Ch.415″Solo leveling? Solo Union leveling?”

But the news about “solo rankers” getting corporate jobs(?) wasn’t over yet.

While I was still in shock(?) over Indefatigable and Menaldo’s employment(???) news, the gallery media continued to report additional headhunting stories.

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Title: Breaking) Rank 6 Laura and Rank 9 König Announce Clan Membership

Author: News Boy

Content: [Laura authenticating through chat room.jpg], [König being interviewed with face mosaic.jpg]

Laura and König, solo players ranked 6th and 9th respectively, just announced they’re joining clans

As you can see, Laura authenticated herself directly through the chat room

König said he was planning to join a clan from the beginning, and we even interviewed him

For reference, they said the timing of all four rankers joining clans wasn’t particularly coordinated

Apparently they just did it without much thought, and the timing happened to coincide

Comments:

-[The timing is artistically perfect]

-[But isn’t this obvious if you think about it? The clans have grown so large that solo players can’t handle it anymore]

-˪[What are you even talking about, random user?]

-[About time they got jobs]

-˪[Are you saying all 100,000 central users are unemployed?]

-˪[Ah]

-˪[Look at the random user having a brain freeze after getting fact-bombed]

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“How could this be, everyone is abandoning me and leaving.”

“…Pardon?”

How could this happen?

They all became solo players on the same day, but now they’ve thrown away their blood oath to die as solos.

‘Sob.’

I trusted everyone, but everyone has betrayed me.

As this indescribable sadness enveloped my mind, I could feel my entire body sinking into a sudden, profound depression.

Of course, seeing my “dramatic behavior,” Jessica shook her head and spoke up.

“Commander, you never made such a strange oath in the first place.”

“That’s true.”

“Besides, if you think about it, the reason other commanders joined clans might actually be because of you.”

“…Me?”

“Yes.”

Of course, as you can tell from my immediate questioning, I found this quite “incomprehensible” at first.

But after taking a sip of my iced Americano to calm my mental state, I realized her point made a lot of sense.

After all, I’m a solo player in name only.

When you really think about it, how am I any different from a clan?

“You just don’t use the clan system, but practically speaking, you’re not much different from a clan, right?”

“Hmm.”

“You collect tribute to use, and if you’re invaded, you can get help from other commanders.”

“…That’s certainly true.”

And as Jessica delivered these additional combo fact-bombs to me,

I decided to stop my useless strange outburst and send congratulatory messages to the “former” solo rankers.

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And after finishing all that.

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Title: Former Solo Rankers All Settled?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of Indefatigable’s level 1 stronghold ‘Haunib’ being transferred to another user.jpg]

The strongholds owned by Indefatigable, Menaldo, and Laura have been transferred to other users

I don’t know about König since I’m not from that area

Comments:

-[Yeah, they probably just handed them over to acquaintances]

-[Menaldo held a public auction and sold his for 150,000 gold]

-˪[Wow, 150,000 gold for a level 2 stronghold is pretty good]

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After seeing the solo rankers quickly depart for their new homes,

I started handling various small tasks to complete daily and weekly quests.

And Jessica diligently assisted with my work, but…

“…Oh right, Commander?”

“Yeah, what is it?”

“Shouldn’t you be receiving additional compensation from the Humanity clan?”

“Compensation?”

“Yes.”

When this random question popped up, I found myself tilting my head in confusion.

But only for a moment.

In response to Jessica’s question, I shrugged my shoulders and calmly began to speak.

“What additional compensation would there be? The cost of hiring the mercenary corps was entirely covered by Humanity.”

“Well… I suppose so.”

“Of course, I did commit my main force to the battle, but receiving over ten million resources isn’t exactly common, is it?”

“Yes, that’s true.”

In summary, I only received the pure employment fee, and that was it.

For me, that alone felt more than sufficient.

Of course, when I expressed this thought, Jessica showed disappointment, saying we could have squeezed more out of them if we’d tried.

To Jessica, I showed her the gallery post I had seen earlier titled “Humanity’s compensation payments have slowed down!” and said:

“Besides, Humanity isn’t exactly flush with resources right now. If we get too greedy in this situation, wouldn’t it cause a disaster?”

“Hmm… I didn’t know the situation was like this.”

Of course, Jessica had no way of knowing that Humanity’s compensation payments were being delayed and so on.

So her reaction was perfectly understandable, and I nodded in acknowledgment.

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Meanwhile, at the same time our protagonist Icarus was living his peaceful, idyllic life while going “hoeeeng,”

Due to Icarus’s lack of interest, he only glanced over and moved on.

But in reality, posts about the “Xenovia Empire North-South Civil War” situation—which was much more intense and involved more people than the battle between the Loki Clan and Biomass Clan—began appearing in the gallery.

The problem was that these situation reports were forecasting truly dramatic changes…

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Title: REAL Breaking News) Humanity Clan Will No Longer Provide Financial Support to Xenovia Factions

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Chat response from Humanity’s official spokesperson(?).jpg]

This is real

Seems like they’re having headaches over the revolution victory rewards, so they’re trying to resolve the compensation payment issues as quickly as possible

Specifically, they’ll only support one side and cut off the other

But they haven’t decided which one to cut off yet

Comments:

-[They’re testing the waters]

-[They want to see which side will be most ‘loyal’ to us, right?]

-˪[Oh, that makes sense]

-[But honestly, from Humanity’s perspective, supporting both factions simultaneously was to prevent Justice from moving south]

-˪[After this incident, they no longer need to worry about Justice even if they stop supporting both factions lol]

-˪[Huh? Why is that?]

-˪[Just think about it]

-˪[The former Earth Federation’s border defense fleets are now in Humanity’s hands, and they’re returning border defense to normal status]

-˪[Plus, even though they’re not in great condition, user fleets are still there, so there’s no reason to invest more resources in Xenovia]

-˪[Ah, I see]

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With the suspension of Humanity’s so-called “New Deal” policy, the Northern and Southern alliances were engaged in all-out warfare to secure more support.

They were desperately trying to turn the faucet that Humanity had shut off, resorting to all kinds of flattery in real-time.

Of course, seeing such behavior, gallery users and others strongly felt it was “ugly.”

For the Magellan Clan of Monalisa, who was essentially treated as the Xenovia Empire’s prince among users = Northern Alliance,

And for Raksha and the Southern Clan Alliance, who had been thoroughly humiliated by Magellan and were burning with revenge, they needed to use any means necessary to secure resources for themselves while preventing their opponents from receiving any if they wanted to win.

Using every means at their disposal,

They were engaged in diplomatic warfare filled with all kinds of slander and schemes, desperately searching for valuable allies to help them.