Ch.439Icarus, Guardian of the Triangular Zone… (continued). (2)

And somehow as the war ended this way, perhaps because it was concluded with my achievements.

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<Official Triangular Zone Chat Room>

<Notice: Establish Icarus as Clan Leader, Let’s Find the Light!>

-[Chat Admin WhyLikeThat]

-[High on drugs and gone crazy]

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOL]

-[Oh Guardian of the Triangular Zone, please save us]

-[Please stop](Icarus)

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL]

-[LOLOL]

-[The Triangular Zone needs a guardian]

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Despite my previous stern warnings.

Now not only in the internal Triangular Zone chat room.

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Title: Today’s News) Central Zone Base Alliance Declares Support for Icarus Again

Author: News Boy

Content: [Screenshot of Base Alliance’s declaration of support posted in the public chat room.jpg]

With the Yellow Turban rebels essentially completely collapsed, the prevailing opinion is that they’re making a firm declaration of support to strengthen internal unity

Comments:

-[Why no personal commentary these days?]

-˪[Because it led to all sorts of controversies and harassment](Author)

-˪[LOL]

-[Central zone unification… the only salvation…]

-[Is this really the birth of a new mega clan?]

-˪[Level 5 bases would have at least 200-300 users docked, and there are dozens of places that have identified as part of the Base Alliance…]

-˪[Wait, that many?]

-˪[Yep]

-˪[Hold on, so this isn’t a joke—that Icarus guy has at least 20,000 users under his command?]

-˪[Not 20,000, but definitely over 10,000]

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Title: “Who Seeks to Enter?”

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Photo of Habsburg royal funeral with a Kraken head photoshopped onto it.jpg]

“Icarus, King of the Central Zone, Guardian of the Triangular Zone, Leader of the Million Mercenary Corps, Ruler of Tannhäuser, Avalon, and Barracuda, Protector of Spiralis, Eternal 3rd Place and Unlucky Person 3rd Place…(omitted)…and so on.”

Comments:

-[LOLOLOL]

-[“We don’t know who he is!”]

-˪[<Image of the Million Mercenary Fleet mobilized when employed by Humanity.jpg>]

-˪[“Then let him enter!”]

-[LMAO]

-[Why are the priests accepting that?]

-˪[Well, when a million mercenary ships are pointing guns at you, can you not be intimidated?]

-˪[This time only, I swear (scared)]

-[That’s a lot of nicknames now]

-˪[Except for the first few, the rest are all nicknames created during harassment]

-˪[Suffering even after death? Damn]

-˪[Why are you trying to kill a perfectly fine ranker again]

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Seeing this kind of nonsense declaration and bizarre posts that could be either worship or harassment appearing in the gallery.

I fired blocking beams at those who kept babbling to me, replacing other ranker moderators whose presence had rapidly diminished recently.

Then I posted again in the gallery, giving a final warning to the users who were losing their minds.

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Title: Next time it’s a 15-day full block

Author: Icarus

Content: [List of approximately 900 users who received 1-day blocks.jpg]

Saying this for the last time

I absolutely have no intention of becoming a clan leader, if you want one, figure it out yourselves

Stop with the unofficial propaganda in the gallery or chat

Comments:

-[First?]

-[This kinda turns me on, like resistance before getting ravished]

-˪[?](Icarus)

-˪[Dude]

-˪[Gay alert;;]

-[If you’re refusing even in this situation, you must really hate it]

-˪[For real]

-[I approve of your consistency]

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Is it because I’ve been too rigid in my consistency regarding the clan leader position?

My attitude somehow seemed trustworthy to them, leading to incomprehensible reactions…

Not long after, they did all sorts of strange things among themselves.

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Title: Breaking) Central Zone’s attempt to form a large clan fails!

Author: News Boy

Content: [Image of the Base Alliance only declaring support for Icarus but creating a loose temporary organization instead of a clan.jpg]

After the collective declaration of support from Level 5 and below base users

A coalition force, not even a clan, has been formed

Comments:

-[Your clickbait titles show you’ve become a real journalist]

-[If you’re going to do that, just make a clan, damn it]

-˪[That’s unacceptable for us Central Zone users~]

-˪[Stubborn bastards LOL]

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Seeing such bizarre behavior, I, as the person involved, started to feel something that was truly difficult to put into words.

Of course, that feeling didn’t last long.

“…What on earth are those people trying to do?”

“Make the Commander their king and secure a position in the Central Zone?”

“Oh.”

When Jessica freely moved her rabbit ears while saying that,

I nodded repeatedly with a short exclamation, thinking her words were absolutely right.

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Meanwhile, at that very moment when our Icarus was harboring “suspicion toward everyone(?),”

In the gallery and chat rooms, a new assessment of Icarus’s consistent refusal was emerging.

And what was that assessment…

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<Casual Chat Room>

<Notice: Share weird stuff here and you’re dead.>

-[I think I understand why Icarus consistently refuses]

-[?]

-[Anyone who accepts the position of the now-disbanded Central Zone mega clan would just break mentally]

-[Huh?]

-[Why would their mental break?]

-[Think about it]

-[Other mega clans were somewhat structured even before the clan system officially started]

-[Ah, true]

-[That’s right]

-[Justice, Humanity, and Loki are such cases]

-[So those clans gradually built up and expanded over several years]

-[With numerous executives supporting the clan leader, they can somehow manage even after growing huge]

-[But Icarus doesn’t have any of that]

-[Oh, that’s true]

-[No trusted inner circle, and if he becomes clan leader, he’d have to do everything alone]

-[What about those users he appointed as representatives for the golden horse bases?]

-[He’s docked at Tannhäuser himself, and Spiralis hasn’t even been decided yet, so that’s only 2 people?]

-[And those users change all the time, how can he trust them?]

-[Can’t he use the base mayor users?]

-[That’s nonsense, those guys were exposed for doing shady things]

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Most users were assessing that Icarus’s refusal wasn’t simply because “he vaguely dislikes it”…

Unlike other clans, they believed it was because he wouldn’t be able to manage a “suddenly massive force.”

Currently, the operational structure of mega clans with over 10,000 members invariably involved dozens or hundreds of “executives” supporting the clan leader.

If Icarus accepted the clan leader position, it would be essentially like running a “one-man clan.”

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Title: When you think about it, Icarus has no choice but to refuse

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Summary of the above content.jpg]

It’s not like he has dozens of trusted aides like Antares or Betelgeuse who can cover for him

He’d have to handle everything completely alone

Usually in these cases, the clan leader burns out trying to manage everything alone

Then the people scheming in the background run the clan however they want, and when problems arise, they sacrifice the clan leader

Not saying that’s definitely what would happen this time, but in my experience, that’s how it goes

Comments:

-[Gasp]

-[What]

-[What did you say]

-[So you’re saying whoever accepts it is basically taking a poisoned apple?]

-˪[Yes](Author)

-˪[Holy shit]

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Despite the fact that the person in question simply refused because of trauma and simply not wanting to do it.

For some reason, users increasingly believed that Icarus must have refused because he was seeing the “big picture.”

And with this perception of him having a grand plan…

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Title: The E-U that had to become a coalition force.

Author: GrapeSeed

Content: [Image of a toad wearing sunglasses]

Since Icarus refuses to be a “clan leader” no matter what, it would be awkward for another user to step up as they’re neither rankers nor anything special

+ “You’re going to be clan leader when even Icarus won’t do it? This guy is trying to take over the Central Zone from the start!”

This ridiculous situation resulted in

A strange organization with Icarus as the representative (who doesn’t want to do it), followed by representative users from Level 4+ bases, docked users, and village users

And seeing this mess, users from surrounding zones are asking why they don’t just form a clan

Comments:

-[Ugh]

-[This is really complicated]

-[Are we filming a political drama;;]

-[So this is what it takes to become the king of the Central Zone]

-˪[Oh]

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With this unprecedented level of hype emerging.

Our Icarus quietly closed the gallery at this point and ordered stomach medicine through his command console to calm his aching stomach from the pressure.