''Nice to meet you, San, was it?''
''Yes.'' San immediately showed a hostile look when he saw Mias closeness with Dante. Even if he knew it wasn't romance since the boy was incredibly young, he couldn't help but feel jealous.
Yep, Jealous. From what Dante could tell San and Mia weren't even proper relatives. Using his Chaos eyes he can clearly tell that their bloodlines are different but both unique in some way.
''Mia, I don't have someone to accompany me on my trips. Would you like to join me? Of course you wouldn't have to do anything just to help me prevent my boredom.'' Dante generously invited Mia to join him.
Mia looked excited but suddenly looked pensive as she looked down at her brother.
''Dante, would it be possible for my brother to accompany us?'' Mia herself doesn't want to return to her family. And during Dantes conversation with her he realised that she was spoiled.
As soon as she became comfortable with Dante, she started ordering around his puppets like she was the owner. Of course Dante didn't intercept this, he wanted her to get as used to this lifestyle as possible so she couldn't pry herself away with it before Dante could make her into a puppet.
So rather than stopping her he actually retrieved hundreds of maidens to serve her! Bringing out valuable drinks and food even setting up dinner tables for her to eat at.
''Of course, once we reach my home I even have some pills that can allow you cultivate again.''
That was the last straw, and Mia immediately looked extremely excited. Just as Dante thought, she grew up in her household living with the best things. But that wasn't enough for her.
Once when she was a child she had visited another county with her father to broaden her horizons. That county was run by an Ancient Cultivator who of course she never got to see. But she did visit the city lord's mansion to attend the daughter's birthday event.
And she would never forget the beauty and wealth shown by the daughter to the other children at the party. She was always followed by dozens of maid servants having them wait on her hand and foot. She was dressed in the most beautiful spiritual dresses and eating pills like they were candy.
Even her servants had strong cultivation! After all it's not like Mia never had servants but they were all weaklings in the body refining realm or lower. Compared to the Spirit Tempering servants that the daughter had she felt insignificant.
So when she saw that Dante was willing to let hundreds of Core Building Cultivators serve her? Mia was immediately hooked. If Dante hadn't asked then it wouldn't of been surprising if she asked him.
Therefore when Dante asked the question she was ready to ask him to follow along. But she also didn't want to leave her brother behind so she took the gamble to take him with her.
Following this Dante immediately called out a flying carriage led by the phoenix. The carriage was enchanted by powerful space magic making the interior seem much larger than the exterior.
Within it was a mansion with hundreds of rooms and thousands of servants bustling around. Naturally this was bought through various channels by his puppets for Dantes use. Although it might seem better than the palace, in reality it's defense was much lower.
It is debatable whether it could survive an attack by a Spirit State, so Dante looked down on it. But he was using it to show off, and Mia wouldn't understand the prestige of the flying house.
Sure enough when Mia walked into the carriage her eyes lit up. Especially when she saw the servants wandering around.
Dantes eyes were cold and mocking but quickly changed to cute when Mia turned around.
'' Do you like it? It is only one of the lower quality things in my family, you can have it if you want!''
''Ah, I couldn't do that to you. After all we have only known each other for a bit'' Sure enough Mia was still slightly qualified to be able to be selected by the Aura of Heaven. She was unwilling to take advantage of a child. But the greed in her eyes destroyed her image.
''Don't worry about it! I have many of these so you can use it how you want. The servants will also be yours in the future so don't worry about telling them what to do.''
Mia no longer argued, and unsurprisingly started bossing around the servants telling them to move things around. San was much more restrained and gave one more warning looking towards Dante before following Mia around.
Dante saw this and went to the head room in the Carriage. Of course he will travel with Mia but first he had something to experiment with.
The cultivation base of Fairy State didn't only unlock the extra defense but Dante realised something else. He is now able to create living puppets of himself.
That might sound weird but it has a reasonable explanation. Dante is able to create puppets using the ordinary techniques that match his shape and body type, and is able to split part of his soul into it.
As stated earlier, the Fairy State is a different being to the Core builders. The soul is actually able to separate from the body for long periods of time and even cultivate separately.
Dantes technique allows him to take advantage of this and implant his soul into the body of a puppet just like his. Of course it has to follow the exact same specifications as Dante, otherwise his soul wouldn't be compatible.
And Dantes current talent wouldn't follow along with the clone puppet. The clone puppets cultivation would be completely separate and even the physique will be determined based on the resources used to produce the puppet.
But at the same time, the puppet can also cultivate separately without contributing cultivation to Dante's main body. But that is a massive strength, as even if Dantes main body dies he will be able to continue to live in the clone puppets that are completely under his control.