Ch.341″Let’s raid the event shop.”

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**Title: I Won, You Crappy Game**

**Author: Icarus**

**Content:** [Screenshot of battle results showing fleet nearly annihilated.jpg], [Screenshot of Ouroboros-class ship with boarding pods embedded, looking like a pufferfish.jpg]

Who am I?

I’m the guy who sacrifices his entire fleet to get a single ship of equal point value. Yep.

**Comments:**

-[???]

-[You melted down three cruisers just for an event?]

-˪[And those were all heavily leveled ships that he threw away]

-[Why on earth would you do that?]

-[At least you still had 50 points worth of ships left, so you avoided total annihilation. Cheers!]

-˪[Military Expert: In conventional warfare, annihilation is typically declared when 30% of forces are lost]

-˪[3rd place doesn’t even have 30% left lol;;;]

-[So rankers just casually throw away cruisers, huh]

-[Is that the Ouroboros-class? Why does it look so hideous?]

-˪[At least remove the boarding pods before taking pictures, why does it look like a pufferfish or a porcupinefish?]

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After posting my verification post, I nodded at the flood of notifications coming in.

Thinking I’d read the rest later, I minimized the gallery window and put it away…

“Commander, should we send the Ouroboros for repairs right away?”

“Yeah, and have the other two large shipyards start building battleships…”

“Yes, sir.”

“And have the remaining regular shipyards prioritize building light cruisers configured for resource fleets.”

“Understood, I’ll issue those orders.”

After giving Jessica instructions about the shipyard operations in the base, I immediately opened the window for the ‘Event Exclusive Shop,’ the true alpha and omega of this event.

‘Ah, this excitement.’

As I feel every time, maybe it’s because they never tell us ‘what’ will appear in the event shop.

No matter what event it is, I always approach it with this anticipation and excitement.

And this time, the shop that greeted me satisfied my expectations perfectly.

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**<‘Clash of Fleets’ Exclusive Event Shop>**

**<Commander’s Current Points: 81,556>**

**<Product List>**

˪**<Dimensional Causality Fixation Voucher x1: 1,000 points (Maximum 10 purchases)>**

˪**<Event Large Resource Box x1: 100 points (Unlimited)>**

˪**<Event Small Resource Box x1: 10 points (Unlimited)>**

˪**<Ship Emergency Repair Ticket x1: 2,000 points (Maximum 5 purchases)>**

˪**<Ship Emergency Teleport System x1: 5,000 points (Maximum 3 purchases)>**

˪**<One-time Barrier Equipment x1: 20,000 points (Maximum 3 purchases)>**

… … …(continued)… … …

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Seeing that there were many more items listed below, I couldn’t help but feel pleased as a user.

And what I needed to do first was obvious.

Naturally, I had to buy the maximum amount of our Dimensional Causality whatever… gacha vouchers.

I also purchased the ‘One-time Barrier Equipment,’ a unique item that protects against any attack for one minute.

After buying various other items that weren’t fully visible on the screen, the result was:

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**<‘Clash of Fleets’ Event Shop Purchase Confirmation>**

**<Total Purchase Details>**

˪**<Dimensional Causality Fixation Voucher x10> = 10,000**

˪**<One-time Barrier Equipment x1> = 20,000**

˪**<‘Clash of Fleets’ Event Exclusive Base Construction Acceleration Voucher x200> = 30,000**

˪**<Ship Rapid Construction Voucher x200> = 20,000**

˪**<Event Large Resource Box x15> = 1,500**

˪**<Event Small Resource Box x5> = 50**

**<Total Price: 81,550>**

**<Do you confirm this purchase?>**

**<(Y)/N>**

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**<Purchase Complete!>**

**<All purchased items have been automatically transferred to your base’s storage!>**

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After thoroughly spending all my available points, I felt a wave of satisfaction wash over me.

“Ahh, that was some good shopping.”

Of course, right after I muttered that to myself…

“Commander, you have 6 points left.”

“Shh.”

When our Jessica tactlessly pointed out the remaining points, my satisfaction melted away like snow.

In its place came discomfort and irritation, leaving me wondering what to do.

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But shortly after…

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**Title: Let Me Show You Something Good**

**Author: Icarus**

**Content:** [Screenshot of shop with 6 points remaining.jpg]

Yep.

**Comments:**

-[ARGGGHHHH]

-[Why couldn’t you earn 4 more points?! Dammit!]

-[LOLOLOLOL]

-[Why is the moderator stirring up trouble;;]

-[Hurry up and earn 4 more points to clean this up]

-˪[Nope, can’t do it. Round 5 is over. Too bad.](Author)

-[ARGGGHH]

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‘That’s more like it.’

Following the ancient wisdom that sharing pain lessens it, I posted proof on the gallery.

Watching other users express their agony at the uncomfortable screenshot, I could feel the irritation inside me melting away.

While I was healing by playing with Jessica’s long, soft black rabbit ears as she rested after finishing her tasks…

“Mmm… huh?”

“What’s wrong, Jessica?”

“Commander, it says the base’s level 9 upgrade just completed?”

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**<<<Base Level 9 Upgrade Complete!>>>**

**<Additional Available Facilities List!>**

˪**<Additional Docking Facilities Unlocked>**

˪**<Resource Warehouse Unlocked>**

˪**<Special Defense Facilities Construction Available>**

˪**<Nemesis Orbital Ring Construction Available>**

˪**<Dreadnought Platform Construction Available>**

˪**<Faction-specific Special Buildings (Current Faction: ‘Space Monster’) Construction Available>**

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As soon as Jessica finished speaking, I saw the message appear and realized that the moment had finally arrived.

“Ah, at last I can see the final key to conquering Tannhäuser.”

“Are you planning to build additional resource warehouses and even a dreadnought?”

“Even so, that would take too much time.”

After saying that, I decided to check out the “outrageously expensive level 9 building prices” as I had mentioned in the gallery before.

With my head resting between Jessica’s rabbit ears, I brought up the auxiliary building management window in front of us.

But just as I was about to look at the prices…

Unlike me, who’s just an ordinary person, Jessica with her superhuman physical specs saw it first with her excellent peripheral vision and gasped in shock…

“How can the prices be like THAT?!”

“Gah-hack!”

The resource management officer Jessica was so surprised that she instinctively perked up her soft, freely-moving rabbit ears.

As a result, I, who had been resting my head on top of Jessica’s head, suddenly got slapped on both cheeks by rabbit ears…

“Oh! Commander?”

“Hmm, um… no, it’s no problem. Let’s just look.”

Since it happened because I was resting my chin on top of Jessica’s head, I decided to just brush it off, thinking I couldn’t really complain.