In the middle of this part, a few ships got hit and around twenty got totally destroyed. The destroyed ones were left, and the damaged ones were taken back by him.

He didn’t lose that much, and in the end, his fleet got to experience a real taste of how the war out there was going.

This took around two days for his fleet to be ready. Two days wouldn’t differ that much in the expected long-timed war happening right now.

“Listen up, we are going to cross the deadly zone of these meteorites. In there, everyone is for his own sake. Don’t ask for help, don’t give any advice to anyone, as no one is coming to help you. Just focus on yourselves, recall what you experienced already, and try to learn and evolve during the journey.”

“Let’s hope we’ll survive till the end,” the nymph lady was still bitter about doing this, still resisting the idea of going out.

If it was up to her, then she’d choose to remain seated here, not leaving such a haven anywhere else.

Hye didn’t give the order to leave without setting a plan for their movement. He arranged the fleet into groups, each having one hundred small ships inside.

As for the big ones, he let them move in between the smaller ones. The only exception he gave to the small ship was to head towards any big ship if they couldn’t handle it anymore.

“How much do you expect we’ll lose?” as the early batch moved, the nymph lady said, “I expect eighty up to ninety-five percent.”

“That’s a bit hopeful, hahahaha,” Hye mocked her pessimistic viewpoint, “we’ll cross with less than ten percent losses, and I’ll remind you of that.”

“Tsk!”

The two were communicating using the general communication centre that her big spaceship established. From now on, her role would be as a communication anchor point, receiving intel and relaying them to others and Hye.

As the fleet started to move, Hye decided to move in the early batch. As for the nymph lady, she decided to be the last one to move.

“If you didn’t show up, then forget about coming here after the war to get you out,” he threatened before leaving, reading through the dirty trick she seriously considered, “you may be safe here, but you don’t have enough food or water to sustain you longer than a few months.”

“You’ll come to save me, I know you will!”

“I swear I won’t,” he stressed over this point, “so don’t risk it. I hope I’ll see you on the other side, bye sweetie,” he then moved towards the deadly zone of meteorites, losing far ranged communication thanks to all the radiation coming from the two stars.

Hye already explained to his fleet how to use the two opposing forces of the stars to help them move and evade the incoming meteorites. Just when he went out, he saw many of his small ships struggle, and yet none got destroyed.

“It’s a regret they don’t have my bones to repair their ships,” Hye knew the badly damaged ones he’d have to collect once they crossed to the other side. As for repairing them, he’d do this himself using his bones at some point.

Distracting himself from watching his fleet struggle against gravity, radiation, and meteorites, he decided to think about the expected great loot he’d gain after joining the war.

He knew the heat he attracted over himself must have gone after his absence for days. But the sudden appearance of such a small gathering of ships would definitely attract many eyes.

“I shall use this place as a deterrent for anyone trying to crush my fleet,” he knew he could handle a small number of enemies. But if a grand gathering came towards him, led by any big ships, then things would end up very terribly.

Hye didn’t want to have his back against a hard wall. He knew the big ships and guns wouldn’t target him until he’d hijacked lots of ships. By then, he’d have a bigger force than now, something that any of the fighting enemies out there wouldn’t allow to happen.

So he thought of something to fight against such a situation, and the place in the middle of the two stars was suitable for that. Even if the enemy persisted and chased him inside, he’d go towards the safe haven, showing them a hard time and killing lots of their fleet.

If they were stubborn enough to follow him toward the safe spot, then he’d not be in any grave danger. By then, he’d got most of his fleet intact, and they’d have much less than what they initially had.

“Fighting the two sides at once and turning them into my enemies isn’t wise…” he thought about this point. If he turned the two fighting forces into his enemies, then things would end quite badly for him. It was better to turn one into his ally, helping in shielding more pressure off him.

Doing so would make the other side think wrongly that he belonged to the force he didn’t hit. And that might not stop the disastrous assault he’d suffer later on, but it’d help in making his presumed allies suffer with him.

As for which side to be his ally and his enemy, this wasn’t hard to decide. The Hescos were his enemies no matter how he tried to act nicely with them. Not to mention he was sure, a force like them, on the calibre of a great empire, had much higher and more advanced ships than the forces of this world.

Even if they were famous merchants, they were nothing like the mighty Hescos.

“I won’t let you go off with this without paying me back!” All of sudden, he heard the enraged voice of the nymph lady coming into the communication system of the ship, distracting him from his thoughts.

“Hahahaha, you came, and quite early as well! Hahahaha!”