Before long, a sumptuous dinner was brought into the study, and the two ate as they talked.
Zhao Qianzhang deliberately stopped asking about the outside world and focused their conversation on how to fight the Demon Barbarians.
At first, Zhao Qianzhang mainly recounted the major events in the Craftsmen Realm over the years, then explained their methods for dealing with the Demon Barbarians.
Fang Yun listened with keen interest.
Although the people of the Craftsmen Realm also studied the Confucian School's classics and revered Confucius and others as Saints, they did so only to raise their Literary Ranks. They still specialized in the Craftsmen School, and no one pursued any other school as a secondary discipline.
Thus, all combat in the Craftsmen Realm revolved around mechanisms.
There was no War Poetry, no Literary Treasures, no Medical Books, no Legalist Canons...
Even military strategies were essentially carried out through mechanisms. Without Military Texts, they could not use the School of War's true military strategies.
When the craftsmen here fought, they controlled mechanisms in battle. Because their mechanisms were numerous and their power was concentrated in a single field, they surpassed those of the Saint Origin Continent in many respects. Strategic mechanisms such as mechanical airships, Mechanism Giants, and mechanical behemoths had existed here for a long time.
The Craftsmen School's mechanisms on the Saint Origin Continent were primarily powerful city-defense mechanisms used to support warfare. Only a handful of Craftsmen School members who enjoyed fighting built powerful mechanisms for individual combat.
The Craftsmen Realm was different. Its mechanisms were primarily designed for individual combat, and the prevailing approach was to control them in battle from a distance. A few people instead built mechanical battle bodies and fought at close quarters from within them.
Thus, battles in the Craftsmen Realm were wars