The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

Especially since she took off her clothes when zooming in, Akagi now looks like she's been soaking in water for a while.

"Pain? A little, but this pain is nothing to a ship girl," North Carolina said nonchalantly.

“For ship girls like us who participated in the first battle, this kind of pain is really nothing.” Akagi agreed with Kitazaya’s words.

"Okay, you guys are amazing." Anyway, Hyperion couldn't quite understand why Akagi and North Carolina could ignore the feeling of being soaked in the corrosive solution.

If Enterprise were here, she would definitely explain that the sensory pain caused to the ship girls by this liquid varies depending on the size of the ship girl and the number of ship equipment.

The larger the displacement of the ship and the more ship equipment it carries, the stronger it is, which means that more forces are shielded by this liquid.

The more shielding there is, the more severe the burning and corrosive feeling will be for the ship girls.

That's why the Hyperion is in so much pain from even the slightest touch that she wants to blow her fingers. If an ordinary destroyer ship girl were to get soaked, it wouldn't cause her much unbearable suffering.

After all, the original intention of creating this action was to allow the military police to deal with any admirals who disobeyed orders along with their own ship girls when they encountered them during their missions by giving them a good scolding.

Just as Akagi and Kitazaki just said, because there has been no governor for a long time, the Pacific theater is only one step away from a situation of warring factions.

Just as Hyperion was marveling at how powerful Northgard and Akagi were due to his ignorance, Adun's command reached Hyperion's ears through the unaffected Light of Kara.

"Huh? Why am I the one doing the babysitting? I'm going to beat that ship to a pulp too!"

"Why, you ask? I'm avenging my fingers!"

"Alright, alright, I'll obey."

After muttering a few words to itself, the Hyperion flew backwards amidst the bewildered gazes of the North House and Akagi ships.

Chapter 421 Long Live the Mighty Heaven

Although the knock-off admiral network Kara's Light in Admiral Adon was not affected by this liquid, both Kaga and Atlanta inevitably lost their ability to perceive their own ship equipment, just like other ship girls.

Kaga's performance was alright; at least her contract with Adun remained unchanged. For this IJN carrier ship girl, as long as Adun was still there, it didn't matter if she was a weak woman who couldn't even kill a chicken.

Atlanta, who had only recently inherited her ship's memories, was gripped by fears from the past and fell into extreme terror.

Finally, Hyperion had to slap Atalanta a few times to bring her back from her terror:

"Where is that...that aircraft carrier?" Hyperion asked Kaga, who was initially fine but startled by his own actions, as he tossed Atlanta, who was still somewhat dazed from the shock therapy, to the ground.

Unexpectedly, her usually kind and easy-going secretary ship turned out to be such a "fierce" ship girl. Kaga quickly reported to the Hyperion about how Wo-chan suddenly rushed into the rain and disappeared.

"Huh? It's only been a short time, and there are already three aircraft carrier ship girls! Do I have to transform myself into an aircraft carrier too??" After hearing Kaga's words, even though Adun didn't explain to her, Hyperion could deduce when it happened based on various pieces of information.

It seems that Essex has definitely become a deep-sea aircraft carrier, otherwise why would Wo-chan be sent to pick it up?

And based on that psionic self-destruction just now, that Essex ship is definitely a full-fledged employee!

"What does Secretary Ship mean?" Kaga asked, somewhat bewildered.

"It means that you'll become a senior in a little while... well, something like that," Hyperion said, shrugging his shoulders.

Then, seeing Kaga's somewhat happy expression as she came to her senses, she continued, "However, your junior, like your captain, is also a deep-sea aircraft carrier."

Kaga's expression immediately froze. Although Kaga knew that she was also a deep-sea character before, it didn't mean that she would have to stay with the deep-sea characters after becoming a ship girl.

Ignoring Kaga's somewhat bewildered expression, Hyperion turned his gaze towards the location of the Military Police headquarters where the psionic explosion had occurred, and muttered to himself:

"Strange, that special ship girl is still alive. I might not even have survived such an explosion."

While surviving such a psionic explosion doesn't necessarily mean that the Nemesis is more powerful than the Hyperion, it does prove that, at least in terms of durability and armor, the Nemesis is superior to the Hyperion.

However, it was only slightly more powerful. Ardon flew in mid-air, looking at the somewhat miserable-looking Retribution in front of him, and said, "Is this your trump card?"

"Heh... hiss... heh, sizzle... this... sizzle... sizzle..." Because he didn't know the power of a Dark Ruler's self-destruction, the lower half of Retribution's face and chest, which were tattered and no different from scrap metal, were completely shattered into fragments. Amidst the scattered sparks, a blue sphere could be vaguely seen.

Knowing that the Retribution's voice had become like this because its vocal organs had been severely damaged, Ardon frowned, then raised his hand and threw a ball of psionic energy, allowing the other party to speak without using its body.

Upon discovering that he could speak, the Retribution Cry touched his still-damaged neck. His eyes, which had not suffered much injury, looked at Adon with a change from mockery to caution and fear.

This shift in her mindset made her abandon her original plan to mock Adun about the origin of the liquid. Instead, she asked Adun in a tone of utter incomprehension:

"Powerful foreign warship, why would you choose to serve those ignorant humans in this backward world?"

Adun's display of combat power, which directly overwhelmed her by hundreds of years, made the Retribution ship very puzzled as to why Adun, who possessed such combat power, would adopt a posture of loyalty to the humans of this world.

"So what do you think I should do?" Ardon asked with a smile to the Retribution.

As Adun spoke, clusters of invisible psionic shackles anchored themselves around the Nemesis. Unless the Nemesis was powerful enough to ignore the Protoss's spatial anchoring field, it would be impossible to use a similar spatial jump ability.

Although Adun is not sure if the Nemesis has a similar warp ability, locking space upon encountering an enemy is a standard combat tactic of the Protoss in the StarCraft era, or at least.

Upon realizing this, Retribution paused for a moment. Because of the severe damage to her face, it was impossible to discern the ship girl's expression, but it was clearly not a happy one.

"Have you never thought about ruling the world?" Retribution asked.

"Why should I rule the world?" Adun, who had everything under control, retorted.

"Does a lion ever ask itself why it eats a rabbit?" The Retribution seemed to be laughing, but unfortunately, when Adun granted the other party the ability to speak with psionic powers, he didn't give it these psionic emojis.

"Standard raider civilization thinking..." Adun said with a slight smile. Because this kind of civilization, where "I am stronger than you, so I am in a higher position on the food chain, so it is normal for me to rule you, enslave you, or even destroy you," has many such examples in Adun's memory bank.

"But if one day you find out that you are the rabbit, will you question the lion about why he ate you?" Adun asked the Retribution.

Adun's question startled Retribution for a moment, but Retribution quickly realized that the topic seemed to have been steered off course by the ship girl in front of her who was much stronger than herself, and said:

"So you're a warship that follows the Autobot doctrine. If you ever meet Ark, you'll definitely get along well."

“The Autobots?” Adun tilted his head and said, “Unfortunately, the doctrines I follow are not what you think they are.”

The database at Beizhai's house contains detailed information about the two distinct factions within the robot civilization to which the Nascent Soul belongs, because the Autobots, as mentioned by the Nascent Soul, were robots who once fought alongside humans against the Nascent Soul's faction.

"But what you're doing now, how is it any different from those traitors? Even if you're a warship made by humans, your creator has nothing to do with the humans of this world."

If Adun had given the Nemesis's speaking abilities emoji functionality, the Nemesis would be laughing out loud right now.

Ardon shook her head, revealing an expression that seemed both wistful and somewhat helpless. Just as she was about to tell the Retribution that even if she saw the Ark belonging to their mechanical civilization, they might not be able to get along, she realized that...

A native ship girl, wobbling and staggering, flew up to her and shouted:

"She's stalling for time! Stop her!! Otherwise, it'll be too late!!"

"What a pity, you're always a step too late, Enterprise of humanity." The Retribution was not surprised by the appearance of this ship girl. Just as she had said before, she had already accomplished what she wanted to do.

All that's needed is to give up the last bit of strength, and everything that has already been prepared can be accomplished.

Originally, the plan was to use the Enterprise and all the ship girls from the Central Academy as energy sources, but now it seems that the Retribution will have to use another backup plan.

Although this backup plan should have been considered the official plan.

Just as the Retribution told the escaped Enterprise that it was too late, the Retribution's body began to disintegrate little by little.

It was not a severe collapse, but a self-inflicted collapse.

At the same time, machines rose into the sky from the Central Academy and even the fortified cities surrounding it.

"This is... something like a hyperspace stabilizer? Are you trying to bring in reinforcements?" Adun wasn't surprised by the Enterprise's appearance, since she was the one who protected the Enterprise from being affected by Essex's self-destruction.

Adon, sensing something, looked up and saw a metallic planet, roughly the size of Earth beneath his feet, crashing down into the sky amidst a spatial distortion.

If he could laugh, Retribution Number would spread out his hands, now nothing but metal skeletons, as if to embrace it all, and shout:

"Forever obey the master's will!!! Long live Megatron!!! Long live Cybertron!!"

Chapter 422 Olok-natal

The Retribution, which shattered into a curtain of light along with the AllSpark, seemed to have completed the final step.

The metallic planet, which had been like a projection, instantly solidified.

At this moment, on any side of the planet facing away from the sun, whether it was the human faction or the deep-sea faction, everyone could see that this massive metallic planet had blocked out the light of the stars, and even made the brightest moon in the night sky dim.

"Was there...an earthquake?" The shaking of the ground caused Atlanta, whose legs were already weak, to fall to the ground, and Kaga, who was standing next to her, also collapsed to the ground.

"No... this is a gravitational wave leak, and only a small portion of it." The shaking ground did not affect the Hyperion, but the human battlecruiser's expression was extremely grim.

If the planet that is passing through the space gate, which is in a state between existence and non-existence, is completely teleported to the planet below.

Even if that metallic planet does nothing, its sheer gravity would be enough to cause a plate tectonics event on Earth.

The planetary-level terrain changes can be described as a natural disaster for any civilization existing on this planet at any time.

Hyperion might not be greatly affected, because she had witnessed a planet being swallowed by a star alongside her former commander... but what about the other native ship girls, and the humans?

If left unchecked, Hyperion guarantees that the civilization of this world will be reshuffled once again.

If I had known that special ship girl was preparing for such a big event... oh well, let Adun deal with it.

With this in mind, Hyperion stomped on the ground, stabilizing the surrounding area and preventing it from shaking.

Although the Hyperion's abilities were insufficient to bring the Central Academy to a complete standstill, at least the area right at its feet could be guaranteed to remain intact even if the Central Academy fell apart.

As for why Hyperion made such a guarantee, it's because that stray gravitational wave might not have much effect on the tectonic plates, but for the Central Academy, which is made up of a pile of metal debris...

This base, which stands in the Pacific Theater and has been the core of the Pacific Theater since the end of the first battle, has begun to fall apart.

“I think you can do some disaster relief work.” Adun said to Enterprise beside him, not too bothered by the fact that the Nemesis had used up all its existence power to make the hyperspace summoning possible.

"You're that child's ship girl? I remember your name? Spear of Adun? Support and supply mothership?"

Enterprise, ignoring what Adon had to say, bombarded him with a series of questions.

"Are these things important?" Yaton lowered his head and saw that the two deep-sea carriers had already gathered together. Moreover, with the absolute difference in strength, Wo-chan made the newly formed deep-sea carrier understand who the boss was.

“It wouldn’t normally be important, but for me, the newly appointed General of the Military Police, it’s essential to get to know my future governor,” said the Enterprise, which, like the Adun Retribution, the Hyperion, and the Omega No. 233, can fly.

"Why do you think that after all these things have happened, I, as the governor, would still appoint you as the general of the military police? Or rather... why would I still retain the military police force?"

As Adun asked the question, he did not look at the Enterprise. In fact, until now, Adun had never really looked at the ship that was his admiral's adoptive mother.

All of Adun’s attention was focused on the metal planet hanging in the sky.

If left unchecked, within an hour at most, this planet, which already has a third of its surface in real space, will completely detach from its current illusory state between existence and non-existence, and become a twin planet with the planet beneath our feet.

"Unfortunately, even if you become the governor of the Pacific Theater, you will not have the power to appoint or dismiss the military police general, nor will you have the right to abolish the military police organization."

Enterprise was somewhat surprised by Ardon's words and Ardon's attitude towards her.

“If you had more information, you should know that I have no interest in the rights you’re talking about,” Adun said, shaking his head at Enterprise.

"If I'm really interested, I'll get everything I want myself."

"This doesn't sound like something a ship girl would say, encouraging her admiral to go against the military police, even if it meant joining the Abyss." Enterprise, flying in the air, crossed one arm over her chest and pressed the white naval cap on her head with the other.