Ch.192″The spaceship sometimes serves as excellent material for the stock market.” (1)

After thinking about it that way, it’s already been a week since I seriously got to work.

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Fleet Status

Total Points: 210/550 points

Aircraft Carrier: 1 ship, 70 points each = 70 points

Light Aircraft Carrier: 1 ship, 40 points each = 40 points

Battlecruiser: 0 ships, 30 points each = 0 points

Heavy Cruiser: 3 ships, 10 points each = 30 points

Light Cruiser: 0 ships, 6 points each = 0 points

Destroyer: 12 ships, 3 points each = 36 points

Escort Ship: 0 ships, 1.5 points each = 0 points

Patrol Ship: 4 ships, 1 point each = 4 points

Resource Mining Ship: 20 ships, 1.5 points each = 30 points

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Since I focused solely on building resource transport ships and completely halted everything else…

The once reassuring fleet of 3 battlecruisers, 2 light carriers, and nearly 10 heavy cruisers was nowhere to be found, leaving a miserable sight before me.

“Jessica, what’s the current resource acquisition status of the fleet?”

“Finally, the resource fleet’s daily mineral acquisition has exceeded 10,000, and rare resources are hitting 2,000 per day.”

“Oh…?”

For some reason, despite having fewer resource mining ships than before, the numbers seemed to have increased slightly…

“In addition, if we combine the resource acquisition from the forward base you built a few days ago, this base itself, and the average acquisition from quest completions…”

“And that gives us?”

Jessica, her chest bouncing as prominently as her large rabbit ears, pointed at the hologram like a duelist putting their soul into a card draw and exclaimed:

“Ta-daaa! Finally, our daily mineral acquisition has exceeded 20,000!”

“At last!”

This meant we’d graduated from being pathetic collectors who couldn’t even gather 100,000 in a week to becoming what you might call “dignified 100,000 owners” who could easily collect 140,000.

To celebrate this milestone with a small party, I decided to try some gacha pulls for the first time in a while.

Of course, Jessica tried to dissuade me from this action.

“Commander, why are you trying to ruin a good day?”

“What…?”

“Even the regular security guards and workers at the base know that your causality adjustment luck is terrible.”

But her attempt to stop me only sounded like a challenge to my ears.

So despite Jessica’s objections, I decided this was the perfect time to have a meeting with the “Multi-Dimensional Fixed Causality Generation Device.”

Of course, I had my reasons for doing this.

“It’s about time we need a new support superhuman, Jessica.”

“But isn’t Griyanar enough for you?”

“Griyanar serves as a buff totem and stabilizes modified things, but she doesn’t provide the powerful buffs that have an immediate impact on battle like I want.”

“Ah…”

No matter how Griyanar has maintained her top position in the support unit category since her initial release…

There are limits to the buffs one person can provide.

“And the ‘support’ or ‘buff’ superhuman I want includes combat-related ones, but there’s something even more important.”

“What would that be, Commander?”

“Resource buffs.”

“I see.”

After all, why am I lagging behind other users in resources?

Not being in a clan is one reason, but more importantly, even though I’ve been playing the game for nearly two years now…

I don’t have a single superhuman with resource acquisition buffs.

And beyond the resource issue, the lack of superhumans who can provide ‘support’ or ‘command’ in other areas was becoming a serious problem.

Just look at what happened to my carrier aircraft during the battle with Unity Clan, when they struggled against just a few hundred aircraft from a single light carrier.

Even considering that the enemy light carrier’s level was higher than mine…

The fact that my aircraft, including those from the Kraken and the captured light carrier, were pushed back was clearly due to the presence or absence of superhumans who could buff aircraft.

And besides those superhumans, another problem was that I had far too few of what they call “premium ships” from gacha pulls.

“Think about it, Jessica. What ‘premium ships’ do we actually have?”

“Huh?”

“Premium ships, the ones we get from causality fixation.”

“We have the Kraken and the Overseer, don’t we?”

“And what else besides those two?”

“…Oh.”

“Meanwhile, those Unity Clan guys? Each of them seems to be running at least 10 premium ships from gacha pulls.”

“Aaaah.”

At the time, I was too busy to marvel at the enemy’s impressive fleet.

I deliberately ignored their full ship roster to avoid being intimidated.

“The enemy not only had medium destroyers but also battlecruisers that were surprisingly durable because they were gacha ships?”

“Is that so?”

The light carrier, which I’m now using well after capturing it, was just a common grade, but still.

Anyway, seeing their gacha ships getting torn apart like that must have really shaken their morale.

That’s probably why all the Kanhel-class light cruisers and Azkran-class destroyers I bought from the event shop last time were completely wiped out.

As mentioned above, to acquire the new superhuman (supporter) and new ships I urgently needed…

I headed directly to the gacha room with the Dimensional Causality Whatever.

Along with 30 gacha pulls I’d obtained from various daily, weekly, monthly quests, faction quests, and exploration.

And thinking about it carefully, contrary to Jessica’s warning, this wasn’t a completely foolish action.

Recently, I pulled the Kraken, and there were occasional lucky moments even when fighting 1:5 odds.

Even the monster faction, though a small fleet, had sent me some decent ships.

‘No more bad luck, it’s time for Icarus the lucky man.’

With such thoughts and…

‘Who am I? The miracle man who pulled a Kraken against odds of one in a million.’

I quickly headed to the gacha place and immediately decided to spin the causality whatever.

Of course, as everyone would have predicted, and as always happens…

Or perhaps contrary to expectations, maybe I’d used up too much luck on the things mentioned above.

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<Brilliant Resource Box x10>

<Brilliant Equipment Box x1>

<Ordinary Resource Box x18>

<Ordinary Equipment Box x1>

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“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!”

“How pitiful…”

My gacha usage rights, which I had carefully saved up for over a month, were converted in just 30 seconds into 10 <Brilliant Resource Boxes>, 1 <Brilliant Equipment Box>, 18 <Ordinary Resource Boxes>, and 1 <Ordinary Equipment Box>.

Needless to say, I couldn’t accept this reality and rolled around on the floor, crying my eyes out with tears, snot, and drool.

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Still, if there was something to gain from that gacha, it was opening those resource boxes immediately.

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<Event>

<Opening 10 Brilliant Resource Boxes and 18 Ordinary Resource Boxes.>

<Reward>

<Acquired 350,120 Minerals and 5,100 Rare Resources!>

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For opening 28 resource boxes, the rare resources seem a bit too scarce.

But in exchange, I could gobble up 350,000 minerals at once, allowing me to upgrade the base to level 7.

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<Base Level 7 Upgrade in Progress…>

<Time Remaining Until Completion: 25 days 4 hours 17 minutes 56 seconds>

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Of course, this left my resources in a depleted state again…

But what does it matter, one way or another?