Hummm—
The enormous beam of light fired once again.
Everything in its path was instantly vaporized.
Just as the Magic Armor pilot believed he had finally suppressed the terrifying warrior...
He suddenly saw a pair of cold, indifferent eyes.
—Great Ape.
Combat Power ×10
2,000 × 10 = 20,000.
Amosi leapt high into the sky.
In his gigantic Great Ape form, he raised his massive fist and brought it crashing down.
BOOM!
A deafening explosion erupted.
The shockwave shattered every window within a twenty-kilometer radius of Karlsturt.
Directly beneath Amosi...
A cloud of dust dozens of meters high billowed into the sky.
Watching the live feed...
Chris's joyful expression instantly froze.
"How... how is this possible?"
The Magic Armor—the ultimate weapon they had placed all their hopes in—
had been smashed into the ground with a single punch.
Moments later...
The dust gradually settled.
The exposed ground was covered in spiderweb-like cracks.
At the center of the crater...
Lay the once magnificent Magic Armor.
Its glowing energy circuits had been torn completely open, crackling with showers of sparks.
As for the lizardman pilot inside...
He had been killed so thoroughly that there was nothing left to save.
One punch.
That was all it had taken.
The Magic Armor warrior had been killed instantly.
Chris could no longer remain composed.
His legs gave way, and he collapsed onto the floor.
At the same moment...
Planet Zhaka's emergency broadcast echoed across the entire world.
March 16
Karlsturt, capital of the Lord's Domain, has fallen.
The Lord's Domain hereby declares its unconditional surrender.
Planet Zhaka has officially fallen.
Karlsturt — Lord's Mansion
Once...
This had been the place every citizen of Planet Zhaka dreamed of reaching.
Now...
It was nothing but ruins.
Luxurious furniture had been reduced to splinters.
The bodies of servants lay scattered throughout the hall.
Only Chris remained alive.
"My lord!"
"You mustn't let these invaders escape!"
A soldier carrying a rifle stood before the entrance, speaking urgently to the defeated lord.
Amosi merely turned his head.
He couldn't even be bothered to glance at the soldier.
Instead...
He looked through the massive floor-to-ceiling windows toward the sky.
The task entrusted to him by his Creator...
Had finally been completed.
Chris looked at the loyal soldier before him and slowly shook his head.
"Put down your weapon."
"We've already lost."
Hearing those words...
Amosi gave a slight nod.
Without turning around, he said calmly,
"It's over."
"We've conquered this planet."
"Tell your people not to resist."
"Our only objective is the energy crystals."
Chris had already accepted defeat.
Still...
One question continued to trouble him.
"What about your transport ships?"
"If you don't have battleships..."
"How do you intend to carry away so many energy crystals?"
Apart from a few small aircraft...
Planet Zhaka had never detected any large spacecraft.
Without transport ships...
Even moving the enormous stockpile of energy crystals by hand would take a lifetime.
Amosi answered without even looking back.
"You only need to mine the energy crystals and gather them together."
"We have our own methods."
The Saiyans possessed Universal Capsules.
Each one functioned as an enormous portable warehouse.
Other civilizations required transport ships.
The Saiyans did not.
Seeing no reason to explain further...
Amosi remained silent.
Thanks to Planet Zhaka's advanced mining technology...
The extraction of the energy crystals proceeded with incredible efficiency.
Before long...
Most of the planet's energy crystal reserves had been collected.
Looking at the mountain of crystals before him...
Chris couldn't help feeling his heart ache.
Those crystals represented the very foundation of Planet Zhaka's civilization.
Just as he wondered how the Saiyans intended to transport such an enormous quantity...
He witnessed a scene that left him speechless.
Before his eyes...
One of the alien warriors opened a tiny capsule.
In the next instant...
Thousands upon thousands of energy crystals vanished inside it.
Not only the energy crystals...
Every valuable energy resource was packed away as well.
As for the planet's technology...
Even the Magic Armor...
The Saiyans showed no interest whatsoever.
Their civilization followed an entirely different path.
All of their strength came from their own bodies.
They had no need for external technology.
Thus...
Before the horrified eyes of every lizardman...
The mountain-like piles of energy crystals disappeared into a handful of Universal Capsules carried by the ten Saiyan warriors.
Seeing the scene before him...
Chris couldn't help crying out,
"These are the real robbers!"
After all...
Planet Zhaka had been stripped clean.
Every valuable resource that could be taken...
Had been taken.
Beneath Planet Zhaka's full moon...
Amosi and his companions retrieved their aircraft from their Universal Capsules.
Then...
They departed the planet in triumph.
Everything had finally been settled.
Watching Amosi and the others return...
Jiang Hao smiled with satisfaction.
This Star War had not only secured the resources needed for the development of Saiyan civilization...
More importantly...
Amosi and the others had all grown stronger.
After all...
The Saiyans' greatest method of becoming stronger was continuous battle.
As for the unexpected events that had occurred...
Even Jiang Hao had been surprised.
He hadn't expected Planet Zhaka to possess technology that rivaled that of a second-level civilization, such as the Magic Armor.
Even without the Magic Armor...
The planet's overall technological level was already exceptionally advanced.
"No wonder every previous invader failed."
"Even for us..."
"It wasn't an easy battle."
Jiang Hao thought to himself.
Had it not been for Planet Zhaka's full moon...
The war would never have ended so cleanly.
Unless...
Amosi had transformed into a Super Saiyan.
At that moment...
Amosi and the others had already returned to Planet Vegeta.
Jiang Hao immediately reported the successful conquest to the Awakened Association.
Planet Zhaka possessed numerous advanced technologies.
Although the Saiyans had no use for them...
They could still be sold.
Even the surviving lizardmen themselves represented valuable resources.
The Awakened Association once again demonstrated its astonishing efficiency.
In less than half an hour...
Everything had been appraised.
Looking at the additional 300,000 Star Coins that had appeared in his account...
Jiang Hao smiled in satisfaction.
Then...
He began the final step of the campaign.
The true purpose of this expedition.
Planetary Annexation.
Under Jiang Hao's command...
Planet Zhaka was gradually absorbed into Planet Vegeta.
As the two planets completed their fusion...
Planet Vegeta's diameter expanded from 52 kilometers to 106 kilometers.
With the final stage complete...
Jiang Hao boarded the shuttle once more.
After confirming the mission's completion...
He issued the return command.
Blue flames erupted from the spacecraft's engines.
The shuttle slowly accelerated...
And began its journey home.