A month had passed since his daughter's birthday, and Samuel spent his time enjoying family life.
Today however, Samuel was leaning casually on a familiar Sofa. Looking down on at least 500 girls below. They were beauties of every type, short, tall, thin, shy, arrogant, anything a man could want.
Samuel decided today that he would find some more concubines. He has enjoyed the feeling of developing his family. And his development skyrocketed as a result of it.
Lily for example has made major achievements in the Eternal Battlefield, earning herself a lot of money.
Samuel recently heard that she was scouting out a Spiritual Farm of her own! It actually belongs to a Rank E organisation and Lily wants to occupy it to supply her army.
Of course this takes planning and supplies, not to mention a lot of combat power, so recently she has been collecting a lot of Spiritual Crystals to give to Samuel to summon warriors for her.
But all this made Samuel realise the importance of his family.
Samuel scanned the girls below, and a familiar action started. When he liked the look or personality of the girls, they would be walked forward by a guard.
In the end Samuel actually selected 100 of them! But from the looks of it, they are at most slightly better mortal women, Samuels standards for proper women were already quite high after experiencing time with two heroines.
Amber, on the other hand, saw the hundred women being brought into an adjacent courtyard and was quite surprised, but soon her face turned stern. This is 100 more competitors for her!
Samuel quickly put this matter behind him however. He would spend time with the girls at night, and practice during the day.
Soon another year passed.
Deep underground, beneath the Dog of War Compound, Samuel was sitting in his training room.
Aura converged from all over, within his abdomen changes were starting to take place. The pond of Spiritual Energy was evaporating, turning into a dense mist that spread throughout the large space.
Samuels body turned slightly ethereal, every action was influenced by the mist of Spiritual Energy within his body.
But the break through wasn't over, Samuels solid soul suddenly started to split. A slither of it flew off and entered his abdomen.
It evaporated into tiny particles, but each particle flew out and floated in the air.
With strange twisting motions the particles absorbed the spiritual mist and slowly turned into faint pixie like creatures.
But more surprising was that each of the pixies represented one of Samuels clones! He could see the domineering Caterpillar Samuel with the indifference of a king.
The Mediocre clones floated timidly in the corner.
Serpentine Samuel looked reclusive floating in and out of his vision in the mist.
''Strange? I haven't heard this happen during a Rank 3 breakthrough.'' Samuel muttered.
According to the normal process, the Spiritual Energy will turn into easy to manipulate mist, before slowly recondensing into solid objects over the course of Rank 3. This allows it to repurify and increase its density countless times.
But Samuel found the process still wasn't over! His vision swapped to the sight of the tree, he found that he was growing larger and larger, the roots and branches of his body starting to wrap around the headquarters.
Beneath him the training Dark Guards bowed down in fealty, before faint green lights fell onto their heads from Samuels body.
Any Guard touched with the light would find that their pupils actually turned green! Suddenly a small green vine floated out of their wrist, it was like a portable weapon.
Unfortunately Samuel couldn't control where the lights went, in the end only one hundred of the Dark Guards were infected by this.
However inside Samuels human body, he found that the lily pads were spinning rapidly in the air. Their tendrils spread out and greedily absorbed the Spiritual Mist in the black space in Samuels abdomen.
Slowly they split in half, doubling in number. And Samuel could see that faint green leaves floated and attached themselves to the pixie souls in his body!
At the same time, Samuel felt another slither of his soul separate from the giant tree's body.
A shocking green light spread out from the tree as the soul formed a familiar four pixies. But this time they had a green light shining on their bodies. Their clothes were made out of leaves as they floated around peacefully.
Samuel was amazed when he saw the changes in his body.
Apparently his Planetary cloning had caused his breakthroughs to mutate, and the strange tree was also affected.
The pixies in his body can't do anything except float around in his Abdomen, but the pixies around the body of the Tree could!
They actually function as the guardian of the tree! Samuel could control each and everyone one, but they couldn't leave the canopy of the tree.
And their strength was only ok, they were Low Rank 2 right now and their number was quite small.
But there is a lot of potential in the future! Rather than Samuels Warrior strength, the pixies increase in strength based on his soul.
Samuel was amazed at the benefits brought by system talents. He was definitely looking forward to earning more in the future.
After his breakthrough, the next six years passed quickly.
Lily successfully led her force to occupy the Spiritual farm, Samuel managed to open up another 2 after finding the right positions.
At the same time, Samuel's sons Arnold and Owen actually found a group of Raging Bunnies in the wild, a common beast selling as pets. Each one can sell for 5 Spiritual crystals.
Samuel also learnt over these five years what Ember City was wanting to do.
They easily have dozens of Tier 2 Cities under their jurisdiction and hundreds of Third Tier Cities, and they have gathered up the warriors from all of them.
Rank E organisations are required to send Middle Rank 1 Warriors, Rank Fs are required to send Low Rank 1 Warriors.
Rank D Organisations must send High Rank 1 Warriors, while Rank C Organisations must send Low Rank 2 Warriors!
As for stronger organisations, they weren't required to send anything. After all, they have enough influence to make the government look at them differently.
And this isn't just one or two, most organisations sent a few hundred at least! Samuel even saw that some strong Rank C organisations sent thousands of Rank 2 Warriors!
In the end Ember City received easily 10 Million soldiers from all their cities. They were later divided up into 10 different groups, with a million soldiers in each.