Chapter 1758 The New Home Is Colossally Big!
Hye didn't need to check over the formation, as he didn't know a thing about it. If he went there to check it, he'd prefer to use his flagship and launch tons of attacks, see how this formation would look at the end of this.
Yet this wasn't how he wanted to check over the formation's integrity. The formation ran on a power source, and he wanted to know how much power would get consumed to keep it running in times of peace and war.
He also wanted to see if his research department could repair the axis points correctly. It was essential to keep the formation running all the time, and he needed them to check for all possible faults and hiccups they'd face over time, and how to fix all this.
There were tons of tasks awaiting for everyone to do. In addition to testing the formation, they needed to go around, check the planets and mines, gather up the large worker base, and arrange them to teach others how to mine the crystals.
According to Lily, the overall number of workers was no more than ten million. They were scattered over a large area, working at close to a hundred mines over here. And this wasn't even close to one-third of the total mines in the area, the known crystal mines so far.
This part of space wasn't well discovered by its previous owners, and Hye could tell why. It was hard to do such a task while worrying over the constant threats in the area.
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As he decided to help, he moved outside, taking out his entire newly gained grand fleet from the other universe ships.
Then he filled them to the brim with his warriors, ordering them to start moving around, scanning everything here, reporting if they found any interesting intel about known places on the map, or found something that was not recorded yet there.
As he sent all of his ships out, he remained behind and started to work as the mobile brain for such a grand operation.
He knew even with using such a method, it wasn't enough. He estimated for his search teams to take a month, or even a few months before a final map would get done.
The main variable for this was the appearance of any hostile force. He knew the main variable in all this was the appearance of any hostile forces around his new home or not.
"At least we'll get done from this eventually, and then they can start digging the crystals…" he told himself while waiting inside his flagship for the good news.
The first thing Lily and others did was to ask for a gate to be opened between this place and the two Earths Hye had. They selected the main planets they'd work on and needed people to start their work once the planets were done with.
The planets would take a month or so to get done, and by then Hye would move a large number of his people here. As there were already few planets they discovered that could sustain life, Hye decided to move people from his second Earth to here, while shifting much more from Earth to the second Earth.
The second Earth world was unique thanks to the time difference it got, and the special phenomenon of letting newly born kids grow up in one year to be adults.
The only drawback to this was the limitations on space out there, which made him enforce rules to regulate breathing and such. But that was over!
"If I got this place twenty years ago, I'd have filled it entirely to the brim with my people…" Hye muttered while thinking if another scenario played out.
He greatly limited the birth rate in the second Earth world, and now he was fully unleashing it. Yet such a process did indeed require time.
As he needed lots of people with cultivation bases, he decided to leave the latest generations out there to reproduce, while adding more people from Earth to that world.
He moved his people to twenty different planets, left them to inhabit, and built new homes for them there. He moved tens of billions over there, and yet it felt like these worlds would need lots of time to show signs of civilization.
"I just need one year… Or ten…" he muttered when he experienced how huge his newly gained area was. He just moved between the twenty planets, spending almost two weeks doing so. He saved the bookmarks of these places, and yet the astonishing fact of all was that he just travelled across less than one percent of his new area!
He thought his area was huge, but not like this. That made him drop his earlier hopeful assumptions and seriously consider his people to scout the entire area in many months, close to an entire year perhaps.
As this was going to take much longer time than he expected, he started to consider cowering away and locking himself inside. Without properly studying one's home very well, it wasn't wise to go out and adventure outside.
Yet he knew if some sort of threat or a grand opportunity presented itself to him, then he'd not let it slip by his hands. And he wasn't just going to meet one chance soon enough, but three!
Time passed fast, and as his area was huge, it was expected for his people to take a long time just travelling from one point to another. He ordered the research department to study and make some sort of space-based portals, ones that could be hung in space, left to connect between two points fast enough.
He once used portals before in a great way, but all of these were based on ground, and had great distance limitations to not be this useful here. The other problem was their need to be located on the ground, which meant almost ninety-nine percent of his area was off-limits to these portals.
Chapter 1759 Great News
1759 Great News The research department started by using the ready portals to link rocks and planets together. This didn't require much, and the only drawback was that most of these anchor points weren't suitable for life. So people coming and going had to wear suits. Not to mention letting spaceships pass through these wasn't possible.
Hye asked for the help of the pirate king. He was the one who inspired Hye in the first place with such an idea. The pirate king said he bought this portal before from somewhere and didn't get how to make it. Yet he got two more and didn't complain when Hye ordered to give these to the research department to study.
According to the pirate king, these portals worked by opening long-distance paths toward faraway points in space. At the same time, they had many weaknesses, like the need to be protected, the inability to control who'd pass through them, and their short life term.
Any of these two would only last for two weeks, no more. That meant they weren't able to be used as Hye wanted. Yet it was still something for the research department to start working on. As he left the research department with more work than ever, Hye finally had the first opportunity presenting itself in front of him; intel about races in the areas around here.
He already asked Lily to investigate this, and she didn't hesitate to let her trusted men handle this task. The results came so fast, not taking more than one week to arrive in Hye's ears.
[Are you sure?!! If this is true, then it's great news indeed!] Hye was sitting in his flagship's deck, trying to think of all the problems he had here, and how to counter them. In the middle of all this, he got the news from Lily, about the presence of a large gathering of races in the areas around.
[They told us lots of information, but we need to confirm this first] Lily paused, before adding, [Yet there is still one disturbing piece of news… According to them, most of these races were deserters, ones who ran away from the outer battlefield and got stationed here. Their ancestors were cowards, and I don't like that…]
[I won't judge anyone by their parents or family] Hye rolled his eyes, [Besides, we have our warriors, only lacking people to help us build this place and turn it into a heaven for us]
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[You don't plan on recruiting any from them?!!]
[Who said so? I didn't say that!]
[Come on, you just said…]
[I said I won't judge anyone by what their parents did, not to mention long-term ancestors] Hye coughed twice, before adding, [Not to mention they didn't run far away from trouble. As you can tell, this area is filled with dangers from every corner, danger lurks all the time. So it's not that easy to survive here without fighting and defending their homes, right?]
[Good point, I heard they didn't have spaceships, but developed some sort of long-term weapon technology, enough to attack any target far away from their homes…]
[More reason to get them on board] Hye added, [Anyone having new tech is warmly welcomed here]
[What do you have in mind? Do you want to send a fleet over and try them out?]
[Start our relationship on bad terms? No, send delegates over there, try to speak their way using promises and good words. Let them know about how secure this place is, how well defended it is, how many ships we have, how many people we got…]
[Got it, and sing praises about you, right?] [Stop joking, we are speaking about something serious here]
[As if they didn't agree, you won't let them off the hook]
[I won't let them free indeed, but it's better to get them to join us with diplomacy rather than war]
I got it! Yet this will take a long time… I got a rough map from the workers here, with the locations of these folks. The closest is half a month away, and there are many who are a few months away]
[Take your time, but start acting right away] Hye paused, before asking, [Just curious, how many people are we speaking of here?]
[I don't have clear numbers for sure, but what I learnt is that there are around one hundred or more worlds inhabited here, forming around twenty coalition forces between themselves… I don't know if every world is just a world or a group of planets grouped together as a single little force…]
[Got it, start digging deeper then] Hye got excited about this. If every single world donated two billion people, then he'd gain hundreds of billions of people in just a few months.
He was so hungry for the population to warmly welcome such a huge gain. As he received such news, his mood shifted for the better.
More people meant a larger pool of talents, more workers for his mines, more hands to build cities over his planets, and great odds for the future prospects of his home base here.
Hye was in a very good mood for days, then he got his second chance in front of him.
During these days, everything looked so great on the surface. His warriors and people were going all over the place, studying their new home theirs, and redrawing maps for everything.
The research department folks asked to return back to the second Earth world, to get the benefits of time skip there. As for the delegates, they went to visit the different worlds around them, a long journey that'd take months to get done.
Hye knew he hadn't gained a single concrete gain so far, but this wasn't going to last. In a few months, he was sure he'd have tons of gains to make him feel pretty accomplished and satisfied.
Yet he learnt from all this that trying to rise up in the universe wasn't blocked just by lack of support, people, and resources. His greatest enemy was distance, time consumed to traverse large distances.
1760 A Message Is Finally Here
That made Hye try to see if there were any space portals being sold at the market. Even if he expected to find none, he still felt a bit helpless about this.
Yet all of this changed the moment he got one single message.
[Hye isn't it? I heard lots of praises and curses about you, and that means you are doing a great job already!]
All of sudden, a message popped up in front of his face. When he looked, after getting startled for a few seconds there, he found this was an answer to an earlier message he sent before, the one he sent to all of the big names in all the impacts in the universe that he managed to gather their contacts and information before.
"Damn! It's happening! Someone responded to me!" he was lying lazily on a bed, inside one of the big chambers he designated to be his current dwelling in times of rest. Yet when he realised who sent this weird message, he jumped off the bed, and stood erect, as if he was standing in front of that man.
He didn't fear the man, nor respected him. He just highly valued the great opportunity presented itself by this man's presence and message.
[Thanks for the compliment. I'm just without backing, and that's why I've contacted you]
[I'm not someone who is used to backing others. Plus, I already heard that the Toranks are on your side]
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[I don't want a single devotion backing. Like the Toranks, I used to make long-term deal with them, and pay using my bones in return for that]
Hye knew this was the chance he waited for. And so he had to use the Toranks name to add more weight to his words with this man.
As he expected, the moment he brought the Toranks over, this man's attitude changed at once.
[I can't speak for my impact, but if you have an offer, I'm willing to pass it] The man paused, [Tell me, what do you want to purchase exactly? And how much?]
[I want to buy tons of stuff] Hye knew he already roped the man, and now he had to just tighten the knots, to make him unable to escape, [I want to purchase everything starting from races, materials for building, digging machines, any civilisation machines to build great cities and worlds, ammunition, and even tech and crystals]
[Wow! Are you building an empire or what?!!] the man was shocked, and Hye simply said he gained a new area of space that he wanted to develop, [I can't say I'm not excited to close this deal with you. However, I need to know how much of all of these you want, and how many bones you are willing to pay]
[I want everything you can get me] Hye paused, and thought about it for a second before he sent a friend request to the man. The moment the man accepted it, Hye sent him a batch of his bones, a great mix of all of his bones, including even the dark realm bones.
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[I sent you one thousand bones of each type I have, as a token of appreciation for your help] he bribed the man with such a big hand, [And now you need to study these bones, make a fixed estimation for these, and then tell me how much each item you can give me worth corresponding to these bones]
His words were simple and clear, and his simple action and bribe made it clearer. He didn't care at all about the price, he just wanted the stuff this impact could provide.
[To be honest, we are a weapon-focused impact, with less activity in the fields of development and trading races, however… Give me some time, I'll try to make you pleased with dealing with us]
[I want a fixed time frame here] Hye had a bad experience when dealing with Silverlining before on loose terms, [And I don't need to stress over this, but I'm looking for long-term partners, like Toranks. So, do everything in your power to give me great offers, including everything I want, and anything else that I may need]
[Sure, sure, give me two weeks, and I'll send you lists of items every time I finish arranging any]
[Deal!]
Hye closed the chat with a big grin on his face. "This is going to be a game changer to me, hehe!" he knew he scored it big this time.
The first impact he managed to connect with was some behemoth that worked at producing weapons and war equipment. He didn't get what impact it was when he chatted with that man, but now he started to dig deeper into it.
And as he expected, it was a real giant in the universe! At least it was a big behemoth in the field of war industry. It produced tons of stuff, starting from battle suits, weapons, and personal enhancers, up to big guns, and even starships.
Yet he knew dreaming about getting star ships from them at the first deal wasn't going to work. "I need to just bid my time with them, strike many big deals first, then ask them to provide me with starships and big guns…"
Hye wouldn't say no to any big war weapon or gear. As he studied this behemoth and got to know how huge this opportunity was, he decided to be extremely patient about dealing with them.
To build a strong empire, he wouldn't be able to do it himself. He knew it. And that made him want to lure much more of these impacts to his side.
He waited for another one to message him, but this didn't happen. For the next week, not a single message came, and he wasn't dejected by this.
He knew his chances of someone reading his message were close to none. But when he'd make deals with this new impact, news would spread, and others would actively seek him out.
1761 The Outer Battlefield Surging Hell
Big behemoths always kept an eye over each other, to notice any big business chance for them. And he hoped he'd get noticed and marked as such.
Hye planned to take this time and rest while waiting for either someone to message him or that dude from that impact to return back with news.
But after one week, he didn't get any message from either the man or anyone else and received a new message from someone else.
The third opportunity just presented itself to him on a golden plate!
[Warning! The outer battlefield surging hell is upon us! Make sure you stay away from there!]
Without any warning, such a message popped up in front of him just minutes before he'd go to sleep. At the same time, a weird voice echoed in the entire ship. It didn't just appear in his ship, but in all the other ships as well.
"What's going on?" This wasn't the first time for Hye to experience such a thing. Before the shooting star outbreak happened, he also got such a warning.
[We investigated, and it seemed this is a common thing in this area] Lily responded after one hour, as Hye asked her to dig deeper about the root of such repeated things.
[And?] [According to the workers who lived here for a long time, they believe this is some sort of a helping system to warn anyone near the outer battlefield of such a scary phenomenon]
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[Scary? How?!] Hye got interested instantly the moment he read what Lily sent.
[They say this happens once every five years. Something happens at the outer battlefield, and the forces at the edges of this area near here will flood this place]
[This… This is bad!] Hye paused, before adding, [Tell me everything they know…]
As she kept describing the intel she got, Hye realised he was previously wrong.
[This isn't a disaster, it's a great chance!] he ran towards the deck of his ship, [Call for everyone, we need to be ready for a big fight and hunt]
[As if we can do anything, you are the one going out to hunt and we'll be stuck here just to defend the place!] Lily complained, and Hye couldn't help but laugh.
[Just make sure no one trespasses the shield or gets near it. I'll also need your help at some point…]
[For what? To collect the loot? You can do it perfectly fine!]
[Just make them ready to come and help me when needed] Hye coughed twice, feeling like she was reprimanding him for being overly greedy and excited about this chance.
According to the workers who mined crystals here, every five years, a disaster would strike the outer regions of the outer battlefield. This would push everyone into this part of space. And that wasn't the chance he was excitedly thinking and speaking about.
The disaster seemed to strike hard everyone in that region, be it part of this universe or the other universe, all would get hit severely, getting pushed here with broken ships.
They'd take roughly a few months to repair their ships, before returning back to the outer battlefield again. According to them, many battles would happen between the opposing forces, but that would have to wait until the ships would get repaired.
This was the chance that presented itself in front of Hye. Unlike others, he got a way to clear all the ships and claim them for himself. Even if they were broken, he was sure the research department would find it easy to take pieces from them and repair most of them.
Yet this wasn't just what made him quite excited. He thought of something else, about the grand number of forces coming here, entrapped in their spaceships for long months.
They were like sitting ducks. He had a way to slaughter them, but also a way to turn them all into his forces. Even if the cube wasn't working properly right now, he had something else that he could use.
"I tried to use my techniques before, and they had tons of limitations. In a real battle, it's useless to use them. But against sitting ducks… Hehehe!"
He laughed evilly when he thought about this. His thread technique was his cornerstone when used to bind others to him using contracts. Unlike how he used these back in the apocalypse, the threads would grow small and short, not expanding and proliferating crazily like before.
He knew he needed to raise his cultivation base first to overcome such limits. But there wasn't an option for him to do this in the short term.
It was expected that he would get excited when he heard about all this. First, he'd attack many enemies, kill tons of forces, and claim ships. Then he'd try to use this to scare few to willingly join his side. If they resisted, he'd use his technique to force them to follow him.
Yet before he'd grow excited about this, he needed to see first how huge this chance was. According to the words from the workers, the ships shoved away from the outer battlefield didn't have a fixed number.
It totally depended on the amount of fleets fighting in the outer region of that place. And that meant it was all subjected to luck.
[I've sent lots of ships out to scout as you asked… But isn't it a bit risky? You do know many of these ships belong to the giants in the universe!] Lily sent him, trying to dissuade him from doing what he intended.
[No one can blame me for this, plus we are on our own from the beginning. Why should I care about those who didn't want to help us, even tried to take us down many times already?]
Hye knew she had a point in worrying over other forces. But this wasn't like he was openly going against these forces. First and foremost of all, this was the outer battlefield. It was normal for tons of fleets to get destroyed and killed.
1762 A Magnificent Scene
Who'd say he was the one behind all this? If any of these fleets managed to escape, then he'd get exposed. And even so, he didn't think a mighty force would care about him.Please visit fr𝐞𝐞w𝒏.𝒸𝑜𝔪 website to read fastest update
Even if any did, they'd think thrice before coming at him. He was in a very dangerous place, and he got a very formidable defensive shield. If any force wanted to teach him a lesson, they'd realise trying to do so involved tons of risks and dangers, even paying much more than what they already lost in his hands. And the end result was still questionable.
As for the cause of all these scenarios, he knew it was nearly impossible. The fleets coming out from the outer battlefield would need months to get back to their prime. And he'd not let a single ship escape from here.
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If he couldn't take them under his wing, he'd prefer to kill them all, collect ships, loot from their inventories, and even bones.
In any scenario, he was going to get tons of rewards. But he needed to first examine things and see if this chance was worth taking such a risk or not.
In less than five hours, many reports started to pour in. tons of fleets were spotted getting thrown out from the direction of the outer battlefield.
Even if he had his defensive shield, Hye already left many ships to scout the space around. He was searching for any incoming fleets from the outer battlefield, and now these scouts sent great intel about the fleets gushed out from the outer battlefield.
[Don't throw more work at me, don't ever do it!] she complained, and he knew she was pissed off right now. He just promised to give her months to make enough preparations, not to mention the tens of planets they got would be completely built up by then.
As he switched rides, he went to the outer part of space at terrifying high speed. He could feel how great the small ship travelled after using the big behemoth for a long time as a ride.
This was the first time for him to get out of his new home. He moved towards the shortest path towards the nearest gathering of fleets, and then he went to see what his defensive shield looked like.
From inside, it was just a faint net passing endlessly everywhere. Passing through it didn't make him feel anything. After all, he was marked as the owner of the formation and the entire area. And that was also the case for anyone marked as a follower to him.
Yet when he moved outside, all he could see was pitch black shaped thing that stretched endlessly left and right, north and south. He couldn't see the net like before, but something that looked like a real shield.
"I like it!" he tested, passing through it back and forth, before realising how great this shield was. From the inside, it appeared like a fragile decorative thing, adding little and beautiful touch to the entire place. And from outside, it looked so massive, strong, and majestic, adding great touch to his area.
As he finished checking this shield, he embarked on his journey and travelled as fast as he could. He estimated it would take a day to reach the nearest location of these fleets, but his journey took only six hours.
When he arrived there, the first thing he could see was the bright red line in the distance. It felt like the dusk, when the sky would turn into red or something.
Yet this wasn't the effect of a sun and that seemed to be the mysterious thing happening at the outer battlefield. "Seeing this from this far tells me enough about how deadly the situation there is…" he muttered to himself, while realising for the first time that the ships coming here weren't everything inside that region.
He never thought about it before, and that made him inwardly sigh. "That place… It's like going to hell and trying to survive," he grew wary of that outer battlefield the more he gathered more intel about it.
1763 Doing It Like Old Times
The main dangers didn't lie just in the enemies lurking there, but also in natural phenomena like this one. As he drew closer to the gathering of ships, he found more evidence for his theory.
The ships didn't look just damaged, they appeared as if they came out from a deadly battle, luckily escaping death. Their bodies were breached, and many pieces were missing. There were even black marks all over their bodies, especially for the bigger ships, indicating how they got such damage.
"Is it a surge of heat or lava? Perhaps both," Hye sighed again, before looking around, checking the huge number of ships gathered up here.
There were ships of different sizes and models, ships coming from both universes. They were all lying calmly and silently, looking like dead ships. And yet he knew they weren't void of races inside.
"Time to test my technique…" Hye led his ship in the middle of tens of thousands of damaged ones until he reached a spot he thought suitable to start testing.
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Then he went out, suited up, looked around, and all he could see were dead and cold ships, dark without a single flare or light.
The sight was quite depressing, looking as if he was in the middle of a colossal space grave for ships. The spaceships were all floating in space, without moving or issuing a single sign of being alive or having anyone alive inside.
It might look depressing to anyone, any but Hye. To him, this scene was quite interesting and amusing, something that enticed the sense of excitement in him.
"It's still working at least," the first threads that went inside the ships got his total attention. He was worried such new change and resistance wouldn't be a single happening, and his technique's ability would be affected negatively.
Yet when he invaded the bodies of races inside the ships, infiltrated and controlled them, he felt relieved. The threads worked like before, penetrated the bodies, took control of them, and then expanded and released more threads around.
Soon enough, all the small ships around got totally infiltrated and controlled. He paid lots of bones to do that, yet he wasn't complaining. He forced them to sign contracts with him, including even the ones who came from the other universe.
"The higher-ups are indeed fast in enforcing the system over them…" He grinned when he noticed many of those races came from the other universe. It meant the system enforced itself over them, and he just used this little window and help.
He was sure the system had jurisdiction only here. Going out from this place would end up with all of them losing their systems. And that made him wonder if the system even existed for people from the universe on the outer battlefield or not.
He didn't have the answer, but if the system wasn't there, then things would grow south for everyone from this universe. "Nah, I don't believe it's not there," he shook his head, before returning to fully focus on the task at hand.
Hye kept spreading over his threads, and for the first time ever since the end of the apocalypse twenty years ago, he started to purchase contracts again from the market.
"This feels like old times, old great times," he couldn't help but laugh when he started running low on contracts. The contracts he had all were leftovers from the time of the apocalypse. And he never needed to purchase any contracts before.
Slowly he gained tons of forces, and he gave them a single order… To repair the ships!
These were experienced fighters, who used to know how to run spaceships. And it was better to let them do this. He didn't intend on adding all of them to his army, planned to add most of them to populate his planets here.
But adding more experienced warriors to his fleets was something that came as a bonus for him. He didn't need to train any, and on top of that, he'd gain other universe fighters, ones who could use his large fleet of other universe's ships perfectly fine.
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1764 Happy Times Always End Fast
So it was better to let them repair and fly their ships. Slowly he started to sweep the forces stagnated here, entrapped inside their damaged ships. No matter where they came from, he accepted them all.
The only problem he faced was for his chariot to lack flying ability in space. He had to take it back, take out his small ship, and move to another part of this area. Soon enough, he got used to doing this, while not complaining about it anymore.
As he got used to such a routine, he lost himself in doing this. Without feeling it, a long time passed, close to two weeks, and he was still doing this.
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He started from the closest spot to his area and started moving from one point to another. After two weeks, Hye passed through tens of thousands of kilometres, collecting tons of ships and fighters. And yet every happy tale must come to an end.Please visit fr𝐞𝐞w𝒏.𝒸𝑜𝔪 website to read fastest update
*Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*
Just when he was doing what he used to during the past two weeks, he finally got jolted awake by sudden and violent explosions that rang all around him. He returned to the real world while watching lots of explosions happening all around.
"Tsk! Many managed to repair their ships…" Hye was inside his chariot at the moment. The first wave of attacks landed over his chariot's shield, one that was worthy to play a role in the grand stage of the universe.
With his chariot in play, everyone focused their fire upon it, not his warriors. That helped his warriors greatly to smoothly penetrate the ships, kill everyone there, and then jump to other ships.
Hye moved while forming a semi-circular pattern of deployment of his troops. He kept doing this while trying to outrun the enemies, trying to catch as many as he could.
Yet he knew it was futile to dream about stopping everyone. The best result would be claiming half of the grand ships here or at least a large portion of it. As for the ones gathered up, he hoped for them to get separated, not united in huge numbers or something.
To do so, he tried to move in irregular paths, moving across huge areas, not caring about attacking all the ships in one area. He planned this as if he was spreading seeds of his warriors around, and they'd do the rest.
As he expected, the Soulers and Reapers kept jumping from one ship to another, spreading their reign of terror, killing more enemies, and leaving behind a growing number of emptied ships.
Hye didn't worry about these ships. There wasn't any predator in the area except for himself. And for those who were racing time to repair their ships, they preferred to retreat and regroup, and wouldn't care about attacking any ship around.
It was hard to keep track of his warriors' movements, and it was much harder to tell the difference between a destroyed ship and an emptied-out one.
Things progressed fast! In five days, his grand net was closing up, while tons of ships were scattered all outside his reach. And yet he didn't feel any worry from that.
When he looked at these ships using his ship's radar, he noticed something interesting. The radar used in the small ship he used wasn't that advanced and didn't bring back much data. Yet the slight data it brought back was enough to give him a clearer view of the current situation out there.
"They are numerous, but not united…" That was the concrete fact he reached after studying the data coming back from his radar. The ships were too many to count, and yet they weren't grouping together.
Chapter 1765
The ships seemed to come from different origins, and different forces, and that made them unable to join hands together. Not to mention there was a lot of mixture out there, with many ships of both universes near each other.
Old enemies couldn't overlook their grievances and differences that easily. So during these days, the ships didn't unite together as Hye feared, but they started a huge war with each other.
Any ships from one universe targeted ships from the other one, fearing these to attack and hit them in their backs.
The situation was least to be described as chaotic! And yet Hye didn't get much data about any of that, as he was using his small ship radar.
"Shall I go back and collect my loot? Or should I press forward?" This was a puzzling question after the passage of four more days. His warriors already cleared all the ships that were attacked by them, leaving behind a grand grave of silent and empty ships.
In a moment of loss, he suddenly decided to take out one huge ship. He didn't know if the ships gathered out there would flock his way, unite their efforts to take him down or not. To be sure and safe, he decided to take one flagship of the other universe and filled it with his warriors with cultivation bases.
The shield reappeared, and he was about to sit on the captain's seat and think over this when he got something new. The radar of this ship worked on its own, doing something that could be described as an automatic start-up thing. The moment that happened, Hye saw a very interesting situation.
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Before, at his small ship, the radar there showed just points flashing on a green screen. Yet this time, it was a holographic show, with a very large area of coverage, and tons of details.
The moment he saw the general map appear from that radar device, he got fixated in his spot. "Oho… What do we have here?" the moment he spotted what the radar picked, he couldn't help but evilly smirk, "They are fighting each other… That's not bad, at least this way I'll be able to gain more ships…"
He never expected that never even thought about it. Yet the enemies were fighting among each other, not caring that much about him.
As this happened, there was no danger for now for him or his forces. "Yet… I need to do it discreetly, without arousing too much heat towards me…" He sat on his seat, rubbing his chin, thinking more about this.
Currently, the ships which escaped from his reach were busy fighting each other. They weren't a danger for now, but if he interfered, and reminded them again of the grand threat he posed, they might drop their enmity for now, and work together to take him down.
He didn't want to see such a result, not at all. So instead of acting now, he started to further study the current situation, checking the radar even more.
As he started to study the current situation even further, he found out more details. The fighting ships weren't united as he feared before but were fighting in small numbers. Yet as they were close to each other, the scale of this big war looked as if they were all fighting and working together from a general view.
"... With more time passing, more small fleets will meet up and join hands with others from the same forces, or from the same universe… I can't let this happen…"
As he decided, he started to give orders to his Soulers. He took out Lucas, and let the man handle his warriors. "Form small teams, and send them in these directions…"
Hye sat in his main deck and gave a long series of orders for Lucas. The latter relayed them all to his warriors, while Hye sat there and started to examine the ongoing process of the war and his warriors.
He decided to isolate the fighting fleets into small clusters, with areas that would be vacant of any living soul within. Doing so would take much longer, and he was ready to wait.
The ships without any crew would look like dead ones. They might get hit and damaged from the battles going on everywhere, but he didn't care. This way, the risk of small fleets merging together would fade away.
Yet to have such an effect, he had to wait for five days. Even when his radar couldn't show more of his warriors, Lucas told him they were still fighting more ships.
That told him how grand the entire collection of ships here was! Not to mention he was dealing with ships in a ball-shaped zone, and he was just at one part of it.
That meant there were tons of ships he didn't manage to claim before, endless battles going on, and his warriors would take much longer to get to their destination and fulfil the task.
"Screw this… I'm going to make new Soulers and Reapers…" After a few more days, his patience ran thin. Even if he couldn't see a thing, Lucas kept him posted with the updates. And so far, there was a single update, that his forces were still attacking more ships, clearing them from any living soul there.
He underestimated the reach of this grand war, and he had to intervene fast and add more Soulers and Reapers to make up for all this.
If anything kept steadily rising up for the past twenty years then it'd be his soul points. His forces didn't fight any war for twenty years, that was true. But they kept training and killing endless monsters, and all of this added up to his soul count.
As he didn't get any use for his soul points, he simply kept stacking them. And right now, he intended to make a bold move.
"I'll use half of the point, form Soulers and Reapers," he muttered, and after a series of system messages, he approved the decision.
Chapter 1766
The number of Soulers and Reapers he got was in billions, much more than what he originally had.
He didn't stop there. After making all of them, he instantly took batches out and started to feed them crystals. During the past time, he kept reaping the harvest from his Crystal Heart and planting half of the harvest there. He kept doing this until he had enough crystals to use for hundreds of millions of Soulers and Reapers.
In addition to that, he gained a lot from the inventories of the dead enemies from the war in that world. As he started doing this, one problem still remained one that limited his actions greatly.
"I lack suits…" he shifted his attention from the world around, from the ongoing battles, from the endless fleets everywhere, and focused over his inventory, "I hope all of them will give me enough…"
He was standing inside his ship, but now he decided to go out. He knew no matter how many Soulers and Reapers he nourished with crystals, they wouldn't be able to show their true might until they'd use suits.
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He couldn't purchase them yet and didn't have a way to make them with the help of his research department. The only option he got was to go back to the ships he collected, to the forces that joined him using his technique, and collect the suits from all of them!
[Listen up, I want you to collect all the suits in your ships. I don't care where they came from, I want them all. Just keep enough for yours to use, and get me everything. Empty your inventories or pockets or whatever those coming from the other universe use. Send a ship over, with people from my universe, storing everything in their inventories, and then give them to me]
Hye sent this order to his newly recruited forces, the ones he left behind. He got the privilege and support from contracts to do so. "They'll take like forever to do this…" he knew he couldn't wait for that long, so he decided to take the ships he had, taking the entire fleets out. Most of these came from the other universe, and very little came from this one. Even if they got no one on board, they got suits. "Go, scan the ship, collect the suits you find, and bring it to me," as he took tons of ships out, his long task started. He boarded them, one by one, and placed lots of his warriors there.
Their task was simple, spread out, search deep, and come up with all the suits they could find. He didn't care if the suits brought looked a bit weird, as most came from ships hailing from the other universe.
The suits from this universe looked more like Earth pre-apocalypse sci-fi movie suits. They looked bright and shiny, tight and beautiful. They appeared as if they were made out of nano-particles, able to reform and repair themselves, expand and shrink to suit anybody, any race.
Unlike them, the suits that came from the other universe ships looked a bit wilder. If William's universe suits looked as if they were made of metal, then they looked as if they were made out of leather.
In addition to that, they had long tentacles, that looked like tubes. They came out from their backs, arms, legs, and even chest and head. They might end up with sharp edges, or just abruptly end without anything at all.
William didn't get the use or value of these suits, but he didn't care. He simply moved from one ship to another, spreading out his warriors, and gathering tons of suits.
He took roughly two days to do so. It might seem like nothing much, but it was quite a stressful period for him.
He kept checking on the current situation of the ongoing battles all over the place using Lucas. He even returned from time to time, using his staff, to appear inside his main ship deck, and check on the ongoing status of the war by himself.
As his warriors finished their tasks, he ordered them to select a few from each ship, suit up, and come to meet with him. In less than half a day, he gathered all the suits they got from their inventories and then called everyone back.
"Now, it's time to suit more Soulers and Reapers up," he didn't collect the ships, not yet. He returned again, this time using his staff for faster movement, and spread out his Soulers and Reapers.
He left tons of suits for them to wear, then collected them back, and started doing this again until he finished the stock his warriors collected. His warriors took two and half days to gather and deliver these suits, and yet he spent them all in less than five hours!
"Spread out, go and take care of the enemies," William knew the distance was insanely huge, and his two warriors were mainly travelling by their personal flying speed in space, augmented by their suits and ability to flash. Yet it was still too slow.
Not to mention there was already a huge distance cleared, the distance they needed to cover first before approaching the enemies. And so he decided to change his tactics, gave lots of small ships to them, and spread a few crewmen of other trained races to steer the ships.
Doing so would save days of travel into mere hours. Not to mention they'd still work to transport the Soulers and Repers across the emptied distances, saving up more time like this.
He released everyone and then waited. He had too much stuff on hand to follow, and he just had to give them time for all of his people to finish the tasks they were doing.
As Hye got nothing to do right now, he returned back to his main flagship and started scanning everything using his radar. He followed the battles he could see, the fleets inside his radar coverage while keeping track of other stuff using Lucas' help.
Chapter 1767
1767 Two Hard Options
The Souler general was acting now as a relay machine! He kept speaking for hours, relaying any developments, anything new found, and giving Hye a broader viewpoint over the entire scale of this war.
At the same time, he followed the current progress of his people and forces back in his area. The process of finding the scattered races around got interrupted by the ongoing war, yet they were going to get to the closest ones to here.
Hye instructed Lily to send ships out to collect the stranded ships around the territory. He didn't want to waste his time on this, and there was already a huge number of ships awaiting to be collected, either cleared by him or by his warriors.
Hearing about the presence of more ships out there without an owner enticed a lot of heat among his friends and top generals. All were now well aware of the great importance of having ships in the universe, and how it was crucial to expand their fleets.
They knew Hye wouldn't give them anything easily, and would only give them what they needed for the current times. So they wanted to make some contribution, and let him reward them later by adding more ships and fleets, perhaps even with well-trained crews.
So out of his expectations, Hye's friends and top generals started an internal competition about who was going to collect more ships. To make it fair, Lily asked Hye about the routes his warriors took and the places where there were lots of ships there.
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She decided to handle the ships he already cleared before releasing his warriors. As for everyone else, they each selected a route, grabbed a small fleet of theirs, and went to reap more loot than others.
The race started, and Hye was the last to know, and he'd get wind of it from Lily later on. He'd not say anything about it, feeling such activity between his friends and top generals was needed after such a long time of slumber back on Earth.
The progress of everything went smoothly for two weeks. During which, he made sure to keep the ongoing battles away from his warriors, not allowing them to merge together.
What he was worried about happened after the first week. The scattered fleets found others belonging to the same universe using common communication channels, and soon enough they started to merge and join forces.
Slowly, and under the keen eyes of Hye and the reports Lucas brought over, all this was noticed. Hye didn't try to stop that, as this was futile and might backfire.
He placed more focus on following the current progress of such merging efforts. As both sides started to adopt such an approach, they also took notice of their enemies' attempts to do so. And that produced very interesting and heated situations everywhere.
Battles became intense, and the merge that happened at the early days of the second week began to enter a cooldown phase.
Yet both sides were starting to grow the number of their coalesced forces. And that left Hye in front of two difficult choices.
He'd either let them have it their way, continue to fight till one kills the other, then he'd jump over and finish the last standing force. Or he'd start interfering, distracting the attention of smaller forces at the border zones, and kite these forces down slowly.
Both options have their pros and cons. The first was the safest approach, but it had the downside of greatly lowering his gains at the end of it.
He didn't just set his eyes over the insane number of ships out there, but also at the endless forces as well. And that was the second option that would guarantee for him, yet he'd risk losing too much to gain this.
"I need to act solo then…" he inspected his inventory, where tons of suits were there. The forces who joined him brought over the suits a few days ago, and the loot was much bigger and much richer than what he initially imagined.
It was enough to arm up to one billion forces of his, and even more. He didn't use them yet, as he didn't know what to do.
"I'll move solo from now on," he decided, "will go and reap all the rewards I can get, with the least possible amount of damage possible."
He decided to adopt the second approach, and yet he decided to tweak it a little. Instead of going directly towards the enemies at the border, he decided to board his small ship, fly in the middle of oceans of ongoing battles, and then attack the enemies from deep within.
This was the craziest idea he could think of, and yet it was the safest one that he could use without endangering his forces or risking rallying everyone against him.
He instantly left control over to Lucas, ordering him to take notes on the information given by his Soulers and Reapers. Even after two weeks, these two warriors were still diving deeper into the middle of a seemingly endless ocean of ships and fleets.
According to what he got from them, using their radar, they couldn't yet grasp the end of such a grand gathering. And that meant they might take a month or even more to reach the end of these ships.
As he travelled in his small ship, he made sure to get updated reports from Lucas. He had to make sure he knew the current progress of the war in the sector he selected.
His warriors moved in directions he simply and randomly selected two weeks ago. And yet they didn't cover sectors. So he decided to deal with this based on a huge area of coverage, something he could easily relate to on the grand map of this zone.
He selected the densest place in the entire sector he selected. It was one of the largest three known gatherings of both universes' forces so far.
1768 Welcome To Hell!
According to the raw intel gained from radar, he could tell each force there had at least hundreds of millions of spaceships. And there were a huge number of flagships, meaning there were lots of generals and capable soldiers out there.
He wanted these, and on top of that, he didn't want to risk having such a force growing in the heart of this sector. If that ever happened, and they got wind of what he was doing, then the consequences would be quite severe.
So he had to make sure this force would be dealt with early on, before moving away, reaping all the loot he could from there, and attacking a few more gatherings while heading to the other two gatherings appearing on his radar.
His Soulers and Reapers, couldn't get deep intel about the ongoing battles too far from him. So he had to expect the appearance of such threatening gatherings that he didn't get yet.
"Worrying about something I can't even see or detect won't do…" he shook his head while focusing on the closing in a grand battle from a distance, "I'll handle these three first, then will send Soulers out to scan the deeper parts of other areas…"
He knew by being greedy, he was going to risk it all. But he didn't want to come out with short gains either. So it was a tough choice to make, and he decided to first learn about the scale of the entire situation before making another decision.
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Then he arrived at the tons of ships fighting each other. The moment he arrived there, he felt like he had been thrown into the depths of hell. Weapons got fired everywhere and all the time! Enemies were at every single corner, and he had to face deadly challenges almost all the time.
The entire zone was filled with tons of ships desperately fighting their enemies. He tried to not fire back, focusing more on evasion, but failed. He couldn't help but fire back, leaving this task to one of the Soulers, as they were crazy at firing and such stuff.
Yet that didn't help at all. The best it did was to slightly secure a path in front of him. But soon enough, lots of heat came at him, as he didn't differentiate between ships from this universe or the other one.
The Soulers he took out kept firing at anything coming nearby, and didn't show any mercy to any ship. Even when Hye tried to warn them against hitting ships of this universe, they couldn't do that.
In fact, this was out of their hands. The entire space was filled with tons of ships, all flying and fighting among each other, in a true bloodbath scene.
All he could see were flashing bright lights coming out from the endless explosions happening all over the place. At some point, he had to find his way through a brightly shining world, ending up with nothing but gambling and guessing.
"At least I'm on the right track," after crossing the outer zone, he finally got time to inspect the map on his radar. At this point, the space wasn't filled with ships and deadly battles. In fact, it looked much calmer and more peaceful than what he experienced for four straight hours.
The ships were now gathering up, arranging themselves in large fleets, while fighting deadly battles like how classic wars should be. William finally heaved a deep sigh of relief, stopped his Soulers from firing, and focused on steering the ship through the dense net of fire and ships.
This wasn't as hard as it was before, and he just had to take routes to get away from any heated-up battles.
As he got away from such a red zone, he started to align his course better while checking the radar. In ten hours, he finally arrived at a spot that was just near that huge gathering of fleets.
And there he found something similar to the situation he faced when he first came here.
"Damn! You are really annoying!" William was at least a couple of hours of flight away from the big fleets gathering. And yet, he couldn't find a single spot where he could deploy his Soulers and Reapers to be the closest to this gathering.
It was all a bloodbath, starting from the far edge of this zone up to the middle of it! He could see a clear sight of this area, and everywhere he could see blazing red colour no matter where he looked. It was a clear sign of how many fleets were there, and how intense the ongoing fights were.
In the end, he had to drop such an idea totally and learn to retreat further back. "I'm wasting time and effort without getting anything," he consoled himself, before getting out, and started to take out his warriors.
"Go, take them down, leave none behind!" His orders were clear and simple. In the next few hours, a colossal army of Soulers and reapers devastated the entire place, passing through any ship, any attack, and taking down any living soul inside them.
He watched tons of ships stop flying, doing nothing but hovering in the middle of space. Even the lights went off, and shields fell. Yet many ships got caught in the intense fire happening around, exploding in such a fierce and eye-catching way.
"Those bastards…" Hye was quite enraged by such growing losses. He wasn't just losing ships, but all the warriors inside. And yet he got nothing in his hands to stop this.
The only way to stop this was by trying to distract the ongoing battles towards himself, or by taking a fleet, arming it up, and trying to distract the enemies around it.
But that wasn't going to work. The sheer size of the gathered fleets here made it impossible for a single ship, or a single fleet, to make any difference. So he had to drop such an idea, and accept these losses bitterly while hoping for things to change soon enough.
As he hoped, in the next five hours, the enemies around started to focus on something else, on his warriors!
1769 Why Are They Running Away? That's Stupid!
They all noticed the presence of such an alien group, suited up in different customs, with most of them coming from the other universe. However they were like locusts, never spared a single ship or anyone, killing everything they touched, before jumping off.
They were like a plaque! And without asking useless questions like who they were or whom they were following, both sides recognised the threat on the spot and started to nullify and deal with it.
Seeing such focused firepower coming at his warriors made him evilly grin. [Listen up, expand, move, and cover up a broader area of space, attack randomly, but in teams…]
He started to give further orders, watching them spread out and expanding. There was no fear in them, no hit could touch these warriors.
As such, the enemies got more dismayed by them, struggling to keep up with their ever-shifting moves. To make it worse, these weirdos didn't die, and didn't even suffer anything at all!
Shots passed directly through them, and that just threw all of the ships and fleets here, all the forces on board, leaving them clueless about what they should do.
In the middle of all this, Hye acted!
He went to space, took out his chariot, and started using his technique. From the early moments he appeared out there, and things turned to the worse for everyone.
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They now had to deal with those locusts, and deal with these weird threads! Nothing could stop them, and when they failed to stop the threads, they tried to aim towards the owner, aiming at Hye.
The latter kept himself steady, not worrying about anything. The chariot had a strong defensive shield. And even if the attacks depleted the energy inside it fast, he used his bones to replenish that.
He didn't even think thrice before doing this. Bones were precious, but he was going to harvest tons of them after all this would be over.
So spending a little extra here wasn't an issue. And soon enough, the entire world shone brightly, as if it was all formed out of light and not black matter.
"It's just melancholic," Hye sighed when he found himself bathed in such a situation, "and like before, I'll crush it!"
This time he knew it was a bit challenging. After all the ships attacking him were armed with guns that could tear anything. Yet thanks to his bones, the chariot stood its place erect. And when he pushed more energy into his technique, the threads added more followers to him, adding up more forces and ships, relieving the pressure gradually.
It was slow, but everything was building up towards a certain closure. Five days passed. During which, the pressure over him vanished after one day, and then he moved back to his ship, moved and changed his current position. Then he went out and repeated it.
He found out that if he targeted places near where his warriors were active, then the pressure he'd face would decline. Not to mention he'd aid his warriors, accelerating tearing apart this grand gathering of ships and fleets.
The grand gathering of fleets started to look pathetic after four days. By then, they started to think about running away. They weren't to be blamed, as Hye's forces gained the nickname: Immortals!
They grew an infamy on both sides, and news about them spread all over the ships and fleets in the sector.
"It's enough, I can't go on and chase them like this," he sighed when seeing the space growing thin of any big gathering, "at least I managed to deal with such danger. Time to go to another sector…"
Before leaving, he made sure to save more bookmarks. Then he spent an entire week travelling to the second sector, before starting all over again.
This time, he felt how different this was. The enemy seemed to grow scared of his warriors. The moment they appeared, almost all the fighting stopped. Instead of fighting back, they started to run, find any place away from here, any place safe from him and his warriors.
"Done in three days? That's not even good…" he realised the crux of the problem, and couldn't help but laugh. As there was no way to change that, he decided to give Lucas more time to investigate the places of more gatherings.
At the same time, he started to gather his loot, and send his newly gained forces to join up his fleet of Soulers and Reapers tearing apart the enemies everywhere.
He spent three days doing this before he jumped off and started to collect the ships at the first gathering point. As the total number there was quite massive, he had to ask the Soulers and Reapers for help, storing ships in their inventories, before handing him everything later on.
Even with their help, it took him five days to get done from there. Then he started to consider his options.
"Hmm… So Lucas' men found ten other places like this, mostly at faraway places… This is going to take much longer than expected…"
He wouldn't complain if the enemies would stay in their places like sitting ducks. But from the general look of things, just travelling across these zones would take him months! And he was quite sure the disaster happening at the outer battlefield wouldn't last all this time.
"It's better to spend time at nearby spots… There are four right now, enough for me… I'm not a greedy person after all…"
He shook his head, regretting not having enough time to do what he wanted. As he decided, he started to move towards the four gathering points, claiming any loot from there.
At some point, he felt like he grew such infamy that the moment he'd appear, and even before he'd spread out any warrior, ships would start fleeing!
"This is stupid! Why the hell are they running? And why are they running this fast?!!" he couldn't help but tremble in rage. The last gathering spot he reached took him roughly one month, and yet the ships started fleeing the moment he appeared there.
Chapter 1770 A Weird Situation
It was crazy! And Hye couldn't even catch up with most of them, ending up reaping little loot this time.
"If they spread over, where can they run to? Huh?" At this moment, he decided to throw away everything he planned before, "I'm going to tear the entire sector apart, let me see how they can run away this time, huh!"
In a storm of rage, he took out all of his Soulers and Reapers, then gave them a single order, "Spread out, take down any ship, kill anyone you meet, and then collect the ships and bring it back to me."
He intended to focus entirely on this sector. It might slow him down, but his gains would return to skyrocket, compared to the current terrible situation he had.
As he released his warriors, he kept watching them spreading chaos and death all over the place. It was chaotic, especially when both sides saw with their own eyes how these warriors were bad omen.
They tried everything, tried hitting them, tried running, but nothing worked. Perhaps trying to run away helped at some point, but soon enough they got to face the warriors or join the other sectors around.
Trying to join the sectors came at a great cost of course. Any sector had its outer border heavily filled with tons of fleets. And to try and pass-through this was literally a nightmare, especially with such deadly forces chasing them.
To make sure things were balanced, Hye took many ships, and armed them with normal warriors, before lending these to his Soulers and Reapers. It was like giving a snake wings to turn into a dragon. And that changed the entire battle for his sake.
No matter how they tried, the enemies couldn't run away from his warriors. Even when they tried to come and attack his fleet, the shields over them bought enough time for the Soulers and Reapers to do their magic and kill the forces inside these fleets.
It is futile to resist these. The only drawback was that this method took almost two weeks before the fleets of both forces got squeezed against the forces lining up the sectors around. By this moment, things started to shift towards Hye's sake, and tons of ships were cleared from their forces in no time!
It felt like he grew patient enough, and now it was time to reap all the benefits of doing that.
His warriors jumped over the enemies like hungry wolves. The enemy tried to fight back, tried to push their way through the densely packed fleets surrounding the sectors, but ended up either getting attacked by these or getting assaulted by Hye's warriors.
There wasn't a single way out from this, and they just hit a dead end. Hye watched all this using his ship's radar and didn't feel sorry for any of them. All he cared about was how to gain more ships, and not lose much from the crossfire going on out there.
But he had nothing to do but to give a few orders every now and then, rearranging his troops, and making sure they wouldn't miss any big hunt.
He waited for weeks to reach this stage, and so he made sure to take his time to gather as many fleets as possible. He couldn't move towards any location, as the fights were going everywhere and were too far away from him.
Besides he wouldn't make much difference about the course of these battles.
As for the ships, they were all gathered by his warriors, including the dead bodies of the races killed by his warriors.
"This is weird…" As there were a large number of fleets out there, it was hard to notice it at first. But after ten days of constant fighting, he could spot something new.
好奇心を刺激するコンパクト NEW 日産ノート AUTECH クロスオーバー日産自動車株式会社His Soulers and Reapers would attack any ship, take a few hours at most to clear it, before jumping off towards another one. But right now he noticed there were many ships that kept their shields intact, and kept running away despite getting attacked by many warriors.
He first doubted himself, then he had to ask Lucas about that. He asked him to check what was going on with these warriors, ending up hearing something strange.
[Sorry my liege, they attacked these ships but for a reason, they couldn't clear them for no obvious reason… Do you want to send more to attack them?]
[Hmm… Just let me know something, did they survive?] Hye got a hypothesis, and Lucas' answer made him sure about his conjuncture.
[No sire, they all died]
[Good, don't send more to hit these ships. And tell everyone about this, if they ever faced such a situation, they have to evade these ships, got it?]
Hye made sure Lucas would spread his orders, even if the latter didn't get what they meant.
"So… We have few level two or higher forces among these… That's expected…" Hye muttered to himself while rubbing his chin as he checked the radar and followed the ongoing battles.
This was the only possible scenario out there. His Soulers and Reapers could escape anything, but they weren't immune at the moment they tried to take down any target.
During this small window, they were vulnerable to getting killed. And he witnessed the fall of his warriors before in large numbers on the hands of far stronger enemies.
They could handle these enemies, by ganging up and flashing more times to take them down. But in return, they'd start suffering casualties on the hands of these enemies.
As Lucas stated clearly no one ever returned, it meant the difference was just too vast to overcome with numbers. This wasn't something shocking to Hye, as he knew his warriors were stagnant at level one, and there were still higher levels up there.
Yet as he fought many enemies so far and never met with such troublesome enemies, he forgot about such hypotheses.
"Or… We met such enemies before, but they were in low numbers, and my warriors could handle them using their numbers… This means these ships have lots of higher forces, in large numbers. The right thing to do is to take down the ships themselves, destroying them and killing others in fierce explosions…"
Chapter 1771: We Need To Reorganise The Army
Hye knew this was going to work, but right now he didn't want to face such terrible forces. That was why he made sure Lucas would spread out his orders, and make sure his warriors would try their best to evade these enemies.
It was better to let them run away from here than force them to gather and attack him if he persisted in hunting them down.
"This is getting more interesting," he didn't find it more annoying than amusing and quite challenging.
He knew out there, at the outer battlefield, chances to meet such higher and stronger enemies would skyrocket. But it felt like the outer zone of that place was filled with weaker forces. And that was just great news for him.
As he had such a threat around, he raised his vigilance and kept an eye on everything developing around him. Luckily the forces of both sides decided to retreat, run away as fast as they could when they got the chance to.
Without harassing them, the path to their retreat was wide open for them. Hye kept watching everything happening while intervening with orders whenever needed.
His warriors kept moving and fighting, killing their enemies and claiming ships. Time passed slowly, and after two weeks, the entire sector was now under his control, and other sectors were under attack by his forces.
As the enemies got stopped at the edges, his warriors passed into other sectors and started a massacre there. Yet as the number of sectors increased, it was clear they were taking much longer time than he expected.
And by the time his forces cleared those sectors, taking two months of time, the thing he expected happened.
"They are sure fast runners, tsk!" The time he took to clear these sectors was enough for other ships and fleets to vanish from the entire region. Even Lucas said his warriors couldn't get a glimpse of anyone.
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[Wrap everything up, collect the ships, and tell me when everything is over] he sent over to Lucas, before turning around, "I'll end up having tons of ships, enough to form more fleets. Not to mention the bones and other stuff I'll get from their inventories…"
He knew he'd gain too much from this, and still, it wasn't even close to what he should have gained if everyone stayed and fought back. Yet when he recalled the presence of stronger forces, he thought this was the best outcome he'd have.
"I believe they'll take weeks to collect everything," he knew he wasn't needed here anymore. And so he left his warriors to work on gathering everything around, then ordered the newly gained forces to follow him back towards his place.
He spent months out there, and so it was expected how much progress everyone made in his new territory. When he returned, he sent for Lily to give him a detailed report about everything.
"As if you never heard about what we did here," as she appeared in his main ship, she said while rolling her eyes, "you always kept asking about the new update…"
"I want to hear everything in detail," Hye paused, "aside from this, we gained new forces and tons of ships. So we need to discuss how we'll use this for better expansion and laying down a stronger foundation."
"Oh, how much?" her eyes shone brighter before adding, "You know that all of our friends and top generals took off with their fleets, to help…"
"They can have all the loot they gained," Hye said something big, making her blink twice before asking in doubt:
"Are you sick, my dear? What went wrong for you to act this way?" She even stretched her hand and checked his forehead, as if she was assessing his temperature or something.
"I'm good," he laughed, "can't I reward them? Besides, we need to grow our fleets and forces. The universe… It's not as easy as the apocalypse." ƒгeewebnovёl.com
"We'll manage," she slowly and intimately caressed his hair and face, "we have you, we aren't worried."
"Oh, you make me want to take a bite off you right now," he looked at her while she beamed with a seductive smile. And yet, he controlled himself, and cleared his throat, before adding, "We need to spread the gained loot over others, we need to expand our forces."
"Without knowing how much?" she blinked, acting as if she was surprised by his tactic retreat. Then she leant over, placing her head over his chest, "Tell me, darling, how many ships did you get?"
"Ask how many fleets," he couldn't help but laugh, "I got too much to count, and my warriors are still gathering more loot as we speak."
"Oh…" she paused, finally acting serious, "this means we need to rearrange the entire structure of our military forces, add up more generals, and train more forces, right?"
"Don't complain again…"
"I have to, and I won't stop complaining…"
Hye guessed it right, she was about to complain of the extreme amount of work she had. And she kept complaining for an entire hour until he had to stop her by saying he'd let his warriors who had enough training over the ships to help as well.
"That's not a help! You already offered that!" she bellowed back, and yet this was the best thing he could give to her at the moment.
"That's the best thing we can do right now," he sighed, "we'll use the second Earth world to train more forces there. So stop complaining, and start gathering the names of capable generals to lead these new fleets."
"Ok," she finally stopped complaining, "but you need to promise to help as well!"
"I'll do my best, you know me," he softly painted a kiss over her lips, making her face turn red a little bit, "now, how about the teams sent to get those races around?"
"No progress," she softly sighed, "we had to call off everything. The reach of this war was way beyond my expectations…"
Chapter 1772: Giving Everyone A Scare
"It's ok," Hye paused, "let's send them out again. The war is over, and now space belongs to us. But make them quite cautious, we don't know if enemy ships are around us or not."
"We can send scouts as well…"
"Waste of effort," he started to tell her about the presence of the stronger forces in the middle of the enemy forces.
"This… Ok, I'll make sure they'll get cautious and move away from any ship," she got what he wanted to convey, got how serious this situation was, "however…"
"I know, we need to find a way to go out there and score something," he sighed, "without doing this, our forces will stick at level one."
"We can't do it right now…" she paused, and the expression on his face told her he was well aware of this point, "fine, I'll go and get things done."
The two hugged and kissed, before she left and he was left alone.
"Staying for twenty years away from all this makes my adrenaline skyhigh," he muttered, while recalling how his days were dull and boring back in this period.
He lived like a true normal human, enjoying every single moment of rest and doing nothing. And yet, he knew this life wasn't for him. He was a warrior, and battlefields suited warriors the most.
That was why he was feeling excited about all that. He just came out of that shell, spent a couple of months here, and he was met with tons of amazing events.
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He recalled what he passed through this far, and felt grateful every single move he made was fruitful, bringing him higher step by step.
"I love it here," he moved his eyes around, watching the seemingly endless space surrounding his ship, the space of his grand territory, "I was blessed to purchase a piece of space like this, and find a way to heavily fortify it. I can't complain about any of that…"
He then went out, wore his suit, and started to take out his gained ships. Even if the Soulers and Reapers didn't finish their tasks now, he spent more time transferring what they gained directly to his inventory.
It was a bit troublesome as he had to select them in batches, each of one thousand. But he gained a ton of ships, and was now ready to go on a full spree of loot hunting.
"Gather up half of their inventories, collect their bones… That's my favourite thing about great wars, hahaha!"
He kept laughing while watching his two abilities running in full turbo mode, collecting tons of stuff and bones. At this moment, it didn't feel like what he did before was a waste. And right now he regretted not trying harder to kill and hunt more ships and fleets.
Yet when he noticed he didn't scratch more than one percent of his entire scattered army of Soulers and Reapers, he calmed himself down.
"I have to not be too greedy," he said to himself, "if I pushed forward back then, it'd have turned much worse. I need to play according to my current abilities, or else will lose, will lose big…"
He reminded himself of this many times while collecting the loot. He didn't check everything at first, and focused more on claiming what he could.
Yet the loot wasn't that great all the time. It varied from one group of ships to another. A group would have people from this universe, and so his top gain would be from their inventories. As for their bones, they were all common grade ones.
As for the ships coming from the other universe, they didn't give him anything as they didn't get inventories. On the other hand, they donated lots of dark realm bones, something that was very scarce and rare.
He spent a few days doing this before he finally got over everything he gained from his warriors. He could have drained more, but he stopped, sent a message over to Lily to come and pick these ships.
He wanted her to distribute these ships and fleets over the many generals they had. She didn't come in person, sent a group of people over. And they were shocked by what they saw.
William didn't take back the ships he took out, leaving them floating peacefully in space. They looked like a grand gathering of many fleets, scaring the folks she sent.
[Are you the one taking such a grand number of ships out? Or is it an enemy ambush?] she couldn't help but ask, as her men sent to her, trying to confirm what they were seeing on radar.
The radar looked as if it got painted in red. And that was indeed quite scary and shocking.
[Don't worry, it's all ours] he laughed when he realised what happened, [Just let them come, collect all of the ships, then dispatch them over to our boys out there]
He knew she was capable of selecting good men and planning how to distribute these ships over everyone. And yet her shock and surprise made him smile and laugh.
"I told her I'll give them a huge number of ships, but it seemed she underestimated what we got from this big war…" he said amidst his laughs, before taking out his flagship and going inside.
"I need to rest, yawn!" he stretched his arms, realised how long he kept himself awake fighting enemies everywhere. Even if his body was supported by stats, his mind still got weary by all this.
Before going to sleep, he made sure to check over everything going on. His warriors were left for Lucas to lead and organise their actions, while the fleets of his kingdom were having fun already.
They received the news, and according to Lily, they were quite excited and thrilled by all this. They started to grab all the loot anywhere they could reach while taking note of any incoming attacks from the scattered enemies.
They worried for nothing actually. After all, the forces that came from this universe decided to retreat and report back. As for the ones coming from the other universe, they sat their flying course over to return to the outer battlefield.
Chapter 1773: News From Other Races At Last
It wasn't a safe return, and they met lots of fleets coming back to this universe. Lots of battles happened, and they lost more of their forces, the already thinned out ones.
None of this was known to Hye or others, but they got saved a lot by this unexpected turn of events. None of them knew that after every disaster at the outer battlefield, many forces would decide to retreat and build camps around it.
If that ever happened, then Hye and his infantile forces would have faced a far greater challenge this time. Thanks to luck, these forces got busy dealing with the retreating hostile fleets of the other universe. And that saved them a lot of trouble.
As battles raged between the two sides, they started to shift back into the outer battlefield. Hye's forces were cleansing the grand scale war that just ended here, and after a week or two, they ended up finding more ruckus in places neither Hye nor his warrior visited before.
They found damaged ships, tons of dead bodies in them, or floating in space. Hye was taking his time in resting, supervising over the ongoing building operations all over his new territory, and following up the new gains from his scattered forces.
When he got the news, he didn't think much about them. "My boys were wild, hahaha!" he mistook all this for the actions of his Soulers and Reapers, "but why did they destroy the ships? Or were they attacked and got their ships destroyed?"
He couldn't tell, but there was a huge harvest out there. Even if the ships were damaged, there were still many good parts that could be used. He decided to bring everything back, hand them over to the research department, allowing them to further study these ships and how to make them.
At the same time, he asked everyone to collect the dead bodies for him. They were treasure troves for him, having tons of valuable loot and bones to offer.
"Everything is heading down the right path," he muttered when he received the news. His dispatched teams finally got in contact with the first race outside his territory.
They were one of the closest to here. And once receiving the first news from Lily, he focused entirely on there.
"Hmm… They are much tougher than I thought…" After a few hours of listening to direct feedback from there, he found out how hard it was to convince these folks.
In fact, they weren't hostile or anything, didn't even try to keep his team outside their planet. In fact, they warmly welcomed them, invited them inside, and Hye could see how prosperous that planet was!
Lots of cities and towns, paved roads, even floating cities in midair… That planet was too advanced, more than what he initially thought.
After warmly receiving the team, the leaders of that race spoke about their opinion towards the invitation. That race was giants, with horns and scales all over their bodies. They looked as if they were a derivative from Dragons or something, but didn't act arrogantly as them.
They gave proper reasons to decline such an invitation. They said they were safe here, survived for a long time, and didn't have any reason to relocate. The team tried to negotiate about different matters, speaking about Hye, the kingdom, the new territory, and everything that could entice anyone's dreams to join.
Yet the leaders of this race were straightforward about this. They said if they got no clear advantage of joining, why would they join a newbish force like Hye's? They didn't think Hye would survive long enough here, and that made Hye get a glimpse of an idea.
[I want you to record the scenes of damaged ships, empty ships, and all the ships that we gained from the other universe…] Hye instantly acted once he got such an idea.
Trying to convince these people using words wouldn't do. The only way to do it was to use something they'd never question, and that was by showing them these recordings.
Hye didn't place high hopes on them joining him anytime soon. They weren't arrogant, but they knew how strong and secure they were. They wouldn't join him in such an early stage, unless they believed in his potential.
The recordings Lily's men made were sent to the team, and then things started to grow for the better. The race leaders became more respectful, and yet they still declined after two days of negotiations.
"We will join you at some point, but now today," they said, and that was something Hye expected.
[Draw them back, don't let them pressure any more] he sent to Lily, before explaining to her how this was crucial.
She wanted to persist, keep trying with them. But when he explained everything over, she finally got what he wanted.
[Some people just like to ride over a winning horse, right?] she sent and he could only sigh in agreement.
He was a winning horse, but he was still starting up the race. After a few months, and more battles and gains, he was sure this race and others would come and join.
Yet such an outcome wasn't the case for every single race out there. Many agreed to relocate, mostly the ones with poor defences and lacking in terms of technology and civilisation. They jumped at once to his ship, taking shelter there and taking refuge.
Out of all of the races they visited, only forty percent joined. This wasn't the ideal outcome Hye thought of when he sent the teams in the first place, but it was way better than having nothing at all.
The remaining races never showed their hostility, and just asked for more time to watch and analyse Hye's potential and growth.
[Make sure all the newly joined races are well received, integrate them deeply into our kingdom, and even make fleets led by a few of their capable generals…] Hye knew this was also some sort of test, one which other races were watching closely.