I Only Wanted A Class In The Apocalypse

"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.