As the fire came from the other side first, Hye made sure his side would remain calm and collected. He didn't give them the order to open fire until they came close enough.
The enemy thought they were just scared to open fire, and that made them fire more. They wanted to take them down, but for a reason, no matter how hard they tried, not a single ship got hit!
They didn't know these ships went through much heated hell. Meteorites were much more ferocious and denser than these hits launched at Hye's ships. Not to mention any meteorite shower would come in a scary gathering, enough to make anyone desperate.
So dealing with these shots was easy for them. Hye watched his ships' performance for a little bit, before knowing they were going to shock the enemy once they opened fire.
"Attack back, now!" when they got close enough, he gave the order, "hit the ships around, then the ones far away. Release the soulers you have over the ones stuck in between, let's grab few of them to our side…"
Hye grew greedy at the last moments when he saw how the enemy ships got stacked close to each other, not giving themselves any room for manoeuvre.
The biggest ships here were only medium sized ones. And they weren't that deadly for him or his ships. So he wanted to take these down, using even the few Soulers he left in every ship.
In the next moment, the dense wave of counter attack landed, damaging and destroying lots of enemy ships around. This came as a terrifying surprise to all the ships flying around, and they tried to run away, but it was too late.
"Attack the rear ones, attack till the fullest range of your weapons…" Hye gave his little fleet two minutes to kill and destroy anything around, before shifting gears and focusing over the far away ones, "release the Soulers, release the beasts!"
And then each ship threw away ten soulers each. This might look like a small force, but when they got to the enemy ships, they passed through their outer bodies like they were made of soap bubbles or something.
Then a massacre appeared!
They attacked the ships stuck between the debris of the damaged ships hit by Hye's little fleet. Hye was literally standing on his toes to wait for the responses of these Soulers.
"We are in!"
"We controlled a ship, mighty king!"
"We ruled over here, mighty king!"
One by one, many started to speak, and Hye couldn't believe the nickname Lucas casually mentioned spread like wildfire. He didn't hesitate to issue another order: "abandon these ships, go towards others around, clear as many as you can…"
And then he ordered them to open the hatches to these ships, before he went out personally and started to move towards these loot.
In mere minutes, he gained around twenty new small ships without the need to spend a single bone for them! And just as he deployed his warriors there, adding new Soulers, the Soulers outside cleared fifty more!
"It's a feast! It's a feast! Let me come in, let me take a share of the prize, hahahaha!" just when he returned back, he heard the nymph lady's laughs and words.
"Stop fooling around, you just watch and learn," he rolled his eyes, before turning his focus outside. He deployed more Soulers in each ship, ordered them to suit up and leave to attack more ships. And when that happened, he had around a thousand Soulers working out there, adding hundreds of small ships to him.
Then the hunt ended when there wasn't a single ship to claim. The rest were either exploding silently with fire, or got damaged and turned into useless scraps of metal.
"Wait for an expansion," Hye noticed that many hostile ships were coming from all directions, "I'm going to arm up the ships we already controlled. Make sure to return and wait inside the ships!"
He moved and refilled the emptied new ships with his warriors. He didn't add any more Soulers, leaving them to fill the remaining ships.
When he returned back, his little fleet that started with fifty ended up with more than ten fold that number!
"I want to join, I want to fight!" The nymph lady kept shouting excitedly from far away, wanting to take a piece of this grand pie.
"Just wait a little longer," Hye paused, "I'm going to make a bigger scene then you'll join, get ready… try to move the ships like I said, you have five minutes… Let's roll after that!"
Hye led the new fleet towards the incoming enemies, "let's do it like before, evade the open fire when I give the mark!"
The incoming ships didn't learn from the previous lesson, opened fire even before his fleet would get into their range. Then another round of evasion occurred, one that made him laugh.
The fleet lost a few ships this time, as the newly added crew weren't that versatile in evasion. He expected such a result, and wasn't feeling any bad towards this.
He had no time to train enough warriors to evade the incoming attacks! He got lucky enough to train many of how to steer the ships back then. Yet when he saw how grand this chance was, he regretted not training more.
"I'll just store these ships," he decided to do this from now on, wait for a chance to retreat back towards that safe haven in between the two stars, and start a wide spree mission of training.
Then it hit him! "Why won't I leave some there? Let them train? Won't it be like the training grounds I established before on the second Earth world? This is brilliant!"
He decided to do this next time he got time to break free from this battle. But now he focused on the heated evasion battle going on right now.
"Open fire!' the moment the hostile ships got in range, he released the order, "attack the close ones, then the far away ones after two minutes…"
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