Sadly, it wasn't even as pompous as during the Lizard Arc, where he used an army of high-tier skeletons to use as stairs, freeze a lake so he wouldn't dirty his feet etc.

It was pretty harmless overall and I guess the whole episode was wasted due to that. There was hardly any need to animate that part, basically, he could've sent some minions to deal and subjugate them and thus skip a good 15 minutes ahead to the siege of the village.