Chapter 401

Chapter 401. Humanity is Awakening. (2)

Of course, even though the Biomass Clan is treated as one of the 3(+1) major clans.

Charging head-on against the Loki Clan, which is more than three times their size, was beyond anyone’s expectations.

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Title: Breaking News) Current War Situation Between Zones.txt

Author: News Boy

Content: [3D model map of the world, the entire territory of the Earth Federation marked as ‘Civil War’.gif]

Here’s a summary of the current situation:

As everyone knows, the Humanity Clan, led by Antares, is launching a full-scale offensive with their sub-clans, external mercenaries, and even dispatched forces from the Earth Federation that they’ve recruited.

Of course, the Earth Federation is also responding with their main forces.

[Earth Federation’s battleship exploding from concentrated attacks.gif]

But even with a frontline, the situation is dangerous as Humanity keeps popping up everywhere like mushrooms after rain.

The Earth Federation fleets were preemptively ambushed, putting them at a significant disadvantage.

Next, there are other clans responding to the Humanity Clan.

Justice and Loki rushed in, but unfortunately, Justice’s forces were weakened due to an event, so they can’t move recklessly.

Whether that’s true or not, the user acting as the clan spokesperson just said, “Yeah, sure.”

As for Loki, they were right next to Humanity and tried to charge at the Earth Federation as soon as the event ended.

But with most of Loki’s forces concentrated in the southeast, the Biomass Clan, which was in the Monster faction, struck Loki from behind.

But get this—the Biomass Clan is barely over a third of Loki’s size!

When asked why they did it, the Biomass Clan leader, Tenta, said:

-“Loki Clan’s planted spies attacked our key bases and destroyed our users’ fleets.”

And indeed, several user bases destroyed by the Biomass Clan were confirmed.

So now, Loki has to pull half their forces meant to contain Humanity and rush them north.

Meanwhile, Biomass is just stubbornly pushing forward.

(Additional)

Someone in the comments mentioned that Justice can’t move because of conflicts on one side with Biomass and on the other with Xenobia’s civil war. Thanks for the info.

Comments:

-[Wow, what a mess.]

-[Everyone’s stabbing each other in the back.]

-[Justice just can’t move, period.]

-[Really?]

-[On one side, Biomass is invading Loki, and on the other, the Xenobia Empire is in a civil war among users.]

-[Just go through the Central Zone.]

-[Yeah, right. The Central Zone users and Icarus, that guy, wouldn’t let a massive fleet from a super clan pass through their solo-player-filled Central Zone.]

-[True that.]

-[Confirmed, edited.] (Author)

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Turns out, the Loki Clan’s ‘spies’ had preemptively provoked the Biomass Clan, leading to this mess.

Most users are thinking, “Typical of those trolls, charging in without understanding the situation.”

Or rather, given Loki Clan’s usual behavior of “casually planting spies in other clans,” it’s no surprise.

In fact, some are even starting to feel a bit sorry for them.

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But for the Loki Clan, the actual party involved, they’re feeling the full brunt of how unfair this situation is.

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<Loki Clan Official Chat Room>

<Announcement: See, I told you, you idiots.>

-[Which idiot went rogue?] (Betelgeuse)

-[Not us.]

-[At least not among the agents we deployed. Something’s off.]

-[Sigh… Antares must be playing games.] (Betelgeuse)

-[Wow.]

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Surprisingly, it’s true that Loki Clan did deploy spies into the Biomass Clan.

But the ones causing this chaos weren’t their spies—it was some random user.

Now, Loki Clan is getting blamed for something they didn’t even do, which is just absurd.

Of course, Loki Clan is also…

The Biomass Clan protested, saying, “It wasn’t us!” but…

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<Loki-Biomass Negotiation Chat>

– [It wasn’t us, swear on my mom’s life] (Loki)

– […]

– [Then, no need for anything else, just verify the chat room] (Biomass)

– [What chat room?] (Loki)

– [The one where you manage your spies] (Biomass)

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In the end, the Biomass Clan presented a condition that the Loki Clan couldn’t accept.

For the Loki Clan, it was better to take on a bit of a bad reputation than to leak their internal information network.

And, not to be rude, but the Biomass Clan is a big deal, but…

They’re only slightly over a third of their own combat strength, so…

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<Loki Clan Official Chat Room>

<Announcement: We’re at war with the Biomass Clan now>

– [Oh, a two-front war]

– [Are we screwed?]

– [LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL]

– [Let’s gooooooooooo]

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The Loki Clan users, while launching an offensive against Humanity, also showed a strong will to take down the Monster Force this time.

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At the same time, users who were “seen” as part of the Loki Clan got their revenge from the Biomass Clan, with their bases blown to smithereens, but…

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<A Night of Hot Humanity>

<Announcement: Monster Force Spy Meeting Room>

– [Did everyone escape safely?] (Humanity Manager)

– [Ugh, barely made it out alive]

– [All the standard-grade fleets were wiped out, and the base is gone]

– [Sob, my dreadnought…]

– [My superhuman died, and one gacha ship got wrecked]

– [I don’t have a superhuman, but two SSS-grade battleships were destroyed]

– [Everyone, head to the Earth Federation for now] (Humanity Manager)

– [If you make it here, we’ll prioritize docking rights at our newly captured base and provide captured ships to help you recover quickly]

– [Ohhh]

– [Ooooh]

– [Wow, really?]

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As everyone guessed, these users were all spies from the Humanity Clan, who had been copying the Loki Clan’s moves.

Having sacrificed their bases and most of their fleets to escape, they were now chilling in the “Icarus Triangle Zone,” waiting to collect their rewards from Humanity, grinning from ear to ear.

And seeing this, our protagonist Icarus…

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“Now even refugees without bases are coming here.”

“The war must really be heating up.”

Just as the event ended, and I was quietly gathering resources to build the Fortress Main Gun, suddenly dozens of “base-less” refugee users started pouring through the Tanhoizer gate.

Thinking how chaotic the world has become, I naturally deployed not only the Guard Fleet but also my perfectly intact subordinate mercenary group, who hadn’t participated in the event.

Just in case those crazy guys decided to raid the poor people living in the Triangle Zone to get resources to rebuild their bases.

Or worse, if they decided to terrorize the bases of the “mercenary” and “agent” users who had docked at Tanhoizer and left with most of their fleets to join the war between Humanity and the Earth Federation.

But thankfully, the refugee fleet users, despite their dire state, turned out to be quite easygoing and friendly(?).