I Only Wanted A Class In The Apocalypse-Chapter 1881: The Grand Harvest!

Olana didn’t need to ask to know this was the handiwork of his Soulers and Reapers. As she zoomed out the tactical map, her suspicions were confirmed by the thousands of tiny black dots that began to appear like a viral infection across the battlefield.

She didn’t know exactly when he had executed the deployment, but she was certain now that his warriors had lain in wait, shrouded in silence and shadow.

They hadn’t acted with their usual savage aggression; instead, they had picked the exact microsecond of peak engagement to move. Their interference had a devastatingly powerful effect that fundamentally broke the ongoing battle.

Hye’s warriors didn’t differentiate between the two sides. He wasn’t there to play the hero and support the world owners, nor was he there to simply snatch the planet from the invaders. He was there to fish in the muddied waters, reaping a harvest while everyone else was distracted by the fight for survival.

This gave his warriors an advantage unlike anything the sector had seen before. They didn’t need to bother with complex naval tactics or territorial claims.

They didn’t care about holding a line or protecting a flank. They focused solely on spreading like a plague, expanding their reach, and hitting as many capital ships as they could sink their claws into.

Their actions were completely unpredictable. The fighting sides were left reeling, unable to plan a coherent counter-attack or even strategise a basic defensive approach to minimise their losses. How could you fight an enemy that was already inside your hull, ignoring the bridge to sabotage the life support and the power core?

And when the entrapped forces in this scheme tried to broadcast emergency signals and ask for guidance from their allies across the sector, they were met with a chilling silence or, worse, screams of identical terror.

They were bewildered to find that this "Soul Plague" was happening at every other major battlefield in the sector simultaneously.

"You are a dirty, sneaky bastard, hahaha!" Olana couldn’t help but laugh herself, though it was a laugh born of genuine shock. She had completely underestimated the magnitude of Hye’s ambition.

She had mistaken his demonstration for a limited test on a single battlefield, a small proof of concept. But in the end, it was an orchestrated act of war that spanned the entire sector.

Every planet, every moon, every station currently under contention was being harvested by his hidden shadows.

"I couldn’t let this chance slip by," Hye said with a casual shrug, as if he were discussing a minor trade deal rather than the systematic dismantling of multiple galactic powers. He began to detail the mechanics of the operation.

"When my twenty decoy fleets got attacked, I didn’t retreat. I gave the order, and thousands of my warriors used the chaos of the initial volleys to sneak onto the hulls and into the hangars of different forces. Once they were inside, they opened small, localised portals. My dear Lucas then sent waves of reinforcements through those breaches to aid the infiltrators... and from there, they just kept jumping from ship to ship."

The plan seemed almost too simple to work, yet its effectiveness was undeniable. To reach such an astounding result, Hye had to have planned and acted long before the first shot was even fired.

This realisation hit Olana with the force of a physical blow; she realised that Hye still hid a mountain of secrets and tactical tricks she hadn’t even begun to fathom.

She watched the tactical feeds as they updated in real-time. Shouts for help were flooding the comms from almost every force in the grand sector.

She recalled Hye speaking earlier about his desire to fasten the pace of the conquest—to hit everyone, grasp the loot in a single day, and then move on to the next target before the universe could even register what had happened.

Yet, she had never thought he literally meant he would do it all at once! From the sheer chaos she saw on the sector map and the palpable fear growing in the reports across the different channels, she knew Hye had succeeded beyond his wildest expectations. He hadn’t just joined the war; he had ended the current phase of it on his own terms.

In fact, if he truly desired it, Hye could have easily seized total control over almost every planet in this sector within the next forty-eight hours.

The fear paralysing the region wasn’t just limited to the gathered fleets that had initially moved to attack the planets; his shadows had struck with such surgical precision that the defending planetary forces were being decimated simultaneously.

Olana didn’t know the exact number of Soulers Hye had deployed, and if she had seen the true data, her blood would have run cold.

Hye hadn’t just used a strike team; he had unleashed a staggering force of over 200,000,000 Soulers and Reapers in this single, massive operation! This unprecedented scale was precisely why the tactical effect had grown from a mere disturbance into a systemic collapse of all regional military logic.

"Time to reap the harvest," Hye muttered.

As Olana expected, in less than ten hours after the protective atmospheric shields had expired from the various planets, Hye’s hidden forces had already done extreme, irreversible damage.

They had left behind a graveyard of silent, drifting ships and a tally of dead bodies that would take decades for the sector to count.

Without a hint of hesitation or concern, a massive portal tore open in the vacuum directly in front of Hye’s battleship. Then, as if a chain reaction had been triggered, dozens more bloomed across the dark expanse like violet flowers of doom.

"I’ll leave you for a few hours," Hye said, standing up and walking toward the primary hangar of his flagship. "Make sure to stay in a defensive posture and don’t engage in anything dangerous while I’m away." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"Ok... But..." Olana stuttered, finally finding her voice as she tried to overcome her shock. "What if someone tries to sneak in and attack the portals? They’re stationary targets!"