I Got a Monster Spaceship from the Tutorial Tower - Chapter 32

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Episode 32
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The operation to dismantle the hive—or rather, to obliterate it—was proceeding smoothly.
It had begun with anvils and hammers at first.
But now the pilots were simply smashing apart the goblin fleet as if wielding hammer against hammer.
From the fractured Space Port, there was no aggressive resistance of the kind Yeon-woo had anticipated.
By now, most of the port’s combat capacity had been expended.
“Should we wrap up the second main phase soon?”
As the campaign entered its final stretch, Yeon-woo considered the timing for deploying the Main Cannon once more—a weapon he’d been holding in reserve.
Both Silver Edge and Hades were drawing near the port vicinity, and complete destruction seemed imminent.
Then.
A notification window suddenly materialized before Yeon-woo’s eyes.
「Objective exceeded.
Hidden Condition activated.」
“Huh?”
“Is something wrong, Captain?”
What was this supposed to mean?
As Yeon-woo stared bewilderedly at the notification, Urelka turned to look at him and asked.
Yeon-woo pointed to where the notification hung in the air.
“A H-Hidden Condition is being activated?”
“W-what?!”
Urelka hadn’t anticipated this either; her green face took on a distinctly sickly hue.
A Hidden Condition.
On Floor 16, she’d once achieved one after loading an unmanned cargo vessel into the battleship and repairing it.
But this situation was entirely different in scale and scope.
In other words, activating a Hidden Condition likely meant….
Yeon-woo’s voice crackled urgently through the communications network.
“All units, halt immediately! Something’s about to happen! Prepare for withdrawal at a moment’s notice!”
— What? Withdrawal?
— We’ve got this. Troll, no fallback.
Bewildered responses flooded back from various positions.
Understandably so.
An order to prepare for retreat while staring down the finish line—the complete destruction of the Space Port—was hardly the sort of command pilots wanted to hear.
And yet.
Rumble-rumble-rumble….
A peculiar vibration began to shake the void of space itself.
Did the pilots on the front lines notice it?
‘Probably not.’
Yeon-woo bit his lower lip hard.
He could sense his surroundings through the Master Ball, which made such awareness possible.
Even Ha-yoon, for instance, seemed oblivious and carried on as usual.
— C-Captain! Bawk-bawk! S-suddenly I feel uneasy! Bawk-bawk-bawk!
Only Macros appeared to sense something instinctively; he reduced Silver Edge’s velocity and called out in a trembling voice.
And in that very instant, it happened.
Crack-rumble-rumble!
“!!!”
A violet portal tore open in the center of the Space Port—which lay bisected and no longer functional, drifting helplessly in the void.
The portal drew the surrounding debris of the port toward itself.
Crash-crash-crash-crash!
Then, like some colossal black hole, it began to swallow the entire Space Port whole.
“What in the world is that?!”
Even Yeon-woo, who prided himself on keeping up with every major incident broadcast on Earth’s Heroes, had never witnessed anything like it.
Urelka retrieved a handkerchief from somewhere and dabbed the cold sweat trickling down her temple as she spoke.
“I’ve only witnessed it a handful of times myself, but…that is the Sacrifice Ritual.”
“The Sacrifice Ritual?”
“Yes. It is an act of offering nearby entities to summon a powerful being that could not otherwise be called forth. The technique was prohibited long ago due to its potential for abuse, but…it seems the trigger has been activated.”
Urelka seemed to be barely suppressing her fury as she spoke.
It was difficult to discern at whom, precisely, that anger was directed.
The goblins?
Or the entity that had performed the Sacrifice Ritual?
Perhaps this entire chain of events?
Yet even through it all, the Sacrifice Ritual was offered faithfully.
The entire Space Port twisted grotesquely and was sucked into the portal.
The goblin fighters that happened to linger nearby met the same fate.
Each time the portal absorbed something, it swelled more violently, until at last—
Shhhhh……
A vast ship’s silhouette emerged, its hull bristling with twisted, tangled plating.
“Greenskin’s Spear…… how dare they summon even this……”
Urelka caught sight of the massive vessel rising from the portal and let the words fall like a stone.
「Hidden Condition: Destroy the Named Ship ‘Greenskin’s Spear’.
An S+ Grade clear is guaranteed if you retreat at this point.」
‘A Named Ship.’
So that’s what felt wrong about the air—Yeon-woo knew this class well enough.
Named Ships ranked higher than the boss-class flagships they’d encountered in Raid Portals, like that orc cruiser.
Standard fighters, special-purpose fighters, boss-class flagships.
And above them stood the Named Ships.
There were Elite Squadrons too, but they derived their power from formation tactics, so they occupied a separate tier.
Named Ships appeared as bosses in high-level Raid Portals or the rarer Named Portals.
‘Except for Gisel Han of America, humanity’s never managed to take one down in time,’ Yeon-woo thought.
Each time, humanity had opted to retreat all fighters, lift the Raid Portal’s restrictions, and overwhelm the Named Ship with sheer numbers and firepower.
All except for Gisel Han—America’s current ace pilot and a living legend in her own right.
Of course, since this was a goblin vessel, it wasn’t entirely impossible to exploit its systems.
“The hostile is identified as the Named Ship ‘Greenskin’s Spear.’ An S+ Grade clear is guaranteed even if we retreat now. What are your orders?”
Yeon-woo called out to the fighters already wheeling back around the space battleship.
And the answer was……
* * *
[Relic-Grade Space Battleship (Super Carrier), identity and nationality unknown
S+ Grade Hades, pilot Ha-yoon / Republic of Korea
Floor 19]
A rare joint operation: the space battleship and Hades tackling Floor 19 together.
Since Floor 19 was one of the most popular dungeons, far more viewers had gathered than usual.
Boom-boom-boom!
└ They’re absolutely insane
└ LMAO they literally obliterated the whole Space Port
The Main Cannon split the port in half—overwhelming destructive power on display.
Thrum-thrum-thrum-thrum!
└ Damn…… the goblin fighters are just melting away
└ And the escort formation is brutal. They won’t let anything near Hades
Ha-yoon, Gudru, and Sureka—a flawless combination, their four Anti-matter Cannons cutting through the enemy vanguard with dazzling maneuvers.
Shreeeeek!
└ Hell yeah, Silver Edge! I love you!
└ But seriously, how is that thing even being piloted like that?
└ Are you sniping at the Spanish pilot right now?
And finally, Macros—who’d seemed to vanish entirely—blazed back into view, materializing behind enemy lines with a flourish.
The entire sequence of the run sent viewers into euphoria.
Floor 19 was the kind of gauntlet that even promising clan talents prepared hours to push through methodically.
But the space battleship and Hades swept through the goblins with such effortless grace that their display hit like a shock.
└ Hades should just keep running Floor 19 with the space battleship forever
└ Yeah watched them run it with other Fierce Tiger Clan pilots and it was so tedious I couldn’t keep watching
└ Totally a suppression difference;;>
But then.
Crack-crack-crack-crack!!
└ ?????
└ What is that?
└ Was that ever on Floor 19?
└ If it was, who’d have ever made it to Floor 20?
The moment Greenskin’s Spear materialized, the atmosphere froze solid.
The control center, which had been watching the run carefully, went into emergency protocol just as fast.
“Wh—what in the hell is that?!”
The chief analyst shot to his feet, shouting the words without even remembering his subordinates were there.
Now that all resistance had been crushed and we were moving toward destroying the harbor itself,
a ship of impossible proportions appeared without warning.
Still, no one blamed the analysis chief.
The staff were too busy trying to identify the mysterious vessel themselves.
Of course, a Named Ship wouldn’t be registered in any database—such vessels were unique entities unto themselves.
“……It appears to be a goblin-class vessel, sir. Almost certainly a Named Ship.”
Comparing it to previous cases, identifying it as a Named Ship had been straightforward enough.
In truth, given its sheer mass, its presence, the manner of its arrival—it would have been harder to suggest anything else.
An unexpected Named Ship, appearing without warning.
Whatever had caused this unforeseen turn of events remained unclear.
“You’re saying that even executing the strategy flawlessly could spell disaster…….”
It was certain that the raid, which had been rushing toward its triumphant conclusion, had entered completely uncharted territory.
Could they, having already weathered such grueling combat, bring down a Named Ship?
The analysis room fell into shadow, heavy with dread.
The main cannon—already spent in a decisive strike to seize initiative.
He’d thought that brilliant gambit was the perfect move, executed with such force that no better option could possibly exist.
‘If things develop this way…… can we clear it without the main cannon?’
As someone whose profession was analysis, it was hard to believe a battleship would have a second main cannon.
Questions drifted above the chief analyst’s silence.
* * *
“Leaving one main cannon shot in reserve was really the right call, wasn’t it?”
“Yes, sir. Your foresight was impeccable, Captain.”
Yeon-woo exhaled in relief.
He’d been watching for the perfect moment to cut off the harbor’s lifeline with that final shot.
Then Greenskin’s Spear—this Named Ship—had come out of nowhere.
The combat pilots, learning that one main cannon shot remained, responded immediately.
— If we have the main cannon, it might be doable.
— Gudru isn’t scared anymore.
— B-bawk, bawk! Could I perhaps withdraw……?
Yeon-woo cleanly ignored that last comment and addressed everyone.
Greenskin’s Spear.
Urelka had already briefed him on its characteristics.
“According to the vice-captain, Greenskin’s Spear is equipped with a module called Greenskin Convergence—it can defend against any single attack, just once.”
Ha-yoon grasped his role immediately upon hearing this alone.
— So we need to exhaust that module first, sir?
“Correct.”
If he used the last main cannon shot, only to have Greenskin Convergence block it, all would be for nothing.
Yet he couldn’t hand the entire Named Ship offensive to Hades and the carrier fighters—they’d already accumulated too much fatigue.
Goblin-class or not, a Named was a Named.
Four fighters alone simply weren’t equipped to tackle such a foe.
Somehow, they had to force Greenskin Convergence to activate.
— This is the moment to sacrifice this life of mine……!
“No, Sureka.”
— Yes, Captain.
That option was off the table.
Besides, even if a fighter like Gauntlet rammed that colossal ship, the odds it would spend its final defense were slim at best.
Yeon-woo calmly transmitted his strategy.
“Hades will be our primary striker. Silver Edge freezes every enemy weapon. Fullmail and Gauntlet continue protecting Hades as you have been, prioritizing the destruction of any unfrozen weaponry.”
— Understood.
— Bawk-bawk-bawk!!
— Gudru understands perfectly.
— For your honor, Captain!
He’d assigned the optimal tasks based on the combat situation thus far.
Yet even for the space battleship—which usually simply held position and watched the carrier fighters do their work,
“C-Captain?”
“Mm?”
This time demanded rapid repositioning.
“It appears Greenskin’s Spear has designated us as the primary target.”
“……?”
Not quite comparable to a space battleship, but considerably larger than an orc cruiser—Greenskin’s Spear bore down on them.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
It descended on the Space Port with ruthless force, devouring everything in its path—just as it had when it first appeared.
The Relic-Grade Space Battleship barreled forward, obliterating every goblin craft that cluttered the approach route.
What remained of the greenskins’ firepower was swallowed by their own Named Ship.
But.
“……Operation commence!”
There was no time to celebrate such marginal gains.
Yeon-woo gripped the Master Ball with both hands, banking the Relic-Grade Space Battleship in a sharp slide as he called out the order.
No matter how exceptional the Barrier was—enhanced by the slime’s acidic properties—it would buckle under the firepower of a Named Ship.
Would Greenskin’s Spear pierce the Relic-Grade Space Battleship first?
Or would Hades’s destruction halt Greenskin’s Spear before it struck? The battle had begun.

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