Gloriana tried to employ several different angles to persuade Jovy to override Ves' arrogant decision, to no avail.
The fundamental truth was that she lacked authority and recognition.
Situations like these made her regret all of the opportunities that she could have taken to raise her public profile.
Though she had already begun to mingle with third-party mech designers when it came to initiatives such as deciphering archetech, they were too limited in scope to affect the bigger picture.
She was not like Ves who could effortlessly pull out an invention as universally desirable as Carmine mechs to command the attention of every red human!
Even now that she had finally become a user of the unfathomably deep Mech Designer System, she saw no immediate route to leveraging its many options to replicate her husband's meteoric rise.
She felt rather disappointed in herself about this failure.
