The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

The only time I used both the main body's firepower and the ship's firepower was when I was fighting with Omega because of our inherent hostility.

Normally, Adun doesn't need to use these weapons, which are somewhat overpowered by the local ship girls.

However, when facing a metallic planet with a radius of several thousand kilometers, roughly the same size as the planet beneath their feet, the human form's output was not quite enough.

In particular, Adun intends to resolve the Gemini crisis in the simplest and most direct way.

That is, just before the planet is successfully teleported, powerful energy is directly poured into the planetary projection that is about to fall into the display.

It would cause a space explosion powerful enough to tear apart the planet's destruction channel, but without harming reality.

Attacking too early, such as when the metal planet is halfway through its teleportation, might not be able to damage the space tunnel itself. But if it's too late, even if the planet that has fallen into reality is destroyed, the consequences would be worse than if the metal planet became Earth's companion planet.

So Adun waited and calculated how much effort was needed.

The final result was neither good nor bad: it was possible to do this, but only by using its own ship.

Therefore, given that it is impossible to collect enough resources to support the full firepower of its ship equipment in a short period of time, Adun can only use some special means, some means that should be considered Adun's trump cards.

Although this trump card is often used by Adun, it has even been used by some ship girls and admirals who are unaware of it as a mental network for admirals to sign contracts with ship girls.

The Light of Khala, or more accurately, Adun's version of the Light of Khala, is not recreated with the power of the Kedarin Crystals, but with Adun's own power, to recreate this greatest miracle in Protoss history.

Although Adun's Light of the Khala is fundamentally different from the Protoss's original Light of the Khala, even if a high-ranking Templar were to personally analyze which of the two Lights of the Khala is the original and which is the Adun version, they might still guess wrong.

Because of this identical characteristic to the Golden Radiance, Adun's Light of the Khala also possesses one of the most important features of the original Protoss Light of the Khala.

The more spirits are integrated, the stronger the Protoss... no, the stronger Adun becomes.

It's like a standalone server suddenly being assisted by many cloud computing servers.

That's why those two sentences rang in everyone's ears at the same time, and why Arden said, "Embrace the glory of Kara."

All the ship girls, whether they had a contract or not, whether the admiral was by their side or not, were surprised... or rather horrified to discover that they seemed to have signed a new contract with another admiral.

This situation instantly threw the ship girls, who had expected to sacrifice themselves for everything, into a panic. This wasn't what they thought! What happened to giving everything? How did it suddenly turn into a ridiculous scenario? Especially since this admiral, why are you being ridiculous in front of my admiral?

Unfortunately, these ship girls who have admirals don't have any opinions on signing contracts with other admirals, because these admirals are also facing major crises in their lives.

"Holy crap, I... I'm a human being, how did I become a contracted party?" This was the question on everyone's mind.

"Aaaaaah, I don't want to be a ship boy!!" This is unacceptable reality.

"This governor can even sign contracts with admirals? That's terrifying." This is a rumor.

"Huh? I've been signed into a contract? Does that mean I'm going to become a ship girl? I'm so nervous! Which ship equipment will I inherit? Battleship? Aircraft carrier? Or destroyer?" This is crazy, and it's a guy.

Soon, the ship girls and admirals who had been signed what appeared to be a mental contract discovered that it wasn't just them, the soldiers, who had been signed; even the ordinary people around them had been included in this mental network.

Many admirals, and even some ship girls, especially North Carolina, commented: "Adun is going to appeal to everyone, regardless of gender or age!"

Just as the Central Academy, the ship girl admirals in the nearby seas, and ordinary people were somewhat panicked by this situation, a spatial rift opened directly in the sky.

Then a golden, cone-shaped warship, nearly a hundred times the length of a human, pierced through the spatial rift and appeared before everyone's eyes. For a moment, even the most talkative and sarcastic people were speechless.

The Adun body, which is 77 kilometers long, is theoretically much smaller than the planet that hangs upside down in the sky. However, compared to that planet, the Adun body directly above one's head is even more awe-inspiring.

Finally, at this moment, the ship girls and admirals learned that the rumor about interstellar warship ship girls being summoned was not fabricated.

Because it's immediately obvious that Adun's true form was created to serve interstellar needs.

Standing atop his fully realized ship, Adun looked up at the massive metallic planet in the sky and said, after a long silence:

"Praise the Sun"

☆, Chapter 425: An Additional Clan

When the golden warship turned its bow and fired a beam of sunlight containing enough energy to overwhelm any energy detector, it aimed at the metallic planet that was about to complete its teleportation.

Most of the Central Academy ship girls who were forcibly signed learned of the other party's identity from the three leader-class ship girls: Enterprise, Queen of the North, and Chief Instructor.

This message was then relayed by the ship girls to the admirals around them, causing the admirals to lose their senses.

"What? A new governor? A new governor who's also a ship girl?"

"Has the era of admirals passed? Is it now the era of ship girls?"

Such comments were common, and not a single admiral or ship girl questioned why Adun had become the governor.

Even the Enterprise's Chief Instructor and the Queen of the North unanimously recognized Adun's status, so the opinions of others, including the Council, were irrelevant.

While it's uncertain whether other naval districts will recognize this governor, at least the Central Academy and the core area of ​​the Pacific theater, comprised of the surrounding fortified cities, will acknowledge Adun as the new governor.

Moreover, even if other naval bases don't acknowledge it, the entire Pacific theater can see the planet hanging upside down in the sky, whose surface metal had been melted away by Adun's shot.

I wonder if they can see it from the deep sea. If they can, anyone would be scared unless they're in a crazy deep sea.

For example, the newly born deep-sea aircraft carrier, its limbs trembling, hugged its newly recognized leader, wo-chan, and exclaimed in surprise:

"This...this...this ship...is this your admiral, boss?"

“Wowo!” Even though she had only seen a part of Adun’s true form once, Wo-chan was still taken aback by Adun’s complete form and said proudly.

"...Um..." The deep-sea carrier, who could understand the Chinese language, said somewhat embarrassedly, "Boss, does your admiral...still recruit henchmen?"

“Wowo!” Wo-chan nodded, not at all surprised by what the younger ship said.

"Um, boss, I'm your underling now. I mean, boss, isn't your admiral's subordinate your underling?" Deep Sea Carrier was a little flustered when she heard Wo-chan say, "Didn't I already take you in?"

"Wo?" Wo-chan asked curiously.

"Of course there's a difference!! Although there's no inherent hostility, but, but how come your admiral is also a ship girl?" The newly formed deep-sea carrier suddenly felt that her new boss had something wrong with his head.

"Wo?" (Aren't you one too?) Wo-chan said, glancing at the little brother she had just subdued with her fists. Actually, she could have taken the aluminum bars, but why would Wo-chan take out the aluminum bars from her ship's equipment space and give them to other ships? Not even Adun!

"I...I...Is my transformation incomplete?" The newly formed deep-sea carrier touched its head and asked in a strange manner, looking at the jellyfish-like ship that looked just like Wo-chan.

"wowowo" wo-chan first shook her head, then nodded, and then, in front of this deep-sea aircraft carrier, she transformed into wosex-chan.

The deep-sea aircraft carrier was so frightened that it fell to the ground and scrambled back several meters on its hands and feet.

She almost thought her captain was an ordinary ship girl disguised as a deep-sea ship girl.

"wowowo" wo-chan earnestly explained that with Adun's help, she could transform into a normal ship girl. Then she took out a mirror, pointed to her body, and then pointed to the Deepsea Aircraft Carrier.

"What I used to look like? So you've seen what I used to look like, boss." The newly formed deep-sea carrier was somewhat surprised by what wo-chan said.

"Wowo!" Wo-chan nodded again and then changed back to her original form.

"So that's how it is..." After struggling to stand up several times, the deep-sea carrier simply knelt on the ground, looked at the huge spaceship above its head, and sighed.

Adun, who was walking inside his ship, saw this scene and simply smiled without offering any comment.

Adun wouldn't object to bringing this deep-sea carrier under his command, since the carrier's predecessor was capable of transforming into the Dark Archon on its own.

If the deep-sea aircraft carrier wishes, Adun could even help the other party regain their memories.

But that's all for the future. Right now, Adun looks at the empty city inside his ship with nostalgic eyes, as if he can see many Protoss wandering around.

The Light of Kara's forced signing of all Central Academy members won't last long, because once the ideal of saving the world disappears, even if Adun doesn't intervene, those people will gradually sever their connection with the Light of Kara.

Although it will result in a loss of some mental energy, it will not cause any serious consequences.

After all, the population of the Central Academy alone exceeds the combined population of all the Protoss clans.

The saying "If the Protoss are less than a hundred, they are invincible if they are a hundred" is not an exaggeration at all. Of course, the unit used is ten thousand.

To directly confront a Protoss force of millions, whether it's the Terrans of Hyperion or the Zerg of Kerrigan, you'd need at least tens of billions.

It was originally thought that only one-tenth or even less of the people in these native worlds would meet the conditions for voluntarily joining the Light of Kara.

Unexpectedly, everyone was included in the influence of Kara's Light.

This means that almost everyone was prepared to sacrifice themselves, which is why, after realizing this, Adun said to the Enterprise, "I have never seen such a 'great' civilization before."

A civilization like this, free from religious influence and imprinted with the belief that one can selflessly sacrifice for a goal at any time, can be described as "great" regardless of its level of development.

Millions of souls, bound by a single belief, contributed their power to Adun in the Light of Khala, remaining fearless even when Adun realized after firing that the metallic planet was not simply a planet.

If the Protoss had encountered such a civilization during the Age of Expedition, perhaps an additional clan branch would have emerged within them.

As Adon walked to a quiet room, his expression became somewhat speechless, but he quickly recovered and said in a very subtle tone, "Well, perhaps there really should be another clan."

In the stillness chamber, in those cryogenic chambers that should have frozen the Protoss Templar Legion, there was a black-haired girl whose human form was very similar to Adun's.

The influence of the World Force made Adun eagerly anticipate the reaction of these Templars after their awakening.

I'm so excited!

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Hmm... I woke up late and am trying to type.

Chapter 426 Disaster Relief and Some Reactions

The Central Academy collapsed; at least most of its foundation collapsed. The engineering ship girls had considered the issue of sturdiness during its construction and used various reinforcement techniques on the wreckage that made up the foundation of the Central Academy.

Some of the engineering ship girls who were in charge of the design and construction said that this was a project that would last a thousand years, and that underwater volcanic eruptions and hydrogen bombs would not have any impact on it.

However, it is clear that the engineering ship girls who registered for design and construction never considered how to deal with the gravitational waves of a planet about the size of Earth in their disaster prevention plans.

After all... unless something like this actually happens, no one would believe it if you told them.

As a result, the Central Academy collapsed, and all the residents, whether ordinary people, ship girls, or admirals, became disaster victims.

Fortunately, the Central Academy is located in a city at sea, and half of the disaster victims are ship girls.

As a result, almost everyone felt no sense of disaster. For these ship girls, living in the water was no different from living on land, and the former might even be more comfortable.

Meanwhile, the other disaster victims who were not ship girls were rescued by a fleet that came to their aid.

A super-gorgeous fleet with dozens of Hero-class ship girls alone led some conspiracy theorists to identify which naval base this fleet, in which all the Hero-class ship girls had summoned their glorious hulls, came from.

Everyone is speculating whether that general who always opposes the Enterprise is going to take advantage of the Enterprise's misfortune to cause trouble.

These paranoid individuals had no idea that the admiral of this massive fleet, the veteran general of the Pacific Theater, Admiral Xia Yuantang of Naval Base No. 233, was in a state of utter bewilderment.

Even the general's robe draped over his body, embroidered with the words "Justice" on the back, which should have been fluttering in the sea breeze, hung limply on the gorilla admiral's body.

Although this gorilla admiral was reluctant to admit it, he directly drew more than half of his main force from his own naval base, and even abandoned many deep-sea positions to come to the Central Academy in order to save the emperor.

Save Central College, and that old, thieving Enterprise.

This unconventional choice was largely due to the relationship between Charlotte, the son of Admiral Xia Yuantang, and Tidu, as well as the relationship between Tidu and the Enterprise.