Chapter 572 Mecha Titan Knigh
Jin did not build a Mecha Titan from scratch since he didn't have the resources nor the money to accomplish such a feat. Instead, he had used the Titan Knight from the Dungeon World and constructed the Mecha around it. (So much for not asking his minions for help, but he did prepare a nice present for Titan Knight, plus it was unaware about the feast.)
As the exterior was already in place, Jin mainly focused on repairing the internal parts as analysed by the System and gave him a new pair of 'legs' to boot.
For now, Jin used the caterpillar tracks from the Sherman Tank blueprints from Hou Fei. He would have preferred to wait until Amura Rei shared some of their world's Mecha blueprints as a reference, but as time was of the essence, he needed to use the Titan Knight now to catch the giant monsters for the grand feast.
Therefore, Jin installed the caterpillar tracks on the Titan Knight as its first iteration and made it modular in nature so the parts could be swapped when he finally had his hands on the Mecha Blueprints.
The Titan Knight was rather satisfied that he finally had something to move around instead of being forced to hand around like a piece of clothing by the System in the Sanctum of Worlds' Guest Instance.
Initially, Jin wanted to just install the Hover ability from the Lost Technology, but it required wires sticking through the Titan Knight from his waist below with a portal constantly opened to the Guest Instance. With that method, he could be operating without the worry of his energy drying up.
But on second thought, Jin believed it was too risky with too many exposed parts. (Not to mention all the debris falling into the Guest Instance. The System would most likely complain even though it had the capability to clean the mess. Also, the System did berate him about the expenses about having a giant moving portal out for that long.)
After putting the Titan Knight on tracks, Jin further modified the internal compartments to install a cockpit inside, allowing the dungeon supplier to not only have a better grasp on the controls if needed but also to gain an easy way to insert Maqi into the Titan Knight's body.
This could potentially reduce the amount of fuel energy used by the Titan Knight which was currently running on oil that was produced by the System. In addition, by using Maqi, it was able to utilise the prototype energy beam rifles which were powered by the runes designed by the Elite Runesmith Jespa and her Blacksmith cousin, Hespesta.
The Maqi would run through a series of large adamantium runes, invoking the magical powers within the Runes to produce the sufficient capacity to activate instead of using the energy source from the Titan Knight.
Blacksmith Hespesta had also created the rifle based on the System's purchase of a basic beam rifle from the black market and later magnified to 50 times the size to make sure that the Titan Knight was not losing any firepower because of the sheer size. (Needless to say, they never knew that Jin had begun using those prototypes without their acknowledgement. Even Moloch thought that Jin was taking it to analyse stuff.)
Other than the rune activated Prototype Beam Rifle, the Blacksmith had managed to create a titan sword and shield which was lazily named by Jin as the Colossus Blade and Colossus Tower Shield.
And of course, Jin would be piloting the Titan Knight with his modified Orgebuster Sandroku Golem equipped in case of any emergency ejection from the Titan Knight and for further protection within the cockpit.
The supplier was also considering the same for any subsequent Mecha builds as he believed that the cockpit was way too dangerous for the pilot. If Jin could spend a little more money to make a suit that allowed them to exit a damaged mech in time (or at least endure secondary explosions), they could potentially inflict more damage to the enemy mech before having to evacuate. (or die gloriously?)
At the same time, he did not wish to use Gearbox Suit as the base product as it would hurt Yang Ling's business as well as her potential growth to be a badass Catgirl or Iron Lady. Hence, he was looking into the growth of his Black Tech, so he had tasked Ayse and her team to look into that aspect.
However, all these prototype Gearbox suits and Black Tech Armour suits were all research mainly for one particular suit.
The Living Armour Suit that Jin commanded his minions and Systems to create with utmost patience and diligence.
Jin knew that he had all the essential components for the suit, but he felt that being hasty in the production for this one in a lifetime kind of armour suit would only be an injustice to all the efforts placed into it.
Especially Ke Mi, Shu and the other werejackals who had tended to the Living Armour plants for months with much care. Furthermore, Peppers had yet to give him the follow up of the effect of the Living Armour plate that absorbed her magical energies. Was it just an anomaly or could it affects the whole series of crops?
Only (Peppers in) time could tell.
As the Titan Knight finished its fundamental movement testing with its new caterpillar tracks, it opened its abdominal plates and gave entry to Jin in his Orgebuster Sandroku Golem who later manually secured the plates properly.
With some tweaking by the System, the golem was properly seated into the cockpit's position, and wires were automatically inserted into the golem to have access to the Titan Knight's sensors. The controls were similar to the cockpit of core units in the Supa Robot Wars. Thus Jin had an easy time manoeuvring the huge Titan Knight. (Although he felt weird like some kind of Robotception.)
"All Systems good to go. Now we just have to wait for Lynn to bring….WHAT THE SHIT?!" Jin exclaimed as he saw a tiny little bike hovering around to avoid getting stomped by a giant mutant pig. Sadly, it was not just some ordinary Giant Pig Monster.
It was a Giant Pig Monster with giant spikes on its back!
A Pigcupine?!