Upon returning to Hisoten on the ninth floor, Yayoi's first priority was naturally not to summon all the women over for a grand musical banquet to celebrate their relocation.
Having just moved in, he had plenty of matters to attend to, especially the supremely important defense system, which still required more detailed adjustments and deployments.
The conventional garrison forces of the Heavenly Dao Palace were currently all undertaken by puppet troops controlled by Naraku.
As for the puppet troops, following the Second Shogun's succession ceremony, they also debuted under the official designation of the "Mechanized Corps". Naraku, as the head of the Mechanized Command Department, and Seven-Tails, serving as the head of the Environmental Protection Department, were assigned into the Military Bureau, making the Twelve Divisions of the Military Bureau officially fourteen.
After so many years of improvements and adjustments, the maximum number of puppets Naraku could control simultaneously at this moment was close to twenty thousand.
The number of mechanized puppets allocated to the Heavenly Dao Palace was close to a quarter of the total.
Among them, the mass-produced puppets benchmarked against Genin reached a quantity of five thousand, while the enhanced puppets of Chunin rank numbered three hundred. The Heavenly Dao Palace possessed six super-sized puppets that required several Jonin working together to deal with.
In addition, over the past two to three years, Yayoi had also been continuously developing a new type of puppet—namely, superior puppets whose performance completely surpassed the enhanced puppet samurai, yet were distinct from the super-sized puppets.
This new model of superior puppet was benchmarked precisely against the Jonin and upper samurai ranks.
It could be said to be a brand-new advancement of the mass-produced and enhanced puppets, with this new tier of puppets being named using "Lord".
Unlike the combat systems of