Legion didn’t care about anyone’s feelings, though. As soon as the announcement was made, they sent Golden Hammer to go to the territory of their competitor and challenge them for the two free districts.
The challenge was open and aboveboard. They didn’t attack secretly because they intended to abide by the rules and fight their competitor openly.
They didn’t break the rules because they were afraid of the noble families. They would have broken the rules and secretly attacked their competitor if it was necessary.
As long as they make sure that they won’t get caught, they will entertain breaking the rules. The main reason they didn’t try to break the rules and decided to fight openly for the two districts was simply because it wasn’t worth it to do so.
They didn’t have anything to fear from their competitor. So it was easier and more efficient to defeat them openly. Defeating them openly would be quicker than skulking about in secret, and it would require less effort too.
Their competitor also knew this. This led to a pretty interesting reaction from them.
Their competitor was the Light Temple gang. They are actually a religious organization that worships the dead god of light.
So they are more of a cult than a gang. But their religion has kind and benevolent doctrines. The members of the gang and their religion in general are always helping people, not sacrificing them, which is why they are condoned.
Members of the cult of light are strong, but they are kind and peaceful. If a matter can be resolved with peace, they would rather use peace to resolve it than use their strength. Their behavior is the direct opposite of those in the cult of blood.
Comparing the behavior of the members of the Cult of Light to that of the believers of the Cult of Blood is actually an exaggeration. The closest group that the Cult of Light is compared to is the Church of Justice.
Judges aren’t allowed in Reinfield City at all, and it is impossible for a church or a base of operation for lamp bearers to be established in the city without war. Yet, the Cult of Light is openly welcomed in the city.
This comparison says it all about what the nobles think of the two religions. The cult of light helps people, but they don’t do so by eroding the authority and power of nobles, so they are allowed in the city.
Of course, the gentle nature of the cult of light might be related to the fact that their god was dead. If they had a god, and a powerful one at that, it is uncertain if they will still be gentle and peace-loving.
The leader of the Light Temple gang is an epic godclad of the pathway of light. This woman refused to fight for the two free districts. So she rejected Golden Hammer’s challenge and chose to surrender the territories to the Golden Hammer gang.
She didn’t bother to change her mind no matter who came to threaten her. She made it clear that she would rather fight whoever tried to threaten her than fight the Golden Hammer gang.
This was good news to Legion. It was doubly good news because they became happy about their territory becoming adjacent to that of the Light Temple.
The extra good news was because they could now sneak into the Light Temple directly from their territory and didn’t have to bother about the machinist discovering their actions.
They’ve had their eyes on this cleric of the Light Temple for a while. What attracted her to them is her power to heal people.
They have captives that can use the rank 1 heal, but none of them are epic beings. They also couldn’t help these captives to become epic beings because they are not slaves. They have just been brainwashed with hypnosis so they could escape control after becoming epic beings.
They could solve this problem by creating their own epic cleric after they gain more slots for their slaves, but instead of spending time and resources to create an epic being, they would rather enslave an epic being and use her for their benefit.
Besides the benefit of gaining a ready-made epic cleric, there is also the benefit of gaining secret control of a gang that is supposed to be their enemy.
The two benefits were too much to give up. So Legion made up their mind to add this epic cleric to their options for slaves.
The main reason they wanted a cleric was the other reason why nobles were willing to tolerate them. It is simply because clerics help godclads advance safely.
Clerics increase the chances of advancement with their rank 1 divine ability called Heal, rank 2 divine ability called Purify, and rank 3 divine ability called Bless.
These three divine abilities heal physical injuries, remove sickness and poison, and enhance the power of the mind and body, respectively. All three divine abilities help to alleviate the difficulty of advancing.
The nobles were willing to tolerate telepaths because telepaths could help them grow stronger. So there was no way they wouldn’t tolerate the gentle and kind clerics.
Legion also wants to use the clerics to help their slaves advance. They don’t need her ability for now, but they are sure that they will need her when their slaves want to advance to rank 7.
It is already cumbersome and troublesome to help others advance to rank 4. If their attempt failed, they would have lost a lot of time and energy.
Rank 7 would require more investment of time, effort, and resources. So if they fail to help a slave advance to rank 7, they would surely lose a lot more than they are already losing.
In order to curb that outcome, they want a powerful cleric at hand that would make helping their slaves advance to rank 7 easy for them to do. This is the main reason they want her as their slave.
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