Commander's Gene Ability

"Does Commander have any other abilities?"

Akashi's tone was filled with curiosity.

"Yes!"

Su Luo controlled his consciousness to touch another, larger light sphere among the countless light spheres within the Super Gene system.

"To make such demands, it's truly impossible to refuse, hehe."

A mature, doting older sister's voice sounded in Su Luo's ear. Listening to Cloud Immortal's voice, Su Luo smiled and extended a finger.

A light blue butterfly appeared on his fingertip.

Akashi looked at the butterfly and felt a sense of familiarity.

"This is... Lady Cloud Immortal's..."

Su Luo nodded, confirming Akashi's guess.

Su Luo lowered his hand, and the butterfly left his finger, fluttering around him. Then, with a thought from Su Luo, the butterfly stopped circling him and flew towards Akashi, who was opposite him. Akashi didn't dodge; her trust in her Commander was etched into her very being. When the butterfly collided with Akashi, it vanished, and Akashi felt her body stiffen. However, after she tried to struggle free, the sensation disappeared. At the same time, Su Luo felt his internal energy decrease again, though not as much as when he had projected those bombs earlier.

"Is this Lady Cloud Immortal's seal?"

Su Luo nodded, not denying it. Seeing that Akashi could break free so quickly, he wasn't surprised, as he hadn't infused the butterfly with much energy.

"Currently, there are only these two abilities. One is to summon phantoms of everyone, and the other is to use the abilities held by everyone, such as..."

As he spoke, Su Luo waved his hand, and a bolt of lightning appeared in the distance, striking the forest. The thunder echoed through the valley. As the trees were struck by lightning, several of them caught fire. Just as Akashi was about to dispatch her shipgirls to deal with it, Su Luo waved his hand again, and giant hailstones fell from the sky above the burning trees, completely extinguishing the not-so-large fire.

The bolt of lightning that appeared out of nowhere startled the girl, who had just been comforted by Akashi, once again. Seeing this, Su Luo smiled apologetically at the girl. He then reached out again, and a new butterfly appeared, this one a slightly darker shade than the previous one.

"This is Lady Shinano's..."

Su Luo nodded and let the butterfly fly towards the girl in Akashi's arms. The butterfly dissipated upon hitting the girl, and the girl, who had been trembling in Akashi's arms, suddenly felt sleepy and fell asleep nestled against Akashi.

"Let her have a good dream!"

Su Luo smiled at the girl and then gestured for Akashi to place her on the bed inside the room.

Akashi complied, and a moment later, she walked out, continuing her discussion about abilities with Su Luo.

"Commander, can you use Lady Shinano's ability to construct dreams for that child?"

"Currently, it's just simple influence at most, but TB told me that if this gene upgrades, these abilities might become stronger in the future. Taking Lady Shinano's ability as an example, after upgrading, it might be possible to interfere with, alter, or even directly enter their dreams."

Akashi nodded, saying nothing. After all, Lady Shinano could already do these things, so it wasn't particularly surprising.

"Those abilities you used just now... the first phantom summoned was Nagato, then Lady Cloud Immortal, then that bolt of lightning was probably Musashi, and those hailstones should be from someone in the Northern Union..."

"An ally!"

Akashi listened to Su Luo's words, picturing the white-haired, coolly elegant secret agent from the Northern Union in her mind, and nodded.

"And you just used Lady Shinano's ability."

Akashi recalled that all these shipgirls were the Commander's married shipgirls!

And they all basically fit the Commander's preference that she had inquired about earlier! Well, Miss Nagato was an exception.

Even though Miss Nagato's figure couldn't compare to the others, she was still the one most cherished by the Commander in the port.

Akashi seemed to have heard why.

There were rumors in the port that the Commander had privately said Miss Nagato was his childhood friend, his wife through thick and thin, or something like that...

Akashi wasn't concerned about these things now. What she was concerned about was.

"Commander, are the abilities you can use limited to those of your married shipgirls?"

Su Luo was stunned by Akashi's question. After a moment, as if confirming something, he shook his head at Akashi.

"No, I can also use the abilities of other shipgirls! It's just a bit more troublesome."

"A bit more troublesome?"

Akashi didn't quite understand what Su Luo meant. Su Luo thought for a moment and decided to use an analogy to explain it to Akashi.

"Akashi, I'll give you a perhaps not-so-clear analogy."

Akashi nodded, her cat ears twitching, ready to listen to what Su Luo had to say next.

"Let's assume my gene system is a computer, and the abilities of my married shipgirls are like software shortcuts on the computer desktop. I can find them at a glance when I turn on the computer, and I can easily open and use them."

"As for the abilities of other shipgirls... they are like software hidden in some folders, and you don't even know which specific corner of the computer those folders are in... cough, I mean software. When I need to open this software, I first need to search for its location, and only after finding it can I start running it!"

Su Luo glanced at Akashi and, seeing that she was still contemplating and hadn't noticed his near slip-up, relaxed slightly.

Akashi, as Su Luo had expected, hadn't noticed. After listening to his explanation, she nodded, indicating that she understood.

"So, the married shipgirls have a deeper connection with the Commander. Other shipgirls also have a connection with the Commander, but because the married shipgirls' connection is so deep, the connection of other shipgirls with the Commander appears too weak, is that right?"

Su Luo nodded.

"Something like that."

"So... is it because of the Oath?"

Akashi pondered for a moment, not fully understanding. She decided to jot it down and try to research it later.

"Commander, there's another question."

"What is it?"

"Can the projections you summon, Commander, only be summoned one at a time?"

Su Luo tried it, and the phantom of Nagato appeared again. At the same time, six ship girls appeared, including Shinano, Cloud Immortal, and Frederick the Great. Akashi took a look; it was exactly one small team.

"Currently, this is the maximum that can be summoned."

"Commander, can they fight autonomously?"

Akashi blinked, very interested in this question. After all, if the phantoms couldn't fight on their own, the practical application of this ability would be greatly reduced.

After all, Su Luo could use the ship girls' abilities. Judging from the effect of Nagato's phantom using her ship equipment to attack, it was simply a pure energy blast, only appearing as if a bomber was dropping ordnance. In other words, Su Luo himself would clump the energy within his body into a ball, throw it at the target, and then detonate it. The effect would be similar to the attack of the phantom he summoned. At most, it was a bit deceptive.

Therefore, if these phantoms couldn't fight autonomously, summoning them would be practically useless.

As the Commander, Su Luo naturally understood what his ship girls were thinking. When Akashi asked, Su Luo had already guessed what she wanted to ask.

"To be precise, they have combat instincts, but more refined operations require commands. However, TB can assist in controlling them for combat!"

"If Miss Navigator is offline, can the computing power hold up?"

"TB replied that one small team is fine. Any more would require a link to the main host!"