Chapter 550

Chapter 550: The Army Marches Out

With the matters related to Mares settled, Yi Chen focused on his cultivation.

As the talent bonus did not increase, the time required to elevate each small realm kept growing.

Before he knew it, half a year had passed.

After more than six months of rest and preparation, the Great Flame Empire finally mobilized its troops once again.

They marched toward the Flying Wolf Tribe.

The Flying Wolf Tribe is a race neighboring the Black Tiger Tribe.

Among the various tribes, their strength is not particularly strong, ranking at the lower middle tier.

They are comparable to the Swift Tribe and the Spirit Heart Tribe.

The entire Flying Wolf Tribe controls twelve life planets.

The strongest among them, the Emperor of the Flying Wolf Tribe, has reached level 130.

There are over thirty level 120 strong fighters within the tribe.

In terms of top-tier combat power, they are about equal to the Swift Tribe.

In terms of talent, their strengths lie primarily in agility and attacking power.

For the Great Flame Empire, annihilating the Flying Wolf Tribe, which is of similar strength to the Swift Tribe, is an effortless task.

After all, more than six months have passed; the Great Flame Empire has not only greatly expanded its sphere of influence but also vastly improved its strength.

The most obvious point is the military strength.

After consolidating the Black Tiger Tribe, Swift Tribe, and Spirit Heart Tribe, these three tribes alone can provide over two billion elite soldiers.

On the Demon Race front, the expansion of influence has resulted in a rapid increase in numbers.

Now, they can effortlessly muster a ten million strong army of demons.

With just two billion elite soldiers, they can easily overwhelm the Flying Wolf Tribe.

Moreover, what has truly enhanced the power of the Great Flame Empire is the strength of the eastern human army.

Over the past six months, the average strength of the eastern human army has ascended to the early stage of the Spirit Enlightenment Stage, having trained in Cave Paradise.

In terms of the Federation Military’s levels, this equates to level 80.

Coupled with various powerful skills and rich combat experience, any individual human warrior can defeat opponents at level 90 in direct combat.

If they form a squad, a company of one hundred can even team up to kill level 100 strong fighters.

Additionally, the top geniuses of humanity have broken through to the Fifth or Sixth Stage of the Crossing Tribulation Stage using the Third Generation Cave Paradise.

In one-on-one scenarios, they can directly kill level 100 strong fighters.

When teaming up against enemies, taking down those above level 110 is not a difficult task.

With extensive long-range attack abilities and the Teleportation Technique, the eastern human army can now truly become the main force in terms of strength.

The only drawback is their smaller numbers.

Originally, the Demon Race was similar in number to the eastern human army, but as their sphere of influence expanded, fierce beasts on major life planets were continually transformed into members of the Demon Race.

Their numbers and military strength surged at a breathtaking speed.

In just about a year, their population had increased from two million to ten million, and the growth momentum continued to rise.

In the future, as the Great Flame Empire expands, the rate of increase will only accelerate.

In contrast, after the eastern human army reached over a million, it fell into a state of stagnation.

The reason lies in the fact that the population of the Great Flame Empire cannot grow as rapidly as the Demon Race alongside its expansion.

This situation will require another decade before any breakthrough occurs.

After a decade, the fifty million orphans that Yi Chen requested as the first batch of interest from the human federation will reach adulthood.

At that time, they could inject at least five to six million troops into the Great Flame Empire.

Moreover, this will be a continuous, rapidly increasing flow.

The second batch of interest includes as many as five hundred million orphans.

Since receiving the second batch of interest, the Revival Army has begun to gather and search for orphans across major life planets in the galaxy, sending them to the Great Flame Empire.

Although the high-ranking leaders of the Federal Parliament and Military believe that the Revival Army’s actions might incite unnecessary panic and negative effects among the populace if the news leaks out, they can only turn a blind eye.

Having utterly lost hope in the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, the high-ranking leaders of the Federal Parliament and Military can only hope to build a good relationship with Yi Chen and find a way to reach a new agreement.

In this situation, even though they know the Great Flame Empire’s goal of having the Revival Army continuously gather and take orphans is to increase the population, they dare not offend Yi Chen.

Rather, quickly reaching a reconciliation with Yi Chen is what lies at the core interest of the human federation.

This time, the expeditionary army fully mobilized its forces.

From the Black Tiger Tribe, a staggering two billion elite soldiers were assembled.

The Spirit Heart Tribe and the Swift Tribe also used all their resources, summoning two hundred million soldiers each.

With the addition of the Demon Race and eastern human army, the total military force reached twenty-five billion.

Such a large-scale deployment by the Great Flame Empire’s military is naturally not aimed at just the Flying Wolf Tribe.

Their target is the alliance of the sixteen tribes.

According to the latest plan developed by the General Staff, the ultimate goal of this expedition is to defeat and conquer all sixteen tribes, taking control of all the life planets governed by the alliance.

If the tribes knew, they would undoubtedly think the Great Flame Empire had gone mad, with ambitions beyond imagination.

However, in the eyes of the high-ranking leaders of the Great Flame Empire, the success rate of this plan is not low.

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The number of Space Vessels has increased from eleven to sixteen.

Aside from one vessel remaining at the blood-colored planet to handle emergencies, the other fifteen vessels were all mobilized.

These Space Vessels continuously traveled back and forth between the major life planets.

Hundreds of thousands of flying treasures transported the assembled army from each life planet aboard the Space Vessels.

Once all the forces gathered within the flying treasures of the fifteen Space Vessels, they quickly converged.

Then, accelerating through the Space Jump System, they directly appeared in outer space, near the home planet of the Flying Wolf Tribe.

“Proceed according to the original plan!” the commander of War City issued the order.

This time, the supreme commander of the expeditionary army was no longer Guli, but had shifted to him.

With the conquest of three tribes in the past year, the military achievements of War City had made it the leader among the five main corps.

Although his experience still fell short of surpassing the four veteran corps commanders, becoming Marshal Iron Blood was already a foregone conclusion.

Guli smoothly handed over the position of supreme commander to War City.

As orders continued to be issued, the fifteen Space Vessels moved towards the home planet of the Flying Wolf Tribe.

Along the way, flying treasures constantly launched from the Space Vessels to clear out the Flying Wolf Tribe’s Scouts and Sentinels.

After entering the planet’s atmosphere, hundreds of thousands of flying treasures surged out from the Space Vessels, spreading around the periphery of the Flying Wolf Tribe’s stronghold.

Meanwhile, the fifteen Space Vessels, having completed their mission, returned to outer space.

With countless soldiers pouring out from the flying treasures, the expeditionary army surrounded the entire stronghold of the Flying Wolf Tribe like a sudden divine force.

Twenty-five billion soldiers nearly encircled the stronghold to the point of not letting a drop of water through.

What was even more terrifying was that these twenty-five billion troops were all elite warriors above level eighty.

The momentum was fearsome.