Purchasing Slaves And Gardeners?

It held the biggest slave shop in the city. It made the rest of the shops seem like stalls on a roadside.

Hundreds of meters tall from the outside with millions of shoppers coming in and out.

Dante himself walked in.

''Hello can I help you?'' Before he could even check out the facilities a polite young lady wearing a uniform came up to him.

Clearly they saw that Dante was just a young boy.

''Yes, I'm looking to mass purchase slaves. Where do I go for that?'' Dante spoke his aim for this journey.

''How many are you planning to purchase? If it is below a thousand you can buy them in this hall, if it is above 1000 we will arrange a private assembly hall for you.'' The young lady clearly didn't think that Dante could buy too many.

''Well'' Dante held his chin with his hand, '' Let's start with a billion''

''Alrigh… Wait a billion?'' Dantes words shocked the young lady. '' Ah please wait here while I get my manager''

She was way out of her league dealing with a trade like this. Normally even noble families would only purchase a million slaves at most.

Rarely has there been a customer like Dante. After all a billion slaves is a billion mouths to feed a billion people to keep in check and a billion people to relocate.

Luckily Dante had many living storage spaces found in the Treasury so he wasn't worried about space. Not to mention the billions of Heavenly notes collected from the Antique.

After all heavenly notes were literally formed from heaven and the earth. You could find one just walking down a street if you have the luck.

So next took the tedious task of navigating his way to buying slaves. First he looked through all the lists of slaves, picking every single one with a special occupation.

Over 10,000,000 slaves alone had special occupations.

Next Dante went for Talents. But this wasn't a slave auction, so none of them had talents higher than Rank 6. After all, Rank 5s are all special products.

There were over half a billion with Rank 6-7 talents. And then he went for the height of their cultivation bases.

Overall Dante picked out 1.5 billion slaves with over half a billion women alone. The amount of races were obviously not just human. There were every possible race Dante could purchase here.

Common ones and rarer ones, everything was purchased.

From Dantes conservative estimate, the first plane in the world seed could fit close to half a trillion people inside of it.

So Dante was far from filling it up.

Seeing the nearly neverending list of slaves Dante didn't want to let them go. So after leaving with his slaves, Dante sent in a few hundred high level cultivators to snatch up another 9 billion slaves!

Combined with the entourage previously sent out in the county, Dante received almost 15 billion slaves from this County alone!

With over half a billion of them having special occupations.

Dante quickly taught the manufacturers and mages puppet making techniques and made all 15 billion slaves into his puppets.

For the first time in a while, Dante used the feedback to increase his own cultivation.

From the First Stage of Core building, Dante rose up to the Fourth Stage.

Unfortunately a majority of the slaves were mortals so he didn't receive as much as he wanted.

But mortal puppets are also helpful now. With the help of the Aura of Heaven and the Aura of Earth that Dante might get in the future, there is a high chance that all of them can become cultivators.

However even more important was the special occupations that Dante had purchased.

There was an even wider variety than the last time, tailors, blacksmiths, refiners, herbalists, gardeners. Yes Gardeners. They specialise in taking care of various spiritual plant beasts.

They can also sign contracts with those beasts in order to fight with them.

Unfortunately it's not a very lucrative occupation. Not only does it cost an incredible amount to successfully cultivate powerful plants, but it takes a lot of practice and hard work to reach a high level of skill.

But when you have the dedication and support to reach that peak, Gardeners are typically much more powerful than an average person of the same rank.

Altogether Dante was able to refill, not only his main plane but even had people to support in the Medicinal Garden plane.

Next was time to head towards the location of the competition.

He had about two weeks to reach the location of the competition, so Dante wanted to make some small stops along the way to pick up medicines to produce ghosts and various building materials to begin to fortify the cities in his plane.

Originally Dante was intending to go for speed rather than protection. So he needs to go back and rebuild the entire plane factoring in a variety of defences that will come in handy if he gets invaded in the future.

And just like that the journey quickly ended, only 5 days were left until the competition as Dante landed in the Armstrong family compound in the Mystique County City.

''I have seen the Young Master'' Dante, followed by 10 Spirit State Puppets walked down from his Phoenix to the welcoming of the family servants.

''Where is my sister?'' Dante Asked.

''In the training room Young Master'' Dante naturally knew why she was there. There was a lot of pressure from the Highman Heir.

Even if Dante now knew that the family didn't really care about the resources on the continent, his Sister didn't. She naturally thought that the Family needed resources like this.

But really this is more like a test for her. If she can beat the Highman heir naturally she would be considered more by the Family.

But if not, then she will be replaced with someone else.