A Pricey Invasion to Settle Old Debts!!!

Station invasions in Galaxy Express came with brutally strict deployment limits.

Thirty attack parties.

Thirty defense parties.

Normally, a player could deploy only a single party.

Normally, that is.

"When I invaded Mallang-i’s station earlier, didn’t you all think the same thing I did? This is way too easy, right? Honestly, they call it a three-round fight, but in reality the travel time took longer than anything else, didn’t it?"

- LMAO, he’s totally desecrating Mallang-i’s corpse

- Yeah, fair

- The deployment phase took longer, honestly lol

- He’s not wrong

"So! Just like I said a moment ago! We’re not going to have our whole clan attack Lilith’s station—I’m going to try taking it on alone!!!"

"Of course! If the defense team can’t protect the core, they lose. On the flip side, even if the attack team throws in thirty parties, it means nothing if they can’t actually damage the enemy core."

- For once she didn’t say balls lol

- Honestly, with the host’s party strength, she can just smash through everything

- If the Fortress and Supply Base buffs stack, it’s basically invincible

- As long as she cracks the core within six rounds, it’s an instant win.

"But even if I’m the kind of person who has three characters tied for number one in combat power, there’s no way I can win this invasion with just one party."

Ripping through Mallang-i’s station like it was a bowl of cold soup had only been possible because I had fourteen clan members with me.

Because they had shattered the Fortress and Supply Base that gave the defense team such insane buffs, I’d been able to steamroll Mallang-i’s party and wreck the core without breaking a sweat.

"So! Here, I’ll be using this item!"

"Did you all know this? If you use a Multi-Deployment Ticket, you can deploy up to three parties!"

- Bro, who even buys this stuff lol

- Station invasions are for deranged whales...

- Don’t you have to buy two more tickets if you want to field three parties?

- I thought it was 20,000 won, but now you have to pay 50,000 for one run;;;

"Still, there’s one very disappointing point: even if you use a Multi-Deployment Ticket, the overall thirty-party limit on the attack side doesn’t go away."

Really? If the defense side bought Multi-Deployment Tickets too, wouldn’t that just keep the balance intact?

"Anyway! I’m planning to use three parties like this!"

Party 1

【Cere】【Brünnhilde】【Iines】【Renako】

- Aren’t Cere and Iines both top-tier in combat power?

- Four five-stars?

- How much investment is even in this party???

- Full dupes, full dupes, zero dupes, full dupes—insane;;

- Why the hell are two standard units fully maxed out?

Iines wasn’t a gacha character, so even if I wanted to break her limit, I couldn’t.

For now, this first party was my strongest one. It felt like pure slaughter, the kind where the enemy never even got a turn.

Party 2

【Omega】【Meiling】【Saren】【HaeunRich】

- Wow, this party is legendary too

- Is there even any way to stop this?

- Party 1 was already absurd, and now Party 2 is legendary too?

- Full dupe, full dupe, four-star, full dupe? That’s too much, lol

Party 2 revolved around HaeunRich’s absurd area damage.

With Saren in the lineup, she could charge the ultimate gauge to 100% fast, so this party was going to be monstrously strong!

Party 3

【Irel】【Hong Seolhwa】【Modreda】【Rina】

- Why are all your standard units fully maxed out, host? Why are all your standard units fully maxed out, host?

- This guy’s even got Modreda at six dupes like it’s nothing;

- What the hell, is this a cheat account? lol

- Look at that—both the four-star they had to include for synergy and the five-stars are all fully maxed out

Party 3 was a setup that maximized Hong Seolhwa’s brutal single-target damage by pairing her with Modreda’s defense-down debuff.

Rina was only a four-star, but she still packed enough firepower to wrap the enemy up and serve them steaming hot.

"What do you think, everyone? With these three parties, maybe—just maybe—we can smash Lilith’s station if we cut it a little close!!"

The chat, as expected, was blazing hot.

Heh heh heh, of course they’d notice! I’d maxed out every standard unit I could get my hands on and thrown money around in a completely unhinged way!

Ahhh...! Praise me a little more!

Recognize the value of the account I’ve poured money into!

Don’t talk to me coldly like some emotionless number-one combat power shown by the system—look at me with envy and dote on me instead!

- It’s basically the imaginary Galaxy Train itself lol

- Is Omega good? Is Omega good? Is Omega good?

- At this point you could just toss the yogurt lid without licking it and move on

- Holy shit, Galaxy Train sounds insanely fun lololol

─ Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

"Wha—! J-jesus, you startled me!"

I had been watching the chat with my chin resting on both hands, rubbing my thighs together in delight, when a Discord call suddenly came in.

The caller was, of course, the VTuber Lilith.

"Labellehar-nyang!!! Don’t make this into a dark history, nyang!!"

"There’s no way I’ll lose, so how could it become dark history?"

─ click!

"You can’t beat us alone, nyang!"

"You’re insane...! You bought tickets? Isn’t one of those worth ten pulls?!"

Lilith was so shocked that her persona cracked right open.

- LMAO

- Hey! Keep the RP! Keep the RP!

- Of course you’d be shocked if somebody burned 50,000 won in a single game lol

"D-don’t do such meaningless things, nyang!!"

"It’s fine! I’ll finish this quickly!"

I quickly deployed all three parties.

"Huh, huh...? Why is it so fast, nyaaang...?"

『This is what it means to cut down heaven and earth itself.』

『You need no trickery or clever stratagems to win a fight. Just prepare enough, and win as a matter of course.』

- LOL

- The Fortress got cut down the second Round 1 started lol

- What, they took the Supply Base too?

- This is too funny lol

"D-don’t do this, nyang! Ar-nyang! If you give up the invasion now, it’ll look like I convinced you to retreat!"

"No way! How could it possibly look like that? Wouldn’t it just look like I got scared and ran away? I can’t have that!"

"The clan member stationed in the A Fortress was the highest-ranked player in our clan, nyaaang!!!"

- Yep~ impossible to stop lol

- How the hell are you supposed to stop someone inside a Fortress?

- Wait, does Modreda’s defense-down debuff also pierce damage reduction?

"Ah! Right! Since some of you might be curious, I’ll explain! If you fully dupe Modreda, she can inflict a debuff that makes party members deal 100% more damage to the target!"

Thanks to that, the Fortress’s powerful defense buff meant absolutely nothing before my fully maxed Modreda.

The only small downside was that you had to use both her ultimate and her combat skill before the increased damage debuff reached 100%, but honestly, that barely mattered when your damage dealer was strong enough.

"There’s no way our clan is this weak, nyang! There’s no way we’d all lose to just one Ar-nyang!"

"That’s right! It’s not that Lilith’s clan is weak! I’m just a little stronger!"

"Nooo!!! It’s not even like you beat one of the strongest parties—it’s that you split your characters into three and still crushed us! How does that make sense?!"

Lilith howled in a way that landed with satisfying impact.

Honestly, she had every right to feel wronged. If a station’s level gets high enough, the buffs from defense buildings become so absurd that this kind of tactic stops working...!

But who cares? Right now, I could win! I could beat her with money!

『The whole universe is whispering to me!』

『This is what it means to cut down heaven and earth itself.』

- Wow lol, just hit them and you automatically win

- Wasn’t combat supposed to preserve state after it ended? Why is she always at full HP lol

- She’s not even giving the other side a chance to counterattack, just wiping them out

- With all the Supply Bases blown up, there’s no way they can fully lock this down lol

- Lilith’s gonna explode on stream, isn’t she lol

"Lilith! Do you have any last words before we go?"

"D-don’t say ridiculous things, nyang! The core of this station is being protected by Lilith’s party, nyang!"

"With the Supply Base buff and the level-2 Fortress buff, her HP and defense have both shot up ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠massively, nyang!"

"But... Lilith, do you know something?"

The moment Round 3 began, Party 3 attacked the core Lilith was defending.

"No matter how much your defense goes up, or how much HP you have, it still won’t matter."

"No way, nyang! Right now I’m under a 90% damage reduction buff, nyang!!! And this buff can’t even be cleansed!"

"But Modreda is the kind of character who can keep using her ultimate right up until the servers shut down, because she can lower the opponent’s defense and inflict a debuff that increases the damage they take!"

『This is the curse that will destroy my father!』

"Wha—?! H-huh?! What?! You said this absolutely couldn’t be pierced—Aaaagh!! I lost! I lost, I loooost!!!"

"Hmm-hmm! After all, this is content meant to be done by thirty people working together—"

"What do you mean! You’re just rattling off lines for YouTube because you’re happy by yourself!!! What’s hard about this? You shattered everything on your own!"

"Lilith! Your speech! Your speech is breaking again! Please come back to being a catgirl beauty fast!"

"I—I’m trying to calm down, nyang!!! I even paid for construction tickets to raise the station level!! And I still lost, nyang!! I’m so unfairly angry, nyang!!!!"

- Ah lol, so that side swiped too?

- Damn lol, she must’ve hurried to spend after seeing Mallang-i get wrecked

- But the host is stronger lol

- She got trashed by three parties, not even one, so of course she’s pissed lol

"Ar-nyang!!! I even gave you deck advice and you still went and did this, nyang!!! That’s way too much, way too much, nyang!!!"

Lilith kept shouting about how wronged she was, but thanks to that, my viewer count had climbed over a thousand!

* * *

"Haa... that was seriously a blast."

The broadcast was a total success.

So many people had shown up that it was hard to believe this was my first stream, and the chat stayed warm and lively all the way to the end.

Maybe putting up a schedule had been the right call, because there were even people who said they’d come back tomorrow and threw me ten-thousand-won donations.

"Phew... first I need to ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠shower. My panties are soaked and sticky."

─ Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

The moment I ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠got up from my chair, a call came in from Lilith.

...What? I thought Lilith had ended her stream at about the same time I did?

"Huh...? Was this WWE, not UFC?"

Mallang-i had ended with jokes about balls and being a eunuch, but what about Lilith?

Wasn’t she acting a little wronged, like the money she spent had been wasted?

...But somehow, her energy sounded weirdly cheerful?

Ah, whatever! I couldn’t exactly ignore it! My panties were damp and unpleasant, but I’d shower anyway, so I might as well put up with it and answer now. When something like this comes in, you answer immediately!

"Yeees~ what is it, Lilith?"

I pressed my wet backside into the chair and spoke in my brightest, most cheerful young-lady voice.

Without the slightest idea ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠of what Lilith was about to say next...!