Chapter 437

Episode 437. Icarus vs. Hwang-Seon Tribe. (2)

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[Triangle Zone Official Chat Room]

[Notice: No direct confrontation with the Yellow Turbans]

-[What’s up with Spiralus? Suddenly can’t move.]

-[The route connected to the base overlapped with another route and got disconnected.]

-[“You came to save us, bro!” / “Nah, we’re trapped too.”]

-[Ah.]

-[Wait, is this for real?]

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Of course, in such a situation, the so-called allied users of the Triangle Zone were showing signs of utter chaos.

No, beyond chaos…

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[Triangle Zone Official Chat Room]

[Notice: No direct confrontation with the Yellow Turbans]

-[Whaaat? Is the Icarus Fleet getting wrecked too?]

-[Nah, man, we’re surrounded.]

-[We’re screwed. The supply ships brought everything except the resource fleet.]

-[Damn, this ain’t easy.]

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Now, we were all doom and gloom, constantly revealing a defeatist attitude like crazy.

And not just the regular users, whose morale was already halfway shattered, but even the mercenary users trapped in the encirclement were subtly showing the same attitude.

Since the base was docked here, except for those who had no choice but to resist desperately, other users were quietly preparing to flee.

But as I watched all this, I shook my head, calming the confusion that had risen in me.

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“Jessica, that’s the reality of the people I’ll have to deal with if I become the clan leader.”

“Hmm, I can see why the Commander would dislike them so much.”

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Unlike the other users, the reason I was reacting so calmly was simple.

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“The three bases that destroyed Spiralus’ route, do we know where they are?”

“Yes, they’re all level 1-2 bases, and I’ve got their spatial coordinates.”

“Good. Then tell the Mercenary Dispatch Center to hire all available mercenaries for 4.3 million minerals and 900,000 rare resources.”

“Yes, Commander!”

“And take this.”

“Ah.”

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As you can see from me handing Jessica a sewing machine while saying this.

‘Oh, the base defense fleet can’t move? Then just warp the Tanhoizer Gate with mercenaries, problem solved!’

That’s all it took.

Of course, after the sudden appearance of the Leviathan Fleet, I wasted millions of resources, so my hiring capacity had significantly decreased…

But thanks to the recent chaos over the past 1-2 weeks, more users have docked at my base.

This increased my resource acquisition rate, allowing me to gather more resources than expected.

Plus, I did some resource box gacha pulls.

And I splurged on the resource items in the trading market, stocking up on resources in advance.

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[Mercenary Group Employment Status]

[Currently hiring 530 mercenary groups]

[Total Ship Types]

[Battleships: 19]

[Carriers: 9]

[Cruiser Battleships: 195]

[Heavy Cruisers: 333]

[Light Cruisers: 2,105]

[Destroyers: 14,211]

[Escort Ships: 23,985]

[Patrol Ships: 52,115]

[Total: 92,972 ships]

[Daily Resource Consumption: Minerals 910,315, Rare Resources 100,754]

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“Not bad.”

“…Sometimes, Commander, your expressions are hard to understand.”

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Sending roughly 30,000 mercenary ships per base to suppress them.

Then, I planned to lure those trying to turn my precious Krakens into takoyaki into my ‘territory’ and let the Leviathan Fleet handle the rest.

Of course, this strategy of mine was only useful in the current situation.

If the bases I was targeting were originally held by bandits and had ‘intact defense facilities and fleets!’

And if the users stationed there were also in good shape, then 30,000 mercenary ships wouldn’t cut it…

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-“Commander Icarus, all fleets have located enemy bases.”

-“Shall we attack?”

-“Hah, the ones docked there and their fleet conditions don’t look too good!”

It was as if the representatives of the mercenary groups who had gone directly to the base had contacted us, having driven out the NPCs or other users stationed there and taken over.

As a result, the base’s defensive capabilities were lost, and with the fleets of the users who had seized it still not fully repaired, the mercenary groups stormed in.

Soon, the Yellow Turban fleets that had been swarming towards Spiralus were split by the close-range teleportation of Ouroboros and Kraken-Hreðsvelgr, bringing our fleets within range.

With a cheerful *ding-ding* notification sound, I quickly gained control of two Level 1 bases and one Level 2 base, instantly connecting the base route to Spiralus…

Right at that moment.

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[Event]

[Leviathan Fleet Sortie!]

[Content]

[Upon confirming that a large number of fleets set as ‘hostile’ had entered the ‘territory’ of Icarus, where they were stationed,]

[Under the judgment of Admiral Ranka, the Leviathan Fleet immediately sortied to intercept the hostile fleets.]

[Result]

[The Leviathan Fleet will patrol the interior until the ‘hostile’ fleet responses within the ‘territory’ disappear or the Leviathan Fleet’s loss rate exceeds 10%.]

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Upon hearing the news that the long-awaited Leviathan Fleet of the Earth Federation’s exiled government (?) had sortied,

I decided to capture the message and post it in the Triangle Zone chat to calm the chaos among the users.

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[Triangle Zone Official Chat Room]

[Announcement: Yellow Turbans, even if you surrender, your fleet won’t be spared]

-[A-A-Alright, got it!](Icarus)

-[The route to Spiralus, which was cut off, has been reconnected, and the Leviathan Fleet has sortied to crush the Yellow Turban fleets invading Spiralus](Icarus)

-[Users, just relax and deal with the bandits, okay?](Icarus)

-[Ooooooh]

-[Ooooh]

-[How did you eat that?]

-[Well done](Icarus)

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Of course, the Yellow Turbans weren’t complete idiots either.

They didn’t think their fleets could break through the encirclement of 1.5 million points worth of fleets created by 150,000 users of Humanity and take down the Leviathan Fleet that had escaped.

They were trying to avoid having their fleets annihilated by the Leviathans by retaking the three bases my mercenary group had pushed through with sheer numbers.

But even though user fleets, compared to mercenary groups, were buffed by S-rank and above superhumans clinging all over them,

It was nearly impossible to quickly retake bases with over 30,000 mercenary ships entrenched in each.

They managed to retake the two Level 1 bases somehow…

But as soon as the gate network connected, the Level 2 base immediately deployed the defense fleets of Tanhoizer and Barracuda, leading to a failed retake.

And because of that, the Yellow Turban fleets trying to encircle Spiralus found themselves not only facing the user fleets, including mine, from the front,

But also the Leviathan Fleet, led by Leviathan, charging in with Jörmungandr-Class, Yggdrasil-Class, and a bunch of other miscellaneous friends from behind.

Our 1,000 Yellow Turbans were caught in a double encirclement, being torn apart from both sides.

And in the midst of this, fleets from other bases started popping out inside Spiralus through the internal gate network…

A moment later.

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[Anonymous Global Chat Room]

[Let’s all use polite language and maintain etiquette.]

-[[Image of a ‘Liberalist’ user smashing the Grand Seal]]

-[I’ll give you all the resources and bases!]

-[Just spare me!]

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOL]

-[What’s going on?]

-[Oh, the Yellow Turbans are done for?]

-[LOLOLOLOLOL]

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Even though they called themselves a faction, since they weren’t a clan, declaring surrender was a hassle for various reasons.

So, by accepting a public surrender declaration through the global chat room, this ridiculously large-scale war finally came to an end.