A Fame Increase Bug?
Return to the control room from the ground.
Everyone's faces were beaming with joy; they had finally made it through the ordeal.
Captain Boren was immediately reporting the current battle results to Major Kaya, the deputy commander on the Ship S27.
"Captain Boren, the achievements of your A73 are truly outstanding!"
"Since the other Central Army are moving at roughly the same speed as yours, it is temporarily impossible to allocate other ships to take over your ship's subsequent missions or provide reinforcements."
"Given your ship's current situation, please continue the attack on the next coordinates along this route."
Major Kaya's face remained expressionless in the projection, but his words were completely unexpected.
In an instant, the officers' excitement and joy vanished!
After exchanging bewildered glances, a surge of anger welled up within them.
Major Kaya's words sounded like he was treating their ship like a sucker, showing them absolutely no respect or consideration.
Their Ship A73 fought desperately and made huge sacrifices to advance to coordinates E24 as soon as possible in order to complete this punitive and arduous task quickly and retreat to other easier and safer routes and locations.
Now, the commander-in-chief actually thinks they have the propulsion capability, so he's just letting them continue advancing without a second thought?
They completely disregard their lives!
Captain Boren's expression immediately turned serious, and he said angrily in a deep voice.
"Commander Kaya! You can't do this!"
"At the conference, Lieutenant Colonel Weiss said that if we made it halfway, our Ship A73 would be considered to have passed the test."
"Our ships now have an overall casualty rate exceeding 60%, barely managing to advance to E24. We no longer have the combat capability to continue!"
"You can't drive our ship to the brink of destruction!"
"Captain Boren! Follow orders!"
"Do I need to issue a military order as a special mission?"
Perhaps not expecting A73 to dare to object, Major Kaya's expression immediately darkened in the footage, showing great impatience with Captain Boren's attitude.
Hearing that the other party was using military orders to pressure him, and knowing that he couldn't fight against the powerful, Captain Boren finally softened his attitude again.
"No need!"
"We'll continue, but regarding the mission deadline... could you...?"
Originally, because it was a disciplinary arrangement by Lieutenant Colonel Weiss, there was a specific deadline for completing the task.
Considering that even if we stop advancing in the middle section, we may still face a counterattack from the opponent.
Therefore, even though the mission was not yet scheduled for completion, Captain Boren reported to the head office as soon as he finished the mission.
The goal was to be transferred away as soon as possible to reduce the danger, but who knew that this offensive route would now be a real disaster for them.
Keep in mind that this is only the middle stage; the real challenge lies in the core area, where the difficulty of the mission will increase dramatically.
Even the opposing "former Quasi-Hegemon" might show up directly. If we continue our attack in such a hurry, the danger of true annihilation could strike at any moment.
Major Kaya, upon hearing Captain Boren's probing, curled his lip in displeasure.
After a long while, he shook his head slightly, his face showing that their Civilization Army was indeed unreliable.
You are allowed to arrange your own time.
"But one thing is certain: the coordinates already captured before E24 must not be lost!"
In fact, Major Kaya's attitude in today's notification was not Lieutenant Colonel Weiss's original intention.
After anticipating the progress of A73's operations, Lieutenant Colonel Weiss planned to keep A73 on standby.
The plan is to wait until the other Central Army have completed pushing all the coordinates of the central section before arranging other warships to take over and rotate.
However, this meaning only became what it is today—a form of pressure—after it reached Major Kaya's mouth and especially after Captain Isos's secret communication with him.
"Whew!"
Everyone present breathed a sigh of relief; after all, they had been given a way out and weren't forced to fight to the bitter end.
Captain Boren slammed his fist on the table only after the call ended.
The pent-up anger in his heart finally erupted at this moment.
"I knew those Central Army bastards were up to no good and didn't take our Civilization Army seriously at all!"
"He's unpredictable! What a fucking idiot...!"
Everyone on board was immediately filled with righteous indignation and joined in the cursing.
"Captain! Thank goodness you had the foresight not to reveal the 'bomb'."
"Otherwise, it's really hard to say who would go and scout this route!"
Captain Cohen's words immediately resonated with everyone.
Even Lister wholeheartedly agreed.
He has now discovered one of the greatest strengths of A73 – unity.
Especially in today's high-pressure environment of being dependent on others, even if its overall strength is not as strong as other warships, it has the advantage of internal unity and does not have so many personal ulterior motives.
In contrast, the Central Army... indeed, both the internal struggles and the current way of commanding the fleet have caused Lister's impression of the Central Army to decline further and further.
After a heated argument, the group finally decided to stay put at coordinate point E24.
Even if you gain more military merits the deeper you go, life is still more important.
After making the arrangements, Lister took advantage of his free time to reopen the system panel.
A series of server-wide announcements followed.
System Notification: The fourth act of the Expansion has ended. The game "Divine Revelation" will soon undergo maintenance. The fifth act will be available in three days! Please stay tuned...
"Notice: Players will be forcibly logged out soon! Countdown: 60, 59, 58..."
"Notice: Auction House service is now closed, player chat is disabled,..."
Notification: Congratulations on completing the Main Quest "Exploration of the Alchemy Civilization," you have gained 3 million experience points, 5 free attribute points, and 30,000 gold coins.
[Remaining Experience Points: 33.9 billion]
It still depends on the number of retail investors increasing; Lister's experience points have now reached a new high.
Now all that's left is for him to complete his Third Advancement, at which point he can make another significant leap forward.
"... Current reputation: 1379/50000."
Despite such a long period of fighting, my reputation points only increased by a little over a thousand.
Lister now has a new understanding of the key to completing these Third Advancement tasks.
It is not enough for an individual life form to intimidate a civilization to gain fame; that life form must have a certain status and power within its own civilization.
Furthermore, there's something rather strange Lister this reputation quest; it seems there's some additional bug affecting its reputation progression?
Congratulations, your reputation has increased by 109 points.
As he was pondering this, the strange situation repeated itself once again: the reputation points required for the mission unexpectedly surged once more.
This is the fourth time. When he carries out federal missions, the reputation he gains from each battle is not much, usually only a few or a dozen points.
But this sudden rise in fame is somewhat unusual.
It usually starts at 100 points, with the highest reaching 249 points.
It can be said that 70% of the total 1,000 reputation points gained were not Lister himself through defeating enemies during the Federation's conscription.
Or is it an unexpected upgrade, like a system bug, or is someone else promoting Lister's Merrick Civilization through other channels?
Lister hasn't figured these things out yet. After all, the current communication signals are blocked, making it difficult to obtain information from the Galactic Federation and gain any confirmation.
Fortunately, this bug, or perhaps another channel, is a good thing for him, and he's not in a hurry to figure out the situation.
More than half a month later, A73 was still on patrol at coordinate E24.
During this period, the Silver Mutual Aid Society launched two probing attacks by cruisers, but both were successfully repelled.
There were no further full-scale clashes, and the combat on the ship immediately subsided.
Today, however, Lister received another urgent summons from the captain, as if something major had happened.
Within minutes, the eleventh person in charge of the ship's core operations was in place in the control room.
Captain Boren's expression was somewhat complicated. Once everyone had arrived, he made the announcement.
"Gentlemen, new orders have been issued from the S27 command ship."
"Our Line 3 will soon be taken over by the Central Army."
"Captain! Where are we going?"
The group didn't get too excited yet, after all, Captain Boren's voice was muffled and his expression didn't look like something good had happened.
"Let's stay here."
"The next offensive mission will be led by the small destroyer S-D15, with our warship A73 providing support."
Instantly, everyone's expression turned grim.
Logically, the Central Army had originally promised reinforcements or replacements.
If reinforcements are to be sent now, theoretically their Ship A73 should continue to lead the attack.
Even if it's just nominal leadership, their Civilization Army's warships could never truly command the Central Army.
But who would have thought that even the title would be stripped away, and the routes and achievements they had painstakingly built up suddenly became actual appendages!
Before anyone could ask any more questions, Captain Boren delivered another piece of bad news.
"Everyone, get ready, especially you, Lister."
"This destroyer, D15, is the same warship where Captain Titus used to serve."