Chapter 442

Chapter 442. I won’t give you what you want.

Well, when you think about it, it’s kind of obvious.

There’s no way other users wouldn’t have thought of the same thing I did…

I hurriedly opened the trading market, and sure enough.

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[Trading and Auction System Notice]

[To use this system, you need a special currency called ‘Gold.’]

[This is a currency that can only be used here, different from the rare mineral ‘Gold.’]

[Current Commander’s remaining currency: 59,460 Gold]

[Search Results for Fire Control, Electronic Warfare Cruisers]

– [Jupiter-class Electronic Warfare Cruiser, bidding completed]

– [Smith-class Electronic Warfare Cruiser, bidding completed]

– [Balalaika-class Electronic Warfare Cruiser, bidding completed]

– [Jupiter-class Electronic Warfare Cruiser, auction in progress (currently over 15,000 Gold)]

– [Chrysanthemum-class Electronic Warfare Cruiser, auction in progress (currently over 12,500 Gold)]

– [Smith-class Electronic Warfare Cruiser, bidding completed]

… … … (continued) … … …

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‘Heh.’

By the time I got to the trading market, it seemed like other users had already cleaned out all the stock.

The few things left were either being fought over by users who were desperate to get their hands on them or had turned into ego battles.

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[Trade Requests, Fire Control, Electronic Warfare Cruiser Search Results: 52,881]

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Otherwise, everything was either up for auction or trade requests.

The whole situation was a mess, so I quietly closed the trading market and opened the gallery to get a better understanding of what was going on.

And as soon as I started searching in the gallery, I found out that the current situation was due to large-scale hoarding.

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Title: Is this hoarding for real?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Tracking results showing that most of the Electronic Warfare Cruiser stock has been absorbed by specific clans.jpg]

I thought something was off, so I dug around a bit.

Sure enough, it’s hoarding again.

[Image of a toad grimacing while smoking a cigarette]

Comments:

– [Let’s make money~]

– [Let’s make money and survive~]

– [What, are the hoarders at it again?]

– [Didn’t the mega clans say they wouldn’t do this last time?]

– [I searched, but nothing like that came up] (Author)

– [Almost said that~]

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Title: Those hoarding bastards are reselling now, damn it.

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Electronic Warfare Cruisers suddenly flooding the trading market, prices more than double the usual.jpg]

Damn those reselling bastards.

Die, damn it.

Comments:

– [Aaaaaah!]

– [Resellers? Call them “Re. Sell. Ers.” (lol)]

– [Drop dead]

– [Go die, damn it]

– [You bastaaaaaards]

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At this rate, I’d have no choice but to buy ships from those resellers at double the price to participate in the event.

I realized at this point that I ‘really’ needed a new approach.

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And thankfully, that ‘new approach’ came up faster than I expected.

One of the users docked at Tanhoizer sent me a chat request, and when I accepted it…

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[Icarus-Perseus Chat]

– [Hey] (Perseus)

– [?] (Icarus)

– [Do you need a Fire Control Electronic Warfare Cruiser?]

– [I got three ‘Nashorn’-class ships from the gacha this time, so I’m planning to keep one and sell the other two to people around me.] (Perseus)

– [Oh, nice] (Icarus)

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Out of nowhere, a user appeared, saying they had three S-class ships and wanted to trade directly with me instead of using the market.

Of course, I was fine with that kind of deal, but…

The problem came a little later.

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[Icarus-Perseus Chat]

– [So, what are you planning to trade for?]

– [I don’t really have anything to give in exchange for a ship…] (Icarus)

-[No no]

-[The ship is fine, I just want to stock up on resources, so give me 100 resource boxes.]

-[Unopened ones, please.] (Perseus)

-[Ah.] (Icarus)

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What they want as a trade price is, surprisingly, unopened resource boxes.

But unfortunately, I currently have far fewer resource boxes than what they’re asking for.

“Jessica, why do we have so few resource boxes?”

“Last time, you used a lot to call in additional mercenaries to deal with those you referred to as the ‘Yellow Turbans,’ Commander.”

“Ah, I see.”

Dealing with the Yellow Turbans consumed a large amount of the resource boxes stored at the base…

“Guess I’ll have to roll the gacha then.”

“Huh?”

So, to get the 100 resource boxes requested by that user Perseus, I decided to roll the gacha I had stacked up.

Of course, unlike other users, I wasn’t aiming to pull ‘ships or superhumans.’

Seeing me, the Commander, rolling the gacha just to get resource boxes—which are generally considered ‘duds’—our Jessica drooped her rabbit ears and shoulders, wearing a sad expression.

“How did the Commander come to use the ‘Fixed Causality Generator’ for something like resource boxes instead of ships or superhumans?”

“…”

“Ugh…”

“Yeah, I wonder.”

Of course, I felt the same way deep down.

But at this point, there’s no room for depression or self-pity after so many hardships and pain.

And the previous ‘9,980’ incident had toughened up my mental state way too much.

‘This is enlightenment, nothing else is.’

Feeling genuinely enlightened, I happily decided to roll the gacha machine to welcome 150 resource boxes.

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But when I actually rolled the gacha…

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[Results of 150 consecutive uses of the Multi-Dimensional Fixed Causality Generator!]

[A-Class Electronic Warfare Cruiser ‘Brawler-Class’]

[Shimmering Equipment Box]

[Shimmering Equipment Box]

[Shimmering Equipment Box]

[Rare Equipment Box]

[Common Equipment Box]

[Rare Equipment Box]

[Rare Equipment Box]

[Common Equipment Box]

… … … (omitted) … … …

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“…Huh?”

“Ugh.”

Though the grade was lower than what I wanted from the trade, an electronic warfare cruiser with ‘fire control’ functionality popped out.

The resource boxes were nowhere to be found, and instead, equipment boxes were popping up like crazy.

It made me think, ‘Am I being pranked again in this way?’

But that thought was short-lived.

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… … … (omitted) … … …

[Shimmering Equipment Box]

[Rare Equipment Box]

[Common Equipment Box]

[SSS-Class Long-Range Artillery Superhuman ‘Dornia’ (Cryostasis Released)]

[Total Results]

˪[SSS-Class Long-Range Artillery Superhuman ‘Dornia’ x1]

˪[A-Class Electronic Warfare Cruiser ‘Brawler-Class’ x1]

˪[Shimmering Equipment Box x13]

˪[Rare Equipment Box x40]

˪[Common Equipment Box x95]

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Seeing the appearance of a ‘superhuman,’ something I hadn’t expected at all—and one I had forgotten about, no less—emerging from the cryostasis room, I felt my brain freeze for a moment.

But that was only temporary.

-Creak… Clank!

“Oh… It’s been so long, Commander!”

As the base upgraded, the cryostasis room’s door, now located right next to the gacha machine, opened.

And from inside, a ‘rare flat-chested, honey-thighed beauty’ revealed herself…

I decided to shake off the nightmare of ‘9,980’ and express my intense joy at the appearance of ‘Dornia.’

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