"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.
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…"
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