Reincarnation of the Strongest Sword God - Side Stories Chapter 186 - Gathering of Hegemons

Slumber City, Abyssal Tower's lobby:

"Everyone from our main force is here now, Commander. The outer team's 600-plus Novice Temple Knights have also finished gathering outside the city. With this, Purple Light will be utterly powerless to protect those people," Night Revenant reported to Solitary Soul. Then, he smiled and added, "If Purple Light's members dare to intervene outside the city, we'll make it so that none of them can return to the city alive!"

The Purple Light Chamber of Commerce might be one of Slumber City's peak powers, but it had the fewest Temple Knights and Novice Temple Knights out of all the peak powers in Slumber City. More specifically, Purple Light had fewer than 30 Temple Knights and a little over 300 Novice Temple Knights.

The only reason Purple Light was even considered a peak power was because of its wide business connections. Purple Light had trade deals with even the peak powers of several neighboring cities. Because of these connections, Purple Light had the most Combat Puppets out of all powers in Slumber City, its Combat Puppet count exceeding 100.

If a Novice Temple Knight was given control of a Basic Combat Puppet, they could exhibit combat power rivaling official Temple Knights. However, Purple Light's Combat Puppets were typically reserved for the protection of important resource nodes, and few of its Combat Puppets were stationed in Slumber City.

Meanwhile, the transportation of Combat Puppets was incredibly troublesome since they couldn't be stored in ordinary Spatial Bags. Only Epic Spatial Bags could store Combat Puppets, and the average Epic Spatial Bag could store around ten Combat Puppets.

However, Epic Spatial Bags were rarer and more expensive than even Fragmented Legendary items, and Purple Light only had a few of them. Not to mention, Purple Light's Combat Puppets were still needed to defend its resource nodes.

All in all, the combat power Purple Light could afford to mobilize in Slumber City was, at most, around a dozen Temple Knights and a hundred Novice Temple Knigh

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