Chapter 1774: We Just Need Time
"You refused to join me to wait for me to grow, and I'll simply show you how advantageous it is to join me earlier than late…"
Hye knew his place was going to be watched by others. They couldn't see through the defensive layer of the shield, and that was why he asked Lily to send the newly formed fleets outside, roaming and showing off their powers.
He stressed selecting the most famous figures from the races to join his side. It wouldn't serve any good if he just selected random folks that others wouldn't recognise.
The newly joined races added a nice number to his people here. Tens of billions of people from different races joined, and his capable friends took charge of relocating them.
The planets he already built were now filled with many people and had tons of cities and towns getting built. Hye instructed them to mimic the advanced setting of the world he once visited before coming here.
He wanted a dense layer of cities on the ground, connected with roads and portals, and also floating cities as well. His friends took his words much simpler than what he initially intended and just focused on building the ground cities and towns.
As for the floating cities, they knew it was built over a sophisticated and advanced tech, one they didn't have yet. So it was expected they weren't able to mimic that, not even try to do anything like it.
He didn't like that! He wanted to build something so advanced like the way he saw before. So he asked old Gan again, and the old man couldn't help but sweat when he heard what Hye wanted from him.
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[I know you think of me as your wish maker, but I am not that type of person…] Old Gan kept speaking for almost ten minutes, explaining how he and his department got overloaded with tons of tasks recently.
[I know you are doing too much, but you need to do such a thing. You rested for twenty years, and it's time to just rise up and do magic things, right? Don't tell me you aren't excited about this…]
Yet Hye didn't give him the easy way out. He kept speaking for almost half an hour, and by the end of their long discussion that lasted for two hours, old Gan finally resigned to his fate.
[Fine, I'll form a civilian department, one that'll work over innovating things for civilians] This was the end conclusion of all this. Old Gan's main point was that he and his team were mostly experienced in dealing with military stuff, not civilian-type things.
And yet Hye persisted in his demands. He didn't hate how simple life was on Earth, but he aspired for something new. The scenes he witnessed in the world he visited looked as if they came from a sci-fi movie or something. Not to mention many races who declined to join had bits and pieces of such advanced tech in their worlds.
If he couldn't do it, he'd lose something important to impress them. He needed to show to all that he was the future, and he was able to provide enough quality of life to make them join his side.
[Don't expect anything anytime soon, so don't set your hopes high…]
[I'll keep pestering you about this, about other stuff, don't expect anything less than that from me] Hye knew what the old Gan really wanted, and couldn't help but laugh while messaging him these words.
Old Gan didn't like it of course, but he did nothing in his power to stop Hye from bugging him. The latter then checked on the current updates of the ongoing building processes in his area, the situation of the newly joined races, and then the updates of mining crystals.
He entrusted this task to Angelica, and she was doing a great job already with everyone. They resumed the old mining spots running, using the machines they all found when they came here.
On top of that, the research department managed in the past few months to replicate and even upgrade a few of these machines. And that added a huge stock of them, enabling her team to work over and expand the current mining sites by three times. freeweɓnovel.cѳm
According to her, the crystal mines were rich in this area. The space Hye controlled was already vast enough to contain tons of meteorites and planets, all were rich with crystals and other rare minerals.
The mining process started to run on full cylinders two months ago. And according to the news, they were producing one million crystals per week. It wasn't the best result yet, but it was better than nothing.
Hye didn't plan to take these and plant them in his Crystal Heart. He got tons of crystals planted as trees there and didn't lack any crystals for now.
Yet he knew if he openly supplied these crystals to his current population, crystals wouldn't suffice, not even close enough to satisfy the needs of one percent of his population.
"We just need time," he looked outside, towards the vast space, "and we need to find other ways to get people…"
He had already spoken with one of the big impact executives, but that man still didn't reply to him. Hye thought he figured things out and was on the right track when he got a message from that dude. But then, he got nothing back.
He tried twice to contact him but got nothing in response. He didn't know what went wrong out there, but he had no other way but to wait.
"Did I give him the wrong deal or what?" as he sat down on his throne in the big flagship he boarded and used as his main palance now, he couldn't help but recall that discussion with that man.
He thought he had him in his pocket back then. Yet it seemed things went out of what he expected, and he couldn't believe this was related to the offer he made back then.
Chapter 1775: They Did Something Quite Unexpected
"Something must have happened… Don't tell me the Hescos interfered…" his thoughts drifted towards his most dangerous enemy.
The Hescos weren't just strong, they didn't only threaten him using force, but they got tons of relations with others. This sort of connection was the most lethal part of them.
All he could think about was that they must have gotten wind of what he was doing here, what he wanted to achieve, and interfered to stop everything. He guessed it partially right, someone did interfere, but it wasn't the same target he suspected for that.
And he'd get all surprised when he'd realise who was pulling the strings from behind the curtain to stop him from gaining what he wanted.
"I need to go out and visit that place…" After one more month of staying inside, Hye didn't like it. The first moments he experienced after getting out from Earth were phenomenal to him. He felt like he grew younger, got back in time again, and was having much fun.
But in the past few months, things died down. There wasn't a single event worthy of his attention, least expected of his intervention.
All he did was sit here, receive incoming intel and news, and have fun with his ladies. Aside from that, he missed the sense of fighting. And right now, he decided he should go out and look for trouble, as trouble didn't come looking for him.
In this spot of the universe, there was only one place where he could find trouble, the outer battlefield!
But before thinking about going there, he had to solve a little problem first; the pirate king.
"You said you'd let me go a few months ago!" The pirate king was roaring in rage in front of him, while the lady nymph was on his side, acting innocent when Hye was sure she was the fire starter in all this.
Hye could only sigh when he ever met with that explosive ex-bandit. He kept asking for what he promised, but Hye always denied his requests.
"Can't you get it? Without having trained and experienced fighters, how do you expect to survive? Besides, I asked you to bring more intel about the targets you want to hit. This place is going to be your base, and you need to plan things out from here…"
"It won't work this way," the pirate king shouted, "I just heard, a big war erupted over a big trading fleet, tons of loot were gained, and we only heard about it after it's over. We need to go out, we need to be ready to intervene at any given moment, or else we won't have a single scrap left to rob!"
"This…" Hye hadn't learned about such news before, and this was the first time the pirate king spoke about something like that.
"He is correct," the lady nymph stepped up at this moment and interfered, "it's not easy to gather intel about opportunities while staying behind like this. We need to go out, spread many eyes around, interact with lots of dark forces, so we can grasp a chance when it's available to grab."
With her intervention, Hye got why the two of them kept pestering him like that. "Listen, all I can offer is an army of inexperienced people from those living here, going out with you, and helping you in what you plan to do. However…"
"We know, they can't get into big sh*t, or else they'll fck up, right?" The pirate king was pissed off more than Hye even expected, "I'm cool with them, just give me the army and ships, and I'll go and won't come back until I have something to give you."
"Does that mean… Do you finally agree?" The lady nymph couldn't believe herself, and neither did the pirate king.
"What can I say," Hye shrugged, "if you want to leave, try out your luck with such low odds, then what can I say but agree? Let's just be clear, you have to inform me of any big moves at first, coordinate with me, got it?"
When he said his last words casually, he noticed the slight change over the two's faces. They looked at each other, as if they were hiding something and just got caught.
"What? You're hiding something from me?" he couldn't help but jump to this conclusion, as there wasn't any other explanation other than this for their weird response to his words.
"Ahem… About that…" the pirate king struggled to say anything, but the lady nymph said in straight and clear words:
"We have a target we'd love to go and hunt, it's…" she started to speak in great detail about what they wanted to do. And when he heard what she said, Hye couldn't help but feel surprised and amazed.
"Are you telling me you want to target a caravan belonging to the Toranks? My ally? Are you nuts?" he couldn't help but shout in their faces, and the two remained silent, as they expected such an intense response from him.
"We… We…"
"We are doing this for a good reason," the lady nymph exploded as if she was holding everything inside for too long, "they… They are the ones who are holding you back, for a very long time…"
"I know, they refused to give me any crystal when I asked, refused to give me anything of value," Hye spoke in a slow and yet very dangerous tone, "but that doesn't mean I shall go and fck with them. I already have one big force on my back, and it's causing me enough problems. You, out of all people, shall be aware of this, right?"
"I know, I know all that, but they did something new, something you aren't aware of…"
"Did what?" Hye slowly asked, with more curiosity than rage.
"I don't know exactly what it is… If I do, why won't I come and tell you about it?"
"You don't make any sense here," Hye paused, and she exchanged glances with the pirate king as if she was asking for his help.
Chapter 1776: A Tough Situation
"Look, I got connections with many dark side mates. I spoke to them, and there is a circulating rumour going on, one that's related to you and them," he sighed, as if he was trying to figure out something with less clues.
And he indeed didn't have much information to begin with. Yet what he said next meant a ton for Hye.
"I don't know many details, as everything came in an encrypted way. It's said that the big deal Hye was desperately working to close got ruined by the Toranks, to not let him get out of their grasp… That's what I have…"
"It doesn't add up, especially when we all know there isn't any big deal you are going to make," the nymph lady said, and Hye raised his hand slowly to stop her while his eyes shone in dangerous light.
"I know what exactly these rumours speak about," Hye suddenly linked the dots, "I thought… I thought it was the Hescos who interfered… Who knows that my most trusted ally for years is the one behind this… Fascinating…"
He was angry, pretty much enraged from the Toranks. His relationship with them was based on pure interest, and yet there was no reason for them to backstab him like that.
If they didn't want to help him, then they shouldn't stand in his way to get help from other places. Doing the former wasn't like the latter. And he started to see their ill intentions behind doing all this.
"Go, you'll get everything you need," Hye said in a cold tone, making the other two exchange glances. They didn't get what the Toranks did, but they were ready to go out and investigate this.
If the news were true, then they'd have attacked the caravan as a form of a punishment. But it seemed like Hye knew exactly what the rumours spoke about, and he just gave them their blessing to hit that fleet.
"Are you sure?" the pirate king asked, "we can investigate…"
"No need, I know how to extract the truth about all this," Hye coldly snorted, "just go, prepare well, and head directly out to that fleet and take it down."
"We'll do it," the lady nymph evilly laughed, "then we'll find ourselves a nice place as a base and start expanding."
"Don't forget to keep me posted," Hye paused, "and try to gather any information about the Hescos and Toranks caravans and fleets as possible."
"Our boss' appetite is huge, I like that, hahaha!" the lady nymph laughed, while the pirate king remained silent. He knew how hard it was to go for one of the big names in the universe, and Hye wanted to target two behemoths like that. If anything, he felt quite nervous, felt tremendous pressure.
Yet the lady nymph didn't feel the same. If any, she felt excited about all this. She wasn't ignorant, as she knew exactly how huge these two races were. But she also knew Hye, and she knew him since he was a greenhorn, ending up coming here and gaining a huge space area for himself.
As the two left, Hye started to squeeze his temple while thinking about this serious problem. Even if he acted tough in front of these two, it didn't mean he wasn't shaken from the inside. Yet it wasn't out of fear, but rage.
"Those motherfckers… I paid tons of my bones to them over the past two decades, and yet they didn't welcome that with support and appreciation. Did they think I won't be able to rise up? Those fools…"
He was soothing with rage from all this. This wasn't just for this incident, but for everything. He struggled to get anything of value from them for twenty years, and they always let him down.
"Without a big name in the picture to threaten their interests, it seems I'll keep struggling…'' Unlike what anyone in his position would consider, either succumbing to the mighty ones and lowering their heads out of fear, or to go berserk and act wild, he was considering something else.
He was thinking bravely about how to put these two mighty forces again against each other, and he had to be in the middle of all this. If not, then he'd gain nothing.
"It's easy to frame one force over the other, however it's hard to make this clash revolves around me…" he kept thinking for an hour or so before he finally decided to call for more information about that Toranks caravan from the nymph lady and the pirate king.
At the same time, he asked about any information regarding Hescos, especially military ones. The two were focused more on the Toranks caravan news, but it wasn't hard to gather a little intel about Hescos trading news.
Yet about military stuff, it was so hard for them to get such intel. "They don't know… And I need to find a way…" Hye rubbed his chin while considering how to solve this problem, "if I went to ask, I'll place tons of suspicion on top of my head once things roll bad…"
Hye didn't just want to get back at Toranks, he wanted them to return to the old good times and support him like before. Even if he gained such a huge area in space, he wasn't delusional to think himself equal to any of the big forces, or even safe from their retribution.
The protective shield was good, but it wasn't enough to stop the big forces. His past experience at that world made him realise the limitations of this protective shield.
And so, his only hope for now was to get back on the good side of the Toranks. He knew trying to speak with Silverlining wouldn't work, and he had to improvise and take risks in order to achieve his goals.
"What could possibly go wrong? They are putting me on their blacklist right now," he muttered to himself, while watching the intel he received from these two.
Chapter 1777: Preparing To Leave
As Hye was considering everything, the lady nymph and the pirate king both sent out the intel they got. And when Hye read through these, he couldn't help but frown.
They got very detailed information about the Toranks space caravan that made Hye doubt this was all coincidental. It felt like someone from the inside deliberately leaked such news and intel. The more he read, the more sceptical he became.
"Something seems off here… How come such detailed information about the top race highly classified caravan got leaked in such a way?!!"
From these records, he could tell this wasn't an easy caravan at all. The list of goods it held had too many TOP SECRET labels to it that made him unable to believe this was a normal caravan.
"Almost half of the cargo is top secret, and the exact content isn't clear. Hmm… If I want to realistically think about this, then I'd say this is a trap set by Toranks enemies…"
His mind drifted towards the hidden power that leaked this intel up. When he contacted the nymph lady and pirate king, both agreed on the same thing:
[This news is widespread in the dark trade hub channels, yet no one knows who released them for sure]
[Weird indeed] Hye paused before adding, [I don't like this]
[But the cargo looks really rich and huge, will be a great start for us] The pirate king seemed only interested in the expected loot. And Hye couldn't argue with him.
[Fine, but we'll play on my terms]
[What do you mean?] Both of them sent over at the same time, and Hye tapped on the arms of his seat for a few seconds before sending his conditions.
[I'll go first, spy and gather intel. You'll stay behind with the entire fleet. Make sure to not move a muscle until I give the order to]
[But…]
[Won't this link our group with you?]
[Not a problem, I'll disguise my ship and change its outer look. I'll also wear a space suit, and will restrain from using any of my signature moves]
Hye knew he'd get lots of limitations if he went out to do what he intended. But that didn't stop him though. He was known for a few tricks, including summoning warriors out of thin air, and using his techniques to control others.
"If I controlled my actions and hid quite well, it'll be hard to link the group to me. Even if others have suspicions, they won't be able to prove it…"
He sat there for half a day, while the lady nymph and the pirate king kept sending him lots of reports the moment they received. The intel kept getting richer and held more details about the entire cargo, but never delved deeper into the exact content of it.
The most glaring point that attracted his attention was that the cargo wasn't coming from a settlement or a base belonging to the Toranks here. Instead, it came from the outer battlefield, where a large number of Toranks forces were fighting.
According to the latest intel leaked, the cargo stopped first at a big system belonging to the Toranks. There it got lots of support, fleets to guard, and that told Hye how important the content of this cargo was.
"It's amazing how all these details are summed up, but not a single clue on what the cargo is carrying in general… It's either a trap from Toranks enemies, or a trap from Toranks themselves…"
Hye knew it was a trap, but as the pirate king said, the bait was too tempting to ignore. That was why he decided to take the lead himself. If things proved to be impossible for him and his gang to take a bite, he could easily escape using the backdoor to his second Earth world.
On another hand, things were going on track here. Construction process was going smoothly everywhere, and it seemed his presence here wasn't needed for a couple of months at least.
The area he got was truly immense. And trying to rebuild what he intended previously would take much longer time than he initially thought.
He took a few days to check over everything and leave his final instructions, making sure everyone of his friends and generals got what they needed to do here in his absence.
He made his instructions clear to not go out and limit all activities within. There were already many fleets outside doing reconnaissance missions, so he stressed over Lily to inform them to keep their activities low.
[Are you sure you don't need any of us with you?] Lily was far away from his current spot. And delaying travelling out right now was going to be a big mistake. The caravan would take around three months before arriving at the spot where the reports spoke about the best suited place to attack.
So if Hye wanted to get there early, he needed to move now.
[Just keep me posted all the time] Hye closed the chat with her, turned to the two standing in front of him and nodded.
"Are you sure we are going to do it this way?" The pirate king was still feeling weird about Hye's last requests last night, something that he couldn't fathom so far.
"It's for the best," but unlike him or the lady nymph, Hye was purely excited about this, "imagine having a pirate fleet, all made of alien ships. Won't that be shocking? It won't only help in disguising your identities, but will add another layer of mystery about your origins. And these ships are quite the fighter."
"But…"
"Don't worry, to operate these, you just need warriors with cultivation bases opened. I've already sent you both a huge number of their tokens, right?"
Hye looked at the two as if he already solved everything and there was nothing to worry about. The two exchanged looks in silence while they got what the other was thinking about.
"Ahem, we know all this, but there is still the point of familiarity…"
Chapter 1778: Missing A Very Important Intel
"We have two months entirely to get used to them," Hye laughed, "don't feel this way. Just use them as you use normal ships."
"..."
Even when he said all these points, it still felt weird to both of them. But Hye was already famous for being stubborn, and they knew they wouldn't be able to change his mind once he made a decision.
"Follow me," Hye boarded his flagship and let it take them over to the border of his territory. "According to the intel and maps, we are supposed to be around five months away if we flew directly on our own, so…"
He was in a big room, filled with holographic maps of this part of the universe. The maps kept flickering to show the travel routes proposed by the ship's main system, and a few other routes that Hye drew himself.
"There are many portals out there that can shorten this duration by ten times," the pirate king paused as he noticed the maps all faded, except for one.
"I know," Hye nodded, pointing to the single remaining map before adding, "but we'll go through this particular route."
"This…" the two of them looked at the map before the nymph lady added, "isn't this portal leading a bit away from the proposed meeting spot?"
"It is," Hye looked at the nymph lady in interest, "you did your research, good girl."
"Thanks," she moved a few of her hair before adding, "but that doesn't answer why you selected this route in particular."
"We need to take this route, at least for me," Hye paused, before adding, "I selected this world because it's quite close to another world with a set of portals leading to the spot the reports mentioned, also to other places around."
He paused, and it wasn't that hard for the other two to get what he was hinting at.
"You suspect the intel?" the pirate king was the first to speak up, "that's indeed quite good senses you have here, hahaha."
"You intend to go ahead first, scout the route before the meeting spot," the nymph lady added, "and if things turn out as you suspect, we'll be able to jump over and join hands to take the caravan down. If not, then we can change route and head towards the old meeting spot…"
"That's the plan," Hye calmly smiled, "everything looks so good to be true, and I don't believe in free money."
"Cool," the pirate king pointed to that map, "then we both will be heading there, right?"
"No," Hye shook his head, "you'll delay me by a couple of days. It's for the best that we won't get seen together."
"Ok," the two nodded, despite not getting why he devised it this way. He already wore a mask and the suit, so his features were impossible to recognise even by someone knowing him.
But Hye had every reason to make it this way, after all his fighting style was so unique and famous in the universe. He knew others wouldn't need to see his face to know he was out there in that battle. And so he made sure to let the pirate king and lymph lady get delayed.
"Let's go," Hye sat on the main seat inside the main deck while the pirate king and lady nymph kept checking on maps and other intel and gossip circulating in the back channels of the dark side of the universe.
Hye knew their travel would take roughly three to four weeks. And with everyone around him doing their jobs, and with the lack of any battles, he knew beforehand this adventure would kick off with a very boring start.
He kept himself busy trying to reread through everything the pirate king and lady nymph sent. The reports and gossip were quite rich, speaking about many things like the current progress of the caravan, any newly discovered intel, even a few top-secret documents getting leaked from the Toranks.
"This can't be something simple," the more he read through all this, the more his annoyance stemmed up, "something fishy is going to happen. If it's the Toranks, then they'll be setting a trap for their enemies. If it's the Hescos, then they want to get their hands on the caravan without shedding much blood…"
He knew the first option was quite unlikely. Why would the Toranks set a trap around such a caravan which looked quite important to them?
Just from the latest intel he could tell there were tons of fleets guarding the caravan. And with the new reports of more fleets joining up, he knew the news of such a leak must have reached the Toranks ears and they started to respond.
This made them be the culprit behind all this quite unlikely. In fact he suspected more of the evil intentions of the Hescos. "They are quite manipulative, and doing this would definitely help them in getting this caravan with the least losses…"
He could tell this was how this situation had developed, and yet he couldn't settle just on this. Something kept bothering him about this, and so he kept his mind open for any other possibility.
Just before the arrival of five days, a weird report came in the middle of tons of others. It was an unremarkable note about spotting a large fleet belonging to the Selvator race.
At first Hye thought this could be useful intel, but another report came in and mentioned more races moving up.
"They got greedy as others, welcome old friends," Hye dropped his interest in this intel, which would be something he'd regret later on.
Even when the later intel came void from any notification of the Selvator forces, Hye totally missed that. In fact, he wasn't to be blamed here, as the intel coming in the last week was quite rich in tons of details and massive in number as well. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
Hye kept tracking the reports flooding his messages from the pirate king and lady nymph until they finally arrived at their destination.
Chapter 1779: The Selvators
"You did great training with other warriors during this time," they didn't just gather intel for him, they also kept training with their forces diligently.
"You are sure you don't need us with you?" The lady nymph asked for the tenth time about this, and Hye just responded with a smile.
"This world is around three days away from the world I'm getting to. Just hang in there and keep yourselves away from trouble. Once I get any concrete news, you'll move out."
"Just don't depend on us getting to your side so fast then," the pirate king didn't like this plan as the lady nymph. And like her, he had no control over Hye's plans, "we'll take three days at least to get to that world…"
"Being late is better than being sorry," Hye raised a fist in the air, "see you in a few days."
The hatch of the main ship closed and the two moved in small ships away. This was the closest world to the place he was going to, and it was just three days away.
Even if he said his earlier words with pure confidence, he knew there was a huge risk in him doing that.
"I hope I don't need to personally intervene or else I'd get discovered," he paused before breaking out in a big laughter, "what if they discovered I was here? It's not like I'm the only one hitting on their caravan."
He moved back to the deck before the flagship took off with the speed of light. He sat on his seat while considering his next move.
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So far he got tons of intel about this caravan and forces moving towards it. And yet he felt like he knew nothing.
"I can't even imagine how the heck that battle will erupt or progress…" this was quite annoying. Even with such great intel, all the forces mentioned there were situated far away from the caravan, giving him no clue about how they'd attack the Toranks fleets.
At one side, the Toranks race was strengthening the defences of that caravan, and on the other side the other races' fleets were humming around it like they were bees surrounding honey.
He hoped in the upcoming days things would change, but they didn't. The intel kept coming on at an increasing rate, but all were mainly about how the fleets were trailing the Toranks caravan without any sign of any set ups of any kind.
"It seems I'm not the only one having that annoying hunch then," after arriving at the world with portals, he stopped his ship a few hours away and kept thinking about everything.
From the look of it, all the other races coming for this caravan had the same worrying feeling about the entire thing. They kept surrounding the caravan, but none ever attempted to set any attack formation or any formation of any sort.
Hye could tell they were preparing to leave at any sign of danger appearing at any moment. And that meant one thing; "the battle will get delayed this way… Unless…"
He was more positive the main culprit behind all this didn't appear out yet, didn't make a move yet. And as many reports spoke about the specific date of the battle, Hye was quite sure there would be a change up soon, one that would force everyone to move and attack the caravan.
As everyone was waiting, he also decided to wait. However, he was paying more attention now towards any weird report coming, not just the regular ones about various forces.
He knew if the hidden force orchestrating all this wanted to make a move, they must show signs first. And to pick these up, he needed to filter all the regular and old data about the known forces and focus more on the new forces appearing.
"Hmm, this report sounds weird…" he didn't wait long before he spotted a report that didn't align with others. Normally the reports shared from the pirate king and lady nymph talked either about the caravan cargo or the fleets supporting or tailing it. But this one was different.
This intel spoke about a fleet that was spotted stealthily sneaking their way around the battle. This wasn't weird, but what was weird though was that this fleet attacked the fleet closest to them, annihilated everyone.
The one who sent the report was supposed to be the leader of the destroyed fleet. The report wasn't complete as he died in that battle, but the video he shared made Hye spot something.
"This… Wasn't the Hescos supposed to be the ones doing this… Why the Selvators?!!" he felt quite surprised to spot the unique symbol of the Selvator race on that hostile fleet.
He kept zooming in and out, changing the scenes and closely inspecting everything. "That's indeed the Selvators… But there was no mention of them before… Wait…"
He stopped in his place while his eyes shimmered with a dangerous light, "I recall reading one report about them… Let me see…"
He saved all the reports sent to him by the pirate king and lady nymph. So he just searched through them and finally found the report.
"I totally missed that," when he read the report again, he found that there were clear signs of the attempt of the Selvator fleet to hide their presence. This was quite normal actually,
But what wasn't normal was the direction mentioned in the report that the fleet took, away from the direction the caravan was heading, not directed towards it as everyone else!
Hye's eyes shone brighter at this moment, as he felt like he found something that could shed more light over who was standing behind all this.
Yet the report stopped there, no more intel about the Selvators or their fleet. "There must be something in these reports," Hye returned to his seat, and started a deep, thorough look into all the reports.
Yet what he expected didn't happen. "Damn! I went through everything three times and didn't find anything, not a clue, just how…"
Chapter 1780: Hye Is In Dilemma
Hye's mind suddenly froze, turned to look at the last report he got about the Selvator fleet and their hostile actions. "It seems this battle wasn't the first, more must have happened but we didn't get any report about that…"
He didn't know how the Selvators did it, but now he knew what he needed to do. "Trying to find a clue here isn't going to work. I need to deploy my eyes around, and look for their traces… But… Why?!"
This was the main point he still didn't get. When he first had doubts about the entire thing, his mind shifted over the Hescos race, and that was the most logical conclusion.
The Selvators were a big race in the universe, but they weren't that big to clash against one of the big three. And doing something on such a large scale was quite incredible indeed, however this was in case they didn't show up.
Setting such a huge trap was ideal if they kept themselves in the dark. There wasn't a single lead to them, and no one would even doubt someone like them pulling such a feat.
And yet here they were, doing something behind the scenes and preparing for something big in Hye's eyes. "They must have another goal other than framing and trapping the big forces together… Tsk! It would have been way better if they stayed away, would have clapped for them…"
His thoughts shifted towards the real goal behind doing all this. "If it isn't to frame and entrap everyone against each other, then there is only one thing remaining… The caravan itself!"
He returned to go through the reports again, and this time he tried to sort out everything related to the caravan and what it carried. He didn't lack such intel, and yet there wasn't anything clear or concrete about all that.
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Yet he learnt from his lesson and decided to make sure he didn't miss anything, even a slightest hint, about what was inside that caravan.
"There ain't a single clue," after hours, he decided to give up looking at these reports, "it's all useless… It's like someone is toying with everyone… How come not a single clue about what's inside the caravan being leaked already? Can't believe that!"
The first thing he did was to ask the pirate king and the lymph lady to dig deeper about any news of the true nature of this caravan and its cargo. At the same time, he asked them to get ready to move out, but didn't say anything in detail to any of them.
It wasn't an issue of trust, but he wanted them to remain ready as his back up forces. He intended to use his own warriors and ships on this mission, and there was a great risk of losing much while doing so.
"It's better to let them jump in if things went wrong," Hye knew his relations with Selvators weren't the best. He kept hammering their forces back when he was on Earth, and they must have held a deep grudge against him for that.
Just from the grand machination here he could tell how serious these folks were about dealing with their enemies. But that didn't stop him for even a second from executing his plan.
"My pirate fleet will use the other universe's ships, and my fleet will use this universe's ships. This way, no one could link me to the pirate fleet…"
He came here out of curiosity about who was behind this trap. He also wanted to get out and have some fun as things were quite boring back at the area he controlled.
This reminded him of the time he spent on Earth after the end of the apocalypse trial. He was very bored back then, as building and waiting weren't his strongest virtues.
But now he wanted to know what was in that caravan that pushed the Selvators to such a higher stage of power. They weren't weak, but going against the top forces in the universe in such a way was quite weird.
"I'll see what you want, and if I like it, I'll take it," he evilly smirked while standing out in the space. He took out lots of small and fast ships, loaded them with his warriors before sending them out to scout the grand space around the caravan.
"I can't rely solely on their feedback, something tells me it'll be quite challenging for them to do so," he made the leader of every single ship open a video feed with him.
If it was just a couple dozen of them, he'd be able to handle it. But trying to follow thousands of them was an impossible task. "I'll record their feeds, and whenever any turns black I'll just go back and rewatch what happened," this was the only way he thought of to do this.
"Now it's time for me to better station myself…" he sent out his ships, but the space they'd cover was incredibly huge. Even if he spotted the place of the hidden Selvators forces, he'd take a long time to get there, which would waste the chance on him.
Instead it was way better to guess a few places that could have the Selvator fleets and move closer to them. But even guessing that was quite hard for him.
"Tsk! If only I had noticed this intel quite fast, I'd have sent my forces earlier to track them down and it'd be easier to guess…"
He stood in front of a grand map, which covered a few sectors. This was currently the place the Toranks caravan and all the fleets eyeing it were situated.
"If I don't have any intel regarding the Selvators, then I shall focus on the travel path of the Toranks caravan…"
He thought of guessing the future spots the Selvator fleets would station at according to the future paths of the Toranks caravan. It wasn't the best way to do it, but at least he got a lot of intel speaking about a great deal of the Toranks caravan path. On top of that, there was also the intel regarding the place of the expected grand battle.
Chapter 1781: Hye Removes The Mask
Hye knew the Selvators were the ones behind leaking such intel, and they wouldn't do it without good reason. "They seem to plan everything based on that battle, and so I need to put that place into my consideration…"
Hye wasn't looking at the spot itself, but at the places around where the hostile forces would be stationed at. He could tell the Selvators wanted to keep everyone busy fighting while they'd calmly surround them. And so, he started to look for good places to hide, places that could help them entrap and kill lots of fleets without losing much.
"If they selected this spot, it means there must be more perks for it than other places…" he started to study the grand map of that proclaimed place of the grand battle. He was looking for any weird places, anything that could pose a threat for any fleet in space.
And as he was looking, he didn't spend much time before spotting many places that matched what he was looking for.
What was special about that part of the universe was the presence of many asteroid belts. When he looked at the sector having the proclaimed position of the battle, he couldn't help but notice the many little dark arcs drawn on maps.
Hye magnified these lines to find out each was a huge area of asteroids, gathered and stationed without movement. "Interesting," what was far more interesting was the fact that such belts were scattered around the nearby sectors as well.
Seeing all these asteroids, and recalling how spaceships and fleets tended to avoid such regions, Hye couldn't help but evilly grin.
"You must be hiding there, right?" Hye instantly sent the orders to his warriors, letting them scatter and go to these belts to check them out.
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"Luckily these asteroids will provide a good cover for my ships, as they provide coverage for the Selvators," Hye muttered while feeling the enemy advantage was also a help for him.
Yet for his ships to go and reach such belts they'd take a couple of days at least, up to a week or more. Hye didn't intend to attack all places the enemy hid at, and just wanted to draw a rough map for their arrangement.
He thought about this matter seriously and could imagine two types of formations the enemy would have. They'd scatter their fleets to generally surround the other races' fleets. Or they could scatter their fleets in the belts close to the battle, or even in the middle of it, to help in killing the busy enemies and taking them off guard.
"If they want to kill everyone, then they'd just surround the battle and let them kill each other before stepping in. However…"
Hye knew their main goal wasn't the races' fleets, but the Toranks cargo. They wanted to distract the Toranks, and then sneakily steal the cargo.
"That means they must have fleets in the middle of the battle. That also explains why they leaked the location of the battle a long time ago…"
The more he thought about it, the more Hye felt how complicated this plan was. It felt like the Selvators planned all this for a long time, taking this matter far more seriously than he'd expected before.
He didn't want to just make it hard for them to execute their plans, but he wanted to get what was in that caravan. And to do so, he needed to infiltrate deeper into the upcoming bloody battle and secure a way out from it on top of that!
"I didn't intend to do that at all," when he realised how hard his task was going to be, he couldn't help but sigh, "it seems my effort to not attach myself to any of that is pointless…"
He thought it was going to be safe to come here and let the pirate king and the nymph lady do the job. He thought he just needed to stay on the sidelines and not interfere until necessary. But all of that changed.
He must get into the battle himself. The pirate fleet was run by the warriors he gave to the other two, but they wouldn't be enough to do the mission now.
The only person able to turn tables around the Selvators was only him. He could infiltrate alone, use his warriors to hijack many ships and form fleets even in the middle of any raging battle.
He was the only one able to attack a fleet alone and come out not only victorious, but with tons of loot.
"Shall I contact them…" as he decided to go personally into the middle of such a hectic battle, he knew his identity would be leaked. He wasn't a top figure in the universe yet, but he was sure the races he came in touch with before would recognise him, including the Toranks.
Even if the Toranks made a hostile move against him, Hye still didn't want to directly confront them as his enemies.
"It's better to not say anything," he dropped the idea of contacting them and telling them about his presence here, "let this be a little surprise for them. Who knows, perhaps that caravan has something they highly value and will make things easier later on for me…"
He didn't know what was in the caravan yet, but if it was something he couldn't use or wasn't helpful, he'd better use it in negotiation with the Toranks.
They stood in front of his path already, and he wanted to regain the strongest ally if possible. And now he found a good way to do it.
"It's more a relief to do it in public in such a way," he felt more confident about exposing his identity in that battle. And starting from there he began to plan things properly built on that.
He removed the mask first thing, then started to trail the warriors and ships he sent over. At the same time, he had a big map in front of him, which he placed the paths of his scouts on.
Chapter 1782: The Toranks Know
Time passed slowly, with tons of reports flooding his chat from pirate king and lady nymph. At first this was easy to handle, but soon enough things started to heat up at his warriors' side.
The first day passed without any action. The warriors reached the closest places he suspected and ended up finding nothing there. But starting from the second day onward, things started to heat up.
"They are there!" The first thing that happened was for a couple of screens to get dark. He was in the middle of reviewing the latest reports sent to him, and when he noticed the dark screens, he dropped any interest in these reports.
Hye didn't need to review the recordings to know his warriors stepped into places that had Selvator fleets hidden in them. But he did review the recordings, hoping to find a better way to approach these areas without getting noticed.
"Hmm, it seems they scattered lots of decoys all around the steroid belts to alarm them if any approached their areas…" he saw in the two recordings the same thing happening.
His warriors hit something with their ships. Even if the ships were stealthed, it seemed they hit with things that could alarm the enemies of their locations.
Roughly half an hour later, the screens turned dark without showing much of the enemy details. Hye knew they got hammered hard by intense firepower, making it nearly impossible to get a clue of the fleets hidden there.
"They need to lower their flying speed once approaching a belt," Hye instantly gave the orders to his warriors, making them more cautious to approach their destinations.
He didn't stop there and started to slowly examine the recordings. Yet from these two incidents he couldn't get a clue, didn't get any until the twentieth incident.
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"They are using artificial made meteorites… Interesting!" At last, he could spot what his warriors' ships were hitting to alarm the enemies. The screen of the last ship attacked showed a small object, flying fast, with a head of fire and long tail of dust and smoke.
It was like meteorites, but meteorites wouldn't move in the same way shown by the warrior ship. "Something must have attracted them to the ships… Is it the speed of flight? Or something else?"
Even if he spotted that thing, he didn't get enough information to make his warriors safely approach their destinations. And so, he started to spread additional orders to the ones approaching their belts.
"Let's see what you use," he ordered these ships to stop a distance away from the belts. Then they'd release a few warriors in suits and see what they'd spot coming at them.
"They still came at them…" he thought what attracted these artificial meteorites was the high speed the ships were flying at. But when the meteorites attacked the individual warriors flying slowly, he knew this wasn't the case.
"I need to experiment more, however…" he was tightly lacking in time to do so. Yet when he was busy thinking about a solution, he noticed something.
Every ship released around ten of their warriors, five got hit, and the other five didn't. He thought more meteorites would come, but none came.
"There is a limit!" Hye realised this point, "this is how they'd go without being detected!"
As his warrior ships were away from the belts and actively using the stealth function, the Selvator ships sent to kill the intruders didn't spot them. And to test his theory, he asked for one ship to advance.
"It passed!" The ship moved unhindered, didn't get attacked, and safely reached the asteroid belt. It stationed itself in a place not that close nor far from the Selvator fleet. And for the first time, Hye could finally see the fleet stationed in the belt.
"They brought a ton of small ships, without a single large ship…" the first thing he noticed from the broadcast was the lack of any big ship in the belt. This wasn't just a single case, but all the belts his warriors infiltrated showed the same thing.
"It seems they just sent the small ships over, leaving the more noticeable large ones away for now," he could only think of such a possibility to explain what his warriors found, "they are so overly cautious to not get spotted… What's exactly in that caravan?!"
The more he thought about it, the more he got convinced of how highly important what was in the caravan was for the Selvators. The thing that didn't make sense was the fact that this caravan came from the other universe.
"If it's important for the Selvators, this means it should be important as well to the Toranks…" he paused and started to go through the reports and intel regarding the Toranks.
During all this, he never placed the Toranks' response to such a threat that much. He knew the Toranks sent lots of fleets, but he didn't dig seriously into greater details.
Yet when he started to read through the reports mentioning the Toranks, he couldn't help but realise how serious the Toranks were to secure the caravan.
The fleets sent to directly escort the caravan weren't that much. But many recent reports mentioned the large number of fleets the Toranks kept sending to surround everything.
"Interesting…" Two forces were surrounding the caravan a huge distance away. It felt like two gigantic snakes were curling around a huge gem, ready to kill anything coming close to it, ready to kill each other for it.
"One side is hiding his presence, and the other isn't caring about hiding at all. The question is… Are the Toranks aware of what's going on? Do they know about Selvators grand scheme?"
This was a very important question. As if the Toranks knew, then he could imagine more fleets to be stationed far from here, ready to intervene if needed.
"I hope they do, hehehe," to him this would be better news. Having the two behemoths fight against each other was what he needed, to make them busy fighting and he'd slip through without getting stopped.
Chapter 1783: The Situation Is Getting More Complicated
That wasn't enough for Hye. He couldn't just rely on such a hypothesis to secure his escape. If it was another race, he'd think about disguising his ship as part of the Selvator fleets and make the other force mistake him as part of the Selvators.
This was the Toranks race he was going against, and he was quite famous in that race. The higher ups would definitely spot his identity from the unique way he'd use it in fighting.
He instantly dropped disguising as one of the Selvators and started considering other options. "The nearest portal lies a few days away from the place of battle… So dangerous…"
He searched the entire area looking for a portal that could get him as far away from here as possible. But the place the Selvator picked wasn't that close to any portal except for this one. And that portal was a bit problematic.
It was an entity of a merchant group. From the surface it looked easy to get access to, but when he did little research, he found out that the group was supported by the Hescos.
"The Hescos… Interesting!" Hye didn't find any mention before of any Hescos fleets around the region. This wasn't surprising as the entire thing was planned by the Selvators, and the Hescos wouldn't place themselves in such troublesome confrontation for the sake of others.
But when he found out about this portal, his viewpoint about this changed. It seemed the Hescos would join the battle through this portal as it was owned by them. And that meant trying to get out using this portal was suicidal!
On top of that the presence of the deadliest enemies for him in this battle at any given moment was a very risky factor. On top of that, he had zero intel about how many fleets they'd send, or when they'd even appear in the battle.
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They might wait for someone to pick the valuable thing in the caravan, and then attack him and get it. "A headache!" he couldn't help but sigh deeply after thinking about this hidden threat.
The Hescos weren't the top race in the world out of nothing. Their expected intervention made him wary of this battle. And now he had another threat he had to consider while running away.
The closest portal after this one was around ten days away! And that wasn't a good portal to pick. "If I went through the closest one, it's not just about the Hescos forces appearing out of it, but the portal will be linked mostly to a region they control… Tsk!"
On the caravan side, there was a race who was previously his ally and turned him over. And on the escape route path, there was a race who badly wanted to see him dead.
The situation was getting tougher and tougher, making him unable to make a decision right away. Hye knew if he got to the far away portal, then both races would chase and corner him.
"Unless…" Before he'd felt any panic, he saw the situation entirely from a totally different angle, "the intervention of the Hescos isn't known to anyone yet. That means I can use that to my advantage…"
Without intending to, he decided to use the same way the Selvators at the entire trap on. "To do it, I need to leave few eyes close to that portal…"
The key of his final plan was timing. He needed to start when the Hescos would go out from the portal. And so, he started to relay orders to the closest warriors to the portal region.
There was no other escape route better than that portal. As for the Hescos allied forces on the other side, he was sure he'd find a way to get out from there.
"Let me worry about that when I arrive there," he muttered to himself, while reviewing his final plan.
The plan started with him wanting to outpace the Selvators to the caravan's precious cargo. But now, it looked as if he was already actively participating in this war, as if he was one side in this war.
Even when things escalated to such a degree, he never shared any with the pirate king or the lady nymph. Even if the entire plan evolved, their role was still the same.
The date of the promised war was drawing close day by day. The caravan was getting closer to the predetermined area of battle. And with every day passing, tension seemed to rise in all races and forces tagging along.
"Someone must lose his cool by now," Hye was in his ship, observing and reviewing the reports coming from the other two. At the same time, he was still observing the Selvator fleets hidden in the asteroid belts.
The caravan was around three up to five days away from the right place of battle. And yet it wasn't that far away from that spot. Hye expected many greedy folks would start to have dreams about obtaining the precious cargo before anyone else.
As he expected, few started to move, mainly from the underground world. Those pirates and villains were greedy in nature, and having such fierce opponents was placing more pressure over them.
The moment few of them moved, more started to do the same as well. Hye refused the request from the other two to move or take part in these skirmishes.
"They'll all lose," Hye was pretty confident about that, "let the weak flies burn first. At least we'll know how strong the Toranks fleets are, and what they prepared for the big battle coming ahead…"
Hye asked the pirate king and lady nymph to keep a close eye on any report regarding the ongoing small fights. He let these two handle this task, while he returned to do his normal tasks.
So far he managed to locate and pinpoint almost sixty percent of the supposedly Selvator fleets surrounding the upcoming battle area. The missing spots were thanks to being too far away, and his ships still didn't get there.
Chapter 1784: And So It Started...
As for the Hescos, they were silent all this time. The portal looked as if it was a dead star, without showing any sign of getting activated or anything.
But Hye didn't get fooled by that. He knew the Hescos were biding their time, waiting for the right moment to intervene. And he needed to be extremely sharp about their move, especially when it'd come in the middle of the expectedly heated up battle he'd get involved in.
The news from the small battles reached him in half a day. And what he read in these reports made him grin evilly.
"The Toranks seem quite serious about what's in the caravan, they are using the deadly version of my dark realm bones like they were fighting for their existence…"
The reports spoke about the extreme use of the deadly dark realm bones of his. Nobody couldn't recognise these bones, or the special way to detonate them. But he wouldn't miss that.
He knew the Toranks had lots of his dark realm bones, gathered through long term trades with him. But even so, the amount of dark realm bones wasn't that massive for them to use in such a battle in such careless and carefree ways.
This told Hye how high they valued the caravan as well. And that was great news for him. The more they showed interest in this caravan's precious cargo, the more they'd fight desperately to keep it, the better his odds in getting his hands over this caravan.
Even if he and the Toranks were on the bad side of each other lately, the Toranks would choose him over any other race or entity to secure the caravan's precious cargo if their hands were forced. And his main role was to ensure they'd be cornered heavily, to the extent they'd let him get the cargo and might perhaps facilitate his escape with it as well.
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"Now all I need to do is just wait," Hye looked at the incoming intel from everywhere and couldn't help but evilly grin.
The more news he received, the better his odds became. He could already see the bloody battle coming up, and this time he didn't need to go personally at first.
In fact, he used to fight as a spearhead, doing the hardest tasks himself. But this time it was different.
There was a big con in his famous fighting style. Even if he got the ability to make up a huge army out of nothing, he still was limited in the amount of information or the ability to change tactics and pick the right battle to go in.
The moment he acted; it'd be too late to move on to another spot. So, he decided to take a step back this time, and carefully pick the right moment to move out.
At the same time there was something extra, something related to the big plan in his head. To make sure this plan would succeed, he needed to hold himself back and not take part in the early opening in this big war.
"And so it started…" Just as the Selvators leaked, the moment the caravan arrived at the designated spot, the big war erupted. Unlike what everyone expected, unlike what Hye guessed, the war started by a total surprise.
"That's genuinely brilliant and savage at the same time!'' The opening of this battle came from nowhere else but the heart of that spot. Out of the blue, a few stars close to each other detonated. And this was just the start.
"A black hole is formed in the heart of the caravan, now the Toranks have no other option but to force their way out of there… One hit and they turned the table entirely over the Toranks, brilliant!"
Hye could see the formation of the black hole as a direct feed was started. No one knew who owned that channel, but it seemed he was fairly knowledgeable about the Selvator plans. And that told Hye he must be someone belonging to them.
The live broadcast was from a place not that far from the caravan, but it was far enough to secure the life of the one owning the channel. The channel spread like fire in the underground network, and Hye learnt about it fast, just like tons of others who sat their gazes on this battle.
The stars exploded first, then the debris and explosion got merged together in a weird way to form a small black hole. Hye could sniff the fingerprints of the Selvators over the formation of the black hole. And he knew this black hole couldn't be taken lightly.
Even if it was small, it'd keep growing and expanding, absorbing and crushing anything around. Hye didn't need to follow the broadcast to know the Toranks would make the crucial decision and start pushing their way forward.
And the moment that happened, the other forces that kept tailing the caravan finally got their chance to attack.
The Toranks was still a scary behemoth even in front of all these fleets. So no one wanted to sacrifice himself to be the first to start the fight. No one needed to test the Toranks fleets to know how deadly the traps they sat around the caravan were.
But things changed the moment that black hole appeared. The caravan was led in haste as far away from that black hole as possible. And the moment that happened, everyone knew the tight defences the Toranks laid earlier were now useless.
Even the scattered underground pirate fleets started to attack at this point. It was hectic, and Hye couldn't help but sigh at how deadly and vicious such an opening move from the Selvators was.
The Toranks were in a very dangerous position right from the start. The most dangerous trick the Selvators pulled was to let the Toranks drop any prior preparations they made and risk facing the enemies head on.
The Toranks were strong, but in front of all these enemies and without any good defensive measures, Hye was sure they'd fall faster than he thought.
Chapter 1785: They Are Patient
"It seems the Selvators wanted to end this war fast," Hye knew the Selvators had the option to let the Toranks and other fleets fight among each other. And then they'd appear when time was right and steal the trophy for themselves.
But such extreme moves meant they were in a hurry. And he couldn't help but think about the silent predator lying in wait; the Hescos!
"They knew," Hye amusingly smiled, "and it seems they learnt about the Hescos quite late. But… Does that mean the Toranks also know?"
This was a big point he needed to clarify. His entire plan was dependent on the negligence of Toranks and other races of the Hescos' presence.
Now the Selvaotrs knew, and Hye started to search the recent reports, looking for any news about further Toranks reinforcements coming this way.
"If there is any, then many reports would have spoken about that," he didn't find a single mention of such reinforcements coming to rescue. And that meant the Toranks didn't know yet
"The Toranks don't know, and the Selvators do? That's weird…" Hye laid his back on the couch, thinking more about this, "don't tell me… The Hescos is working with the Selvators?!!"
He soon discarded such a hypothesis. It didn't add up, as the Selvators change in plans meant they were worried about the Hescos.
"I shall wait a bit further then," Hye felt his earlier decision to wait was quite good. If he raced up to attack the caravan, he'd have ended up entrapped with the Toranks, getting attacked from everywhere, while running for his life from the deadly and merciless black hole.
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What he didn't know was that the Selvators accidently discovered the plans of Hescos to intervene. They made sure to keep this news hidden, or else most of the forces gathered here would give up once they learnt about that.
The main attractive point for these forces eyeing the caravan was the lack of any big behemoth in this battle. They thought the Toranks were cornered, and without any big predator presence, they got a shot.
Hye's decision to keep himself away for now would save him from tons of trouble soon enough.
The early battles weren't that significant. The Toranks were strong even when they were racing time to run away from the black hole. And yet with every few hours passing, more forces would arrive, and the battles started to turn hectic and bloody.
The Toranks had to disperse, covering a huge area of space to secure the caravan's escape. At the same time, they left behind a few fleets to guard the caravan, acting as the last line of defence.
The main glaring point was the overall weakness of the attacking forces. Even if they had good ships, well trained teams, they still lacked general principles of organisation.
They were attacking like locusts, all for their own good, without even arranging stuff with each other. They all eyed the caravan, thought about taking it for themselves and not sharing with anyone else.
That made all these forces, even if they had the upper numerical advantage, pretty useless and weak in front of the coherent defending Toranks fleets.
"Tsk, can't they see this is futile," Hye was surprised that alliances never got birthed out during the past period, "they had enough time to do that. Don't tell me they'll just keep coming this way and get killed in the end!"
It was weird indeed, but what he noticed all the forces that didn't take part in the war so far noticed as well. At first no one thought the Toranks would last more than a few hours. And yet after the passage of an entire day, no one even managed to penetrate the ironclad defensive line-up of the Toranks, not to mention getting a glimpse of the real caravan.
"That's new…" After another half day of useless attacks, Hye finally spotted an attack that looked coordinated between ten different forces. And for the first time since the start of the war, the Toranks started to lose!
The combined forces weren't the only ones formed in the background. More coordinated attacks came, placing huge pressure on the already stretched Toranks fleets.
The Toranks were doing great so far, but their forces were dispersed over a large area of space. So, when they got little pressure, many holes appeared, and few fleets started to escape their grasp.
"Tsk! Still not enough!" Even when a few fleets escaped from the outer resistance area, they got hammered hard by the fleets defending the caravan. Their escape didn't yield anything, but at least there was new movement and good signs.
[Not yet!] During all this time, the other two kept nagging him, asking when they should move out. Hye knew it was the worst time possible to act. And he had to wait patiently and keep watching until a chance emerged.
Even when he got fed up with them and explained how this situation was suicidal for them, they still wanted to get into the fray.
"They just want to secure the caravan first, getting impatient… It seems other forces are having the same thoughts…"
Hye realised that with few fleets passing through the outer Toranks net, everyone must have felt the pressure and got greedy and impatient. As he expected, the next waves of attacks were massive, while many impatient forces moved out, trying to pass through and get to the caravan.
And yet that backfired, as these random and separate fleets disturbed the organised efforts of others, making it all get wasted and all got stopped again.
At the same time, the Toranks finally got the chance they wanted to breathe and organised their forces in a more efficient way. They retracted their outer forces, making them closer to each other, and that made the task of penetrating through more challenging and less possible.
"Those Selvators are very patient… They must have everything playing out according to their plans," even when many grew impatient and greedy, the Selvators kept their calm and never appeared so far.
Chapter 1786: Attacking The Toranks
Hye thought they'd take advantage of such a chance, where many forces were attacking the Toranks. But it seems they had everything running by their plans.
"I need to foil their plans…" Hye didn't like it. The situation might look ugly on the surface, but he had the feeling it was perfectly playing to the Selvators scheme.
He didn't intend to move at first, but now he decided to give it a shot. "I need to make them feel the pressure, and having the other two come here won't do. I have to do it myself… But first, I need to prepare…" freёweɓnovel.com
Hye sat his eyes away from the ongoing bloody battles, looking towards the forces that got shaken out from there and escaped. The fleets that attacked weren't all massacred, and many ships managed to escape without looking behind.
And yet even if they lost a big chunk of their fleets, these forces never lost hope of getting their hands on the grand prize. They were in a much worse situation right now, yet they still gathered on a few spots, following the travelling caravan and Toranks defensive fleets from far away.
Hye sat his gaze upon them. He could use his warriors, but he decided to raise an army of those useless forces and turn that army towards the caravan direction.
As he decided that, he sent a message over to the other two. As expected, they grumbled over his decision to go solely, and wanted to come and accompany him.
"They think I'm crazy enough to go for the caravan right now, idiots!" Hye sighed, while leading his ship towards the nearest gathering of the forces' remnants.
"Time to raise my army, go, go my beloved technique and get them on my side," Hye used his technique, launching lots of arms that went towards the enemies at the distance.
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The moment he arrived there, no one paid attention to him. They saw a single ship coming their direction, and they got tons of ships on their side.
But when lots of weird arms came out from this ship, everyone started to feel weird. And when the ships hit by these arms stopped responding, and later on more arms came out from them, everyone started to grow cautious and suspicious.
"You think these defensive shields can stop me? Pathetic!" Hye evilly laughed, "the moment my technique works, nothing can stop it!"
Hye's technique couldn't be stopped by this universe's technique. And yet his speed on accumulating new force was slow.
He had to wait for his technique to invade others and force them to sign a contract with him. If he wanted to kill them, things would have gone much way faster than this.
"I need to be patient," as he witnessed many ships scatter, while few tried to come at him and attack, he couldn't help but laugh, "I'll show you how grave your mistake is to target me… Go kill them for me, my Soulers!"
He took out a bunch of his Soulers, let them wear suits, and then released them over the space. Seeing such useless suits coming out from his ship didn't startle the attackers, instead they laughed at how useless the one leading the ship was.
Then they attacked. Hye was inside his Black Feather ship. So it was easy for him to evade the incoming attacks. Even when they were threatened by him, the different ships didn't organise their attacks, and came like useless punches in the air.
And after evading for a few minutes, his soulers finally got into the attacking ships. Hye didn't need to look and wait, as he knew these ships were done for.
"I gained enough to make one big fleet, nice," after a couple hours, he called an end to his little assault. Many ships escaped here after seeing the weird happenings to other ships getting attacked by the weird arms or seeing the ships trying to attack Hye's ending up without moving a finger.
"The Black Plague Ship," that was the nickname his little ship got from others who escaped. And soon he even saw reports speaking about him, calling him by this name, making him laugh hysterically about that.
"They thought I'm one of the Toranks, hehehe, that's super funny," Hye shook his head while moving towards another gathering spot, "I'll make another fleet, then send both at the same time to make things spicy."
During doing this, the entire situation didn't change at all. Different fleets kept coming at the Toranks, and they left behind nothing, not even a scar.
From time to time coordinated attacks came, and few managed to penetrate through. And yet not a single one managed to get it to the caravan without getting wiped out.
Hye knew keeping it this way wouldn't result in anything but big failure. And he needed the Selvators to start moving.
"Now it's time to hit that caravan and make everyone panicked," Hye finished making two additional fleets, owning three newly acquired fleets. He didn't move them at once towards the Toranks, waited patiently for the right moment while arranging the three fleets to three different directions.
"It's now!" He waited for five hours before another coordinated attack came. He didn't want to hit the Toranks while useless scattered forces were throwing away their lives. The best chance was when a coordinated force would attack, "Move out!"
He gave the order at last, sending the three fleets out at the same time. One fleet would follow the coordinated forces, pressuring the Toranks with them, and making use of the holes created by such an attack.
At the same time, the other two would pressure the Toranks from two different directions. Even if the Toranks were covering a big area, the pressure they'd suffer from one spot transversed through other fleets stationed across the outer layer of defence.
"They passed through!" The easiest fleet to have it was the one following the coordinated attack. It was pretty expected, and the other two suffered big losses before finally making it through, "converge! Meet up and push after the coordinated force remnants!"
Chapter 1787: Bringing Chaos
This was Hye's plan from the start. If he arranged a big fleet from the beginning, the coordinated force would drop any idea of pressing the attack and would retreat and let him do the heavy work.
But as the fleet he sent after them wasn't that big, they kept attacking without fearing or depending on him. And when they attacked the inner and tight layer of defence, Hye used the chance to make his new grand fleet while waiting for the Toranks formation to get disarrayed.
He noticed during the past incidents that coordinated fleets made it inside, the Toranks would send lots of their ships to hunt them down. This would create a hole in their tight formation, not precisely a hole, but a weak spot he'd target.
"Hit that spot now!" When the same happened, he moved his stationed fleet towards that weak spot, "they wanted to squeeze my fleet in between the outer and inner layers, useless move!"
While he was forming his grand fleet, the Toranks also noticed that. It looked futile to wait for that new and big fleet to come and attack the inner layer. It was clearly visible how threatening this move would be.
So they let the inner layer handle the remnants of the coordinated forces, while they sent enough ships from the outer layer to pressure over Hye's fleet from outside.
Yet they were late! The inner Toranks fleets were way fast in cleaning the attacking coordinated remnant force, and that was the signal Hye waited for.
"Attack!" without any speck of hesitation, he gave the order for his fleet to hit the weak spot of the Toranks. The moment his fleet attacked; chaos erupted!
First thing happened was for the tightly packed fleets surrounding the caravan to break their formation, wanting to circle and entrap his fleet. They thought this would be an easy to handle battle, but that wasn't the case.
"Show them how scary my Soulers are!" Hye didn't just send the newly acquired different race members out there, he also sent his Soulers.
There weren't that many of them, just a few tens of thousands, but they were enough to create havoc in the middle of the Toranks!
The Soulers moved out, attacked the nearby ships, and all of sudden a weird phenomenon started to appear. The ships coming close to the invading fleet suddenly stopped flying!
Instead of attacking the invading fleet, they ended up forming a protective layer, one that stood tall and strong in front of other Toranks ships coming!
The move the Toranks thought to help end this battle fast was the movie that made them fail! Hye's fleet had to worry only of the ships standing between them and the caravan. And the rest of the Toranks forces already got distanced away from them by a widening and growing protective layer!
The Toranks in the middle of this battle were growing mad! They tried to contact the ships that stopped flying and moving, without any response. In the end they had to attack them, feeling bitter about killing and destroying their own ships in such a way!
But they had to! The ships standing between Hye's fleet, and the caravan weren't enough, not even close enough!
If they didn't do it, then Hye's fleet would find its way easily to the caravan. And yet even with ships getting bombarded by their mates, more ships started to stop moving, showcasing the same weird happening out there.
"Hahaha, Silverining grasped the situation fast, hahaha," just as this was happening, Hye received a message from Silverining, one he didn't open.
"Sorry pal, you were the one to abandon me," Hye evilly smirked, before watching his combined attack cause the damage and chaos he wanted, "stop! Attack more Toranks ships, kill and destroy to your heart's content."
Unlike what anyone else in his spot would do, Hye didn't make his fleet press forward and pass the thin alignment of the Toranks. In fact, his main goal from doing this was to disrupt the Toranks formations, weakening their forces by destroying more ships, and invoke fear in the souls of everyone here that the caravan could be snatched at any moment.
Under the scared gazes of everyone, his fleet stopped pushing forward, and started to bombard all the ships around without showing pause or mercy. More Toranks ships got attacked and destroyed, and more messages came from Silverining that Hye ignored.
The situation that had been at a standstill for two days now changed drastically thanks to him. The fleet he formed was big enough to take a few hours from the Toranks fleets to take it down. Not to mention the unexpected intervention of his Soulers.
That forced the Toranks to send more ships from the outer layer, shrank the outer layer area of activity even to make up for that. At the same time, other forces grew scared, and also grew greedy.
"It's a chance!"
"Don't know who that force is, but they are helping everyone hahaha!"
"They don't attack the caravan, but the fleets surrounding it! Now those dirty bastards can't stop us now!"
"Advance! Send everyone, send everything, it's now or never!"
As Hye intended, all forces watching from a distance moved. They knew this was a one in lifetime chance, and they had to be faster than others to grasp it.
No one knew who was the one behind this except the higher ups of the Toranks. Silverlining kept nagging him with messages, and Hye kept ignoring him.
"Keep fighting, till the last man and ship," his orders were strict to his newly gained forces. If any disobeyed, he killed them at once. So others had to do the task, waiting for a miracle to happen and they keep their lives in the end.
Yet from the very start, their lives were doomed the moment Hye sat his gaze upon them. He used them as a suicidal squad, and they did their part brilliantly well.