Elder brother's garrison

"The decisive weapon, that's a skill that only triggers when it hits its target..." Missouri fell helplessly onto the water's surface, muttering to herself, "Senior... the projectiles triggered by this skill can't be blocked or dodged..."

Chapter 3496 The Final Victor

As the golden flames, resembling those of a flying bird, dissipated from Veneto's body, Missouri, who had fallen from the sky, plunged into the water with a splash.

The water swallowed Missouri, creating ripples.

After a while.

Missouri's soaking wet figure slowly floated up, facing the sky.

Missouri let out a long sigh of relief, as if she had accomplished a great mission, and stretched lazily on the water's surface.

Veneto struggled to her feet from the water in the distance. Her condition did not seem as bad as the shattered ship equipment behind her, but the pale green light curtain surrounding her still revealed her weakened state, with her ship equipment badly damaged and unable to fight, to everyone.

In the ship girls' exercises, being heavily damaged means leaving the field.

Veneto shakily steadied herself against the tattered ship's rigging, then looked at Missouri floating on the water with a helpless expression.

"The decisive force... sigh."

Veneto sighed, a rare look of regret appearing on his face.

On the water, after the intense and fierce battle, the ship girls of the Veneto-class and Iowa-class ships are now either fallen or lying on their sides.

The battle is nearing its end.

At this moment, among the ship girls still capable of fighting on the water, only Littorio and Empire remain on the Veneto-class side, while Iowa-class only has Iowa herself remaining in a moderately damaged state.

At first glance, judging from the numbers and current condition, the Veneto Class seems to have the upper hand.

Littorio and the Empire were unharmed and still possessed considerable fighting power. Furthermore, Littorio's group Divine Shield still had one use remaining on Littorio himself, which roughly translates to three lives.

In comparison, the Iowa, whose ship equipment was hissing and sparking, its movements were slightly sluggish, and it was in a state of moderate damage, seemed to have reached a dead end and was in a desperate situation.

However... in the final stages of a ship girl's battle, it's impossible to simply measure the outcome by the number of surviving teammates.

Although on the surface, the Veneto-class has more combat power remaining, Littorio is ultimately just a ship girl with a ship equipment level of only level seven. Putting aside her abnormal skills, in terms of individual combat power, there is not much difference between having her or not. Moreover, Littorio's combat experience is almost non-existent. Even if she is in much better condition than the moderately damaged Iowa, she is definitely no match for Iowa.

Iowa dodged Littorio's cannon fire with almost no effort, then raised his hand and fired a shot, smiling as he depleted Littorio's Holy Shield count as he tried to dodge.

With a loud bang, the shell exploded on Littorio's body.

The emerald green light shattered inch by inch on Littorio's body.

The Veneto class now only has two lives left.

After a token act of resistance, Littorio quickly realized the vast gap between herself and Iowa. In the end, she could only sigh helplessly, hug her cat doll tightly, lower her head slightly, close her eyes, and wait for Iowa to smash her ship equipment and clothes together.

boom! ! !

The deafening roar of artillery fire swept past Littorio's ears.

boom! ! !

An explosion sounded from behind.

Large splashes of water rained down from the sky, drenching Littorio's head.

Littorio did not receive the expected shelling. She slowly opened her eyes and looked ahead with some confusion.

Not far away, Iowa was smiling as he carried the main gun and looked in their direction.

"Alright, the battle has reached this point, and the outcome is quite clear. There are so many people watching, so I won't bully their younger sister in front of their older sister." Iowa said with a smile, her gaze sweeping over Littorio and drifting to the Empire behind him, her eyes full of gentleness. "Our Iowa-class won this exercise. Let's end it here. What do you think?"

Littorio paused for a moment, then turned to look at the Empire.

The Empire also maintained the gesture of raising its hand and blinking.

The situation on the Empire's side is similar to that of Littorio.

Although Empire is now a fully trained ship girl, she is, after all, an aircraft carrier, not a battleship.

The biggest advantage of aircraft carrier ship girls is, in the end, their long attack range. The strength of aircraft carriers lies in their ability to wreak havoc and strike enemies with their long attack range. However, once the attack range of battleships covers them, they basically have no room to fight back.

An aircraft carrier without strong escort ships is undoubtedly vulnerable.

After Veneto and Rome fell, it was only a matter of time before the empire was defeated by Iowa.

Empire looked at Iowa, who was smiling. She blinked, looked away, and cautiously glanced at Veneto in the distance.

Veneto shrugged.

Ultimately, the outcome of this exercise was already decided when Missouri launched its decisive attack and took Veneto out with a single shot.

“You won this exercise,” Veneto said on behalf of his sister.

Veneto's voice wasn't loud, but it seemed to have its own megaphone, carrying out in all directions across the quiet training ground.

The surrounding ship girls remained wide-eyed, quietly watching the few remaining ship girls on the battlefield.

After a brief silence.

boom--

A deafening roar of applause and cheers erupted from all around the training ground in an instant!

"Oh oh oh oh!!!"

"It's over! The victor is—the Iowa-class!"

"Wonderful!!!"

"pretty!!!"

"We are - the champions!"

"Congratulations Iowa! Congratulations Veneto!"

"Wow, wow, wow, wow! Amazing, amazing, amazing!"

"The Iowa-level sisters performed exceptionally well! And the instructors too! They're amazing!!!"

"Go Veneto class! Congratulations Iowa class!!!"

"..."

Waves of cheers surged forth on invisible waves.

The water, still smelling of cooled gunpowder, seemed to begin to rain golden rain from the continuous cheers.

The exercise is over!

Veneto retrieved her ship equipment, patted her somewhat tattered clothes, and then slowly walked towards Iowa.

Iowa also put away her ship equipment and stood smiling beside the Empire and Littorio, waiting for Veneto.

“Well done.” Veneto approached Iowa and extended his hand to him.

"Sister Veneto, thank you for your hard work." Iowa smiled and bowed slightly, shaking hands with Veneto. "In the battle just now, it was basically my sisters who did the work. I was just lucky."

“Your artillery skills are superb and played a crucial role on the battlefield.” Veneto shook her head and said earnestly and sincerely, “I have no complaints; you are the better ones.”

Iowa smiled and released Veneto's hand.

The Empire trotted up behind Veneto.

Veneto looked at the Empire, then glanced at Littorio, who was unharmed except for his slightly damp hair, before nodding to Iowa.

"Thank you very much."

“It’s everyone’s responsibility to take care of their sister,” Iowa said with a smile.

“If I had survived just now and been facing your two younger sisters, I probably wouldn’t have let them go,” Veneto said.

“Those two… I understand that.” Iowa nodded with a smile. “Even sisters have different forms… If I were in their shoes, I wouldn’t hold back either.”

A noise came from not far away.

Iowa and Veneto turned to look.

After landing in the water, Wisconsin floated on the surface for a while before leaping out of the water with a swift, agile motion.

"Whoa!" Wisconsin stepped firmly on the water and strode up to Missouri, pointing at her angrily and starting to complain, "Missouri! You really did lie to me again! What you said about the decisive force disappearing was all a lie, wasn't it!"

"Oh dear... well..." Missouri sat up from the water, smiling as she covered her lips. "Whether the Decisive Force is activated or not is purely a matter of luck, something Missouri couldn't control anyway... It's been so long since the skill was triggered, Missouri thought it had disappeared~"

"You're lying, you Missouri mouth, you liar!" Wisconsin stretched out her hands, her ten fingers twisting and turning like nimble earthworms. "You can say such things, what good does it do you to lie to me!"

“The key skills should be used last, shouldn’t they?” Missouri chuckled, covering her mouth.

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Those were my lines!" Wisconsin clutched her head, shaking it wildly and screaming, "Aaaaaaahh ...

Crash, crash.

As Wisconsin made a large movement, layers of water rippled from her slender body, forming a faint rainbow film around her.

Veneto and Iowa exchanged glances and smiled knowingly at each other.

Missouri and Wisconsin found New Jersey, who was upside down in the water, and helped her up.

Veneto also found Rome, who was lying on the water, dizzy and disoriented, and lifted her up by her arm.

The two groups of ship girls returned to shore.

On the shore, the ship girls clapped and smiled as they welcomed their return.

Xiaobai and Nia also came down from the viewing platform. Xiaobai kept clapping and looked at the Iowa-class and Veneto-class ship girls who were so close to her, her face full of happy expression.

"Veneto, Iowa, thank you for your hard work," Xiaobai said earnestly to the ship girls. "What a beautiful battle!"

Chapter 3497 The Bet of the Exercise

From the observation platform, Xiaobai and Nia witnessed the entire exercise between the Iowa-class and Veneto-class ships.

Xiaobai had many feelings about this battle.

In her opinion, the ship girls on both sides used every means and showed their unique abilities in this exercise. Everyone was working hard and giving their all for victory. Although there could only be one winner in the end due to the rules, Xiaobai was sincerely proud of every ship girl who appeared in it.

It's just a practice match...

Victory is important, but friendship is also very important.

Xiaobai really wanted to comment on this battle, to say that the ship girls performed exceptionally well, but all that came out of his throat was "a beautiful battle."

"I've made a fool of myself before the Admiral," Veneto said with a sigh of relief to Xiaobai.

"Veneto, you did very well in this battle." Xiaobai smiled at Veneto.

Veneto shook her head and said nothing more. She simply patted Littorio on the shoulder and spoke to Little White.

“Admiral, Littorio has potential.”

“Yes, I see.” Xiaobai nodded and looked at Littorio.

"..." Littorio's large, bright green eyes narrowed slightly. She lifted her chin slightly as she hugged the cat plush toy, her entire chin sinking into the toy.

"Missouri, you guys did a great job too!" Xiaobai looked up and said to the Iowa-class ship girls on the other side.

“Thank you for the compliment, Admiral,” Missouri replied with a smile.

The battle between the Veneto-class and Iowa-class ships was indeed fierce. After the battle, many of the ship girls watching were itching to join in. So, after the crowd dispersed, many of the ship girls spontaneously ran onto the water and started to find training partners to unleash their energy.

Xiaobai's situation has calmed down for the time being, and she returned to the spectator stands with the two teams of ship girls.

Next to the stands, three people from Changchun, Jinan, and Anshan were chatting with Hancock.

Upon seeing Xiaobai leading two teams of ship girls back, the four ship girls all turned their gazes and looked over.

"Admiral!"

"Admiral, you're back!"

"Missouri, that aerial bombardment you just used was amazing!"

"Sister Veneto, your fight just now was amazing!"

The ship girls greeted each other.

Xiaobai and the ship girls behind her raised their hands in response.

Little White stopped in front of Hancock.

Hancock had just watched the entire exercise and competition.

Compared to the other new ship girls in the naval base, Hancock, who had only recently joined the base, was truly amazed. The intensity of the battle she had just witnessed completely overturned her understanding of ship girl combat. Seeing the ship girls who were so brave on the water greeting her so kindly, Hancock felt a sense of surreal dreaminess.

Hancock stood there, somewhat reserved for a moment.