Fighting the Patriarch

Standing from his throne, a eight foot tall giant rose up causing the ground to shake under his heavy body weight.

Giant muscles tensed on his body as he picked up a heavy five foot long stone sword.

''Some ants want to fight the great Oakleaf?'' Oakleaf the LipFreed Patriarch couldn't see through Dantes blocking, so naturally thought they were just some mortal scum.

It was now that Dante realised the issue with the fast reproductive species. The lack of intelligence.

However, now wasn't the time to think of this.

'' Leonard, kill him quickly'' Dante commanded leonard.

He wasn't worried about the fight. Leonard had the winning numbers and the formation. So if he failed and survived then Dante would kill Leonard himself.

He has no need for such useless leaders.

Luckily Leonard didn't disappoint. The sharp metal sword in his hand slashed across the thick scales along the giant body.

Small sparks flung free but a large gash appeared across its body.

Next all hell broke loose. Leonard drew the attention of Oakleaf as he ducked and swerved his sword. Any occasional injuries would be divided equally among the army allowing him to keep flexible mobility.

The rest of the soldiers surrounded Oakleaf, occasionally stabbing their knives deep into him.

The body refining puppets could only target the same area multiple times in order to cause some damage, whereas the bone refining puppets could slice through the scales and cause a deep gash in two hits.

But the vitality of Oakleaf was incredible. It took ten minutes of consecutive beating until he finally fell to one knee in defeat.

The floor was soaked with blood and flesh, only some floating scales were floating among the gore.

Luckily Oakleaf didn't die, so Dante took the chance to press his hand against the LipFreeds head and transform him into a puppet.

Sure he could've done it first, however his troops needed experience.

But next came the easy part. Oakleaf was the only bone refining cultivator in the tribe. So next came the herding. With the help of the Oakleaf puppet Dante easily collected the 500 adult Lipfreeds.

And it was even easier to collect the 1200 children of the Lipfreed clan. After all, even if their flesh is slightly stronger they weren't the opponent of a body refiner yet.

But surprisingly, despite all of the children being below 13 years old, Dante saw that many were on the verge of becoming cultivators.

It made him wonder how the clan didn't rise up in this small native area. But his questions were quickly answered when he saw all of the adults of the clan.

Every single one of them were below the age of 50. After a quick round of questioning OakLeaf, Dante learnt that the life expectancy for LipFreeds is insanely low.

It would be a miracle to live until 40!

This drop in life expectancy is the same for each of their cultivation. Even fairy state cultivators in the clan wouldn't live more than two hundred years.

But this didn't upset Dante, after all the living puppets' lifespan is tied to Dantes! Meaning, no matter how low their life span is, it wouldn't matter.

Hence allowing Dante to take full advantage of the LipFreeds quick cultivation speed without worrying about the downsides.

Next came the boring part of Dante making all of the lipfreed clan into puppets. One by one before even all the babies were made into living puppets.

Luckily the puppets will stage age until their peak and then stop. Or Dante would be left with babies as his cultivators.

Next came the most exciting part, Looting the treasury of the clan.

Well it can't really be called a treasury, it was a small tent made of silver fur surrounding a huge golden chest.

Oakleaf pushed it open to reveal a variety of jewellery and gold but nothing incredibly important.

Dante used his Chaos Eyes to scan the inside before he finally stopped on a small orb buried at the bottom.

''Oakleaf pour everything out''

''Yes My lord''

Everything was quickly on the floor and Dante reached his hand out towards the translucent orb with the figure of a LipFreed printed onto it.

Seeing this item Dante couldn't help but increase the speed of his breathing.

He knows this item, it's a sealing crystal. With the powers of an Antique, they are able to seal living creatures below the rank of Fairy state within small crystals and open them at any time.

Within the crystal time stops, and all creatures inside will not change no matter how long has passed by outside.

Dante quickly figured it out, clearly the antique who created this place wanted to encourage the inheritors to occupy the natives territory.

The reward being these crystals!

Dante poured his energy into the crystal in front of him and it shattered like glass. With a flash of light over a thousand figures appeared before Dante.

From a quick view each figure was in the Body Refining State while fifty leading figures were all in the bone refining state.

Unfortunately there was only one in the peak of Bone Refining State.

Unexpectedly they each immediately prepared to attack. Drawing weapons tied to their waists they leapt towards Dante.

But just as quickly as they attacked, they were frozen in place. Dantes power passing the Core Building State Poured out causing them to fall to their stomach in despair.

Dante didn't think that people like this were worth talking to. He immediately performed the Puppet Technique and placed the clan under the control of Oakleaf.

Dante decided that all humans will be placed under Leonards control and all LipFreeds will be under Oakleafs control.

Well for now anyway.

But seeing the Lipfreeds infront of him, Dante couldn't help sigh. Sadly each member of the clan had a physique of below Rank 7.

But Dante firmly believed that with enough time he would be able to cultivate a bloodline of Lipfreeds with a higher ranking physique through selective breeding.

However, that will take many years after all.

The next step was to return to Dantes castle.

After a familiar long trip that had risen to two hours due to extra baggage, the group finally returned to the castle.

Dante couldn't take the kids and mortals to war. So told them to start harvesting wood and materials that surrounded the castle.

Dantes plan was to set up a workforce that is able to manufacture weapons for the front lines.