The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"I just feel sorry that they might not even be able to achieve this ideal." Because he had summoned ship girls in a rather crude way (result: Hyperion), Adun had gained a deeper understanding of the essence of ship girls.

"You mean they can't become ship girls?" Hyperion instantly understood what Adun was talking about.

"It's not that it's completely impossible to become a ship girl, but the chances are slim." Having learned a little about the nature of ship girls, Adun still has a question: how did her admiral, the Central Academy's female demon queen Tidus, become a prospective ship girl with ship equipment space?

In his spare time, Adon simulated his own admiral's situation several times, and the result was always that Tidu's soul and body simply could not accommodate the ship's equipment space.

"Not having to directly face the war isn't necessarily a bad thing for them, is it?" As a veteran of countless battles, whose contemporaries either knelt before the Zerg or before him, the Hyperion understood the cruelty of war very well.

"But shouldn't ship girls be sailing the vast ocean and etching victory on the horizon at dawn?" Kaga said somewhat unhappily after hearing what Hyperion said.

Hyperion merely cast a sympathetic glance at Kaga, who had uttered those words.

Hyperion always felt that as an interstellar ship girl navigating the dark universe, she had nothing in common with these sea ships that couldn't even escape gravity.

"By the way, when did you learn Protoss script?" Seeing Kaga's sullen expression, Adun changed the subject and asked Hyperion.

“If Commander Ray can recognize him, why wouldn’t I?” Hyperion found it strange that Adun would ask such a question.

“That’s true…” Adun recalled that Jim Raynor, the former commander of the Hyperion, was one of the humans in the Koprulu Sector with the best relationship with the Protoss.

Originally intending to explore the world and experience its local customs, Adun overlooked the significance of shopping for ship girls.

Or rather, as a Protoss Ark, she had no idea what kind of combat power would be unleashed when the ship girls started shopping.

After once again resisting the urge to enter a small shop on the street, Ardon inexplicably discovered that Hyperion and Kaga were carrying the same paper bag.

"Would you like to try it? It tastes pretty good," Hyperion asked Adun, taking a fish-shaped cake out of the paper bag.

"I'm so happy to be able to eat taiyaki!" Kaga said happily, taking small bites of the taiyaki in her paper bag.

“Wo~” Even Wo Sykes-chan was holding this food called taiyaki, which had the same special aluminum flavor as Kaga.

"Where did you get your money?" Although the Protoss have different customs and habits from humans, they still have the concept of currency.

"Ship girls can use resources as money, that's what the kind taiyaki shop owner just said," Kaga quickly replied. After all, she had just been rescued and was penniless, and she was only able to eat this snack with the taste of home thanks to the resources in the Hyperion's pocket.

Perhaps because he felt obligated to accept gifts and favors, Kaga, while eating taiyaki, abandoned his long-held plan to defeat the Hyperion with words and went to Izumo Province.

"Can only ship girls use resources as money?" Yadun keenly noticed the implication in the taiyaki shop owner's words.

"It seems like the Admiral could do it too. That kind taiyaki shop owner even asked where our Admiral was, saying that if the Admiral wasn't here, he could treat us to a meal. What a great owner!" Kaga said with a happy expression.

"..." Adun glanced at Hyperion, who shrugged with an expression that said his IQ problem was hopeless.

“Speaking of money, I just remembered a place where you can get modification cores,” Adun suddenly said, as if remembering something.

"What does modifying the core have to do with money?" Hyperion asked, puzzled.

“Since that retired Tirpitz said that the modification core is regarded as a capital preservation asset, that means it should be something like a valuable item. There must be a place where it can be found.” As he spoke, Adun turned his gaze to a building in the distance.

"Huh? You Protoss have banks too?" Hyperion asked in disbelief.

"...Of course there are banks, but they might be a little different from those of you humans," Adun said, thinking of the Protoss banks that also handled package delivery.

"Admiral...? Do you mean you're going to... rob... rob that..." Kaga asked nervously, finally understanding the conversation for the first time.

“I’m good at this. Why didn’t you say so sooner, Adun? I’m a professional…” Hyperion said, with a taiyaki in his mouth and his hands on his hips.

"...Why do you think I'm trying to rob someone?" For once, Ardon was also a little confused.

"Huh? Wasn't this the bank vault you mentioned?" Hyperion glanced at his side and whispered, "Although we only have four ships right now, oh no, three ship girls and one Abyssal, under my leadership, Hyperion Philip, the Cricket Bank Vault will be a piece of cake."

"You changed your name?" Ardon didn't know when Hyperion had added Philip to the end of his name.

“I hate this kind of behavior from you, Adun,” Hyperion complained, nearly tripping over his own feet because of Adun’s reaction.

"What behavior?" Adun used his psionic powers to create three question marks above his head.

“This is the kind of behavior that deliberately sabotages other people’s jokes!” Hyperion exclaimed.

"..."

“wo?”

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This is the ninth chapter for today.

Chapter 209 Little Xu (Tenth Update)

When Adun saw the Hyperion quietly sweep away the core of the transformation from the bank vault of this fortified city like autumn leaves in the wind, he felt that he was on the path of lawful evil.

"Don't worry, I've already written an IOU." Hyperion said proudly, carrying a small paper bag meant for taiyaki (Japanese fish-shaped cakes) and twenty or thirty modification cores he had collected from various rich people's safes.

"Are you sure the people in this world can understand the IOU written in Protoss?" Adun was both annoyed and amused by Hyperion's behavior.

"No matter what, it's still an IOU, isn't it? I'm pledging it with my identity as the flagship of the Teren Empire. As long as they can find Commander Lei, it's just a little bit of the modified core."

Hyperion took a modification core out of the small paper bag, examined it in his hand, and said.

"..." After thinking for a moment about Hyperion's almost shameless behavior, Adun didn't say anything more, but asked curiously, "I just didn't expect that you could write Protoss besides reading."

"What Commander Lei knows, I naturally know too. I really don't know how you mouthless races invented such a tongue-twisting language." Hyperion didn't think it was a big deal that he knew Protoss.

“But why did you use the grammar of the Nerasin tribe to write the Kalai script?” Adon pointed out the serious error in the IOU that Hyperion had just written.

"Huh? There's a difference?" Hyperion was stunned for a moment, almost dropping his emerald-like modification core to the ground.

“Of course there is a difference. At least for a period of time, Protoss who confused these things were considered heretics.” Adun brought up the past and said, “But your way of using it is very familiar to me.”

“I learned my Protoss language from Commander Lei, and Commander Lei learned his Protoss language from Zeratul, Phoenix, and your Artanis. That’s probably why you think it looks familiar.”

Hyperion put the modified core, which he had almost dropped, back into the paper bag and said.

“Well, to be precise, some of the details you used in writing Protoss come from an even more ancient past.” Adun didn’t quite understand Hyperion’s statement.

Adun is well aware of how Zeratul, Phoenix, Artanis, and even Tassadar use Protoss.

The usage of Hyperion can only be described as similar, but it absolutely cannot be considered one.

"Um, okay, I'll confess, actually this usage was taught to me by Xiao Xu." Hyperion noticed that Adun had noticed something, so he simply said it outright.

“Little Void? Void Seeker? You’ve met her before?” Adun was very curious that the Dark High Priest Zeratul’s ship had met with the Hyperion.

"It wasn't that I wanted to meet her, she just came to me on her own. It really startled me; she just silently stuck to my stomach." Hyperion felt a chill as he recalled his first meeting with the Void Seeker.

"And then you became friends with the Voidseeker?" Adun hadn't expected that Hyperion and the Voidseeker had such a story.

"Ahem, since Commander Lei and Lord Zeratul are friends, then I and Little Void are naturally friends as well," Hyperion said somewhat awkwardly.

"So, you learned your Protoss language from her?" Adun, finally understanding why the Hyperion's Protoss language sounded a bit strange, nodded and said.

"I wouldn't say I learned it. When I wasn't paying attention, she forcibly shared her system with me. If she hadn't meant no harm, I would have been in serious trouble." Hyperion patted his chest, looking terrified of what had happened.

“Hmm, no wonder your Protoss usage looked so familiar to me.” Adun nodded, understanding how Hyperion had learned Protoss.

"Why do you say that? Is it because the Protoss language that Little Void uses is different from others?" Hyperion was puzzled by Adun's reaction.

"The Voidseekers are not entirely Protoss creations; they are relics from before the War of Ages." Adun responded to Hyperion's question by retrieving information about the Voidseekers from his memory bank.

"The War of Ages? Relics? You're saying the Void was created by those tentacle monsters of the Xel'Naga?" Although she didn't know much about the historical details of the Hyperion Protoss, she had at least worked with Commander Lei and knew some basic knowledge about the Protoss.

“I’m not entirely sure, since there’s no record of it, but the Xel’Naga definitely got involved.” Adun paused for a moment before saying, “Because the Protoss language you learned from the Voidseekers, or more accurately, the language we Protoss used to communicate with the Xel’Naga.”

“No wonder, Little Void is actually a creation of the Xel'Naga. Wait, does that mean Little Void is even more…” Because of Adun’s suddenly murderous gaze, Hyperion forcibly held back from saying the word “old.”

“I mean older, older,” Hyperion said, sounding relieved.

"I probably wouldn't qualify as a relic." Perhaps it's a difference in perspective on time, but although she's dozens of times older than the Hyperion, Adun doesn't consider herself an old woman.

"Then I'll have to call her Old Xu from now on..." Hyperion was caught in a strange dilemma.

"The Void Seeker's main cannon is no less powerful than your Yamato cannon," Adun said, out of brotherhood, as he watched Hyperion relentlessly continue down the path of self-destruction.

"Really?" Hyperion asked somewhat incredulously, only to see Adun's indifferent expression, and could only sigh, "Those tentacle monsters have really advanced technology."

"According to the records, if I'm not careful, she could sneak in." Moreover, given Adun's open hull design, the success rate of infiltration might be even higher.

"It's recorded in the files? You haven't seen Little Hue?" Hyperion asked curiously, understanding the implication in Adun's words.

“I saw her from afar, but I hadn’t activated it yet and couldn’t contact her.” Ardon recalled the scene he witnessed when he was hiding in the harbor to avoid the insects.

"And then she helped you activate it?" Hyperion didn't know much about the details of the battle to reclaim El.

"She was destroyed, right before my eyes," Adun said, recounting the final fate of the Hollow that Hyperion had mentioned.

"What? She can be destroyed too?" Hyperion had just finished praising the Xel'Naga technology of the Void Seeker, and then heard the news of her death in battle. He was somewhat unable to accept it.

"Because it was the Xel'Naga who made the move." Adun also felt a little sorry for the death of the Voidseeker. Unfortunately, she hadn't activated her skill at the time and couldn't offer any help. If the commotion had been too great and the Zerg had discovered it beforehand, there wouldn't have been the story of saving the world that followed.

"That's such a pity. I wonder if you'll be able to summon her in the future, Adun," Hyperion said regretfully. Although she wasn't close to the Void Seeker, they were still friends.

“I can consider it…” Adun neither agreed nor disagreed. In the years of war that raged in the Koprulu Sector, too many legendary warships like the Void Seeker had perished.

Furthermore, Adun only knows a little about how to summon ship girls using the builder; it doesn't mean she can summon whichever ship girl she wants.

Behind Adun and Hyperion, Kaga, who was agonizing over her admiral's crime of robbing... no, stealing from a bank, found herself unable to understand the conversation between her admiral and her secretary ship.

"Captain, can you understand what the Admiral is saying?" Kaga had no choice but to turn to his companion, Wosex, for help.

"Wo," wo-chan answered directly.

"..." Now even the language has become a foreign language. Kaga felt so lonely. He decided to have a drink to calm his nerves.

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Ten chapters are finished. My drafts have suddenly dropped from 16 to 6. I'm feeling really anxious. I estimate I'll use up the remaining drafts around the 8th or 9th.

For those two days, I had to travel thousands of miles to my buddy's place, and together with them, put on our armor again, shoulder our weapons, and go to fight in a 40-player movie theater battlefield.

By the Holy Light! For the Alliance!!

Of course, my buddies and I prepared two sets of armor, so we could say "Captain, it's me, don't shoot!" at any time in case the tribe outnumbered us.

Should I get a Demacia set...?

Chapter 210 was well done.

"You guys... went on a robbery?" Tirpitz, who was in Charlotte brainstorming ideas, and who also held many other positions, asked in utter surprise when he saw the modified cores that Adun and Hyperion had taken out.

"It should be soon." Without answering Tirpitz's question, Adon walked to the office sofa, sat down, and took out his knock-off Orange phone to check it.

"What's fast?" Tirpitz asked, his eyes scanning back and forth between the modified cores on the table and Adun, looking completely bewildered.