I Only Wanted A Class In The Apocalypse-Chapter 1972: A Race Between Hye and the Grand Elder
[Are you sure you can reactivate the defensive grid in less than twenty minutes?]
Hye instantly sent this message to Moth, before opening tons of messages and relaying different orders to different people and warriors on his side. He didn't even wait for Moth to give him a proper answer and acted based on the plan that came instantly into his mind.
[Sure, I'm already working on it…]
[Listen carefully, Moth, I'm going to let the Toranks free…]
[What the heck…]
[They will take longer than twenty minutes to deploy and activate their God Weapon. I'm going to make my absolute best for them to take longer than that. Yet it all depends on you now. If you can't reactivate the defensive grid by this time, your world will be destroyed, and your empire will be lost. Do you understand?!]
[...]
[I need a firm confirmation from you!] As he waited for a minute, Moth didn't send anything back. Even when he sent the last message, Moth kept his silence. And that was for a proper reason.
"Check with everyone first," the Grand Elder was sitting on a bed, receiving treatment for the latest wounds he suffered, "make sure you'll get a confirmatory date for reopening the defences. There is no room for error this time, got it?"
The moment Hye sent his message over to Moth, the latter went to consult with the Grand Elder. The latter was baffled by what Hye wanted to do, yet his thoughts drifted towards the reason that drove the Toranks crazy hours ago, making them launch most of their fleet to chase Hye's rear fleet.
This meant there was something very valuable in that fleet, something that the Toranks weren't willing to let fall into outsiders' hands, something that made Hye risk everything just to secure it. And the Grand Elder's thoughts pinned over a certain item, the only worthy thing the entire enemy fleet carried.
"I'll do it now," Moth was about to leave in haste when the Grand Elder stopped him.
"Contact our scattered defensive fleets nearby, make them move at once," the Grand Elder's eyes flashed in fierce light, "tell Hye we won't allow for any hiccups, not at this critical stage. So inform him about our intentions, and don't accept any objection from him."
"Sure," Moth was oblivious to the silent race that was going to happen between Hye and the Grand Elder over who would collect more pieces of the God Weapon mirrors and precious cargo.
As Moth did what the Grand Elder asked for, the latter couldn't help but chuckle from time to time. "I can't believe I'm regretting not having this lad in our race instead of the pathetic humans! A rare gem is being wasted for another race other than ours, what a waste!"
He shook his head before laughing again as he imagined the look on the human youth's face when he would hear the news.
[The Grand Elder asked for this himself?!!] Hye was waiting for Moth to reply, and yet when he did, he sent more than just confirmation on the reactivation of the defences. He told him about what the Grand Elder ordered, making Hye speechless for an entire minute.
"That old man… Tsk! It's indeed hard to deal with old foxes, such tricks that can succeed with people like Moth won't work on those damn foxes like the Grand Elder…"
[So…] Moth urged for a response, and Hye knew the Grand Elder had made a single chess move and placed him in a very tight spot. He had to choose between two sides, and yet Hye wasn't willing to.
[It's fine, I'm going to leave this battle for your forces then!] Hye decided to feign playing by the Grand Elder's game rules, [So let's start it then! I'll let the Toranks free and you'll have to handle them on your own!]
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Moth was speechless, not knowing what to do. At this moment, he was sure he was placed in a very high game that he couldn't even grasp the boundaries of it. All he could do was to relay the answer to the Grand Elder, making the old man's body tremble out of loud laughter.
"Make our people move in full speed then," the Grand Elder paused, "and don't buy a single word that human said. He will leave behind lots of his forces, so make sure our people will fully surround the Toranks fleet, not let a scrap of metal fall into Hye's hands."
"Ok," if Moth had doubt before, he was now sure; there was a huge game going on between the Grand Elder and Hye. Luckily for him, he wasn't forced to take a side by neither of them. And all he wanted now was for either of the two to sit down with him, properly and slowly explain what the heck was going on so he could learn.
Hye did exactly as the Grand Elder expected. He scattered his forces, the ones which he deployed himself, around a grand area, breaking the siege all of a sudden over the Toranks. Seeing this, the enemy was taken by surprise at first, before the leaders realised the movement they sent for their allied underground force worked magically better than what they even dreamt of.
Without any hesitation, they started to deploy what remained of the mirrors. They were midway through when lots of ships appeared from a distance, moving fast, heading towards their fleet. So they didn't wait for deployment of all the mirrors, turned the partially deployed God Weapon towards the incoming fleets, and fired!
The attack was devastating for the incoming fleets, ending up killing one third of an entire fleet in no time. Seeing this gave instant fear to all the incoming forces, not on their safety, but on their homeland's.
The Toranks didn't stop there! They started another round of firing the God Weapon, targeting another grand fleet coming towards them. After firing for four more times, they ended up destroying and killing almost half of the entire forces that the Hescos had arranged all this time to defend their homeland.
And yet this came with a price that led the incoming Hescos fleets to be close to their target. And then they fired.
