hours was not always guaranteed."

Previously, the MSTS had to be run sparingly in order to avoid draining its reserves.

Now, abundant access to E energy radiation caused everything to enjoy a glut of energy.

The main problem that hindered the proliferation of the MSTS had crumbled after the start of the Age of Dawn!

Not only was the MSTS able to maintain a positive energy balance a lot easier than before, it also began to acquire more complex and mysterious characteristics due to constant E energy exposure!