Ch.584I’m Now Rich in Resources! (1)

Perhaps it’s because I hired two new mercenary groups for my base, and one of them has combat power equivalent to three other base mercenary groups combined.

“Commander, about the resource consumption rate of the mercenary groups you hired.”

“Yeah?”

“The Rodos Mercenary Group is consuming about 2,200 minerals and 130 rare resources, right? So I went ahead and calculated the others as well.”

“I guess the others would consume resources too, but why?”

“To get straight to the point, the resources going out daily for all the mercenary groups you’ve hired amount to 200,000 minerals and 45,000 rare resources.”

“Wow…”

As if we weren’t already spending enough resources for various reasons, now there’s an additional 245,000 going out daily.

Hearing that an extra 1,715,000 resources would be spent weekly, I felt quite peculiar about it.

“That’s incredible. Plus, the Daedalus modification work is still ongoing, right?”

“Yes, according to Griyanar and Nero, they’ve finished what they needed to do personally, and the rest is proceeding automatically, so they’re not sure when it will be completed.”

Additionally, another 1,000,000 minerals and 100,000 rare resources for the Daedalus modification work.

“Does the main force have maintenance costs too?”

“It does, and if we add the resources we’re providing to Princess Luca and various other expenses…”

“And that comes to?”

“The weekly expenses now exceed 3,000,000 minerals and 500,000 rare resources.”

Let’s add up everything mentioned above.

Just as Jessica said, the fact is that we’re now spending over 3,500,000 resources weekly just by existing.

“Awesome.”

“Hmmmm.”

Of course, unlike when I only had the Triangle Zone, now I have an additional 10,000 people through the Daedalus area…

“Oh right, Commander, the new people who came to Daedalus this time have exceeded 12,000 in total.”

“Over 12,000 people?”

“Yes, just a little while ago.”

“It’s grown that much already.”

Let me correct myself.

Thanks to the addition of 12,000 docked users at the base, we’re receiving over 15,000,000 resources every week.

Even with 3,500,000 in expenses, unlike before, it was impossible not to feel completely at ease about our financial situation.

And along with that, there were also the resources we obtained through the Magellan Clan’s request not long ago…

“Wait, how many resources do we have right now?”

“After this weekend passes, we’ll have approximately 19,000,000 minerals and 6,100,000 rare resources.”

“Wow!”

Even if we continue spending resources lavishly like this, we’ll end up with resources rotting and overflowing in the base’s storage…

In a way, that’s only natural.

But what’s important right now isn’t “wow, we’re earning a lot of resources,” but the consequences that come with it.

“Hmm, wait, what exactly is our weekly net profit now?”

“Considering all the variable factors, we can expect a fixed income of about 12,000,000 per week going forward.”

“I see…”

“The problem is that our resource storage can barely hold just over 40,000,000.”

That’s right.

In the system, clans have something called a “clan storage.”

Clan storage increases in size proportionally to the number of registered users and the base resource storage capacity. The more registered users, the more exponentially the storage capacity increases.

If I were to create a clan and position myself as the clan leader, and if all the users docked or stationed in my territory were clan members…

Literally tens of… no, considering the base resource storage capacity, it would be hundreds of billions, no joke.

This isn’t an exaggeration. Even in the past Humanity Revolution War, when users’ resource storage was slightly more limited than now…

During the all-out war, they were spending tens of billions of resources daily and still maintained that chaos for weeks to months.

But unfortunately, since I was just an “individual” and not a clan, my resource storage was maintained at a level befitting a “single user.”

“…So after this week, our resource storage will be completely full?”

“That’s right. More precisely, we’ll have exactly as much coming in as going out.”

In other words, if we continue like this, we’ll end up just throwing away the overflowing resources.

I started to seriously consider how to use the resources that would become worthless after just next weekend.

Fortunately, this period of contemplation didn’t last long.

“Commander, why are you suddenly making that contemplative expression and posture?”

“Because we’ll end up throwing away resources as soon as next week comes.”

“I don’t think it’s throwing away, more like we just can’t receive them… hmm, how about selling the resources that can’t be stored in the resource storage on the trading market?”

“Huh? Trading market?”

“Yes, if you sell them on the trading market and convert them to gold, that doesn’t take up resource storage space, right?”

“…That’s right!”

Exactly 3 minutes and 11 seconds after I began contemplating, Jessica casually suggested this brilliant idea.

I decided to adopt Jessica’s plan, saying I really liked it.

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And a little while later.

“It’s been a while since I opened the trading window.”

“It has been quite some time, since you haven’t been buying resources lately to hire mercenaries.”

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<Trading and Auction House Guide>

<To use this system, you need the exclusive currency ‘Gold’>

<This is different from the rare mineral ‘gold’ and can only be used here>

<Commander’s remaining currency: 396,115 Gold>

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“Wait, why do I have so much gold accumulated?”

“Because gold is generated from level 5 and above bases?”

Although I was surprised to see so much gold accumulated in the trading market that I hadn’t accessed for a while.

Gold is something that gets depleted instantly once you start using it in earnest.

So I set aside my interest in that for now and decided to write a resource sale post first, as originally planned.

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<Selling Resources, Buy a Lot>

<Details>

<Box containing 1,000,000 minerals and 150,000 rare resources x1>

<Nothing else, purely resources>

<Contact me if you want to buy multiple, no other inquiries>

<Starting bid: 10,000 Gold>

<Auction limit: 10 bids>

<Sale time limit: 24 hours>

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“This should be enough.”

“I think so? Well, I don’t know the market price, so it’s hard for me to say.”

“It’s okay, I wasn’t asking about the market price.”

After reading the carefully written post one more time.

‘There shouldn’t be any major issues.’

I decided to post five copies of the same content so that different users could pick them up.

At first, I wondered, ‘Isn’t this just spamming?’ but when I searched the gallery with this question in mind, gallery users said:

‘Posting the same thing multiple times in the trading market is like listing multiple products, since you have to press the confirmation button several times before posting anyway lol.’

So I became confident there wouldn’t be any issues and decided to comfortably sell resources on the resource market every week, converting them to gold.

Then, when I needed a lot of resources later, I would use that gold to purchase resources in bulk.

However, even as I was selling these resources, I inwardly felt that this wouldn’t really serve as a gold-making method.

At best, it was just a way to avoid meaninglessly wasting resources that would otherwise be lost, so I was thinking of it as pocket money earning.

Honestly, I was full of thoughts that this wouldn’t work out that well…

But a day after posting like that.

Seeing the trading market notifications ringing like crazy with ding-dong ping-pong sounds, I naturally had to raise a question mark over my head, wondering what on earth was happening again.