Chapter 127

Episode 127. Give Me a Proper Reward, You Bastards (2)

Of course, if the other wristbands had restrained them during that process, Icarus’s rebellion (?) would have been suppressed right away…

“But honestly, these idiots need to be put in their place.”

Betelgeuse, who didn’t mind trolling in games but hated it in community chats, was no exception.

*Sigh, if it’s what Icarus wants…*

“Clan Leader, shouldn’t we intervene?”

“Our clan also got hit with a gallery-wide deletion, and people are asking for it to be lifted…”

“Wouldn’t it be better to take this opportunity to appear friendly to that user Icarus and recruit them into our clan?”

“Oh…”

“You had that in mind? Not a bad idea.”

For some reason, Arcadia was obsessing over Icarus.

Along with the clan leaders of the two rival clans silently agreeing on this matter…

“Do we really need to get involved in this?”

“I agree.”

During the introduction, they couldn’t reveal much due to appearance evaluations, but Raksha, the leader of ‘Latunwater,’ one of the top ten largest clans in the Xenobia Empire, and Arto, the leader of ‘Dragon,’ a clan spanning both the Earth Federation and the Xenobia Empire, were showing neutral or favorable reactions to the situation.

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However, ‘Humanity,’ the top-ranked clan with slightly more members than Betelgeuse’s ‘Loki’ clan, was led by Antares.

As part of a plan to monopolize ‘power’ as an administrator, Antares was subtly annoyed as the firepower of the gallery, incited by the leftovers who couldn’t join the ‘Loki’ clan, collapsed in an instant.

“…They’re more of a nuisance than I thought.”

“Indeed, Commander.”

After brushing his flowing golden hair, he gestured to the ‘Superhumans’ to stop, unable to hide his disappointment at how easily the ‘trolls’ were suppressed.

But even so, nothing really changed.

“Commander, Loki and Justice have decided not to get involved in this matter.”

“Tsk, then it’s too risky for us to get further involved.”

Given the flow of the situation, Antares quickly calculated in his head.

Although it was unfortunate that the ‘sponsored’ trolls had such a short lifespan, he felt there was no reason to abandon them and quickly opened his mouth to his adjutant, ‘Messiah.’

“Tell them we agree with that opinion, Messiah.”

“Understood.”

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Anyway, with the behind-the-scenes (?) opinions aligning like that, most gallery users, after being possessed by this game, experienced a truly ‘pleasant’ gallery for the first time in a long while—or rather, for the first time since being possessed.

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**Title: Let’s Continue the Wristband Praise Time**

**Author: ㅇㅇ**

**Content: [Image of the gallery flooded with gore bait posts]**

Is this what pleasantness feels like?

Damn, I’m happy I don’t have to see those shitty posts anymore, fr.

**Comments:**

– [Facts]

– [Well, a few people got caught in friendly fire while writing useless posts, but anyway, we’re happy, so it’s good]

– [If you walk into indiscriminate bombing, that’s just suicide]

– [True]

– [The idiots who couldn’t read the situation and rushed in like moths to a flame were hilarious]

– [Fr lol]

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**Title: I’m Happy Those Annoying Trolls Are Gone, So Upvote Me lololol**

**Author: Ahura Mazda**

**Content: [GIF of gallery posts being mass-deleted in real-time]**

Starting with me~

**Comments:**

– [Nice]

– [This guy just said ‘upvote’]

– [This guy just said ‘high-five’]

– [*Sigh* bro, my upvote feels weird]

– [Ah, damn]

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**Title: Hey, Trolls, the Auction House and Chat Are Also Blocked**

Seems like it?

Author: Aria of the Thyroid

Content: [A gif of a troll post being deleted in real-time at the auction house]

One troll got blocked in the gallery, so I posted there, but the mod deleted it instantly, and I couldn’t post anything else after that. Also, the chat is noticeably quieter than usual, yeah.

Comments:

– [Those clowns tried to mess around in the auction house and got shut down immediately~]

– [Not easy, huh? Fr fr]

– [Forget the chat, what are they even doing in the auction house and trading areas?]

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Due to the initial indiscriminate mass deletions, there were some cases of friendly fire. Whether they realized it or not, users were quietly filling up with dissatisfaction towards Icarus’s behavior… But once the “normalization” through mass deletions happened, the gallery environment became incredibly pleasant, and everyone started praising the mods, including Icarus, for their decisions. And of course, the same thing was happening in the chat.

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– [Let’s all sing praises to the mods!]

– [Mod punch! Mod punch! Mod punch!]

– [He’s a god!]

– [He’s… a god!]

– [Wow-!]

– [Is everyone going crazy?]

– [Are you doubting THE one and only god, Icarus?]

– [Oh please, stop the nonsense]

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Thanks to this, Icarus himself was steadily climbing the ladder as a “likable high-tier user.” Of course, whether he knew it or not, Icarus himself was unaware of this fact. And even if he did, he had no time to care about such things right now…

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At the same time.

While I and my lone-wolf friends were busy turning the gallery into a wasteland…

<<“We understand your feelings, but mass deletions and blocks like this are not the right way to handle things.”>>

“…”

Unable to stand our antics, the admins had once again kidnapped us from the base and taken us to some strange space. Of course, even so, after living as unpaid eraser laborers for the past few days, how do you think we’d react to such words?

“Do you think we’ve been looking at nothing but crap for the past few days? Huh?!”

“I had to watch one grandpa doing it with another grandpa…”

“…”

“I saw a man thrusting into another man’s anus with poop flowing out, five times in a row. My brain is about to collapse.”

<<“We fully understand, everyone.”>>

Hearing the anguished cries (?) of me and the other lone-wolf rankers, the bald admin nodded in agreement and began speaking to us again.

<<“That’s why we’ll be giving you—specifically, those in the top 10 rankings—additional rewards.”>>

“Rewards?”

“What kind of rewards?”

<<“First, regarding these rewards, they will be given alongside the ranking rewards later, but...”>>

“But?”

<<“We’ve realized that management privileges don’t function as ‘rewards’ for you, so those who prefer solo play and don’t have a clan will receive separate additional rewards.”>>

“Oh.”

“Ohhh.”

“Oh.”

In summary, it basically means, “We’ll give extra rewards to clanless loners, so take this and calm down.” But the important thing is that we’re finally getting proper compensation for this “unpaid labor” we’ve been enduring. Naturally, me and the other lone-wolf rankers were very tempted by the admin’s words. Of course, thanks to the admins’ habit of “not telling us everything!”, we couldn’t find out exactly what the rewards were until the end.