I Became a Commander in a Crappy SF Game.

Ch.405″I’m worth a lot.” (2)

by fnovelpia

The two rankers felt extremely bewildered at Icarus’s firm(?) refusal.

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<Icarus-Indefatigable-Menaldo Chat Room>

-[You don’t have resources?]

-[Does that make any sense?](Indefatigable)

-[Yeah it makes sense](Icarus)

-[But you must get resources every week from your 3 bases and the 2,000+ users docked there. Where are you selling all that?](Menaldo)

-[Yeah that exists](Icarus)

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After seeing Icarus respond like that, Indefatigable took some time to carefully consider.

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<Antares-Indefatigable-Menaldo Chat Room>

-[I think this guy is just politely refusing us](Indefatigable)

-[What do you mean](Antares)

-[<Chat screenshot.jpg>]

-[Yeah](Indefatigable)

-[Oh](Antares)

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Despite having 3 bases and 2,000—no, 2,500 docked users providing resources every week, Icarus was responding with “I don’t have resources.”

He explained to Antares that this was clearly a polite but firm “rejection.”

Naturally, with Indefatigable’s opinion and the additional chat screenshot that popped up…

Antares, whose hair was already turning from blonde to platinum blonde due to stress, judged that our Icarus was “drawing a line” to maintain neutrality.

‘Tsk, can’t be helped.’

He resolved to burn with determination to squeeze out troops by providing additional resources for the “mercenary corps” and “faction delegations” that mercenary users deploy to protect their bases.

However, Menaldo tilted his head in confusion at Indefatigable and Antares’s reactions.

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<Antares-Indefatigable-Menaldo Chat Room>

-[But is Icarus really the type to draw such a strict line?](Menaldo)

-[Hmm](Indefatigable)

-[Honestly, judging by his usual behavior and attitude, there’s a possibility he really doesn’t have resources](Menaldo)

-[But isn’t “not having resources” too lame an excuse regardless?](Indefatigable)

-[That’s why I’m saying we should just ask him directly]

-[We’ve got nothing to lose by asking](Menaldo)

-[Hmm](Antares)

-[Then why don’t you ask him?](Indefatigable)

-[Ok wait](Menaldo)

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Seeing Menaldo’s strangely innocent reaction, and since what he said wasn’t wrong…

When Indefatigable said “then you go ask him,” Menaldo really did hurry off to throw a question at Icarus.

And a moment later.

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<Antares-Indefatigable-Menaldo Chat Room>

-[<Icarus’s resource verification image, showing only 130,000 minerals and 40,000 rare resources.jpg>]

-[He really doesn’t have any](Menaldo)

-[It’s true](Antares)

-[How is this true?](Indefatigable)

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Upon seeing the “resource status verification” that Menaldo brought from Icarus, the two normal people felt their brains momentarily freeze.

And for good reason. Just from receiving resources from three bases and the users docked there, he should be getting hundreds of thousands of resources every week.

Where on earth could he have sold all of that?

But from our protagonist Icarus’s perspective, there was much to say about this situation.

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“Commander, I heard those two ranker commanders requested support earlier.”

“Yeah, but I refused.”

When Indefatigable and Menaldo suddenly contacted me asking for help, I initially tried to respond positively.

But when they specifically asked me to mobilize my “unlimited mercenaries,” which could be considered my identity(?), I had no choice but to regretfully inform them that it was impossible.

And the reason for that was…

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<‘Tannhäuser Gate Fortress’ Main Cannon Restoration in Progress…>

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“Well, you did use up all your resources to restore the fortress’s main cannon, didn’t you?”

“Yes, that’s why I can’t do anything even if I wanted to.”

I was in the middle of restoring an insane main cannon that required 10,000,000 minerals, 4,300,000 rare resources, and 20,000 gold.

And because of that restoration work, the resources I had left were at best only 130,000 minerals and 40,000 rare resources.

Suddenly, even the “maintenance costs” for the mercenary corps, faction delegations, and main force that needed to be deployed today were barely manageable.

So I had no choice but to refuse the support requested by those two rankers.

“But honestly, I wouldn’t believe it either if I were them. How could you not have resources when you receive docking fees from three bases and 2,000 commanders?”

“Hmm.”

“But tomorrow we’ll get the base’s own resource acquisition amount, and since the resource mining fleet is fine, there’s no big problem, right?”

“Of course, absolutely.”

As Jessica said, tomorrow we would receive not only the base’s own resource acquisition amount…

But also what the resource mining fleet had mined, so at the very least, we would escape this situation where maintenance costs were barely manageable.

Thinking that, I was sipping hot chocolate while watching the Dreadnought and Bayern-class ships still undergoing repairs at the shipyard.

But right at that moment.

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<Icarus-Indefatigable-Menaldo Chat Room>

-[Hey hey hey]

-[Hey](Menaldo)

-[?](Icarus)

-[If we give you resources, could you support us right away?](Indefatigable)

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Out of nowhere, this kind of chat message flew at me.

Seeing this, I took another sip of the hot chocolate I was drinking.

Then I put down the mug I was holding and decided to respond calmly to their chat.

But that thought didn’t last long.

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<Icarus-Indefatigable-Menaldo Chat Room>

-[Yeah]

-[But how much are you asking for?](Icarus)

-[Maximum capacity](Indefatigable)

-[Maximum capacity?]

-[You want me to bring a huge fleet like when I attack bases?](Icarus)

-[Yeah](Menaldo)

-[Yes that’s right](Indefatigable)

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When I heard they wanted the scale I used when attacking bases, I felt dumbfounded.

And for good reason. They want me to mobilize mercenary fleets at “maximum capacity” right now?

Even excluding Leonard’s royal guard fleet, which wasn’t moving because it was escorting Marian who was still in seclusion…

There would be at least 5,000 mercenary corps with over 800,000 ships, but the thing is…

Above all, since I didn’t have the resources to mobilize such a “large-scale” fleet right now, it was clear that they would have to invest an enormous amount of resources to me upfront.

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<Icarus-Indefatigable-Menaldo Chat Room>

-[By maximum capacity, you mean you want me to use all my resources to mobilize all fleets?]

-[Use all resources to mobilize mercenary corps, with separate maintenance costs?](Icarus)

-[Yeah]

-[The more the better](Indefatigable)

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Looking at Indefatigable’s response, I took some time to carefully consider.

Then I replied as calmly as possible, but with a clear “wake up” message.

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<Icarus-Indefatigable-Menaldo Chat Room>

-[Then you’d need to pay 30 million in minerals and rare resources combined upfront?](Icarus)

-[Uh, what?](Menaldo)

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