Ch.464Are These Factions Actually Weak? (3)

The first faction approached by the anti-faction(?) forces was, naturally, the “Loki Clan,” a massive power that could oppose Humanity and Justice Clan, whom they considered their enemies(???).

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<Chat Room by Users, for Users, serving Users>

<Notice: For the Reign of All Users>

-[Loki Clan will listen to us]

-[Yeah]

-[They already have libertarian tendencies]

-[They’re trolls, so they wouldn’t bow to factions, right]

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But contrary to their delusional thinking, the Loki Clan responded with perfect “radio silence”—not even bothering to show coldness or irritation.

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<Chat Room by Users, for Users, serving Users>

<Notice: For the Reign of All Users>

-[What did Loki Clan say?]

-[No response whatsoever]

-[These bastards are just the same as the others, damn]

-[All these established guys are exactly the same, ugh]

-[Everyone becomes equal when they get a bamboo spear through them, for real]

-[True that]

-[What a massive waste of time]

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After grumbling about wasting time on Loki Clan’s consistent non-response, they immediately shifted their target to the Magellan Clan.

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Meanwhile, the Loki Clan leader, Betelgeuse A.K.A. Marian’s fisting bag and stomach-punching human dummy, had enforced the clan-wide policy of non-response to the anti-faction forces.

When he heard through internal spies that the anti-faction forces were contacting the Magellan Clan, he openly sneered.

Of course, this reaction wasn’t limited to Betelgeuse—the Loki Clan executives and elite members shared the same response.

For one thing, Betelgeuse and the Loki Clan executives were regularly summoned and berated by the Pirate Empress Marian.

Additionally, the trolling that formed the basis of Loki Clan’s motto “We’re All Trolls” stemmed from the evil mindset of “I’m fine, but I hope you suffer”—not the self-destructive mindset of “I’m fine with us going down if you go down too.”

That’s why they were following Betelgeuse’s directive for complete non-response and ignoring with unusual thoroughness.

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Meanwhile, the Magellan Clan, which the anti-faction forces approached with inexplicable optimism, showed a reaction not much different from Loki Clan’s…

…no, their reaction was even more intense.

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<Chat Room by Users, for Users, serving Users>

<Notice: For the Reign of All Users>

-[Magellan Clan is reacting really intensely]

-[What are they saying?]

-[They’re saying their clan leader isn’t treated like a Xenovia Empire Grand Duke, and they called us sick bastards]

-[LOLOLOLOL]

-[Damn, these guys are even worse]

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As evident from the anti-faction members’ chat, for the Magellan Clan, the “faction collapse” advocated by the anti-faction forces…

Was literally something “absolutely unacceptable.”

Of course, the talk about their clan leader being treated like an Imperial Grand Duke was merely an opinion they expressed on the surface.

The real reason was none other than…

“Monalisa~ How about we try again today~♡”

“W-well, today’s not good, maybe tomorrow…”

“Oh my, such a tease♡”

The space elf beauty flirting with Monalisa—who was considered the most handsome among “human male Commanders”—was the representative of his faction delegation.

She was also a “princess” of the Xenovia Empire, and through her, Monalisa essentially received various high-grade Imperial starships at bargain prices.

In some ways, this was similar to our Icarus obtaining Marian.

But to be precise, the situation was somewhat different from Marian and Icarus’s relationship.

First, Monalisa would receive high-grade Xenovia Empire starships (e.g., Rafflesia-class) through the Imperial princess.

Then he would resell or provide these ships preferentially to the executives and elite members of his Magellan Clan.

In exchange, Monalisa had to endure the princess’s “Oh yes yes please don’t stop I can’t take it anymore slurp slurp gulp!” treatment.

Anyway, perhaps because they could experience the performance of Xenovia Empire’s powerful frontline and main ships in real-time…

Not just Monalisa, but the Magellan Clan executives, elite users, and even regular clan members and subordinate clans…

They all had the mindset of “Damn, if just some of the ships we’re using are this powerful, how strong must a fleet be that’s filled with these?”

From the Magellan Clan’s perspective, they couldn’t help but be alarmed by people fearlessly challenging factions that were literally “saturated” with such powerful ships.

Of course, since the anti-faction friends had no way of knowing these facts…

They concluded that the Magellan Clan was just another power group(???) that pulled up the ladder behind them.

Unlike the others, they decided to approach “Icarus” in the central zone, who was living purely(?) on his own rather than in a clan.

And while these anti-faction conspiracies(?) were unfolding, what was our Icarus doing?

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“Who are we?”

“Of course, we’re the closest of friends, Icarus!”

-“And I’ve also mixed bodies with oppa and conceived oppa’s seed inside me.”

“What.”

Recently, there had been crazy talk everywhere about breaking factions and being THE faction breakers.

So I connected a call with Marian to strengthen the friendship between our two factions, only to be suddenly attacked with pregnancy news.

‘Wait, she can get pregnant from that?’

We only spent one night together, and it hit the mark.

Oh, my amazing accuracy! If I were a superhuman, I’d probably be packed with accuracy-related buffs.

Anyway, that wasn’t the important part, and Marian also seemed to be trying to casually brush over the matter as “just saying.”

So I hastily concluded with something like “Anyway, we’re close friends!” and decided to wrap up this meeting.

Of course, I didn’t forget to strengthen our relationship with the monster and pirate alliance.

After finishing all that, I flopped down on the command seat in exhaustion, and Jessica tilted her head curiously…

“By the way, Commander, other commanders have been talking about the rise of the anti-faction movement… Do you have any particular reason for making your choice?”

“Huh?”

When I heard that, for a moment I wondered if our Jessica might be an anti-faction supporter about to shoot me for being “pro-faction!”

‘Am I crazy?’

Since Jessica would obviously never do such a thing, I nodded and opened a gallery window to show her the antics of the “anti-faction” people.

“Well, whatever others might think, to me what the anti-faction people are doing just seems like idiocy?”

“Heeng.”

Then I closed the gallery window again and continued, openly sneering at the anti-faction.

“I don’t know exactly how Humanity did it, but didn’t they spend 3 years consistently weakening the Earth Federation to devour it?”

“Yes, there was such a story in the gallery posts you saw before.”

“And on top of that, they mobilized a total of 180,000 of their own users.”

“Yes, that’s right?”

“Additionally, when you add up the user mercenary corps, faction delegations, and base mercenary corps, they deployed a fleet with nearly 300 million fleet points and barely won.”

After catching my breath for a moment, I made a firm declaration.

“What can these guys possibly do with fewer troops than Humanity, no leader to direct the battle situation, and nothing but stealing ships from factions that haven’t even been weakened?”

“That’s certainly true.”

Just as Jessica nodded in agreement with my words…

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<‘Anti-Faction Leader’ has requested a chat.>

<Accept?>

<Y/N>

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As the anti-faction appeared right on cue, I couldn’t help but wonder why on earth they were contacting me.