Chapter 88

Chapter 88. Even if the world collapses, there’s still a place to live. (2)

Of course, in response to that opposition, I simply thought, “Ugh, annoying, no thanks.”

‘No, Refu.’

It wasn’t like I was holding onto some grudge or anything.

Since I didn’t have much else to say to the rest of the team, I ended the communication.

I then vented my frustrations about the current situation to Jessica, who was sitting nearby.

“It’s really frustrating, so frustrating.”

“Hmm… I know, right? I wonder if they’ll ever understand that clearing quests absolutely requires a Superhuman.”

As Jessica’s response to my venting shows, in this damn game, for quests that involve deploying a fleet, you absolutely must have at least one ‘Superhuman’ accompanying you to clear the quest…

It’s a system that makes you wonder why it even exists.

Of course, both Jessica and I knew why such a thing exists in this world.

“Because of some ancient relic from the distant past, we’re stuck eating dirt like this.”

“Ugh, yeah, you’re right.”

Anyway, the important point is that, thanks to this damn system, the number of quests we can handle at once is limited to 4 or 5 at most.

Regardless of the Superhumans’ performance, the speed at which we can clear quests is inevitably slow.

At least for quests that can be done at the base, Jessica and I can run around like crazy and handle them relatively quickly.

But since base-only quests aren’t that common, we’ve been sweating blood, using Ignis, Belial, Pashtira, and Gryanarr to somehow keep up with users who probably have at least 10 Superhumans by now.

But even that effort is starting to feel like it’s hitting its limit, and it didn’t take long to realize that…

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A week after I said those things…

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**Title:** It’s almost been 2 weeks since the event started, how many points has everyone gathered?

**Author:** Menald of Worship

**Content:** [Event Reward Points Proof]

I’m about to hit the 40,000 mark.

I focused on trust growth from the start, so as soon as I heard about the nerf to low-level quests in the update, I went all out and pushed my trust level past 20. Thanks to that, I’ll probably break 40,000 in the next 2-3 days.

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**Comments:**

– [Oh, damn!]

– [I’ve passed 30,000 too.]

– [Jealous, I’m stuck at 25,000 because no Superhumans are showing up.]

– [Congrats on 40,000!]

– [45,000 here.]

– [I’m at 35,000.]

– [Aww, man, I just barely passed 20,000.]

– [Lol, 20k scrub ♡]

– [Yo, where do you live, you punk?]

– [Not telling.]

– [I’m at 60,000 ^^]

– [I’m at 55,000, how did you get that high, damn?]

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As I scrolled through the point verification posts and compared them to my own…

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**<My Points: 17,210>**

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Seeing my pitiful point count, I could feel tears of blood welling up inside.

“Why, heavens!!! Did you create me!!! Only to create other users like this!!!!”

“Commander, that statement implies you’d have to kill all 110,000 other users except yourself.”

Jessica, who was watching me from the side, tried to calm me down, but even she couldn’t help but sigh at the glaring gap before us.

“It seems like our lack of manpower is really holding us back, Commander.”

“Ugh… yeah.”

Fortunately, we had built up some trust before the event started, so after grinding hard with 4 barracks…

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**<Current trust relationship with ‘Space Monster’: +21>**

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‘Ugh, damn.’

After enduring trust growth that seemed to increase by 0.01 at a time, we finally managed to get our trust level with the Monster Force above 20.

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**<Faction-wide shared trust relationship feature unlocked>**

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<0>–<None>

<1~10>–<Friendly messages and event generation probability occurs>

<10~15>–<Quest assignment begins>

<15~25>–<Additional quests and events occur (resource support, etc.)>

<25~50>–<Recruitment of the faction's 'Superhuman' becomes possible> (Lower grade than ‘Superhumans’ from gacha.)

<50~70>–<Fleet rental becomes possible>

<70~99>–<Various friendly events randomly generated, increased occurrence probability>

<100 and above>–<Direct quests from the faction leader become possible, significant increase in support items, higher grade recruitment of the faction's 'Superhuman'> (Details vary by faction, please refer accordingly.)

<Monster Faction Exclusive Trust Relationship Unlock Feature>

<10 and above>–<Next trust level, Stage 2, becomes visible>

<30 and above>–<General Monster Breeding Facility construction becomes possible>

<50 and above>–<Special functions related to bio-modification unlocked>

<70 and above>–

<90 and above>–

<100 and above>–

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Thanks to this, much better ‘intermediate’ quests have come into my hands compared to the previous ‘low-grade’ quests.

Although I managed to score points by avoiding the damn normalization update.

Nevertheless, as Jessica said, it was impossible to achieve better results with the fleet I currently command.

“Commander, if we continue like this, by the time the event ends…”

“I know, Jessica.”

Perhaps because the conversation was too negative, Jessica trailed off, and I shook my head while continuing her sentence.

“If we continue like this, both the ranking and the shop will be utterly ruined, right?”

“Yes… honestly, that’s true.”

“But there’s no way around it, is there?”

“That’s right, Commander.”

Our four barracks… no, four superhuman girls weren’t incapable.

With three SSS-grade and one quasi-SSS-grade, they were actually much faster and more accurate than lower-grade individuals, sometimes even bringing additional rewards.

However, while others deploy at least 10 to 15, or even 20, we only have a fifth of that, four, to handle everything.

Fundamentally, the number of times we can score points is inherently limited, which is unavoidable.

So, I thought about giving up on the ranking and everything else.

For the event period, which will last at least five more months, I decided to grind quests as hard as possible to build up trust.

Then, I aimed to obtain proper high-grade quests.

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… … … … … …

–<Random Causality Fixation Ticket (Superhuman Exclusive) 1 use: 45,000>

–<Bahamut-class Artillery Heavy Cruiser: 257,000>

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‘Wait for me, my honeys.’

After giving up on everything else in the shop.

I decided to first buy one ‘Bahamut-class Artillery Heavy Cruiser’, which has a cool name.

Then, I planned to spend all the remaining points on full gacha pulls for superhumans.

I reaffirmed my firm resolve to properly replenish our manpower.

However, with the current trend of point acquisition, even if I continued to gather points for five more months.

While others accumulate 40,000 points, I could only gather about 17,000 points, making me wonder if it’s even possible.

But since I couldn’t just give up, I decided to hold onto my mentality and keep pushing forward.

While Jessica and I were motivating each other.

“Is there anything I can help with? Oppa.”

“…Hmm.”

Marian, who had been watching us, approached and asked if there was anything she could help with.