"An even more powerful faction?" Angel asked in confusion. "You mean... racial factions?"
Laplace said, "Not entirely racial factions. There are also composite factions."
A racial faction was like Crystal City, where they currently were—the racial faction of the Crystal-Eyed Race. Similar examples included the Tooth Fairy Ruins, which belonged to the Mirror Sea Scholars; the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom, which belonged to the mirror dragons; Pipi Castle, which belonged to the Pirus... and so on.
As for composite factions, they included Hot Gold City, which Angel had previously visited, as well as Unfallen King City, created by Mirror Princess. Within such factions, there was no single race with absolute control. Instead, various races gathered together and jointly built a faction. Such factions were composite factions.
Racial factions and composite factions each had their own strengths and weaknesses.
Among them, racial factions placed greater emphasis on the strength of the race itself. If the individuals were weak, the whole would likely be weak as well. But if the race itself was strong, then the whole would remain strong. The best example was the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom.
Composite factions, on the other hand, did not need to worry about being overly weak, because their mixed races could complement one another's strengths and weaknesses. Generally speaking, their overall power would not be poor.
However, the weakness of composite factions was also obvious: they found it difficult to unite.
Since everyone within a racial faction belonged to the same race, there was simply no issue of "unity."—The Changhuo Clan excluded.
But in Laplace's view, none of those factions, regardless of type, were particularly dominant.
Such dominance did not merely take combat power into account, but measured things across all manner of dimensions.
Take the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom, for instance. Its individual