Chapter 485

Episode 485. What you want… isn’t coming out again, lol.

Of course, if someone had been watching this situation at this point, they probably would have expected it with high probability…

Including the rewards from the quest, I boldly did 120 consecutive pulls, and the result was:

<<[Result of using 120 Dimensional Causality Fixation Tickets]>>

[S-Class ‘Lilac-Class’ Medium Destroyer x1]

[S-Class ‘Bristol-Class’ Anti-Air Destroyer x1]

[Gleaming Resource Box x13]

[Gleaming Equipment Box x4]

[Rare Resource Box x42]

[Rare Equipment Box x39]

[Ordinary Resource Box x13]

[Ordinary Equipment Box x7]

“Tsk.”

“Why, why does this only happen at times like this!”

“Well, at least the purification ritual wasn’t meaningless, we got two destroyers, right?”

Instead of the ‘big, sturdy, heavily armored friend’ I wanted, two tiny destroyers popped out.

The problem was that those two ship classes were far from being ‘evasion tanks,’ which is what destroyers are supposed to do.

“Jessica, Jessica, those two ships aren’t the type to tank with evasion.”

“Oh, really?”

“The Lilac-Class has a Xenobia-Shield, so it can withstand a full barrage from a standard heavy cruiser once, making it a ‘pure tank’ style.”

“Oh, that.”

“And the Bristol-Class isn’t an evasion tank, it’s an anti-air ship that shoots down aircraft and missiles.”

“Is that so…”

One is a pure tank, but it’s just a destroyer, so it’s meaningless for fleet defense.

The other is neither a pure tank nor an evasion tank, just a floating support, so I couldn’t help but feel sad.

Of course, Jessica tilted her head in confusion at my reaction.

“Commander, there’s one thing I’m curious about.”

“What is it?”

“Since the actual main force or tanking in our fleet is done by mercenary groups hired for each battle, do we really need to pull tanking ships for our main fleet?”

“…”

At this point, I realized I had never explained to Jessica why I wanted to pull tanking ships.

“Sit down, Jessica.”

“Huh? Oh, okay.”

“I’m about to dump all the pathetic state of our fleet into your head.”

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Anyway, after cramming everything I had been thinking about into Jessica’s head…

“Now I understand why you’re so obsessed with tanking ships.”

“I’m glad you understand.”

“I thought you were just suddenly obsessed with big guns and ships again, like before.”

“…”

The strategy of using mercenary groups could also be forcibly disabled, like in this event.

And in the process, if the mercenary groups were forcibly made unusable…

The only ones who could protect my main ships, which have serious flaws in defense, aside from the standard ships deployed in the main fleet…

“Only Lepan’s Rhodes Mercenary Group and Aquarias’s Avalonia Security Fleet.”

“Even if you combine the strength of those two, it’s less than my fleet, and that’s the problem.”

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[Rhodes Mercenary Group]

[Fleet Composition]

[5 Battleships, 3 Cruiser Battleships]

[Commander: Lepan]

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[Avalonia Security Fleet]

[Fleet Composition]

[3 Battleships, 15 Heavy Cruisers, 50 Destroyers]

[Commander: Aquarias]

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When I showed Jessica the strength charts of the two fleets I had prepared earlier…

Jessica couldn’t help but sigh as she saw the situation.

“Indeed… it’s too little.”

“Even if you combine the two fleets, it’s less than my base fleet points.”

The reason my direct fleet couldn’t shine in large-scale battles was none other than this.

“Combining the two fleets… it’s about 700.”

“That’s right.”

Although the overall performance is excellent due to the buffs given by the ‘master tactician’ trait of the two fleet leaders…

To put it bluntly, it’s about the same as the fleet strength led by a level 6-7 user, so you can imagine.

Moreover, the biggest problem was that the ships our mercenaries used were only “standard-class” ships.

Users who were determined to raise them, or the so-called “gacha ships” that each faction used as their main force…

…or rather, high-class ships with at least an S-class or higher rating, were inevitably going to make us look extremely, extremely, extremely helpless.

Just by doing a quick search on the gallery about “mercenary groups,” you can see it right away.

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Title: Honestly, I’m not scared of Icarus mercenaries.

Author: ㅇㅇ

Content: [Picture of a user’s light cruiser sinking a mercenary group’s battleship.jpg]

After all, those are all standard-class, right?

Because of balance issues, mercenary groups only use standard-class ships.

If they go head-to-head with an SSS-class ship of the same tier, they just get wrecked, so a lot of people aren’t scared of 1:1 battles.

Comments:

– [But the problem with Icarus mercenaries isn’t that.]

– [Ah, shut up, wanna taste unlimited mercenaries?]

– [[Picture of over a million mercenary ships attacking a Jörmungandr-Class and its fleet.jpg]]

– [War is about numbers.]

– [Even if they’re standard-class, the performance difference with SSS-class isn’t that big, right?]

– [It’s not that “all” performance is overwhelmingly different, but “some” performance is.]

– [The devs really played word games well.]

– [No need to go all the way to SSS, even S-class makes a meaningful difference as long as it’s not battleship-class.]

– [True.]

– [222222]

– [33333333]

– [Why are the unnis suddenly popping up?]

– [This game is played by both unnis and hyungnims.]

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Given that people are openly saying things like that, the performance difference between standard-class ships and S-class or higher ships was clear.

“It’s strange, I heard the basic performance difference wasn’t that big in the past.”

“There are a lot of cases where they play word games with contracts.”

“Ah.”

“That’s exactly it.”

Regardless of my personal preferences, it was time for this fleet to have at least an SS-class or higher pure tank-style, big and beautiful super-large ship.

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And the gacha I rolled to fulfill that need, as always, screwed me over based on my greed sensor.

But thankfully, the two destroyers that popped out this time were both S-class, so they were sellable on the market…

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[Lilac-Class Medium Destroyer for Sale]

[Seller: Icarus]

[Details]

[S-Class Lilac-Class Medium Destroyer, just rolled]

[No price negotiations]

[Price: 1,500 gold]

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[Bristol-Class Anti-Air Destroyer for Sale]

[Seller: Icarus]

[Details]

[S-Class Bristol-Class Anti-Air Destroyer, just rolled]

[No price negotiations]

[Price: 1,100 gold]

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By listing them on the market as “instant sale” instead of “auction,” and even setting the price 5% lower than the market price…

Just 15 minutes after I listed them.

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[Event]

[The “Lilac-Class Medium Destroyer” and “Bristol-Class Anti-Air Destroyer” you listed on the market have been sold!]

[Result]

[2,600 gold has been deposited into the Commander’s warehouse!]

[Current gold balance: 100,525]

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They sold instantly, and I finally managed to hit six digits in gold.

Seeing that, I decided to look for a usable pure tank ship on the market since things had turned out this way.