Chapter 367

Chapter 367. Big and beautiful ships are always big and beautiful.

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The day after the strange incident where a 180cm tall, handsome horned mercenary leader turned into a 130cm horned woman or a 450cm horned old man.

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<<<Dreadnought Platform Construction Complete!>>>

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“Ohhh.”

“Has it already been a month?”

I saw the message pop up, indicating that the construction work I had been doing before capturing the Tanhoizer had now been completed.

Time flies, I thought, marveling at how quickly it had passed. Naturally, the description of the <Dreadnought Platform> also appeared.

Of course, I already knew all this, so I wondered why it was being displayed. I had a lot of questions.

But that was only for a moment.

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<Dreadnought Platform>

<A platform for designing and managing the construction and modification of various super-large ships.>

<"Anything larger than this is essentially a moving fortress, don't you think?">

<Construction and modification of 'super-large ships' is now possible.>

<Currently available ships for construction: Dreadnought, Siege Battleship, Annihilator>

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“Hmm, originally, various auxiliary buildings were supposed to pop up separately here, but it’s changed a lot.”

The moment I saw the description, I realized that the settings and functions of the ‘Dreadnought Platform’ had changed from what I remembered.

“Is something very different? You keep looking at it.”

“It has changed. Originally, when you built it, separate auxiliary building designs would appear.”

“But now they’re not here.”

“Yeah.”

It was a building that used to get a lot of flak for being a notorious DLC cash grab, but now it’s just like this.

The management, who always got a lot of hate, actually did something decent this time. I nodded in satisfaction.

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Fleet Status

Total Points: 850/950 points

Aircraft Carriers: 3 ships, 70 points each = 210 points

Special Battleships: 2 ships, 65 points each = 130 points

Battleships: 3 ships, 40 points each = 120 points

Aetheric Submarines: 1 ship, 50 points each = 50 points

Light Aircraft Carriers: 0 ships, 40 points each = 0 points

Cruiser Battleships: 5 ships, 30 points each = 150 points

Heavy Cruisers: 2 ships, 10 points each = 20 points

Light Cruisers: 20 ships, 6 points each = 120 points

Destroyers: 0 ships, 3 points each = 0 points

Escort Ships: 0 ships, 1.5 points each = 0 points

Patrol Ships: 5 ships, 1 point each = 5 points

Resource Mining Ships: 30 ships, 1.5 points each = 45 points

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“Hmm, this should be enough.”

Since the docking facilities were newly built, I hadn’t made anything new, so I guess that’s why.

Noticing that I had 100 points to spare, I immediately instructed Jessica, who was nearby, to start building our first Dreadnought.

“Jessica, Jessica, make me a big and beautiful Dreadnought.”

“…You sound like you’re summoning a genie from a lamp, hold on.”

“Oh right, let’s build the rest of them all at once while we’re at it.”

And a little while later.

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<Shipyard Status>

–<Dock 1>

<On standby>

–<Dock 2>

<On standby>

–<Dock 3>

<On standby>

–<Dock 4>

<On standby>

–<Dock 5>(Fortress-provided facility)

<On standby>

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<Large Ship Dedicated Shipyard Construction List>

–<Dock 1>

<On standby>

–<Dock 2>

<On standby>

–<Dock 3>(Fortress-provided facility)

<On standby>

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<Dreadnought Platform Construction List>

–<Dock 1>

<Dreadnought under construction...>

<Time remaining: 9 days 23 hours 11 minutes 33 seconds>

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The rest…

In a situation where all the shipyards are completely empty, a massive platform is running all by itself.

‘It’s ridiculously expensive and takes forever.’

Now, seeing that it requires almost the number of real auxiliary buildings, I started to feel quite strange.

And after officially ordering the construction of the Dreadnought.

I wanted to proceed with the construction of the remaining ‘auxiliary buildings’ that were still left.

Perhaps it was because I had been diligently building various things during that time.

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<Base Upgrade Facility Possible List>

<Special Defense Facility>(Mineral 592,500, Rare Resource 170,000)

<Nemesis Orbital Ring>(Mineral 5,350,000, Rare Resource 950,000)

<Faction-specific Special Building (Current Faction: 'Space Monster')>(Mineral 1,250,000, Rare Resource 600,000)

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Looking at the list of constructible auxiliary buildings, which was now only half left…

I couldn’t help but feel emotional, recalling how just a while ago I was freaking out, saying, ‘It’s ridiculously expensive at level 9.’

And here, I realized that I wouldn’t have to fight directly for a while.

I was about to start building the most expensive building, the <Nemesis Orbital Ring>, but…

-Beep!

“Huh?”

“Commander, you can’t build that because you lack resources.”

“What?”

“Currently, you have 5.2 million minerals and 790,000 rare resources.”

Unfortunately, due to the large-scale hiring of 2,500 mercenaries I initiated earlier, my resources had literally hit rock bottom.

And after that, the resource supply related to base docking was nerfed through updates.

Even though I had captured a Level 7 Base, the resource supply rate was cut in half.

Moreover, there was the reconstruction of the fleet and the repair of the fleets of the exclusively contracted mercenaries.

Including the repair of the external armor plates of the Tanhoizer, which was destroyed by the bombardment of the Ouroboros, there were quite a few places where resources were being spent.

Realizing that the resources I had accumulated were not as much as I thought…

“Sigh… Is that so? Then there’s nothing I can do.”

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<Special Defense Facility under construction...>

<Time remaining until completion: 23 days 12 hours 7 minutes 19 seconds>

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Thinking that I needed to purely gather resources for the time being, contrary to my initial plans.

I proceeded with the construction of the cheapest <Special Defense Facility> from the list of remaining auxiliary buildings.

Of course, even this alone consumed a whopping 500,000 minerals and nearly 100,000 rare resources.

For any average user, it would be an amount that would take at least a week to gather, enough to make one click their tongue.

And after solving all these base operation-related issues.

I thought I had nothing to do for now, so I decided to casually enter the ‘Solo Ranker’s Room’ for the first time in a while to chat.

But when I actually went in…

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<Solo Ranker's Room♡>

<Notice: Deux Enjoi En Parie>

-[Icarus, come quickly](Menaldu)

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…Menaldu, who had previously said he was joining a ‘Clan’ and would soon leave the chat room, was sitting there as if he owned the place.

Naturally, I was filled with questions about why this guy was still here doing this.

To my questions, Menaldu… no, other users said.

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<Solo Ranker's Room♡>

<Notice: Deux Enjoi En Parie>

-[Ah, about the ‘Clan’?]

-[The world was too small to accept me](Menaldu)

-[The clan he was about to join got disbanded because it got caught up in a war](Laura)

-[Ah](Menaldu)

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOL](Königs)

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL](Indypatible)

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The reactions that burst out were like those of unemployed people looking at a colleague who failed to get a job.

Looking at their reactions, I felt a very strange emotion.