Daniel could only obey Noah's orders in that situation.
His role was simply to report the Hive's achievement to the Cause so that the latter's forces would know that the Utra nation wouldn't be taken away from them.
As for the strategies and the methods, they were in the Hive's hands.
Flying Demon led Daniel through one of the branches of the tunnel, where he found a series of hooded human cultivators camping on the barren ground.
They were the forces previously prepared by the Hive and teleported through the entrance placed in the Coral archipelago.
Moving from the southwestern coast of the new continent to the old one would simply take too long, so the entrance on the islands was a strategic checkpoint.
The Hive could just teleport its human assets in the archipelago and deploy them inside the separate dimension from there to shorten their travel.
Yet, some elders were already building specific formations inside the dimension to solve that issue.