Chapter 150

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Chapter 150. Commander, Did You Do What You Had to Do? (2)

Anyway, something urgent must have come up.

“Sooooorry!”

I was busy, sure, but it’s not like I didn’t do it at all.

I admitted my mistake and quickly decided to tackle the quests.

‘Alright, I’ll just take it step by step. No big deal.’

The first thing on the list was, of course, the easiest and simplest: hiring a mercenary group.

“Jessica, how much does it cost to hire one mercenary group?”

“For an average mercenary group with one cruiser, two destroyers, and five small ships, it’s about 1,000 minerals per day.”

“That’s expensive.”

As Jessica, with her rabbit ears perked up and her jacket half on, spoke, I couldn’t help but wonder if there was any room for negotiation.

But no matter how realistic this world has become, it’s still fundamentally a game.

If I showed my intentions too clearly…

-“Huh?”

-“You haven’t hired anyone until now, and now you want a discount? You’ve got some nerve!”

-“I’ll kill you!”

“Oh sh*t.”

Just as the yakuza slang flew at me.

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<Warning!>

<The current state of the ‘Mercenary Office’ is not great, so negotiation is impossible!>

<Even now, it’s only because Pirate Empress Marian is here that things are being tolerated.>

<It’s best not to provoke any unnecessary trouble!>

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…A warning message popped up in front of me, telling me not to mess around.

So, after letting my imagination run wild for a moment, I shook my head and told Jessica to hire one pirate mercenary group to scout the surrounding areas.

However, there was one thing I didn’t anticipate.

“Commander, the price has gone up more than I thought.”

“…What?”

“They won’t do it for less than 1,500 per day.”

“…”

Seriously? They raise their prices just because I’m forced to hire them for a quest?

I felt my head spinning at the mercenaries’ bold business move.

‘Wow, is this what it takes to be in the mercenary business?!’

Thanks to this experience, later on, when I worked as a mercenary for a user clan, I was able to double my own price (?) based on this lesson…

But sadly, that was still a distant future.

For now, all I could do was shed tears at the mercenaries’ audacity.

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Anyway, after being forced to pay 1.5 times the price and grumbling about how these guys were total jerks, I moved on to the next quest: building infrastructure for the monster faction.

Of course, the first task was constructing a monster breeding facility to take care of our supreme leader, Princess Luka, who had gifted me the Kraken-class.

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Since it’s an early-game building, I felt oddly emotional seeing that it would be completed in less than a day.

But here, I noticed something different from the system I knew.

Originally, if one building was under construction, you couldn’t build another due to system limitations…

But for some reason…

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Surprisingly, dual construction was now possible.

Logically, since all manpower is focused on one construction project, there shouldn’t be any resources left for another…

But for some reason, even when building faction structures, the Commander could now…

Even if I don’t know about it, it seems to apply the same way.

When I was building structures at the base, I couldn’t build the faction’s structures at the same time…

‘Well, it’s kind of a dream come true… but is this some weird bug again?’

Unlike Marian, who looks like a bug but is actually just based on personal preference and not a ‘real’ bug.

I started to feel like this might actually be a bug, and I got a bit scared inside.

So, just in case, I decided to check the gallery wiki tab for some information.

And thankfully, not long after, I realized that I wasn’t playing with a buggy feature.

I found out that I was playing the game perfectly fine.

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Title: MUST READ) Base construction and faction building construction are treated separately!!!

Author: Wiki Officer-mk4

Content: [A scene where Pirate Alliance buildings and ‘Astral Base’ buildings are being constructed simultaneously]

It seems like forgetful old folks, retired veterans, and newbies are getting confused, so I’m writing this down.

Was it about 3 or 4 months before we got here?

While updating for convenience, we kept the base settings the same.

But we changed the concept so that each faction’s buildings are constructed separately by dispatched personnel from that faction.

Oh, and by the way, monsters are all living creatures, so we added a setting where they grow on their own.

Comments:

-[No wonder I was surprised when both the base and faction buildings were being built at the same time, that’s why.]

-[Hmm, interesting.]

-[So, can multiple faction buildings be constructed at the same time?]

-˪[No, they also mobilize all their resources to build quickly, so only one at a time.] (Author)

-˪[So yeah, they can only build one at a time.] (Author)

-˪[Ah, thanks for the answer.]

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‘…It seems like all the sweet updates happened while I was away.’

I took all the unfair hits, gave up on spending money, and quit the game.

Maybe they revived the game through the sacrifices of players like me who quit.

Reading the wiki tab’s post about the game’s ‘normalization,’ I felt a bit down.

‘But at least it’s not a bug, so that’s good!’

At least I won’t have to deal with any crap from the admins for exploiting bugs.

I nodded and decided to move on to normalizing the fleet next.

Of course, our black rabbit Jessica, with her big, long rabbit ears, looked puzzled by my reaction.

“What are you planning to do with the fleet?”

“Except for the remaining Azkran-class and 5-6 patrol ships for small pirate suppression and reconnaissance, I’m going to dismantle and not build any more small ships.”

“…What?”

Hearing my words, Jessica blinked her red eyes, looking like she couldn’t believe what she just heard.

But that was only for a moment.

“Go call Belial and Marian, I’ll explain the plan in more detail when they’re here.”

When I spoke firmly, Jessica realized I was serious.

She nodded and quickly left to bring the two.

Of course, when Jessica brought them, they immediately objected to my plan.

“It’s dangerous, Commander. No matter how much you like big ships and guns… if we allow the enemy to get close, our fleet could be easily defeated.”

“I agree with Belial, that’s something only the Earth Federation, obsessed with giant ships, would do.”

‘Why is the Earth Federation getting dragged into this again?’

While silently mourning the Earth Federation, which got unexpectedly dissed by Marian.

I pondered where to start explaining.