Chapter 497

Chapter 497: Announcing the Plan

The defenses of the Black Tiger Tribe are more focused on resisting attacks from the Swift Tribe’s Space Pirates.

However, the defenses they are currently facing are clearly much more comprehensive and have a higher strength.

What is going on here?

All the soldiers of the Black Tiger Tribe are completely confused.

Even the soldiers from humanity and the Demon Race wear expressions of bewilderment.

The first target of this expeditionary army is Colin Planet, home of the Spirit Heart Tribe, known only to the High-ranking Leaders of the Great Flame Empire’s Political Council and military, along with the Captain and crew of the Space Vessel.

The purpose is to give the Spirit Heart Tribe a huge ‘surprise.’

If the news is announced in advance, there are insiders and spies among the various tribes.

The information would surely leak.

Once the Spirit Heart Tribe learns of it, the element of surprise would be greatly diminished.

Therefore, to prevent any information leaks to the Spirit Heart Tribe from the insiders in the Black Tiger Tribe through the Demon Race or humanity, not only did the Black Tiger Tribe’s army conceal the plan, but even the soldiers from humanity and the Demon Race remained completely unaware.

They discovered that the target of their attack might not be the life planet of the Black Tiger Tribe.

The soldiers of humanity and the Demon Race remain calm.

After all, it is merely a matter of high-ranking leaders having some inconvenient deployment to keep secret.

Their thought is simple: just follow orders.

The soldiers of the Black Tiger Tribe, however, became somewhat anxious.

This is because the defenses of the Spirit Heart Tribe are obviously much stronger than those of the large tribes of the Black Tiger Tribe.

They are a bit worried that the Great Flame Empire will order them to fiercely attack the defenses of the Spirit Heart Tribe, using the entire Black Tiger Tribe’s army as cannon fodder.

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“Commander Guli, what is going on? Why was I completely unaware of this beforehand?”

Upon receiving the orders, the High-ranking Leaders of the Black Tiger Tribe left only one chief and a few strong warriors to maintain stability in the army.

The rest of the leaders and strong warriors all followed the orders and entered a flying treasure.

Inside the flying treasure, not only were the leaders of the five major legions, including Guli, present, but also over a hundred top geniuses and thousands of human warriors.

A chief of the Black Tiger Tribe raised his voice, a hint of discontent in his tone.

“This plan must remain strictly confidential. Therefore, aside from the high-ranking leaders of the Great Flame Empire, no one knows, not even the Demon Emperor of the Demon Race.”

Guli calmly explained with a light demeanor.

This reassured the High-ranking Leaders of the Black Tiger Tribe slightly.

At least, despite showing overwhelming strength beyond their expectations in the conflicts with the Black Tiger Tribe, the Great Flame Empire still had a clear plan.

But right now, Guli, the commander of the expeditionary army, maintains a pretty good attitude.

At least she does not get angry at the doubts raised by the Black Tiger Tribe leaders and even offers an explanation.

Though this explanation does not fully resolve everyone’s confusion and doubts, it shows that the military of the Great Flame Empire is not intentionally concealing such a significant plan.

“Commander Guli, this should be Colin Planet, the stronghold of the Spirit Heart Tribe, right? Otherwise, their defenses couldn’t be so formidable.”

A leader from the Black Tiger Tribe speaks up: “The Black Tiger Tribe’s army is currently unstable. Attacking the other life planets controlled by the Black Tiger Tribe, even if there are problems, would only lead to minor troubles in specific areas.”

“Carelessly attacking the stronghold of the Spirit Heart Tribe could likely lead to the complete collapse of the entire army. If the Spirit Heart Tribe seizes the opportunity, it might even result in a rout.”

“Just encircle without attacking!”

Guli shakes her head.

“Encircle without attacking?”

The High-ranking Leaders of the Black Tiger Tribe are all perplexed.

“Let’s wait for the high-ranking leaders of the Demon Race to arrive before we introduce and explain this operation together!”

Guli does not want to waste time explaining twice.

Although the High-ranking Leaders of the Black Tiger Tribe have doubts, they patiently wait.

After about ten minutes, the Demon Emperor swamp crocodile finally arrives with strong fighters from the Demon Race and strong fighters from various tribes.

Originally, the strong fighters rescued by the Great Flame Pirates from various coliseums of the Swift Tribe were all handed over to the Black Tiger Tribe for control and command.

Due to the internal strife within the Black Tiger Tribe, the Great Flame Empire’s attitude is notably aggressive.

As a result, all strong fighters from various tribes are assigned to the Demon Race.

This includes over three hundred strong fighters from the Spirit Heart Tribe captured by the Great Flame Pirates, along with more than twenty strong fighters from the Swift Tribe.

These captives from the two races, in a desperate bid for survival, and under constant threats and temptations, mostly choose to sign a life-and-death contract and swear loyalty to the Great Flame Empire.

Ultimately, they join the ranks of the strong fighters and accept the command of the Demon Race.

This significantly enhances the top-tier combat power of the Demon Race.

The number of strong fighters leaps to over five hundred.

Among them, the strongest in terms of strength realm is the Demon Race’s Demon Emperor swamp crocodile, who is just above level 100.

Currently, the strongest ones are three strong fighters from the Spirit Heart Tribe at level 120 and one strong fighter from the Swift Tribe at level 120.

There are also quite a few strong fighters at level 110.

In terms of top-tier combat power, although they still lag behind the Black Tiger Tribe, the gap isn’t too wide anymore.

Compared to the relationship between the high-ranking leaders of the Black Tiger Tribe and the Great Flame Empire, the relationship between the high-ranking leaders of the Demon Race and the Great Flame Empire is much closer.

Once the swamp crocodile leads the Demon Race strong fighters to arrive, they exchange pleasantries for a few minutes before getting to the main topic.

Guli’s voice resonates throughout the space of the flying treasure.

“This plan is different from our original plan. The initial plan was to attack the other life planets controlled by the Black Tiger Tribe and unify the entire Black Tiger Tribe in one sweep.”

“However, due to the internal strife within the Black Tiger Tribe led by the Nika Clan, the Black Tiger Tribe army did not consolidate as expected. According to our General Staff’s research, we finally decided to change the entire expedition plan.”

“The first stage of the plan is changed from conquering the various life planets of the Black Tiger Tribe to conquering the Spirit Heart Tribe.”

Wow…

The High-ranking Leaders and strong fighters of the Black Tiger Tribe are in an uproar.

The changes to this plan are too significant.

Moreover, it seems the situation is becoming more complicated.

After all, this expeditionary army is taking action under the banner of the Nika Clan.

Attacking the life planets controlled by the Black Tiger Tribe, while they are fighting amongst themselves and only a few large tribes are involved, means that even if the Black Tiger Tribe army does not put in full effort, it will still only take a bit more time than expected to unify the entire Black Tiger Tribe.

On the other hand, attacking the Spirit Heart Tribe is entirely different.

The overall strength of the Spirit Heart Tribe is far less than that of the Black Tiger Tribe.

However, the Spirit Heart Tribe is not as disorganized as the Black Tiger Tribe. The overall strength of the entire Spirit Heart Tribe far exceeds that of a large tribe of the Black Tiger Tribe by hundreds or thousands of times.

Furthermore, this is a racial invasion, unlike the internal conflict within the Black Tiger Tribe while attacking its controlled life planets.

Unless absolutely necessary or facing extinction, no race is willing to accept the rule of another race.

The willingness to resist is far higher than that of attacking the life planets controlled by the Black Tiger Tribe.

Right now, the Black Tiger Tribe army has not completed integration, so attacking the Spirit Heart Tribe does not seem as favorable as attacking the life planets controlled by the Black Tiger Tribe.

However, due to previous doubts, no High-ranking Leaders or strong fighters of the Black Tiger Tribe raise objections again.

They are all waiting for Guli to provide an explanation.

The Demon Race, on the other hand, remains much calmer.

After all, they are just like the ordinary soldiers.

The High-ranking Leaders and strong fighters of the Black Tiger Tribe are somewhat worried that the Senior Military Officials of the Great Flame Empire might retaliate against the internal turmoil of the Black Tiger Tribe and the army’s duplicity, purposely using the Black Tiger Tribe army as cannon fodder to launch a forceful attack on the stronghold of the Spirit Heart Tribe.

But the Demon Race has no such concerns.

The high-ranking officials of the Demon Race are much closer to the high-ranking officials of the Great Flame Empire, and many of them joined the fierce beast army during the exile planet period. They have participated in countless wars to expand the four armies.

Therefore, they are well aware that although the Great Flame Empire has a strict hierarchy, the status of the vassal races is currently ranked last.

Only races that surrender or are forcefully conquered will have a status lower than that of a vassal race.

However, according to the laws and regulations of the Great Flame Empire, even vassal races cannot use the soldiers of another race as cannon fodder.

Because of this, neither the high-ranking officials of the Demon Race nor the ordinary soldiers have the same concerns as the Black Tiger Tribe.

In their eyes, since the Senior Military Officials of the Great Flame Empire chose to attack the stronghold of the Spirit Heart Tribe, there must be a reason for doing so.