The Mech Touch

Chapter 6668 Formation Master Series

Qi cultivation came in many different forms. The Red Collective's Cultivation Method Department recovered many old texts and figured out a lot of different means of power expression.

When Melkor sought out a qi cultivation method that could expand his capabilities in a way that was helpful to a mech commander, he quickly became attracted by the mention of formations.

It turned out that formations were a big deal in qi cultivation. The way he understood it was that it was a purposeful way to leverage massive amounts of E energy radiation to produce powerful outcomes, often far beyond the actual cultivation level of the practitioner who set up the formations in the first place!

This immediately attracted his attention due to the promise of being able to produce significant results without needing to be strong himself.

However, when Melkor dove into this subject, he found that it was a lot more complicated than he expected.

There were at least two recognized categories of qi formations.

There were the highly familiar battle formations, which were usually practiced by groups of mech pilots in order to gain strength that exceeded the sum of their parts. Every Larkinson already had a good impression of battle formations!

However, there were still differences between the 'classic' battle formations taught by the Red Collective and the bastardized battle formations utilized by numerous Larkinson mech legions.

The former generally did not rely on borrowing power from a design spirit or other specific entity.

Originally, battle formations were supposed to be pure applications of qi. They relied on taking control over large amounts of E energy from the environment in order to form a powerful energy structure.

They could potentially allow a group of weaker practitioners to summon a large energy construct that could fight head-on against a powerful enemy such as a phase lord!

However, the demands on the mech pilots were hard. They needed to possess a certain combination of talent, comprehension, analytical ability, trust and teamwork in order to pull it off correctly.