Chapter 2988: The Seventh Project
The difficulty in acquiring higher-end resonating exotics was not a problem that the Larkinsons could solve in a short amount of time.
Perhaps it would have worked if the expeditionary fleet was still in the vicinity of the Hexadric Hegemony, but now that they were in Majestic Teal and moving even further away, Ves could forget about this option.
This forced Ves to set his sights on other states. Due to the fact that the expeditionary fleet was trying to reach the lesser beyonder gate a few star clusters away, the Larkinsons wouldn't be staying in any state along the way long enough to forge new friendships.
Since relationships were important in this kind of business, Ves felt very constrained by this situation. Slowing down the fleet might allow them to develop a relationship with a state along their route, but it was unacceptable for him to delay his journey to the Red Ocean any further.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
Exlor
Exlor ANNOUNCEMENT: DESIGN SPIRIT CONTEST!
The Mech Touch has reached 3000 chapters, and that means another CONTEST! This event centers around creating new design spirits that can exert a profound influence on mechs and mech pilots.
Contest Rules
Suggest any ORIGINAL design spirit that partners with Ves and empowers his future mech designs in interesting ways. Backstory is important. Make sure that it explains and provides context to the special abilities that a design spirit can bestow to mechs under its care.
You can suggest both natural design spirits (dead humans and aliens) or artificial design spirits (created by Ves by mixing spiritual ingredients).
You must allocate the strengths of your design spirit according to a point system. You have 10 POINTS in total which you can allocate to the following categories:
-Intelligence (?/10)
-Adaptability (?/10)
-Ability Diversity (?/10)
-Ability Power (?/10)
5 points in any category is already strong. Make sure the description of your design spirit matches your point allocation or it will be disqualified.
IMPORTANT!
-Design spirits must be one of the following: human, alien, exobeast or spiritual product created by Ves based on distinct ingredients. If you choose the latter, then briefly explain the key ingredients.
-You can edit, remove and resubmit your design spirit submissions AT ANY POINT in the places below. I will provide a brief opinion of every submission every couple of days so you know how to improve your design spirit. I will only fully evaluate every submission after the deadline has passed.
-I will do my best to implement any winning submissions in The Mech Touch within 1000 chapters after selection.
-DO NOT PLAGIARIZE OTHER ANIMES, BOOKS, TV SHOWS OR MOVIES! IF YOU CANNOT COME UP WITH SOMETHING ORIGINAL, DON'T BOTHER PARTICIPATING!
SUBMISSION DETAILS
This contest will run for 3 weeks from 18:00 CET, September 16 2021 to 18:00 CET October 7 2021.
You can submit 4 unique design spirits in total, 1 in each of the following 4 places:
-The comments of Chapter 2958 on Webnovel.com
-The comments of Chapter 3000 on Webnovel.com
-The #event-submissions channel on The Mech Touch's Unofficial Discord server
-The Instagram post for this contest at my personal account account: @mlduong
SELECTION
On October 10 21:00 CET I will determine the results of this contest live on TMT's Unofficial Discord Server.
-I will select 1 to 3 submissions by quality
-I will select 1 submission by lottery
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
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