Free Web NovelChapter 926: Chapter 538: The Watchful Shipgirls
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Card Name: [Kinetic Energy Torpedo]
Category: Equipment Spell Card
Star Level: 4-Star
Effect: This card can only be equipped to [Destroyer], [Cruiser] Followers. When the equipped Follower deals damage by attacking directly, you may perform a Magic Selection; if the selection succeeds, skip your opponent’s next turn.
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A simple, brutal, and powerful Equipment Spell Card.
Nice work! Alice!
Shen Sui could already see an entire deck built around this Equipment Spell Card as its core.
Alice was just too amazing, still constantly creating new surprises for him even now.
The Life Cards she drew this round were all of very high quality, many of them could change the tide of battle at critical moments, but compared to this [Kinetic Energy Torpedo], those excellent Life Cards suddenly looked a lot dimmer.
The other cards could only be called icing on the cake, while this card could directly form the backbone of an entire system.
Thinking so, Shen Sui gathered up all these Life Cards.
Once Alice’s journey through the Shipgirl World ended, Shen Sui would see if there was a way to build a Shipgirl Card Set. With Alice’s ability, that shouldn’t be much of a problem.
After getting identification, Alice smoothly made contact with Purple Moon’s fleet.
Although the shipgirls in the fleet all doubted Alice’s level, this girl who looked very young didn’t even seem to have reached the age to graduate from school.
Even so, they still trusted Zhu Yue and Purple Moon’s judgment, especially Zhu Yue.
Though Purple Moon was the big-sister battleship, she’d actually only just graduated, and hadn’t been with this fleet for very long. Zhu Yue, on the other hand, was a founding veteran of this fleet, the former Commander’s starter ship and long-term secretary ship, and she had a very good relationship with all the shipgirls.
For Zhu Yue to trust Alice that much, she had to have her reasons.
Plus, after Purple Moon laid out the pros and cons, they knew very well that they actually didn’t have any other choice right now.
When it came to fleet management, Alice was basically completely clueless.
[The only thing she could manage to do each day was poke Zhu Yue, her secretary ship, a bit in the office.]
Damn, how is this exactly the same as my idle, no-event, nothing-to-farm state.
Seeing this line, Shen Sui couldn’t help internally roasting.
Back when he hadn’t dropped the game because of work, when he had nothing better to do he’d log in just to poke his secretary ship.
[Purple Moon walked in from outside: "Right now the entire fortress is a mess, our application’s been shelved."]
["Chaos? What kind of chaos?" Alice asked curiously.]
["The supplies were burned, everyone in the fortress is on edge, and I heard they discovered traces of the Deep Sea inside the fortress two days ago. That’s made the standing fleet very nervous; the City Lord has ordered the standing fleet into wartime status, and all callable resources have to be leisurely funneled to them," Purple Moon said.]
["Huh? The Deep Sea has already infiltrated the fortress interior?" Alice exclaimed.]
Oh, drop the act.
You really don’t know where the Deep Sea in the fortress came from?
[Purple Moon’s expression turned grave: "Looks like you were absolutely right. After the Deep Sea ordered him to destroy Red Maple’s strategic supplies, they started getting restless. I’m afraid traces of the Deep Sea will soon appear in the waters outside the fortress as well."]
["Then we’d better hurry up and get ready." Alice slapped the table and stood up.]
["Ready? But our supplies..."]
["If supplies aren’t enough, then we go on an expedition." Light flashed in Alice’s eyes. "There should be resource nodes near Red Maple Fortress, right? I’ve checked the map."]
["There are, yes." Purple Moon hesitated. "But we’ll likely run into the Deep Sea along the way; battle will be unavoidable."]
["That’s still better than rotting to death in port."]
[Purple Moon accepted Alice’s reasoning: "Got it, I’ll go prepare."]
["Hold up." Alice stopped Purple Moon, then cheerfully stated her main goal. "Since we’re going out, we should give the shipgirls a thorough physical check as well. How about this: I know a little something about the procedure, so I’ll be the one to give you all the check-ups later."]
[Purple Moon froze for a moment, then turned to look at Zhu Yue, doubt in her eyes: Your Commander isn’t a pervert, is she?]
[The relationship between shipgirls and Commanders is naturally a breeding ground for perversion.]
[Many Commanders are in a romantic relationship with their starter shipgirl, and once they get more shipgirls, they naturally start treating them as lovers too—after all, the way a lot of Commanders recruit shipgirls isn’t much different from chasing girls.]
[However, as the recruitment system has standardized over the years, this kind of thing has actually become rarer. Instead, every now and then you hear rumors about big-sister shipgirls bullying their young Commanders.]
[Zhu Yue was a bit embarrassed. She lifted her head and tapped her temple: Don’t get the wrong idea, she just has a few screws loose.]
[Of course Alice couldn’t possibly be a pervert... well, at least not that much of a pervert.]
Seriously, Dueling Device, what are you doing? Are you roasting her now?
Shen Sui stared speechlessly at this chunk of text.
As unserious as it looked, Alice’s goal in making this suggestion was actually very pure. During their previous voyage, Alice had already conducted extremely detailed and thorough research and analysis on Zhu Yue, and she now understood the physical structure and operating mechanics of the Destroyer shipgirls’ power.
If necessary, Alice could even use Dawn Power to simulate herself into a Destroyer shipgirl—put on Ship Armor and she’d be able to jump straight into combat.
