Ch.407The Million-Strong Army (1)

At the same time Icarus was busy gathering mercenary groups…

The battle between the Earth Federation and the Pan-Humanity Alliance had become an unprecedented matter of interest for all users.

As a result, the ongoing civil war between Xenovia Empire faction clans that had been fiercely fighting each other, as well as the concurrent war between the Loki Clan and Biomass Clan, were quietly buried beneath the headlines…

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**Title: I’m annoyed that only Humanity-related topics are trending**

**Author: Anonymous**

**Content: [Population graph.jpg]**

Nearly 200,000 users are involved in Humanity’s Earth Federation coup

But honestly speaking, the Xenovia situation isn’t affecting all users, it’s just them fighting over their own territory

Even users in the Xenovia faction don’t care much about it

And Loki and Biomass combined only have about 20,000-30,000 users

That’s not a small number by any means, but Humanity has blown things up on too large a scale

**Comments:**

-[True that]

-[Since when did 20,000-30,000 users participating get treated as small-scale?]

-˪[Only compared to Humanity, I guess]

-[H-honestly, I think there are way too many users involved in Humanity’s civil war]

-˪[Agreed]

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Unfortunately, as the gallery users pointed out, the scale of the coup initiated by the Humanity clan was simply too massive.

Regarding the two other conflicts, most users, except those directly involved, found it difficult to pay additional attention.

Given the situation, the hottest topic in the gallery should naturally have been related to the Earth Federation coup, but…

Unlike its grand beginning, the situation had become chaotic.

Without any “specific” and definite changes or clear battle lines, the situation within the Federation territory continued to be nothing but a series of chaotic skirmishes.

And as they failed to break through the border defense line of the NPC Earth Federation’s border defense forces, the situation remained stagnant.

The initial enthusiasm had disappeared, and now updates came like weather forecasts, just reporting what was happening where…

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**Title: This is so boring**

**Author: Anonymous**

**Content: [Image of a toad smirking and shrugging its shoulders as if bored]**

It’s the same story every day—someone captures a stronghold, then loses it again. Damn.

So freaking boring.

**Comments:**

-[If you don’t like it, just don’t look]

-˪[I’d like to, but it’s spammed all over the gallery, damn it](Author)

-[Honestly, it is kind of annoying. We’re not all affiliated with Earth Federation]

-˪[Yeah, seriously, agreed]

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In many ways, the “internal users” who were still actively engaged in combat couldn’t help but express their frustration.

But that was only momentary.

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**Title: Whoa, what the hell is that?**

**Author: Iramaki**

**Content: [Image of mercenary fleet numbers gathering near Tannhäuser Gateway Fortress, surpassing 500,000.jpg]**

Saw this at Tannhäuser. Is Icarus trying to capture another stronghold at a time like this?

**Comments:**

-[What an opportunist]

-[Well, when else would he expand without opposition?]

-[So now it’s a quadrangle instead of a triangle?]

-[Hahaha]

-[My goodness, that’s a lot]

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When a story about Icarus—the gallery’s idol who always brings interesting developments whenever he appears—emerged that wasn’t related to the usual topics, the gallery users’ attention briefly shifted to Tannhäuser, wondering if our Icarus was going to capture another stronghold and become even more powerful.

But according to the gallery’s journalist(?) and established user “News Boy” who dug for information seeking such attention:

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**Title: Breaking News) Icarus accepts Humanity’s request for support and decides to join Earth Federation civil war!**

**Author: News Boy**

**Content: [Screenshot allegedly received from an anonymous source’s chat window.jpg], [Estimated “1 million” mercenary fleet ships gathering at Tannhäuser.jpg]**

Actually, Humanity didn’t directly request support from Icarus

It was Rank 7 Indefatigable and Rank 8 Menaldu, who are employed by Humanity, who made the request

Anyway, Icarus reportedly received 50 million minerals and 10 million rare resources as advance payment

And with that, he’s sending about 1 million mercenary ships to the front line according to an anonymous tip

**Comments:**

-[LOLOLOLOL]

-[Wait, something’s wrong with these numbers]

-[Since when did Icarus become a clan leader? How can he recruit 1 million ships alone?]

-˪[LOLOL]

-˪[But seriously, that’s an unbelievable number]

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When it was revealed that even Icarus’s news was ultimately connected to the Humanity-Earth Federation coup situation…

The gallery users who became dejected—specifically, the hardcore gallery enthusiasts or “ghosts who only used the gallery even before immersion”—wailed that “at this rate, we’ll lose topics exclusive to our gallery!” and tried to do all sorts of strange things to reclaim the gallery’s identity…

Only to be suppressed by real moderators, not just user moderators, who rushed in and fired blocking beams in all directions.

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Meanwhile, at the Earth Federation’s outer defense line.

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**<Humanity Alliance Official Chat Room>**

**<Announcement: Let’s consume the Earth Federation>**

-[Oh, I heard the clan came up with a way to break through the external defense line?]

-[Really?]

-[Good]

-[Hurry up and show us! Just one is enough!]

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Unlike the internal power struggles happening in central areas within Federation territory…

In the midst of a fierce stalemate where dozens of battleships and cruisers were being sunk daily…

When news spread that Humanity had finally brought a solution to break through this stalemate…

Users who had joined as external mercenaries or subordinate clans responded happily, thinking that this damned war would finally end and Humanity would establish its dominance.

Of course, unlike those positive reactions, there were also users who showed quite pessimistic attitudes.

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**<Humanity Alliance Official Chat Room>**

**<Announcement: Let’s consume the Earth Federation>**

-[Isn’t this just another empty promise?]

-[Honestly, they claimed there would be internal support, but when we attacked, there was no support and they were too busy just trying to survive]

-[Not very credible]

-[LOLOL]

-[Ahem…](Humanity Administrator)

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Due to the failure of the “original operation plan,” there was a decline in trust toward Humanity.

With Humanity clan’s unexpected confusion, reactions like “it’s hard to believe what you say” began to emerge.

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**<Humanity Alliance Official Chat Room>**

**<Announcement: Let’s consume the Earth Federation>**

-[They say they need more forces to break through the defense line]

-[But with internal forces disconnected, mercenary users, subordinate clan users]

-[And even with mercenary groups and faction delegations that users employ, we still can’t break through. How do they plan to do it?]

-[Yeah, exactly]

-[Do they have to be so harsh?]

-[They should say something credible…]

-[Hey everyone, calm down]

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Questions exploded about how they planned to proceed when they had failed to get internal support and had reached the limit of recruiting mercenaries and personnel.

But at that moment, teleportation reactions erupted above the border defense fleet they were facing, which included a “Jormungand-class Super Dreadnought”…

Soon after, a beautiful rain of strategic missiles and a massive volley of missiles and torpedoes poured down.

As the Earth Federation’s border defense fleet desperately engaged in anti-air defense, their attention drawn upward…

-KWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

-KUWAAANG!

-KRAAAAAAAK!!!

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**<Humanity Alliance Official Chat Room>**

**<Announcement: Let’s consume the Earth Federation>**

-[Oh damn]

-[Wait, is that a Kraken?]

-[Holy moly moly moly]

-[Wow, there are so many]

-[Did they come through the gateway?]

-[Damn, there are over 1 million ships, but wait, could it be?]

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When a fleet estimated at over 1 million ships, including two massive “Kraken-class Assault Aircraft Carriers,” entered the front line via the gateway fortress’s ultra-long-range teleportation system…

The Humanity response coordinator, who had been criticized by subordinate clan leaders and external mercenaries, left a brief message with a remarkably calm yet confident attitude.

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**<Humanity Alliance Official Chat Room>**

**<Announcement: Let’s consume the Earth Federation>**

-[This is the solution we proposed.](Humanity Coordinator)

-[Wow, sexy]

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