Ch.48Purging You
by fnovelpia
Of course, as one might expect, the Gallery Alliance fleet of exactly 11,315 ships did not lose in a direct confrontation with the Pirate King’s main force of less than 2,000 ships.
Rather, initially, everything went according to their plan. They steadily advanced beyond the crane wing formation, creating a hemispherical encirclement to pressure the Pirate King’s main force.
In the early stages of the battle, as most had predicted, it seemed the Gallery Alliance was headed for an overwhelming victory.
But… there’s a reason why this entire event chain, including the current “Pirate King’s Raid,” is collectively known as the “Pirate Empress” event.
Those who had forgotten during their six months here, and the newbies who didn’t know about it…
Ten minutes later.
They would feel it to their very bones as pirates suddenly warped in and launched a surprise attack.
Of course, these reinforcements only amounted to about 2,000 ships coming from a single direction.
Numerically, the Gallery Alliance still held the advantage, but…
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-[Shit! Pirate reinforcements have arrived!]
-[What the hell is that?]
-[Battleships! More fucking battleships!]
-[Aren’t those battle cruisers?]
-[They’re cruiser battleships, dumbass!]
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Unfortunately, each of the newly arrived pirates was equipped with a cruiser battleship—vessels with firepower equivalent to a battleship.
The moment the users’ defensive formation collapsed under overwhelming firepower…
The pirate forces drove wedges between the users and began literally butchering the massive fleet that had been surrounding the Pirate King.
Of course, if someone had firmly taken command and coordinated the users’ movements…
Even with the pirates breaking through their formation, they might have been able to maintain resistance using their numerical advantage…
Unfortunately, this massive fleet wasn’t composed of a single individual or unified clan.
It was merely a temporary alliance formed by over 10 clans and approximately 1,500 users, so…
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-[Shit! Help!]
-[Anyone, please go there and block them!]
-[Where do you need help?]
-[Screw this, I’m running away. Later!]
-[Is this bastard fucking joking?]
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Most users either mindlessly pushed forward according to the general plan until they were blindsided and blown to pieces…
Or resisted the pirates’ surprise attack individually or as clan units.
A large-scale counterattack at the alliance level was impossible for the clan leaders who supposedly formed the alliance’s command.
Moreover, when regular users not affiliated with clans saw valuable ships being destroyed left and right by the pirates’ offensive…
Worried their own ships and superhumans might suffer the same fate…
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-[This is so fucked]
-[Don’t run, fight!]
-[Those bastards already fled!]
-[Please, I’m begging you]
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In the midst of battle, whenever they were targeted by the pirates’ “cruiser battleships”…
Users began deserting the battlefield to save their ships and superhumans.
With the situation deteriorating into complete chaos…
Even the clans and users who had committed their forces (except those guarding their original bases) couldn’t hold out any longer and began retreating.
As a result, the users’ ambitious Out-Turis Pirate King raid…
Ended with “officially” losing over 3,000 ships.
Excluding the fleets of clans and individual users who withdrew before the battle ended, only about 4,000 ships remained.
Worse still, half of those remaining ships were forcibly seized by the Pirate King due to the event mechanics.
Users who had relocated their bases and were determined to fight to the end seethed with feelings of betrayal toward those who had deserted mid-battle.
They literally set the gallery and chat on fire with their anger, but…
That burning public sentiment was soon extinguished by…
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Title: The Real Pirate Empress Has Arrived!
Author: Anonymous
Content: [Image of the Pirate Empress sitting cross-legged on top of the Pirate King’s body with all limbs severed, staring straight ahead]
While we were all freaking out, the broadcast continued.
The pirates who came as reinforcements suddenly attacked the Pirate King’s main force that was trying to capture user ships!
Pirates attacking the Pirate King’s flagship, no joke.
During the event progression, the Pirate King got stabbed in the back hard and his battleship exploded.
The Pirate King tried to escape but was captured and dragged to the flagship of the pirates who betrayed him.
Then this scene appeared and the broadcast ended.
Comments:
-[NOOOOOOOOOOOONA!]
-[Finally, damn it!]
-[So this is what they meant by the Empress making her entrance?]
-[Noona, marry me!]
-[Hnnng…]
-[I’ve been waiting for a woman like you for a long time]
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And just like that, all the anger dissipated as the long-awaited… no, the Pirate Empress finally made her appearance.
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While users were losing their minds shouting “Noonaaaa”…
…about an hour earlier.
“Kuhurk… cough!”
“Boss!”
The middle-aged man who once reigned supreme as the “Pirate King” over all space pirates had been attempting, as usual, to “collect” from the fleets of those damned “Commanders.”
But while carrying out this rightful “collection activity,” his flagship “Vulcan” and its fleet were completely destroyed by a sudden surprise attack.
As he tried to escape from his exploding battleship, he was subdued by his attackers and lost consciousness.
When he awoke, he and his subordinates were all bound limb by limb.
They had been unceremoniously dumped on the deck of an unfamiliar ship.
And before his eyes…
“Hello, you pathetically incompetent Pirate King.”
“You… who are you…?”
A few months ago, she had shown remarkable achievement by single-handedly stealing a cruiser from a “base” that had annihilated numerous pirate groups.
Since then, she had continued to demonstrate astonishing talent and accomplishments, growing to command an entire wing of this massive pirate alliance despite the handicap of being a woman. It was “Marian” who now appeared before the Pirate King.
Despite his brutish appearance, the Pirate King had a rather sharp mind.
He quickly grasped the current situation—the sudden ambush and his subsequent capture.
Realizing that Marian standing before him was responsible for all this, he let out a roar of fury.
“Y-you traitorous bitch! You dare attack my fleet?!?!”
Despite being completely restrained, befitting his status as an SSS-rank Pirate King…
He exuded such immense fighting spirit that the many pirates aiming their guns at him visibly trembled.
But despite the Pirate King’s intimidating aura, “Marian” rose from her seat with an unchanged expression.
The heels of her boots clicked against the floor as she approached the Pirate King and spoke.
“I’m the traitor? Then what should we call someone who throws away our lives for petty plunder while watching safely from behind?”
“What?”
“A worthless piece of shit who only knows how to charge forward mindlessly, using only battleships despite your supposed abilities.”
“…!”
“You gather forces but can’t use them properly, letting them be uselessly consumed by the enemy’s attacks… repeatedly facing defeat. And you call yourself the Pirate King?”
With a sneer, “Marian” placed her hands on the two ultrasonic blades at her waist and continued.
“No pirate with such massive personnel and fleet resources could possibly achieve such miserable results.”
“What are you…”
“So I hereby declare: an incompetent bastard like you has no right to be the Pirate King.”
Immediately after those words…
“Marian” drew her ultrasonic blades with a speed that no one except the Pirate King himself could match.
In an instant, she severed all four of the Pirate King’s limbs.
“GAAAAAAAARGH!!!!”
Mounting the body of the former Pirate King, now reduced to a roly-poly doll, she addressed the pirates nearby.
“From today, the self-proclaimed incompetent Pirate King is no more.”
“…!”
“According to pirate law, I am now your new boss.”
“…”
“So bow your heads before me, you worthless pieces of trash.”
‘As a chess piece for the one I serve…’
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