Chapter 364

Posted by Kuze, ? Views, Released on January 2, 2025

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Chapter 364. Hiring a New Base Mercenary Group!

The next day.

After hearing that some users ignored the notice and continued to receive the “amount they set themselves,” only to have the administrators forcibly reclaim their resources.

There’s a saying that the busier you are, the more you should take a break, and another that says you should tap the bridge before crossing it.

After a good night’s sleep to calm yesterday’s chaos, I woke up feeling refreshed.

And with this refreshed state, the first thing I decided to do was…

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“Finally, it’s time to hire a base mercenary group here at Tanhoizer, Jessica.”

“Dugudugudugu.”

New forces are always welcome.

With a pounding heart, wondering which friends would appear this time, I started spinning the base mercenary group gacha (?).

Of course, as soon as the gacha started spinning, I felt a sudden worry about what if it completely fails…

But that thought was fleeting.

‘Wait… if I think about it, as long as it’s not just small ships, it shouldn’t be a big problem, right?’

After some deep thought, I realized that my fleet’s firepower is already among the top users, if not the best.

Unlike before, where I had to rely on just ordinary-grade ships except for some ambiguous Kraken, now I have ultra-high firepower ships like Ouroboros and Hreðsvelgr firmly in place, making my fleet sufficiently strong.

Anyway, for these reasons, I decided to take it easy.

I hoped that whatever came out of this base mercenary group would be just average.

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<Commander: ???>

<The commander will be randomly assigned when hiring the mercenary group.>

<Note: The mercenary group's commander could be a superhuman or not.>

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And shortly after.

With Jessica drumming beside me to heighten the tension, I proceeded to hire the mercenary group and its commander.

Not even a few minutes later.

-Puahahang!

“Commander! A large number of ships are warping towards us!”

“Oh.”

The base mercenary group I hired through the status window menu.

Seeing the ‘Lemmings Assault Team’ arrive, I felt a mix of pure admiration and bad admiration.

But that’s because the fleet composition of the ‘Lemmings Assault Team’ that came out of the gacha this time…

From my perspective, it was far beyond expectations.

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<Commander: Bendalope>

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“…What the heck?”

“Amazing, 672 small ships.”

This is no different from the ‘500 Suicide Squad’ patrol ship spam that users mocked during the last base update.

‘What is this, damn system.’

For a moment, I felt a surge of anger rising…

But that was fleeting.

“Hello, Commander Icarus!”

“Oh, hey.”

A fairly handsome male character… no.

After the alien mercenary leader ‘Bendalope,’ with his uniquely shaped horns and a thick, long tail, appeared.

His cheerful attitude and greeting made my rising emotions quietly settle.

‘Well, you can’t spit on a smiling face.’

Of course, no matter how cheerful and smiling someone is towards me…

Given the situation, I might have unintentionally shown some irritation…

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<Stats>

Health: S+

Attack Power: A

Physical Defense: SS-

Magic Power: SSS-

Magic Defense: SS+

Agility: A+

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Surprisingly, Bendalope’s performance was so outstanding that it could easily surpass even the upper echelons of SS-tier.

“Welcome, Bendalope!”

“It’s an honor, Commander.”

‘So what if the fleet is a bit lackluster? We have an exceptional commander to make up for it.’

Along with Leonard, I decided to extend a proper welcome to one of the few ‘normal’ male characters in our base.

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After welcoming Bendalope and her fleet, as she was about to return to her own fleet and walked out of the command center…

“By the way, Commander, what exactly is this ‘assault ship’?”

“Huh? Oh, um… good question?”

Listening to Jessica, I realized that its size was similar to a patrol ship, but upon closer inspection, the ‘assault ships’ Bendalope brought had a completely different vibe compared to regular patrol ships.

The problem was, I couldn’t help but wonder what exactly these ships were for…

Thanks to that, Jessica and I spent a good amount of time (2 minutes) agonizing over what these ships were supposed to do.

After much deliberation…

“Let’s just check the gallery wiki tab.”

“Okay.”

Realizing that agonizing over it wasn’t helpful, I decided to open the community window… and as usual, I deleted a bunch of inappropriate reports, handed out 1-day bans to some troublemakers, and then opened the gallery wiki tab to look up information on ‘assault ships.’

And perhaps because it’s been nearly 3 years since we got here…

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‘Wow, that’s a lot.’

Unlike before, the wiki tab was now filled with an abundance of information. After filtering out redundant data and unnecessary titles, I finally found the post I was looking for.

And upon reading the post about ‘assault ships’…

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Title: Explanation of the Assault Ship Class.txt

Author: Wiki Officer mk-26

Content: [Image of ‘Chess-class Assault Ship’ concept art.jpg]

Cutting to the chase, let’s get straight to the point.

You know those small monster ships that monsters use for assaults? It’s similar to that.

But unlike the small monsters, which are designed to ram and infiltrate with assault troops, making their frontal armor and speed the only notable features while the rest is trash…

Assault ships are designed to get up close and unleash devastating attacks like quantum torpedoes at point-blank range.

Think of them as a kind of oversized, glorified shotgun missile.

The key point is, despite being small ships, they are ridiculously over-armed while maintaining high mobility, which makes their durability comparable to that of aircraft.

So if you just rely on their firepower and charge in, you’ll see them melt away like level 1 aircraft.

And here’s a unique feature: due to their structure, they always come out in ‘squadrons’ when pulled from the gacha.

They’re one of the rare ship types that can spawn multiple ships simultaneously in the gacha.

Comments:

-[So they’re basically kamikaze ships?]

-˪[Nooo, that’s not it!] (Author)

-[Close-range glass cannons, that’s what they are.]

-[Great info, thumbs up!]

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“So, that’s what they are.”

“I see.”

In summary, they’re ridiculously fast glass cannons, and I couldn’t help but wonder why these peculiar ships keep showing up all the time.

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