Hye’s movement was picked by the Hescos like before. And yet no matter how many times Moth asked about it, Hye kept the truth hidden.

The Hescos decided to send ships as well, and this time they managed to do it earlier than before. So many of them passed the two behemoths and went towards the distant swirling mist.

Hye wasn’t worried. After all, the Hescos couldn’t connect with their ships for a long time. Unlike him, they weren’t prepared to establish a connection network the same way he did.

This lucky encounter happened only two times before Hye finally arrived at the Outer Battlefield. He took more than two weeks on his travel, and even after all this time, the ships he sent first hadn’t yet found anything significant. Yet Hye kept them going forward, while he finally entered the Outer Battlefield.

The first sign of their arrival was the gradual expansion of the tunnel they were flying in. The tunnel that looked narrow and couldn’t allow a single fleet to fly as a single unit was now growing wider with every passing hour until it could accommodate a few fleets side by side.

Hye knew they had arrived at the Outer Battlefield, so he instantly spread the news to his side. In a dozen hours, they finally arrived at a grand scene, where the lands stretched far to the horizon, with the fleets appearing as if they arrived through wrapping portals.

They came upon this world from many whirlpools midair, a few kilometres high in the sky. The moment they appeared, it felt like the gravity of the entire world was focused on their ships, forcing them to fall at high speed towards the ground.

[Stay put, we arrived, but don’t try to resist the welcoming pull!] Moth sent this to Hye, and the latter couldn’t help but look around, feeling no worry over his fleet. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

He already knew ships had no role to play in this world, or at least at the gathering place they arrived at. If this were the law in this world, it meant there was a way to keep their ships safe. Or else, not a single force coming here would have found its way back home.

The fast descent came as a surprise to his generals and warriors. Hye sent a reassuring message, repeating the same instructions Moth sent to him, making them rest and feel more at ease.

The descent lasted for a few minutes, surprising Hye and others who thought they would crash hard against the ground in a few seconds. Moth explained to Hye that no one knew why the ones inside the incoming ships would feel so, but the speed of descent of these ships wasn’t that high to begin with.

In fact, to those standing on the ground below, the ships were slowly floating, peacefully falling and landing on the ground without any damage or risk to the ships and the people inside.

"This is the legendary Outer Battleifeld?" Once the ships landed, Hye gave the signal and all of his forces got out of the ships. They stored their ships inside their inventories, and then they noticed something weird.

The inventories weren’t that functional, with a few items lit and others were greyed out. Aside from the weapons, ships, and warrior tokens, other stuff was greyed out.

Legend stood by the side, looking like a kid looking at something magical and unbelievable. Lily and Olana looked the same, with others surrounding the three while many eyes turned to look at them.

The fleets landed in a huge area, a space that was wide enough to accommodate one hundred times their numbers. In front of them, there were endless buildings and structures, each covered with a weird bubble that had different colours. At a far distance, looking as if they were looking at a grand mountain peak, a faint black board appeared there, with lots of writing that appeared blurry from such a distance.

"Welcome to the Outer Battlefield," Moth approached, surrounded by tough-looking Hescos elites, "this place is like the wild west. There are no rules, no system, no limits to anything anyone can do here. So keep your eyes sharp and your vigilance high, and follow me."

Moth’s tone and words looked a bit weird in Hye’s eyes, yet soon enough, he learned the reason. Just when they walked for a few minutes towards the distant bubbled buildings, a large group of a certain race appeared; the Toranks.

The moment Hye spotted them, he knew trouble was coming. He couldn’t tell if the news had travelled yet to this place about the clash between the Hescos and the Toranks in the universe or not. But he knew one thing: that large group came with weapons raised high in the air, prepared for a bloody fight.

"These weapons..." Lily, from the side, noticed, "they look weirdly primitive..."

She moved her eyes among Hye, who shrugged, and Moth, who sighed.

"It’s weird indeed, but these... They aren’t primitive," he paused, before adding in a serious tone, "these weapons are made by ores and materials scavenged from this world. That means in pure strength and might, they are far superior to any weapon we have. And that’s what makes that group, any group, very dangerous to newly arriving forces like you."

Moth’s words made Hye turn serious at once. He could get what Moth meant in general. After all, the Outer Battlefield was something related more to the alien universe than theirs. Just from the general look, and the ground wasn’t formed in the rounded planetary common forms of the universe he knew; it stretched endlessly, forming a massive flat landed world.

Yet their arrival wasn’t going to be peaceful or smooth like how Hye and many others expected; there was going to be lots of blood, and they had to deal with forces who stayed here for a long time.

Hye could tell the incoming Toranks were quite prepared for their arrival. The numbers they gathered weren’t less than the numbers they had, and the weapons they raised high in the air, of swords, spears and other stuff that looked totally primitive.