I Became a Commander in a Crappy SF Game.

Ch.102″The event was still ongoing.” (1)

by fnovelpia

Anyway, Oxianor suddenly transformed from an eyeball monster gentleman into a female monster lady.

And after I prevented Griyanar from continuing her sticky and intense biological research with Oxianor, who had now become “she” rather than “he”…

Using the newly unlocked “Biological Modification Special Function”…

During the month I spent putting in effoooort to properly strengthen my superhumans…

Simultaneously handling quest after quest after quest…

Continuing the endless repetition of quests and grinding, while also purchasing some destroyers from the event shop in between…

And buying a “Kanhel-class light cruiser” which supposedly took its name from some mythology and had decent performance…

I had been quite busy in various ways.

And as mentioned above, despite purchasing many things over the course of a month…

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‘There’s still quite a lot left.’

Seeing the surprisingly large number of remaining points, I was starting to think about splurging on another gacha.

Of course, seeing this behavior of mine, Jessica, who had been diligently serving as my adjutant, immediately voiced her objection.

“Commander, didn’t you say last time that you would stop with the causality fixation?”

“Ahem…”

This was all because I had previously ordered Jessica to keep me in check in case I lost my mind and went overboard.

Thanks to Jessica’s merciless fact-checking whenever my g-acha desires started stirring…

I had somehow managed to keep my gacha cravings under control.

Of course, separate from those desires, Jessica’s expression and gestures suggested she still had more to say.

“Commander, have you truly given up on making it into the rankings?”

“Hmm…”

At Jessica’s words, I nodded and calmly replied.

“Didn’t I tell you before? That I’m giving up on making it into the rankings.”

“But Commander, you’ve already gathered nearly 900,000 points even after buying various things from the shop… isn’t that enough to give it a shot?”

Despite this, Jessica seemed unable to let go of the image of “Commander becoming a ranker” in her heart.

Or perhaps she thought that with nearly 900,000 points right before our eyes…

It might be enough to aim for the rankings.

She kept subtly bringing up the topic of rankings to me.

“…Jessica, I understand what you’re thinking.”

“Commander…!”

“But unfortunately… honestly, having less than a million points isn’t going to cut it.”

“What?”

Was my statement that shocking?

For a moment, I could see shock, horror, and bewilderment flash across Jessica’s eyes.

But only briefly.

Eventually, Jessica responded as if asking whether I was joking, showing clear disbelief.

So I decided to show her one of the posts from the gallery I had been looking at.

“Here’s the evidence.”

“Ah, yes.”

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Title: Made a ranking of points needed for rankings based on all reports so far.txt

Author: Rankings Analyst

Content: [White background image]

Let me mention some precautions first

This is based on what I’ve heard in the gallery or reports and verifications via chat mail

So it might differ from reality

Anyway, cutting the chatter, from what I’ve found

For the top rankings, meaning the top 1000, you need at least 1.5 million points

And that 1.5 million is just the minimum

Someone who emailed me for verification, who estimates themselves to be in the top 100, currently has about 3.1 million points

But even that person said they’re definitely not number one

Apparently there’s someone who’s accumulated up to 5 million

So it doesn’t hurt for everyone to be careful

Comments:

-[Damn, did they just save without buying anything from the shop?]

-[It’s really not easy]

-[How the hell did they already collect hundreds of thousands of points?]

-[Wow, they’ve already collected that much?]

-[No matter how good their gacha luck is, isn’t it physically impossible to accumulate that much?]

-[This is crazy]

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“Ta-da.”

After showing her this insane post, Jessica’s eyes shook even more violently than before.

“No… is that even possible? 3 million, 5 million points…”

“I know, right?”

But honestly, I found these numbers quite suspicious too.

Just a month and a week ago, the daily average point acquisition for the best-performing users was barely 100,000 at most.

5 million points when the event has only been running for about a month and a half?

As the comments on the post suggested, unless they completely avoided using the shop… it was practically impossible.

But since we had no proper grounds to “deny” it…

I placed my hands on Jessica’s dejected shoulders and spoke in a resigned tone.

“At this point, it doesn’t make much sense for us to talk about rankings when we haven’t even reached 1 million.”

“…You’re right, Commander.”

And Jessica, also seeming to feel that aiming for the rankings in the current situation was…

Clearly unreasonable, nodded in agreement.

But separately from that, Jessica raised a new question.

“But Commander, what about the gallery management privileges?”

Meeting Jessica’s gaze, which clearly asked what we were going to do about this, I shrugged my shoulders and gave a simple answer.

“Gallery management privileges? Being a moderator?”

“Yes.”

“Do you think I care about what happens in the gallery or about being a moderator?”

“…”

Hearing my words, Jessica immediately stiffened her expression and shook her head.

“No, I don’t think you do.”

“You’ve got it exactly right. Why would I care about the gallery?”

“…Ah.”

“Literally not my problem.”

While other people might be having fits trying to get the gallery administrator privileges, the so-called moderator badge…

I never had much interest in that from the beginning.

And now that it’s clear the gap is too wide…

Rather than having fits trying to get into the rankings… why not just leisurely complete quests and raid the shop?

Thinking this, I pressed the completion button for a quest brought by another pirate captain.

Then I suggested to Jessica that we should give up on the rankings and just raid the shop instead.

And hearing this, Jessica sighed deeply but…

“I’ll follow your lead, Commander. Honestly, it doesn’t seem like we have any other options.”

“Good, very good.”

Since she showed her intention to follow my words.

I felt satisfied with her loyalty and decided to proceed with the next plan.

And that plan was…

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-<Random Causality Fixation Ticket (Superhuman Only) 1 use: 45,000>

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“Well then, shall we splurge on some gacha?”

It was a strong expression of will to increase my superhuman forces by pouring in the appropriately remaining points.

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But just 5 minutes after thinking that…

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Just as Jessica had warned me.

Despite using the superhuman-exclusive gacha.

Without a trace of anything superhuman-related.

With numerous resource boxes and “Event Point Boxes” (which randomly reward event points) appearing as if telling me to take them and get lost.

The frustration welling up inside me naturally turned into a hollow laugh.

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