The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

Perhaps she didn't determine exactly what kind of weapon solar rays were, but her effort to make herself safer in the first place is commendable.

"Unfortunately, you underestimate it." The "it" that Adun was referring to was naturally the solar ray that had just been fired.

It has to be said that diving into the depths of the sea was the best option that versatile war fortress ship girl could make. After all, she is a ship girl, not an excavator. Diving might be possible, but burrowing into the ground is a bit of a stretch for a ship.

Unfortunately, the slight obstruction of seawater could not completely block the damage from the solar rays. In Adun's perception, even though the ship girl turned around and rushed more than ten kilometers away, diving thousands of meters into the deep sea, she was still hit by that solar ray.

Her efforts were merely to prevent herself from being vaporized the instant the attack hit her.

Reminded by Adun, Charlotte, who had just come to her senses from her excitement, realized that the symbol representing Omega Yuriko in his Admiral Network had not disappeared, but had only dimmed slightly.

This dimness means either the ship girl is far away, or she is injured or damaged.

"It's not over yet." Adon spoke again when both admirals fell silent, pulling them back to reality.

"Or rather, the second round has begun." Smoothing her hair, the psionic energy burning on Adun's body gradually gathered into several pieces of golden-blue metal, forming a suit of armor-like ship equipment, including the pointed-top, round-bottomed headdress that she had only worn when summoned, which reappeared on her body.

"Second round? You want to fight again, Admiral Adon?" Taking a moment to glance at the dilapidated state of his own naval base, and not understanding why the bonfire on the beach, which was almost turned into a glass pavement, was still burning, Admiral Adon asked in a tone that said, "Are you kidding me?"

In one round, my naval base was almost destroyed. If another round happens, won't I become a comical admiral who loses his naval base after only a few days in office, and even loses it to his own people?

“Sometimes, whether or not to fight is not decided by one side.” After completing his armor, Adun waved his hand, and the energy crystal tower, which had been condensed using a quarter of the resources treasured by his admiral, was summoned to his side, obediently circling Adun like a pet.

When the admiral saw Adun's fighting spirit and was still hesitating whether to use his admiral authority to force Adun to stop fighting, a sudden, inexplicable tremor made her shudder.

The ship girls of Naval Base No. 233, who were watching from the sidelines, also felt a thrill that was completely different from the feeling of being swept by a psionic storm.

The Prince of Wales felt it most deeply, and she was the first to realize what this tremor meant. In contrast, Charlotte, the second generation of Tier 233 Naval Base, didn't feel anything was wrong at all. She even wondered why all the ship girls around her were looking at the depths of the sea with expressions of seeing ghosts.

"This is... the power to summon the Glory Ship Armor!?" As a quasi-hero ship girl with the Glory Form, a proof of heroism, Prince of Wales is very familiar with this fluctuation, and Renown, who is not far from that step, can also feel it.

Although Nelson and Rodney are still a little short of that level, the 233rd Naval Base does not only have the Prince of Wales as a ship girl with a glorious form. Having heard and witnessed it, they are naturally very familiar with this fluctuation.

Charlotte couldn't sense this fluctuation because he was just a human. Even though he also had half-ship girl blood flowing through his veins, Charlotte, who hadn't awakened any ship girl-related abilities, was still identified as human on his ID card.

The reason why Tidu can sense this power is, as she has always stated, that regardless of whether she has ship equipment or not, she is considered a ship girl because she has awakened the ship equipment space.

Having never witnessed a ship girl activating her Glory Ship Equipment, she didn't understand what this thrill was all about.

“Generally speaking, a ship girl’s glorious form is not only her physical embodiment in history, but also the manifestation of her power and destiny. Therefore, when summoned, the ship girl’s glorious form will spread her own will.” Reputation, sensing what was contained in this aura, explained to Charlotte what this fluctuation was.

"However, fluctuations of this intensity only occur when a ship girl first activates her Glory Form. Young Master, the initial ship you summoned is truly remarkable."

The blood-testing ship is a hero-class ship girl. This kind of plot, which only appears in novels, dramas and movies, is happening to the young master. The head maid, Renown, shook her head to suppress the absurd thoughts in her mind.

"Oh, I see! Ah, Omega is a Hero-class ship girl?" Charlotte said belatedly.

“Yes, it’s amazing that we didn’t discover it all along.” The Prince of Wales continued with a strange and bitter expression, “And young master, what kind of monster did you summon?”

If the Prince of Wales's summoning of the Glory Form was a surge of willpower mixed with a hint of unwilling faith in glory, then the Omega Yuriko, who called herself the Rising Sun Empire's all-purpose war fortress, was summoning her own Glory Form.

The will it exudes is a madness born of despair, a reckless gamble born of unwillingness to accept defeat, and a ruthless desire to drag everything down to hell even in death.

Just like that Japanese ship girl who was clearly a pioneer but ultimately voluntarily plunged into the deep sea, or even worse.

Chapter 80: The Same Madness (First Update of the Weekend)

The pitch-black night could not conceal the glorious ship equipment of the versatile war fortress ship girl from the Rising Sun Empire.

Because although it was night, it wasn't that dark.

Moreover, no ship girl or admiral could ignore a sea fortress that was like a small mountain, equivalent to five times the size of the Prince of Wales's black battleship in its glorious form.

Although there is no data to suggest that the larger the ship girl's glorious form is, the more powerful she becomes, a ship girl as large as this all-purpose war fortress is enough to leave other ship girls speechless with sheer intimidation.

"This is too outrageous!" Upon seeing the giant ship floating on the sea, the main guns mounted on Rodney's ship instinctively moved to the side.

As expected of a ship girl whose name includes "fortress," even shells fired from a 16-inch naval gun would only tickle her.

"The Rising Sun Empire, what kind of empire is it..." The Prince of Wales murmured to himself, referring to this empire he had never heard of before.

What does this empire with its strange technology have to do with those lunatics of the IJN (the former Japanese militarist navy combined fleet)?

The Prince of Wales had always believed that the ship girls built by the young master, who called themselves the Empire of the Rising Sun, were merely the product of the fantasies of the old Japanese militarists during their defeat, such as the super-Yamato-class battleships No. 110 and No. 111.

However, after seeing the glorious ship equipment summoned by Omega Yuriko, the Prince of Wales realized that he was quite wrong.

At least according to the technological level of World War II, even fascist Germany, which had brought advanced technology to the moon, would not have been able to, or even consider, building such a huge sea fortress.

Even if the Rising Sun Empire and the old Japanese Empire have similarities, they are definitely not the same country.

Nonsense, did the IJN even have that kind of technology back then? Would World War II have had a different outcome?

"That's quite an unconventional technology." Having quickly grasped the technology used by the versatile war fortress ship girl from the Rising Sun Empire, Adun continued with undisguised disdain:

"It's just a pity that this is only the last stand of a defeated dog. Am I right, little girl? When you were built, the empire you served had already been defeated."

Adon's words plunged the ship girls, who were already shocked by the glorious ship equipment summoned by Omega Yuriko, into an even greater state of shock.

"This technology can fail?" He glanced at the few sixteen-inch main guns mounted on his ship, and then at the exaggerated number and caliber of the gun barrels on the war fortress platform that looked like a starfish when deployed.

The British ship girls from Naval Base No. 233 all wore expressions of disbelief.

"Surprised?" Seeing that Omega Yuriko, bound to her Glory Form by chains extending from the collar around her neck, didn't respond, Adun, floating in the air, spoke up to explain for the taciturn ship girl:

"Your designers probably never considered that they themselves would survive the war."

At this point, Adun paused, glanced at the admiral and ship girls who had entered "observation mode" because they couldn't get a word in edgewise, and then maneuvered the crystal tower beside her to fly higher.

"You are a dangerous weapon to the enemy, but aren't you just as dangerous to your own people?" As Adun spoke, clusters of blue light appeared at the feet of the admiral ship girls of Naval Bases 233 and 666.

"Adon, what are you doing?" Tidu looked at the blue circle at his feet, not understanding what was happening.

"Wo!!" Wo-chan understood what Yaton was doing, but unfortunately, Admiral Tidu couldn't understand her explanation.

"I don't want to be teleported!!" The deep-sea heavy cruiser Xiao Bei, who understood what Wo-chan was saying, showed a terrified expression on her face. Before the terrified expression could be fixed, her entire body turned into a blue mosaic.

"Ugh..." Xiao Bei, who had been teleported to the vicinity of the Crystal Tower, which was already flying very high in the sky, started retching in mid-air as soon as she came out of the teleportation portal.

Along with her, Admiral Ardon and his underling Sherlock were also vomiting.

Humans do not have a high tolerance for hyperspace teleportation, but Xiao Bei, what are you vomiting about? It's not like it's your first time doing a short-distance jump. Look at Wo Jiang, after having the experience of jumping once, she immediately adapted.

Before he could finish venting his frustrations, Yaton saw Wo-chan, expressionless, fall straight down like a dried-up jellyfish onto the space solidified by the energy crystal.

"This kind of hyperspace teleportation is just too uncomfortable." Nelson covered her forehead, looking like she was about to collapse. Among the ship girls around her, except for the Renown which had been transformed into an immortal, they all showed similar expressions of unbearable discomfort.

"If using that hyperspace teleporter in the naval base is like riding in an old, worn-out car, then this feeling is practically like riding a roller coaster," the Prince of Wales said with a hint of helplessness as he watched his young master fall unconscious once again.

The former only requires worrying about whether it will break, while the latter is a pure test of both body and mind.

"It's just a short-range warp..." Adun didn't understand why these ship girls were reacting so strongly. It wasn't until Reputation reminded him that he came to his senses and said, "Oh right, you don't have psionic shields."

One of the important functions of the Protoss's early psionic shield was to adapt to various environmental changes when traversing the universe, with adaptability to the warp system being the most important component.

The excellent properties of the Psionic Shield have made the Protoss Warp simple and brutal in various ways, and brought about wonderful uses, such as Warp Drift, Drift Warp, and Extreme Cornering Drift.

After eliminating the unsafe factors, Adun adopted a "show me what you're got, I'm in a hurry" attitude and said to the ship girl Omega Yuriko:

"Neon ship, bring out your trump cards, I won't hold back this time."

“…Neon? Japanese ship??” The Prince of Wales, who had just distanced himself from the Rising Sun Empire and the old Japanese militarism of this world, was stunned for a moment, wondering why Adun had so readily concluded that the other party was a Japanese ship girl.

"Are you blind? Or is it just too dark for you to see?" Adun said in a slightly condescending tone, "If you need light to see, then let there be light."

No sooner had the words left his mouth than the sunbeams, which had just made their presence known, pierced the sky once more, but this time with very low power and not used to attack enemies; they merely served as fluorescent lights.

"This is..." "Woo!!" "Those crazy IJN women..."

Only with this light could the ship girls clearly see the familiar paint scheme on the so-called Rising Sun Empire's all-purpose war fortress ship girl, Omega Yuriko's Glory Form.

A crimson sun radiating blood-red light—to some extent, this paint scheme represents those IJN ship girls who appear demure and virtuous on the outside, but are inwardly increasingly mad.

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☆, Chapter 81 EnTaoAdun

Omega Yuriko did not react to what Aden said.

Or rather, the Rising Sun Empire, which was already facing enemies from the very beginning of its construction, did not add more complex identification commands to this versatile war fortress, which could be considered a doomsday weapon.

By the time she sailed out of the dock, the entire strategy of the Rising Sun Empire had already fallen into irreversible failure.

Because of excessive and fanatical war mobilization, when total defeat came, the Rising Sun Empire faced a more tragic end than the old Japanese Empire at the end of World War II.

Despite the different worlds, the slogans were all about "dying for the sake of the emperor," and a large number of untested technologies and strange transforming robot weapons were deployed to the battlefield, just to hold out for one more day in the face of inevitable defeat.

This incomprehensible madness also brought the population of this emerging empire to the brink of extinction.

At this time, the scientists in the Empire, who had absolutely no morals or scruples, designed a decisive weapon with the original intention of destroying the world, replacing humanity, and dragging all victors and losers down with them—the Omnipotent War Fortress.

The fortress warships are made of the most advanced nanotechnology and possess the most powerful weapons that the scientists of the Rising Sun Empire can create. Their intelligent AI gives them the ability to self-repair, automatically search for enemies, automatically attack, and automatically destroy themselves.

Finally, these mad scientists wrote a final instruction into the Omnipotent Fortress's artificial intelligence: when the day comes that the Empire is utterly defeated, the enemy search instructions of this fully AI-controlled war fortress, which doesn't even have a crew cabin inside, will be changed.

The enemy of the Empire has been changed to "humanity." All living beings, whether suffering the pain of defeat or enjoying the joy of victory, as long as they are human, are the enemy of this fortress and the final order that this fortress must carry out.

This is why Adun would say things like, "Your designers didn't even consider whether they could survive the war themselves in the first place," and "You're a dangerous weapon to the enemy, but aren't you just as dangerous to your own people?" These are some of the most inexplicable things he would say.

This is also why, when the Prince of Wales sensed the meaning behind the message emanating from Omega Yuriko's Glory form, he said with a bitter expression, "My lord, what kind of monster have you summoned?"

Serving humanity seems to be an instinct for ship girls, because to the original ship girls, humanity was like a creator. Most species have an instinctive love for their creator or god, and this is especially true for ship girls.

Therefore, the Prince of Wales finds it hard to understand what it feels like for a ship girl to follow the orders of her creator and target the creator who will destroy her.

Moreover, since Adun spared the life of this Japanese ship girl, will the young master still accept her after learning her secret?

The power contained in that ray of sunlight made the Prince of Wales realize how low-key Adton had been since their first meeting.

Her frequent disregard for ships is understandable; the Prince of Wales has never seen a ship girl capable of manipulating the power of a star before.

Although the Prince of Wales knew that some ship girls could also launch strategic-level nuclear fusion missiles, that kind of use, which was like setting off firecrackers, was a kind of nuclear fusion of solar power, and was completely different from the power of Adun, which controlled a sun.

Before the Prince of Wales could continue his exclamation, Rodney's exclamation drew all the ship girls' attention back to the versatile war fortress ship girl.

"She, she, she... she can actually fly just like Sister Adun." Guogan said, pulling the admiral who was gagging. This Mao-type ship girl showed no signs of the aftereffects of riding a roller coaster.

"Huh, Adun can fly? Is she a spaceship?" The admiral, still feeling confused and disoriented, only realized that Adun really could fly after she had said those words. Then, to her horror, she discovered that Adun wasn't the only ship girl who could fly.

Under the watchful eyes of a group of ship girls and a half-ship girl, the massive war fortress emitted a loud roar. Accompanied by this roar, the glorious form of ship girl Omega Yuriko slowly rose into the sky.

As it ascended, the five warship-like arms of the Glory Form War Fortress slowly moved towards the center like five fingers, as if trying to grasp Omega Yuriko, who was chained to the central bridge of the fortress.