Passing the Baton

The following day, I resumed upgrading the rest of the Seimei's 7th-stage tamers. Since I got used to doing it for them, I can now use one hand to circulate my energy around them.

With this, I could unlock the limits of two tamers at a time, halving the total time I needed to clear the rest. Of course, I still activated the system for those under Guren's faction, but the number of them was getting lower and lower as the line became shorter.

I estimate that less than a third of the total number of tamers that I encountered here were under Guren's faction. It was lower than I thought, given that his faction was supposedly the leading one in their clan.

When I asked Guren about it, he then smiled wryly before saying,

"I only included half of the 7th stage under our faction. It's not that I'm doubting the loyalty of the others, but to avoid gaining too much hostility from the other two factions."