The Armies Set Out

Dante even provided Marcus with a giant wooden mansion that had been built by the workers.

In the future if Marcus' heirs are powerful enough then he will naturally gain more and more benefits. But if they aren't strong enough, he might not be able to advance relying solely on himself.

This was the type of society Dante was trying to promote. He wanted families to dedicate themselves to cultivating powerful heirs.

After all the stronger the heirs the more energy that will be provided to Dante.

Of course the more strong in the family, naturally the higher standing. However Dante is wanting to provide rewards to the heirs who are talented.

Over time more and more squads returned victorious before Oakleaf came in with the captives from the final camp.

Altogether Dante had captured over 2000 Adult LipFreeds and 4000 LipFreed Children.

Of the 2000 adult Lipfreeds only 1000 of them were qualified to fight and the remainder were 800 female mortals and 200 male mortals.

The mortals and children were put to work in the castle beginning Dantes next plan. City Expansion.

He will naturally receive more and more members so he directly decided to triple the size of the city. Building a huge city wall out of stones that are surrounding Dante.

The workers were sent to build that while Dante stared at the 11 crystals of varying sizes in front of him.

The first 10 crystals provided Dante with what he expected. 1300 Body Refining LipFreeds and 50 Bone Refining LipFreeds with none at the peak.

However the last one was quite unique. It contained a single teenage Lipfreed warrior at the peak of Body Refining.

However Dante once again realised that its physique was a Rank 6 the same as Marcus.

After making all of the warriors into Puppets Dante faced the teenager called Liam.

Dante learnt from Liam that he was once the child of a patriarch of a large tribe but was sealed by the Antique Master in order to lay a path of reproduction for the inheritors.

So Dante immediately awarded Liam with 200 concubines and 20 Body Refining Subordinates just like Marcus.

For the same level of Physique, Dante will naturally not differentiate between the two.

As for the future, it will depend on who produces the strongest heirs.

The next step still needed to be taken. Dantes targets the 8 strongest tribes nearby.

Dante now has around 3500 Lipfreeds in the body refining realm, and 105 in the bone refining state.

He divided them into 7 legions of 500, each with 5 squads with 5 captains and 5 deputy captains at the bone refining realm.

That's 50 bone refining cultivators per legion including three legions led by peak bone refining cultivators.

For this operation Dante mobilised Leonardo however his team stayed behind to protect the castle.

Dante wasn't worried. After all the lipfreed adults, even if they were mortals can barely compete against body refiners if there's enough of them.

Each legion will be sent towards 7 stronger tribes with at least 400 lipfreeds who could fight.

As for the last one with 700 combatants, Dante will take over that himself. He didn't want to waste anymore time in regrouping and attacking.

The squads quickly set out, and Dante himself was running incredibly fast towards the largest tribe in this area.

Without the dragging of his army Dante reached the camp in less than half an hour.

Dante easily bypassed the tribe's defences and headed straight to the patriarch's tent. He knew the concept of killing the leader first.

The leader of this camp is reportedly in the Soul Tempering Realm. That's why Dante took it himself.

He walked carelessly into the tent and looked at the towering beast in the centre. However, unlike OakLeaf, the patriarch in front of Dante was surrounded by many women.

But Dante ignored nearly a hundred women and quickly jumped towards the patriarch. Without a care he punched forward as the air spiralled around his fist.

With a sudden thump it indented the patriarch's chest and fired him backwards pushing over the bone throne beneath his ass.

''WHAT?'' With a roar the patriarch tried to counter attack, but Dante easily dodged and swept his leg towards his head.

And once again Dantes leg smacked against the defenseless patriarch knocking him firmly on the ground.

The woman didn't know how to react but fell tremblingly under the pressure admitted by Dante.

Surprisingly though each woman was in the body refining realm. Previously Dante had only found one or two women with cultivation in the tribes but there was a whole hundred here.

Naturally they will be kept as a reward for one of Dantes future bloodline families.

But don't think that Dante is sexist for only rewarding women to families. He is just as willing to provide a harem of men to a talented woman.

As for the fallen patriarch, Dante had forcibly made him into a puppet as soon as he fell down.

The battle is too easy for Dante now.

But the bonus is that his cultivation was raised to the first level of Spirit Tempering.

After making everyone in the patriarchs tent into a puppet, Dante immediately sent them to clean up the tribe.

Unlike the other tribes this one still had bone refiners within the clan. There were a total of 5 bone refining cultivators however they were easily dealt with by the patriarch.

As for the rest they were lined up infront of Dante by the patriarch and the new 5 bone refining puppets.

In total there were 600 body-refining male Lipfreeds in the clan. And 100 body refining female LipFreeds.

Finally there were 2000 Mortal Lipfreeds, with 1200 women and 800 men.

As for Children, Dante counted over 10,000 spread among the clan.

All of these members were made into Puppets by Dante and began marching back to the castle under the leadership of the Ex-Patriarch, Ash.

Unfortunately there were no Physiques above the Rank of 7 among the entire clan. However Dante was excited when he saw the giant crystal the size of his head.

Even if his family have crystals hundreds of times larger than this, he doesn't have access to them. Antique families don't coddle their children like you would expect. Rather they rely on themselves in order to get stronger.

Of course this doesn't mean they abandon them, it's just they will provide the bare minimum for resources until the age of 12. After 12 if you have made worthy progress you will be heavily cultivated by the family.

If not? You will continue to be provided with the bare minimum until you die. But this is also where the equality of the clan comes in.

Each descendant will be treated the same, even the heir. The only difference would be better protection and a bit extra spending money.

The main reason that Dante gets so much in the form of a Phoenix and millions of heavenly notes is because his talent is outstanding.

However Dante was still excited to see the crystal in front of him.