[Are you sure you can reactivate the defensive grid in less than twenty minutes?]
Hye instantly sent this ssage to Moth, before opening tons of ssages and relaying different orders to different people and warriors on his side. He didn't even wait for Moth to give him a proper answer and acted based on the plan that ca instantly into his mind.
[Sure, I'm already working on it…]
[Listen carefully, Moth, I'm going to let the Toranks free…]
[What the heck…]
[They will take longer than twenty minutes to deploy and activate their God Weapon. I'm going to make my absolute best for them to take longer than that. Yet it all depends on you now. If you can't reactivate the defensive grid by this ti, your world will be destroyed, and your empire will be lost. Do you understand?!]
[...]
[I need a firm confirmation from you!] As he waited for a minute, Moth didn't send anything back. Even when he sent the last ssage, Moth kept his silence. And that was for a proper reason.
"Check with everyone first," the Grand Elder was sitting on a bed, receiving treatnt for the latest wounds he suffered, "make sure you'll get a confirmatory date for reopening the defences. There is no room for error this ti, got it?"
The mont Hye sent his ssage over to Moth, the latter went to consult with the Grand Elder. The latter was baffled by what Hye wanted to do, yet his thoughts drifted towards the reason that drove the Toranks crazy hours ago, making them launch most of their fleet to chase Hye's rear fleet.
This ant there was sothing very valuable in that fleet, sothing that the Toranks weren't willing to let fall into outsiders' hands, sothing that made Hye risk everything just to secure it. And the Grand Elder's thoughts pinned over a certain item, the only worthy thing the entire enemy fleet carried.
"I'll do it now," Moth was about to leave in haste when the Grand Elder stopped him.
"Contact our scattered defensive fleets nearby, make them move at once," the Grand Elder's eyes flashed in fierce light, "tell Hye we won't allow for any hiccups, not at this critical stage. So inform him about our intentions, and don't accept any objection from him."
"Sure," Moth was oblivious to the silent race that was going to happen between Hye and the Grand Elder over who would collect more pieces of the God Weapon mirrors and precious cargo.
As Moth did what the Grand Elder asked for, the latter couldn't help but chuckle from ti to ti. "I can't believe I'm regretting not having this lad in our race instead of the pathetic humans! A rare gem is being wasted for another race other than ours, what a waste!"
He shook his head before laughing again as he imagined the look on the human youth's face when he would hear the news.
[The Grand Elder asked for this himself?!!] Hye was waiting for Moth to reply, and yet when he did, he sent more than just confirmation on the reactivation of the defences. He told him about what the Grand Elder ordered, making Hye speechless for an entire minute.
"That old man… Tsk! It's indeed hard to deal with old foxes, such tricks that can succeed with people like Moth won't work on those damn foxes like the Grand Elder…"
[So…] Moth urged for a response, and Hye knew the Grand Elder had made a single chess move and placed him in a very tight spot. He had to choose between two sides, and yet Hye wasn't willing to.
[It's fine, I'm going to leave this battle for your forces then!] Hye decided to feign playing by the Grand Elder's ga rules, [So let's start it then! I'll let the Toranks free and you'll have to handle them on your own!]
[...]
Moth was speechless, not knowing what to do. At this mont, he was sure he was placed in a very high ga that he couldn't even grasp the boundaries of it. All he could do was to relay the answer to the Grand Elder, making the old man's body tremble out of loud laughter.
"Make our people move in full speed then," the Grand Elder paused, "and don't buy a single word that human said. He will leave behind lots of his forces, so make sure our people will fully surround the Toranks fleet, not let a scrap of tal fall into Hye's hands."
"Ok," if Moth had doubt before, he was now sure; there was a huge ga going on between the Grand Elder and Hye. Luckily for him, he wasn't forced to take a side by neither of them. And all he wanted now was for either of the two to sit down with him, properly and slowly explain what the heck was going on so he could learn.
Hye did exactly as the Grand Elder expected. He scattered his forces, the ones which he deployed himself, around a grand area, breaking the siege all of a sudden over the Toranks. Seeing this, the enemy was taken by surprise at first, before the leaders realised the movent they sent for their allied underground force worked magically better than what they even dreamt of.
Without any hesitation, they started to deploy what remained of the mirrors. They were midway through when lots of ships appeared from a distance, moving fast, heading towards their fleet. So they didn't wait for deploynt of all the mirrors, turned the partially deployed God Weapon towards the incoming fleets, and fired!
The attack was devastating for the incoming fleets, ending up killing one third of an entire fleet in no ti. Seeing this gave instant fear to all the incoming forces, not on their safety, but on their holand's.
The Toranks didn't stop there! They started another round of firing the God Weapon, targeting another grand fleet coming towards them. After firing for four more tis, they ended up destroying and killing almost half of the entire forces that the Hescos had arranged all this ti to defend their holand.
And yet this ca with a price that led the incoming Hescos fleets to be close to their target. And then they fired.
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