The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

The admiral began to explain to Adon in detail what the admiral's blessing meant:

"However, these are all very common basic buffs. As long as they are not conflict-type buffs, such as power, rate of fire, defense, and speed, which are mutually exclusive, every admiral will have some of them. Moreover, as the admiral's mental network level increases, these buffs will become more and more obvious."

"It sounds pretty useful." I just don't know if the bonus is based on a percentage or a fixed value, but either way, it proves that the role of the admiral is not as dispensable as it seems.

Because of her admiral's behavior, Adun has subconsciously come to regard the admiral as something used to amuse and cheer up the ship girls.

"Why do I have a feeling that you're thinking something impolite, Admiral?" At this moment, a woman's intuition shone brightly on the admiral.

“Absolutely not, please continue,” Ardon replied with a serious expression.

"...Actually, those are just basic enhancements. The Deep Sea Princess on the other side also has them. Otherwise, you could ask your Wo-chan; she should know. The truly powerful ones are the special enhancements..."

The admiral, seeing that the ship girls had all turned their attention to her, paused for a moment to build up their interest before speaking:

"For example, doubling the number of carrier-based aircraft, adding armor-piercing effects to missiles and shells, and even causing weather changes favorable to one's own side during battle are all abilities that belong exclusively to the admiral, just like special abilities."

"That sounds amazing." Along with Yaton, Kogan and Wo-chan responded with sparkling eyes.

"Actually, it's just so-so. Special skills sometimes sound useful, but they actually have negative effects. For example, as I just mentioned, doubling the number of carrier-based aircraft also means doubling the amount of aluminum sprayed. Shells and missiles with armor-piercing effects will not only reduce the hit rate, but also put a considerable burden on ship girls who are not high enough level. It's most fun to get damaged after firing a shot. As for those that can change the weather, if the weather that is useful to you is also beneficial to the enemy, it is as good as useless."

That being said, the admiral still couldn't hide the envy in his tone for the strategic-level admirals' support.

Especially the blessing from top-tier admirals who have absolutely no negative effects, or whose negative effects are far less significant than their positive effects, is what admirals envy the most.

For example, His Majesty the Emperor of Europe only builds large ships, such as the great protection of the former Pacific Governor, and the unsinkable naval base.

"It sounds like there are always trade-offs, but it's still quite worthwhile," Ardon concluded.

"Then, Admiral, what is your special blessing?" The first to come to her senses was Guogan, it seems that as a top student from the ship girl academy, she does know these things.

"Mine... cough cough..." Just as he was about to say what buffs he could give to the ship girls as the admiral, the admiral's gaze fell on Adun, who was also staring at him with curious eyes, and he choked for a while because he couldn't catch his breath.

"Could it be that you, Admiral, don't have any special blessings?" Adon suspected that his admiral might be the kind of ordinary admiral who didn't have any special blessings, only basic ones.

"Ordinary admirals my foot! Only admirals with special buffs can become official admirals. Those who haven't awakened special abilities and only have admiral networks can only be the deputy of an official admiral."

The admiral, who was very sensitive about his identity, unleashed a tirade.

"Could it be that the negative effects are so great that it's practically useless under normal circumstances and can only be used in times of crisis?" Adun wondered about his admiral's special ability.

"On the contrary, the negative effects of my admiral's blessing have a negligible impact on combat power, or even no impact at all."

Hearing the admiral put it this way, the curiosity of the three ship girls, Adun, Kogan, and Wo-chan, grew even stronger.

"Quick maintenance, that's the buff that consumes more resources but reduces the time it takes to enter the canal." The admiral said through gritted teeth, his face flushed, with an expression as if he had been seen in the underwear.

"Wow, isn't that an incredibly powerful enhancement second only to wartime damage control? I never knew you were so amazing, Admiral!"

"It seems the admiral's skills are very impressive," Kogan said happily.

"Is it that powerful?" Adun glanced at her ship girl.

"Wo" (Looks pretty impressive) Wo-chan responded to her admiral with the same look in her eyes.

“Wait, I remember the time I first entered the canal…” Ardon recalled the countdown timer on the clock when he first entered the canal.

"Don't you dare say that!! If you dare say my buff is useless, I'll challenge you to a duel!!" As expected, it was that incident that made the admiral feel ashamed. When Adun brought it up again, the admiral decisively pulled out a PG from her ship equipment space.

But in reality, it's completely useless.

boom……

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There will be a category recommendation next week, and I'll guarantee two updates a day if there are recommendations. If I'm in a good mood, I might even post three or four (I have 20 chapters saved up, so I might as well use them).

Chapter 36: The Colonel's Job Change

Rapid maintenance, at the cost of consuming more resources, allows ship girls to be repaired and put back into the dock more quickly.

While not as rare as strategic-level admiral buffs like Heavy Damage Protection or Wartime Damage Control, it is still a very rare special admiral buff ability. The difference is roughly that the admiral's Rapid Maintenance buff is a four-star rare buff, while those strategic buffs are five-star or six-star.

While relatively rare, it is also extremely useful, as can be seen from the difference that various materials are only the regular reserves of the garrison, while the barrelled high-speed repair fluid is a strategic reserve.

In naval bases that aren't the kind where you can use high-speed repair fluid like shower gel, this admiral's blessing ability is equivalent to allowing more ship girls to return to the battlefield in the same amount of time. Putting aside some ship girls who like to take baths and their slight complaints about admirals with this blessing ability, this skill greatly enhances the continuous combat capability of a naval base.

It is especially useful for forward garrisons that have just been established, where the area is still unstable and the reserves of high-speed repair fluid are insufficient or not enough.

This is why the admiral was able to have such a front-line naval base right after graduating from the academy. With all the subsidies and the admiral's own reserves, she could have become a rising star in the Pacific Ocean. At least, the admiral herself has never denied that.

Unfortunately, the first ship girl built by our admiral was the Protoss Ark Adun, who was capable of challenging the title of "King of the Buckets". In addition, because Adun was too big, it broke the construction device when it was born. As a result, the admiral's general star fell to the beach before it rose more than a meter. The admiral has always denied this point of view.

Even if the admiral is currently at H rank 99 and his special skill has been enhanced to reduce the time to enter the canal by two-thirds, this admiral's blessing is still dispensable for Adun, whose maintenance time is calculated in years just by using a skill.

"If you keep explaining like that, I'll switch to rusted shells, you bastard!!" Hearing Adun reiterate that the admiral's blessing was dispensable to her, the admiral, who had just finished a round, immediately stuffed a shell with a skull and crossbones symbol into his butt.

"Alright, I surrender, I surrender." Although he didn't think the rust bombs the admiral mentioned would have any effect on him, being repeatedly slapped in the face by the admiral without being able to fight back would be embarrassing in front of his new subordinates, so Adon immediately raised the white flag.

"Let's not talk about my awful ability anymore. Admiral Adon, what's your buff from being an admiral?"

Looking at Adun, whose face was covered in soot, the admiral suddenly felt like a failure as a person. He dropped his weapon, slumped weakly on the conference table, and asked...

"My special buff?" Hmm, should I be honest with the admiral that my so-called mental network is just a knock-off? So not only does it not have the kind of special buff that sounds cool but is actually useless, it doesn't even have the most basic attack and defense buffs?

Noticing Admiral Adon's hesitation, the admiral asked curiously, "Adon, haven't you awakened your special buff yet? That doesn't make sense. Your mental network maturity is high enough that you could easily call yourself the governor. How could you not even have a special buff?"

In reality, there wasn't even any basic buff; all of this was due to my ship girl skills.

Just as Adun was about to confess, Wo-chan, who was wiping the grime off Adun's face with the jellyfish-like tentacles above her head, suddenly spoke up, saying "wowowo".

Upon understanding what Wo-chan was saying, Ya-dun's expression froze for a moment. He swallowed back all the words he was about to say and asked, "Really?"

"Wo!" Wo-chan confidently affirmed in response to Yaton's question.

"What are you talking about..." The admiral, feeling looked down upon by his own ship girls for their poor foreign language skills, slammed his hand on the table to assert his presence.

"Hmm, Wo-chan said she can feel my special blessing." But this thing doesn't really count as a special blessing, right? Looking at Wo-chan's confident look, Adon didn't offer any further explanation.

"Huh? The admiral doesn't even know what kind of blessing she has, but the ship girls under her command do?" The admiral asked, puzzled by this.

"To be precise, I knew, but I didn't think that counted as an Admiral's blessing." That wasn't an Admiral's blessing to begin with; it should be considered a normal application of the Kalak Light, the core technology of the Kalak Protoss. The so-called Mind Network was just a basic manifestation.

"Impressive?" The admiral once again stared intently at Admiral Adon, the ship that had begun to serve as admiral on the side.

"It must be pretty powerful..." Since she couldn't find a suitable comparison, Adon gave a vague answer: "To put it simply, it's a ship girl who has signed a contract with me and can use my skills."

"You can use your skills? Are you a hero with many skills... Oh, let's leave that topic aside." The admiral, who no longer doubted that his blood-testing ship girl, Adun, was a hero ship girl (a ship girl who could be an admiral), continued to ask, "What kind of skills does she have?"

"Not all of them can use them. Depending on the type of ship girl, the skills they can use also vary. For example, Wo-chan cannot use Psionic Blade, Phase Cloak, Prism Core, or Time Stop Field..."

"Wait, wait, just tell me what Wo-chan can do." The admiral, who was overwhelmed by Ayton's list of amazing skills that he didn't understand, quickly stopped him.

Since he's already become an admiral, it wouldn't be surprising if something else happened to Adun. The admiral felt no pressure at all about the tons of skills Adun mentioned.

"Let me see..." After organizing the information on the Deep Sea Colonel aircraft carrier Wo-chan in his Kara Light Network, Adun's expression became somewhat strange:

"Wo-chan can use psionic storms, apparitions, and... feedback."

"Are these skills strange?" the admiral asked curiously, noticing the strange expression on Adun's face.

"I was just wondering if we should hold a ceremony to confer the title of High Templar. The birth of every High Templar requires a grand ceremony."

Ardon discovers that the special skill Wo-chan inherited from him is exactly the same as the ability of a High Templar of the Protoss. Could it be that he really wants to spread the doctrine of the Kara in this other world? And Colonel Wo, who comes from the deep sea, is the first pioneer to become a High Templar under the light of the Kara.

"What are you talking about? What high-ranking Templar? What ceremony?" The admiral was completely bewildered.

"Just kidding." Let's talk about spreading the teachings of the Khala later. After all, the Khala Protoss aren't the whole Protoss; I bear the name of the Spear of Adun.

"..." It seems that the admiral, who had not only become accustomed to Adun's various strange behaviors, but also had to start getting used to Adun's inexplicable words, had no choice but to temporarily put aside his curiosity: "Are these skills powerful?"

"I'm not quite sure either." Whether something is powerful or not needs to be compared, and Adun, whose understanding of this world is currently limited to this temporary garrison, didn't know how to answer.

"Why don't you let your ship girls try it?" the admiral suggested.

“Okay, Wo-chan, you try Psionic Storm.” Adun, who also didn’t know how those skills would be modified in this world, gave the order.

As soon as Wo-chan raised her hand, making a gesture as if she wanted to unleash something, Adon's expression changed drastically. He quickly pressed down on Wo-chan's arm and the floating jellyfish-like tentacles, saying, "Minimum output, minimum output!"

"Wo?" Wo-chan, who was being hugged, showed an adorable, blank expression.

"It's just a brief demonstration, don't overdo it." Adun breathed a sigh of relief as he felt the psionic fluctuations finally subside.

"Wo!" This time, Wo-chan understood and held her hands to her chest. In the center of her loosely clenched hands, a ball of blue lightning swirled and flowed slowly. Just as the Admiral and Kogan felt a unique beauty in this ball of lightning, "snap" as if the power had been cut off, and the swirling light disappeared without a trace.

“Wo…” Wo-chan was very unhappy.

"Practice makes perfect, practice makes perfect." Yaton, who wanted to pat Wo-chan's head to comfort her, didn't know how to start.

"That's it?" The admiral was full of question marks. He thought it was amazing after hearing such a long list of skills, but it turned out to be just that.

“That’s how it is in theory…” Yaton glanced out the window and looked at the dark clouds that had suddenly appeared, thankful that he had stopped Wo-chan from doing something reckless.

In the end, it was Kokang that first discovered the weather conditions outside the garrison.

"Admiral? Is the weather forecast predicting heavy rain today? Why is it already dark?"

"What?"

Chapter 37: Enemy troops were accidentally wounded!

Lying on the sea surface in a fallen position, Xiao Bei trembled and tried to control his deep-sea ship equipment to stand up again, but only failed in a series of comical failures.

Recalling the immense power surge he had just felt, and the lingering dark clouds above the garrison town not far away, Xiao Bei could only utter one sentence:

Are all the ship girls in that naval base monsters?

No wonder the king didn't take immediate action against this garrison.

No wonder the king issued all sorts of strange orders strictly prohibiting provocative behavior.

No wonder the Second King acted so strangely when assigning the patrol routes according to the First King's orders.

If these "no wonder" explanations are based on the premise that the opposing ship girl is such a monster, then all the guesses become clear.

It's not that the King has any relationship with the admiral of this naval base; what the King may simply want is to maintain a stable relationship with this newly established naval base that avoids war.

The frontline patrols that circle around all day aren't actually protecting the enemy. In the eyes of the Second King, the biggest role of his deep-sea assault ship girls is probably to issue the first warning when the enemy is about to make a move.

It seemed to be merely proclaiming who the true master of this sea area was, but this pure and widespread destructive power was suppressed just before it was about to erupt.

Could it be that Wo-chan didn't find an admiral who could satisfy her desires, but was instead sunk without any resistance?

No! Wo-chan won't sink like that. Even if Wo-chan sinks, I will still try to pull her out. Whether Wo-chan returns to the unconscious novice deep sea or becomes a ship girl, I will stay with her!