Chapter 231

Chapter 231. The Condition for a Masterpiece Is to Go All Out in the End…! (3)

At the same time the All-Star Team was getting their rear end handed to them by a massive number of superhumans…

…About an hour earlier.

While our team was fired up for battle, opinions were divided on how to actually deal with the enemy.

But that confusion didn’t last long.

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[So, what do we do now?]

[Let’s just admit defeat and move on, guys. Seriously.](Icarus)

[?]

[Honestly, winning a fleet battle is gonna be tough for us.](Icarus)

[???]

[Can’t we just fight them head-on?]

[But let’s be real, they’re not gonna play fair and fight us head-on.]

[Exactly, he’s right.](Icarus)

[Don’t forget, the enemy is way stronger than us.](Icarus)

[If we try to form a fleet and charge in, they’ll just keep pulling back and chip away at our forces bit by bit.](Icarus)

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When I brought this up, everyone reacted with, “So what do we do then?”

Seeing their reactions, I calmly decided to present the best plan I could think of.

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[It’s simple, really.](Icarus)

[Right now, those guys are all bunched up in an anti-air formation to guard against my aircraft teleportation.](Icarus)

[We just pretend to go all-in recklessly with our fleet, then teleport all our superhumans into their fleet and launch a boarding assault.](Icarus)

[Oh.]

[Oh.]

[Interesting.]

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And so, following Icarus’s plan, the 100-man suicide squad…

Well, it was called a 100-man suicide squad for the sake of it…

But as the battle progressed, we lost superhumans, and some users, like Icarus himself, had fewer than 10 superhumans left.

In reality, only about 80 superhumans were deployed, but…

“Taste the power of the 100-man suicide squad, you scrubs!”

“What?! They deployed 100 superhumans?!”

This bluff made the enemy think more superhumans were deployed than expected, so it worked out.

Anyway, with Icarus and the other 9 users, we had a total of 87 superhumans… I mean, the 100-man suicide squad.

The boarding assault troops, riding in assault pods, used Kraken’s teleportation.

They crashed into Anomalocaris, Mona Lisa, and Königs in the rear, along with the single battleship Melon, Betelgeuse, Laura, and Menaldu’s aircraft carrier.

Of course, the All-Star Team users were utterly shocked by the news of 100 superhumans being deployed.

“Oh, crap.”

“‘Anka,’ take all the superhumans here and go support them!”

“Understood, Commander!”

Immediately, Laura and Indypatible nearby threw all their superhumans into the fight for support.

Betelgeuse and Menaldu also started throwing in their forces, including SSS-Class Superhumans, to protect their carriers.

But there was a limit to how much they could deploy.

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[The frontlines are getting hammered.](Arcadia)

[Antares, help!](Laura)

[I can only send close-combat heroes.](Antares)

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Using tanking and evasion maneuvers for defense…

Even without superhumans to provide proper command buffs…

Antares and Arcadia were too busy holding back the enemy fleet to spare any close-combat superhumans.

Suddenly, Betelgeuse and Menaldu, stuck in the middle, had to send superhumans to the rear while also sending their fleets to the front, managing a two-front battle.

Of course, Betelgeuse’s fleet was the largest, so while others were losing 1-2 ships, he had 5 or more ships simultaneously under boarding assault.

“Commander, it looks like 2 cruisers and 1 destroyer are about to be captured!”

“Ugh, just throw a few ships as bait and send the rest of the fleet to the front!”

Using the fact that he still had ships to spare…

He sacrificed a few ships as bait to draw Icarus’s superhumans away from the fleet.

Then, he sent his fleet, along with Menaldu’s, to the front to deal with the incoming enemies.

And if everything went smoothly, Antares would take command of the frontlines…

From the rear, Betelgeuse was handling support command in this manner, clearly calming the chaos and ensuring that Icarus’s strategy would be completely blocked.

But…

*BOOM!*

“Co-Commander! An enemy superhuman has infiltrated the ship!”

“Ugh, just my luck.”

As mentioned before, Betelgeuse had a strong preference for smaller, less noticeable ships over flashy ones when it came to the ships she personally boarded.

Upon hearing the news that the enemy had infiltrated the ‘Dandelion-class Light Cruiser’ she was currently on, instead of the Odin-class battleship that had been sunk earlier…

She shook her head vigorously, thinking about how unlucky it was that this happened right after she had moved all the superhumans to the rear.

“No choice, let’s quickly escape and switch to another ship.”

“Understood!”

Although it was a shame to lose the gacha ship, it was obvious that things would get complicated if she got captured.

Using her exceptional intelligence, Betelgeuse decided to swiftly escape the Dandelion-class and make another ship her flagship.

However, there were two minor issues here: one was that the superhuman had breached the assault pod near the bridge.

And the other…

*BANG!*

“Finally found the bridge… Oh my? Long time no see.”

“Grin.”

The superhuman who had arrived was none other than ‘Marian,’ which triggered a deep-seated trauma and a conditioned instinct (?) in Betelgeuse.

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While Betelgeuse, who had been infiltrated by Marian, was out of contact for a while due to her poor condition…

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-[Where did Betelgeuse go?] (Menaldu)

-[She went silent after the news of the flagship being ambushed.] (Laura)

-[Oh no] (Indypatible)

-[For now, let’s proceed with the original plan: send the fleet to the front and the superhumans to the rear to block.] (Königs)

-[Save me] (Mona Lisa)

–<Mona Lisa's Orchid-class Light Aircraft Carrier has been captured by Icarus's 'Smeragi,' 'Gryanarr,' and Pamfakapam's 'August'!>

-[The enemy is throwing everything at us, including support superhumans.]

-[We can’t even teleport anymore, we need to mobilize all superhumans to the rear to block.] (Königs)

-[Save me] (Mona Lisa)

-[Hold on a bit longer] (Melon)

-[Got it] (Indypatible)

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Although the rest of the users were left without their leader, Betelgeuse, who had gone missing (?), they still believed that the strategy she left behind was solid.

Following Königs’s additional chat, they decided to split their strategy into two: sending the fleet to the front and the superhumans to the rear.

But there was one thing they had forgotten, and it came crashing down on them…

Just as they were about to split and mobilize their fleet forces…

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-[Oh sh*t]

-[Oh sh*t]

-[Front! Front front front!] (Melon)

-[?] (Laura)

-[Oh f*ck] (Menaldu)

-[That’s insane] (Indypatible)

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While the nine users were mindlessly charging forward, and the All-Star Team’s mobile defense was being overwhelmed in the front, a slight shift in direction revealed…

A Kraken, six times larger than any battleship or cruiser battleship, almost satellite-sized, charging at them at full speed.

And it wasn’t just a head-on charge…

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-[Oh, full barrage] (Indypatible)

-[The main guns hurt like hell, dodge!] (Königs)

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It was unleashing all its firepower, literally ‘full barrage spam,’ while four escort cruisers accompanied it, chewing through the incoming interception fire with its thick frontal armor.