Chapter 1788: Making One Move After Another
"Not only did they kill lots of ships, but they also disrupted the formation way better than I imagined, hahaha!" Hye looked at the aftermath of his intervention, couldn't help laughing at the Toranks.
The protective Toranks fleets weren't small, but they weren't in the right formation nor position to stop anyone coming. The screen showing the part of space around the outer line up of defence looked as if the entire space was formed of spaceships.
Everyone came, and everyone wanted to race others to the caravan and get it.
Hye knew the Selvators were acting calm as everything was happening the way they planned. But now he changed everything, as if he flipped the table with one single move.
The Toranks tried their best, but it was clear they didn't have what it'd take to stop the incoming fleets. As things escalated to such an extent, their top priority shifted to letting the caravan escape first with as many fleets as possible.
That meant they'd leave behind kamikaze fleets, few in number, but quite deadly. They acted in a very suicidal way, while paving the road for the caravan to escape.
The incoming various forces' fleets moved with high momentum and morale at first. But soon all this got lost and crushed by the suicidal fleets the Toranks left behind.
"Quite brutal," watching all the death and explosions that erupted from that bloody battlefield made even Hye feel quite shocked, "what's exactly in that caravan? They are putting on a much better performance than I even imagined!"
In front of Hye, he saw what meant to be one of the top races in the universe. Even in such a drastically bad situation, the Toranks managed to pull a move that slightly shifted the odds to the better for them.
And yet what Hye did with his intervention was enough to make it hard to protect the caravan. Even if the few suicidal Toranks fleets managed to stop the incoming flood of enemies, it was only temporarily measure.
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On top of that, many smart forces decided to abandon the direct chase, and took much longer routes to reach the caravan away from the bloodbath at the big battle.
It was clear that in a few hours, the caravan would get entrapped with tons of enemies. As for those who'd get their hands on its content, it was still unclear.
"It's now or never," Hye sat in his ship, amusingly watching the entire show with cold blood. He did all this to force the Selvators' hands. And he knew delaying their intervention would cost them huge.
"Here you are!" As he expected, the Selvators couldn't keep watching things getting out of their hands without getting involved.
The first sign he spotted came from the stealth ships he sent over and monitored the Selvator fleets. "One… Two… Five… Twenty…"
He kept counting the spots that Selvators moved from. "Pretty decisive! They moved two thirds of their forces… That means the rest will be left to stop any hidden players…"
Out of all the spots Hye's ships were watching, two thirds moved while the rest didn't. He didn't stand idle and ordered his stealth ships to tag along, carry over the development of the Selvators fleets all the time.
He knew the Selvators were a truly hidden behemoth that none was prepared for. "It's time for my second move," as he saw the Selvators fleet move as fast as they could, he knew it was time to make his second move.
[You want us to issue these as an intel report?!!]
[How did you get these in the first place?!!!]
The other two who kept nagging him about getting into the fray had something to do at the end. He sent them recordings of the Selvator fleets movement, without showcasing the places they were hiding at.
[Why not? Anyone can release intel reports, right? Just do it, and don't forget to leave your pirate force name behind these intel reports]
Hye didn't just want to expose the Selvators early to the world, he also wanted to make a little name for his new pirate force. freewebnσvel.cøm
He knew such reports would make a big fuss. After all, no one knew about the presence of the Selvators. And not only exposing them early would foil their plans and make it harder for them to steal the caravan, it would also give the credit for this god sent help to his pirate force.
In his eyes, he was getting the most out of this war so far, even more than the ones who planned everything in the first place.
Watching the reports getting released, and responses flooding his messages which got shared by the other two, Hye could only laugh.
The forces gathered in this spot of the universe got all shaken and shocked by such revelation. At the same time, they all felt utmost gratitude for Hye's fleet of pirates who exposed such deadly threat.
The timing was perfect! The Selvators were already halfway towards the caravan and the deadly battles were ongoing out there. Not only the different forces got advantage of Hye's intel and help, but also the Toranks.
In front of him, he saw almost all the forces and Toranks fleets to disengage. The Toranks fleets raced after their caravan, while preparing tight defensive formations. As for other forces, they seemed as if they were tagging along from far, while not risking getting greedy.
The presence of such a big force out of the blue made everyone wary and suspicious. Without the need for Hye to say it, everyone started to question if the Selvators were the ones behind all this.
This was the most logical and simplest explanation everyone had. Even the Toranks guessed the same. But even guessing this fact wouldn't help any in this situation.
The Selvators were on their way here, and no one was ready for them.
"What will you do, scattered forces?" Sitting in his ship, Hye felt like he was a maestro orchestrating an epic piece of melody. "Don't tell me you want another intervention… Tsk!"
Chapter 1789: If You Wanted To Do Something, Do It Yourself!
After waiting for half an hour, he couldn't see any sign of progress between the different forces out there. They were acting cautious, but that wasn't enough.
If nothing happened, the Selvators would bombard the unprepared and weakened Toranks fleets. If other forces let that happen, then the caravan would fall into the Selvators hands. And by then, all silent Hescos would make a move, and no one would be able to stop them.
"I should do everything myself then," After waiting for half an hour, nothing new happened, "it's true, if you want to do something, do it yourself."
He opened the chat between him and the other two, [Listen up, you'll send a rally call for all the forces out there, invite everyone to join you. Only one will go on this mission, taking half of the fleet you have…]
Hye started to give tons of orders to the two. After so much time standing on the sidelines, they finally got something to do. But what Hye wanted looked a bit weird.
[Are you sure?]
[This way, we won't have a chance to secure the caravan!]
The two expressed their doubts, and Hye could only roll his eyes in response.
[Just do as I say] he sighed, [If not, then we have really zero chance in getting our hands on the caravan]
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He knew the other two wouldn't get his point without explaining everything. But he didn't want to. He even doubted if he explained, they'd get to see the point and would still be focused on getting to the caravan without focusing on how to do this.
[Fine, I'll go] the pirate king decided, [At least I have a little name to myself. Let me lead this and the lady nymph can stay behind]
[What shall I do then? Staying behind and watching you two work and have fun? Come on!]
[Just wait and be ready] Hye sighed, [You'll have a big role to play, and if I'm not wrong, what you'll do will decide if we'll survive this or die here]
His words made the annoyed lady nymph silent. She didn't get what Hye truly meant, but she could tell he wasn't bluffing nor joking.
As everything got decided, Hye waited patiently for the intel coming from the pirate king. The latter was the best one to lead such a role. And what he did proved how good choosing him for this role was.
The first thing he did was to search for his old friends, those he met and known when he was the Pirate King. he made sure to ask them for help, expressing his intentions to rally everyone up at such a drastic moment, and attack the incoming Selvators pretty hard.
He did exactly as how Hye requested, expressing the glands need to stop the Selvators before it'd be too late. As for whoever would get the caravan, it'd be up to the best force to get it after stopping the Selvators.
From the general point of view, this was a perfect plan. But they were dealing with criminals here, people with no honour at all. So, it was impossible for them to follow such a plan without growing greedy and aiming to get the caravan for themselves.
That was why the pirate king and lady nymph argued with Hye about the plan. They wanted him to change it, let the lady nymph join and lead her fleet to secure the caravan.
"Pretty impulsive and impatient, did they think the Toranks won't interfere and stop everyone?" Hye snorted when he recalled such useless debate. These two thought of everything right, except for the Toranks abilities in this war.
The Toranks was the number two race in the universe! They weren't in such high rank without a good reason. Hye was quite positive that they got something up their sleeves, something they wouldn't use until they'd be too cornered by everyone, with no way out.
That was why Hye wasn't worried about the greedy bastards in the forces he targeted. On top of that, he kept lady nymph away with enough ships and forces to be able to change any deadly situation if happened.
He wasn't sure if what the Toranks had would endanger the faraway forces or not. If the pirate king got threatened, he'd have to find a way to save his life. Not to mention the best outcome from all this was for most of these forces to survive this and live another day to tell the tale of the pirate king forces and what they did for everyone.
Hye wasn't just aiming to secure the caravan, he was also trying to pave the road for his underground force at the same time.
"Oho, this pirate king seems to know what he is doing!" After an hour, many reports started to flood on his screen. Hye saw what the pirate king did from these reports.
The old friends and even rivals the pirate king knew and interacted with before agreeing on his proposal. They all worked hard and fast, ending up arranging almost all the forces out there under a single banner.
The first sign of this appeared when the fleets that kept a distance from each other all this time started to merge and join one another. Hye saw this happening from the feedback on his screen and also in the reports.
"Twenty different big forces at least, interesting…" Hye noticed that the early big gatherings numbered up to twenty-three. That meant these were the big factions which would work under the pirate king, or perhaps work against him at some point, "let's see how they'll arrange their forces after joining him…"
Hye was also following the pirate king moves. The latter took half the ships and warriors, moving in a big fleet towards an area Hye picked before.
It was in the middle area between the incoming Selvators and the trying to run away Toranks. The travel alone would take a couple hours from the pirate king, much less than that for the forces trailing the caravan.
Chapter 1790: Stopping The Selvators
Yet these forces were overly cautious to not be the first to arrive there. They waited till the pirate king came close enough, and then they started to move towards the gathering spot.
[See? They sent fleets to attack the caravan!] The one to send this complaint over wasn't the pirate king, but the lady nymph. Like Hye, she was also watching the pirate king moves and tracking everything closely.
She noticed, just like Hye, the forces which were about to join the pirate king's side, sending lots of ships away from the direction of the meeting. They wanted to attack the caravan when almost everyone was busy fighting the Selvators.
[Let them be] Hye didn't feel any pressure, [Just be sure to be ready to act if things needed to]
[I'm too fcking far away! It'll take hours to get there! Let me move right now…]
[No!] Hye decisively refused, [Just listen to my orders and don't foil the plan, or else you'll get killed by my hands!]
He knew she was very agitated and impatient, but the last thing he'd want to see was for her to disobey his orders and do something that'd cost him everything he worked for so far.
[Tsk!] She indeed planned to disobey his orders. But when he threatened her like that, she couldn't help but hesitate and renege on what she intended to do.
Hye ignored her for now. He had the feeling things wouldn't run as smoothly as he expected and planned. And he got more feeling about how important her role in saving the day would be.
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He knew he should always trust his instincts, especially in such vague and shaky situations. He moved his focus over the pirate king, watching how he handled the incoming forces, arranged them into legions.
He spread the grand fleet he gained into seven different legions. Hye made sure to personally message the pirate king about that, asking him to distribute the forces over seven only.
"Trying to gather them together in one big force won't save the problem, and making lots of legions won't do either," Hye muttered while referring to the twenty-three different forces in the pirate king grand alliance, "let's see how they'll act with just seven legions."
This was the best idea he came up with in such a short time. At the moment of forming the seven legions, they all moved in different directions, each to stop a huge part of the incoming Selvator fleets.
The Selvators already sniffed what was going to happen. And instead of just throwing their fleets in the direction of the caravan, they started to arrange and gather them into bigger fleets.
By the time the pirate king prepared his seven legions, the Selvators prepared four. Even if they were the ones who planned all this, they still were way outnumbered. And with what Hye meticulously planned, their enemies managed to add another advantage of being a coherent and united force.
Without the need to wait for the results, Hye knew the Selvators would suffer a big defeat. The size of defeat and the number of losses were all substantial to the Selvator leaders themselves.
If they felt threatened, they'd keep pushing their fleets to get to the caravan. If they acted wise, they'd retreat and wait for a better chance.
Hye ignored all the panic messages coming from the lady nymph. He calmly waited and watched as the battles started in different directions, and between different forces.
As he expected, the different forces that sent ships to try and steal the caravan got hit hard and destroyed. They didn't work in an organised manner, but in a very selfish and competitive way that made the task of the Toranks even easier to get rid of them.
"Tsk! And here I was waiting for them to force the Toranks to use their hidden weapon," Hye sighed, "what a waste!"
Aside from this little hiccup, the other battle side proved to be effective and successful. The Selvators got pushed back in less than a few hours of engagement with the seven forces.
Even if they were losing on the numerical side, the Selvators showed how strong and capable they were. They managed to deal lots of damage over the coalition formed by the pirate king. And when they decided to retreat, it was done in a very organised and calculated way that limited their losses.
"They knew they wouldn't succeed in passing… Or perhaps it was the high cost they'd pay if they kept attacking…"
Hye kept thinking about this while watching the Selvators retreat far away from the caravan. They didn't run away as most of the coalition forces thought, instead they retreated to the nearest safe and hidden bases of theirs.
"Now it's up to the underground world forces the pirate king gathered to make their next move," Hye knew these forces lost much more than what they initially expected. And yet they were still in a very good shape to continue fighting.
Yet this time things were doomed to be different. Before they agreed to join hands together as there was a scary predator around. But now they were going to act selfishly again.
"I'm sure this time the Toranks won't keep their hidden hand away," Hye could read the next moves the coalition army forces would make. And when the pirate king contacted him with the news, he confirmed his guess.
[New change, I intercepted many arrangements for the forces I gathered to break the alliance and move to hit the Toranks] the pirate king sent.
[Are they going to work solo?] This was the point Hye wanted to know the most. And what he heard made him realise these forces learnt something from the desperate fate the little ships they sent suffered.
[They are going to form smaller alliances between each other, I even got the invitation from many to join them. What shall I do?]
"So, they learnt and evolved, interesting," Hye laughed, "but this is for the best for my plans. Time to push things up a notch…"
Chapter 1791: Idiots
[Are you sure? This way I may turn into their public enemy…] The pirate king shared his concerns about the response Hye just sent him over
Hye asked him to refuse all offers, saying his role here was done. [It's going to be easier if you said you are going to hunt Selvators] Hye sent the explanation.
[But…]
[Don't worry about their doubts, they are more focused on getting the loot to pay attention to such little details] Hye laughed, [I bet they'll celebrate your decision, and perhaps will even wish you good luck!]
The pirate king didn't get it. To these outlaws, one less fierce competitor was a good thing to them. They wouldn't care too much about any hidden reasons or ulterior motives for now. Their attention was fully hijacked by their greed and desire to secure the caravan before anyone else.
As Hye expected, what the pirate king told others didn't stir any trouble as the latter feared. Few even wished him luck, and all left without asking more.
Hye watched the grand number of ships moving out, distributed in fourteen fleets. These were the number of alliances formed, and Hye could tell there were few lone wolves in the mix.
"It's amazing not a single one gave this issue more thought and decided to wait behind," Hye laughed when he realised that only the pirate king remained behind, "they may even thought the pirate king was a fool, hahaha!"
He didn't care much about what they thought. His main focus now shifted from this battle to another spot. "No sign so far? Are you waiting for someone to grab the trophy then you'll intervene and snatch it?"
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Hye's attention shifted over the Hescos portal. His top concern now was them. If he was in their shoes, then waiting and not doing any move was the best move right now. And they were brilliantly doing that.
He wanted them to move, as the moment they'd do, chaos would erupt. Yet this little pressure the Toranks were going to face wasn't enough to push the Hescos over the border yet.
As there was no development at that front, he shifted his attention again towards the about to erupt battle between the Toranks and their chasers.
The Toranks got the chance to widen the distance while the coalition army was fighting against the Selvators. And yet the distance they pulled wasn't quite enough to make them far away.
For a reason, the caravan was moving slightly slow. They were formed of gigantic ships, ones that weren't any different from any flagship in any fleet. These ships had slower flying speed than other ships of smaller sizes.
Since the start of everything, this point was the most undervalued killing spot for the caravan and entire Toranks fleets guarding it!
That made the distance not big enough to let the caravan escape safely. But it was enough to let the Toranks lay down a few fleets in defensive formations, and even lay traps as well.
The incoming forteen fleets started to hit the traps one by one, quite fast. They weren't just trying to race to the caravan, but they wanted to be the first to reach there.
They all took the Toranks as a weak bunch of fighters, extremely exhausted and with low morale. But that was far from the truth, very far from it!
The Toranks wasn't the second biggest race in the world for nothing. Their fleets stood firm in front of the incoming enemies, and made these outlaws pay a very hefty price to get past them.
Even if they were outnumbered, the few Toranks fleets knew and accepted their mission. They were acting as bait, to delay the incoming enemies, buying their main forces and caravan enough time to run fast from here.
The great disparity in numbers didn't startle or frighten them as the enemies thought. In fact, they got a weird source of courage stemming from the magnitude of responsibility ushered over their shoulders.
By the time the fourteen outlaw forces got rid of the Toranks at the rear, ten hours passed. It was the longest time the outlaws got delayed from the caravan. And now they had to cross at least five hours of travel with their top speed to catch up with the caravan.
Yet there was a very glaring issue that all decided to ignore, or perhaps didn't even notice it. They lost too much, making the fourteen forces that got formed by joining hands together look as if they were single fleets!
On top of that, the worst losses came in the ranks of those who refused to rearrange and join others forces. "They are idiots, stubborn and idiots…" Hye from far away couldn't help but shake his head, "it's time to adjust our position as well."
To him, he felt like he was a chess master, playing a chess game against multiple enemies. As the Toranks led the caravan away, he needed to reposition himself before things would escalate.
He wasn't worried about the caravan getting away. For a reason he felt like something unexpected might happen, something to stop and prevent the Toranks from getting their precious caravan to a safe spot.
[You want me to move to the edge of the next stellar system?!!!] The first person he contacted wasn't the pirate king, but the lady nymph.
[Make sure you won't get spotted, or followed by anyone] he stressed over this point, [Even if you'll take longer, do it and be sure you aren't noticed]
[I'm all alone, how come I get noticed?!! And why go to such a distant place? I'll need days to just arrive there! Not to mention it's not on the travel course of the caravan!]
Everything she said was right, but he got a long term vision about the future of this battle. So, he didn't plan things based on current data, but over what he felt would happen in the upcoming days.
Chapter 1792: A Tough Spot
[You won't travel alone; this is a battlefield! And there are tons of outlaw fleets that got scattered, tons of ships that fled, and no one knows what may happen or what they are doing!] freewebnøvel.com
[This… You mean…]
[Take the fleet out, at least one fourth of it] Hye sent over his clear instructions, [This is enough to scare away any sporadic forces. And if you get followed by a sizable fleet, never hesitate to take the rest of the fleet out and kill everyone!]
[Not to get tracked, got it!] she got what he wanted from her, [And this brutal way to do business… Hahaha, I love it! At last I'm going to do something in this war!]
[Don't enter any unnecessary battles, don't attract unneeded attention to you!] Hye had to stress again over this point, [Fight only when you must, do it quick, and run in a longer and deceitful path after to shake trackers away]
"I hope she does as she promised," Hye could only sigh, as he felt how enthusiastic she was to be part of the ongoing mess, "now it's the pirate king turn…"
[What?! You want me to go and kill the sporadic and scattered underground forces?!!!]
The thing that Hye asked from the pirate king was to act as a sweeper. He asked him to go and kill any remnants of those outlaw forces.
[I don't need any unforeseen surprise from any force, so make sure to kill all without exception] Hye repeated what he said, but in a much clearer and more direct way.
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[What if they asked to join my side…]
[Reject and kill!] Hye's response was swift and fierce, [Don't let any rat into your garden. Kill and don't negotiate!]
[Got it!] The pirate king wasn't impulsive as the lady nymph. He partially got what Hye wanted to do here. Hye was worried that after teaching these selfish and greedy forces the beauty of working together, they'd rally their scattered and weak on the paper ships, form a grand fleet, one that would endanger his future pursuit for the caravan.
He had to be decisive here, even bloody and cruel. He didn't like the presence of such a sizable force on the same board he was planning the final showdown for the Toranks caravan. And he didn't want to see all his effort end fruitless thanks to such little and silly mistakes.
He picked the pirate king to do this, not the lady nymph, for various reasons. The pirate king already interacted with these forces, and he knew them better than the lady nymph.
Not to mention he was the closest to these forces than the lady nymph. And on top of that, his position at the rear and retreating path of these forces made his role as an assassin more valuable.
On top of that, Hye needed him to be delayed from the caravan, and yet stand on such a rear spot at the same time. There was a scenario in his mind, one that might need the intervention and help of the pirate king.
As he laid down his chips, he knew the main player in all this wouldn't be any of these two, not the Toranks, not the Selvators, not even the Hescos… It'd be him!
"Timing," he muttered, "right timing will be crucial in determining everything…" he kept checking the maps and feeds from different places, waiting for the net to finally lay in place.
It wasn't easy to pick the right time to act. He knew the right period to move in, but he still was considering lots of options, even hesitating about the moment to move.
The main challenging point was the Hescos. They held the key to all this. Currently the threatening huge underground forces are going to get wiped out. And now there was only the Toranks, the Hescos, the Selvators, and him.
If he wanted to, he could have asked the pirate king to go and take down a good deal of the Selvators. The latter once retreated, got scattered across a big area, trying to surround the caravan.
So the pirate king could move out and hit a large number of their forces, killing a ton long before other forces would come and help.
He even could do it himself. And yet he never thought about doing any of that. The main reason was also the Hescos. As they were such mysterious and unpredictable variables, it was better to keep another chip ready to use if things went south.
The worse scenario would be if the Hescos decided to keep watching and not act. Hye knew they would prefer to not directly get involved in such a mess, and wait for someone to grab the caravan, and then they could attack him.
But now the list of forces that could do this grew extremely thin; just him!
Even the Selvators didn't have the manpower to do it, especially when the Toranks didn't use their hidden card yet.
This was a big headache for Hye. He hoped for the underground forces to be enough to force the Toranks to use their card, expose it, and make him arrange responses.
But now he had to think of another way. "It's true that numbers alone don't matter," he inwardly sighed, while trying to come up with something to do.
There was a way, one he could easily pull. Yet it would expose him as the one who did this attack and stole the caravan. On top of it, the Hescos wouldn't act easily against him, as they'd also recognise his identity.
Hye had another way to do it, but he had to sacrifice a lot to achieve the results he wanted. After wrecking his head for hours, he couldn't find any other way to do it.
"Let's proceed with this plan then," he already set this plan into motion when he asked the pirate king and lady nymph to do their tasks. He hoped to find another way to do it, but now he got nothing but this plan to execute.
Chapter 1793: The Lady Nymph Attacks
[Oho, you want me to lead the charge and attack the caravan? Are you sure?] After ten hours, and lots of fights as he predicted, the lady nymph finally arrived at the spot he designated for her.
She managed to outpace the caravan even after all these fights and delays. Hye already calculated everything and knew even if the lady nymph spent five more hours, she'd still be in a position ahead of the caravan.
[I want you to attack when the caravan arrives at your side] Hye paused, [Your role isn't to get the caravan, but to make the Toranks feel threatened. I know they have something hidden, some sort of a weapon, so don't use all of your forces at one go. I'll also send more ships and warrior token over you right away]
[You seem to be worried about what they prepare… Ok, what shall I do then? Let them run away?]
She was excited, thirsty to fight, but she wasn't all stupid. She already had long experience in the impact she came from. And so she knew the odds and risks and could already sniff how dangerous it was to do it the way Hye proposed.
[Exactly what I want you to do] Hye paused, [I want you to let them escape, not in any direction, but the same direction they came from]
[This… Isn't he back there? Is he ready to welcome them?] She was referring to the pirate king, as she knew where he was, and could tell what Hye wanted.
[Don't worry about him, I'll make sure he'll be ready] Hye didn't say anything, as he was still hesitant about picking between himself and the pirate king, [Just get ready. I want you to block any path of retreat in any direction but that one, and make sure to not die]
[You worry about me? How sweet of you!]
[I invested a lot in you, hahaha!] Hye coldly laughed, and closed the chat before reading what she responded, which was rude as expected.
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After handling her, he first sent tons of ships and warrior tokens first. He knew arranging fleets and forces wasn't a one order task and would take time. And so, he did it first.
Then he turned his full attention towards the toughest decision he had to make… Would he lead this charge? Or let the pirate king do it?
"Screw it, let him do it then," he decided to play it the hard way, as it was way better in the long run.
[You are crazy, you know that] the pirate king stayed silent until Hye finished sending his part in the plan, [You want to sacrifice us this way, right?]
[You'll indeed be in the limelight, but this will be the best start for your force] Hye rolled his eyes, [After this battle, your forces name will spread far and wide]
[Provided that we made it out of here without lives intact!]
[This is something I'll guarantee] Hye knew the pirate king's worries weren't groundless, [You just take care of your role, and leave the rest to me] freёwebnovel.com
[I hope you know what you are doing… I'll start preparing then. Send over the ships and tokens]
Hye didn't delay and sent another batch of tokens and ships over to the pirate king. He had to empty roughly one tenth of his ship's treasury. But that wasn't the main issue.
He planned to make the pirate force led by these two be formed of the outer universe ships. But now he ran short of these and had to use this universe's ships.
He had lots of these outer world ships before, but they all got used and he had to adapt. "It's indeed true, nothing goes as planned, right?" he bitterly smiled, before shoving away such thoughts and worries, and focusing over what was yet to come.
The position of the lady nymph and her fleet was indeed perfect! The caravan headed straight towards her spot, and she used the time to perfectly lay a few ambushes, not only on the main course of the entire grand fleet coming, but also on many other possible paths they'd take when attacked.
Of course, she got hints and advice from Hye from time to time, but the latter had to admit to himself that she excelled in orchestrating such a big ambush.
"It's starting," once the caravan and the accompanying fleets got in range, the lady nymph started bombarding them with everything she got. As Hye watched this, he instantly sent a message over to the pirate king.
[Inform the world that your pirate force is the one hitting the caravan right now] He sent, [Make sure you send a sample of the ongoing battle, also try to use big words and make it as glorifying as you can!]
[Got it boss!] The pirate king didn't need any more explanation from Hye to get what the latter wanted to do.
As the pirate king started doing his task, Hye returned to fully focus on the hard battle on the lady nymph's side. He was willing to supply her with more ships and warriors if the situation forced his hands to do so. But luckily, the Toranks seemed stretched out and pressured for a long time already, and so they retreated much faster than he expected!
"They want to preserve their strength…" Hye didn't like such a result, [Keep pushing forward, don't let them go through without using their secret weapon!]
[Are you sure?]
[Just send everyone and manage the battle from far away] Hye knew her concerns about that move, and he totally accepted her worries, [Just make sure at most you'll lose half of the fleet, and you'll force them to use that weapon]
[You seem too sure about it. Fine, I know what to do!]
As she said, she got the right way to force the Toranks hands. In fact, during the short battle that didn't last for a couple hours, she didn't directly attack the caravan except for rare occasions.
Chapter 1794: Change In Plans
Hye asked her to just divert the attention of the Toranks away from here and force them to change their route of travel. She brilliantly succeeded in doing so, and yet she missed the goal of forcing the Toranks hands to use the secret weapon.
In fact, Hye didn't intend to let her force the Toranks to reveal that weapon. He wanted her to destroy as many ships as she could, greatly weakening the Toranks fleet. And yet with the short battle that erupted, the Toranks still preserved most of their fleets.
That was bad news for the waiting away pirate king and his fleet. Even if Hye sent more ships and warriors over to the pirate king, the Toranks seemed ready to return backwards again, and go for another route away from these ambushes.
Hye didn't want to see that. He wanted weak and totally exhausted Toranks fleets. Or else the Toranks wouldn't be forced to fight a battle of life and death with the pirate king fleets.
So his only option now was in the lady nymph. Her fleet was the closest to the Toranks', and she could continue to pressure them on the cost of losing part of the fleet.
But losing too much wasn't an option here! This would backfire, giving the Toranks a way out from such a trap he orchestrated. And so he made sure to stress over not losing more than half of the entire fleet. As she would get the time to only deploy what was close to half of the current force she had.
"She is doing good!" Yet when he saw how her fleet acted, he couldn't help but commend her in his mind. She didn't blindly attack the Toranks fleets, but directly formed a spear head formation with her ships, attacking solely and mainly the caravan itself!
The caravan was the most precious thing the Toranks had. And attacking it directly from the very beginning was something that forced the Toranks hands without doubt.
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The organised retreating Toranks fleets had to engage in a fierce battle against the lady nymph's fleet. And as she got the green light from Hye, even the promise to make up for any lost ships later on, she controlled the battle and made it quite bloody and challenging for the Toranks.
The Toranks tried their best to defend the caravan, and yet against an enemy who looked as suicidal more than a thug, they finally felt the danger if this weird battle continued.
[They are making weird moves at the rear!] Hye didn't need the warning from the lady nymph, as he already spotted such weird movement. All of sudden, one fleet disengaged from the ongoing battle, retreated to the end of the caravan.
It didn't end just at this, ships of that fleet started to take a specific line-up, the formation of a Lotus flower. Hye once spotted this and knew this was the supposedly secret weapon the Toranks had. Even if he couldn't tell what that was, he was very excited about such a development.
He slowly stood from his seat in his ship, walked closer to the screen in midair, while focusing all his attention over that spot of the universe.
"Come on, show me what you prepared as your last resort," he was curious to know. He was sure it was something deadly, but it wasn't the type to threaten the caravan.
That made him guess this type of weapon was more focused attack than the wide area of attack he expected before. This explained why they never used it against any enemy so far. As they needed to hit a single spot, one that would make the attacking enemy stop hunting the caravan and let it escape. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
"It must be something that combines destruction with sealing mobility," Hye guessed this far, but couldn't guess anymore, "show me what you got! I'm sure the mighty Toranks won't just fare for a half assed weapon."
His wait didn't last for much longer. As the ships formed that lotus formation, some sort of a cannon appeared from the body of big sized ships.
The cannons didn't come out from any ship, but only the big in size, flagship calibre. Hye saw these cannons shine brightly, before some sort of a silver white shield appeared, encompassing the entire fleet back there.
"Now or never," yet after that, nothing much happened. Hye waited, waited for the deadliest strike to land. But after waiting for a few minutes, the hit never came. Instead, that shield started to slowly expand, covering up all the fleets on the Toranks side, weirdly pushing away all the hostile ships, while destroying many of them.
"This is it? Just a defensive barrier?!! You gotta be kidding me!" Hye couldn't believe this was the secret weapon the Toranks prepared for the caravan. Yet when he thought back about the main purpose of all this, he couldn't help but find this move making more sense.
Their purpose was to get the caravan far away from here. And using this way would ensure the caravan would run safely. Hye instructed the lady nymph to attack the shield. And as expected, the shield didn't even budge under the fierce and constant attacks coming from the lady nymph fleet.
On the other hand, the protected fleets and ships could easily attack the lady nymph's fleet, and in mere an hour they destroyed more than what they destroyed since the start of this battle.
[Make your fleet retreat] Seeing such a result made Hye order for a retreat.
[That's what I was thinking of as well] the lady nymph paused, [Do you think this is going to change anything? This shield… It makes me feel it's impossible to crack!]
[You did great job] Hye could read through the lines that she didn't say, [Making them reveal such a card is quite enough. Just keep your distance from the caravan]
[You want me to chase it?!] The lady nymph got surprised, then excited, [Don't take me wrong, I'm fully willing to keep attacking…]
Chapter 1795: Weird!!!
[You just need to tag along] Hye corrected her, [Don't engage, not until I give you the signal]
[Got it!]
As she started to just chase the caravan without any engagement, the entire situation turned into a weird situation. The caravan and the fleet alongside it seemed like they couldn't leave the shielded area. They were safe inside, but they were still entrapped. freёwebnovel.com
"They didn't use such a great weapon before, and that means they only can run it up for a limited amount of time," Hye kept analysing the Toranks' hidden card, trying to see through its main weakness.
To him, having such a weapon would have let the Toranks fleets and caravan pass through everything without any resistance. So the only explanation for not using it was some sort of limitation.
There was a limitation of movement, but that wouldn't matter as long as the shield would run for a very long time. But then he recalled how the shield got activated at first, and finally linked the dots.
The fatal weakness here was the time limit for using this shield. It seemed it could run for a short period of time, just a few hours at most. That meant once using it, the Toranks needed to run as fast as they could and not be in any hostile territory.
They'd either take down their enemies completely, which didn't happen as they wanted in the lady nymph's fleet case, or they'd take the express way out from the entire fighting area.
Hye started to believe more in such hypotheses. And to make sure things wouldn't take a turn they didn't prepare to, he made sure to share such theory with the other two, asking the pirate king to always adjust his position if needed to be on the collision course with the Toranks fleets.
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Just in a couple of hours, the Toranks fleet changed their running direction many times already, making Hye more reassured about his earlier guess.
"Keep squeezing them," Hye knew the shield was still up there, but he was more confident it was going to vanish in a short time. He sat on his seat, while moving his ship to catch up with the upcoming battle.
After all, the other two had a role to play, and he still had a task to do. As the net was getting tighter, he made sure to let the pirate king always maintain a fixed distance away from the Toranks.
This way, they weren't able to run away, and their shield was useless. Hye made sure the distance was enough for the pirate king fleets to keep surrounding the Toranks, while the lady nymph kept the pressure from behind.
To make sure the Toranks wouldn't do anything funny, he sent more ships and warrior tokens to the lady nymph. Like this, she replaced the lost ships and crew. She got all the time she needed to deploy these new ships and fighters, while arranging them in a better formation.
Her fleet grew to several fleets in mere hours! And she distributed them to cover a huge area of the space.
If the Toranks had any idea before about coming at her, considering her the weakest link in such a combined attack, then now they had to drop such an idea.
No matter which side they'd pick, they'd have to fight against a large number of ships. And with the constant meticulous movement and adjustments from these two, the Toranks felt like a bird in a big cage!
Hye knew at some point of this hopeless run, the Toranks would end up depleting their ace card. If they could get out of that cage, they'd have done it already and tried to create some fuss to get away.
But they were the ones who placed such shackles around their wrists. Hye stopped following the updates of this chase for a while, moving his attention towards a certain spot; the Hescos.
He knew the moment the Toranks would be pressured so much, the Hescos would start moving. So far they weren't close to that portal, but they weren't that far away as well. If he got the chance to, he'd prefer to direct the Toranks fleet towards a distant spot from the Hescos portal.
He had no control on the Toranks for now. And trying to force them to change directions to something he preferred was going to mess things up, and most probably create gaps in his tight formations around them.
He preferred to not try and enforce them towards one route, waiting patiently for their shield to expire. And while doing so, he kept watching that portal vigilantly, waiting for any sign of movement there.
As it seemed, things didn't just escalate at one point, but at many points at the same time!
The chase kept going on for hours. All of sudden, the shield that protected the Toranks party vanished, turned into nothing in a blink of an eye.
It came without warning. And seeing this made Hye grin at first, before new development happened.
The first movement came from the Toranks themselves. It wasn't from the caravan direction, instead it was from a distant place in this region.
[We got new intel] the pirate king was the first to relay this over to him, [It's indeed weird, but I'll send them over to you to check]
"Weird? Let's see…" Hye was curious to know what made the pirate king describe this intel like that. And when he saw the reports sent over, he couldn't help but feel the same.
"A huge fleet appeared out of nowhere not far from here?!!" he muttered to himself while continuing to receive more reports. The more he read, the more surprised he felt.
It wasn't just one fleet, but so far five grand fleets were spotted in close by areas. On top of that, they all belonged to the Toranks race.
There was no clear indication before about any of these fleets. And seeing them appear out of thin air like that made Hye suspect this had already been planned beforehand.
Chapter 1796: Grabbing The Caravan And Run!
"So… They weren't just running in circles or blindly escaping, they were taking us closer to their forces… Amazing move," Hye laughed before he moved his eyes towards a certain screen, "is this what you were waiting for?"
Just before he'd completed his sentence, the portal he kept watching for a long time suddenly showed signs of life. It didn't just flash and release a fleet, it released an endless stream of ships and fleets, looking as if it got no bottom.
"And like that, the real battle over this caravan started," Hye muttered to himself, before thinking about his next move.
[Shall we retreat?] the lady nymph sent asking, [You see what we are all seeing, right? We can't counter any of that!]
[In fact, if we didn't do it now, then there won't be any more ideal situation to do so] Hye instead said something no one of these two expected, [Attack!]
[Attack?! Attack what?!! Are you out of your mind?!!!] the lady nymph exploded in the messages, but Hye could only laugh.
[When the enemy feels he got everything under control, then it's the right moment to hit him hard] Hye's words didn't make any sense to any of these two, [Close the net, attack the caravan, and leave everything else for me to handle]
[You are insane!] the pirate king also felt the same as lady nymph, [How are we supposed to get out? Any clue?]
[Just do it] Hye laughed, [By the end of the day, you will laugh at this as you'll see how idiots you were hahaha. Just move on, attack, and leave the rest to me]
The other two didn't get why Hye was acting this cool about it. But they didn't delay any longer. If the man said to attack, then they trusted and pushed it forward to happen.
The moment the news of the Toranks fleets appearing in the space around reached Hye's ears, and the Toranks fleet and caravan started to pick up speed, trying to move towards the closest ally of theirs.
That would have gone pretty well, after all the two forces nagging them from behind and front kept their distance for a long time now. Yet that didn't happen the way they envisioned, as Hye gave the order finally for these two to attack.
The moment they moved, it was clear how the situation for the Toranks caravan and the five fleets there was. It looked pretty nasty, with no way out for them but using brutal force.
"Keep pushing," Hye on the other hand was busy doing something else while keeping an eye over what was happening. As he was deploying his own fleet and forces, everything around was boiling like a volcano on the edge of eruption!
Everyone was moving at this point! Be it Hye's forces, the Toranks caravan and accompanying fleets, the faraway Toranks fleets which grew to ten by now, and even the Hescos!
Anyone looking at this from a faraway distance would surely consider Hye's forces to be done for. Anyone watching now considered the caravan to be in the hands of the Hescos or the Toranks, feeling blessed they weren't in the shoes of the pirate king or the lady nymph.
Yet they all missed a simple point, even the two on Hye's side missed it. Even if things looked terribly bad on the general board, there was still a long time before all these forces would gather up and meet together.
Jumping to conclusions now was the worst thing anyone in Hye's position would do. Instead, he decided to make his move at such a critical time. Without adding chaos to this situation, without stepping forward, he'd fail to get out of here with his life.
Besides, his main goal wasn't just to escape with his life. Hye didn't just set his gaze upon the big prize, he wanted another one, to establish a name for his newly formed underground force.
There was no better stage other than this to do so. And as Hye took one hour to deploy enough ships and warriors, his forces finally closed the net over the Toranks. And a big battle erupted, without holding anything back.
There were still hours before the closest Toranks fleet would arrive here. Hye estimated them to take roughly ten hours. As for the Hescos, they'd need double that to arrive here with their fastest ships.
That gave Hye and his forces enough time to manoeuvre and do some tricks he wanted to. By the start of the direct battle, it was expected how brutal things were going to be out there. And yet Hye didn't hesitate to lead his newly deployed fleet towards that spot.
[Make sure you film yourselves getting the caravan] seeing this battle through screens told Hye it was going to end pretty soon. The Toranks were nervous in attacking the pirate king and lady nymph forces, mistaking the two to be from two different forces.
They realised too late that these two were working together, orchestrating their moves and attacks with each other. At some point, a few Toranks fleets tried to let these two's forces clash against each other, to finally realise the two were actually a single force, working under the same banner.
The moment the pirate king and lady nymph ships met, they didn't attack each other even for once. Instead, they both joined hands, and the prize was wiping out that courageous Toranks fleet from existence.
It became clear to the Toranks leaders that these two were working together. And that just added too many levels of danger to this already dangerous attack.
It was too late to realise this, and no matter how hard they tried to get the caravan out, they failed. In just one hour, the caravan got taken by the combined forces of the lady nymph and the pirate king.
[Don't open the caravan] instead of asking them to check what was inside, Hye simply gave this order, [Take control over the ships, and lead them towards that location]
[That location!!!]
[Isn't it…]