''Young Master, we are descendants of the Treasure Hunter Race. Although technically human we are able to sense treasures since we were children. Unfortunately our bloodline is too thin to be able to find the powerful treasures.'' One of the twins, Mary, answered Dante.
Mary was the more talented of the twins surprisingly. The other twin Lisse wasn't far behind of course but she was more of the fun character compared to Mary's dedicated character.
It turns out that Mary and Lisse had met Hamilton in the forest as they were searching for a treasure but they ended up fighting over it with Hamilton. In the end they agreed to follow along with him to the academy because they felt the aura of a treasure on Hamilton himself.
Their original plan was to find out what the treasure was that Hamilton had and then take it, but over time they started to have a good impression of him and even fell in love with him. A typical protagonist's story.
Unfortunately Dante interrupted this and now had complete control over the twins. He now largely valued the Twins. Solely because of their bloodline of the Treasure Hunter Race.
Once someone of the Treasure Hunter Race successfully cultivates the Antique Realm they quickly develop. Because their ability can expand to other planes as well, so when they are hunting down abandoned planes they are able to tell which ones are valuable and which aren't.
But the Treasure Hunter Race is very difficult to hand down their bloodline. The twins in front of Dante have the thickest blood that the clan had seen in thousands of years but they can barely sense treasures useful for the fairy state.
But what Dante was hoping was that with enough time he could cultivate an entire family of the clan and use treasures to develop the thickness of the bloodline. Even if treasures that are able to do that are rare they aren't non-existent.
However Dante still needed the twins to create some descendants so that they could create the family. But before that he needed Hamilton to be a puppet and fully form the family.
Dante had no intention of splitting up Hamilton's harem. Clearly the aura of heaven had connected them all for a specific reason and Dante had no reason to oppose that. Hamilton was destined to become one of the strongest in the Plane.
With the many harem members with different bloodlines it will also become the most diverse with the most selection for talent. Of course this wouldn't take effect until Dante fully takes over Hamilton.
At the same time, Hamilton who was sitting listening to the Dean Mastes lecture clearly felt a strange power leaving his body. Obviously this was the result of the twins' energy being taken.
If Dante was observing Hamilton at this point, he would notice that Hamilton's aura had dropped by a third of what it was. This was a result of Dante making his Harem members into puppets and Alice continually interrupting his chances.
Unfortunately these two thirds are still many times more than the twins, and Dante still couldn't overwhelm it. But there were still plenty of targets that Dante could take charge of. But for now he couldn't find them so he moved his focus to somewhere else.
All the energy that Dante had absorbed caused his plane to increase dramatically in population. And over this time Dante had been trying to invest the spiritual energy retrieved from his Puppets each day, but there was so much.
So Dante finally decided to break through to the Fairy State with his second cultivation base. He flew miles away from the academy on the back of his Phoenix, who at this point had reached the peak of the Ancient state with the help of the Aura of Heaven.
It shouldn't be long before it breaks through to the Saint Realm.
Dante flew to a mountain and emptied a hole in the top of the cave. He called out all the ancient subordinates and thousands of spirit and fairy state cultivators. There were even a few hundred thousand core building cultivators who Dante used to patrol the entire mountain.
Any creature found would be made into a puppet and further used to patrol the area. Dante didn't want any threats as he evolved. He called out hundreds of formation occupations to fill the area with any level possible.
And he himself used some protection formations provided by his family to protect himself. He might be exaggerating this but why not be cautious when he can.
Dante sat in the small cave on a golden futon with the ability of calming the mind in preparation for a breakthrough. Then he unleashed the Dam in his body.
Spiritual energy flooded into his body filling up every inch before pouring once again into all of his skin. At the peak of the mountain a huge tornado spun around it and poured deeper and deeper into the mountain.
The sky started to change as golden figures appeared above Dantes head , representing each individual puppet Dante had formed. Slowly they tattooed themselves onto Dantes skin in a golden pattern.
The size of each was miniscule so small that it looks just like a golden skin on Dante, but Dante who was breaking through could see that they each fulfilled a purpose. The tattoos each represented a form of defence equivalent to the actual puppets highest defence.
Dantes skin now had another layer of defence incorporating all of the other puppets' defence! And this would be activated at all times, growing constantly as Dantes puppet quantity and quality increased.
Dante was sure that an Ancient couldn't even break his defence anymore. And as he gets more and more Ancients and even a Saint his defence would increase drastically. Not to mention many of the races within Dantes plane have enhanced defence which naturally transfers to Dante.
As Dantes breakthrough was underway, a shadow flashed among the forest around the mountain before stopping at the entrance to the mountain. Looking up, the figure revealed a jaw-dropping face almost unrivalled with clear skin and deep enchanting eyes.