The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

After several rounds of adjustments, Adun helplessly discovered that the power he could now display was in line with the name given to him by the restraint force: support and supply mothership.

This is why, while Kokang was completely unaware of the deep-sea fleet, Yadun had already noticed it.

Even if the phase array system is weakened by the world, it can still rival the highest-level radar possessed by ship girls. This thing was originally used to measure the stars.

Unfortunately, seeing it early doesn't necessarily give you a big advantage, especially since both Ayton and Kogan wasted their chances to evade or launch a sneak attack while waiting for the admiral's reply.

It's clear that these two are adorable newbies, completely unaware of the dangers of being on the battlefield.

What could have been a dominant start turned into a close contest.

Comparing the numbers, it's like even though everyone here has a full-screen cheat, they still can't withstand the first blood in the mid lane, the jungler's blue buff being stolen, the ADC disconnecting, and the top laner sleepwalking at the start.

Shielding her eyes from the splash of a near miss, and watching the six Abyssal ship girls that had surrounded her, Adun asked the brave one hiding behind her, "Has the Admiral replied yet?"

"It feels so good to be protected by my older sister," Kogan thought, his whole body locked behind Yadun. Unfortunately, this thought was quickly extinguished by a shell that flew over his head.

Because they were still some distance from the deep sea, except for one or two particularly lucky shells that landed near misses, the other shells were flying everywhere. However, judging from the fact that most of the shells were landing closer and closer to the location of the two people (the ship), the deep-sea fleet was gradually adjusting the angle of its guns, and the possibility of being hit by a direct hit could occur at any time.

"Is this... the so-called era of giant ships and cannons?" Adun raised the arm that had just shielded him from the water, stretched out five fingers towards the distant black curtain, as if trying to grasp something.

"Sister, watch out! Ah!" Before Yaton could say anything more, Guogan, who had been hiding behind her, suddenly bumped Yaton to the side.

In an instant, the water curtain created by the shells falling into the water overturned the spot where Adun had originally been.

The first direct hit missile from the deep sea hit!

Chapter 8: I Have Special Skills at Showing Off

"The full-scale combat radar phased array system is 20% activated, starting to calculate the trajectory of enemy shells, and the short-range warp drive is beginning to warm up."

As Adun dragged the wrecked Gogan, which had been damaged by a shell, she uttered words that the brave destroyer girl, who had just performed a heroic act, could not understand.

"Ahem, sister, what is a short-range warp drive?" With its clothes torn and the barrel of its miniature single-barreled 130mm naval gun broken, the Kokang temporarily lost its ability to engage in artillery fire.

"It's just a combat tactic to support the supply mothership." As Adun spoke, his figure, which had already begun to accelerate, defied the laws of physics and made a turn on the sea surface. A whistling shell hit the spot where Adun was supposed to be.

"Oh, I understand." Not feeling anything was wrong, Guogan obediently let Yadun grab his clothes and carry him away. Facing a full-strength Abyssal Fleet tactical squadron of six ships, especially one of which was a heavy cruiser-class Abyssal ship girl, Guogan, who wasn't drunk yet, knew very well that going in would be suicide.

But why is there a heavy cruiser leading a fleet of Abyssal shipgirls near the admiral's naval base? Is this naval base cursed by some mysterious force?

It seems quite possible. Many books have mentioned that admirals of European descent, while possessing an enviable bloodline, also bear the resentment from the deep sea, and the enemies they encounter are all tainted by various factors.

These admirals, using various methods, led their dazzlingly rare ship girls to defeat one enemy after another, ultimately saving all the deep sea and bringing true peace to the world.

At least that's how it's written in the best-selling novels that Kokang has read. Kokang loves reading those novels the most, especially the elaborate palace intrigue schemes used by the ship girls under the admiral's command to win his favor.

Unfortunately, the current admiral of Kokang is female, and a human with ship girl blood in her body. Although she cannot use ship equipment, the act of taking out a PG from the ship equipment space and spraying it in the face of her ship girls is different from that in the novel.

If a traditional ship girl were in a position of courage, she wouldn't have the mind to think about those messy things. The things she should be struggling with and wondering about right now are probably the same as those deep-sea ship girls who are still firing their cannons on the other side.

So when exactly did a mothership-class ship girl acquire such high agility and evasion capabilities? What happened to the fact that after aircraft carrier-class ship girls gained the ability to bomb beyond visual range, they were far less agile than other types of ship girls?

Now Adun is very close to this deep-sea fleet. If they get any closer, they can have a return to the primitive boarding combat. At this distance, the firepower hit rate is so high that even if you fire a barrage of bullets with your eyes closed, you can at least gamble on hitting a few targets.

But for some reason, the ship girl in front of me, who I sensed was an aircraft carrier-class, actually dodged every single shell.

It wasn't due to luck or anything like that, but rather because the moment the shell left the barrel, the aircraft carrier-class ship girl in front of them seemed to already know where the shell would land, and in perfect sync, she moved aside in a way that defied the laws of mechanics.

Just like a seasoned, highly experienced hero-class ship girl dodging cannonballs solely based on her intuition—are you kidding me? Who has ever seen a ship girl go straight to hero-class status right after leaving the construction tool?

Even after several adjustments to the explosive charge, some deep-sea destroyers found that the enemy's response remained unchanged.

This can no longer be described as mere combat instinct; is it a miracle? The favor of the lucky? The evasive power of Yukikaze?

If Adun, who was comfortably dodging bullets, heard what these deep-sea ship girls were thinking, she would definitely mock them:

"A bunch of ignorant idiots, do they even know what a full-scale combat radar phased array is?"

By inputting environmental details, obtaining the drag coefficient, analyzing the shell material in conjunction with the shell's muzzle acceleration, and then calculating the degree of airflow influence brought by other shells during the shell's flight, is it really that difficult to determine the target's landing point as soon as the shell leaves the barrel?

Well, it seems quite difficult. The depth of environmental analysis and computing power required here are far beyond what ship girls of this era can imagine.

However, for Adun, who possesses a phase array system, these are like instincts.

To put it roughly, the combat style of other ship girls is somewhat similar to a holographic motion-sensing game, while for Adun, it's more like a 2D flat view.

Unfortunately, this ability did not make Adun invincible. Apart from having the overpowered phase array radar, Adun could not find a usable firepower system under the protection of the suppression force.

Without cannons or carrier-based aircraft, just like the name given to Adun by the power of the world, it is a support and supply mothership, whose main role is to provide support and wartime supplies for other ship girls.

Adon was somewhat helpless upon realizing that he possessed a skill called Wartime Supply.

This skill is quite powerful. With the help of this skill, it can ensure the best firepower configuration in every battle. Furthermore, after each battle, Adun can perform wartime damage control repairs to provide initial maintenance for a wounded ship girl and prevent her from being sunk by deep-sea damage.

They are best suited for deep-sea operations in conjunction with the main fleet. It should be noted that a large number of ship girls fail in their battles against the Princess-class Abyssal Fleet because the battle lines are too long and supplies cannot keep up, preventing them from exerting their maximum power in the face of the Princess-class Abyssal Fleet.

Sometimes, unexpected situations arise where ship girls are heavily damaged during the journey. In order to protect their ship girls from being sunk, admirals who are ashamed of such behavior have no choice but to issue a retreat order and abandon their long-prepared deep-sea expedition of the Princess-class.

If those admirals had a ship girl like Adun who had built-in wartime supply and damage control maintenance capabilities, these problems could be easily solved.

However, this seemingly overpowered skill also has a major drawback: if teammates are not strong enough, Adun will not be able to contribute. For example, if Adun is currently only a moderately damaged destroyer named Kogan as a teammate, even if Adun finishes resupplying Kogan, it will not bring any substantial change to the battlefield.

Not to mention the unfortunate second-generation ship girl, Guogan, whose 130mm single-barrel naval gun was rendered unusable after being hit by the only direct-fire shell from the Deep Sea Fleet.

However, this does not mean that the support supply mothership Spear of Adun was powerless to retaliate under the bombardment of the Deep Sea Fleet!

In just a few minutes, before she could even finish mentally criticizing her own skills, she had already charged to within a few hundred meters of the Abyssal Fleet, carrying the resolute Adun. Whether it's a battle between ship girls and the Abyssal Fleet, or a naval battle from hundreds or even thousands of years ago, when opposing ships get this close, it means...

"Board combat? A mere aircraft carrier..." Before the flagship heavy cruiser could finish its mocking words, the aircraft carrier, with its unbelievably high evasion rate, suddenly disintegrated into pieces of sky-blue pigment.

"What?" Before the sense of crisis could turn into a warning, the deep-sea heavy cruiser heard a clear and calm voice in its ear.

"You are already dead."

"Pfft..." A green blade of light pierced out from the chest of the deep-sea heavy cruiser. The blade of light that pierced out was the seemingly old arm armor on Adun's arm.

The deep-sea cruiser used the last of its strength to turn around, staring at Adun, who had somehow appeared behind it, and said in a dying voice, "You...you're not..."

Before he could finish speaking, the deep-sea heavy cruiser, which had been sunk by a single blow, had already turned into tiny black fragments.

Ignoring what the heavy cruiser was trying to say, Adun saw the other Abyssal ship girls stunned and immediately seized the opportunity to shout, "Bold! Torpedo!"

"Guogan, boarding torpedoes, fire them all!" Guogan, still reeling from the dizziness of the first warp jump, didn't even have time to process what was happening before hearing Adun's order. He immediately opened the torpedo rigging hidden inside his clothes and launched all the loaded torpedoes.

As they drew closer, there were continuous explosions coming right up close.

At such close range, torpedoes, which are devastating weapons even for battleships, are like inescapable harbingers of doom to these Abyssal ship girls who are all destroyers.

After the smoke cleared, the only ones still standing on the sea were Aden and Kokang, who were tightly huddled together.

Naval Base No. 666: The First Fleet's first clash with the Deep Sea Fleet, S-rank victory!

Chapter 9: My Admiral is Actually a Top Student

In the area where a battle had just taken place, ending with a ship girl team achieving an S-rank victory, a deep-sea ship girl with blood-red eyes slowly emerged from the deep ocean. Gazing in the direction where Adun and Gogan had departed, this deep-sea ship girl spoke in a hoarse, rough voice:

"Is this the child's ship girl? It seems... I can rest assured."

"Oh, the newly appointed Lady Suki, instead of staying in her own territory, she has come to inspect the front line and is so concerned about the human admiral who is the enemy. This is truly an eye-opener for me."

Another deep-sea creature, who surfaced alongside the Deep-Sea Princess, spoke with an air of having discovered some great secret.

"I think as a member of the Abyssal Princess class, sinking one of my own adjutants doesn't require any reason, does it?" The Abyssal Princess, nicknamed the "Mobile Calamity," said to her adjutant in a tone that could scare an entire squadron of battleship girls.

"Oh dear, Lady Kihime is so sensitive to jokes." Seeing his boss's expression, the deep-sea adjutant immediately cowered, sinking back down even though he had only surfaced halfway, leaving only his pale shoulders and head above the water.

"There's no joke about anything related to that child." Having concluded that it was just a joke, Princess Akagi ignored her adjutant and continued to gaze quietly into the distance, as if trying to see the naval base of that admiral who had a screw loose.

"He clearly cares so much, even sending an entire fleet. If he wanted to take her over, he could have just given the order. I guarantee we could have razed that garrison to the ground in one round... I surrender, I surrender, I didn't say anything."

Unless you're incredibly naive, if you have a cannon with a caliber thicker than your body pointed at your head, you should admit defeat first, regardless of whether you're right or wrong.

"Tsk..." Adun, who was already sailing outside the visual range of the two deep-sea ship girls, suddenly exclaimed "Eh," and then asked Guogan, who was holding her hand and paddling together, "Guogan? Did you know the Admiral before?"

"Yes, I know her. Back in school, Admiral, she was always among the top three students. She worked really hard to be chosen as your initial ship."

Kogan said proudly, though it was unclear in what area he had been working hard on.

"What about the previous admiral?" Regardless of whether Kogan was genuinely studying hard or just trying to cultivate a good personal relationship with that brainless admiral, Yadun, who had just overheard the conversation between the two deep-sea ship girls, continued to pry into the admiral's identity.

"What do you mean by the former admiral?" Kogan didn't immediately understand what Yaton wanted to ask.

"For example, the admiral before he entered your school." Unexpectedly, Kokang graduated from the same school as the admiral. With the phase array system activated, Adon found that his reaction to other things seemed a little slow.

"Before? I don't know about the previous admiral, but I think I heard a classmate mention him." With his ship rigging still smoking, Kogan fell into deep thought, as if trying to dig out something buried deep in his memory.

"Oh right, I just remembered, the admiral originally planned to become a ship girl, but it seems he went to the wrong place when registering and ended up becoming an admiral instead." After a moment of thought, Guogan said with a bright look in his eyes.

Has the admiral gained another goofy attribute after already having a screw loose? He even manages to choose the wrong major because he went to the wrong door, and a row of black lines appeared on Adun's head while he was sailing at a low speed.

"So, it's that easy to become an admiral?" Even those who went to the wrong school maintained a top-three ranking. Is the admiral program at that school a concentration camp for idiots?

From some perspectives, Ayton's wild guesses were actually quite accurate. However, Ayton, who was currently immersed in the atmosphere of the admiral being a goofball, was completely unaware that being a goofball was an inherent attribute of admirals, especially among young admirals.

For example, before a major construction project, they would dance the hula, shout war songs that no one could understand, and brandish spears to kill their colleagues. They would also lick the blowgun in their hands and say, "This is a blowgun coated with African poison."

"Absolutely not. The training for an admiral is many, many times more difficult than that for a ship girl. I once tried to fill out an exam for a trainee admiral, and the result was..." At this point, I felt a little embarrassed and straightened the hat I was wearing.

"You got a zero on the test?" Ardon asked with a somewhat subtle expression.

“It was even worse than that. I don’t know why Kokang’s exam paper was handed to the teacher, and as a result, the whole school knew about it…” Kokang said, covering his flushed cheeks.

“That was indeed quite tragic…” It seemed that the life of this second-generation destroyer girl in front of him at school was also quite eventful, and Yadun immediately said that she understood this feeling very well.

"So the admiral is really amazing. She's a complete novice and has consistently maintained top rankings. Some people say that if the admiral had received a systematic education from a young age, she would definitely be number one." When talking about that goofy admiral with a screw loose, his bold tone turned into one of great admiration.

"Unfortunately, because there were too many courses to catch up on, by the time the admiral realized that he had chosen the wrong major and gone to the wrong place, he had already missed the best period for integrating ship equipment space and could no longer become a ship girl."

The optimal period for fusion? It's roughly equivalent to the human developmental period.

However, even the best period of integration can't last only a few days. After so much time, he still hasn't realized that he studied the wrong major. It turns out that his silly admiral with a screw loose has a natural airhead attribute.

Hmm, now that I think about it, the admiral seems kind of cute.

"Sister Yaton, the Admiral isn't receiving our messages. Are you worried about us?" Since the topic had turned to the Admiral, Kogan naturally asked this question.

As the only direct-fire shell that made a contribution in the entire battle, it not only destroyed the Kokang's 130mm pocket single-barrel naval gun in one shot, and damaged the brave escorting destroyer to a medium level, but also blasted the Kokang's wireless telegraph machine into non-combustible debris.

In other words, until now, apart from the Kokang government sending a message to the garrison headquarters before the battle regarding the comparison of enemy and friendly combat strength, no other intelligence has been sent back.

It's hard not to think of events like the naval fleet being completely wiped out on its first sortie.