Benjamin stood beside the Teleportation Array, quietly observing everything. "This place's style is vastly different from that of the other three of the Four Great Factions."
Though the Star Ring Federation, the Anti-Entropy Alliance, and the Void Architecture Institute each had their own styles, none of those differences were this exaggerated.
Viola stood beside him and swept her gaze around.
"That's perfectly normal. The Crimson Court has never been pacifist. You could even say these people are the war-crazed lunatics who love war most among the Four Great Factions." Her voice carried a trace of gravity.
"They study war not to win it, but to squeeze more things out of it."
Benjamin fell into thought.
He had heard Mentor Clark say that before.
The Crimson Court's philosophy of war was considered quite extreme throughout Wizard Civilization.
The other three Great Factions basically sought to win with the smallest possible cost.
If their opponents were so weak that they could not even self-destruct their plane, they would not hesitate to deploy overwhelming combat power to suppress them.
But if there was a risk of self-destruction, they would adopt slow, corrosive tactics instead.
The Crimson Court's philosophy, however, was entirely different. Once a Plane War began, their war objectives did not include "winning with minimal losses" at all.
On the contrary, the Crimson Court's wizards would even deliberately control the intensity of battle, ensuring that the war remained above a certain threshold of ferocity.
They did this for only one purpose: to force their enemies to reveal more of their wisdom and hidden cards.
What the Crimson Court truly wanted had never been a beautiful victory, but their enemies' knowledge.
War was the catalyst of technology. Under high-intensity warfare, an enemy civilization's technology would make tremendous leaps forward.
In every Plane War,