Ch.372″It’s time for a fun mid-term check.”

Of course, the world is vast with many users.

There were bound to be users even more unlucky than our Icarus.

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Title: Can I Fucking Brag About This

Author: Bayraktar

Content: [‘SSS-rank pulls after 9,990 attempts’ proof.jpg]

[Image of a smoking toad]

Sigh…

Fuck this

Don’t any of you try this

Comments:

-[???]

-[Someone even worse than this unlucky bastard showed up lol]

-[LOLOLOLOL]

-[But you still got 3 SSS-ranks, have a drink]

-[Poor bastard, take this and go away]

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL]

-[This is truly legendary]

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While Icarus wasn’t checking the gallery, a so-called “brag post” proudly appeared showing proof of 9,990 failed attempts.

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Title: I’ve Come to End This Fight.

Author: RedHair

Content: [Image showing “Guaranteed” SSS-rank acquisition on the 10,000th gacha pull.jpg]

Everyone shut the fuck up

Why, why meeeee…!

Comments:

-[…]

-[I honestly don’t know what to say about this]

-[Respect to the perseverance guy]

-[Hang in there, buddy]

-[Cry, prove your purity through your tears]

-˪[I’m already crying, what more proof do you need]

-[Wow](Icarus)

-˪[This badge-wearing bastard immediately shows up when someone surpasses him in victimhood]

-˪[LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL]

-˪[For that poor victim, don’t you think the badge-wearer should buy him a Cyber Burger?]

-˪[LOLOLOLOLOL]

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And then someone even posted proof of successfully hitting the “pity ceiling” after 10,000 gacha pulls.

Not only Icarus, who had posted warning notices, but also users who were enjoying the drama were giving these 10,000 and 9,990 pull users praise that wasn’t exactly praise.

Of course, the people involved didn’t want any of that…

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Title: Third Place Always Gets Third Place

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of Icarus always ranking 3rd in ranking events.jpg]

How does he even rank 3rd from the BOTTOM in gacha failure rankings LOLOLOLOLOL

At this point, isn’t it destiny? LOL

Comments:

-[So the third-placer got third place again]

-[Eternally third place]

-[Why is my comment being written three times?]

-[Why is my comment being written three times?]

-[Why is my comment being written three times?]

-˪[Stop spamming, asshole]

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Anyway, because of this, Icarus once again maintained his third-place position, teaching the gallery users the truth that third place is third place because it’s third place.

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Anyway, after that kind of tournament(?) to determine who was the most pitiful,

And after being forcibly reminded once again why I was in third place,

I realized it was about time to check on our base’s current situation.

“For that reason, Jessica, Jessica.”

“What is it, Commander?”

“Could you give me a detailed report on our current resource status?”

“Would you like me to cut to the chase and just give you the main points?”

In response to my request, Jessica showed a rather indifferent expression but agreed.

I nodded to Jessica, telling her that would be fine.

“To get straight to the point… our current daily resource income is 100,000 minerals and 30,000 rare resources, including daily quests.”

“Hmm.”

“Weekly income excluding daily intake is 2.35 million minerals and 900,000 rare resources.”

“…Is it because of the recent update? It seems to have decreased compared to before we acquired the Tannhäuser.”

When I heard Jessica’s report and showed a slightly disgruntled reaction,

Jessica shrugged her shoulders and said this was normal.

“Honestly, wasn’t the previous resource income rate insane? Commanders used to receive 3,000 minerals, 800 rare resources, and 200 gold each when they docked.”

“That’s right.”

“So with all the commanders currently docked at the Tannhäuser, we were receiving resources from nearly 2,000 commanders?”

“…Now that I think about it, that really was an insane level of resource income.”

I could suddenly understand why the developers made a patch that essentially targeted me.

After all, we were getting 6 million minerals and 1.6 million rare resources every week.

Not to mention 400,000 gold popping up…

In just about a month, our resource storage with a total capacity of 3,150 points—including three outposts plus the base’s own storage—would be completely full.

And if that happened, I’d be able to constantly operate hundreds of mercenary units, which would cause balance issues, so it couldn’t be helped.

Well… if I were the only one who had been transported here and everyone else in the world were NPCs, it wouldn’t matter how much I ran wild.

But that’s not the case, so…

‘Hmm, what am I thinking?’

Anyway, feeling my thoughts drifting in a strange direction, I regained my mental focus.

Jessica was giving me additional calculation results she had searched for on the computer.

“Oh, and the final total is 3.05 million minerals and 1.11 million rare resources every week.”

“Oh, really?”

Looking at it this way, despite getting severely nerfed by the developers, we were still receiving quite a lot of resources.

Receiving a rather impressive resource income report, I could feel the nightmare of those 9,980 gacha pulls somewhat dissolving in my mind.

“So Jessica, what’s our total current resource amount?”

“8 million minerals and 2 million rare resources.”

“…That’s all we have?”

But instead of hope replacing the dissolved nightmare, a terrible reality was invading.

For a moment, I wondered if some resource embezzlement crime had finally occurred in this damn game world…

But only for a moment.

“Of course that’s all. The commanders docked at the Tannhäuser haven’t paid any resources for docking for at least a week, some even up to two weeks, right?”

“…Ah, that’s right.”

As I recalled that the docking fee contracts had been forcibly canceled due to the update while we were negotiating new rates,

And remembered that similar issues had occurred afterward, I found myself nodding involuntarily.

“So that’s why we’ve only accumulated that much in resources.”

“Plus, just the day before yesterday, you proceeded with constructing new auxiliary buildings and a dreadnought, right?”

“Ah, I see.”

With these forgotten factors popping up one after another,

Looking at the end result, there didn’t seem to be anything wrong, so I nodded and decided to express satisfaction with our resource income status.

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Anyway, along with the report that we had accumulated roughly that amount of resources,

And hearing that in a month we would have over 12 million minerals and 4 million rare resources, I thought I could finally try implementing a plan I had been putting off.

And that plan was none other than…

“I think we can finally start restoring the Tannhäuser’s fortress main cannon.”

“You’re finally going to do it?”

It was the restoration project for the magnificent fortress main cannon that could wipe out dozens of fleets with a single shot.

Of course, it required a whopping 10 million minerals and 4.3 million rare resources,

Plus 20,000 gold, which meant we would need to collect resources for at least two more weeks in our current situation…

‘Well, if I handle it like this, there shouldn’t be any more major problems, right?’

In about two weeks from now,

I decided to spend my time leisurely imagining firing the main cannon at those attention-seeking troublemakers who kept coming around the Tannhäuser and causing a ruckus.