Chapter 50

Chapter 50. This person is our commander.

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So, Icarus decided to turn his fleet into fireworks material.

While he was busy preparing and closing the gallery window to focus…

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Title: Real-time Pirate Empress Doomstack Report. ver 3

Author: Medusa

Content: [PPT image with a blue sea moon]

*Just to clarify, this is only about the main fleet led by the Empress herself.

1 Cruiser Battleship (flagship, heavily modified version)

305 Heavy Cruisers

705 Cruisers

690 Destroyers

58 Escort Ships

12 Patrol Ships

As you can see, because so many users have been wiped out, there are more cruisers than small ships.

Even though a veteran clan recently almost reset the main fleet’s power, and the clan alliance led by that Arcadia guy did a raid, reducing the small ship power significantly.

But still, it’s at a level where it could annihilate a decent clan on its own.

Comments:

– [It’s grown so much]

– [We raised it…♡]

– [Why did we even raise that, lol]

– [In a way, aren’t those fleets like the child between me and the Empress?]

– [How do you even come up with these thoughts, lol]

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The story about the doomstack piled up in the main fleet led by the Empress was in full swing.

Of course, since getting close would just attract aggro and get you wrecked, users weren’t actually scouting it themselves.

It was all part of the “Pirate Empress’s Raid” event.

As a debuff for the overly powerful Pirate Empress, the admins were broadcasting the real-time location and status of her fleet.

Thanks to that, the gallery main page, as well as the broadcast screen linked to the global chat, were filled with analysts breaking down the Empress’s main fleet every day, explaining its strength.

There were those seriously planning strategies based on the analysts’ posts.

And then there were the bystanders munching on popcorn, watching individual users or clans get hit and forced to warp their bases.

And so on.

All sorts of people gathered, creating a lively scene.

And today, as usual, the “broadcast” was showing the advance route of the Pirate Empress’s main fleet…

But then, in the broadcast footage, a “base” appeared in the distance, looking like a tiny dot.

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– [Yo, isn’t that a user base?]

– [It’s far, but it does look like a user base]

– [LOLOLOLOL congrats LOLOLOL]

– [Lord, another one bites the dust today]

– [Wow, that guy’s really unlucky]

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Users watching the broadcast in real-time began offering their condolences to the unnamed user who was about to get wrecked.

But that didn’t last long.

When they saw fleets launching from the base of the user they were mourning…

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– [Whoa, is he really charging head-on?]

– [What a chad;;]

– [The power difference looks like 20 to 1, but he’s charging straight in like a boss]

– [Chad move, respect]

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Impressed by the unexpected chad move, users immediately grabbed their popcorn and started munching.

Of course, to an outsider, it might seem silly to munch popcorn over a fight with a predetermined outcome.

But given the Pirate Empress’s “combat style,” it was rare to see a flashy fleet battle.

And most veterans fighting the Empress did so in a boring way to minimize losses.

So for the spectators, who had been stuck watching uninteresting battles for a while, seeing this user charge head-on with everything he had was genuinely impressive.

And then, one of the spectators suddenly had an idea.

He suggested making a bet on how long the user’s fleet would last against the Empress.

Of course, the broadcast chat responded with…

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– [What’s there to check, old man?]

– [But I am kinda curious]

– [Alright, let’s go]

– [First round’s on me]

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…showing genuine interest.

It was happening.

But of course, most users bet that the user in question wouldn’t last even 5 minutes.

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-[The reverse angle is… alive…!]

-[This doesn’t look like a reverse angle, more like just throwing it away.]

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If it weren’t for a few peculiar users or some reverse-bet enthusiasts who dared to bet on the absurd notion of “the user’s victory,”

the betting chat function itself would have been rendered useless due to the overwhelming gap.

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By the way, most users who placed reverse bets didn’t even consider the possibility of winning in the first place.

It was just a joke for them.

“I believe in them. No matter what, they’ll pull it off.”

Among them, one user had bet on victory based on sheer, baseless faith.

A fact that probably none of the users in the chat would ever know in their lifetime.

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Anyway, those bets were over.

Users watching the live broadcast eagerly started munching on popcorn, ready to witness the short but spectacular fleet battle.

But betraying their expectations, both fleets kept approaching.

Approaching.

And approaching some more.

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-[Uh-oh, this is messed up.]

-[This is some next-level alpha male move.]

-[Are they seriously trying to chip away at close-range pirates with long-range bombardment?]

-[Wait, isn’t that the flagship Overseer? What’s a firepower cruiser even doing here 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