Chapter 87

Chapter 87. Even if the world collapses, there’s still a place to live. (1)

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<Notice Regarding the ‘Price of Kindness’ Event>

<To all Commanders, we have an announcement to make.>

<We have confirmed that the low-level quest scores for the current Factions are being measured excessively high.>

<As a result, the reward points for clearing Faction quests will be adjusted.>

<Additionally, considering the supply and demand caused by these scores, the reward points for clearing ‘low-level’ quests by Faction users will be reduced for 3 days.>

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“What the hell, you bastards!!!!!”

At my sudden roar, not only Jessica, who was about to go about her usual work, but also the mob NPCs scattered around the command center all looked at me with startled eyes.

However, the attitude of the management team, who were shifting the blame for their own mistakes onto the users, was genuinely pissing me off.

And it wasn’t just me who felt this way.

Wanting to share this anger (?), I naturally opened the gallery window and entered.

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-[Management team, you sons of b****es 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[Screen pointing to a man with pink wig and sunglasses]

Yeah, you.

Right now, you’re feeling guilty.

Sujun.

Comments:

-[Damn it, stop hitting me]

-[Your insight is just on another level]

-[Hahahahaha]

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‘What the hell.’

There were all sorts of things like this and that.

In the midst of all this confusion, I decided to abandon my plan to share my frustration.

While watching the users cracking all sorts of jokes, I was momentarily lost in thought.

‘Why is it that none of what I know seems to match up?’

If this keeps up, users who don’t know me will think I’m some old-timer or something.

As I admitted last time, the reason my ranking is so high is not because I’m good.

It’s purely because I luckily managed to pick up Marian, who was the Empress (Jin), during the ‘Pirate Raid’ event.

And by diligently pampering Marian, I got lucky.

To be honest, if you compare my fleet situation purely in a 1v1 between users.

It’s about the same as users ranked 20,000 to 30,000.

If real old-timers were to face me, even if my pirate fleet is always on standby to protect my base.

Unlike me, someone who has been playing this game for a long time and has gathered a lot of information would appear.

They would analyze the strength of my fleet and superhumans, and counter accordingly.

It’s only natural that these old-timers, who deserve to have their spines ripped out, would plunder my precious fleet and base.

After sitting and worrying for a while, I finally came to a clear conclusion.

‘Now, it’s impossible to survive just by clearing low-level quests, so I must focus on raising my trust level first.’

And at the same time, I also grumbled curses towards the developers.

‘These bastards, where did they come up with such a normal update now.’

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A little while later.

“It’s really not easy, Commander.”

“Hey, you too? Hey, me too.”

Starting with Jessica’s one-liner about why I shouted.

Jessica and I were putting our heads together, worrying about how to increase trust levels and earn reward points.

But no matter how much we worried, we couldn’t find an answer to this problem.

As mentioned earlier, the root of all these problems was that I had too few ‘superhumans’ and ‘ships.’

The performance of the superhumans was top-notch, almost at the top of the gacha list.

To be honest, unlike what I whined about earlier, there wouldn’t be much of a problem in battles.

The problem was that the number of these amazing superhumans was only four.

“And that’s not the only problem, right? Commander.”

“Right, besides the Overseer, all the ships are just regular ones…”

Adding to that, Jessica pointed out that the ‘ship’ pool was a mess, and I nodded heavily in agreement.

Of course, seeing Jessica and me so serious, among the superhumans who were connected via communication from outside while clearing quests.

Ignis made a face that showed he didn’t understand and asked.

“Commander? If it’s about that request problem, can’t we just send the remaining ships to handle it even without us?”

“Regular ships, you mean?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“I really want to do that too… but it’s impossible, so let’s give up.”

And I could only shake my head at Ignis’s question.

Seeing me like this, the rest of the connected members.

Namely Belial and Pashtira, immediately started questioning me.

“Commander, why do you say it can’t be done?”

“That’s right, Commander, if necessary, we should show that even a fleet made of clones and drones can do it♡”

While their advice and rebuttals were quite realistic, I nodded inwardly.

But apart from that, I had no choice but to refuse on that point again.