I Only Wanted A Class In The Apocalypse

[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.

"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.

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.