Chapter 526

Chapter 526. The Ancient Empire was full of romance. (4)

But in the distant past, long ago.

The madness of trading national secret weapons under the name “Elementary School Notebook” didn’t last very long.

The reason, of course, was the large-scale purge of the increasingly violent user armbands, who became impossible to gather information from due to excessive madness.

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Title: List of people who messed up the database with weird madness while trying to showcase collective intelligence.jpg

Author: Königs

Content: [A list of about 30 people blocked for 3 days.jpg]

Yeah.

Let’s take it easy, huh?

Comments:

-[Kuuuuuuuuu]

-[Armbands are working!]

-[Please beat up these armband guys too]

-[[Link to a mad post saying the enemy in the Grand Cross event will have Ouroboros’ flamethrower on the main turret]]

-[Checked and beat them up] (Author)

-[Good]

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Title: Don’t cross the line

Author: Arcadia

Content: [A picture of about 50 users blocked for a day.jpg]

Madness should be done in moderation to be fun.

If you hit just because others are hitting,

it just looks like madness repeating over and over to others.

Comments:

-[As expected of the Justice Clan]

-[Isn’t this too lenient for someone trying to pollute the database?]

-[Actually, I only caught relatively weak people] (Author)

-[The really vicious ones were already caught and dealt with by other armbands long ago] (Author)

-[Ah, I see]

-[Armbands are working!]

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And besides being beaten in such a “kind” way, there were also cases of being blocked for 15 days without any questions asked.

As a result of such users being purged, the estimation of enemy forces in the event naturally returned to normal.

Anyway, with users working hard like this, showcasing collective intelligence, and purging mad trolls while somehow extracting memories from dementia-stricken veterans.

Only on the night before the event started, a somewhat decent analysis chart could be produced.

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Title: Deluxe version of the Ancient Empire ship performance chart, made by grinding dementia-stricken veterans and demons

Author: Machu Picchu

Content: [An image of a toad waving a magic wand]

First, I’d like to express my heartfelt thanks to the countless anonymous users and mad trolls who made this content bitter.

And to the poor veterans and demons who had their brains sucked out, I offer my sincere gratitude.

First off, the enemies in this event are likely to be in the “Ancient Empire” style since the boss is a boss.

But the Ancient Empire has a characteristic of having somewhat weak small ships.

I didn’t know, but it’s said that their small ships are “weaker” than regular-grade ships.

They cover this with numbers, so users with gacha ships shouldn’t have much trouble wrecking them.

The problem is the large ships.

Since the Ancient Empire is the foundation of the four major factions’ technology, their capital ships feel like a mix of the four factions’ performance, each nerfed by 20-30%.

Plus, being an unmanned drone fleet, their mobility is insane.

In fleet battles, they’re basically the strongest.

But they’re not without weaknesses.

First, being unmanned drones, their mobility is worse than the NPC fleets we’ve faced so far.

And this is really important.

Being specialized for fleet battles, each ship’s anti-air capability is ridiculously weak.

Small ships often have only one CIWS or none at all, and their VLS only carries anti-ship missiles.

Comments:

-[Why are you killing veterans from the start;;]

-[This is interesting, so are the Rafflesia I-class ships going to shine now?]

-[Carrier mains going all out?]

-[Not really, if you kill the carriers before their aircraft can attack, that’s it]

-[Oh, damn]

-[You forgot to mention that while anti-air capability is reduced, fleet battle capability is increased, making it a mess]

-[Isn’t there an Ancient Empire ship that grants group stealth to nearby ships?]

-[That’s not an unmanned ship, it’s from user gacha, so it was excluded]

-[Ah, I see]

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And although this result was ultimately a patchwork of user rumors, mad theories, and past event experiences, making it not very nutritious…

Regardless of the level, the important thing is that users, while beating up the jokesters, somehow…

It was about showing teamwork and getting something done.

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Title: “Those who could do it but were too lazy and passed it on to the veterans.”

Author: ㅇㅇ

Content: [Image of a toad pointing both fingers at the screen]

That’s you!

Taste the resentment of the veterans who worked hard on the wiki tab.

Comments:

– [LOLOLOLOL]

– [I’ll do it later!]

– [I’ll do it later, ugh]

– [Ah, I’m too lazy, just do it for me, veteran]

– [Hey, Jjukkuya, go die]

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They were laughing among themselves, patting themselves on the back, saying, “We did pretty well, right?”

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And finally, on the morning the event started…

…despite that, for some reason, the event announcement still hadn’t been posted.

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Title: Are the admins sleeping?

Author: ㅇㅇ

Content: [Image of an empty mailbox even though it’s past 9 AM]

What are you doing, bro? We’re running out of time.

Are you abandoning your duties?

Comments:

– [Seriously, what are the admins doing?]

– [I’m as mad as if I took 100 days off LOLOLOL]

– [For real LOL]

– [22222]

– [3333333]

– [444444]

– [Why are so many people flocking to the top comment?]

– [Actually, they’re not people, they’re just trolls with tails]

– [What, so they’re gender-neutral?]

– [Why are you imagining it that way?]

– [Because… it’s fun]

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Thanks to this, some users who couldn’t handle the sudden delay started going berserk.

Or they started shouting, “These users want fast and easy updates!”

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Title: From now on, for every minute the update is delayed, the gallery users’ eyes will disappear.

Author: ㅇㅇ

Content: [Collection of various disturbing images, censored.jpg]

For every minute it’s delayed, I’ll post a scat image of an old man and woman.

Do whatever it takes to get the update out quickly.

Comments:

– [Why are we paying the price for the admins’ mistakes?]

– [It’s your fault for being in the gallery right now. Good luck. (Author)]

– [You’re so shameless, it’s ridiculous.]

– [Who even is this guy, posting disturbing images like it’s no big deal?]

– [LOLOLOLOL]

– [What a psycho LOL]

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They even openly wrote threatening posts in the gallery, showing all sorts of violent reactions.

Of course, those lunatics who tried to pull that kind of crap got exactly what they deserved 59 seconds after posting.

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Title: Trolls who wrote threatening posts get a 15-day full block.

Author: Raksha

Content: [Image of trolls with a 15-day full block]

Yep.

I’ve blocked them from chat, mail, gallery, and the marketplace, so feel free to enjoy the gallery.

Comments:

– [LOLOLOLOLOLOL]

– [They tried to stir up trouble and got wrecked.]

– [Authority punch! Authority punch! Authority punch!]

– [They’re working hard until the day of the authority update LOL]

– [Isn’t this guy usually not that active? I’ve been seeing him a lot lately.]

– [Well, he’s staying in the Central Zone now, so that’s probably why.]

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As soon as the event started, the top-ranked players who were stationed there for proper information gathering got completely wrecked.

Well, that’s what you call justice.

And right after hanging those trolls out to dry, the real event announcement we’d been waiting for finally popped up.

Including me, the users instantly forgot about the earlier trolling and focused on the event update.

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