When I heard that Angel City could only produce two thousand newborn angels a week, I found the pace unbelievable—not because it was too fast, but because it was too slow. So slow that it made one wonder whether it was really an Empire facility at all.
A facility as massive as Angel City taking seven days to train two thousand soldiers might have been quite an impressive production rate for an ordinary civilization, but for the Empire, having troop production reduced to the "thousands" was simply intolerable.
What we desperately needed now was an entire legion...
When I voiced my thoughts, Bellavella looked unimpressed. She glanced at me and shook her head. "You're being constrained by your own preconceptions. Things in the Mystic System are different from the technological side, and the differences are enormous. These are two technical systems with complete frameworks of their own. They don't merely use different forms of power—if replacing heavy machine guns with Arcane Missiles, single-soldier fighters with magic carpets, and ion beams exchanged between two armies with Eye Beams counted as the distinction between the technological side and the Mystic System... don't you think that would be far too simplistic?"
I embarrassedly admitted that that had indeed been exactly what I thought at first...
"Whew..." Bellavella sighed helplessly, as though she had no idea what to do with my wildly simplistic logic. "Fine, I can't blame you. Since you first encountered the Empire, you really haven't learned much about the Mystic System, and that knowledge was only unsealed for you these past two days. Let me give you a lesson—the greatest difference between the Empire's Mystic System military forces and the technological side is this: we never produce basic troop types in factories. Do you understand? The most basic units coming off