Quote Originally Posted by Bright-Flower View Post
Why use hunters and beast souls when they have a robot army and airships? I don't know. Maybe it's lazy world building. Maybe Zooral Ja was just a bad ruler and didn't care about such issues when he was focused on conquest.
We're told that hunters are used for problems that aren't major enough to call in the military. Also that Zoraal Ja was a total warmonger and wouldn't divert resources for it anyway. As for using the beast souls, they didn't think any more of them than they would of picking up a gun. It's literally an entertainment industry in the Arcadion. Consuming souls is just how their society worked.