But the greatest advantage of artificial intelligence Mechanical Pet Beasts... lies in the fact that as long as enough gold is invested, they can exert power far beyond their own rank through external magictech superstructures.
Take, for instance, the trump card hidden away by the Princes' Alliance: the Gustav Cannon.
A single, manually operated Gustav Cannon, due to its firing interval and mobility issues, could only target specific stationary objectives and was powerless against smaller targets.
However, if a true state of war commenced, an Emperor Rank AI-controlled Mechanical Pet Beast, simultaneously commanding a dense artillery formation of dozens of Gustav Cannons, could suppress even a Legendary.
And those two massive metal containers were where Shiayar had truly invested this time.
