At first, the enemies used the lower-grade warriors in cultivation to fight him. But starting from the second battle, even Hye could feel how different these enemies were.

If before his technique would take a minute to control a single warrior, now it would take ten to thirty minutes to control one. That alone told Hye these folks weren’t pushovers. They were the elites, and that meant the enemy had reached such a dire state to use their strongest and most precious warriors.

It also meant crushing them would take lots of effort, but Hye never troubled himself with that. Even if they were killing lots of warriors on his side, he had way more to replenish the losses. Not to mention, once he realised how precious these warriors were, he started to use dark realm bones to fuel his technique, cutting the time needed to control a single warrior by tenfold.

To Hye, he was replacing the weak warriors who needed growth and time with readily strong and capable warriors. Not to mention those warriors were quite experienced in the Outer Battlefield, knew lots of stuff he didn’t.

The moment he won these two battles, Hye didn’t hurry to jump over to the next one. Instead, he gathered all of the newly joined warriors and started to hear out about the Outer Battlefield, the current situation of the enemy, and their plans.

He was curious to learn more about this place, know more about the different forces, their arrangements and future plans. All of his information, after all, came from a single source: Moth.

And when he listened, he learnt that Moth didn’t explain lots of stuff to him.

First, this was the relay point of the different forces in the Outer Battlefield. Hye had the wrong impression that this was everything different forces had as bases in the Outer Battlefield. Yet he could already feel something was wrong.

This wasn’t a place to train future forces for different powers. This was a colossal battlefield for a war that extended and lasted for a very long time.

The fragile nature and the low level of the warriors he met so far surprised him. And when he heard the stories from the newly joined warriors, he finally understood the entire situation.

This was just one of too many zones the different forces had. It appeared that the Outer Battlefield was arranged in different layers, with different levels and difficulties.

For a reason no one knew, each zone gave access to a different world where the two universes collided. In each world, there was a ceiling to the level of power each universe could send through.

For example, this relay point was considered the weakest and lowest in terms of power levels. If there were nine different major cultivation grades in this world, this relay zone ceiling was the first grade.

That was why the level of warriors he fought against so far was lacking. It wasn’t the issue he thought of before. All forces here had lots of warriors and armies, even different factions inside, which were scattered across over twenty more zones.

Yet, as the ceiling of this relay zone was limited for first grade, it was expected to treat it as the best zone to welcome newly arrived forces from their universe. After all, the forces that arrived here had either been slightly cultivated or never did so.

Aside from all this, he also learned that all zones were connected via different teleportation circles, which were situated inside every base. That was why there was never a single power recognised in this Outer Battlefield without having a single base in each zone. Or else, trying to go from one zone to another would be impossible.

Hye realised the importance of sticking to the Hescos even more when he learnt all this. On top of that, he knew securing tons of bases here wouldn’t help, wouldn’t make a difference overall, as they were limited to a single zone.

That explained why the Toranks didn’t seriously move against him so far, and only used the forces in this zone. In their eyes, it was the temporary loss of a single zone, and whenever Hye would try to go to higher zones, they would crush him using the stronger forces on their side.

Not to mention, they would be prepared and would arrange their lines much better. Even if Hye survived another zone, there were still too many zones left for him to visit and conquer.

According to those warriors, Hye had to raise his cultivation base frequently before he would move to more zones. There was a test for newly risen powers, and that test wasn’t simple at all. Beating the test would open a doorway to another zone, allowing him and his forces to go to an open area there, and fight to control a base or else they would lose their ability to return.

The more he heard, the more the situation turned out to be way worse than he ever feared. Yet something he heard by the end made him feel more hope.

As this was the relay zone, it meant all forces coming from the universe must land here first before heading to another zone. By the Toranks and other forces on their side losing their foothold here, it meant they lost their ability to add fresh blood over time.

Hye knew this wouldn’t be a problem anytime soon for any of these forces. They had tons of warriors and armies on their side, and they weren’t in any need for reinforcement anytime soon.

That was, probably, why they didn’t act so seriously against him yet. To them, they had the impression that time was on their side, and Hye would eventually venture to other zones unprepared and oblivious to the disaster awaiting him.

Yet they underestimated the human.

"They may think I’m powerless and will eventually lose patience and head to fight them unprepared," his eyes shone fiercely when he grasped the full situation.