Chapter 793

Chapter 793: High-ranking Leaders Captured

They easily infiltrated the defensive barriers.

Inside was a spacious hidden chamber.

The clan leader of the Leaf Lion Clan and over thirty top-ranking elders gathered, discussing their offensive plan.

“Shadow King, take me close to the Leaf Lion Clan leader first, and then handle any elders trying to escape!”

Mares quickly made his decision after considering the situation.

At this moment, the Great Flame Empire had only just begun its invasion of the super star cluster, with the only conquered race being the Zhanxin Clan.

Not only was the expeditionary army still weak, but the assassination teams also had not reinforced with many strong fighters.

Fortunately, although the targets were numerous, their strength was not high.

Apart from the Leaf Lion clan leader, who reached level 210, the other thirty elders were all only level 200 strong fighters.

Capturing them all would not be too difficult.

The Shadow King, along with Mares, quietly approached the Leaf Lion Clan leader’s side.

Mares suddenly made his move, striking a massive tree branch at the back of the Leaf Lion Clan leader.

Boom!

With a loud bang, the clan leader didn’t even sense the danger before the branch crashed into his defensive shield.

The shield shattered instantly.

The power of the branch remained largely unaffected, as it drove straight through and sent the Leaf Lion Clan leader flying.

The force was perfectly measured.

Before the clan leader could even land, he fell into a coma state.

Buzz…

“Clan leader…”

“Not good, enemy attack! Quickly save the clan leader!”

“Oh my! It’s a level 220 powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe. Could it be that the Great Flame Empire is, as suspected, a vassal race of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe?”

While discussing their response plan, they suddenly discovered a level 220 powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe appearing out of nowhere, severely injuring their clan leader with one strike.

The Leaf Lion elders quickly fell into panic.

However, Mares did not waste any time.

His branches spread out, launching a strong attack on the surrounding Leaf Lion elders.

In the face of a level 220 strong fighter, these elders, two major realms below, were practically unable to withstand a single strike.

Each attack could easily send one of the Leaf Lion elders into a heavy injury and coma, following in the footsteps of their clan leader.

Meanwhile, the level 210 Shadow General patrolled the edges of the barriers swiftly, ready to attack any Leaf Lion elder trying to escape.

The strength of the Shadow Clan was considerably weaker compared to other races at the same level.

However, the Shadow General, being one major realm higher, was more than capable of intercepting any level 200 elders from the Leaf Lion Clan.

Yet, that situation did not occur.

Suddenly faced with such an unbelievable attack, the elders of the Leaf Lion Clan were thrown into complete disarray.

Not a single elder thought to take advantage of their numbers to escape the barriers.

Of course, the main reason was that Mares’ attacking speed was incredibly fast.

With one strike, he could heavily injure an elder from the Leaf Lion Clan, sending them into a coma state.

In just over twenty seconds, more than thirty elders found themselves heavily injured, just like the Leaf Lion Clan leader, and fell into a coma state.

Mares took out a powerful space-type treasure and tossed them all inside.

Then, he fed one of them a high-quality immortal material for quick recovery and notified the Shadow King to leave.

The Shadow King immediately took him away, appearing in the sky above the Leaf Lion Clan’s stronghold outside the defensive barriers.

Mares took out a communication stone to report to the War City about the successful capture of the high-ranking leaders of the Leaf Lion Clan.

Using his Perception Ability, he entered the powerful space-type treasure, waiting for them to wake up.

Within just a few minutes, spurred by the effects of the high-quality immortal material, the Leaf Lion Clan leader and the elders slowly regained consciousness.

To their surprise, they discovered that someone had made them consume high-quality healing immortal materials.

Although their injuries couldn’t be immediately healed in the short term, they were recovering quickly.

And then…

“Where is this?”

Their Perception Ability rapidly spread.

Soon, they realized they were inside a powerful space-type treasure.

Through their Perception Ability, they could confirm that this treasure had incredibly strong defense strength.

Even if they combined their efforts, it would be impossible to break the powerful treasure and escape outside.

What surprised them was that their Perception Ability could penetrate the treasure’s defenses and reach the outside.

“It’s a powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe…”

“And another strong fighter, one who specializes in concealment of aura and energy, a level 210 strong fighter.”

“No wonder the powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe could silently enter our defensive barriers.”

The Leaf Lion Clan leader and the elders looked confused.

They couldn’t comprehend why this powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe and the unknown strong fighter attacked them suddenly and merely tossed them into a powerful treasure without employing any other binding techniques.

More importantly, they actually made them consume high-quality immortal materials to quickly recover from their injuries.

Could it be…

Dimly, the Leaf Lion Clan leader and the elders began to make sense of Mares’ intentions.

“Are you all awake?”

Mares used his Perception Ability to envelop the Leaf Lion Clan leader and the elder members, transmitting his voice to them:

“Will you surrender as a clan now?”

The Leaf Lion Clan leader and the elders all scoffed in response.

They certainly would not agree.

Surrendering as a clan would make the Leaf Lion Clan leader and the high-ranking members a disgrace to the Leaf Lion Clan, which would be more painful than death.

“I remind you that according to the policies of our Great Flame Empire, conquered races are categorized into different tiers. The first clans to surrender can become a first-tier conquered race. The slower the surrender and the more intense the resistance, the lower the rank.”

Mares stated lightly.

The Leaf Lion Clan leader and the elders fell silent.

They knew this already.

In fact, they were leaning towards clan-wide surrender.

They mistakenly believed that the Great Flame Empire was a vassal race of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

The reason was simple: the actions of the Great Flame Empire closely resembled the expansion tactics of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

With celestial forces suddenly appearing and assassination teams, everything mirrored the previous expansions of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

The only difference was that the methods of the Great Flame Empire seemed to have advanced further.

When the Tree-Dwelling Tribe’s army approached the territory of their target race, they would be discovered.

Yet the Great Flame Empire’s forces managed to surround the life planet of the target race’s stronghold before being found out.

The assassination teams of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe relied on forcefully breaking through the defensive barriers of the target race’s high-ranking members.

In contrast, the assassination teams of the Great Flame Empire could silently infiltrate the very defenses set up by the target race’s leaders.

However, they leaned more towards the belief that the Tree-Dwelling Tribe had improved in these two areas.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t be possible for two races to command large-scale long-distance transportation powers with such similar tactics.

Mares, the level 220 strong fighter from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, was very much a proof of this.

Faced with a behemoth like the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, they had no other option but to surrender as a clan.

Yet such an easy clan-wide surrender left them truly unwilling.

According to the collected information, this invading army consisted of only tens of billions of elite soldiers from the Zhanxin Clan.

The remainder of the forces was merely a ragtag army with an extremely low average cultivation level.

In contrast, the Leaf Lion Clan had prepared in advance and had over one hundred billion elite soldiers hidden on Karl Planet and the surrounding star field.

They held an absolute advantage.

To surrender so easily as a clan felt profoundly unjust!