Chapter 406

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

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Chapter 406. I’m Expensive, You Know. (3)

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<Icarus-Indypatible-Menaldu Chat Room>

– [Right now, the maximum amount of resources I can store is 31.5 million.]

– [If you want me to go all out like you’re asking, of course, I’d need that much.] (Icarus)

– [Wow.] (Indypatible)

– [Oh, wow.] (Menaldu)

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At my words, Indypatible and Menaldu showed a momentarily flustered reaction.

But that was just the bare minimum.

What these guys want isn’t just running that fleet for a single day, after all.

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<Icarus-Indypatible-Menaldu Chat Room>

– [And as for the maintenance cost of the mercenary group, you’ll need to give an additional 30 million of each resource.] (Icarus)

– [Wait, for real?]

– [You’re saying we need to give 30 million resources before hiring the mercenary group, and then another 30 million after hiring them?] (Indypatible)

– [Yep.] (Icarus)

– [Crazy.] (Menaldu)

– [Oh, and by the way, even if you give 30 million for maintenance, it’ll last at most 3 days.]

– [Also, I can’t handle that kind of maintenance cost myself. If you want to use them long-term, you guys will have to pay for it. Can you handle that?] (Icarus)

– [Holy moly sh*t.] (Menaldu)

– [And on top of that, you’ll have to calculate my own hiring fee separately.] (Icarus)

– [Ah.] (Indypatible)

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Since these two had helped me out back when I was getting beaten up by the Walpurgis Union, I decided to push through my laziness and give them as kind and detailed an explanation as possible.

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<Icarus-Indypatible-Menaldu Chat Room>

– [If it comes to that, you’ll need to hire at least 10,000 mercenary groups.]

– [Based on the last time I hired them, the resource consumption would be 10.6 million minerals and 1.26 million rare resources per day. There’s no way I can handle that alone.] (Icarus)

– [Wait, 10.6 million minerals per day?]

– [And 1.26 million rare resources?] (Indypatible)

– [Yep, that’s right.] (Icarus)

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Meanwhile, at the same time, Antares and the Humanity Clan executives, who were hearing about this situation in real-time through Indypatible, were…

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– [LOLOLOLOLOLOL]

– [So basically, you’re saying we have to pay 60 million resources upfront, and then after 3 days, another 30 million?]

– [Even if you say it’s sent via mail, since it’s done through ships, it’s practically like paying 90 million upfront, right?]

– [Crazy LOL]

– [At that level, it’s not even a joke. You could create an average user fleet of 1,000 ships, including cruisers and battleships.]

– [Nah, 1,000? It’d be over 2,000.]

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Hearing the insane amount of resources being demanded, they were causing quite the uproar.

But amidst the chaos, the staff, who were desperately trying to control the confusing battlefield situation, crunched the numbers and came to a conclusion.

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– [To pull out a user fleet like that, it’d take at least 2 weeks, even if we rush it.]

– [And in 2 weeks, we’d already be crushed by the Earth Federation’s sheer numbers.]

– [But if we give those resources to Icarus, investing just 30 million resources would immediately add 1 million ships to the frontlines.]

– [Oh.]

– [Oh.]

– [Ohhh.]

– [Not bad, honestly.]

– [It’s not like other clan members or users are lacking resources right now. The problem is the lack of shipyards, which is why we can’t supply enough forces.]

– [Hmm, interesting…]

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When you think about it, the conclusion was, “It’s still better to use Icarus.”

As a result, the Humanity Clan, including Antares, decided to send 25 million minerals and 5 million rare resources each to Indypatible and Menaldu, totaling 30 million.

Through this, the two rankers would sequentially provide resources to Icarus, effectively hiring Icarus as an “external mercenary.”

Of course, since Indypatible and Menaldu couldn’t handle that much resources all at once…

About…

It took 10 attempts to send it all.

And after such a ridiculously complicated procedure by Humanity.

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<Icarus-Indypatible-Menaldu Chat Room>

<(Y)/N>

-[Ugh, hiring is such a pain in the ass] (Indypatible)

-[LOLOLOLOLOL]

-[Got it all, and since it’s almost past 24:00, I’ll deploy the fleet as soon as it passes] (Icarus)

-[Let me know when you deploy]

-[So I can send the resources or whatever] (Menaldu)