Duke Falla's Doubt

Ten days after the Expeditionary Force successfully took the Swiftfoot Race Old Nest, Yi Chen was cultivating inside the Flying Magic Treasure, pushing toward the eighth level of the True Immortal Stage.

The Military Department sent him news of victory.

The Swiftfoot Race's eleven Life Planets were now all under the Expeditionary Force's control.

Along with the victory report came a new short- to mid-term plan.

Before attacking the Spirit Heart Race Old Nest, Zhan Cheng had already drafted a short-term development plan while also researching and conceiving a mid-term development plan.

And now, that mid-term development plan had successfully been completed.

Yi Chen only glanced over it before feeling that the mid-term plan Zhan Cheng had made was a little too conservative.

Because according to Zhan Cheng's planned deployment, they would take more than twenty races of all sizes in the surrounding area in one sweep within five years.

The total number of Life Planets was around two hundred and thirty.

Given the Expeditionary Force's current strength, this plan was actually somewhat aggressive.

After all, the total number of Life Planets the Great Flame Empire currently occupied was only a little over fifty.

Not to mention, these Life Planets only belonged to the Great Flame Empire in name.

To truly integrate and take them over completely would still require a very long time to slowly digest.

Within five years, on the existing foundation, expanding their sphere of influence by another fivefold—one could imagine the difficulty.

The reason Yi Chen instead felt that Zhan Cheng's plan was not only not aggressive, but could even be called conservative...

Was that the Great Flame Empire had officially entered a stage of rapid expansion.

Just like conquering the Swiftfoot Race, even without the Black Tiger Race army, they could have relied on the