Hye pointed a gloved finger toward Moth, who got startled by this gesture. Even at a distance, Moth had been watching Hye with a mixture of awe and suspicion, not knowing what he was talking to Lucas about him.
Tons of Soulers and Reapers began to come out in endless waves, while Hye kept taking more than enough to fight large armies like the ones he had fought before when he freed the Grand Elder.
Hye's original intent had been to hoard these forces, to use them as a concentrated hammer to shatter the Toranks fleet and seize their Mirror-carrying vessels. But the reality of the battlefield had shifted his hand.
Without the planetary defensive net, his fleet was a sitting duck. Regaining connection with the control centres was no longer a strategic choice; it was a survival mandate.
