I Only Wanted A Class In The Apocalypse-Chapter 1915: Hye’s Plan

The idea of peeling away even more top-tier leadership to serve under a foreign, potentially hostile power like the Hescos felt like a gamble they couldn’t afford.

"We’ll send Major," Hye interrupted, as if he hadn’t even heard the beginning of her objection. He wasn’t asking for their opinion; he was issuing a decree.

Upon hearing his name, Major straightened his back—a reflex born of years of discipline—and stood at attention, his eyes locked on Hye, waiting for the tactical breakdown.

"I’ll send you under the Hescos flag," Hye continued, his voice dropping into a vicious, low-timbered tone. "I’m sending you to crush the very people who framed and slaughtered your family. You will take your revenge, and then you will gather the remnants of your people. From there, you will lead them to build a base under the direct protection of the Hescos."

Major’s expression flickered. The mention of revenge ignited a fire in his eyes, but the logistics still felt like a tangled mess. "This... I would welcome the chance to settle my blood debts, Lord Hye. But I don’t understand the Hescos’ involvement. How will they ever agree to host us on their own turf?"

"That’s because I’m going to introduce you as the secret base I’ve been building in the universe all along," Hye explained. The plan was audacious, bordering on the unbelievable.

"Everyone—the Toranks, the Great Races, the Hescos—is obsessed with finding out where my base of operations is hidden. So, I’ll give them what they want. I’ll let you go, take your revenge, and reclaim your people. Then, I will tell the Hescos that these are the people I was using to build my secret galactic stronghold." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"This..." Major breathed, the scale of the lie beginning to take shape.

"But will they actually buy it?" Isac asked, her scepticism clear. She leaned forward, tapping her fingers on the table. "The Hescos aren’t fools. They’ll look for holes in the story."

Before Hye could answer, Olana intervened. She raised a hand, her voice steady and authoritative. "I will confirm his words. My family’s testimony, combined with the ’evidence’ Hye provides, will give the story the weight it needs to pass their scrutiny."

"Aside from her support," Hye said, acknowledging Isac’s concern with a slight nod, "I’ll explain that we were indeed building a massive base in the deep universe but were forced to scuttle and destroy it ourselves when the Toranks launched their recent attack.

I’ll present Major’s group as the ’refugees’ of that destroyed base and ask for a temporary shelter for my forces while I am away on their expedition. As long as I am personally with the Hescos high command, they won’t suspect a thing. They’ll think they have my collateral right where they can see it. Plus..."

"You need to use the known faces and names of your kingdom’s leaders to make it authentic," Olana chimed in, filling the tactical gaps that the others were still processing. "For the ruse to hold, Major can’t go alone. He needs a small cadre of recognised officers.

The Hescos need to see that you are entrusting them with people you actually value. So, aside from the ones going with Hye to the outer battlefield, he will need a few other prominent names to join Major on this mission."

"I see," Lily said, the gears finally turning in sync with Hye’s vision. "I can tell what you’re doing. You want to divert Torank’s entire intelligence away from this sector. You’re giving them a false target to bark at. But the first and foremost question remains... that weapon. Is it truly that deadly? Is that why we are going to such extremes?"

"It is," Hye said, his eyes darkening as he refused to sugarcoat the truth. "It’s like the God Tear we faced during the apocalypse, but evolved. It’s on a higher tier of existence, far stronger and more refined than anything we’ve witnessed before."

A heavy, oppressive silence fell over those who had been with Hye during the apocalypse trials. They remembered the God Tear—the way it had erased everything it touched, defying the laws of physics and magic alike. Seeing the grim look on the faces of the veterans, the newer members of the council didn’t need to ask for details.

It was a death sentence.

"Then the second question is: is it worth it?" Sara asked, her voice quiet but firm. She recalled the horror of the God Tear and understood the necessity of misdirection, but the cost weighed on her.

"I mean, we are sending our people to live among the Hescos, essentially acting as hostages, just to hide? Is the risk of staying here that much greater than the risk of being under their thumb?"

As usual, the fierce Sara did not take kindly to the idea of simply cowering away and hiding in the shadows of a foreign power. To her, the notion of retreat was a bitter pill that tasted of cowardice.

"Of course not," Hye said, and his words made her chuckle darkly. The others in the room watched his face shift, bracing themselves; they could feel he was about to drop another tactical bomb that would reshape the entire conversation.

"After Major takes his revenge, you will all resume doing exactly what we were doing before the Toranks attacked us: amassing more worlds and siphoning their populations away."

"This..."

"But how?"

"Are we truly going to move them to a temporary base in the heart of Hescos lands?"

The room erupted. Everyone kept expressing their doubts and firing off questions in a chaotic volley, while Hye simply sat back, waiting and listening with the practised patience of a predator. He let the noise die down on its own before he deigned to respond.

"First off, if we do not continue to act with the same aggression we have shown so far, then the Toranks will immediately suspect our intentions. All of this misdirection will be pointless," Hye said, waiting until the last of them had fallen silent.