Chapter 1092 - Win (1/2)

Chapter 1092: Win

Translator: Yukidaruma Translations  Editor: Yukidaruma Translations

Therefore, although it appeared as the world was still peaceful, both the Church and the Empire were investing their resources into armaments, preparing for a war that would break out at an unknown time.

All the Knight Academies kept on expanding. The quota for the annual selection kept on increasing, and even the Regional and National Selections were changed to be held annually.

A large quantity of Divine Weapons was being created incessantly. The ore and mineral, blacksmithing, transportation and logistics, and other relevant industries welcomed an unprecedented state of glory.

The Empire had now gathered the Sand Country, the plains, and its original eight regions. Regardless of whether it was in terms of wealth, resources, or population, all of them had reached a great height. The entire country was headed toward a raging state of prosperity and development.

If this were to continue on for ten or even 20 years, it would be no surprise even if the country’s power managed to catch up to the Church’s. Of course, this was if Ulpian were taken out of the equation.

Bringing along the Crown Princess and Jiuqian back to the palace, Fang Xingjian first went to meet the Fourth Prince to ascertain the Empire’s current situation.

Hearing the Fourth Prince’s reports, Fang Xingjian nodded. “You guys have done well. There will be a war between us and the Church sooner or later.”

At the thought of this, Fang Xingjian tapped out with a finger and sent the information on the various high technological weapons he had attempted to create in the martial arts world into the Fourth Prince’s mind.

“It takes too long to nurture Knights. The Empire can focus its resources and start to mass-produce these mechanical weapons.”

After all, experts who could reach the Divine level, even those at tier five or six of the Divine level, would need to have extremely great talent.

Fang Xingjian could mass-produce geniuses using the nine levels of the mystical prints, but if those people did not have sufficient talent by themselves, it would still be hard for them to reach the pinnacle. The amount of wealth and resources spent on them would be completely sufficient to create technological weapons that far surpassed their strength.

Therefore, Fang Xingjian’s plan was to stop the Empire from using its resources to mass-produce Knights. Instead, they should only select a small portion of people with outstanding talents to give them genius-styled nurturing.

The saved resources could be used to create a large-scale mechanized army to fill up the gaps in battle prowess amongst those at the lower tier.

With that, they would be able to create a military system where cultivators formed the higher-tiered battle prowess and the mechanized troops took charge of the lower-tiered battle prowess.

Mechanized troops were unafraid of hardship, fatigue, and death. They were the best battle prowess meant for destruction.

Nurturing Knights through an elite-based education would make it easier to nurture outstanding characters.

The amount of resources required for nurturing ordinary Knights and second transition Knights would far surpass that of a mechanized army. There would still be a need to distribute authority and wealth to them. It would be both tiresome and troublesome, and this system would be discarded by Fang Xingjian.

Of course, it was just a matter of not using the country’s resources to support them. Fang Xingjian still would not stop the commoners from relying on themselves to cultivate the Knight martial path.

With so many Divine level experts working under him that he could use as laborers, it would not take too much time to create these high-technological weapons.

Therefore, in the time that followed, many secret arsenals rose up within the Empire. Prince Philip, Tyrant, and Lan Yue each built their own arsenal, preparing to mass-produce mechanized troops.

They also had to produce robots equipped with electromagnetic rifles, mechanized cuttlefish equipped with plasma cannons, combat drones, and others.

Clearly, after the mechanized army was produced, the Empire would at least have the absolute advantage in the lower-tiered battles.