Chapter 1693 Smiggy
"Here, assess them and tell me how much they are worth," Hye took higher grade bones, pale and dark gold ones, the dark realm bones starting from white grade all the way up to the dark gold.
When she saw these bones, she grew very interested in them, the same reaction the smuggler showed as well. The two didn't know that the Toranks already got their hands over a few of these bones, but they were just too stubborn to hand him any high end tech or weapons.
They didn't even consider supplying him with crystals, something that was very crucial to someone like Hye and his newly established kingdom.
Hye knew such bones would spread across the entire universe. He could pay with low grade bones, but he decided to teach the Toranks a valuable lesson using this smuggler.
He intended to trade everything using the dark realm bones, ending up for them being spread across the universe. Like this, the Toranks would know what they missed by their stubbornness and arrogance, would end up regretting not accepting his persistent offers and request for crystals and high end tech.
Even if the Toranks acted high and still kept their arrogance, he was sure such news would lure more strong forces to contact him. The big races dealt with a few exclusive lists of special impacts. And Hye knew if he knocked at their doors, he'd get rejected.
So the only option he got was for them to contact him, and that was why he intended to make a great impact over the universe using his bones.
If not for the high value of his Holy Ones bones, he'd simply prefer to offer them to the smuggler. But he knew such bones were his best, and the hardest to achieve.
He could get dark realm bones from the outer battlefield, but couldn't get any Holy Ones bones. To get them, he needed to fight those fiends and others from the mysterious evil force he fought a brutal fight against before.
"Are we good?" After they agreed on the final price, the smuggler received samples of Hye's bones and sold them on the market. The sales went fast, and he seemed more satisfied with the response he got.
Hye didn't care about how much his bones sold, as he sat his eyes over the grand prize. The prices he got were much better than what he initially thought, were much better than the standard he took in mind when he spoke with the smuggler.
He used the Crystal Heart as a reference, used how much the heart converted his bones to roughly estimate their value. But the prices the smuggler mentioned were at least five fold what he had in mind. As for the silver and higher dark realm bones, they got sold by tenfold what he had in mind for them.
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm That didn't include the increase they agreed upon. "It's a deal," Hye shook the hand of the smuggler again, but this time he didn't feel the same fierceness coming from the man.
"The contract is ready, let me add you as a friend…"
"Smiggy?!!! Is your name Smiggy?!!!" Hye accepted the invite, to get startled by the weird name of this smuggler.
"That's my professional name, cool isn't it?"
The smuggler didn't get the slight mockery in Hye's tone. The latter noticed the times the smuggler spoke about Silverlining, he called him Silvy. It seemed like this smuggler had a feminine touch in his soul or something.
"It's cool, indeed," Hye said to his surprise, "send me the contract then."
"Let this be the first of our long term relationship," Smiggy was excited about finalising this deal with Hye, something that told the latter how much wealth he'd gain from selling out Hye's bones.
"Sure," Hye wouldn't say no to such an invitation. Gaining an extra friend to supply him with what he'd need, especially someone who wasn't affiliated or limited with a higher force, was something worthy indeed.
The contract was sent via direct messages. And Hye didn't find anything abnormal about it. It mentioned the number of spaceships they agreed to exchange, and also contained the location and time of delivery plus the prices in his bones.
The surprising and delightful thing he read there was the fact he'd get the spaceships right on the spot once he'd pay the price agreed on the contract.
Hye noticed that such supposedly illegal contracts were supported by the system. It was weird indeed, as he took what was going on here to be all against the universal laws.
"Let's do it then," Hye selected the grades of bones he'd sell, and focused solely over the dark realm bones. When he finished the deal, the smuggler was quite delighted by the exchange, and couldn't help but laugh for an entire minute.
Hye also laughed when he saw the ships stored within his inventory. He thought that he'd need to take and mobilise them, the same way he saw the forces of this world do when they moved their spaceships.
But it wasn't the case. These forces took such an approach so they'd show to their citizens how strong and capable, how well prepared their forces were.
Then Hye turned towards the huge sum of crystals he gained from this exchange. It was so massive to be more than what he gained so far from the entire world's big merchant families and merchants.
Hye got what he desired, and much more. He left the bar with a grin over his face, while the lady nymph watched him from the side without saying anything.
She felt envy for the smuggler to get all these bones. Hye paid hundreds of millions of his bones to get these spaceships and crystals, a price that was fair in her eyes. Still she regretted not being the one on the other end of the table, making such a deal with him.
For a moment there, she felt like being with her impact wasn't something profitable to her. She saw how Hye desired tons of great stuff, things that her small impact wouldn't dream to have in the first place.
Chapter 1694 6 Months Passed
"What are you doing?!" Just as the two arrived back at the hotel, she followed him to his room, and sat on his lap when he sat down. He looked at her in a weird way, to get answered with a warm kiss, one that melted his defences and couldn't control himself with her.
The two made love simply like that, and stayed for hours shifting from the big bed to the tables and even on the bare floor. Hye already tasted the delicacies of different races, but this time he felt like he had never slept with a girl before.
The nymph race was famous for being too sexy and hot, so great in bed. After hours, the lady nymph slept in his embrace, naked without a single shred of clothes, while he was looking at her body, recalling the great moments he just experienced.
Hye was feeling great. Everything ended up the way he desired. He got the girl, enjoyed his night, and that came just after acquiring his crystals and spaceships.
"I need to start mass producing my trees," he knew the spaceships wouldn't fly on their own, and he needed a grand army to operate over them.
He didn't just want to make them fly, but also hijack and attack other spaceships, adding more to his small roster. It was going to be a hectic war, one that'd end up with many losses in both spaceships and warriors.
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So as the nymph lady slept like a baby, even snoring loudly next to him, he started to plan all the crystals he got from Smiggy.
After paying more bones, he ended up having many trees, almost the same number as he had before. He knew the next harvest he'd gain billions of crystals, high grade ones. But after a few months, and repeated cycles of planting trees and nourishing the ones he harvested, he'd end up with thousands of billions of crystals in the end, even more!
That might be a grand number, an amount that would let him go crazy before if he heard about it. But now he knew that was barely enough.
"It's lucky they have a cap at level one," he muttered to himself once he finished planting trees, "now all I need to do is wait."
Hye acted low profile since then. He knew such a visit to Smiggy and that bar would get noticed by many eyes. Even if he ditched the ones following him using the portal, he was sure such a place must have been watched all the time.
Starting from that point, all he did was to stay in the hotel, enjoy his time with the lady nymph, while taking care of the harvest coming from the Crystal Heart.
The harvest kept getting richer every time. After three months, he started to take part of the harvest, give them to his warriors.
He changed his plan after learning about how the universal battles and wars happened. Depending entirely on Soulers wasn't going to help. He needed to use other types of warriors, ones who could perform better at these ships.
So he used his crystals to nourish a mixture of warriors, not just a few of them. And as his heart was going to yield more crystals, he wasn't worried about using these to nourish his warriors.
He used his free time to read more about spaceships. With the help of the lady nymph, he bought lots of beads that contained highly classified intel about these ships.
He didn't limit the knowledge only to himself, let his warriors study them as well. He spent the next three months educating his warriors while giving them crystals to grow stronger.
ραndαsnοvεl.cοm Hye was trying to do everything he could to prepare for the upcoming war. He tried to gather up intel from various sources, ending up failing every single time. His only source of intel came from Smiggy, who got addicted to his bones and asked for crazy prices every time.
The chat between the two would take days, filled with hustling and bustling about the prices of the intel. In the end, Hye would get little intel for a fair price of his bones. Yet he had to admit, even if he got little intel, this was very secretive news.
He learnt about the recent updates of the advancing Hescos armies. He was surprised to learn that many skirmishes had already taken place for months. The two sides seemed too eager for battle, even before the start of the big war.
Yet the more he learnt from Smiggy, the more he got the grand picture clearer to his mind. He knew that the two sides were fighting over the critically important points in the universe around this world. And so far, the Hescos were kicking their asses, winning most of the clashes.
Hye tried to see if Smiggy got his hands over any spaceships yet, but the latter kept a tight lips about the matter. Every time the matter of spaceships would be brought to light, Smiggy would complain about how Hye tricked him.
He already spoke with little Silvy, and learned that everything Hye said was a lie. He complained in rage, fumed with his desire to get back at Hye for the trick he felt for.
But the latter kept laughing every time this topic was brought up. Hye didn't defend himself except with a simple and direct logical answer: You are an outlaw, living in a world filled with trickery and treason. Don't take it on me for being smarter than you, ok?
Aside from this point, Smiggy always cooperated with Hye. The latter tried more than once to ask and see for how much this smuggler gained from his bones, but the latter always responded with a laughing emoji.
Six months passed, and Hye was now feeling more confident than ever about this war. He got tons of warriors who reached to the cap of power, got lots of valuable intel.
Chapter 1695 The Start Of The War
Hye learned in detail about the grand layout of not only the world's armies but also the Hescos. He received maps, detailing everything about the space high above, and got even the prearranged plans about the moves of the armies on both sides in the middle of the war.
There were lots of scenarios generals on both sides devised and prepared counters for. He studied everything he got from Smiggy and learned much of battle tactics in the universe.
To win a war, one had to not only crush the enemy to do it. After war losses were something that any army should be quite aware of and attentive towards. According to what he learned, the most dangerous moment of all would be when armies would lose a lot, ending up being an easy target for opportunistic forces.
Hye instantly recalled the Toranks and their forces amassed around this zone. He thought they were here just to wait for the right moment to intervene, or to get the right deal from this world's merchants. But that wasn't the case.
They were acting like tigers hiding in the mountain, waiting for the right moment to sweep everything and crush everyone, ending up reaping a great cake without losing that much.
He envied such great force to enjoy such reaps without the need to do anything in return. Taking serious note of this, he now was more eager to build a grand force of spaceships than ever before.
He also got to know why these formidable forces treated spaceships as one of the most important secrets they got, refusing to share any with anyone, even if it was an ally like Hye's case.
They weren't just acting stingy, but they had to place lots of spaceships on standby, waiting for any golden chance like this.
He now was sure the end of this war wasn't set in stone. Even if one side won the war, the forces waiting in the shadows like the Toranks and others would start a brutal attack. The final winner wouldn't be settled until all the forces lost big, all except for one.
Hye realised how hard it was to win a war in the universe. Back in the apocalypse, he was safe when attacking any place or force. The apocalypse might be considered a big prison, but it had its perks as well.
Six months passed fast, and in one morning, he received a simple and short message from Smiggy: [It's happening!]
"Get up!" Hye disturbed the lazy nymph lady from her sleep with his elbow, making the latter jump and jolt awake, "the war is on!"
"At such an early hour in the morning?" her eyes were clouded with laziness and sleep. She took a wide look around, and looked at the early rays of the sun shining over this world, "can't they wait until noon or something? I want to sleep…"
"Get up!" Hye dragged her by the arm, stopping her attempt to fall into the bed again, "you need a cold shower to wake up."
He carried her all the way to the bathroom, where he opened the cold water and let it shower her without listening to her pleas. As she finally began to wake up under the coldness and refreshment of the water falling over her head, he returned back to the bedroom and started to check any news on the local news network of this world.
He already joined this channel a few months ago out of boredom. There wasn't anything of value out there, but if war started, he knew he'd find news.
But he didn't find any. The news was normal, and the broadcast was just speaking about normal and boring stuff.
"Then it's still a secret," he knew the leaders of this world decided to not show any news about what was going on up there, "if so, then I'd expect tight security over the routes leading to outer space…"
He already went out and scouted the ways to go to space. There were many formal pathways leading to outer space, and he already had a detailed map of such paths in the area he was living in.
But now it seemed it'd be difficult to go up there and join the war. As he realised this, his thoughts drifted towards the right person to ask if he wanted to go out without getting caught or noticed, Smiggy.
[I believe you expect more bones from me, right?] he sent this message over, and the response he got was filled with Smiggy laughs at first.
[Sorry but if you need anything from me, you shall pay with bones, hahahahaha!] The two got to understand each other quite perfectly during the past few months. Smiggy wasn't like little Silvy, wasn't always busy or facing trouble to help him.
Smiggy was the source of trouble to others and actually, loved to spread chaos all over the places he visited.
He was also filled with lots of stories about his past adventures. Whenever Hye spoke with him about his past, Smiggy would brag about many things, making Hye unable to decide if even half was true or not.
[Just tell me how much it will cost, and how will I get up there]
[You do know you are crazy? I know many will join this war, but this won't be anytime soon. Just wait, wait like the rest of us, wait for a couple of months before the two sides lose big…]
Smiggy kept raining him down with advice, not to mention these stemmed up from his good and kind heart and his rich battle experience.
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm [Just stop it! You know I'll go up there one way or another]
[It's your life man! But don't expect things there to be easy for just the two of you. If you want, I can lend you mercenaries if you want]
[No thanks] Hye would have accepted such an offer the first time he met with Smiggy. But after all these months, he gained tons of crystals, planted endless trees, and reaped high-grade crystals from his heart.
Chapter 1696 The War Is On!
Hye used just a tiny portion there and managed to level up an army of his warriors. He was going to harvest more crystals soon, and then use them to level up a scary amount of crystals to use to strengthen more warriors.
So he didn't lack warriors to his aid, but Smiggy never knew that. In the end, Smiggy might be speaking about his well-being, but he still was doing this for his sake.
Hye didn't let these kind words and advice leave any impression on him. He was vigilant every time he dealt with this smuggler and didn't forget that he was dealing with a vicious outlaw.
[So, how much will this cost me?] he turned the topic back toward the point that interested him.
[Nothing much, one hundred thousand bones to take you out there safe and sound]
[Don't joke with me] Hye knew this dude was speaking about his dark realm bones, [I can pay one hundred as fees]
[O… One h… Hundred!!! Why don't come and f*ck me up then? No, I won't settle with any amount less than eighty thousand bones!]
They two kept hustling and bargaining about it for a few hours until they agreed to pay just twelve thousand bones. Smiggy kept complaining about this, and Hye complained about how greedy he became.
Yet the two knew they came out from this deal winning and not losing. The smuggler would get free bones, and Hye would have a safe way out from this world.
[Wait for one day, then head towards Sector 742. There you will go towards the Blue Zone, ask for the man without the hat…]
[What's with that damn hat? Last time, little Silvy also asked me to ask for the man without the hat!]
[Hahahaha, that's my codename, hahahaha. Do you like it?]
[It's boring!]
[It's genuinely unique and new! You don't appreciate the beauty of codenames, tsk]
Hye enjoyed teasing Smiggy about his codename for a few more minutes before the latter stopped responding to him. [Come on Smiggy, you are the one without a hat, so let me buy you one, hahahaha!]
[...]
"Tsk! He is quite sensitive towards that silly codename of his," Hye shook his head while an evil smile appeared on his face.
"Why are you this happy?" The lady nymph was walking by his side in the middle of the streets. Hye didn't listen to what Smiggy said, didn't want to remain inside that hotel or this sector for any longer.
He knew he would be closely watched, especially when the war started. News of the presence of the Toranks fleet was already known to many, and it'd be weird if the leaders of this world didn't get wind of it.
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It might be safe right now, as the war just started and the world's leaders were confident in their win. But if things went south, and he felt this would be the case, then they'd come surely for him.
He'd prefer to keep moving around sectors at this moment than stick to a single place. He wouldn't go directly to the sector Smiggy asked him to wait for him there and instead decided to take a tour around.
He already exchanged many universal coins from little Silvy using his bones. "What are we going to do now?" As the two ended up in front of a portal zone, the lady nymph was curious about what he planned to do.
"We are going on a tour," Hye smiled, but she felt like he didn't mean any of what he said. Before she'd ask even more, he started to head toward one portal, randomly selecting it.
"Going to Sector 12? What's special about that place?" she was surprised and puzzled by his decision, didn't know he just made it up right on the spot.
"I want to see the world before its demise," he shrugged, casually throwing out such excuses that didn't convince her at all.
ραndαsΝοvεl ƈοm She had no option but to follow him. He paid the fees and waited for the portal to get activated. The talk all around was about the war, yet people never knew the war they were mentioned in the future tense was already happening right now.
Hye kept his silence until the portal got activated and carried the two of them away. When he landed over sector 12, he couldn't help but feel a cold shiver running down his spine.
"Danger!" he instantly summoned Lucas and a group of a thousand Soulers. The moment he landed, he felt the same feeling when he was weak, in the early phase of the apocalypse, while meeting that hybrid monster.
"Watch out!"
"Enemies at the gate!"
"Run! They are the Hescos! Run for your lives!"
The moment he took out Lucas and the others, he heard a loud bang followed by many distressed shouts. All came from one direction, and that was a few miles away from his current spot.
It might seem far, but the shouts and explosions that followed made it look like things were happening next to him. "What the heck did you bring us to? Let's run… What are you doing?!!!" the lady nymph felt like her soul was going out of her body when she saw the explosions.
The first reaction she had was to turn around and run. But against what she instinctively decided to do, Hye ran in the totally opposite direction, towards the direction of this mess.
"Stay here," he shouted, "I'll come and bring you with me."
"No, I'm coming!" She knew being with him would put her life in more danger, but something told her that the safest spot in the world was also by his side.
"As you wish," Hye didn't stop her, allocated ten Soulers to act as her bodyguard, "keep her safe," he said, and the lady nymph felt weird warmth touching her heart even in the middle of all this mess.
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The world looked like it was going down! Many ships started to appear, either rising up from the ground or coming from far. "It's a military portal base!" the moment Hye spotted many small-sized ships rising up from the ground, from the same area where the battle was happening.
That told him the Hescos sent detachments into this world, acting as kamikaze and terrorist groups. Their aim was the military strongholds all over the world, attacking and destroying defences and spaceships like what was happening here.
Hye knew it was dangerous, but he didn't care. There were tons of spaceships out there for him to grab right now, and he wouldn't flinch back out of fear and miss such a chance!
He ran with all his might, even summoned his two big wings. The Soulers were following him closely, and the lady nymph was around half a mile away when he arrived at the base under attack.
"It's indeed a port!'' When he arrived there, he saw a grand open space, lined with tall walls, one that was filled with many guns and threatening defensive weapons. But right now all of these were either fighting the enemies running amok inside the base, or destroyed by them!
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm The walls showed many holes and gaps, burning spots with lots of fire, and thick black tongues of smoke rising up. The spaceships that managed to rise up started to open fire long before he arrived there. But many already got hit, and suffered a rain of fire that came from the ground and sky.
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"The Flying Hescos… What an annoying enemy they are!" William knew how truly formidable these Hescos were. But he didn't care. He didn't come here to kill these Hescos, and simply moved his eyes around, towards the fighters from this world.
"Attack and kill them," he coldly issued the order, releasing around eight hundred Soulers like wolves in the middle of a horde of sheep.
His enemy was the Hescos, but right now he considered them as his temporary allies. He released his Soulers to add more chaos to the entire situation while helping the Hescos in causing more damage and killing more of the fighters defending this world.
The initial clash of his Soulers came totally out of the blue for the soldiers defending this base. They tried to stop the Soulers, but who could stop such maniacs?
Hye watched his scary warriors flash from one soldier to another, reaping the lives of many in mere minutes! The number of souls rose by a few tens of thousands in just one hour, but that wasn't the main gain he obtained.
As his Soulers attacked and killed, Hye moved and started to collect half of the inventory of the dead as his loot. That was his main goal from the start, taking what these soldiers had.
He saw lots of spaceships staying on the ground, or stored inside hungers. Trying to get these was quite risky and impossible. The Hescos were trying to spread chaos and damage all over the base, and soon enough all of the spaceships on the ground got either badly damaged or totally destroyed.
Instead of aiming towards scraps of metal that would be useless later on, Hye aimed to collect the spaceships stored within the inventories of the soldiers here.
From his dealing with Smiggy, he learned that spaceships were mainly moved inside the inventories of soldiers. This was to prevent them from getting damaged during transport and also to easily move lots of them without losing much.
Just as he started collecting his loot, he arranged for one hundred Soulers, led by the fiercely blazing fiery Lucas, to surround and defend him. And just in the first one thousand batches of soldiers he claimed his loot from, he ended up getting his desired spaceships.
"Hahahahaha! One hundred small spaceships in one go, hahahaha! War is indeed a treasure trove for people like me, hahahaha!" seeing this made his desire to collect look intensify.
His method proved its worth, and starting from there he kept collecting spaceships from many dead soldiers. He didn't limit himself anymore to the soldiers his Soulers killed and started to even collect his ten percent loot from the ones the Hescos killed.
Even if he was collecting ten percent only, he ended up having spaceships from many of these. He was sure the first targets of the Hescos were the leaders and high-ranked soldiers in the army stationed here.
If normal soldiers gave him one hundred spaceships, then he'd expect better from the dead leaders. And his hypothesis proved itself right soon enough.
"Five medium-sized spaceships?!! Damn me! I should have been the one to kill them! Come, hurry up and collect this dude's loot!"
He couldn't get more than ten percent of the loot, but he got another person to claim the loot with him; the lady nymph.
"This is a dirty way to get what you want!"
"Just shut the hell up and come to collect the loot," Hye shouted back, feeling weird of how cool and calm this nymph lady was in the middle of all this, "keep everything else, but give me spaceships if you found any."
"Take all, I don't want anything dirty like this… Damn! How can this soldier be this rich?!!!" her tone and face suddenly changed when she touched the dead body Hye asked her to collect loot from.
"Told you, you can have everything except spaceships," Hye laughed, knowing that the nymph lady was living the life of a merchant. And merchants might be dealing in things related to wars, but they were never warriors, and never experienced the terror or the opportunities of these.
"Damn! I will send the spaceships over," Hye didn't believe she'd give him everything she got, but it was still better than nothing. He started to receive tens of spaceships from her, and she started to act with more enthusiasm than his.
She jumped from one dead body to another like a monkey! He laughed at her from time to time, and she totally ignored his remarks and mocking comments.
Chapter 1698 Looting Many Battlefields
The two started a spree of collecting loot, and in the middle of all this, the fight was raging hot all around! Hye tasted how dangerous it was for any treasure hunter to feel in the middle of this battle, but he didn't stop or regret doing this.
He was this close to getting shot many times by crossfire and was surrounded on many occasions by the fighters from this world. But thanks to his Soulers and the temporary ally he secured, he didn't suffer any damage.
"That's enough!" when he looted thousands of small ships, almost a couple of hundred medium-sized spaceships, he decided to stop. He spent a few hours here, enough for the stationed army of this world to dispatch a strong unit here to stabilise the situation, "let's head back now!"
"Now?!!" The lady nymph was totally absorbed in collecting the loot and didn't want to stop.
ραndαsnοvεl.cοm "Life is far more precious than anything," he laughed, "let's go, we have other places to visit."
"Oh, other bases you mean? Cool! Let's go!" Once she realised they weren't just running away but were changing the location of their treasure hunting mission, she instantly agreed.
Hye didn't know if this was for her good or bad, but since this day she'd changed her mindset. He wouldn't find it weird if she ended up being a smuggler and outlaw later on, as it was more profitable and far more exciting to be, rather than being a merchant.
As he lured her by this, she kept humming as they walked away. The portal area was luckily safe, and they returned back from where they came.
"Don't pick any random sector this time," she stopped him from heading towards another portal.
"Who told you I'm picking them randomly?" he rolled his eyes.
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"I know you don't have any intel about the general layout of defensive bases here."
"Neither do you! Then why are you trying to act like you do?"
"Because…" she paused, seemingly checking something on her system interface, "in such times, the hot places always are filled with news blackouts."
"If there is a blackout, then how come we know about them?" Hye didn't get what she wanted to do, and that made her chuckle.
"We'll look, see which sectors are not appearing in the news or the main channels. Like this, we can pinpoint the sectors under attack, all at once!"
"Good point," Hye knew this would take a bit of time and effort, yet it'd yield great results. They wouldn't just get one or two sectors but will get all in one go.
Asking Smiggy about that was out of the question. Like him, Smiggy and other smugglers were going to do the same as he did back then, visit these places and try to fish anything from there.
If he asked Smiggy, the latter wouldn't give him any answer without paying a hefty price for that. Not to mention there was no guarantee that the man would send him in circles, or make him visit places that already got looted.
Like this, he'd end up having nothing at all, and he'd pay tons of bones on top of that. Instead, the nymph lady's way was much better.
The two found a nice place to sit and drank a few cups of tasty alcohol, one that made them feel more confident and daring. They kept looking for the sector news while comparing this with the general map they had of this world.
"Sector 214 news is absent."
"Add sector 789 as well."
"Sector 107…"
The two kept marking sectors one by one. And soon enough, the task that Hye thought would take long hours ended in a mere three.
"We have around thirty sectors under attack," the nymph lady was excited by such a result, "we are going to be rich!"
"I want starships, nothing else," Hye knew he could reap more benefits from this deal, but he was more focused on getting the hot cake in all this.
Other stuff would be bought from the universe using money, but things that his bones couldn't buy were worth their weight in gold or even more.
"I'm sure trying to go there will be hard," Hye looked over the direction of the portals in the entire place, feeling the most logical way to protect more casualties and trouble fishers from going there would be by locking the portals.
"That won't do," the nymph lady didn't agree with him, "if they dared to do so, more ruckus would start all over the world. The news will spread about that, and we haven't heard anything about this yet."
"Let's move fast then," Hye was sure that if they didn't do it now, they'd do it later. So they better move and visit more sectors before it'd become impossible to do so.
If that happened, he'd have Smiggy as the only answer. The latter wouldn't take the initiative to help a competitor, even if he was going to get little extra bones for that.
He moved with her quite fast and managed to visit ten sectors out of the list they got. They spent a couple of days doing so, gaining lots of loot and spaceships in the end.
But when they visited the eleventh sector, they found no battle happening anymore. This was a bad sign, and yet they kept visiting other places.
"It's all over," the lady nymph was quite frustrated by this. She didn't like how this ended and regretted not moving too fast or having more hands to collect more loot.
"We got enough, and that was satisfying," the two were sitting inside a room in a hotel he rented. As they had no other battlefields to visit and loot, they went to the sector Smiggy marked for him, waiting for the latter to finish what he was doing and give him more instructions.
Hye tried to contact him more than once but ended up getting no response. He knew Smiggy was busy handling the entire situation, looting more than he and the nymph lady did.
Chapter 1699 The War Reporter
He was a leader of a big smuggler group, one that had the ability to smuggle goods, weapons, and even people in and out of this world. That meant he got more ways to learn about the ongoing battles once it happened and had more hands to deploy and collect loot.
Hye didn't admit it out loud, but he was quite envious of Smiggy, from those smugglers. They were like picking gold out from the dirt, without the need to exert any effort at all.
He knew he had no power, no means to mimic their actions. And yet he couldn't prevent himself from envying them. And he wasn't alone in this, the nymph lady also felt the same, much worse than him actually.
She lived her entire life sticking by the right side of life, and yet she now realised she wasted her life for nothing. Smugglers like Smiggy could earn a hundredfold more than what her entire impact would struggle to earn in a year. And the most frustrating thing about it was that they could do it just from a single war!
As Hye expected, she was leaning towards being a smuggler and an outlaw. A merchant like herself, an experienced one on top of that, knew more ways than Hye to get and sell the loot she gained.
When she thought back to the loot she collected out of the blue, she couldn't control her excitement. She never collected such a great number of goods for herself ever in her life. The most she had was such goods under the name of the impact, not her own stuff or anything.
She kept dreaming about going with William towards outer space, and venture through the more hectic war going on up there. She didn't think about the dangers awaiting the two of them, blinded by greed and desire to collect more.
As for Hye, he kept waiting for Smiggy to return back to him while counting the loot he gained. "A bit more than seven thousand small spaceships… Around three hundred medium-size ships, and two big ships… I scored a huge score this time, hahahaha!"
He knew with all this, he could build up his fleet, one that could take part in the ongoing war up there. "I only miss soldiers… I need to harvest the Heart Crystal…"
The last time he checked, the fruits were still lacking little time to get harvested. He knew there was still a week or so before he could harvest everything. And he had to live through this week with the warriors he had.
Each spaceship would accommodate a different number of warriors. The small ones would take a thousand, medium-sized ones would hold tens of thousands, and big ones would host hundreds of thousands. That meant he needed around ten million warriors to be ready.
He had just two million ready, as he invested most of the crystals in the heart. Once he harvested it, he could raise this number by ten folds.
It might seem enough, but he knew it wasn't. With what he had, he could only arm up one-fifth of what he had. Not to mention he wouldn't be able to take more spaceships out there, a thing that he wanted to do.
ραndαsΝοvεl ƈοm "I need to adapt…" Hye knew he had no other way to solve this problem except by adapting. Even if he could muster one-fifth of the entire force, he could use different approaches to do so.
He could just arm up one big ship, one-tenth of the medium and small-sized ones. Or… He could just use the small ships in total force, alongside more than half of the medium-sized ships.
He'd still have more warriors to use, and he decided to let them board other ships, and kill everyone on board, preparing them to be taken away and stored by him.
"I'll go for the second plan then," he was dead fixed to grab more spaceships from up there, so his choice was quite expected, "now I need to think about who is going to board the fighting ships, and who will wait to hijack others…"
The first choices that came into his mind to deal with the hostile ships and kill everyone on board were the Soulers and Reapers. The two were machine killers, fierce in any melee battle.
But there was a catch. If there was any stronger enemy, higher than level one out there, then their task would be impossible. He might even lose too many of them in the end, making such exchanges powerless.
"I lack a race that can scout and gauge the enemy powers from far," he sighed, feeling like even with all the warriors he had, he still lacked in many aspects.
"When are we going to move out? Huh? I want to go to space right away!" from time to time, the nymph lady would ask him this, making him roll his eyes.
At first, he bothered to answer her, but after her repeated questions he dropped doing so. He let her speak without giving any answer as if she was speaking to herself or to a deaf wall.
"Check the main channel, there is news about the war up there," after two days, she suddenly shouted, and stood up from the bed, while pointing to the air in front of her.
"What news?" Hye instantly opened the local channel of this world, and there he found a thread that attracted much attention. It got the name of the war of all time, a name that sounded like an exaggeration in Hye's eyes.
But he didn't care about that and hurriedly opened the thread. The writer claimed to be a reporter, one who was on board one of the flagships in outer space, doing a regular and routine interview with soldiers up there when the enemy appeared.
He spoke in great detail about the battles up there, how there were endless streams of spaceships coming from all directions. He mentioned many things, things that Hye didn't know about.
Chapter 1700 The Location Changed
"They got a world cannon here? Is it like the star weapon or what?" he didn't get what the world cannon meant, but it felt like it was a scary weapon. The reporter bragged about how deadly the world cannon they got was, how it wiped out tons of hostile spaceships in mere hours!
"See? They are fighting brutally up there. We have to go, or else the Hescos will retreat and the war will be over."
"Don't jinx us," Hye reprimanded her, "plus this war won't end like this, not this fast. The Hescos… They haven't started acting seriously yet."
"Says the expert," she motioned to him as she knew he dealt with the Hescos for a long time and knew their habits. Hye recalled the many times he clashed against them, knew how stubborn and arrogant they were, and refused to admit defeat even in the most unfavourable situations.
This wasn't the real stage of the war, not even close from the heated points of it. Hye took this as an early wave of the Hescos to test the defences of this world, just a scout army, not even a vanguard one.
And yet from the words of that reporter, he knew there were weapons out there that could wipe out thousands of ships in mere minutes! That was threatening indeed, as at any moment he could get hit by such lethal hits.
That made him hesitate between either going out from this world right away or waiting for a week or so for his heart trees to yield their harvest.
"Let's wait for Smiggy, once he comes, we'll go out there," he said, deciding about the issue he had in mind, while the nymph lady got what he said in another meaning.
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"Why not call him? Urge him to come?"
Hye looked at her without saying anything. He already tried to contact the man, but got no response as the latter was busy dealing with the opportunities presented to him.
They remained like this for two more days. On the third day, early in the morning, Hye got a message from Smiggy.
[The location changed]
[Damn man! You know I waited for you at the sector you specified!] Hye just woke up when he received the message. The lady nymph was lying next to him, sleeping and snoring!
[You do know the times have changed. I got a tip, about a young human who used the scary Soulers to his aid. Don't tell me you know him!]
[Not in the slightest!] Hye got the meaning behind Smiggy's words. The latter was warning him that news about him spread, and soon enough the higher ups would come looking for him.
And that was a red flag to Hye.
[Where do you want me to go?]
Smiggy told him the new place of their meeting. Luckily it was in the same sector, but in a remote location than the previous one. They already rented a room here, just half an hour walk from the old meeting place.
Hye woke the nymph lady up, told her in brief what happened, before the two started running for their lives and for the meeting.
As Smiggy used to do, he gave Hye a very short deadline for their meeting. This was an act to make sure no one would prepare a setup at the meeting place, just an act of caution.
They had to move on foot this time, and ran for two hours straight. Smiggy was kind enough this time to send a detailed map for the two to use, with directions to help them arrive at the meeting in the shortest and safest path possible.
He knew the two wouldn't take any public transport vehicle or anything to avoid getting spotted. Right now, they were two outlaws, wanted by the official regime of the world. And they have to keep a low profile to save their lives.
Hye didn't know why he was the only one suspected and marked from all who attacked the bases and looted the spaceships. However this was unavoidable, as Soulers were a very infamous race in the world, with no one usually having them on their side like how Hye did.
Only someone crazy and weird like Hye would do such a thing. And without realising it, his strongest traits became his weakest spot this time.
The two kept running while not stopping for even one second. These two hours were quite exciting and filled with adrenaline, a moment that the two of them would laugh about in the future whenever they'd recall it.
As they arrived at the meeting place, the two were surprised to see where Smiggy led them. [Hey! You led us into a trap?!!] This was the first thought that came into Hye's mind the moment he spotted that place.
Hye expected different places for the meeting, never thought that Smiggy would invite him to one of the destroyed bases in this sector!
ραndαsΝοvεl ƈοm In front of the two, a big base was, one that got everything burnt down or destroyed. Thick tongues of smoke were still rising up, and many dead bodies were on the ground. Wrecked spaceships and lots of destroyed defences were everywhere.
It was the last place any of these two would want to be. And that made Hye feel like he got screwed by Smiggy.
"Hey, don't speak dirty about me when I'm just next to you!" Smiggy suddenly appeared from the underground opening, one that none of the two noticed before. It was just ten metres away to the right, and from it, Smiggy's face appeared.
He still used that gadget to cover up the features of his face, and the device to change his voice. "Come, the last place the enemy would expect you to appear at is the safest."
"And the most dangerous as well," Hye had no other choice but to follow the man into this underground bunker. The hole Smiggy came out from led to a tunnel, one that ended up into a huge bunker.
Chapter 1701 The Red-Handed Fleet
Finding this bunker made the two of them realise something. They just cared about forces and loot on the ground, but experienced smugglers like Smiggy knew more about the layout of bases in this world.
Just seeing this huge bunker, filled with nothing, made the two imagine it filled with tons of boxes, filled with treasures!
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm "Damn you! You looted something big this time!" The nymph lady couldn't help but express her shock from such a thing, envying him for having such a chance to loot this bunker all by himself.
"The perks of the job, baby," Smiggy said in a mocking tone as if he was bragging or something, "anyway, if you want to be like me, you have a very long road ahead. A piece of advice, smugglers like myself aren't cowards or weak. We are daring and courageous!"
"Stop bragging and showing off, let's go straight for business," Hye knew these words weren't false, weren't meant for bragging or showing off. Just by being here, attacking a main bunker of the world's forces, he was indeed dauntless.
He also knew Smiggy picked this point in specifically as it was a wrongly known thing about smugglers. And for a reason, it felt like this was his soft spot or something.
"We are already in the right place to go up there," Smiggy pointed around, "but the question is… Do you still want to go? Risk your life up there? You saw it yourself, you can get great loot from here, why risk going up there?"
"Why won't you say it directly, that you want to use my Soulers?" Hye got Smiggy's nature and knew this man wouldn't say anything without having a benefit from it. And the thing that he mentioned before during their talk was his Soulers.
He showed an expected interest in the way Hye used to make up for the deadly side effects of this deadly race. He didn't know that Hye wasn't just having Soulers, but also the much scarier breed; Reapers!
Hye of course didn't tell him anything, gave out a vague answer and changed the topic. And again Smiggy mentioned the Soulers when he woke him up back at the hotel. And now he was trying to let him stay, giving him an indirect offer of collaboration and work together.
"Why won't I be interested in them?" Smiggy finally dropped his act and spoke directly about his needs, "I want them, anyone dreams about having them. Only you, and a few crazy famous people in the universe can be this insane to have them on their side! Not to mention you are, by far, the craziest person I have ever heard of, having thousands upon thousands of these!"
Hye knew Smiggy was tailing him or something to speak like this. He indeed used tens of thousands of Soulers when he attacked and looted bases here. But it seemed like Smiggy didn't do lots of digging about this, or else he'd get shocked to know how much Hye used back at the apocalypse.
"Why don't you come with me up there?" Hye flipped the offer over, and threw it toward Smiggy's face, "Why don't you come and work together to reap much greater benefits?"
"You are after my spaceships!" Smiggy also read through Hye's intentions, just like how the latter saw through him before.
"You want my Soulers, and I want your spaceships… So it's a fair deal, right?"
"No, no deal, no, this is crazy," Smiggy seemed to grow terrified of going up there. And Hye could guess the reason behind this.
Why would he risk it when he could reap benefits from here with more safety? If he went up there, he'd have more chances to reap much greater benefits for sure, yet the risks involved in this were much higher without a doubt.
He'd end up losing too much of his precious assets, and forces as well. Hye might not care that much about his warriors as he could easily train more of them.
Unlike him, Smiggy had to struggle to nourish and train his followers. Losing too many of them at any time would be a great blow that he'd not accept.
That was why Smiggy refused in such an intense and direct way. "Fine, show us the way to the top then," Hye shrugged, as he just tried out this suggestion on a whim.
"I told you, we are already in the right place," Smiggy didn't explain any further, making Hye look at him in a weird way, "just take out your spaceship, and I'll activate the portal to send it up there."
He said it as if he was explaining something basic and simple to a kid or something. Hye wanted to smack that smuggler's head but refrained from doing so.
"Get back then," he waited until the two retreated, took out one spaceship and let it land and fill a big space here. They were standing in a colossal warehouse, one that seemed to have tons of items before.
He just took a small spaceship out, randomly picking one without caring about its version or model.
"Oh, the Black Feather ship… You got something nice… Why don't…"
"It's not for sale," Hye read too much about spaceships but didn't get what Smiggy meant by this. He didn't delve that deep into different models and capabilities of spaceships. But from Smiggy's reaction, it seemed the ship he casually picked was something famous and special.
"Come on! I can exchange it for a hundred normal edition small spaceships!" the more Smiggy spoke, the more he made Hye determined to keep this one for himself.
"Thanks, I'll use it for my personal use," Hye didn't stop there, took out a sword, and cut his hand. He then touched the side of the spaceship with his bloodied palm, leaving a red mark there, "that'll be the symbol of my forces up there. If you heard about red-handed ships, then know they belong to me."
"..."
Chapter 1702 Making A Deal!
Smiggy felt like he lost something great just now. He kept his silence for an entire minute, but William felt how anxious and bitter the man was.
And seeing him like this made Hye feel satisfied. Smiggy kept getting on his edge all the time, and it felt great to let the man feel such a feeling even for once.
Putting that aside, Hye was now curious to go up there and try this spaceship in actual battle. He wanted to see why Smiggy considered it a treasure, something that he desperately wanted to get.
He looked inside his inventory and found that he had around five more of these. He didn't know if they were this precious, how come they were present in such a big number then? If it was this special, it should be one of the kind, right?
He didn't know that these came from the Hescos his forces killed during the previous spree of looting the bases. This spaceship was special not just for its high speed and firing abilities, but also for its ability to hide from any radar or detection devices. And it has a very special feature, one that would enable it to bypass any defensive formation, just like the one surrounding this world!
"Last chance," Smiggy seemed to be regretting not making such an exchange with Hye, "your spaceship in exchange for three medium-sized and two thousand small ships… It's a very great deal…"
"I know, the more it looks good the more I will refuse," Hye laughed, "just drop it and think about what you shall do to get one of these."
"Tsk! What a stubborn human you are!"
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"If you added one big ship to these, I'll consider," suddenly Hye said, making Smiggy pause and freeze in his place for a long minute.
Hye didn't just have this ship but also had four others. So it'd be profitable if he sold one for such a large number of ships. But he knew Smiggy wouldn't agree, as this was a big spaceship after all, a flagship!
ραndαsnοvεl.cοm "I accept," yet against what he thought, Smiggy accepted the deal, "Get out from this ship, I'll get this!"
"No need," Hye shrugged, "I got others of these anyway."
"... What the hell are you? A f*cking monster? A monster blessed with luck?!!!"
Smiggy now realised why Hye kept teasing him with his rejection and silence all this time. He had more of these special ships and wanted to get the best deal for a single one of them.
"Will you do it or not?" After staying silent for a few minutes, Hye said, "If not, then let me go. I want to go out there and see what I can get from that war."
"I've sent the ships over," Smiggy knew Hye was enjoying this moment, "send mine back."
"Done," Hye was pleased by that, "if you want more, keep in touch with me. I may get more of these, hahahaha!"
"Screw you," Smiggy knew he paid much more than what a single ship was worth. But that wasn't something to be estimated by its mere value, but with its rarity and special abilities.
Such abilities were priceless for someone like him. In fact, Smiggy knew even without his help, Hye was able to go up there alone, escaping any defences and limitations set by the forces of this world.
"Set tight, I'll send you away in ten minutes," Smiggy paused again, looking at Hye and the nymph lady who both were sitting inside the small spaceship.
The spaceship was looking like a fighter, a big one indeed. It reminded Hye of the old timed boomers in the second world war. It had two broad wings, a central deck, and lots of firing guns on its full body.
It didn't have a tail, but simply and abruptly ended with a broad semi-circular part. This was the main difference between this and any old fighter of Earth.
The main deck was enough to accommodate dozens of people, all had their seats, arranged in circles, around a central two seats where Hye and the nymph lady sat.
These two seats were facing many screens with lots of dates appearing on them. There was a control unit in front of each seat, with lots of buttons and switches there. Hye's seat had two long sticks, ones that'd control the movement, speed, and pull complicated manoeuvres by this spaceship.
"Do you know how to fly these?" Smiggy knew Hye came from a place without any knowledge or experience with such stuff. As for the nymph lady, she was a merchant, one that didn't need to fly anything on her own like now.
Not to mention, this wasn't a merchant spaceship, but one that was made to kill and fight in deadly space battles.
"I saw many beads," Hye gave out such a silly excuse, making Smiggy unable to respond, "don't worry, it's not like I'm flying these in the middle of a bustling city! It's a space, an open and grand place without anything to smash or hit."
"..."
Smiggy wanted to stop Hye from going up there, but he felt like anything he'd say would be pointless. Trying to fly the spaceships just with this mindset and zero training? That was suicidal!
Yet he kept everything he wanted to say deep inside him and started to activate the portal installed in this bunker. This was something that came with any highly classified bunker like this, in an attempt to flush the valuable goods away, and send them to the space where the thieves wouldn't get them or anything.
Yet such a failsafe procedure wasn't activated this time. And that was thanks to the presence of many hostile forces up there. Yet Smiggy planned to use such a method and send Hye up to space.
As Smiggy was taking care of these, Hye was trying to familiarise himself with the many things in front of him. He watched many beads speaking about spaceships and how to fly them.
Chapter 1703 A Scary Situation
Hye already let many of his warriors watch these beads to learn, even including those who didn't yet have the chance to raise their levels. Yet watching these beads and facing the real test of flying this ship was totally different.
"Please tell me you can fly it," the nymph lady said in doubt while watching how puzzled and confused Hye was.
"It's easy peasy," Hye paused before adding, "I used to fly things like these before. So it won't be this different, right?"
Hye wasn't lying. During the past twenty years, he learnt how to fly a fighter out of curiosity. It was a very refreshing feeling, one that he started to love and feel addicted to.
That was mainly the reason behind his confidence in flying this spaceship without training. He knew the control unit looked much different, but luckily the two sticks there looked like the single stick he used to control the fighters back then.
He wanted to test how to fly this spaceship, but he wouldn't do it here. So he had to wait until he'd go to outer space, and see what each stick did.
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"Get ready," after ten minutes, Shaggy's voice came from a far distance away, "You are going up there in five… Four… Three… Two… One… Go!"
The next moment, Hye saw the entire world change. It became pitch black, with lots of red glaring lights that flashed in front of his eyes.
It didn't take more than a few seconds before everything changed and space appeared. Hye always thought of space to be a grand empty and black space, with tons of brightly lit stars at different distances.
Yet when he came up there, he knew this was wrong! First of all, this world was just next to two bright stars, and they were shining brightly, blinding the sight in two different directions. He was sure he was too far away from these stars, but it felt like he was standing in front of them.
Aside from these two blinding lights, there were lots of rocks, debris, and other stuff flying around. When he looked closer, he realised these were things that remained after the destruction of many spaceships.
This made him look around fast, to spot one big planet that was far away from him. It felt like he was millions of kilometres away from that world. If not for the shining bright shield that surrounded it, he'd easily miss that world.
"Sh*t! He sent us directly in the middle of the ongoing battle," The nymph lady shouted, jolting Hye awake. In the next moment, he noticed the flashes of light that passed by him.
He first felt worried like the nymph lady, but next, he started to grow cool. "They are mistaking us to be a damaged ship as we are sitting ducks and not moving," Hye paused, before adding, "Let's examine the fight around first, get to familiarise ourselves before we'll join the fray."
Luckily this was exactly what was going on here. Others were busy fighting their enemies and took the ship that stayed motionless there as being damaged like others.
But this peace was destined to end quite fast. Hye and the nymph lady started to study the intense battle happening around them. In fact, this battle was just the tiny tip of the iceberg. The entire war stretched far beyond what these two's eyesight could reach.
The peace lasted for less than an hour. During this, they started to get accustomed to how space wars happened. "I hate to admit it, but I really feel regret about not accepting that smuggler's offer," the nymph lady said, and then a flash of light appeared fast.
It came from one direction, but it was too hard to not notice it. It kept growing in size while heading towards them. "We need to go," as this was one of the common pulse cannons used in the war around, Hye got what was going to happen, "Buckle your seatbelt, we'll flash like a bolt of lightning!"
During all this time, he felt an urge to switch his spaceship on and fly it in the middle of this messy battle. But he didn't have a reason to do so until now. The moment he spotted this ball of light coming towards them, he instantly pressed the button to operate the spaceship and the next moment he controlled the two sticks without any speck of hesitation.
Even if he didn't know what each stick would do, he had to try it out the hard way.
"Agh! I don't want to die, I don't want to die!" The moment he controlled the two sticks, the spaceship moved. And yet it didn't move in the same way he wanted to.
Instead of flying like a sent arrow, the ship started to roll and roll on itself, while moving in a very weird trajectory. As that happened, they started to hit against many things, stuff that Hye didn't know what they were and didn't care.
"Stay alert, you have the main firing interface," Hye shouted, "when I say, you'll fire everything without caring about any direction or target!"
"Are you insane! Let's get out of here first…"
"Just do as I say," Hye couldn't see a single thing like herself, however, he was sure this weird movement of them would attract the attention of many spaceships flying around. And that meant they'd get lots of fire towards them.
He began to grasp what these two sticks were doing. One was responsible for directions, flipping the spaceship and moving it in any direction briskly, while the other one was responsible for the subtle movements that would be needed to evade any impending disaster.
As for speeding up and slowing down, he had to use both sticks and synchronise them at the same time. Pressing them forward would accelerate, pulling them backwards would slow the speed, and making the two sticks not aligned together would lead to the same situation that was happening right now.
Chapter 1704 Joining The War
Hye started to get what he had to do to fly out straight and get away from here. But this also meant he'd have to deal with the lots of spaceships coming to hit them.
He had to fire switches and buttons in front of him, but he wasn't free to do it right now. He'd have to separate part of his attention to do so and would end up delaying the counterattack by precious seconds.
That went without mentioning the task of locking on the target before firing. So he decided to let her fire without caring or locking on any target. And that was the only way he could think of to save himself from this deadly situation.
"Now!" The moment he felt ready, he shouted before finally controlling the spaceship to fly in a straight line. The moment the spaceship stopped twisting, he could see many flashes of light coming toward him.
The shakings he felt before were all indirect impacts from these shots. As he expected, many ships were opening fire at him from both sides. And yet the moment the ship moved like a bullet, a dense wave of fire came from it, hitting many things around.
There was no time to check what hit and what didn't. He tried his best to control the ship, evading any direct shot toward him by using the subtle controller stick. Slowly he started to get a handle on what to do, and soon enough he looked like a fish swimming in water.
Many shots came, and many were released from the ship. As he was moving fast, not a single shot hit them, but most of their shots went to outer space and hit nothing.
A few hit ships that chased them, and that appeared clearly as blossom-shaped explosions that appeared all around them.
"I can't continue doing this," in less than a couple of minutes, the nymph lady shouted in a weak tone, "It's draining my power quite fast!"
"Take the handle then," Hye shortly explained what she had to do, and then he started to take over the firing system. She tried to mimic what he said, but there was a clear difference between her and him.
As he controlled the firing system, an interface appeared in front of him. The same complicated panel that was in front of him appeared in that interface, but for a reason, he felt like it was way simpler and much easier than what he initially thought.
That was before all he needed to do was to think and the interface would take over everything. In return for this, the amount of power he'd consume was too much. And he didn't care.
"Take my bones then," as he lacked enough power to keep attacking for a few minutes like the nymph lady, he took out one bone and started to drain it dry out of energy. The moment he did so, he felt like he was freed from all the pressure in the world.
At the same time, something changed in the interface in front of him. "Oh, so it's responding to the amount of energy one has… Perfect!"
The interface became much wider and bigger, filled with more options. Hye didn't have enough time to examine everything, and looked for two things only: Lock and fire!
ραndαsnοvεl.cοm The moment he spotted these two, he thought about selecting them. The interface changed, and a wider look of the space outside appeared in front of his eyes. There was four L-shaped red things that kept zooming in and out.
"All I need to do is think and this marker will follow my instructions. If I lock on something, just like this dot over there, then it will target the firing system towards it… Fire!"
He tested and found out that the firing power and rate of the spaceship decreased greatly, yet it became more efficient. The moment he launched a shot, it hit the target fast and destroyed it!
Yet this came at the price of draining lots of power, and that wasn't an issue. "I used to fill my chariot with bones back in the apocalypse, this time I'll fill ships in space, hahahaha!" he laughed, feeling how melancholic this feeling was.
What others took as quite challenging and very hard to do was nothing to him thanks to his bones and his energy. The next moment he filled the spaceship with his bones, giving the nymph lady a scare.
"Just focus on flying us away from here, don't think of anything else," she was already doing a terrible job in flying the spaceship, and the last thing he wanted her to do was to get distracted by what he was doing.
As the bones were ready, Hye knew there was nothing out there to stop him. He started to shoot, hitting spaceships one after another. In less than an hour, he shot down enough ships to make many eyes head over his direction.
The nymph lady was flying the ship to the best of her abilities, yet it wasn't enough. Even after one hour of flying so damn fast, she kept feeling they were still surrounded by enemies as if they didn't move a single inch away.
Hye knew this wasn't her fault, but because the war going on here was quite intense and covered a huge area of space. Yet he wasn't worried. Even with her bad flying abilities, they were doing great thanks to her.
He shot spaceships more than he could count! And yet there were still more coming towards them.
Hye knew he entered the fray and there was no going back! So he kept firing, trying to figure out how to lock multiple targets at the same time.
"I just need to think about multiple targets, and the interface will divide the number corresponding to the number of guns on this ship… There are currently twenty cannons here, but the amount of energy consumed to do that is scary!"
Chapter 1705 Attracting Attention
Hye calculated energy consumption based on the duration a single green-grade normal bone would last. Before, a single bone would last for half an hour. But now, it wouldn't last for even five minutes!
Not to mention he noticed that if he tried to elongate the time for the gun to launch and hit, a much stronger blow would be released, and his consumption rate would skyrocket!
"No time to fool around then," he switched gears, took out silver-grade bones after consuming the green ones he took before, "time to show you who is the boss in this war, hahaha!"
For a reason, it felt great to run and shoot enemies like this, without getting threatened or shot back. As he figured out how the system worked, he started to shoot many targets at the same time.
If he was considered risky before, right now he was a real threat! All the ships that dared to fly next to him got shot, and even those far away slightly from him got shot down as well! All of his shots were precise and came to land perfectly on the target.
Others in this war knew how scary the amount of power Hye was using to pull such a feat. and so they started to think that a big shot joined this war, changing their attitude towards this small ship.
All they could see from it was its outer appearance. They recognised the unique brand of the ship, with the weird red hand that was made by blood.
Soon enough, the bigger ships started to join the fray and chase Hye. They were far stronger and much deadlier than the small ships, but they lacked speed and fast responses.
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They didn't hit him directly or even managed to keep up with him. But they did give him and the nymph lady a bad time.
Every shot from the medium-sized ships was strong enough to blow and sweep many smaller ships in the middle. But thanks to Hye's timing in warning the nymph lady, they managed to finally evade all of these shots, coming out with few scratches and many tremors that hit them.
"We need to get away from these behemoths!" the nymph lady shouted, but Hye knew this was quite impossible.
"We are in the middle of a grand war, so endure," he paused, looking around before adding, "but we need to find a safe spot to deploy my army. We can't keep doing this forever."
He was enjoying his time, rocking it against these small ships. But it wasn't that perfect yet. He was fighting alone, without any help from the grand number of warriors he nourished so far.
Using small spaceships to hijack other ships was quite impossible! To do so, one needed a medium-sized ship at least, with lots of small ones aiding it as well.
He didn't want to destroy ships, he wanted to abduct them!
"I miss my cube," as he recalled his old magical cube, he couldn't help but sigh. After the apocalypse ended, many of his artefacts lost most of their former scary powers, including the cube.
It was still functioning, but its reach was limited to just a few tens of metres around him. It wasn't even enough to go beyond the spaceship he was boarding right now, and that made it quite useless.
If it was like before, then by just burning extra bones, he'd gain not only one ship but tons of them. On top of that, he'd also force the crew to join his army, and that would make him like a killer in such big wars.
But so far he didn't find any safe spot anywhere. They flew for three more hours until the nymph lady announced her desire to stop doing this.
"Smiggy was right, being on the ground and hunting for opportunities down there is much safer and hellish easier…"
"Stop complaining," Hye already took his top warriors, led by Lucas and Lucas II, letting them sit over the seats here and watch what the two were doing.
They were watching the two for more than two hours now. Hye didn't want to stop firing and handling the offensive system, but flying the ship must be handled by others. The nymph lady was already doing a terrible job and didn't manage to fly them anywhere safe so far.
And yet her energy was almost depleted. Hye knew she couldn't keep flying the ship anymore, so he asked Lucas to try out his luck and try flying the ship.
ραndαsnοvεl.cοm "Damn you man! I swear I shouldn't let you touch a single ship again!!!" Hye's voice came out loud, screaming in pure rage and fright when Lucas showed how terrible he was at flying the ship.
In brief, he flew the ship the same way he used to move in battles, by simply controlling the ship in a direct path, heading towards the enemies, without evading a single shot even!
Hye had to exert more power to launch more shots towards the incoming attacks to negate them. Yet in the end, the ship got severely hit by many shockwaves, ending up with Hye deciding to shift roles.
"You fire, I'll steer this damn thing," he knew this was expected, as Soulers were never the type to think before attacking.
They used their overbearing abilities and flashed through enemies to kill them. They were domineering and didn't need to exert extra effort to evade anything coming their way.
"Cool for me," Lucas didn't have any objection to that.
"Just fire at anything you lock… Wow! You can shoot even better than myself!"
Hye wanted to give Lucas a few instructions and tips about what to do. Yet when he saw how remarkably brilliant he performed, Hye decided to remain silent and let the man do what he was great at.
"Time to look for a way out of here," as Hye learnt about the ability to connect the interface in front of him with his system, he tried and it worked!
Chapter 1706 The Deadly Zone
A screen showing the world outside appeared, and this time there were many marks to help him in flying, like red circles and green arrows.
He followed the green arrows and evaded the red circles out of instinct. The attacks the ship suffered seemed to affect its ability to fly fast and change the trajectory for a period of time, but that wasn't a big issue.
The ship seemed to have a self-repair function, of course by using more energy from him. Hye had to refill the entire ship with bones five times until the ship got totally repaired. And when that happened, he spotted a secluded place, one without any spaceship or battles going on at it. Yet there was a catch for that place, as it seemed too close to the two stars shining over this world!
He knew by going there, the ship might get damaged by the intense heat and harmful radiation from both stars. But he had no other choice.
Any other place was filled with endless hostile and battling spaceships. Hye knew that place was dangerous just from the fact that even the big flagships didn't dare to go there.
And when he changed the direction of the spaceship, the glaring red circle around the space between the two stars was enough evidence of how deadly being there was.
"You are heading towards a dead zone! Are you insane?!!" The moment the nymph lady noticed where the ship was heading, she couldn't control herself from screaming out in shock.
"I know what I'm doing…"
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ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm "No, you don't! This is the dead zone between any two stars, infamous and widely known in the entire universe…"
"What possibly could go wrong," Hye shrugged, not caring about what she was warning him against.
"Everything! Everything can go wrong! I won't speak about the deadly radiation, but the released rocket, like burning rocks from both stars, is enough to fry and destroy anything standing in between! Don't go there, it's a dead end!"
"There is no other place that's void of enemies," Hye wasn't acting suicidal, but he had to deploy his fleet even if with all these odds.
"You are going to lose everything and even your life! You are crazy! Let me out, let me out right now!"
"Be my guest," Hye already decided to go there, and was pushing the spaceship to fly at its fastest speed. The nymph lady was trying to stop him but failed. She even tried to stand and forcibly stop him but got restrained by his warriors.
"Let me go! Unbuckle me right away!" she screamed when she saw them approaching that deadly spot, "please, please think about it… Why do you think no one dares to go there? In the middle of all this war, there isn't a place without ships fighting against each other. It's dangerous, deadly, got it?"
"I know, but I have no other place to go," Hye motioned his head towards the front, "and we already arrived here…"
"Sh*t! Sh*t! Sh*t! We are going to die!!!"
The moment Hye said his words, the spaceships stopped just on the outer border of that deadly region. He thought by being there, things wouldn't be that severe. And yet he was gravely mistaken.
The moment the ship arrived there, he felt a scary suction force that attracted and pulled the ship deeper. The worst part was that the suction force was dragging it in two different directions, each wanting to pull it to the heart of one star.
And then a fiery meteorite shower ran down over the ship, coming from three different directions, at a speed that couldn't be matched.
"Screw it! I'll advance then with full speed…"
"Crazy! Crazy! You are totally a lunatic!!!"
The nymph lady kept screaming like she was already going to die. She got all the reasons to believe so, but what Hye did next made her all speechless.
Hye didn't do what others would in such a situation, didn't try to resist the pulling forces, and aimed to fly out. Instead, he pushed the ship forward, going deeper into the midzone between the two stars, as if he was throwing his life away.
And yet that ominous end didn't happen. The moment he moved, he pushed the ship towards one star, overcoming the pulling force of the other star. As he did so, the ship flew faster than usual, and the incoming meteorite shower missed them by a large margin.
Yet that didn't end their struggle, it was just the beginning of it. The moment they went deeper, more meteorites appeared. Not to mention they felt the entire ship vibrate and get a little hotter, as radiation waves kept slamming fiercely against the ship.
"Hang tight, we are going to make violent turns," Hye knew there was no return from this. As he decided this, he started to push the ship faster, this time pushing it towards the opposite star, making the first star's pulling force weaker.
He kept doing this, making sure the ship wouldn't drift towards a single star than the other. At the same time, he used the pulling forces of the two stars to evade the incoming meteorite showers, evading most of them.
Yet the ship got hit by many burning rocks. If not for his crazy use of bones, gushing tons of energy into the defensive shield of the ship, they'd have died a long time ago.
Luckily the ship had a self-repair system, one that helped in restoring the perfect state of the ship quite fast after each hit.
"We won't get out of this," from the side, the nymph lady returned to weep and scream, speaking like this for long minutes. The hectic run and evasion kept going on for three more hours, and at the end, Hye felt something weird happening.
It felt like he burst through a barrier, as if he penetrated a bubble or something. All of sudden, all the pulling forces that fought mercilessly against his ship vanished, vanished like they never existed in the first place.
Chapter 1707 Training His New Fleet
"What's going on?" Hye was shocked when he entered this zone. He instantly stopped the ship, looking around to notice that even the falling meteorite that kept hunting him down for hours vanished and didn't come into this zone.
He moved the ship around, to get a better view of this area. "It's like heaven in the middle of hell," the nymph lady said.
"It's the perfect chance for us," Hye excitedly said, "I'll deploy my fleet here."
"And how do you plan on making them get out? Huh? You saw it, it's a miracle we ended up here in the first place without having much damage!"
"Don't worry, the big ships have shields to stop such things," Hye paused, before adding, "As for the small ones, they'll train here for a few hours and they'll be fine."
ραndαsnοvεl.cοm "And the medium-sized ones? We got a few big ships… Not to mention if the shields can stop these attacks, then why didn't they trespass here before?" The nymph lady said something logical, and Hye didn't have a concrete answer to that.
"As far as I can tell, the meteorite showers that came in our direction weren't that intense. Our small ship could handle them, and the big ones will be able to do so."
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"We'll see," she didn't buy what he said, but he was the one owning the ships anyway. Hye decided to go out and deploy the ships. To do so, he went to a side of the ship, and wore a special suit there, one that looked like the suits his research department once invented for him and his forces to use.
Yet these weren't made based on the Hescos suits. Even if the ship came from the Hescos elite fighters who invaded that world, the suits were just normal ones.
They didn't have helmets as old-timed astronauts on Earth once wore. It had just a thin film that could cover one's face, one that wouldn't appear easily except if someone looked closely at his reflection in the mirror.
That thin film was like a filtering membrane, one that would provide air and protect the person wearing the suit from any hazards in the space.
"Stay here," Hye spoke, and his voice came through speakers in the entire ship. He couldn't help but like this, and then he went to a special hatch at the bottom of the ship, ending up in a small capsule that ejected him into space.
Out there he felt how it was truly amazing to be in a place with zero gravity. He could see everything around him, and yet it felt like he was too tiny and very far from anything to touch. Even the spaceship he just came out from looked very small in his eyes, very far from his reach.
Hye knew this was just an illusion as he wasn't familiar with being in space. The next moment he started to deploy all of his small ships and the few big ones he had.
The space that looked void and empty before changed and became overly crowded with many ships. He didn't stop there and used hand controllers to move himself away or towards any ship.
One by one he started to fill with his warriors. He thought such a task would take days, but eventually, it ended in just ten hours.
"You need to follow my instructions," he kept saying these words to any group of warriors he summoned. After his experience with Lucas, he decided to not deploy his Soulers or Reapers into any ship-commanding unit.
In big ships, he filled them with deadly force. The big ships were like colossal islands flying in space. And inside, there were enough suits to arm up hundreds of thousands of his warriors.
As he finished doing this, he found his small ship more amazing than any big one. He thought before of taking a flagship as his main command vessel, but now he changed his mind.
"What's thrilling about being in a large ship that can't make good manoeuvres or move at high speed?" he said to the nymph lady, the one who seemed to hate such a decision from him.
"I want to go to one of these," she persisted, "it's much safer there than here. Keep all the adrenaline for yourself!"
"Cool," he moved aside, "be my guest. Suit up and head out if you want," he didn't try to stop her. He knew she hated staying in such a small spaceship, thinking it was much safer out there than a bigger one.
He knew this made quite sense, as with all the defensive abilities of the big ships, it was hard to damage a single behemoth of these. As for their offensive fire weapon systems, it was quite scary indeed.
But these behemoths were slow in their movements, and very big to miss. They'd make the perfect shooting targets for most if not all the hostile forces out of here.
As he expected, she didn't hesitate to leave. As he watched her leave, he started to relay his orders to everyone.
He didn't give orders using the communication system of the small fleet he had. Instead, he used the contract's power to do it.
"Small ships, go around and experience how to steer these things. To do so, you'll need to…" he started to relay his experience over, speaking in slow and very detailed words. After that, he watched from his spot everything happening around him, seeing how his people performed.
At first, their moves were rigid and not that smooth. But within hours, they started to have a good grasp on how to do things. After that, he asked them to test the fire system against the dangerous world outside, to make them familiarise themselves with this aspect as well.
Once they grasped this as well, he started to release batch after batch outside to test their abilities with the harsh environment outside. Before doing so, he went out himself and gave them a real example of what they should do.