Ch.307″I dislike unfair treatment. I don’t want to come.”

I’m not sure if this timing should be considered good or bad.

After everything was over, I could see Marian returning with her personal fleet that also served as her escort.

“Commander, Marian has finished her business with the pirate alliance and returned.”

“Hmm, I just confirmed it on screen.”

Hearing that she came with “Leonard,” whom I hadn’t seen in quite a while, I couldn’t help but think it would have been better if they had arrived sooner.

Of course, from Marian’s perspective, that would have been completely unreasonable and unfair.

After erasing such wicked thoughts from my mind…

I decided to welcome the pirate fleet along with Marian and Leonard, who would protect this place in place of our devastated fortress forces.

Additionally, I was truly grateful to see some users who had been lingering around for some reason naturally departing as soon as the pirate fleet arrived.

‘Wow… they’re even providing protection in case other enemies attack… thank you… overwhelmingly thankful!’

Anyway, after greeting the returned Marian and Leonard and delegating various deployment matters to Jessica…

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<Notification!>

<53 clans including the ‘Isekai’ Clan are requesting to surrender to you!>

<Effect: Combat status between both sides will be terminated.>

<Since the opponent has proactively requested surrender, you have the authority to set possible demands from the opponent!>

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Looking at the war termination… surrender message that appeared at just the right time.

I decided to calculate how much damage I had suffered from this battle and extract as much as I possibly could.

Of course, I first checked my “fleet” status…

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Fleet Status

Total Points: 558.5/850 points

Aircraft Carriers: 3 ships, 70 points each = 210 points

Special Battleship: 1 ship, 65 points each = 65 points

Battleships: 2 ships, 40 points each = 80 points

Subspace Submarine: 1 ship, 50 points each = 50 points

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

Battle Cruisers: 2 ships, 30 points each = 60 points

Heavy Cruisers: 0 ships, 10 points each = 0 points

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

Destroyers: 5 ships, 3 points each = 15 points

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

Patrol Ship: 1 ship, 1 point each = 1 point

Resource Mining Ships: 25 ships, 1.5 points each = 37.5 points

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‘Damn.’

Before the battle started, my fleet points had exceeded 900 due to overflow.

Despite the security fleet (about 40,000 ships), combat fleet (500 battleships alone, totaling about 25,000 ships)…

And approximately 1,000 mercenary groups summoned with a lump sum payment of 4.5 million minerals acting as tanks…

I could see that half of my fleet had permanently crossed the rainbow bridge.

“This is quite a difficult situation.”

“What do you mean, Commander?”

Jessica, who had already finished her work and returned, tilted her head with her distinctive black rabbit ears twitching.

I showed her the fleet status I was looking at and said:

“This is our current fleet status…”

“Oh my.”

“One large aircraft carrier and one battleship were sunk, and four out of six battle cruisers were completely destroyed.”

“…”

“The heavy cruisers and light cruisers… including the Overseer, were completely annihilated.”

“That’s a terrible outcome, Commander.”

And the problem didn’t end there.

“To make matters worse, the large carrier we received as a reward was destroyed, and the newly acquired ship is too heavily damaged to use in this state.”

“Hmm, what about the battleships?”

“Surprisingly, one is completely undamaged, but the other has nothing intact except its power source.”

“…Then I suppose the battle cruisers are in a similar state?”

“Both have moderate damage or worse, and the light carrier lost its flight deck, so it needs repairs.”

The remaining large ships, except for one, were all in terrible condition, so we needed to mobilize all the large shipyards I owned to focus on repair work.

Incidentally, Kraken and Hresvelgr had been positioned at the rear from the beginning to avoid taking critical hits.

From the middle of the battle, they were either holed up inside the fortress or serving as pillboxes.

Other than the 2nd unit suffering from severe debuffs due to indigestion, there were no major issues.

As for the smaller ships, the battle was so fierce that even a single hit could be fatal.

‘Survival… means strength…’

The survivors were completely unscathed, so there wasn’t much to worry about.

“Wow, the situation is really serious. Should we proceed with repairing the ships at the shipyard right away?”

“Yes, start with the large carrier and battleship, then the battle cruiser.”

“I’ll take care of it.”

However, just as I was resolving these fleet issues, another problem greeted me.

“Commander! Do you have any spare shipyards?!”

“When can we expect resources for repairing our security fleet?”

“Ah.”

As evident from the urgent requests of Captain Lephan and Aquarius who rushed to the command center.

The problem was restoring the “Rhodes Mercenary Group” and “Avalonia Security Fleet” that were exclusively employed by me.

The Rhodes group led by the voluptuous Captain Lephan, who only used battleships and battle cruisers, hadn’t lost any ships…

However, all their ships were in a precarious state with minimal durability, making operations impossible until repairs were completed.

Avalonia’s battleships were largely undamaged and could manage with self-repairs, but…

“So half of the heavy cruisers and small ships were completely destroyed?”

“Yes, and most of the remaining half need repairs as they’ve sustained moderate damage or worse.”

Given the terrible state of the remaining ships as discussed with Aquarius.

I decided to mobilize all six “regular” shipyard docks at the base to repair Avalonia’s auxiliary forces.

As for the Rhodes Mercenary Group, unfortunately, since my ships were already being repaired…

I ordered them to move their ships to the armored docking facilities inside the fortress and proceed with repairs as space became available in the large shipyards.

After organizing the fleet damage situation and issuing recovery orders like that.

“Commander, what about the base fleet?”

“They handle their own repairs, don’t they?”

“That’s true.”

Only then did I start the happy contemplation of what rewards to get from these numerous clans, since I had “accepted their surrender.”

Of course, as seen with Unity previously, there were clear limits to what could be demanded even in an “unconditional surrender” in this game.

The same applied to regular “surrenders” but…

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<Regular Surrender Demand Conditions>

<Forced resource requisition possible from opponents, maximum limit for users is 100,000 minerals, 10,000 rare resources, tripled for clans>

<If resources are insufficient, minerals are calculated at 1 gold per 100, rare resources at 1 gold per 10>

<Cannot demand ships and Superhumans not captured or seized by yourself>

<Superhuman control transfer only possible for those personally captured by the user>

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Despite these unfair surrender conditions, I wasn’t particularly worried.

‘Well, I didn’t take any Superhumans or ships this time.’

Close-combat Superhumans like Smeragi, Partia, and Ignis were busy stopping enemy Superhumans trying to storm the fortress, so ship seizure wasn’t even a dream.

Similarly, there was no opportunity to capture enemy Superhumans…

For me, it was enough to just extract as many resources as possible, so I could still smile despite these conditions.

After carefully adjusting the demand conditions to set the maximum amount I could take:

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<Surrender Agreement Result>

<53 clans including the ‘Isekai’ Clan have surrendered to Commander Icarus.>

<Resources (300,000 minerals, 30,000 rare resources) per clan will be transferred from these clans to Commander Icarus.>

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The 53 clans that ganged up on me… or rather, the Walpurgis Alliance, became excellent wallets by having large amounts of resources extracted from them.