The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

Should I call my sister over?

Nelson didn't say she wanted to summon all the ship girls, even though that was her intention. Unfortunately, due to the limitations of the temporary teleportation, only the Prince of Wales, who was the flagship leading the expedition, the Nelson and Rodney sisters, who were in charge of artillery support, and the head maid and secretary ship, Renown, who was in charge of serving the young master's daily life, accompanied him this time.

Including the ship that has always been with the young master, and the unknown ship girl that the young master summoned during his first major construction, the entire fleet is not enough for a full complement of six ships.

Although they were all very confident in their fighting abilities, this confidence, when facing the unknown Deep Sea Princess, could be translated as: if they didn't do anything reckless, they should be able to escape from the Deep Sea Princess.

The problem is that the young master came along too. Just because I'm confident I can escape doesn't mean I can safely take him with me. And if the Deep Sea Princess notices that the young master is here, and she's interested in him, then we'll be in big trouble.

When facing the Deep Sea Princess, we can escape, but when faced with the Deep Sea Princess leading her home port's deep-sea fleet to swarm us... we are all at least general-class or even quasi-hero-class ship girls, but we shouldn't be fighting this kind of asymmetric war.

The combat power of the Abyssal Princesses is definitely at the leader level in the ship girl category. An Abyssal Princess with multiple high-ranking ship girls under her command means she has a complete Abyssal fleet. What kind of fleet would it be if she didn't have a few hero-class Abyssal Princesses?

"Have her take good care of the young master and send a coded telegram back to the garrison to inform the admiral of the situation so he can make a decision." After a moment of contemplation, the Prince of Wales added, "Don't make any moves that might alert the enemy. I'll sail towards the inland sea first and take a detour to save time."

"Aren't you going to tell the young master?" Renown, who was temporarily serving as the young master's secretary ship, did not object to the prince, but she still reminded the prince when sending the telegram that the current commander was not the admiral, but the young master.

This move, which bypasses the theoretical commander of the fleet and reports directly to a higher level, is frankly more serious than the previous actions of the Prestige.

“I will tell the young master once everything has settled down,” the Prince of Wales said, finding a reason to convince himself.

That's how confident the British ship girls are!

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Chapter 40: You're not seeing things, this is the fourth update.

"...I'll tell you what happened after everything settles down, young master...?" Having found a good reason, the Prince of Wales suddenly felt a sudden pang of anxiety. The direct result of this anxiety was that the Glory form, which had been steadily resting on the sea, began to shake violently as if it had encountered a very high wave.

The shaking didn't make the ship girls, who were at sea just like at home, uncomfortable, but the whiskey in their glasses was clearly not used to the shaking and immediately spilled onto Prince and Nelson.

"What happened?" Nelson asked, tossing his wine glass into his ship equipment space and letting Reputation wipe his clothes and ship equipment with a napkin.

“I don’t know. It seems like a strange force swept over me. Although I didn’t feel any hostility, but…” The Prince of Wales didn’t finish his sentence because even the Prestige turned their gaze to what should have been their destination.

In their eyes, a dark cloud, no less intense than the deep sea, suddenly appeared in the sea area that should have belonged to the human race.

"Is that the power of the Deep Sea Princess of this sea area?" Nelson frowned, because she did not sense the cold power of the deep sea from that distant black cloud, and the cloud was not connected to the deep sea area.

“No, it seems to be a problem with that garrison itself,” the Prince of Wales said, somewhat puzzled, as he also hadn’t sensed any deep-sea power.

Could the garrison headquarters that the young master is going to be a research and development base for some kind of secret weapon? The Prince of Wales and Nelson, who were thinking of this at the same time, looked at each other in bewilderment.

They actually placed the research base for their secret weapon on the front lines. Have those white-haired scientists in the human camp really gone mad as rumored?

"I have received the Admiral's order," Renown said, pressing his ear to his headset-like ship rigging.

"So fast? Has the Admiral been staying in the liaison office the whole time?" The Prince of Wales was a little surprised. She knew her Admiral very well. The Admiral of the 233rd Naval Base, who hated being ordered around, hated the liaison office the most.

“At least the Admiral was in the liaison office before we left.” This was tantamount to acknowledging the Prince of Wales’s suspicions. He continued, “The Admiral’s order was that a general in the field may disobey the emperor’s orders.”

"..." The Prince of Wales's one eye was about to turn into a mosquito coil again, and Nelson sighed and closed his eyes as well.

Although the admiral's words were strange, the ship girls present all knew what he meant.

In other words, it means: "Everything is up to my son! I'll take responsibility for any problems that arise!"

"...Didn't you say that Princess Suzaku was here?" The Prince of Wales tried to struggle.

"As I said, the Admiral has indicated that reinforcements are on their way," said Reputation, who had finished wiping Nelson's face, as he walked over to the Prince of Wales and continued wiping him.

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" The Prince of Wales breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing that reinforcements had arrived.

"Because we all know that distant water cannot quench immediate thirst." Reputation mimicked his admiral's literary style.

"..."

Naval Base No. 233 is thousands of kilometers away from here.

The hyperspace teleporter needs to cool down for several days after being used once, and the number of ships that can be teleported at one time is very limited. For the 233rd Naval Base, which is mainly composed of battleships, being able to teleport a fleet of six ship girls at once is already risking the teleporter breaking.

So what Reputation said is absolutely right, whether it's waiting for reinforcements to come from afar or waiting for the teleporter a few days later.

If you've really gotten into a fight with the Deep Sea Princess, you should have already had enough time to settle the battle.

They were unaware of the multifaceted reactions caused by the big blunder that Admiral Wo-chan, the first ship girl of Admiral Adon, had just made. Or rather, the admiral knew that Wo-chan had made a mistake. After all, even the most foolish admiral wouldn't mistake the dark clouds that appeared overhead when the sky was clear for a sudden change in weather, just like Gogan did.

She just hadn't expected the misunderstanding to be so big. As the admiral of Adun, even without Adun's protection, the psionic storm from Adun's power source wouldn't have affected her much, and neither would Kogan.

Ship girls cannot and will not harm their admirals; this is the most important aspect written into the ship girl contract.

Therefore, our admirals still have the energy to criticize Admiral Blessing for being completely useless, especially after learning that Admiral Blessing for Admiral does not have the basic attribute bonuses that all normal admirals have, which makes the criticism even more intense.

It was as if he wanted to get revenge for all the complaints Yaton had made about him in the past few days.

“Wo…” (Is the aluminum gone?) Knowing that the human in front of her was Admiral Adun, Wo-chan covered her head with her hands and said. In the eyes of ship girls, the admiral of an admiral is equivalent to the governor. In the eyes of deep-sea ship girls, their boss’s boss is probably a deep-sea princess-class existence. Moreover, when they were in the deep sea, Wo-chan’s boss was already a princess.

So in Wo-chan's eyes, the Admiral is already a big shot like the Deep Sea Princess. So when the Admiral mocked and ridiculed Adon, Wo-chan realized that she had done something wrong and could only squat down with her head in her hands, admit her mistake, and beg for a way out.

"It's okay, it's okay, I won't let you go hungry, sweetie." Patting Wo-chan's head, or rather, patting the jellyfish-like equipment on Wo-chan's head, Adun comforted herself as the first ship girl of the admiral.

"Hey! Are you listening to me, Admiral?" he said, his anger rising rapidly as he felt ignored.

"Huh, were you talking just now?" Adon asked with a bewildered expression that seemed to invite a punch.

"Aaaaaah, I'm going to purge the traitors! Kokang, don't stop me!!" The admiral, his rage exploding like a raging lion, even forgot about the PG next to him and jumped onto the table, intending to give Adon a flying kick.

Unfortunately, the admiral's valiant flying kick, which was caught by the quick-thinking and decisive man grabbing his leg, turned into a lunge landing on his chest.

Seeing the admiral's actions, Adon, whose size was also far beyond the standard, twitched at the corner of his eye, as if he also felt the pain of the water bag bursting under high pressure.

"This time I'm going to kill you!!" Unlike Kogan and Wo-chan, who didn't understand because they didn't know, the admiral immediately realized what Adon was thinking and his face turned red. He remained in the pouncing position, baring his teeth and claws, wanting to bite Adon to death.

Just as the admiral's mouth was about to touch the most prominent spot on Adun's body, Adun's expression suddenly turned very strange:

"Your Excellency, a fleet is approaching the naval base."

"What, a fleet?" Upon hearing Admiral Adon bring up serious matters, the admiral instantly recovered from his berserk state, straightened his naval uniform tie, and asked in a manner befitting a competent naval admiral.

"Hmm...and the way it appeared was very strange."

Holy crap, what kind of technology is this that directly tears through space to teleport to the nearby sea? What about the spatial tremors caused by tearing through space? Have the laws of physics been eaten...?

Although Adun was studying how to become an admiral when that fleet tore open the space teleportation, and all his energy was later used to suppress Wo-chan's blunder, the spatial folds caused by the tearing of space could not be hidden from Adun's reactivated phase array system.

Therefore, the Prince of Wales' method of teleportation did not escape Adun's notice. However, Adun did not know how they tore through space and how they ensured their safety after tearing through space.

"Hey, that kid's a real buddy. Not only did he actually bring a fleet, but he also used his dad's hyperspace teleporter. It wasn't a waste to have him as a follower, hahaha."

After hearing Admiral Adun's description of the fleet, his expression immediately changed, and he burst into laughter, patting Adun on the shoulder and saying:

"That black warship, right? You'll see when they arrive. It's a legendary big shot from the Eastern Pacific Theater. Hero-class ship girls who can unleash their glorious forms are rare. I'll introduce you to them then."

The admiral seems to know everything about the ship girls in that naval base of his younger brother's family.

"Admiral, what is Glory Form?" Adun asked curiously when he heard the admiral utter a new term.

"Huh, Adun, didn't you call yourself a hero-class ship girl? You don't even know this? Isn't this a memory that the first generation of ship girls came with? Oh right, I forgot that you had a concussion when you were born."

Hearing Ayton ask this question, the admiral became even more curious. Fortunately, he soon found a good answer to satisfy his curiosity.

“...Admiral…” Adon took a deep breath.

"What's the matter?" The admiral noticed the change in Admiral Adon's expression.

“I feel an overwhelming grief in my heart…” Adun touched the arm armor on his arm and said with a choked voice, “And this grief is gradually turning into killing intent.”

"Wait, Adun, let me explain!"

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This is the fourth update, and it's a 3000-word chapter! Starting tomorrow, I'll be updating 2-3 times a week. By the way, where did my cover go? It was supposed to automatically appear on recommendations.

☆, Chapter Forty-One: The World Power of This Pit Ship

"Oh, so this is the Glory Form?" After listening to the admiral's explanation of the hero-class ship girls' unique abilities and the activation of the Glory Form, and with the help of the black warship he had observed, Adon understood what was going on.

In short, it's an unscientific concept that once a ship girl reaches a certain level of combat power, she can project an avatar of her true self into the world.

While it's uncertain whether only hero-level ship girls can use this visually appealing but not very practical skill, any ship girl who can project her own body is a renowned and powerful figure.

Therefore, the ability to use the Glory Form often becomes the proof of a hero-level ship girl's heroism.

However, as mentioned, this skill is more for show than practical use. In the world of ship girls, bigger doesn't necessarily mean more powerful.

While aircraft carrier-class ship girls can summon more carrier-based aircraft at once after activating their Glory Form, battleship-class ship girls can greatly enhance the power of their artillery fire in their Glory Form.

Unfortunately, these hero-level ship girls, after projecting their glorious forms, mean giving up their greatest advantages, such as combat flexibility and the ability to evade artillery fire.

In group combat situations, skills that can enhance one's own combat effectiveness may play a strategic role, especially when dealing with enemies whose combat strength is inferior to one's own, resulting in a pure crushing victory.

However, when fighting against enemies of similar level, if someone suddenly activates their Glory Form, they are basically guaranteed to be defeated.

Under normal circumstances, a hero-class aircraft carrier is quite intimidated when encountering a submarine ship girl of roughly the same hero-class. After activating its glory form, it becomes an easy target.

The same applies to hero-class battleships. Battleship girls, who are already weak against aircraft carriers, will still be blown to pieces by carrier-based aircraft even if they activate their Glory Mode and gain extremely high firepower.

For this reason, the so-called Hero's Proof of Glory form of Hero-class ship girls is quite useless, and sometimes it is not as useful as the ship girls' own special skills.

Of course, it's not entirely useless. In the words of the admiral, the Glory Form is very useful when you need to travel. Anyway, the Glory Form isn't a short-term ability. For ship girls who are capable of activating the Glory Form, projecting their main body is as simple as activating their ship equipment.

In waters outside the front lines, some retired hero-class ship girls who haven't had their ship equipment dismantled rely on their glorious forms to run transport and earn a living.

(This hero-level ship girl is really pitiful; she doesn't even have a retirement pension.)

After all, in this day and age, a purely man-made ship is far too unsafe when facing an enemy.

If a lost deep-sea ship girl were to be encountered inside human territory, even a cruise ship girl without artillery capabilities would have a better survival rate than ships manufactured in human factories.

"Adon, can you activate your Glory Form?" Although this ability wasn't very useful, the admiral still looked at his Bloodline shipgirl with expectant eyes.

As long as Adun can unlock her Glory Form, the Admiral can proudly point to Adun and say to everyone, "Look, this is the ship girl I summoned on my first day as Admiral. She came out as a Hero-class ship, wahahahaha."

"My glorious form?" Adun looked at Kogan and Wo-chan, who were also looking at him along with the Admiral, and smacked his lips, not knowing what to say.

The previous claim about blocking out the sun was just a joke I made when I was drunk. I never expected that there would actually be a ship girl skill in this world that can project her true form. Is the world against me?

How could a newly created ship girl like me learn to project a glorious form? Besides, even if I did project a glorious form, I'd have to consider choosing sides the very next day.

Yadun was well aware that she was fundamentally different from the ship girls and deep-sea creatures of this world.

The ship girls native to this world, whether from the human or abyssal faction, are all heroic spirits that roam the ocean, but Adun's true form has absolutely nothing to do with seawater.

They're spaceships! They're not on the same wavelength as you bunch of little guys who haven't even left your planets yet.