“Don’t worry, allow the current Deadly Sins to remain at their current tasks. I don’t want to make my mother-in-law feel neglected, so send another group to protect her. The best option would be the Superpowereds,” Dante instructed thoughtfully.

“Right away, Lord Dante.” Ricky seemed happy and skipped off to attend to his job, leaving Dante amused.

Soon, he became pensive as his mind was filled with thoughts. Over the past year, he had made so much progress in every field that just thinking about them individually and collectively caused him to feel a little overwhelmed.

In terms of the Centralis Universe, Dante had now conquered all of known space, and his empire now spanned more than 70 systems and over 6000 galaxies. Almost every known sentient being was under his rule, and Dante implemented the best growth protocol.

He literally stuffed them with premium resources and abilities so that they would grow stronger and more capable with each generation. This was so that when it was time for them to eventually enter the First Gate, the Centralis Universe would be like that player who played side quests till level 70 now starting the main campaign. 𝘪𝘳.𝘤𝑜

He had also established a small praise system for himself in the Centralis Universe. It wasn’t any formal religion or anything, nor were people forcibly brainwashed to praise his name every day, but he did make them very aware of the cost of their current benefits and who gave it to them.

Those who didn’t care were allowed to not care while those who felt grateful usually praised his name either out loud or in their heads, which was enough. Interestingly, as a part of his Quantum Entanglement power, the faith energy was gathered into Dorothy regardless of her location.

In terms of the Eternal Universe, the business and the auction had been running smoothly. They too were experiencing explosive growth, and Dante’s decree that those who purchased his goods must serve in the First Gate for a while had the interesting effect of leaving the universe barren.

All the high-tier powers were forced to leave, so there was less suppression and war, causing the universe to enter a period of peace. This was naturally made known to be an effect Dante created, which generated a hero worship fad for him among the youth of all species.

Especially when someone revealed that Dante had actually never bullied or looked down on Alien species since he appeared, the aliens suddenly felt closer to him. He did not discriminate in sellinghis top goods to them, so people understood that he was legit in this regard.

This was another subtle source of faith energy, though much lower in quantity and quality.

Also, the Eternal Universe and the Centralis Universe were proving to be at their capacity in terms of resources. In tnlth, regardless of how we saw it, both universes had existed for too short a time to be fully developed.

According to the quantum scanning technology, around 55% of the Eternal Universe’s total space was unexplored while 85% of the Centralis Universe was unexplored.

They would need both time and manpower to explore then settle all those locations.

Not even cloning or mass-producing babies would be enough to complete something like this. This was only something that time and steady population growth and expansion could fix, spanning over thousands of years.

However, it was just as well for Dante, as he was from modern earth and understood the importance of leaving something for the next generation to discover and excavate.

Part of the problem of modern earth in the Centralis Universe before his reforms was that the entire planet had been mostly excavated and explored, causing evolutionary growth to stagnate and societal apathy to grow.

Like seriously, from a macro perspective, it was definitely an absolute evolutionary failure if more than 10% of your species literally just wanted to die due to apathy.

With so much space to be discovered and conquered over so many years, it would propel all species to grow faster so that they could occupy more space and harvest more resources, gaining strength and prestige.

Then, there was his progress in his army. From as earlier as over a year ago, Dante had established his private force as well as his public business. Since then, he had both been recruiting and training them precisely for use in the First Gate.

As stated, he previously assumed he could only farm Spire Points from killing other combatants, which was what his forces were meant to achieve. Obviously, after discovering the beauty of conquering unclaimed territories, that had changed drastically.

He had almost dropped the entire thing back then, but Beatrice argued for him to keep it. She claimed that their value came from being able to assist Dante in solving tasks he could not be present for, and what do you know, Beatrice was right.

But then again, that was obvious. She had been an admiral for years and had received a little military training in the Eternal Academy while Dante was just a clever programmer who rose to power too quickly.

It was often why Dante was willing to listen to her unanimously in fields like this because his wife had the qualifications and expertise. It was impossible for Dante to be a master of everything, as all things had flaws.

The force he created was split into three groups. The first was the Superpowereds, a group of people who had been carefully chosen and fed superpower fruits from quantum words belonging to the school or from the real Zero Gates.

As part of an agreement with the Eternal Universe, he had only taken 5 fruits last December and all 10 when he had fought with Lara in front of everybody the December before this one.

For clarity, it was currently June 3rd of 11000, 28 months since Dante had first arrived in the Eternal Universe on March 10998. Dante currently had a wide variety of fruits and superpowers available that he could allocate based on the two universes. Not to mention that he had once let Aisha capture all the humans with superpowers on earth.

He eventually brought them here and integrated them as commanders in the Superpowereds as opposed to the native humans of the Eternal Universe.

Nepotism? Favoritism?

It was impossible to avoid where human nature and power were concerned. Despite the issues previously, Dante far trusted humans from the Centralis Universe earth more than humans here.

The Superpowered army numbered 150 on the dot, and Dante did not plan to expand it any further. He had given them all Mutation Cores to take them to the C Rank – though he could take them to SS – and let them fight for their own Spire Points to upgrade their superpowers.

He also allowed them to buy Mutation Cores to the SS rank which were much cheaper than using Spire Points, as part of an exercise to keep them loyal. This was really not an issue as they had watched Dante strip others of superpowers remotely, so they knew what could be given could be taken back.

The Superpowereds mostly focused on assisting the normal Eternal Universe members in fighting for newly claimed territories from other universes. They focused on the killing aspect and moved in a different direction from Portia, which caused the territories of the Eternal Universe to balloon.

With the powerful Superpowereds with them, normal combatants from the Eternal Universe became emboldened and moved out en masse to fight alongside them, because it was free money!

Currently, the strongest Superpowered was at the A rank and had more than half of the necessary contribution points to buy S Rank Mutation Cores from Dante.

Then there was the Demon Army, who were under the general control of the Seven Deadly Sins. These were fellows with questionable backgrounds and unknown intentions who wanted to be a part of Dante’s force, so he naturally baptized them with his True Qi and turned them into loyal demons whose intentions were no longer impure.

The Hellfire Demons were Dante’s currently strongest force and those he tntsted the most, so they were deployed on the frontlines for defense. Their monstrous strength and great regenerative ability made them fearsome warriors to try and breakthrough for other, stronger universes trying to deal with the rising Eternal Universe.

Not to mention they had all of Dante’s special abilities from level 1 to level 10 of the Inferno Ascension Technique, minus the ability to raise their own cultivation endlessly. Their peak lay in the quality of their conversion and how compatible they were with demonic power.

Of course, the Seven Deadly Sins did not have this problem. They, and Slessor – the Gorgon – could freely raise their power upwards, but could not surpass Dante himself, nor could they ever betray him.

Right now, the Demons were locked in a tough battle that even Dante felt a headache over. The rapid growth of himself and Portia for the Eternal Universe had left others feeling frightened, so they sent proxies to ‘incite’ the nearby universes to them to start a territory war.

This included the Shining Universe, the biggest enemy of the Eternal universe and the ones who assassinated Portia back then.

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