Ch.559The World Once Again into Flames. (2)

-Crunch crunch crunch gulp

-Ahhhh slurp yeah

‘Huh, so this is why kids always shout to bring popcorn.’

As I munch on delicious butter caramel popcorn with sweet cola, watching the gallery burn for various reasons for several days now.

I suddenly understood why people from my past life who enjoyed community drama, or the dopamine-addicted folks here, always shouted for popcorn.

‘They say watching a fire is the best entertainment as long as you’re not involved.’

And for good reason, just look at the current state of the gallery.

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Title: What the hell are our top clans doing?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of “Asparagus” clan with 2,000 members being attacked by “Dragon Knight” clan with 3,500 members and “Vinyl” clan with 1,000 members]

Help us

Is it fair for 3,500 members to team up with a measly 1,000 to attack a 2,000-member clan?

Comments:

-[That’s politics for you]

-[LOLOLOLOLOLOL]

-[If you manage to hold out against these odds, you’ll go down in history]

-˪[How the hell are we supposed to hold out when they outnumber us by more than 2x?](Author)

-˪[That’s exactly why you’ll go down in history lol]

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Title: Look how they backstab you after you help them during events

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a mid-sized clan simultaneously invading multiple small clans]

You bastards

You’ll definitely fall too

Scumbags

Comments:

-[What happened? What’s going on?]

-˪[These bastards used us small clans to block the Vanguard and Grand Cross fleets during the event, but now that the event’s over and they’ve recovered, they’re attacking us](Author)

-˪[Are you serious?]

-[Backstabbing like that will come back to bite them too]

-[Can’t believe some people actually do this]

-[Instead of posting on the gallery, go knock on other clans’ doors right now]

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Title: Today’s News) Clan warfare is accelerating rapidly

Author: News Boy

Content: [Image of the entire universe burning]

Just today, 30 clans have already been absorbed or conquered by other clans

12 clans have entered a state of war

11 new clans have been formed

Comments:

-[What are these new clans?]

-˪[Probably referring to rebels from existing clans]

-˪[Besides that, there are also solo players who banded together to form new clans after being invaded by existing clans]

-[What a mess, what a complete mess]

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‘Hmm, what a disaster.’

From all directions, news about who crushed whom.

Which clan merged with another, or conversely, which clan split apart due to internal conflict.

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Title: Real-time cell division of what used to be a clan

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of “Howling” clan splitting into “Howling,” “Real Howling,” “Howlings,” and “Mega Howling”]

The clan leader, deputy leader, and executives fought among themselves

So they split up following their respective leaders

Comments:

-[The highlight is that the Howling clan leader was kicked out and created the “Real Howling” clan]

-˪[Wait, so there’s a Howling clan without the Howling clan leader?]

-˪[LOLOLOL what?]

-[A clan where the leader, deputy, and all executives got purged]

-˪[They’re having a full-on revolution]

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There were even clans literally dividing like cells.

Complete chaos was unfolding everywhere, filling gallery viewers and people across the universe with dopamine.

And watching all this, I was busy consuming butter-caramel popcorn and cola, a blood sugar +500% doping food combo.

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Meanwhile, at the same time.

Naturally, such continuous chaos meant that “mercenaries” were in extremely high demand.

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<Tannhäuser Mercenary Network Official Chat Room>

<Notice: Let’s make some money>

-[LOLOLOLOL]

-[I’m making more money as a mercenary than from resource mining and docking at bases]

-[Well, there’s chaos everywhere lol]

-[No joke, there are more requests for mercenaries than there are mercenary users lol]

-[Jackpoooooot]

-[This is unprecedented!]

-[Finally, our time has come]

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Not just other mercenary communities, but the “Tannhäuser mercenary users” within Icarus’s territory were also screaming with joy at this unexpected boom.

Moreover, Tannhäuser’s mercenaries were receiving particularly favorable treatment compared to other mercenary users.

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Title: Recommend hiring Tannhäuser gentlemen if you need mercenary users

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image showing “point conversion” of fleets brought by Tannhäuser mercenary users]

While mercenary users are generally seeing their value skyrocket

Tannhäuser mercenaries are a bit more expensive, but they bring more firepower than other mercenaries

The reason for this is

Tannhäuser is a level 7 base with solid defenses, and mercenaries get double protection from both the mercenary agency and Icarus

Unlike mercenaries who dock at level 5 or lower bases or operate “independently” and must leave part of their fleet for defense

They bring all their fleets except those used for resource mining

Plus, unlike those who immediately run when their base gets raided, they have strong backing as mentioned above

So they run less often

Of course, they don’t stay until their entire fleet gets wiped out, but that’s something you expect when hiring any mercenary user, right?

Comments:

-[Are they like Swiss mercenaries?]

-[Hmm]

-[This is viral marketing]

-˪[No it’s not, damn it](Author)

-[So you’re saying pay a bit more for relatively more firepower and relatively less flaky users?]

-˪[When you put it that way, it sounds both good and underwhelming]

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In short, they were regarded as a sort of “Swiss Guard” among mercenaries.

Of course, there were other users docked at level 7 or even higher level 8-9 bases besides Tannhäuser’s mercenary users.

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Title: The reason Tannhäuser is highly rated is simple

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of Leviathan Squadron patrolling inside Icarus’s territory]

There are users docked at other bases too

But why are they specifically highly rated?

It’s because of that Leviathan Squadron

Other bases might fall if enough users swarm them

But there? Try to siege that place?

The Leviathan Squadron will grind user fleets to dust while saying “Come at me”

Remember, the Leviathan Squadron escaped even when Humanity mobilized their main force of 150,000 users + mercenary corps + base mercenaries + faction delegations to surround them

Comments:

-[For real lol]

-[Plus there’s an Earth Federation provisional government near Tannhäuser, so they patrol around on their own even without Icarus paying attention]

-˪[What is that, an automatic security system?]

-˪[Yep]

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Unlike mercenaries from other bases, they had very “definite” protection measures.

As a result, the stability of these mercenary corps was remarkably high.

From the perspective of clans hiring mercenaries, this was viewed quite favorably in many ways.

Of course, normally they might negotiate saying “that’s a bit expensive” or lose out to cheaper mercenary users.

But fortunately, since these were truly “chaotic times,”

Our Tannhäuser friends could enjoy their prosperous era without hesitation.