Chapter 475

Chapter 475. Thorough preparation is the key to victory!

It was truly unfair.

Even though my status window clearly showed that the Leviathan Fleet was within my territory, no matter how much I used awesome gadgets like gravity radars to search, I couldn’t find the Leviathan Fleet on the minimap(?) at all.

“Why can’t I find it even though there’s a minimap?!”

Just when I thought, “Could this be the so-called ‘bug’ that only clueless people in the gallery talk about?”

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**[Event]**

**[Leviathan Fleet’s Test!]**

**[Content]**

Although it’s true that the Commander refused the Punishment Fleet’s passage through the territory, the Leviathan Fleet thought, “If the Punishment Fleet comes, they might surrender immediately.” On the other hand, if they remained hidden, the Punishment Fleet might naturally retreat through a moonwalk.

To confirm the Commander’s will to protect this territory and to hide their existence from the Punishment Fleet, they decided to thoroughly conceal themselves. This special stealth is provided to flagship-class ships and cannot be detected by existing stealth detection systems.

**[Result]**

The Leviathan Fleet will be deactivated.

—

“What the heck!!!”

“Ugh.”

They’re conducting a test, yet they’re boldly saying they’ll just disappear from the battlefield.

“These bastards! Why are they never around when you need them?!”

“Wow, seriously, I mean, yeah.”

But when you think about it, if the Leviathan Fleet were present, the Punishment Fleet wouldn’t even come here in the first place.

So, in a way, it makes sense, but it still leaves me feeling complicated and mystified.

And since this fact is different from the reason we’re fighting the Punishment Fleet, other users needed to know too.

So, I decided to inform the participating users that the Leviathan Fleet might not join this battle.

Still, one saving grace is that the users had somewhat expected this.

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**[Central Neutral Zone Official Chat Room]**

**[Announcement: Leviathan Fleet unlikely to join the battle against the Punishment Fleet]**

-[What’s this announcement?;; So the Levi-Levi guys aren’t going wild?]

-[Then how are we supposed to deal with the Punishment Fleet?]

-[Even if we all team up, there are less than 10,000 users. How are we supposed to stop them?;;]

-[But if the Leviathan Fleet isn’t moving, isn’t it just the Punishment Fleet with a bit of the Obsidian Fleet moving?]

-[Thinking about it, that makes sense]

-[If the Leviathan Fleet could move, Icarus wouldn’t have needed to drag in Anti-Faction users and mercenaries, talking about war and all]

-[Yeah, that’s true]

—

**Title: Latest News) Leviathan Fleet Not Joining the Fight Against the Punishment Fleet!**

**Author: ㅇㅇ**

**Content: [Chat room announcement screenshot.jpg]**

This is real.

**Comments**

-[Hoeeee, are we screwed?]

-˪[Nah]

-[Isn’t that obvious?]

-[They’re talking about the same thing in the chat room. If the Leviathan Fleet were fine, why would the Punishment Fleet even come to Icarus’ territory lol]

-˪[Is that so?] (Author)

-˪[Got it, I’ll write it up]

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**Title: If the Leviathan Fleet could move, the Punishment Fleet wouldn’t even come in the first place**

**Author: Megaton Girl**

**Content: [Screenshot of a post saying the Obsidian Fleet is ‘on par’ with the Leviathan Fleet.jpg]**

The Punishment Fleet is mostly made up of regular main fleets, with some capital defense fleets and a ‘portion’ of the Obsidian Fleet included.

And when they say ‘a portion,’ it’s like saying you made cookies with water you soaked truffles in—basically no different from potato chips.

[[Link to a post saying the number of Obsidian Fleet ships in the Punishment Fleet is less than 10]]

Did you forget that in a fleet of over 1 million ships, less than 10 are from the Obsidian Fleet?

**Comments**

-[Hey, that’s still more than potato chips]

-[0.0007%, huh]

-˪[I hate the reality where we have to consider that a lot!]

—

Even if there are people who don’t know, they’re informing each other like this, so…

The chaos caused by the Leviathan Fleet not deploying was quickly suppressed and settled by other users.

Of course, amidst this, a different kind of confusion also arose…

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**Title:** Wait, I live in the Icarus Kingdom, how am I supposed to deal with this without any ships?

**Author:** ㅇㅇ

**Content:** [Notice about the Xenobia Punishment Fleet arriving.jpg]

How am I supposed to handle this?

I got wrecked last time and didn’t have time to build any ships.

**Comments:**

– [What is this guy even talking about?]

– [It’ll take at least 5 days for the Punishment Fleet to reach the Icarus Kingdom.]

– [Then the event will be over by then, right?] (Author)

– [Of course, it’s an event where you just stall and survive. You think they’d actually expect users to stop it?]

– [LOL, these events are always designed to make users sweat and barely survive by stalling time.]

– [True LOL.]

—

Some veteran players started saying, “It’ll take time for them to arrive anyway, and you just need to hold out for a day!”

Then, some people started popping up saying, “If we just need to hold out, do we even need to build ships?”…

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**Title:** What’s up with these guys not building ships?

**Author:** ㅇㅇ

**Content:** [Picture of SSS-rank superhumans boarding a Standard Class Patrol Ship in the Icarus Kingdom.jpg]

How am I supposed to take this?

I didn’t build any ships, so I’ll just use superhumans to raid their ships.

**Comments:**

– [LOLOLOLOLOL]

– [The determination to not even use meat shields.]

– [If you’ve just been farming and not playing the game, you might not know. Go build at least a meat shield ship.]

– [They say it’s pointless though.] (Author)

– [Then break their heads. They’ll listen after getting beaten up.]

– [Ah, I see.] (Author)

– [They finally started building ships after I ejected the superhumans into space. Thanks, thanks.] (Author)

– [It only took 3 minutes for the author to go from talking smack to taking action.]

– [A man of action, let’s drink to that.]

—

Those clueless users were quickly dealt with by the more sensible ones around them…

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**Title:** Current status of the guy who said he’d provide support fire from the base without building ships.jpg

**Author:** ㅇㅇ

**Content:** [Picture of two Krakens with tentacles clinging to a base.jpg]

Icarus got so pissed that they’re going to destroy your base and hire other users as mercenaries.

Plus, a few other users and about five or six mercenary users showed up to clean up the mess.

**Comments:**

– [LOLOLOL]

– [Why did the other users even come? LOL]

– [Gotta pick up the scraps, you know? LOL]

– [You know the resource gathering rate is bad, right?]

– [No clue.]

—

After almost getting a proper education from me and other users, they finally decided to build ships.

It was a good outcome, to say the least.

—

And with that, I thought about feeding cowards and opportunists to the cannibalistic crabs of Cheonggyecheon Stream.

Me and other users kept encouraging each other, building ships, building more, and building even more.

While leveling up the superhumans that popped out of the gacha during this time, 5 days later—

No, to be exact, 4 days and 20 hours later—

Me and about 5,500 users from the “Icarus Kingdom,” along with Anti-Faction users, solo players from the Central Zone who got “drafted” while casually playing, and mercenary users from other zones or the Central Zone who were hired as substitutes, all gathered.

At my base, Tanhoizer, a fleet of over 20,000 users had assembled and completed their defense preparations.