Ch.518″He is no saint either.”

Meanwhile, separate from the Date Palm Clan who had illegally occupied B554, I decided to hold the other outpost village chiefs involved in this incident accountable.

To be precise, since I had already made the preemptive offer of “I’ll be lenient if you surrender!”, I wasn’t going to beat them up like the Date Palm Clan.

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<Central Zone Neutral Territory Chat Room>

<Notice: Planning to replace outpost village chiefs>

-[Everyone knows, right?](Icarus)

-[It’s time for purging]

-[Oh]

-[Yeah…]

-[They did something stupid, so it can’t be helped]

-[I acknowledge it]

-[OK…]

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Since they had genuinely fallen for what the Central Outpost Federation friends said, I just removed them from their village chief positions.

And since they also learned what price the Date Palm Clan paid for choosing such a crazy course of action…

Unlike that clan, things went much more smoothly.

“That’s fortunate, at least they’re not resisting like those others.”

“I know, it could have been really troublesome.”

Of course, “troublesome” wasn’t synonymous with “difficult” here.

“It would be hard for you to keep hitting the mercenary hire button over and over again.”

“Huh? I put a sewing machine there for that.”

“The mercenary dispatch manager removed it, saying not to put such things there.”

“Darn.”

Though a sad story briefly emerged during that process, anyway, the important thing was something else.

While I wasn’t chasing them out in that manner, I had undocked all the bases of the users who had been docked there, including the village chiefs.

This meant new users and village chief appointments were needed for the vacant positions.

And I wasn’t the only one who felt this necessity; other users felt the same way, so dozens of chat messages asking to be made village chiefs started flying in, but…

‘No, I’ve already decided.’

I ignored most of those chat messages and decided to implement the plan I had in mind for the outpost personnel and village chief appointments.

And so, the next day…

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<Central Zone Neutral Territory Chat Room>

<Notice: New village chiefs have been selected>

-[Oh, the village chiefs have been replaced]

-[Barracuda and Spiralis had most of their members replaced…]

-[No, Barracuda only had the village chief and that clan’s members replaced]

-[Anyway, they were replaced]

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Title: Icarus Kingdom Village Chief Positions Filled Within a Day

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Selection notice filled with new user nicknames.jpg]

The kingdom citizens will handle the details

I’ll just give a brief summary

Users who were confirmed to be or confessed to being connected with external forces were expelled from the outposts

So what happened?

As written there, Barracuda was taken by Vermut from the Ersangs Clan

Spiralis was interestingly taken by a user named Wiridi who came as a representative of the Biomass Clan

The remaining Level 1 outposts were also replaced

However, Avalon and Arclight remained the same

More precisely, Venom, the village chief of Avalon, tried to escape saying it was too troublesome

But exactly 13 minutes after becoming a free citizen, he was forced back into the village chief position by the overwhelming votes of the docked users

Comments

-[This year, this month, this day, Village Chief Venom requested resignation but it was not granted]

-[I heard that guy was the one who leaked information about this incident to Icarus]

-˪[Why would you throw away a competent unpaid slave? lol]

-[This is the village chief you chose, endure it with grit and determination]

-˪[He didn’t choose it himself lololol]

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As the gallery post said, after I drove out all the users who tried to stage a coup to the settlement villages…

I decided to hand over Barracuda to Vermut of Ersangs, whom I had known for a while.

And Spiralis to Wiridi, the representative of the former Biomass Clan users who had defected from the Loki Clan.

And the remaining Level 1 outposts were also handed over to other users who accepted my measures.

Both clans and the new users all expressed satisfaction with my choices.

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After some time passed, the chaos in my territory calmed down.

The two clans that had newly settled in, namely “Ersangs” and “New Biomass,” began to show signs of adapting and living well in their own way.

However, the way these two clans “adapted” was quite different from what I and the general users had expected.

In the case of Ersangs at Barracuda…

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Title: Why is Barracuda Becoming More Like a Guild?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of Ersangs Clan permanently opening an “Ero-sangs Market” at Barracuda.jpg]

You all know Icarus handed over Barracuda to the Ersangs Clan

And Ersangs doesn’t give a damn about fleet battles or whatever, they’ve set up their own marketplace inside

And with other regular users who were docked there joining in, or crafting-oriented users sticking around

It basically reminds me of a medieval guild

Comments

-[Artisan guild, this is actually delicious]

-[So if I go there, I can get awesome artifacts and stuff?]

-˪[Due to balance issues, mostly crappy items come out, I heard]

-[But since they sell everything in the trading market anyway, there’s no real need to go there]

-˪[What kind of crap is this?]

-˪[The system handles delivery automatically]

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In this way, acting as if they were some kind of artisan guild, they maintained just enough military power with ships and superhumans for self-defense.

The rest of their resources and mental energy were devoted to creating various items like this.

Or as seen during the Ero-sangs competition, they were showing efforts to create ERO-skins.

Of course, since it was well-known that the Ersangs Clan itself had always had such tendencies, other users accepted it as expected, but…

In the case of the New Biomass Clan at Spiralis…

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Title: I Docked at Spiralis but Why is it Like This?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Gif of massive blood vessels and tentacles extending from the docking area, not particularly hostile but constantly trying to spread to users’ bases]

Please, I really don’t like this kind of thing

Comments

-[It was always a research-oriented place, and now it’s been taken over by Biomass, which belongs to the monster faction]

-[The clan leader Wiridi is probably messing with things trying to turn the entire base into a living organism like a monster]

-[That seems to be the default setting, but if you say you don’t like it in chat, it goes back to normal]

-˪[Oh really? Thanks](Author)

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Title: New Biomass Clan Seems to be Trying Something on Their Own Like Ersangs

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a marketplace writhing with slimy mucus and tentacles.jpg], [Chat of Wiridi and New Biomass Clan executives declaring they will create a “Tentacle Market”.jpg]

When asked what that is

They said it’s a tentacle market utilizing the body modification system

Yeah

Besides monster-like modifications, they also sell superhuman enhancements based on user big data

And ship modification kits too, so it might not be bad to drop by when you have time

[Image of a woman buying bundles of tentacles that look like peni5es.jpg]

And of course they buy and sell things like that too

Comments

-[What’s that last one?]

-[Tentacles!!]

-[Body modification? What exactly are they doing?]

-˪[They don’t just add tentacles, they can turn furries into humans too](Author)

-˪[Is there no reverse option?]

-˪[What?]

-[They call it a tentacle market, but it’s actually an appearance change skin market]

-˪[They improve performance too]

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“It’s good to see everyone adapting well.”

“Yes, though that last part seems a bit strange.”

They had “adapted too well” in a different sense.

It was giving viewers an indescribably bizarre feeling.