Ch.580Alcazar’s Austria. (1)

A few days after accepting a request from the Magellan Clan and returning in glory after crushing the clan of troublemakers…

“Complete submersion in 3…2…1…submersion initiated!”

“Commander, Neranjara is just passing through Daedalus’s outer barrier.”

“Wow, this actually works.”

I was testing Neranjara’s enhanced submersion function that I had upgraded during the last event, lost in thought about how best to utilize this capability.

Fortunately, this was the kind of thinking I didn’t have to do alone.

“Now that Neranjara has acquired complete submersion capability, I’m wondering how we should use it.”

“It’s no exaggeration to say the possibilities are endless, Commander.”

“Berial’s right. What ship could possibly withstand Neranjara slipping in while fully submerged and launching torpedoes at their power source or command center?”

“Oooooh…!”

Berial and Decarabia immediately started thinking along these lines.

Even Griyanar, whom I’d brought in to boost creativity(?), was chattering away and suggesting all sorts of innovative methods.

Seeing how a problem that couldn’t be solved by one person’s mind was naturally being resolved, I felt immense satisfaction.

I became convinced that I could leave the operation of Neranjara to the superhumans.

And after resolving the Neranjara issue this way, I realized a very important problem.

And what was that…

“Commander~”

“Excuse me, but could we talk right now?”

“Lepan and Aquarias? What’s this about?”

“May I ask when you’re planning to hire the garrison mercenary corps for Daedalus? If you’re going to hire them, we’d like to prepare a welcome ceremony.”

“…Oh.”

Despite having been docked at this Daedalus Research Fortress for over a month and approaching two months, despite doing all sorts of things and even carrying out modification work…

Unlike the other bases where we had docked before, I realized I still hadn’t hired a “garrison mercenary corps” for Daedalus.

‘Come to think of it, didn’t Jessica also ask me recently when I was going to hire the garrison mercenary corps?’

So I had nothing particular to do anyway.

There were no mercenary requests, and none of those unpredictable trolls were around.

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<Holy Hourglass Empire Official Chat Room>

<Notice: Contact Icarus when entering the territory>

-[Let’s take time today to praise His Majesty as always]

-[A-men]

-[A-men]

-[Go!!!]

-[Look at those wicked imperialists, how dare they when our President is still alive!]

-[This is the time for us republicans to gather and overthrow those evil classists!]

-[Right!]

-[Wooooo!]

-[Tsk tsk tsk]

-[Look at these egalitarians (laughter) who can’t see the flow of history]

-[Only the true Emperor will lead us, you misguided ones]

-[Why are these guys so committed to their roles]

-[Because it’s fun lol]

-[For real lol]

-[Ang gimoring]

-[Wooooo!]

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‘Haha, same as always.’

Fortunately, the users of this “Hourglass Territory” were just bickering at their usual level, spouting their strange nonsense among themselves.

Reassured by this sight, I nodded and immediately began preparations to hire a “garrison mercenary corps” for Daedalus.

Of course, when I say preparations, all I really had to do was click a button.

But putting aside such trivial matters, let’s press the hire menu for our Daedalus Fortress…

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<Daedalus Research Fortress Garrison Mercenary Corps Hiring Menu>

<Fleet composition when hiring mercenary corps is as follows:>

<Base level x 200 points>

<Current base level: 9>

<The mercenary corps fleet will be matched to ‘1,800 points’.>

<Commander: ???>

<A random assignment will be made when you hire the mercenary corps.>

<Note that the mercenary corps commander may or may not be a superhuman.>

… … … … … …

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‘Wait, why is it 200 points per level now?’

The garrison mercenary corps menu, which used to give only 100 points per level at Tannhäuser, had surprisingly changed to 200 points per level at Daedalus.

Of course, when I see information different from what I knew, the proper response as a true user was to suspect a bug and search the wiki tab rather than thinking “wow, awesome!”

So as soon as I saw that content, I immediately opened the gallery’s wiki tab and started a quick search.

And since the search function had apparently been improved by the management team, the search results popped up faster than expected…

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Title: Garrison Mercenary Corps Points Per Level Changes from Base Level 8 and Above

Author: Wiki Historian mk-15

Content: [Image of level 8 base garrison mercenary corps points changing to 200.jpg]

Don’t know why but

it is what it is

From level 8 bases, garrison mercenary corps hiring gives 200 points per level instead of 100

Of course, the hiring cost increases in return

but if you’re whining about mercenary corps costs while having a level 8+ base, you should cut off your dick

Comments:

-[So you’re saying if you complain about mercenary corps costs at level 8+, you’ll become a TS cute girl?]

-˪[Wow, I never thought of interpreting it that way](Author)

-[I’m a military-experienced high school girl~]

-[Wawawawa]

-[I want to cut mine off too]

-˪[Get lost](Author)

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‘I see, perfectly understood.’

So basically, things change from level 8 onward, and it wasn’t a bug or a strange misunderstanding.

“Let’s see… Jessica, from level 8, do garrison mercenary corps stop including escort ships and below?”

“No, I believe it’s from level 6 or 7 that patrol ships stop appearing.”

“Hmm, was that it…”

Speaking in a manner reminiscent of a green cat-like character, and having confirmed there was no problem,

With a considerably lightened heart, I decided to hire the Daedalus garrison mercenary corps right away.

And as I pressed Y to proceed with the hiring—in other words, as the gacha dice started rolling—Jessica and I were making various bets about what might appear.

“Jessi-Jessi, I wonder what we’ll get.”

“Probably something ordinary, or maybe something a bit eccentric like Nero or Bendalof who appeared recently?”

“…”

“Honestly, Commander, you seem to have a talent for attracting the unusual in these matters.”

From my experience hiring garrison mercenary corps several times, there was something strangely consistent about the composition of the mercenary corps I hired…

“N-no, that can’t be.”

“Honestly, it’s true, isn’t it? Except for Aquarias, all the other mercenary corps are a bit unhinged.”

“Ugh.”

“Mr. Bendalof specializes in surprise assaults with his assault team, Nero mindlessly charges forward to infect enemy ships, and Commander Lepan only has large ships.”

“…”

“And even Aquarias’s security fleet was mostly small ships, so the probability is high that this one will be similar.”

As Jessica mercilessly attacked with facts,

While waiting for the random hiring process to complete, I couldn’t help but wonder if I’d get another fleet dominated by small ships.

If that happened, what would be the point of my carefully balanced fleet of few large ships and many small ships? I was starting to feel inexplicably depressed.

But just as I was thinking this, the message that the hiring was complete finally appeared.

And when I saw that a fleet had emerged that was considerably better than expected—in fact, stronger than my main fleet—I had to experience a very peculiar feeling.