Whose War Was It?

"Lord Xia, please speak." Apprentice captain Wu Yue spoke into the Sound Transmission Device held by the Elf crewman. "Y-Yes, I understand. The Baisha Ship will carry out the order at once!"

He then turned and shouted at acting captain Feilin Carter, who was observing the situation from the poop deck, "Mr. Carter, Lord Xia has ordered us to proceed to the Upper City and bombard the Twin-Bodied Demon Statue!"

"Heavens, are you sure?" The latter looked astonished. "The water there isn't as deep as it is here. Even a super warship like the Baisha Ship could run aground! And if we come under siege from Evil Spirits again, two Jinxia Cannons alone absolutely won't be enough!"

After several months together, the Natating people could not only communicate with everyone in halting Eastern speech, but had also developed their own understanding of how words were formed—for instance, he did not know the exact details of the two Zhen Technique cannons on deck due to their high classification, so he called them Jinxia Cannons according to his own habits.

That name ended up catching on throughout the ship instead.

"A fleet commander should place preserving the fleet's strength above all else. If an order is highly likely to endanger the survival of the main warships, the captain has the right to refuse such unreasonable orders." He paused, then added, "Uh—at least, that's how it is in the Natating Kingdom."

After all, ships were a navy's most important asset.

Without ships, everything connected to the sea would be handed over on a silver platter.

Especially an epoch-making warship like the Baisha Ship, which gathered every kind of new technology into one vessel.

Had this been Silisti, they would rather abandon the harbor than lose such a cutting-edge warship.

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