Ch.4First Gacha

I figured I needed to share the situation before doing the gacha.

I revealed the quest details to Jessica who was standing in front of me.

“Just like you said, pirates will be attacking us soon.”

“What?! Already? When?”

“Hmm… in 72 hours?”

“Uuugh?!”

Jessica seemed quite flustered, as if her words had become reality.

When I described the shape of the pirate emblem I had seen to her:

“…If it’s them, they’re the vanguard of those who’ve been attacking bases and fleets in standby mode recently, including us.”

Jessica’s expression conveyed the feeling of ‘even someone gentle like me is angry now.’

Following that anger, Jessica continued what she had started saying earlier:

“Commander, let’s quickly build patrol ships to strengthen our defensive forces!”

“And then?”

“If we fight alongside the base’s defense batteries, we should be able to repel such small-scale pirates!”

Jessica was proposing a very orthodox response plan to fight using more patrol ships than the pirates had, along with the base’s defense batteries.

But I shook my head at her suggestion.

“No, we’re not recruiting additional patrol ships right now.”

“What? Then how do you plan to respond to the pirates?”

When Jessica widened her eyes in surprise at my words,

I shrugged and pointed to the “Return-Exclusive Gacha” notification that was sparkling with a supreme presence in front of me.

“First, we should try rolling this.”

“Ah… yes.”

“Besides, even if we rush patrol ship production, it takes 3 days to build them.”

“Oh.”

To save time, Jessica and I immediately got up and headed to the base’s gacha system.

Its official name was the “Multi-Dimensional Fixed Causality Generation Device,” a very novel and complicated name.

But outside the game, nobody called it that—we headed to this pitiful system located in the base’s central system.

‘Well then, let’s roll it right away.’

Whether it was a superhuman or a ship.

As I faced the gacha system with ranks ranging from the lowest D-rank to the maximum SSS-rank,

As always, people hope to get the super-special SSS rank in a single roll.

I was wondering if I should fetch some water and perform a ritual first, but then:

“Commander? There’s something I need to inform you about the dimensional causality fixation for returnees including yourself…”

“Hmm? Are there other restrictions?”

At Jessica’s words from beside me, I tilted my head and gave her a suspicious look.

Of course, I already knew about minor things like the one-time limit.

I wondered if there was something unusual.

And at Jessica’s next words, I immediately wanted to do a somersault.

“For the returnee-exclusive dimensional causality fixation, the minimum rank starts from B.”

“…Oh.”

A gacha that excludes D-rank, which is basically considered worthless, and the barely better C-rank.

‘This is totally lucky-vicky!’

Of course, as with all things in life, there couldn’t only be good news.

“However, perhaps to raise the fixed probability value, the chance of getting SSS-rank has also been eliminated.”

“I see.”

“Yes, and there’s one more important point.”

“What is it?”

“Due to the burden on the causality fixation system, ship-class units cannot appear, only superhumans.”

“…Hmm.”

In summary, while it’s called returnee support,

It was essentially no different from a “beginner support starter.”

‘The user has been deceived, deceived again…’

Still, unlike the real beginner support (D~SSS), the fact that the minimum rank was B-rank gave a small sense of relief.

Of course, if it were another user, they might have gone berserk at their adjutant just for the fact that SSS-rank wasn’t available.

“I’m sorry, Commander…”

“It’s not your fault, don’t worry about it.”

“C-Commander…!”

Frankly speaking, this was a system issue, not an adjutant issue.

And unlike others, I was really in an “it is what it is” state of mind.

That’s because when I first started this game,

Despite “rerolling” 150 times to start with a good character on my account,

During those 150 times, I had never once seen an SSS-rank from the beginner’s free gacha.

‘Haha, better to not have something I won’t get anyway.’

Rather than having an unattainable SSS-rank, it was better that D and C ranks were gone.

Besides, in the current situation…

That is, in a situation where we had nothing for defense except one patrol ship and a few base defense batteries,

Any B-rank or above would do, so I took a deep breath and then:

“Calming my heart… with gratitude… now!”

I immediately pressed the console button to activate the multi-dimensional fixed whatever and start the gacha.

And as the gacha system began to spin, Jessica beside me acted as if she were the one rolling:

“Look at that, Commander! It seems like new personnel will be joining the fleet soon!”

“Hmm.”

She showed an energetic voice and wiggled her large rabbit ears back and forth beside me.

But unlike Jessica’s excitement,

My eyes, watching the light emanating from the spinning gacha, were getting visibly disappointed in real-time.

‘Ah, this is at best going to be an A or B rank.’

That kind of “not so brilliant” light was the hallmark of lower ranks.

I was trying to guess the rank from that subtle light color and was about to instruct Jessica to build additional patrol ships.

But just as I was about to open my mouth to Jessica with that thought:

-Guuuuu…weeeeeng!!

“Wow, wow!”

“?!”

Suddenly, the form of light flowing from inside the gacha machine changed, and eventually, very brilliant and bright clusters of light began to pour down sparkling.

Seeing the appearance of light that seemed to express “I’m high-ranked” with its whole body, Jessica beside me was so excited that she was literally jumping up and down.

“Look at that! It’s definitely a good rank!”

“Ohhh.”

Feeling that excitement was no different for me either.

Jessica and I waited with pounding hearts for the gacha’s causality fixation to complete.

And how long did we wait?

It felt like only about 10 seconds had passed when the fierce light of the gacha machine gradually weakened.

Parting the clusters of light inside the gacha machine, someone finally revealed themselves:

With passionate red long hair that seemed to burn like flames,

Wearing a special combat uniform that looked easy to move in, with an energy blade on each hip, a woman appeared.

As the clusters of light surrounding her disappeared,

She approached me and saluted with a confident yet respectful attitude, saying:

“Pleased to meet you, Commander!”

“Hmm.”

“My name is Ignis, and I’ll do my best for you and the fleet from now on!”

“Yes, nice to meet you.”

After the woman who identified herself as “Ignis” finished her self-introduction,

Jessica, who was beside me, also nodded her head with a very welcoming face and greeted Ignis.

“Nice to meet you, Ignis! I’m Jessica, the Commander’s adjutant!”

“Nice to meet you too, Jessica.”

To think our first gacha would bring us such a well-rounded character without any rough edges.

I smiled gently watching Ignis exchanging greetings with Jessica.

But contrary to my outward appearance, I was feeling somewhat disappointed inside.

Of course, it wasn’t because the performance of this “Ignis” character was inferior for an SS-rank.

Rather, her performance itself was considered beyond SS-rank, and with the right setup, she could even surpass SSS-rank.

She was known as the “F2P player’s salvation.”

But despite that, there was a reason for my inner disappointment:

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<Ignis>

<Level 1>

<Type: Anti-Personnel Close Combat>

<Characteristic: Dual Wielding>

<Stats>

Health: A+

Attack Power: SS+

Physical Defense: A-

Magic Power: B

Magic Defense: B-

Mobility: S+

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It was because Ignis was thoroughly an “anti-personnel” combat character.