Speaking of the front lines, Dantes soldiers have risen to 1200 qualified LipFreed soldiers after separating the 1200 children and 300 mortals in the Lipfreed clan.
With such a large army, Dantes targets were the rest of the small clans surrounding him.
There were previously twenty small clans in the surrounding area, with only 19 left.
All of which are from the LipFreed clan.
Naturally Dante didn't want to go to each one by one.
The smallest tribe was only a little over one hundred members while the largest was only 700 members.
So Dante decided to deal with the smaller tribes first. None had a cultivator near the peak of bone refining so he felt safe sending small armies of 100 to each of them.
Naturally this was split between the 12 smallest clans with the strongest only having 120 tribe members who could fight.
Each group was equipped with a few bone refining realms and two were lead by the peak of bone refining.
However this all happened after Dante had passed on the Armstrong Battle Formation to each army and nominated a leader.
As for Dante himself? He didn't need to do anything.
He was training leaders himself. Each team of 100 had a captain, while each group of 10 had a squad leader.
And Oakleaf worked as the Director while the other peak bone refining Lipfreed worked as the deputy director.
As for Leonard and his group, they were staying to defend the castle. After all, there is valuables here now and it can't be left unprotected.
The next couple of hours passed quickly, each captain led their team towards a small tribe.
Dante spent this free time directing the remaining workers to manufacture bows and arrows. After all, he needed to build everything himself right now. Especially arrows and occasionally Armor when a worker hunted a small beast.
Finally after four hours, Dante saw the first returning team. It was a team that had been in charge of taking over a small tribe with 40 people.
Seeing the lipfreeds following behind the team with ropes tied around their wrists and the heavy bags held on the shoulders of the victorious soldiers Dante smiled happily.
He immediately called all of the captured lipfreeds to him and made them into puppets and then went towards the captain of the team.
''My lord, the crystal you asked me to collect!'' The captain immediately got on one knee and presented a familiar translucent crystal to Dante.
However this time it was only the size of a marble, clearly it was much smaller than the previous one.
After applying his spiritual energy into it, Dante saw only 100 figures flash and appear.
And without wasting time they were firmly implanted onto their knees.
However among the 100 figures Dante spotted 5 Bone refining Lipfreeds and an anomaly.
It was a young boy no more than 15 years old, however he was smaller than the rest of the boys his age.
But this wasn't what drew Dantes vision. No it was the Physique of the boy. He had a Rank 6 Physique!
Of course this physique isn't incredibly impressive, however it was the first time that Dante had seen a LipFreed with a physique that is higher than Rank 7.
This had already set a foundation for the future. Even if he didn't find another LipFreed with a higher physique, he could create a bloodline with this LipFreed alone.
As for inbreeding between tribes like this? It's far too common. Once you become a cultivator, anomalies caused by inbreeding would be almost non-existent.
Next came the transporting of useless gold and jewellery to the castle's treasury and Dante making all of the slaves into puppets.
''What's your name?'' Dante asked the boy in front of him.
''Marcus my lord'' Marcus replied honestly. After all, he is now a puppet.
''Very well you will stay in the castle from now on and… accompany those females in the tribe'' Dante had no choice but to issue the order.
Within the three months that Dante is here, Marcus will be able to have 3 children with each separate woman.
And there are currently 200 LipFreed Mortal women in the tribe, that's 200 children a month.
Dantes hope was naturally that they can get Marcus' Physique or maybe even a mutation with a better Physique!
After all, as the cultivator gets stronger it gets harder and harder to create offspring.
So Dante wanted to take advantage of Marcus' low cultivation and produce enough heirs.
He also had the thought in his head to divide his subordinates into their own separate bloodlines.
Much like how people formed families on the main continent, Dante wanted to implement that in his planes in the future.
After all, the benefits of forming families are numerous, and the disadvantages are negligible with Dantes guaranteed loyalty.
After all, all living puppets have their own soul and personal thoughts. So they will naturally compete with each other for resources and as long as Dante prevents them from doing permanent damage it is completely helpful.
After all, it will cultivate battle ready puppets.
It will also allow them to segregate the powerful bloodlines from the weaker ones. Despite the weaker ones still being important.
However the powerful bloodlines will naturally get the main selection with potential partners no matter what their gender.
The main example of this is Marcus, and Dante had already decided that he will be the first bloodline family.
He officially declared the family complete after handing 200 mortal Lipfreed women to Marcus to be his concubines. He even provided Marcus with 20 Body Refining Guards to protect his safety.
All of which are completely under Marcus' control.