I Got a Monster Spaceship from the Tutorial Tower - Chapter 49

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Chapter 49
Episode 49
Torka’s performance as the newly appointed Squadron Leader shone brilliantly.
— Fullmail, pin down the enemy fighters approaching from the left. Gauntlet and I will hammer the right flank and provide support.
— Troll, going left.
Not only did he analyze the battle situation in real time and divide his forces accordingly.
“It’s strange—the Ork scouts don’t seem able to attack Torka at all. Why is that?”
“I’m not entirely sure—”
— Ha! Captain! The Ork machine guns have a chronic blind spot on their lower left side. It was the same a thousand years ago, and it seems they still haven’t fixed it.
“There’s… something like that?”
In Yeon-woo’s eyes, Torka’s piloting skill bordered on the Divine Technique—the way he dominated the enemy’s blind spots.
If such a chronic flaw existed, why hadn’t any of the other pilots discovered it before?
“If that blind spot were wide, it would have been corrected long ago. I suspect the area Torka is exploiting requires manual control to enter—a narrow margin only achievable through precise hands-on maneuvering.”
……
Urelka’s analysis was cautious.
Yeon-woo was at a loss for words.
It seemed Torka wasn’t about to teach manual control to the other pilots after all.
Even if he were, it wasn’t something that could be learned in a day or two, and attempting to apply it halfheartedly in actual combat could lead to disaster.
‘He mentioned needing adaptation because it’s an Heirloom-grade fighter.’
Yet from what Yeon-woo could observe, Torka’s adaptation seemed complete.
Or perhaps adaptation had never truly been necessary in the first place.
— Screee! Enemy down! White Fang engaged!
Meanwhile, Markoss was putting on a dazzling display, thrashing about in the rear to ensure enemy fighters didn’t swarm Torka’s main position.
Upon reaching A+ Rank, he’d overcome his aerial phobia and his movements had become even sharper.
Screech!
Silver Edge slipped through the gap between two Ork Fighters bearing down on him from both sides, then activated White Fang.
Boom!
In the process, he triggered the Electronic Warfare Module to deliver a jarring shock.
He’d escaped with paper-thin margins—a maneuver impossible without absolute confidence in one’s skill.
“Is there anything left for us to do here?”
“The drones are proving to be more effective than expected. Fortunate indeed.”
Urelka was busy managing the drones through his own efforts.
The basic tactic was assigning three drones per Ork fighter and systematically shooting them down.
But with each movement of Urelka’s hands, the drones scattered and reformed, disrupting enemy fighters and even causing them to collide with one another.
In truth, Urelka himself had boarded the Space Warship with limited knowledge of its systems.
Yet he clearly possessed the competence and adaptability worthy of the Alliance’s selection as a special commissioned officer.
With the drones helping to overcome their numerical disadvantage considerably, the tide of battle was overwhelmingly in their favor.
The only thing requiring attention now was—
— Captain, Ork Destroyers have launched. Requesting confirmation.
The four Ork Destroyers—the highest-tier fighters deployed on the 25th Floor—were likely the concern.
Torka’s report.
Yeon-woo watched as four massive destroyer-class craft, visibly larger than the others, emerged from behind the shattered asteroid.
The Space Warship had one Main Cannon shot remaining.
“I’ll make it count. Stay sharp.”
— Of course.
“Lapis, optimal positioning.”
Thrum!
At Yeon-woo’s command, Lapis smoothly rotated the Space Warship and began to establish position.
A path rippled through the vacuum like waves, and the warship glided along its surface.
Exactly what pattern Lapis was tracing wasn’t made explicitly clear, but Yeon-woo knew.
The warship’s navigator would always find the optimal angle and position them there with precision.
The Space Warship flipped sharply upward, then arced completely over the top of the asteroid.
The weightless environment of space allowed such freely unconventional maneuvers.
Which meant the Space Warship had now—
“An excellent position, Captain.”
—reached a vantage point that, despite the ship’s massive bulk, was hidden from all other eyes on the battlefield and overlooked the entire engagement from above.
From this angle, moreover, three of the Ork Destroyers were perfectly aligned in a single line.
It was almost miraculous that Lapis had predicted the enemy’s movement patterns and seized this precise position at the exact moment.
But there was no need to question the method.
When a superior position presented itself, one simply used it.
Boom!
The Main Cannon roared to life, unleashing its fury.
The recoil shuddered through the Space Warship with brutal force.
But the artificial catastrophe that followed dwarfed even that impact.
Crack!
Three Ork Destroyers that had been lined up below the warship, oblivious and ready to engage, were swept away in an instant.
One of them had managed to slip outside the Main Cannon’s arc of fire.
Yet even with all four of them in the fight, victory was far from certain—so the loss of one hardly shifted the odds.
The Ork Fighters defending the Asteroid Mining Base melted away swiftly under the relentless assault of the Carrier-based Aircraft and Drones.
— Destroyer down! Destroyer down!
Silver Edge, leveraging his considerable size despite his cumbersome frame, circled the Destroyer with precision, freezing its engines and weapons before finally detonating it.
Markoss, who had once held back a creation of the Green-skinned race, was more than capable of dispatching an Ork Destroyer.
The enemy had been pushed into a position where even resistance was nearly impossible.
Sporadic flickers of fire erupted here and there, but none of it signified anything meaningful.
As Yeon-woo surveyed the battlefield from above, something caught his eye.
“Urelka.”
“Yes, Captain?”
“The objective for this floor—it’s not Scrap harvesting, is it?”
“No, sir, but…”
The colossal asteroid of the 25th Floor.
Even after annihilating all enemies, most squads typically didn’t bother with serious harvesting—they simply cleared and moved on.
One Russian Squadron had attempted harvesting after receiving the Clear message, but abandoned the effort, deciding it consumed too much time.
But now?
‘The Main Cannon blasted it apart… and it actually looks appetizing.’
The asteroid, properly pierced by the Main Cannon—a planet-class weapon deployed early in the Conquest—now drifted across the battlefield in fractured pieces.
Yeon-woo wondered what would happen if they consumed the Scrap using the runway like before.
“It’s possible, certainly. Actually, given that a Mining Base was even established here, the Scrap purity must be quite high.”
Urelka, apparently not anticipating this suggestion, dabbed his temple with a handkerchief before responding.
Yeon-woo flashed him a grin.
“Let’s give it a try.”
The battle would wrap up soon anyway.
If they just swept through the larger chunks in sight, they’d likely come away with a respectable haul.
“Lapis, calculate the route.”
Boing, boing!
Delighted at this unexpected task, Lapis bounced lightly and began tracing a blue path across Yeon-woo’s vision.
A line connecting the larger fragments in sequence—anything that could fit through the runway according to Yeon-woo’s intention.
“Hwaryeon, Surika. Are you ready to collect the Scrap?”
— Almost done, Captain~! We’re ready to go whenever you give the word!
“Good.”
Confirming everyone was prepared, Yeon-woo leisurely began maneuvering the Space Warship into position.
And naturally, this was being broadcast live to the outside world through Earth’s Hero system.
└ Main Cannon’s genuinely broken lol
└ If you’ve got that, why even clear? Just click and it’s done, right?
└ lol watch how he positions it. You’d be fumbling around and it’d explode if you had a Main Cannon from the start
└ facts don’t need a ban;;;
From the facility’s initial destruction to the spectacular aerial combat of the Carrier-based Aircraft, and finally the decisive simultaneous elimination of three Destroyers—
Viewers entranced by each phase of the Conquest watched as the warship abruptly changed course during the final stage, confusion spreading among them.
└ ? What else is there to do?
└ Wait a bit longer and the Conquest should end…?
└ Hold on, that looks like…
But it was only a moment.
The warship began collecting the massive asteroid fragments drifting through space as Scrap, funneling them through the runway.
Scrap harvesting on the 25th Floor?
The chat, which had been scrolling at barely readable speeds, suddenly thinned out noticeably.
But that too was brief.
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ that’s hilarious
└ Ngl it does look delicious~
└ How much is all that gonna be ㄷㄷ
After all, if you had the capability to destroy an asteroid and harvest it, there was nothing stopping you—so the viewers eagerly resumed their enthusiasm.
And that day, one comment trended across the internet.
It was like watching a chaebol heir licking the lid of a yogurt cup right in front of you.
But for Yeon-woo, it was far more than that.
Tutorial Tower, 25th Floor.
S+ Rank Clear.
25th Floor Clear Reward.
Scrap: 30.
S+ Rank Achievement.
Hidden Condition Achievement.
Bonus: Fighter Core awarded.
Asteroid Mining Reward: Scrap 2,000 awarded.
“With this, I can finally throw away yogurt lids without a second thought.”
Two thousand Scrap.
Simple math: the 25th Floor re-attempt Clear reward was 15 Scrap per run.
That meant he’d need at least 130-odd attempts to accumulate this much, yet it had all dropped at once.
And again, he’d achieved the Hidden Condition, earning a Fighter Core as a bonus.
Grade S.
With anything below A Grade, he could repair even completely wrecked aircraft—a welcome insurance policy.
It wasn’t surprising, given that no one had ever thought to destroy that asteroid, let alone successfully mine a substantial portion of it.
“But two thousand Scrap… will it all fit in the warship?”
Yeon-woo turned to Urelka with a hint of concern in his eyes.
Until now, he’d been dealing with dozens, maybe a hundred at most, so he’d never given it much thought.
But this time, the scale itself had changed, hadn’t it?
Urelka tapped the panel thoughtfully and answered with a similarly worried expression.
“Well, the No. 1 Scrap Warehouse is completely full now.”
“…The No. 1 warehouse?”
Did I just hear that right?
Yeon-woo asked again, just to be sure.
“How many Scrap Warehouses are there exactly?”
“Well, there are ten set by default, but there are dozens of warehouses with flexible multi-purpose configurations, and then there’s emergency storage space for when inventory truly gets out of hand…”
“That’s enough.”
It seemed two thousand Scrap wasn’t that massive a haul after all.
Combined with what was already stored, it barely filled one warehouse.
‘I need to work harder going forward.’
As his heart warmed, his earlier excitement suddenly felt embarrassing.
He’d need to keep licking those yogurt lids with persistence.
‘Right, I shouldn’t indulge in such luxuries.’
Humility, always humility.
With a humble heart, Yeon-woo decided to spend his accumulated Directional Points before the pilots returned.
Six points, no less.
It seemed enough to activate most functions available to him.
As Yeon-woo scanned through the items he could activate immediately, he tilted his head.
“I’ve been curious about this since last time. What is this?”
Combat Air Wing Function Activation.
Effect: Allows formation of a Combat Air Wing.
Required Points: 4.
One function demanded the same point cost as Algorithm Enhancement Tier 3.
The more points invested, the better the performance would be.
‘What exactly is this Combat Air Wing Function?’
It was an unfamiliar concept he’d never encountered before, so he hesitated to commit.
How was it different from the five-aircraft Squadron limit the pilots organized when entering the tower?
When he asked Urelka, the answer came back that a detailed explanation couldn’t be given before activation, only a brief outline.
“It’s a completely different concept from a Squadron. At this point, it looks like it’s worth investing in. The Carrier-based Aircraft numbers are already starting to exceed Squadron limitations.”
“Really?”
At least so far, he’d never regretted following Urelka’s counsel.
Besides, the point cost already spoke volumes about its value.
Directional Points: Combat Air Wing Function Activation applied.
A generous 4-point expenditure without hesitation.
The moment the function activated, a lengthy notification window explaining the Combat Air Wing concept appeared before Yeon-woo’s eyes.
Rather than reading every detail, he skimmed the essentials quickly.
Then his eyes went wide.
“Is this… is this really possible?”
Four Directional Points for a technique?
No—even if it gave fourteen points, Yeon-woo wouldn’t begrudge a single one.

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