Elder brother's garrison

Xiao Bai reached out and rubbed the thin black thread on Figel's body. Her gaze followed the thread to the other end, and she suddenly looked somewhat troubled.

Just now, when Xiaobai was rubbing the black threads, she used her mental power to check them. She found that the material of these black threads was exactly the same as that of the deep-sea ship equipment. They were hundreds of extremely strong deep-sea metal wires that could not be broken by ordinary means. Moreover, it would be almost impossible to forcibly tear these metal wires that were deeply embedded in the bone marrow from Figel's body. Even if she did, Figel's body would definitely break into countless pieces before the black threads could reach him.

Xiao Bai stared silently at Figel in front of him.

Covered in blood, Figel sat there with wide eyes, like an innocent girl waiting for a medical check-up, her gaze filled with trust and confusion.

—To remove these metal wires, we'd probably have to send Figel back to the rookie naval base for surgery, but there's definitely no time or resources available right now.

Fortunately, the lingering resentment of the Tenth Air Legion was dispelled by Xiaobai, and Figel's control over her body was back in her own hands. As long as she did not control the deep-sea behemoth beneath her to continue fighting, these black threads would not draw energy from her body, and her life would no longer be in danger.

Think of this.

Xiao Bai breathed a sigh of relief and reached out to pat Figel's head.

Figel obediently turned his head, trying his best to press the little white hand against his face.

"Alright, there's no problem for now. Just stay here. As long as you don't move, the deep-sea monster below you won't absorb your energy," Xiaobai said to Figel, then slowly stood up.

“Okay!” Figel nodded quickly.

A transparent figure slowly emerged behind Xiaobai.

"Well done." The Will of the Deep Sea said to Little White, arms crossed.

"Ah, will of the deep sea, you've emerged."

"I've come to congratulate you," the Will of the Deep Sea said slowly, closing its eyes.

"I saved Figel!" Little White smiled with satisfaction at the Will of the Deep Sea and gave her a peace sign.

"..." The Will of the Deep Sea opened one eye, looked at Little White with an indifferent expression, and finally sighed, "I will not encourage you to do such a thing. As you can see, you have now saved Figel, but the predicament we are facing has not been alleviated at all, and has even worsened."

The Will of the Deep Sea is currently in a spiritual state; only Xiaobai can see her and hear her words.

So, in Figel's eyes, Xiaobai's state was as if he was chatting with him and then suddenly started talking to himself, and doing so with great expression.

Figel looked at Xiaobai with a puzzled expression.

"If you do nothing, then whether the Tenth Air Legion kills Frederick the Great, or Frederick the Great is severely wounded and eventually kills the Tenth Air Legion, I will have the capacity to handle the aftermath." Deep Sea Will, arms crossed, looked down at her from above the floating island's head and said, "But look at us now. Figel didn't even have a chance to do anything to Frederick the Great before you saved him. Not only have we lost a top-tier combatant who could have effectively dealt with Frederick the Great, but Frederick the Great hasn't suffered much damage and is still full of energy. Have you thought about how we're going to face Frederick the Great next?"

Although the words of the Deep Sea Will were somewhat ruthless, the tone was very gentle, without the slightest hint of resentment towards Xiaobai.

“This…” Xiaobai pursed her lips.

The words of the Deep Sea Will indeed left Xiaobai speechless.

However, before Xiaobai could even organize her thoughts, the will of the deep sea slowly extended its palm towards her.

Xiao Bai froze, looking at the Will of the Deep Sea.

"The will of the deep sea?"

"Switch it back," the Deep Sea Will said matter-of-factly. "Do you intend to fight Frederick the Great yourself?"

"Ah..." Xiaobai finally realized what was happening, and she quickly reached out and put her hand together with the palm of the Deep Sea Will.

A feeling of being pulled away quickly arose.

The world is spinning.

The next second, Xiaobai and the Deep Sea Will switched positions, and the Deep Sea Will returned to Xiaobai's body.

As Xiaobai reverted to her spiritual form, she watched the Deep Sea Will clean the dust off her body. She pursed her lips and slowly leaned against its back.

“That…the will of the deep sea.”

"what happened?"

"I'm so sorry... I've been causing you so much trouble."

"..." The Deep Sea Will paused, glanced up at Little White, and said, "I don't blame you."

"Mmm." Little White hugged the neck of the Deep Sea Will.

"But seriously, you really should change your merciful ways." The Will of the Deep Sea gently patted Figel's head. "Sometimes, necessary sacrifices are required."

"..."

"..." The Deep Sea Will noticed that Little White behind her was not speaking. She was silent for a while, then suddenly changed the subject, "Speaking of which, when you entered Figel's body just now, I actually went in with you."

"Oh? You went in too?"

“I was thinking you might not be able to handle the Tenth Air Legion’s spiritual entity, so I wanted to sneak in and help you out, but I didn’t expect you to chop her up with a single strike.” The Deep Sea Will’s words rarely revealed a hint of praise. “Although there are many kinds of attacks between spiritual entities, I didn’t expect you to actually conjure up a military knife.”

"Well... I didn't think that much about it at the time. I was just wondering if there was any weapon that could defeat the Deep Sea Dean..."

"Then?"

"Then I remembered that military knife."

"The one you bit into several times?"

"Ah."

"It would be great if I could conjure one up in the real world too," the Will of the Deep Sea remarked casually, walking towards the end of the platform and stepping into the air.

The Deep Sea Will, which had been teetering on the air, did not fall. Instead, it condensed a black aura of the deep sea in front of it and then charged straight down, moving towards the center of the battlefield.

At the heart of the battlefield, Frederick the Great also needed her attention.

The will of the deep sea gradually hardened its gaze.

But right now.

The Will of the Deep Sea failed to notice that Little White, who was lying behind him, suddenly looked confused. She lowered her head and frowned slightly, as if she was savoring the conversation she had just had.

……

As the lingering resentment of the Tenth Air Corps dissipated, the colossal steel behemoth that blotted out the sky finally ceased its movements. Countless black-mist carrier-based aircraft buzzed and circled in the sky, no longer dropping a single bomb towards the center of the sea.

On the sea surface, the rising steam emitted terrifyingly high temperatures, obscuring the surrounding view.

Frederick the Great, covered in wounds, limped to support herself, her back bent as she gasped for breath. Her body was covered in severe burns, her ship's rigging was scattered and broken, several cannon barrels were bent to the extreme, and her breath was extremely weak. It seemed that if she could withstand a few more rounds of frenzied bombardment from the deep-sea behemoths, she would collapse like a camel that could not bear the weight of the last straw, directly from the intense impact.

"It's stopped...?" Sensing the cessation of the attack, Frederick the Great raised his head and gazed at the steel behemoth in the distance.

A large amount of deep-sea energy seemed to be targeting her, constantly drilling into her body from all directions, rapidly repairing her injuries. In just a few moments, the burns covering Frederick the Great's entire body disappeared completely, and her ship equipment was restored to its original state. The weak deep-sea energy grew stronger in a few intermittent flashes.

Frederick the Great straightened up, and the dark energy once again enveloped her body. Several streams of dark energy rose to her cheeks, lashing her incessantly, as if reprimanding her for neglecting her duties in the battle just now.

Frederick the Great ignored the black aura whipping against him, his gaze fixed blankly on the steel behemoth in the distance.

Just now.

Frederick the Great could clearly feel that the aura that had made his heart tremble had completely dissipated.

This was not obtained through sensing the aura of the deep sea, nor through mental searching, but simply through the sixth sense of a deep-sea creature.

—The woman from the Tenth Air Corps who came back from the dead has just truly died.

Frederick the Great's hesitant gaze slowly regained its luster, and his eyes became firm and majestic once more.

She is dead.

She is indeed dead.

Then.

Now, all that's there are simply enemies.

Frederick the Great's aura suddenly intensified, a cold glint appearing in her eyes. She raised the ship's cannons behind her and aimed them at the top of the steel behemoth in the distance.

Just as Frederick the Great's cannonballs were about to be fired, suddenly, with two whooshing sounds, two more white lights appeared eerily from the far distance and arrived in front of Frederick the Great in an instant.

boom!

boom!

The powerful explosion once again sent Frederick the Great flying.

Frederick the Great's body flew out of the smoke and crashed onto the water in a cloud of black smoke.

Frederick the Great, now on the water's surface, had a dazed look in her eyes. The dark aura around her was also swirling rapidly as she looked around.

"What a formidable defense."

Just then, exclamations of praise came from a great distance, and the sound was exceptionally clear.

Frederick the Great got up and looked toward the source of the sound.

A ship girl clad in white ship equipment was standing some distance away, looking at them with a humble smile.

Chapter 2165 Absolute Evasion and Absolute Accuracy

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The surrounding deep-sea energy continuously clung to Frederick the Great's body, rapidly repairing the deep-sea ship equipment that had been cracked in the previous attack.

Frederick the Great stared intently at the ship girl in the distance, speechless for a moment.

The dark energy emanating from Frederick the Great surged and rushed towards the ship girls, emitting a snarling sound as if it had awakened a spirit.

"After the Missouri's ship equipment was modified, although its power didn't increase much, it shouldn't have weakened too much either." The ship girl on the other end smiled and said to herself, seeing that Frederick the Great didn't attack immediately. "In other words, Frederick-senpai just took several head-on hits from Missouri before the modification. If it were an ordinary Abyssal Commander, he should be badly damaged and unable to fight by now. I didn't expect him to not even be considered slightly injured. It's really enviable."

The ship girl spoke without any threat in her voice, as if the conversation wasn't between two sides on the battlefield, but rather a friendly exchange of words.

Frederick the Great frowned.

An indescribable sense of unease welled up inside me.

—Just now, I think I was blown away again.

Frederick the Great scrutinized the ship girl in the distance, his gaze lingering on the peculiar ship rigging behind her for a long while.

Frederick the Great clearly remembered that this wasn't the first time she had taken the attack. Just before, when he was fighting Patina, this body, which could automatically dodge attacks, had already withstood her cannon fire...

Why……

Did you still fail to dodge?

Frederick the Great asked himself, and he was sure that her abilities wouldn't be a problem. He looked down at the dark aura surrounding him and found that it was also staring intently at the ship girl, making strange, tense, and surging noises.

Frederick the Great raised his ship's rigging, as if to fire a cannonball at the ship girl.

But soon, Frederick the Great, who had raised his ship's rigging, stopped in place, his eyes slightly narrowed.

—So far away.

Frederick the Great realized that he was really far away from this ship girl.

Generally speaking, in battleship combat, no matter how accurate the gunnery is or how large the caliber of the main guns is, each battleship has a certain limit to its effective firing range. Once this limit is exceeded, the accuracy of the shot will be extremely distorted, and the power will also decrease in all aspects.

At this moment, the ship girl was standing outside Frederick the Great's firing range. At this distance, even if Frederick the Great activated his sure-hit skill, he would be powerless to do so.

—Because this distance is really far, it's not within the normal combat range at all.

Frederick the Great ceased his fighting stance.

Since that ship girl wasn't going to continue the attack, they naturally wouldn't pay her any attention either. Their primary target was, as expected, that colossal steel behemoth that blotted out the sky...

Just as Frederick the Great was about to make a move against the steel behemoth, a clear voice suddenly reached her ears again.

"Missouri thinks it's best if you don't have any ill intentions towards that massive deep-sea fortress, senior." An unpleasant laugh rang in her ears. "If you really intend to do anything to the deep-sea fortress, then Missouri will have no choice but to fight you..."

"..."

Frederick the Great stopped what he was doing and turned his gaze toward the ship girl.

The distance between the ship girls remained extremely far.

It doesn't seem like an operational distance for declaring war on oneself at all.

At this attack range, only carrier-based aircraft can attack it... and carrier-based aircraft cannot cause damage to it.

Moreover.

The ship equipment behind that ship girl doesn't seem to have a cabin or runway that carrier-based aircraft can use.

Although Frederick the Great was confused, her professional judgment led her to take the ship girl's words as a verbal threat.

Frederick the Great's gaze once again fell upon the steel behemoth.

Just now.

咻思

Seemingly sensing Frederick the Great's desire to attack the steel behemoth, a strange but very obvious sound of a cannonball being fired rang out.