Chapter 172

Chapter 172. We’re dead, seriously dead. (2)

Of course, I felt it, and so did everyone else, even the wild monster passing by…

Despite the fact that a head-on confrontation was realistically impossible, as is often the case with battles fought to buy time.

We also managed to repair everything neatly during the time we bought by relentlessly attacking with aircraft.

Despite mobilizing patrol ships, which we somehow managed to build in the remaining time, armed with only one turret but with the size and durability of a destroyer, to inflate our numbers as much as possible.

We’ve been sortied for about 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Excluding the 30 minutes it took to get here, we’ve just started the encounter with the Unity Clan.

“Commander, the mercenaries have been completely annihilated!”

“Crazy.”

The mercenaries, who had a total of 44 ships from light cruisers to patrol ships, were literally ‘slaughtered.’

Just 20 minutes into the battle, only 10 ships remained, and those were only the easily avoidable escort ships or below.

But we couldn’t just let the mercenaries’ spirit of sacrifice (?) go to waste, so we decided to somehow hold out against that damn huge fleet.

We aimed to buy time for the base barrier’s remaining 40 minutes of operation, stubbornly holding on without retreating, dragging it out as long as possible.

And somehow, we managed to hold out.

After hastily executing a tactical counterattack towards the base, lowering the barrier, and then performing a ‘you come here’ move.

“You bastards!!!!”

“Ah, no way, right?”

We could see the enraged enemy users screaming through their speakers, bombarding our base fiercely.

“Hahaha, it’s sparkling so brightly.”

“…Yeah, it is.”

Unless it’s a ‘siege assault ship’ from the final tier or a gacha luck, the base barrier could withstand simultaneous bombardment from 7 cruiser battleships and dozens of heavy cruisers.

As the shock and terror from earlier subsided, and our barrier sparkled brightly enough to cause photic shock, I decided to check the extent of our fleet losses while buying time.

Of course, someone might ask, ‘Why not just attack unilaterally from behind the barrier?’…

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Title: Base Barrier Explanation for Newbies

Author: Wiki Officer mk-999

Content: [Astral Base Concept Art]

When you first get into this game, you might stumble upon something called a ‘barrier’ while rummaging through items or base functions.

This thing makes your base semi-invincible, yeah.

To break through it, you need special weapons carried by siege assault ships, which are super slow, so unless you’re planning to wreck the base from the start, it’s pointless.

But for those who took a break from the game, you might not know, but because so many people messed up and then stubbornly held out after lowering the barrier, now it takes about 2 hours of preparation time to activate it once.

Oh, and this is super important, the maximum duration is only 24 hours, and during that time, not only can’t the enemy, but your fleet also can’t move in and out of the barrier.

When the barrier is active, the base’s power is fully utilized, so you can’t use the base teleport system either.

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…As the wiki tab I just saw kindly explained, I decided there was nothing I could do immediately, so I checked our fleet’s status to assess our damage.

‘Hmm, fleet status.’

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Fleet Status

Total Points: 288.5/550 Points

Aircraft Carrier: 1 ship, 70 points per ship = 70 points

Light Aircraft Carrier: 2 ships, 40 points per ship = 80 points

Cruiser Battleship: 3 ships, 30 points per ship = 60 points

Heavy Cruiser: 4 ships, 10 points per ship = 40 points

Light Cruiser: 1 ship, 6 points per ship = 0 points

Destroyer: 0 ships, 3 points per ship = 0 points

Escort Ship: 0 ships, 1.5 points per ship = 0 points

Patrol Ship: 1 ship, 1 point per ship = 1 point

Resource Mining Ship: 25 ships, 1.5 points per ship = 37.5 points

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In the revealed results, seeing the tragic massacre where 35 ships turned into 11, I decided to quickly build ships at the shipyard to somehow increase our strength.

I also mobilized all the resource mining ships = repair ships left inside the base to hastily repair the ships that were wrecked here and there in the recent battle.

At least…

The good news is, while they were busy with that massacre, a lot of the enemy fleet’s heavy cruisers and small ships got wrecked.

Out of the 250 ships they had, while they reduced us from 78 to 11, they also dropped below 200 ships themselves.

Of course, at this point, I was busy building cruisers, new ships, and repairing all kinds of vessels.

Since I even brought all the transport destroyers, the resource supply rate plummeted into chaos.

“Commander, we’re running out of resources!”

As Jessica screamed, we were on the verge of getting a fleet debuff due to resource depletion.

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<Resource Box Opened!>

<Total Resources Acquired: 58,300 Minerals, 2,700 Rare Resources>

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“Go and handle the rest with this.”

“Ah, yes.”

Along with my gacha disaster, the resource boxes I bought from past event shops were still around.

We decided to solve the resource shortage by opening the remaining resource boxes.

And the crucial point about the barrier setting was that it only prevented base teleportation.

“Kraken, show them your power!”

Since ships like Kraken, which have their own teleportation abilities, could send aircraft or missiles outside the barrier.

As soon as the cooldown ended, I teleported a barrage of missiles and torpedoes right in front of the enemy fleet.

And the enemy fleet, which had surrounded the base and probably went to catch some sleep due to exhaustion, reacted too late and lost about 10 ships to my teleportation attack.

But instead, they thought the barrier had already dropped because of my attack, so they immediately launched a full-scale assault.

Of course, the barrier was still up.

Right after the enemy fleet’s full-scale assault ended…

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-[You f***ing bastaaaaaaaaaard](Anonymous)

-[lol](Me)

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I could also receive anonymous chats, clearly from one of the enemy fleet users, though I didn’t know exactly who.

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At the same time, the Unity Clan was furious after losing another 10 ships to the insane teleportation missile-torpedo spam.

But that was short-lived.

After some thought, they realized that the base’s barrier would drop in just a few more hours.

Once they realized that Kraken’s teleportation attacks were over and there was nothing more they could do.

To prevent Icarus from abandoning the base and fleeing with the fleet as soon as the barrier dropped.

They surrounded the base tightly, trying to annihilate Icarus, who had given them a big middle finger.

Of course, amidst all this, the Humanity Clan representative, who had come to assess the situation, was baffled by Unity’s behavior.

“Are you kidding me? We told you to accept surrender, not to waste that precious firepower! Who told you to just throw it all away?”

They were dumbfounded by the fact that they had completely destroyed the firepower of a top 3 ranked user while also losing their own forces.

Seeing the hatred in their eyes after losing their ships and getting beaten down by Icarus despite attacking first.

The representative just shook their head, told them to handle it themselves, and left.

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And finally, the next morning.

As my precious base barrier was lifted…

“Now’s the time!!!!”

“Now’s the time!!!”

“Ugh.”

Facing the Unity Clan’s 180-odd ships, which were in tatters after continuous airstrikes.

With my newly built ships, I had a fleet of 15, and along with the base defense system, I engaged in a ridiculously tough battle.