Ch.298″I won’t give you time to prepare.” (1)

Meanwhile, about a month after that Ero-sance(?) competition.

While Icarus was diligently gathering resources, gathering, gathering, and gathering some more, desperately trying to conquer the Tannhäuser Gateway Fortress…

At the “Isekai” clan headquarters located in the center of the Central District, an untimely conspiracy was beginning.

The problem was that this conspiracy was none other than…

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-[Finally, the time is coming for our alliance clan to take serious action]

-[Agreed]

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A massive conspiracy involving about 50 clans, including the Isekai clan.

In other words, after growing into the only mega-clan in the Central District,

It was the manifestation of their will to create another major clan comparable to the top three clans.

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To manifest this will of theirs, they had already drawn up a rather meticulous plan.

As many had already pointed out, and as many had tried and died explosively,

Given the Central District’s characteristic of not being dominated by any particular faction,

Players wouldn’t tolerate clans with more than 10 members, making it practically impossible to form a large clan from the start…

-“Oh, so if a clan with more than 10 members forms, surrounding players will attack?”

-“Then why don’t we just create multiple clans with fewer than 10 members and capture appropriate strongholds?”

Since there was no shortage of people with cunning ideas in the world.

If they couldn’t create a clan with more than 10 members, they would create dozens of clans with fewer than 10 members to recruit personnel.

Their plan was to somehow seize a “stronghold” with adequate defensive capabilities, and then use it as a base to officially launch their alliance clan as a formal clan.

After all, as long as it wasn’t a level 7 stronghold, they figured they could just mobilize all their forces and launch an offensive.

Unfortunately, their plan targeted the “defense-specialized stronghold” called “Avalon Fortress” that the “Walpurgis Alliance Clan” had been eyeing…

But suddenly, the 3rd-ranked “Icarus” appeared and used unlimited mercenary recruitment.

The disaster occurred when he led ships with over 100,000 fleet points by himself and conquered the city in just two days, twisting their entire schedule.

Naturally, the Walpurgis Alliance Clan, having started on the wrong foot, tried to quickly turn their attention to other strongholds…

Unfortunately, having abandoned their existing territory and warped their base to conquer Avalon Fortress…

-“Let’s move our base first and try again.”

-“But everyone’s on cooldown, we have to wait a month.”

-“Oh.”

They suddenly found themselves living as refugees near Avalon with limited resources, unable to do anything.

Of course, they found it difficult to accept this sudden change in circumstances and were filled with violent intentions toward Icarus…

-“Let’s crush Icarus and conquer the level 5 stronghold!”

-“But that guy has a protective fleet from the pirate alliance.”

-“And if unlimited mercenary fleets and stronghold defense fleets come at us, won’t we get crushed?”

-“Ah, that’s true.”

As they say, a stick is the remedy for a mad dog. When they thought about the consequences of clashing with Icarus’s “50,000” ships,

And the 30,000 security ships and main combat fleet of the city itself,

They realized that charging in now would be a complete disaster, and manners were naturally instilled in them.

Of course, thanks to this semi-forced injection of manners, they quickly regained their composure…

-“Icarus can’t maintain that fleet forever.”

-“For real.”

-“It won’t last even a week at most, but to be safe, let’s wait about a week before charging in.”

-“Let’s do that.”

Since they judged that he couldn’t maintain such a massive mercenary force forever,

The leadership of the Walpurgis Alliance Clan decided to wait patiently, saying that a gentleman’s revenge isn’t late even after a week.

The problem was that not long after that.

-“…What’s this Ero-sance competition?”

-“LOLOLOLOL”

-“Ah, damn it.”

-“The timing is really terrible.”

While Icarus himself had no particular thoughts about it, the “Ero-sance Competition” occurred due to the overly voluntary and explosive participation of perverted… gentlemanly users.

And because of that, a clan of about 2,300 members suddenly appeared right next to “Avalon Fortress” where Icarus lived.

With the appearance of a place of incomparable size to Icarus and the defense fleet they had been wary of,

The Walpurgis Alliance Clan, which had been planning to attack Icarus, once again had manners forcibly instilled in them and found themselves with concave heads.

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But those past days are now goodbye.

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-[How are Icarus’s recent activities?]

-[Apart from just clearing daily quests, there hasn’t been much movement]

-[Almost no expansion, at most just building one new forward base?]

-[Looking at how he’s done nothing for the past month, he seems to have become a coward after eating the fortress]

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After a long time of oppression and humiliation, an opportunity finally came to the alliance clan.

For some unknown reason, perhaps because Icarus was only focused on gathering resources without any expansion or combat…

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-[Maybe that Icarus guy invested his fleet somewhere strange and it got melted]

-[Hmm]

-[That makes sense, why else would he be frantically gathering resources there?]

-[Then attacking now would be the answer]

-[For real]

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They were planning to put into action their idea that Icarus had lost the capital to hire large-scale mercenary forces.

By this time, their reasons for targeting Icarus had grown quite numerous.

After the collapse of Raksha’s Ratten Water,

Seeing how the Magellan clan established itself as the dominant force in the district by successfully crushing the 2nd-ranked player,

Similarly, the Walpurgis Alliance Clan thought that if they defeated Icarus, who was ranked 3rd and capable of solo sieging strongholds?

It was clear that their goal of becoming the undisputed top clan in the Central District would be solidified.

Following that burning will, they would concentrate their attack on Icarus and Avalon Fortress,

And like Magellan, gain fame by defeating a ranked player, creating a golden opportunity to establish themselves as the “mega-clan in the Central District” they aimed to be.

Moreover, as mentioned above, if they could just eat a level 5 stronghold, it was clear that ordinary solo players wouldn’t be able to come at them.

And with clan members who had the strange desire to “kill him just because he’s famous,”

After much deliberation, the leadership of the Walpurgis Alliance Clan checked their forces one last time.

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-[Honestly, with this much power…]

-[We can definitely crush Icarus]

-[I agree]

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Perhaps thanks to the majority approval of the 50 clan leaders who made up the leadership,

Instructions were naturally issued to all alliance clan members to do their absolute best to consume Icarus and the city he controlled.