[You won't travel alone; this is a battlefield! And there are tons of outlaw fleets that got scattered, tons of ships that fled, and no one knows what may happen or what they are doing!]
[This... You mean...]
[Take the fleet out, at least one fourth of it] Hye sent over his clear instructions, [This is enough to scare away any sporadic forces. And if you get followed by a sizable fleet, never hesitate to take the rest of the fleet out and kill everyone!]
[Not to get tracked, got it!] she got what he wanted from her, [And this brutal way to do business... Hahaha, I love it! At last I'm going to do something in this war!]
[Don't enter any unnecessary battles, don't attract unneeded attention to you!] Hye had to stress again over this point, [Fight only when you must, do it quick, and run in a longer and deceitful path after to shake trackers away]
"I hope she does as she promised," Hye could only sigh, as he felt how enthusiastic she was to be part of the ongoing mess, "now it's the pirate king turn..."
[What?! You want me to go and kill the sporadic and scattered underground forces?!!!]
The thing that Hye asked from the pirate king was to act as a sweeper. He asked him to go and kill any remnants of those outlaw forces.
[I don't need any unforeseen surprise from any force, so make sure to kill all without exception] Hye repeated what he said, but in a much clearer and more direct way.
[What if they asked to join my side...]
So the pirate king could move out and hit a large number of their forces, killing a ton long before other forces would come and help.
He even could do it himself. And yet he never thought about doing any of that. The main reason was also the Hescos. As they were such mysterious and unpredictable variables, it was better to keep another chip ready to use if things went south.
The worse scenario would be if the Hescos decided to keep watching and not act. Hye knew they would prefer to not directly get involved in such a mess, and wait for someone to grab the caravan, and then they could attack him.
But now the list of forces that could do this grew extremely thin; just him!
Even the Selvators didn't have the manpower to do it, especially when the Toranks didn't use their hidden card yet.
This was a big headache for Hye. He hoped for the underground forces to be enough to force the Toranks to use their card, expose it, and make him arrange responses.
But now he had to think of another way. "It's true that numbers alone don't matter," he inwardly sighed, while trying to come up with something to do.
There was a way, one he could easily pull. Yet it would expose him as the one who did this attack and stole the caravan. On top of it, the Hescos wouldn't act easily against him, as they'd also recognise his identity.
Hye had another way to do it, but he had to sacrifice a lot to achieve the results he wanted. After wrecking his head for hours, he couldn't find any other way to do it.
"Let's proceed with this plan then," he already set this plan into motion when he asked the pirate king and lady nymph to do their tasks. He hoped to find another way to do it, but now he got nothing but this plan to execute.