Xiao Ran was quite satisfied with the new mecha. It lacked a superweapon capable of effectively dealing with a Native Species BOSS, but even without one, his current strength combined with the new mecha meant he was no longer as helpless against a Native Species BOSS as before. The final outcome simply remained uncertain.
Although the mecha had now been assembled, the weapons needed to be redesigned. Luo had originally been leading that work, but it seemed that Shirakawa Shuu and Ingram would have to take charge of the weapons instead.
At the same time, while the main body of the mecha was complete, its true backpack had yet to be built. A good backpack could enhance a mecha by far more than a simple one-plus-one effect. It could even allow the mecha to unleash more than three times its normal performance, reaching four, five times, or even higher. Yet even Luo had no concrete ideas for that backpack so far.
The only definite idea was to make the backpack into a transformable Super AI Combat Robot, allowing the mecha to fight without Xiao Ran aboard or detach from the main body and fight independently. As for how the backpack should actually be designed, Luo was still exploring and considering it.
An S-class mecha naturally needed a backpack worthy of the S-class. Resource consumption—what people called production costs—was never something Luo and the others considered. How could the Burning Legion, which controlled several worlds, possibly worry about resources just to build a powerful S-class mecha? Even without Zifield Crystals now, once they returned to the OG World, they could get as many as they wanted. If Earth did not have them, they could just seize them somewhere else.
With the Burning Legion's current strength, they truly had no reason to