The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

The Harbor-class Abyssal Princesses mentioned by Renown are not a way to differentiate the combat strength of the Abyssal Princesses, but rather a classification method used by the human ship girl faction to determine the combat style of these Abyssal Princesses.

For example, the airfield-class is a deep-sea carrier attack that uses carrier-based aircraft as its attack method. If Wo-chan were to evolve into a princess through the normal route, she would probably be an airfield-class deep-sea princess.

The South Dakota, a harbor-class amphibious princess, took a different approach, abandoning the optional carrier-based aircraft capability and becoming an abyssal princess that took the fundamentalism of giant ships and cannons to the extreme.

The fighting style of this Deep Sea Princess is simple and straightforward: fire the cannons and blast them, spreading her might throughout the seas and sweeping across the four directions.

Because compared to the more terrifying direct destructive power of the Flying Field Class, or the Island Class, the Oni Class, etc., the Harbor Class is the Abyssal Princess that the human ship girl faction hates to encounter the most, apart from the Ocean Class Abyssal Princess.

Compared to other Princesses, there are various low-cost ways to deal with them. When encountering a Harbor-class Abyssal Princess, you have to be prepared to be overwhelmed by a barrage of artillery. There is not much you can do except for a head-on confrontation.

Fortunately, most of the known Harbor-class Abyssal Princesses are either shut-ins or fiercely fighting amongst themselves, and there are very few reports of a naval base actually facing a Harbor-class Abyssal Princess.

Or rather, there are naval bases that have directly faced Harbor-class Abyssal Princesses, but they are probably all now underwater ruins. Harbor-class Abyssal Princesses who go all out usually shift their bombardment targets from the naval base or ship girls to the island where the naval base is located.

For the Harbor-class Abyssal Princesses, sinking those annoying and agile ship girls is far less simple than simply blowing up the entire naval base island where they reside.

This demonstrates just how immense the reputation pressure must have been for the head maid of the Harbor-class Deep Sea Princess to discover South Dakota at such close range.

Even after Adun's modifications and the acquisition of so much Protoss technology, she couldn't guarantee that she would have an advantage against a Harbor-class Princess in a serious state.

As for her ultimate move, the Time Stop Field, she had already used it, but it only hit the ship's armor, which was not the original target.

If Reputation possesses Adun's phase array system, it can sense that a strange spatial flow is constantly present around the body of the Deep Sea Princess, South Dakota.

The fact that the Reputation Immortal's Phase Jammer was able to hit South Dakota's protective deck with its first shot was due to the Phase Jammer's antimatter energy damaging a portion of South Dakota's hydrodynamic defense system, as well as the interference of the time-stopping force field on space.

Normal artillery fire hitting the Deep Sea Princess South Dakota would only land in strange places, or be sent back to the ship girl who fired the cannon by South Dakota opening and closing doors if she wanted to play with her.

Fortunately, Reputation and South Dakota did not actually fight each other.

Because there is another Protoss Ark present whose combat power is currently all ? ? ?

"Ahem, anyone who fights in this naval base without my permission will be thrown out," Adun said, adopting the air of an admiral.

Upon hearing Adun's words, the Deep Sea Princess South Dako glanced at the Reputation, who remained motionless, and with a slight smile, first put away her Deep Sea Ship Equipment.

"I am very sorry, I was rude."

Unexpectedly, the Deep Sea Princess in front of him was even more polite than himself. He also withdrew the reputation of the Immortal-class ship equipment and said somewhat embarrassedly.

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Since the book is scheduled to flop on June 1st, I'll start by updating twice a week to build up my reserves. How about I update 10 chapters on June 1st? If that doesn't work, I'll continue with three updates a week.

☆, Chapter 154 Harbor Princess South Dakota

"Turning deep-sea ship girls into ship girls?" Upon hearing what Adun said about the experiment, Head Maid Renown was stunned for a while before she reacted and said, "Then, does Your Excellency require me to do anything?"

"I need your help to verify whether my method is effective," Ardon said after explaining the details of the experiment.

"If this is the kind of assistance Your Excellency requires, I am not the best choice." Upon hearing that Adun needed her help to verify the effectiveness of the Deep Sea Ship Girl aura concealment experiment, the head maid, unsure how to comment on the Excellency's whimsical idea, shook her head and said:

"After being modified by you, I have gradually lost my innate hostility towards deep-sea ship girls."

“Don’t worry about that,” Adun said, unconcerned about what Reputation had said. “I just need you to check if there are any flaws.”

"Then... any ship girl can replace me, right?" Renown couldn't figure out why Admiral Adun would choose her.

"First of all, after my modifications, you should have developed sufficient self-control." Even if self-control is insufficient, Adun has the ability to modify the other party's underlying protocol, or rather, subconsciousness, just like that world power.

"Secondly, I believe that among all the ship girls in this naval base, you have the most experience. If I'm not mistaken, you should be over 100 years old," Adun said in a tone of knowingly.

Upon hearing what Adon said, Renown glanced around nervously. Seeing that his young master was not eavesdropping, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Compared to the years that the Patriarch has experienced, I am insignificant."

"How old are you, Adun?" South Dakota looked at Adun with some suspicion when she heard Reputation say this. She knew Adun was probably not young, but considering that Reputation was already using the word "years" to describe Adun's age, it seemed that she had underestimated him quite a bit.

"...Ahem, I just came out of the builder less than half a month ago," Adun said, changing the subject.

“Stare…” South Dakota and Reputation, who had almost come to blows just moments before, stared at a Protoss Ark with the same look in their eyes.

“Let me think,” Adun said, choosing a more subtle approach rather than directly stating the age of its creation. “If I was built on this planet, then when I was born, you should have just learned to use… learn to use gunpowder weapons.”

"..." South Dakota and Reputation both looked surprised when they heard Adun say that.

"Huh, what's with those expressions?" Adon asked curiously, not understanding why the two ship girls who were just about to have a showdown had such synchronized expressions.

"The head nun seems quite young," the head maid remarked.

"I thought it could be something even older, like when it was first created, when the world only had monkeys or something," said South Dakota, the Deep Sea Princess, in unison with Renown.

"...Is it really that exaggerated?" Adun didn't understand why her image had turned into that of an old woman. Looking at Reputation and South Dakota's nonchalant attitude, she sighed and said, "Let's put this topic aside for now."

After abruptly ending this somewhat awkward topic, Adun began the formal trials.

"Are you sure?" South Dakota asked in surprise when he heard that Adun needed him to unleash all his power.

"Master, if a Deepsea Princess with all her powers were to appear outside of a Deepsea territory," Renown, who also didn't understand what Adun was trying to do, added, "it would be seen as the Deepsea ship girls launching another war against the human faction."

"It's just a Princess, it can't be that exaggerated, can it?" Adon asked, somewhat puzzled.

"In fact, after the first war ended, most of the wars between humans and the deep sea were fought against a single 'ship' of the Abyssal Princess." The reputation emphasized the word "ship" in its pronunciation.

"Is the Northern Fleet just one ship?" Ardon remembered hearing before that the Northern Deep Sea Fleet, which directly confronted the Pacific Governor and died together, was actually a fleet composed of several Deep Sea Princesses.

"There is only one Northern Princess in the world," said the Prestige, maintaining his stance.

"I see." Whether he genuinely understood or was just pretending, Adun nodded and said, "But don't worry, haven't you noticed anything amiss around you?"

"Huh? Is this the mirror world?" Upon hearing Adun's suggestion, South Dakota glanced at what should have been the old canteen of the temporary naval base No. 666 (the new canteen had been moved to the Gothic-style port) and immediately noticed something was amiss.

It was so quiet that there wasn't even any air movement.

"How did you do that, Master?" Reputation, who had also noticed the strange surroundings, asked Adun in a surprised tone.

“I’ve been busy with this for the past few nights, and we’ve just come up with a preliminary model.” As he gave his answer, Adun glanced at South Dakota. Judging from the somewhat doubtful look on the Deep Sea Princess’s face when she mentioned “Mirror World,” it was clear that this Deep Sea Princess had seen similar abilities before.

"As expected of the High Priest." After listening to Adun's brief explanation of the Protoss version of the Mirror World, Reputation sincerely praised him.

“So there’s no need to worry about attracting other people’s attention here.” Ardon indicated to South Dakota that he could unleash her full power without worry.

"Then, I'd like to ask, how large is this mirror world?" After analyzing the mirror space using her special abilities, South Dakota admitted that Adun was right. In this space, she could freely unleash her power without being detected by the various base stations of the human camp.

"This naval base island covers about half of the area, but I left a large portion of it on the ocean." After all, it's a world of ship girls, so when creating this mirror world, Adun still focused on the sea.

"That's good." As he spoke, a door appeared beside South Dakota. He placed his hand on the doorknob, paused for a moment, then opened the door and walked out.

"I'm quite envious of her skill." Seeing that South Dakota could use the portal to any space at will in the mirror world, Adun marveled at this ship girl's ability, which had no scientific basis whatsoever.

"...This ability..." The reputation of the Deep Sea Princess South Dakota seemed to remember something when she first saw her use her ability, but before she could recall anything more, a sudden sense of oppression permeated the entire mirror world.

"That's a bit of an exaggeration." Ardon, who was also surprised by this, exclaimed after realizing what had happened, then grabbed the Renown beside him and used spatial displacement to send the two of them to the Mirror Port on the Mirror Town Island.

"Is this the power of the Harbor-class Princess after its full release?"

What appeared before Reputation was a metal island several times larger than Omega Lily in her Glory form, with countless rusted shipwrecks forming the base of this island of death.

On this pedestal are hundreds of various turrets. The few cannons that South Dakota had just summoned to confront the Reputation head-on are only considered small-caliber secondary cannons here. The slightly larger caliber can even allow the Reputation to set up a formal banquet inside.

In the center of Death Island, a colossal cannon, both in caliber and size, stood imaginable. South Dakota, the Deep Sea Princess who had somehow sprouted a black horn on her forehead, stood beside the cannon, looking down at Renown and Adun, and said:

"This is my main body after I've been fully liberated. You can call it the Continental Shelf Tear Cannon Group."

Chapter 155 Adun's Optimism

"Ahem... Why do I feel like you look so different from your usual self?" Ardon, who had been teleported to South Dakota, said with some surprise as he looked at the fully released form of the Deep Sea Princess.

“So what is my inherent image in my eyes?” South Dakota said, grabbing at the turret beside him with his arm, which had turned into a giant iron claw, sending sparks flying.

"A senior official who does everything personally, works overtime every day, and eventually retires early due to overwork." Arden described his image of South Dakota very seriously.

"Pfft..." The head maid, whose reputation had been dragged along with Adun's South Dakota body, couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Upon hearing what Adon said, South Dakota tapped the gun mount with his sharp iron fingers, sighed, and said, "It seems that's really the case. It's time to give myself a break."

“Yes, managing a large fleet is a very troublesome matter, I know this all too well,” said Renown, who once again shared South Dakota’s sentiments.

“At least before there was an admiral, now everyone has to shoulder everything themselves,” South Dakota said, recognizing that Renown was also a secretary ship.

"Who was your former admiral?" Renown asked curiously upon hearing the Deep Sea Princess mention that she had a former admiral.

"I thought you'd ask me why I still remember things from the past, but I didn't expect you to be concerned about a certain admiral. As expected of a ship girl." South Dakota said, showing no surprise at Renown's reaction.

"With such a powerful ship girl as your secretary ship, your former admiral must have been quite powerful as well, right? Could he have been a big shot?" Adon asked, unaware of what a big shot in this world was like.

"Her? She is indeed a big shot, but what good is she?" South Dakota, referring to herself as the admiral when she was a ship girl, stamped her foot on the metallic ground and continued:

"If you disassemble my main body and look carefully, you might be able to find a part of her."

"..." Having understood what South Dakota was saying, Adon felt he needed to rethink his understanding of this Deep Sea Princess.

"You killed your own admiral?" Reputation immediately thought of the worst-case scenario.

“No, I fought for my admiral until the very end.” South Dakota said, looking at Reputation, whose emotions were somewhat volatile. “At least until the very last moment, we were together.”

"...I'm sorry, I was being presumptuous." Reputation took a step back and bowed slightly to South Dakota.

"You have an interest in carrying your superior's ashes with you?" Ardon didn't want to comment on South Dakota's choice.

“It’s not just the admiral here alone…” South Dakota said, glancing at the wreckage of the warships that made up the base of his body.

"These... could they all be...?" At South Dakota's prompting, Renown, who had just noticed that the warship wreckage that formed the main body base of the Deep Sea Princess was somewhat different, asked in an incredulous tone.

"I don't know whether I should be considered to be suffering or happy compared to the other Abyssal Princesses. I am suffering because I still have the memories of being a ship girl, but I am happy because they have been with me from beginning to end."

Turning his gaze away, South Dakota gently stroked the gun emplacement beside him with his sharp metal hand, sparking a series of metallic flashes.

"Are these all hero-class ship girls?" After realizing what South Dakota and Renown were talking about, Adun asked curiously.

“Yes, Master, these were once the glorious ship equipment of Hero-class ship girls,” Renown replied to Adun.

"Will hero-class ship girls become your own glory ship equipment after they are sunk in battle?" Yaton asked, thinking of something.

“No, these wrecks only mean one thing: these hero-class ship girls were sunk in battle while activating their Glory Mode,” said South Dakota, the Deep Sea Princess, lost in thought.

“Hmm…” Seeing that South Dakota and Reputation had entered a very delicate state, Adun decided not to continue talking about this somewhat heavy topic and said, “Let bygones be bygones, it’s right to look to the future.”

"Are all starship girls as optimistic as you?" South Dakota said with a forced laugh in response to Adun's reaction.

"Perhaps it's because my original intention for building this required an optimistic and positive mindset," Adun said, a shadow of gloom crossing his eyes as he recalled something.

"What was your original intention in building it?" South Dakota asked curiously, noticing the gloom in Adun's eyes.

“Um…” After thinking for a moment, Adun said, “It’s not something that’s worth keeping secret.”