Why Become a Mecha Pilot

Back at the Yuelai Tavern, Feng Xue and Old Li didn't continue their conversation. After all, apart from the Miss Ke Family who was forcibly dragged along, everyone else who participated in the 121 Challenge had some idea of "becoming the final winner."

Under this objective, when the situation is unclear, people can share information; when trouble arises, they can exchange intelligence; and they can even sacrifice some interests to make the other party take a risk.

However, once the finish line is in sight, even the closest partners can become untrustworthy.

Old Li's generosity in revealing the crucial clue of "ritual" is likely more about pushing Feng Xue out to test the waters.

In fact, Feng Xue had no doubt that Old Li was concealing some crucial information.

Ultimately, he didn't believe that an old man who had once suppressed the Weird Tale of his time would relinquish the path to the top.

Keeping a close eye on Old Li's actions, Feng Xue also began to consider her own next move.

The mecha battle will definitely continue, not so much to win a championship, but to make this mecha a "legal" system in the Bailin Country.

The God Selection Arena is the most straightforward and simplest path to Ascend to Godhood in this world. As long as you break through the encirclement and defeat the gods, you can Ascend to Godhood as a god of war. However, the problem is that if you want to participate in the God Selection Arena, you must first ensure that you are not targeted at the start.

The God Selection Arena is divided into two stages. The first stage is the Mortal Arena, where a large number of mortals fight to determine the strongest, who is then qualified to advance to the second stage, the God Arena. Only by defeating a god in the God Arena can one Ascend to Godhood.

So the question is, why hasn't anyone successfully navigated this obvious path over the years?

Although those God Selection Arena are all martial gods, those who can become high-level lords all have multiple worlds as their backing and a large number of "believers" providing them with authority. Why hasn't even one succeeded?

The answer is simple: because they don't have sufficient legal status.

It's not that you can't register without an identity, but rather that the gods of this world are aware of the existence of Outsider. They only need to keep an eye on those contestants who inexplicably appear during the mortal stage, and then secretly deal with them.

It's like in modern society, someone suddenly publishes world-class scientific research results, but upon investigation, it turns out that no one knows who their parents are, what their background is, or whether they have any formal education. Anyone with a brain would know that there's something wrong with this person.

This is also why Feng Xue stubbornly chose mecha as her means of competition, and even went so far as to create the SEED project.

If a deity wants to investigate a Martial Arts Master, then his background, fighting style, the powerful opponents he has fought against, and his reputation are all easily exposed points.

What? It doesn't belong to any existing school of thought?

Thorough investigation!

What? There's no record of any top-tier fighters having faced him?

Thorough investigation!

What? A style created by itself?

Okay, so what about the creation process? Who did you fight? What style did you use before creating? Where did you learn it? Who was your teacher? Even if your teacher is dead, surely some of your fellow disciples are still alive? Was your entire sect wiped out? Who wiped out your sect? Why were you spared? Where have you been all these years?

If any one point doesn't match, it will immediately expose the flaw.

But when investigating a pilot, the pool of information available becomes significantly smaller.

Where did such a powerful mecha come from? Does mecha technology have a systematic tech tree? Who designed the mecha? What was their mentor? What is their resume?

What? His mecha technology came from the destroyed mecha units of the Heavenly Court?

What? The Parlin Kingdom is researching this technology?

What? The designer who designed his mecha was a designer named Mang Ke?

Good!

A thorough investigation is needed to find the pilot who shot down the Heavenly Court Unit!

A thorough investigation of the Parlin Kingdom!

A thorough investigation of Mang Ke!

Oh, everything's fine?

Then there's no problem.

This is not to say that pilots themselves do not need to be checked, but rather that the need for combat experience in Mecha Combat is lower than that in hand-to-hand combat.

A Martial Arts Master with extensive combat experience cannot appear out of thin air, but a pilot may accumulate sufficient piloting skills through 2,000 simulated battle victories.

This is like how you can't become a swordsman by simply practicing swordsmanship and cutting bamboo mats, but it's easy to become a sharpshooter by shooting targets.

There are plenty of places to practice shooting, but the number of truly skilled individuals who can learn from and improve alongside top-level competitors is extremely limited.

Ultimately, even if there are Martial Arts Game, they cannot replicate a player's physical condition, and the experience and training gained in the game are unlikely to form physical memory.

However, in mech piloting games, as long as there is a sufficiently realistic cockpit as the game interface, the skills can be easily developed. Even if the mech is changed, as long as the piloting concept remains the same, you can quickly get the hang of it with a little adaptation.

You can even change your ID in online mech battle simulations.

As for Feng Xue's resume, it's even simpler.

Orphans, abandoned babies in Garbage Dump —this is not uncommon in a world frequently ravaged by war. As for lying about one's age to work, that's even more common. Since it's about lying about one's age, there's naturally no record of it. And in the Bailin Country, there are countless examples of such upbringings. Even White Forest Mecha Martial Arts is an old sport that has been developing for decades; if anyone is to be investigated, it's the people who promoted this sport.

After that, by slightly manipulating the way each battle is conducted, it is possible to create a scenario where a pilot with piloting experience but no combat experience goes from "overpowering opponents with the superior performance of their mechs" to "gradually developing their own fighting style".

While rehearsing a script in her mind, Feng Xue unconsciously started thinking about the word "ritual".

As a reader of Webnovel in the new era, Feng Xue's first thought was actually the kind of ritual in the novel "Mystery of the Unknown" that uses rituals to avoid a certain negative state and thereby break through the barrier between humans and gods.

However, after thinking for a moment, he felt that the kind of ritual in the D&D genre, where the faith breaks through a certain threshold in an instant through the unified behavior of believers, thereby breaking the boundary between humans and gods, was more in line with the Weird Tale system.

Only...

"Since the gods of this world specifically severed the information about the godhood ceremony, why did they leave behind two paths: the God Selection Arena and the Technological Godhood? The God Selection Arena is held every four years, which might involve the fundamental interests of a certain God of War, but why should the Technological Godhood of the Ideal Country be preserved? Even if there isn't a single example of a successful godhood through any of the recorded paths."

Feng Xue pondered this question, considering all the related possibilities. Then, a flash of Spiritual Light, reminiscent of those found on Conan sets, struck her, Feng Xue suddenly had a hypothesis—

"Perhaps it's not that they didn't want to kill, but that the so-called ritual was essentially meaningless. What truly mattered was that ordinary people believed it could lead to godhood!"

Regarding the Wise Person- type power, it can be simply described as the ability to "deduce the result from clues." This type of power is the most useless in the entire power system because it is essentially about strengthening oneself rather than fighting against others. In other words, it does not have special attack capabilities, only the attribute of being attacked. Unless this thing can achieve "omniscience," but omniscience is not Wise Person- type power, but a power like divination or foresight.

To put it simply, Wise Person need "clues" as a starting point for reasoning.

Making baseless speculations without sufficient clues is like something everyone is doing—it's not something you can verify without enough evidence; you can only try to figure it out yourself.

For example, it's possible to discover that the conditions for gods to become gods in this world are problematic. But where is the problem? It's been eliminated by power. So we can only make assumptions and then try and fail again and again.

Ultimately, don't think of so-called Wise Person as incredibly powerful. Wise Person only have a chance of winning in a contest between equals. Those Wise Person are touted as being incredibly wise are simply given a cheat code by the author. They are called Wise Person, but in essence, they have the ability to predict the script and allocate more resources.

It's like the battle of wits between L and Light. The basis of this intellectual duel is that L possesses vast resources, allowing him to use death row inmates for trial and error. However, even so, his chances of victory depend solely on Light's unwillingness to have his eyes replaced. Furthermore, Light's method of using the notebook itself is flawed. If he hadn't become overconfident, the so-called Wise Person would have had no chance of winning against the notebook's holder.

Even the most cunning protagonist, when faced with Zuo Songxing's Special Ability to switch cards, can only choose not to gamble.