I Only Wanted A Class In The Apocalypse

Chapter 1937: Mothʼs Sarcasm!

Hye didnʼt hold back. He watched as his grand fleet devastated the region in successive, relentless waves of deadly ordnance.

For half an hour, the sky was a sheet of white light, and the ground was a forge. Finally, he gave the order to cease fire, waiting for the dense, black cloud of smoke to clear.

During that half-hour of carnage, he hadnʼt been idle. He kept his bone-collecting ability running at maximum capacity, gathering tons of high-grade bones that would have taken him months of grinding back in the universe.

Yet, when the smoke finally cleared, he couldnʼt help but suck in a cold breath of air at the level of destruction he had wrought.

”I might have gone a bit too far this time,” he muttered.

The ground wasnʼt just cleared; it was fundamentally altered. There wasnʼt a single living monster left in the vicinity—even their armoured carcasses had mostly vanished, evaporated by the sheer heat of the bombardment.

The landscape was a mess of deep, jagged cracks and scorching black earth. Faint orange light shimmered from thin pools of lava that were slowly gushing out from the depths of the world, bleeding through the wounds he had opened in the crust.

”Sorry, Moth, I didnʼt plan to destroy your world in this way,” he whispered to the empty air of his bridge. He hoped this localised devastation wouldnʼt be discovered by Moth or any other Hescos, not realising that every second of his rampage was being broadcast live to the heart of their empire.

In the Elder Council chamber, a heavy silence reigned. Moth swallowed the curses he wanted to hurl at the elders who had suggested this test in the first place.

”Shall I give him a map and a direct path to our central grounds?” Mothʼs voice was dripping with sarcasm.

He knew that despite Hye proving his abilities on many occasions in the universe, even against standard strong forces like the Holy Cross and the Toranks, many of the old-fashioned, arrogant elders remained unconvinced.

They had wanted to put him on a deadly trial, hoping to see him defeated and humiliated to remind themselves of their raceʼs superiority. But Moth saw the truth.

Times were changing. This wasnʼt just a lucky prodigy rising to power; Hye was a phenomenon. He reminded Moth of the legendary stories about the founder of the Hescos Empire.

Just from the actions he had taken so far, it was glaringly apparent that Hye would conquer their world if given enough time. He dominated the sky, he had tamed the legendary Wyverns, and even the terrifying Land Scorpitals—creatures that usually required a wide-scale military purge with lots of losses on their side—didnʼt pose a threat to him.

”He is using power, numbers, warriors, and ships that he shouldnʼt have,” one of the elders from the hardliner camp retorted, his voice trembling with indignation. ”We were specific in asking him to come alone, and yet he brings a literal army!”

”And yet he did come alone, as we requested,” Moth snapped back, his eyes narrowing. He hated the arrogance in the elderʼs tone and the desperate lies brimming in his words.

”Every ship, every warrior, and every monster he has deployed is an extension of his own power—assets he stored within himself. If you canʼt handle the fact that his ʼaloneʼ is more powerful than an entire legion, then that is your failing, not his.”

”Still...”

”Silence!” The Grand Elderʼs voice didnʼt just fill the room; it seemed to resonate within the very bones of every elder present. He did not like the path of the discussion.

”This human followed our instructions down to the letter. It is not his fault that his personal strength allows him to summon a grand army of veteran warriors and terrifying might anywhere, anytime he wishes!

This is an eye-opening event for all of us! Watch and learn. See how the universe is shifting, and see how the younger generations and lower races are fighting, rising, and evolving!”

Moth turned in silence toward the Grand Elder, feeling a surge of immense gratitude. Even if the Grand Elder had been the one to sanction the hostile campʼs test against Hye, he was still acting with a sense of fairness and justice that was rare in the upper echelons of power.

In truth, the Grand Elder was the one most astonished by what Hye had demonstrated. The sheer breadth of the humanʼs abilities was far beyond what he had theorised based on previous reports.

As he learned more about Hyeʼs secrets from his private channel with Moth, he realised this wasnʼt mere luck; it was the result of brutal hard work and a terrifying level of dedication that had pushed the youngster to such a pinnacle of power.

Luck always favoured the brave; that was the sentence that kept ringing in the Grand Elderʼs mind whenever he saw Hye.

Any lingering doubts about partnering with a representative of a weak race were evaporating. Instead, the Grand Elder felt a rare spark of luck—luck that he had listened to Mothʼs warnings and hadnʼt moved to crush this young phenomenon prematurely and turn their fragile alliance into deep hatred once more.

He began to visualise the miracles this human might perform on the outer battlefields, the victories he could secure for their universe in a war that had looked increasingly like a slow, agonising defeat.

Yet, despite his praise, Moth could tell the Grand Elder had no intention of cancelling the trial. If anything, the old leader was too amused by the performance. He wanted to see more; he wanted to see how far Hye could stretch his limits when pushed by the unique hazards of the Hescosʼ homeland.

Realising this, Moth abandoned his plan to use one of his hard-earned favours to stop the trial. If the Grand Elderʼs curiosity was piqued to this extent, then this was no longer a trial—it was an audition.

Moth decided to let Hye have the biggest stage the universe could offer to showcase his might and potential. Securing the absolute support of the Hescos was equivalent to securing the support of the entire universe.

Even the relentless hunting of the Toranks wouldnʼt matter if the Hescos claimed Hye as one of their own.