HidScape City

''Your Eminency, what are you doing in this small village! I apologise for not awaiting your arrival!'' Clearly this man was the chief but right now he was sweating as he apologised. He was only the cultivation of the Core Building State.

However Dantes attention wasn't on the chief at all, rather it was focused on the women who followed him out. She had a unique temperament as if she wasn't focused on anything. She was untainted and unstained by the earth.

Dantes chaos eyes quickly ran and realised that this five foot nine beauty with a perfect curvy figure and busty chest was only twenty years old. Although her cultivation was only in the Bone Refining State her beauty made up for it.

Naturally Dante himself wasn't attracted to her, but with the mindset of creating a unique harem for his puppet clone he thought of adding this woman to the collection.

Even if it was just Dantes puppet clone having children, Dante wanted them to have the best features possible. Whether it is talented physiques or just pure beauty and temperaments, Dante wanted his children to have the best.

And the woman's temperament in front of him was one of the best. It had an aura that penetrated deep into her bones, affecting her every movement.

And once Dantes mind was set to something nothing would stop it. Immediately all the Ancients he brought with him released a powerful aura preventing everyone around them from moving.

Dante himself stepped forward and grasped the women by the throat and simply walked off with her. Of course he wasn't that cruel. He waved his hand and a Core Building Puppet grasped the patriarch and followed along.

Soon the entire settlement was also occupied and all made into a puppet.

Dante was looking satisfied at the beauty standing in front of him, he finally knew her backstory as well. Apparently her mother was actually a noble from a small Fairy Family. But she was kidnapped and sold to slave traders.

The slave traders were attacked on their journey and the mother actually escaped to the desert before meeting and falling in love with the beauties father.

Unfortunately the mother passed away when the beauty was ten years old leaving the father and daughter duo alone in the desert. Luckily the father was quite powerful in the settlement, so he was able to provide a good life.

But now the beauty was set to be a member of Dante's puppet clone harem.

So after putting the beauty temporarily under the overview of fairy states and placed her in one of the Planes, Dante set off again.

This time he sped up his journey to reach the SandalWood tree quicker.

Within a couple of days he arrived at the largest city in the desert, the Hidscape City. It was formed with the cooperation of the strongest forces in the entire desert. It was formed by four equally powerful saint forces.

Dante also heard of the four saint forces, they each had dozens of saints in charge however due to the lack of aura in the desert they had yet to have an Antique. Also their potential was reasonably low due to the lack of aura to cultivate new descendants.

Hence they created the Hidscape city holding hundreds of millions of citizens to increase the strength and potential of their families. It also made a great trading hub for the entire desert bringing them thousands of heavenly notes every year.

Of course this wasn't enough to cause competition with other saint families. For many saint families it wasn't worth sacrificing their position on the continent to come to this barren desert.

So the saint families sat happily controlling plenty of land each. Even if there is daily disputes among the families for the limited resources they are happy to sit here. There isn't even much territory to split between the four families.

But the safety is much higher as long as they can deal with the few beasts hidden within the deserts.

Soon Dante arrived at the large city gates by walking. He had left the Blue Phoenix in his plane so as not to draw attention. However he was still accompanied by four saints and followed by a squad of twenty Ancients.

In a small green ring on his hand, there were also 30 Ancients hidden within a large space with thousands of Fairy States and Spirit States. Furthermore he had some backup in the pendant hanging around his neck.

Dante knew the saying not to leave all your eggs in one basket. He had plenty backup cards, even each of his saints and ancients had puppets hidden in various spatial objects on their bodies.

Ordinarily it would be impossible to have so many spatial objects. However not only are the objects reasonably small, many puppets with the bonus of luck found inheritances of powerful cultivators.

These inheritance provided Dante and the bloodline families with many resources and treasures that would be difficult to find in ordinary situations.

Although most inheritances found were only from Fairy States and Spirit States, there are also many Ancients that have left their legacies.

So the resources collected are naturally plentiful, including cultivation techniques which were all contributed by the bloodline families to be placed within Dantes library in the Plane. Every puppet in all his planes can freely access the library and find a suitable technique.

After all, while Dante encourages competition among his puppets he still receives aura from their quick cultivation. So he naturally wants to strengthen his puppets as much as possible.

Not to mention in the future he will be invading planes and potentially getting invaded, so every puppet in his plane can help with the defence if possible.

Dante quickly headed into the city and asked a local where the nearest place to stay was and soon got his answer. Looking at the sign hanging with the words 'Moonlit Tavern' Dante sighed and walked in together with his puppet guards.

The Moonlit Tavern is the largest tavern near Dante. It is a large stone building at least twenty stories high with two powerful Fairy State guards at the entrance. When entering Dante thought it would be a very prestigious place.

However the first thing that entered his sight was a bustling restaurant with decent looking waitresses scattered around serving large jugs of alcohol. There were many rough and bulky looking men sitting on the seats holding their feet and cheering as they listened to war stories.