"Grand Artisan Li, this is the storehouse where we keep the Type-B Wooden Cranes. The Type-B Wooden Crane was the precursor to puppets such as the Steel-Feathered Crane. To create an avian battle puppet that could be deployed in actual combat and rival an Armored Warrior Puppet, the sages of old painstakingly devised its design, pouring their hearts and blood into it. Only after many twists and turns did they finally succeed."
"It incorporates sixteen ingenious design features, each a classic in its own right. If you want to draw on its design principles for your own puppets, you certainly chose the right one to dismantle and study."
In a secure storehouse in southern Golden Light City, Li Chen followed the steward to collect his purchase. He had spent another ten thousand talisman coins on a Type-B Wooden Crane, a design no less classic than the Armored Warrior Puppet.
Since he was a Grand Artisan, the steward also enthusiastically showed him around.
Once again, Li Chen felt he had feasted his eyes to his heart's content.
Knowledge and experience are also vital resources for advancing in rank. Without familiarity with hundreds or thousands of mechanism designs and puppet models, there can be no talk of being broadly learned and talented.
The Complete Book of the Puppet Master Order does introduce various classic models and branches of puppetry, but its limited length means it focuses on the trunk and neglects the details.
Books devoted to specific mechanism puppets and creations, meanwhile, are constrained by their authors' limited knowledge and experience, leaving the task incomplete.
Ultimately, it came down to limitations in communication and the dissemination of information.
Although this world had Ultrawave Communication and transmissions through divine sense, such communication was neither online nor instantaneous.
And the reason it was not