Chapter 128

Chapter 128. Give Us Proper Rewards, You Bastards. (3)

The next day.

Nothing particularly interesting or amazing happened after that.

First of all, since it was true that we caused a ruckus in the gallery, the wristband-wearing moderators, including me, who had performed a “mass deletion,” were all banned from the gallery for 7 days by the admins who had grasped the situation. However…

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[Well, this isn’t so bad, right?]

[Agreed.]

[They probably gave us some rewards behind the scenes anyway, so it’s no big deal to let them save face in public.]

[No point in asking for more here.]

[They should’ve at least done this much from the start.]

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As everyone already knows, we had already achieved everything we wanted on our side.

As another ranker said, if we demanded more here, it would only risk irritating the admins’ patience.

So, while we happily pocketed the actual rewards, we also took advantage of the gallery access restriction to enjoy a pseudo-vacation.

Meanwhile, the admins took the opportunity to post announcements about suppressing the moderators’ outbursts, using it as a perfect chance to break down the image of their “incompetence” that had been piling up among users.

Somehow, we ended up striking a balance, forming what you might call a win-win relationship.

Of course, because of this, most of the users we had banned were released under the admins’ “amnesty decree,” and thanks to that…

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**Title:** Are these wristband bastards really just a bunch of losers?

**Author:** Anonymous

**Content:** [You have been banned verification image]

Seriously, how can they just ban people without any standards?

Even the old mods were just banning people left and right without any criteria, and now the ones causing this mess are all clanless losers.

Those bastards definitely have no friends and don’t even know how the gallery works.

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Thanks to that, those who were banned and then pardoned started popping up all over the gallery like resistance fighters, passionately cursing me and the other rankers who caused this mess. However…

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**Comments:**

[You got banned for posting crap, got pardoned, and now you’re talking big?]

[That’s one thing, but this is another. (Author)]

[Those guys are idiots, but you’re even more of an idiot.]

[Agreed.]

[Are they replacing the wristband mods?]

[Why are the trolls so bold?]

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Surprisingly, as if to prove that their way of thinking is different from normal people, despite posting disgusting images, their bold attitude caused a battlefield in the comments of their posts.

On top of that, as soon as they were pardoned, they started posting trollish or terroristic content again…

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**Title:** Did that troll disappear?

**Author:** Anonymous

**Content:** Suddenly, that guy’s posts are all gone.

So satisfying.

**Comments:**

[That guy got banned by the admins this time.]

[I clicked on his account earlier, and it’s not a 15-day ban but a 1-year ban.]

[LOLOLOLOLOLOL]

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This time, some of the lower-intelligence folks even got directly dealt with by the admins, creating a rather peculiar spectacle.

Anyway, after wrapping up this incident and establishing a network with the solo-playing rankers, I figured I wouldn’t be interested in community activities for a while.

Since I didn’t need to wear the wristband for a week anyway, I naturally decided to check out the new announcements and collect the rewards the admins had promised.

Personally, I wasn’t expecting much—maybe some resources or, at best, some “gacha currency”… or a 10-pull ticket would’ve been more than enough.

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**<Global Announcement>**

**<The rewards for the "Favor’s Price" event ranking will be distributed soon!>**

**<*This message is only visible to those eligible for the ranking.*>**

**<Since you achieved 3rd place in the overall ranking, Commander, you will receive the following rewards...>**

This is given.>

<Additional rewards are added and summed up based on the acceptance of administrator privileges.>

<Rewards: Random Causality Fixed 10-Pull Ticket x5, Minerals 100,000, Rare Resources 5,000, Rare Equipment Box x5>

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‘Oh.’

Surprisingly, the management team gave me a whopping 50-pull ticket along with over 100,000 resources and equipment boxes.

“Ah, 50-pull, the name we’ve always been waiting for!”

“…Huh?”

Thanks to this, the lingering negative feelings I had towards the management team quietly faded away, and I could immediately pledge my loyalty to them with a double-handed salute.

Of course, that thought was fleeting. After all, there’s no such thing as a limited gacha in this world.

After receiving the rewards, I immediately rushed to the “Dimensional Causality Whatever” and used all 50 pulls, but…

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-<Common Resource Box x25>

-<Rare Resource Box x9>

-<Luxurious Resource Box x3>

-<Common Equipment Box x7>

-<Rare Equipment Box x5>

-<Luxurious Equipment Box x1>

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‘What the hell.’

As I realized that the gacha I spun after so long had completely bombed without a single superhuman or ship in sight…

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

“Co-Commander! Calm down!”

I couldn’t hold back my tears as I saw the result of my week-long grind as a poop eraser and the responsibility I’d have to bear as a wristband in the future, all shattered in a glorious mess.

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After somehow managing to pull myself together, I opened the construction menu to finally upgrade the base, which I hadn’t been able to do properly during the event.

However, since I had already built all the expensive stuff before the event, and the cheap ones were built here and there whenever I had time…

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<Base Upgrade Facility Possible List>

<Forward Base>(30,000)

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Seeing that the only thing left in the construction menu was the ‘Forward Base,’ I realized it was time to level up the base.

After all, the Forward Base literally meant building an ‘additional base’ externally. Once I built it, the next base upgrade would immediately pop up.

So, I selected <Forward Base> from the construction menu, placed it in a suitable resource zone, and then asked Jessica, who was nearby, about our current resource status.

“Jessica, how many resources do we have right now?”

“Just a moment… Yes, we currently have 200,000 minerals and 20,000 rare resources.”

Thanks to the ranking rewards, even after building the Forward Base, which consumed 30,000 minerals, I was satisfied to see that we still had a decent amount of resources left.

I decided to check the resource requirements for the next base upgrade, but… maybe because it’s been almost four years, I completely forgot how much was needed for a Level 6 base.

And the result…

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<Base Level 6 Upgrade>

<<<Required Resources: Minerals 250,000, Rare Resources 7,500>>>

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“Holy moly.”

I couldn’t help but be shocked at the sudden spike in resource requirements compared to Level 5.