I Became a Commander in a Crappy SF Game.

Ch.103″The event was still ongoing.” (2)

by fnovelpia

“What… did you say…?”

“Oh.”

Watching my precious 450,000 points instantly plummet to a mere 10,500 points worth.

I couldn’t accept this sudden change in circumstances and nearly turned extremely violent…

But that feeling was short-lived.

The moment I opened those gloriously shining point boxes.

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Perhaps people really don’t die when they’re supposed to.

Thanks to the naturally appearing mass of points, I recovered about half(?) of what I’d lost.

My mental state, which had been consumed by uncontrollable anger and sadness, instantly calmed down and regained composure.

Or rather, more accurately than “composure”…

“Jessica, isn’t this what they call a ‘buy-now-fly-now’ moment?”

“…Pardon?”

“‘Buy’ now and you’ll ‘fly’ now.”

“…”

“421,789 points remaining, plus the newly acquired 250,000 points.”

“…”

“With a total of 671,789 points, I can spin the Superhuman gacha again…!”

It would be fair to say I’d ventured somewhat into the realm of mad-ness.

Naturally, seeing me like this, Jessica tried to stop me by hitting my head with her rabbit ears.

“Wait a moment, Commander! If you stop now, you’ll only lose 200,000 points and that’s it!”

“…”

“Think about it. If you keep your current points, you might not maintain the highest ranking, but you could still stay in the upper ranks.”

“…Hmm.”

Jessica’s words made perfect sense.

Even in the gallery, most users were focusing more on emptying the shop than on rankings.

It was common knowledge that at this point, there wasn’t anyone who had accumulated over 500,000 points.

But even so, with her bunny girl outfit mixed appropriately with a bodysuit and uniform.

Despite the end of her necktie coming loose and fluttering in the air.

Seeing Jessica’s sincere expression and appearance as she tried to stop my madness(?), I momentarily thought that perhaps I should stop here as she suggested.

But unfortunately, at that very moment, my eyes caught sight of <Random Causality Fixation Ticket (Superhuman Only) 1 use: 45,000> in the shop window…

-Click

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“Commander?!”

“Forgive me, Jessica… this will be the last one.”

“What lies ahead is hell, Commander!”

“Not a chance.”

Despite Jessica’s attempts to stop me, I had to reach for the forbidden power(?), thinking that I just needed to win once and that would be it, intending to deliver one final blow with all my might.

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And exactly 4 minutes and 53 seconds after that foolishness.

“Jessica, oh Jessica.”

“…”

“Gacha is an evil civilization, it must be destroyed.”

“…If only you had thought that exactly 5 minutes earlier, wouldn’t that have been nice, Commander?”

I was finally understanding why gacha was called an evil, wicked civilization that needed to be crushed.

Looking at the brightly shining “Event Resource Boxes x10” placed before me.

And beside me, Jessica was giving me a hard time with an expression that said she couldn’t believe what she was seeing.

But I couldn’t stay crushed under such a “trivial” matter forever.

“Commander, no matter how I look at it, the points you’ve lost seem too substantial to be called ‘trivial’.”

“Shh, quiet.”

Besides, since I never really intended to rely on rankings from the beginning.

With the ranking gap already widened as much as it could be, I felt there wasn’t much meaning to it anymore.

I decided to openly post a “bankruptcy” verification post in the gallery, declaring my intention to give up on participating in the rankings.

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Title: Bankruptcy Verification yy

Author: Icarus

Content: [Screenshot showing 220,000 points remaining], [Resource Box Verification 1], [Brilliantly Shining Resource Box Verification 2]

Tried hard but got completely wrecked ㅗㅗ

Crappy Game level

Abandoning rankings cya

Comments

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Of course, there was no need to write a detailed story in a bankruptcy verification post.

Unlike my previous question post, I just typed whatever came to mind, then closed the gallery window.

After turning off notifications, I resolved to focus on diligently collecting points again.

At the very least, even if I couldn’t reach the top rankings, rewards were given as long as you weren’t in the bottom 100%.

I changed my goal to aim for the top 50% and through that, target what’s known as “guaranteed random rewards(?)”.

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But while Icarus was having such strange thoughts.

In the gallery where he had even turned off notifications, an unexpected storm was brewing because of the “verification post” he had uploaded.

This was because, although Icarus himself didn’t know since he rarely used the gallery.

He and the others ranked 1-10 were actually quite famous within the gallery community.

Especially in Icarus’s case, he had not only managed to make the Pirate Empress surrender, but also maintained a perfect win record in occasional PVP matches.

Unlike other rankers, he barely participated in gallery activities.

This created a mysteriously enigmatic image for him, making him quite well-known without him realizing it…

So when Icarus posted a verification that completely contradicted what users had believed about “rankers” and their point holdings.

Among users, the previously predicted point requirements for becoming a “ranker” were being seriously reconsidered.

They were beginning to think that their estimates might have been much higher than reality.

Of course, at first, looking only at Icarus’s verification post, there were suspicious reactions.

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Title: Wait, Rank 3 only has that many points?

Author: yy

Content: [Screenshot capture of Icarus’s verification]

Looking at that content, it seems he only had about 700,000-800,000 points

Are rankers’ points less than we thought?

I mean, people were saying the top 100 had 3 million or whatever, was that a lie?

Comments

-[No matter what, that can’t be right, can it?]

-[There was even verification for that claim, isn’t this guy’s amount too low instead?]

-[Logically speaking, isn’t this just rank 3 giving up on the ranking battle to enjoy the shop benefits?]

-˪[This is correct. Thinking “if rank 3 is like this, others must be similar” is truly stupid]

-˪[You bastard](Author)

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People tended to dismiss such doubters as id-iots.

But once doubt and controversy arise, everyone knows they rarely subside naturally.

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Title: Is it time for bankruptcy verification?

Author: Raksha

Content: [Verification of 300,000+ points remaining], [Verification of 50 resource boxes]

I’ve been diligently completing quests from those discriminatory elf bastards.

Couldn’t resist the temptation to spend for a moment, but all I have left are resource boxes

But damn, as soon as I spent my points, the Western goblin in charge of me immediately reduced my favor saying I’m someone who doesn’t save

Why, why only me…!

Comments

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOL]

-[Wait, 2nd place only has 300,000 points?]

-[Now we should call them rank 20,000 instead of rank 2]

-[Ugly as hell]

-[Ugly, broke, and not even a ranker – what value does 2nd place have?]

-˪[Tell me your base location, you bastard](Author)

-˪[Ah]

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Title: Verification post…

Author: Arcadia

Content: [240,000 points remaining]

Went bankrupt

Comments

-[The epitome of brevity, you gay]

-[4th place also went bankrupt, legendary]

-[Are all the existing rankers going bankrupt? LOL]

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Adding to this, as verification posts continued to appear from people who gained unnecessary courage(?) after seeing Icarus’s bankruptcy verification.

The public opinion within the gallery was sinking powerfully into a whirlpool of chaos that was difficult to describe.

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