Chapter 554

Chapter 554: Launching the Attack

While the strongest members of the sixteen tribes were discussing how to persuade the Undying Race to send troops quickly to suppress the army of the Great Flame Empire, the expeditionary army had already reformed its formation.

The contents of the meeting among the strongest members of the sixteen tribes were transmitted to the Military by a Shadow Lord of the Shadow Clan through a communication stone.

"Our plan really does have some loopholes!"

The War City leader couldn’t help but exclaim in the conference room.

"This Leader of the Giant Ant Tribe is quite clever, coming up with the idea to seek help from the Undying Race."

"It truly is a stroke of genius."

"Fortunately, it doesn’t greatly impact our plans."

The High-ranking Leaders continuously praised it.

However, there wasn’t much frustration in their eyes.

Their plan to conquer the alliance of the sixteen tribes was indeed interrupted by this brilliant idea.

According to their plan, they aimed to force the alliance of the sixteen tribes to gather all their forces and confront the Great Flame Empire head-on.

As long as they could defeat the united forces of the alliance, it would surely compel them to surrender, thus allowing them to conquer the alliance in the shortest time possible.

If the alliance found themselves with no options and had to rescue the Flying Wolf Tribe, pulling all their forces to fight the Great Flame Empire, it would undoubtedly align perfectly with the Military’s strategy.

At this stage, the Great Flame Empire most wanted to avoid a fight where the weak would overcome the strong.

But what they desired most was to outnumber their opponents.

This was because the eastern human army of the Great Flame Empire possessed the ability to take on larger numbers with fewer troops.

Relying on their powerful long-range attack abilities, along with a very low spirit power cost for their spell attacks, they could sustain long-range attacks nearly continuously. Despite the Great Flame Empire’s army being just one hundred thousand strong,

even when facing enemies that numbered up to ten billion at the same level, as long as the opposing side lacked strong fighters with breakthrough power, they could still withstand their charges and even use their speed advantage to completely defeat the enemy.

In a war of no retreat, they could even annihilate thousands of enemies with just one soldier.

Therefore, if the alliance really did gather their forces to confront the expeditionary army of the Great Flame Empire, it would be pure suicide.

This was one reason the Military didn’t hide the fact that the expeditionary army could rapidly mobilize forces: to conquer the alliance of the sixteen tribes quickly without time for concealment.

Additionally, they aimed to force the sixteen tribes to form a united coalition for a decisive battle.

What caught the High-ranking Leaders of the Great Flame Empire off guard was that the strongest members of the sixteen tribes actually thought of a solution: to seek aid from the undying race that the various tribes should have despised.

Fortunately, for the High-ranking Leaders, while this unexpected twist caught them a bit off guard, it didn’t affect their overall grand plan.

They just might have to postpone their conquest of the sixteen tribes by a few months.

"No matter what, we will proceed as planned. Inform the Intelligence Organization to provide real-time information about the Undying Race and let’s see what their decision is first."

The War City leader concluded.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

If the Undying Race sent troops to aid the Flying Wolf Tribe, they could just wipe out the Undying army.

However, annihilating the Undying army would surely shake the entire Tianling Star Cluster, having a significant impact on the structure of the entire area.

The method of destruction was worth discussing.

But at this moment, the Undying Race had not yet decided whether to deploy troops; it was not time to discuss such matters.

As the Senior Military Officials issued their orders one by one, the expeditionary army finally began to move.

Each of the four armies sent out a vanguard, advancing towards the first line of defense of the Flying Wolf Tribe.

Each vanguard consisted of nearly 100 million soldiers.

The human army, totaling one hundred thousand, was fully integrated into the vanguards.

Every vanguard had 250,000 soldiers from humanity.

"They’re coming! The army of the Great Flame Empire is about to launch an attack!"

"The army in front, from an unknown race, should be the Great Flame Empire’s strongest long-range attack army."

"As long as we can withstand the assault from this overwhelmingly powerful army, we can hold back the Great Flame Empire!"

"That’s right, although the Black Tiger Tribe is very strong and has higher attacking power than our Flying Wolf Tribe, they lack our agility!"

On the first line of defense, the soldiers of the Flying Wolf Tribe became increasingly anxious as they saw the vanguard approaching.

Only the Commander and the strong members of the Flying Wolf Tribe remained calm.

This was because the ordinary soldiers only knew that the defense line had been strengthened in response to the attack patterns of the Great Flame Empire.

They were unaware that the Flying Wolf Tribe had already allied with the fifteen tribes and formed a defense army specifically against the long-range attacks of the Great Flame Empire.

The Commander and strong members of the Flying Wolf Tribe were able to maintain their composure because they were confident they could withstand the Great Flame Empire’s relentless long-range attacks.

Instead, they were worried that the army of the Great Flame Empire might launch a desperate assault, attacking wildly due to their numerical superiority.

"Inform the defense army to prepare for defense!"

With the orders from the Commander and the strong members of the Flying Wolf Tribe issued, troops from the defense army began to position themselves towards the human army.

Time passed gradually.

The four vanguards only launched their attack when they were about five kilometers from the first line of defense of the Flying Wolf Tribe.

Torrents of fire swept through the area like an overwhelming tide.

The terrifying flames turned all flowers, grass, and trees in their path to ash in an instant.

Even the air burned away instantly, crackling audibly.

Buzz…

The sea of fire struck the spirit mine walls of the first line of defense, vaporizing the dirt and moss that had accumulated over the years on the outer surface of the walls.

Within the coverage of the flames, the walls, which were previously rusty and old, appeared renewed because of this assault.

"We held them off! We successfully held them off!"

"Indeed, the enhancements worked!"

"The enormous cost of procuring a large amount of fire-resistant spirit mines from the Extreme Fire Tribe was worth it."

Although the ocean of fire seemed furious, it was entirely repelled by the spirit mine walls.

From the perspective of the Flying Wolf soldiers, the main reason for this success was that the High-ranking Leaders had procured vast amounts of fire-resistance materials from the Extreme Fire Tribe, integrating them into the walls of the first line of defense using special methods based on area and proportion.

The Extreme Fire Tribe was proficient in fire attacks, but they also controlled life planets that possessed a wealth of spirit mines and immortal mines that could suppress fire.

In the past, the Extreme Fire Tribe strictly controlled these spirit and immortal mines and would not allow these materials, which could restrain them, to flow to other tribes.

However, this time, in order to combat the invasion of the Great Flame Empire, the Extreme Fire Tribe made an exception, contributing almost all their reserves of the relevant spirit and immortal mines.

Of course, to prevent the alliance from being exposed, it was publicly stated that various tribes secretly spent massive resources to purchase the relevant materials from the Extreme Fire Tribe at an outrageous sum.

It was precisely these fire-resistant materials that significantly reduced the power of the ocean of fire.

Combined with the inherent fire-resistant properties and functions of the spirit mine walls, this allowed the Great Flame Empire’s ocean of fire attack to have little effect on the walls.

However, no one knew that the reason the human army’s long-range attacks could not destroy the first line of defense was not due to the increased quantity of fire-resistant materials.

It was simply because the human army was not attacking with full force.

As the strength realm of the human soldiers continuously rose, their Method of All Laws could now reach an attack range within thirty kilometers, all within the range of spell attacks.

Moreover, the power of their various spell attacks had increased significantly, being at least five to six times greater than during their last assault on the Swift Tribe’s first line of defense.

If they truly launched a full-scale attack, even with the vast amount of fire-resistant materials added to the Flying Wolf Tribe’s first line of defense, it could easily be destroyed.

Not doing so was entirely to lure the sixteen tribes into forming a coalition for a decisive battle.