Chapter 85

Posted by Kuze, ? Views, Released on January 2, 2025

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Chapter 85. Ridiculously Expensive Living Costs

Anyway, whether the gallery was on fire or not, our work continued.

Except when we had to check daily quests, train the kids, and handle some peculiar quests.

For someone like me, who usually only gets to stare at the gallery and chat window, it felt a bit odd to think, “Whether those two places are on fire or not.”

Honestly, from “our” perspective, this was a very natural story.

Long before I got possessed by this godforsaken game, Astral Lagrange.

During the game’s golden age, literally every community site on the Korean internet.

For example, sites like ‘Never Copy’, ‘U-Web’, ‘Diarchive’, ‘Gallery Side’, and so on.

All sorts of sites had communities or strategy guides related to Astral Lagrange popping up like mushrooms after rain…

Sadly, as I saw just before I got possessed.

The game itself had fallen into a state of being a godforsaken mess in reality, and accordingly, most of the related communities had also collapsed and crumbled.

Because of that, surprisingly, most users only occasionally visited the gallery, either to see some ‘humor posts’.

Or to indulge in information posts written by veterans or others.

Even now, the people burning up in the gallery…

Were likely the so-called ‘suicide squad’, the concrete-loyal fanbase who had been here even before I got possessed.

People like me, who quit the game once, then came back after seeing some ads or YouTubers playing it, just to check it out and got hooked…

Well, let’s just say they didn’t quite match up.

Anyway, while I was lost in these random thoughts.

“Commander, here’s the proof of completing the requests Oxianor gave us.”

“Oh, you handled it quickly.”

Our Jessica successfully completed the quests available in the base.

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Seeing that it went up by +1 in just a day, I nodded and told her she did well.

“Good job, Jessica. Take a break for a bit.”

“Ah… okay, got it.”

And as Jessica took a break… meaning, she sat in her chair in the corner of the command center, spacing out.

I decided it was time to check the ‘Reward Points’ I had been sitting on for over a week.

‘Let’s see… what should I call it? Ah, the event reward shop?’

As if summoning the status window, I called it out in my mind.

Soon before my eyes, along with the event points accumulated over 10 days.

A rather dazzling shop interface greeted me first.

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<Welcome, Commander!>

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<'Favor' Points: 3,550 points>

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“Hmm…”

Just before, in the notices, they kept saying ‘points’, ‘points’.

But here they wrote it as ‘points’, making me wonder where they left their consistency.

But at this point, with all the nonsense from the management team, there were way too many things to worry about.

So I decided to quietly let that slide and focus on other things.

For example, how in just 10 days.

To be exact, 9 days and 8 hours, over 3,000 points had already piled up.

You might wonder what’s so strange about that.

But if my memory serves me right, the level at which this godforsaken game hands out event currency.

If this were reality? Then it would be normal for me to have only gathered about 300-400 Reward Points by now.

Plus, this event setup is just… how should I put it?

It gave me a strong feeling that it would drag on forever, just like the previous ‘Pirate Invasion’ event.

I felt my head tilting in confusion at the resource consumption, which was much higher than I had anticipated.

But this doubt melted away the moment I casually opened the ‘Event Shop Window.’

‘These crazy bastards.’

The reason was the prices listed in the shop window—specifically, the required points.

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– <Event Resource Box: 1,500>

– <Event-Only Random Causality Fixation Ticket (1 use): 25,000>

– <Base Shield Rapid Charge Battery (1 use): 55,000>

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‘These damn money-grubbers.’

The resource consumption rate was downright murderous.

Of course, these money-grubbing developers, along with gacha games, tend to shove the ‘expensive stuff’ right in your face.

Ah, so they’re blatantly pushing us to join in on screwing over the users, huh? I thought as I scrolled down.

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– <Azkran-Class Destroyer: 81,500>

– <Kanhel-Class Light Cruiser: 170,120>

– <Tlaloc-Class Heavy Cruiser: 200,950>

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‘You sons of bitches.’

As if my expectations mattered.

The prices were murderously high, incomparable to the beginning.

I ran my mental calculator, looking at the resources I’d earn over the event period, which would last at least six months, and the murderous prices of the ‘items’ in the shop.

After a while, I managed to come up with a result, clutching my throbbing head…

‘Hey, if I buy everything I want from the shop, I’ll have to give up on ranking.’

If I wanted to shop for the items, I’d have to completely give up on ranking in the top tiers.

I shook my head at this vicious structure and quietly decided to just window-shop.

But as I scrolled down, utterly disgusted by the murderous prices…

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– <Random Causality Fixation Ticket (Superhuman Only, 1 use): 45,000>

– <Bahamut-Class Artillery Heavy Cruiser: 257,000>

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‘Superhuman Only? And Bahamut-Class?’

After diligently window-shopping, I found the things I needed most right now.

Namely, ships to handle firepower in ‘fleet battles’ and a ‘Random Gacha Ticket (Superhuman Only)’ to make up for my lack of superhuman firepower compared to other users.

I took a moment to ponder, wondering if these things were truly necessary.

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About an hour later.

‘Yeah, I absolutely need to buy those.’

Honestly, they’re ridiculously expensive, but…

Given that my ‘superhuman and ship’ ratio is already pretty bad compared to other users, I decided I’d buy those even if it meant giving up on ranking.

And while I was thinking this, Jessica, who had been spacing out, started talking to me.

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