Ch.47The Pirate King Hides His True Power

# Chapter 47. The Pirate King Hides His True Power

The butterfly effect caused by trolling the Pirate King had completely twisted the users’ expectations.

Originally, the game operators had planned for users to endure the Pirate King’s invasion through an event, accumulate points through this resistance, and after the Pirate King’s forces had swept through all clans and users, calculate those scores to determine user power restrictions and rankings.

Unfortunately, even the operators who had kidnapped and imprisoned the minds of tens of thousands of humans in the game couldn’t predict what these game-obsessed “dead souls” were capable of.

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Title: Successfully Taunting the Pirate King…!

Author: Anonymous

Content: [A Commander in underwear with a bizarre face, avoiding attacks while piloting just a patrol ship in front of a battleship]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Comments:

-[Now it’s not just veteran players but actual dead souls creeping out]

-[Insane]

-[What am I looking at right now? How the hell is he dodging by slipping between battleship cannon beams?]

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOL]

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The infamous “dead souls” with Ao*gami faces, known to exist in every game, were now toying with battleships using just a single “regular” patrol ship.

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Title: I Found a Weakness in the Pirate King’s Main Fleet AI

Author: Sniper King

Content: [Image of a cruiser with a giant cannon attached]

If you attach a range extension turret to a siege cruiser, you can shoot from beyond the Pirate King’s battleship range.

This way, you can just advance and beat up other ships before entering the battleship’s range.

You might ask what happens if the battleship catches up

The Pirate King’s battleship is heavily modified for firepower but its mobility and other stats are complete trash

Of course, siege cruisers also have poor mobility, but you can just switch to fortress mode and zigzag to finish them

Comments:

-[????]

-[Forget range, even giant fortress-sized weapons miss sometimes, how can you use that?]

-˪[Just infuse it with cosmic energy](Author)

-[How the hell did you do that?]

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Veteran players were appearing, using siege cruisers—designed solely to destroy bases with terrible accuracy and fire rate—equipped with range extension gear to chip away at the main fleet from extreme distances.

The Pirate King’s initial majesty had completely disappeared, with humiliation posts about him appearing as a series in the gallery.

Perhaps because of this, the “shock and terror” that users initially expressed had completely vanished, replaced by overflowing arrogance.

And just when this user atmosphere reached its peak, surprisingly, some large clans, after witnessing the feats of veteran players and the desperate resistance and trolling from various clans that managed to chip away at the Pirate King’s main fleet, seemed to have their pride restored…

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Title: Recruiting Clans for Pirate King Raid

Author: Mahaprajnaparamita

Content: [Image of space filled with asteroids]

I’m thinking we should just kill this so-called Pirate King and stop these damn pirate attacks

Nothing special, but we’ve already gathered 140 people including our clan and others for this raid

But that might not be enough, so we’re recruiting additional members or clans

No conditions, just come to this link<-here

If we gather over 200 people and hit hard, won’t the Pirate King and everything else just die?

The Pirate King’s main fleet is scheduled to pass through the Out-Terris region in 3 days.

We’re planning to move all participating members and clan bases there beforehand to engage in a full-scale battle

Let’s go for a manly fleet battle!

Comments:

-[Wow damn]

-[I’m in]

-[Me too]

-[LOLOLOL this is epic]

-[User-created event, upvoted]

-[Our clan decided to join the raid after seeing this]

-[Let’s gooooooo]

-[Pirate King coin crashing LOLOL]

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Clans were gathering one after another, showing their determination to completely destroy the Pirate King’s main fleet itself and end the event early.

Naturally, such manly behavior ignited a fire in the users’ hearts.

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-[But if this goes wrong, everyone could die?]

-[For real, it’s dangerous. This will draw all the aggro from the Pirate King’s main fleet]

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Some users, presumed to be veterans, expressed concerns about this frenzied alliance.

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-[I’M GOING!!!!]

-[Losing a fleet battle means death…!]

-[Are you a pirate spy or something?]

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But to users already intoxicated with fleet battle hype, such concerns were merely weak excuses from reactionaries.

Ignoring all warnings from concerned clans and users, the self-proclaimed “gallery alliance” members quickly dominated public opinion and began making thorough preparations for their desired “Pirate King Raid.”

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Exactly 2 days and 20 hours after that post went up.

-Whoooosh…

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-[Damn, this is epic]

-[It really is a spectacular sight]

-[Fighting!]

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Ten clans with over 1,500 participating users.

A grand fleet of over 10,000 ships had gathered at the Out-Terris sanctuary.

With over 500 SSS-class cruisers and properly developed Superhumans exuding murderous intent.

When all this was shown through the real-time broadcast provided by the operators, the users’ lungs filled with hot air.

Their confidence was overflowing.

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Title: Who Gets Selected as the MVP in This War?

Author: Anonymous

Content: The person who beheads the Pirate King? Or the one who gets the most kills?

Comments:

-[Usually in these situations, the one who takes down the leader gets the top spot, right?]

-[No, shouldn’t it be the one with the most kills?]

-[Users have a limit to how many kills they can get, but it’s different with the Pirate King]

-[I guess so]

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Unlike the Pirate King’s main fleet, which had been reduced to a miserable state due to accumulated damage from resistance by veteran players and several clans, the users’ fleet—though varied in appearance due to skins and other factors—looked very healthy.

Most users were more interested in the spoils after battle rather than the battle itself.

And this atmosphere heated up even more as they saw the Pirate King’s flagship approaching.

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-[Here it comes! Battle stations!]

-[Push forward according to plan!]

-[King Soon-shin’s god-tier crane wing formation is always right]

-[Agreed]

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No matter how strong, it was still just one battleship.

The plan was to crush the Pirate King’s main fleet of about 2,000 ships—which couldn’t even properly replenish their losses—with a crane wing formation, then have hundreds of SSS-class cruisers pound the battleship to disable all its weapons, and finally deploy hundreds or thousands of Superhumans like infantry to turn the battleship into complete chaos.

Despite some potential losses along the way, the users were convinced they would reap substantial rewards from the battle.

And Jessica, who was watching the broadcast beside me, seemed to share this thought.

“Commander, wouldn’t it be better if you joined in too?”

“I share Jessica’s opinion, Commander.”

They were suggesting I should go to that death trap.

But I shook my head at Jessica and Berial, who had joined us at some point, and said:

“Just watch. This will 100% fail.”

“What?”

Jessica seemed to doubt how a fleet of over 10,000 ships could possibly lose to pirates numbering less than one-fifth of that.

But about 5 hours later…

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-[We’re screwed;;]

-[Just saying we’re screwed doesn’t help!]

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When the broadcast showed the user alliance fleet being torn to shreds just as I had predicted,

Jessica and even Berial were amazed at my judgment.