Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1368: Help Across Dimensions

“Nepnep! Novalu, come here quickly, isn’t this the commander we haven’t seen for a long time?!”

"Neptune, stop it, how could the commander... Eh!? Is it really the commander?!"

I don’t know how much time had passed, but Lin Lan suddenly heard the energetic voices of young girls talking next to her ears.

Maybe you close your eyes for a second, a minute, or even a year.

In short, he felt as if he had regained a little consciousness from the chaos.

"How did the commander travel through dimensions? And he's not in good condition... Neptune, quickly contact Beru and Bran, the commander needs our help!"

Accompanied by the familiar low voice of a girl, Lin Lan's consciousness fell into sleep again.

But for some reason, he felt that the names Neptune, Noirlu, Beru and Bran were very familiar to him.

……

I don’t know how much time has passed.

"Wow! Commander, wake up! Why are you in my bed?!"

It was the noisy and familiar voice of a girl that awakened his consciousness again, but Lin Lan could almost instantly tell that this girl's voice did not belong to the four names from last time.

Along with the sound of the door opening, a gentle and elegant voice of a girl who had just woken up rang out:

"Leisa, the passage from our world to the Commander's port area has not been restored yet. I know you miss the Commander, but it will be very annoying if you make so much noise so early in the morning... Commander?"

"Look, look! Kolotia, it's really the commander!"

"That's not the point! The commander must be in big trouble. I'm going to contact the other members of the Chamber of Commerce. You take care of the commander first."

The two girls seemed to have decided something quickly, and Clotia at the door left quickly.

Before his consciousness fell into darkness again, he heard Lisa's confident voice ringing in his ears:

"Commander, I and everyone else will do everything we can to help you with alchemy.

"So you must keep this commission in mind, and wait until we come back to you..."

Lin Lan's consciousness faded once again as the girl's reassuring voice came close to him.

……

"Ah! It's the Commander. I don't know what happened, but since you came to Kizuna Ai, it means you must need help. I will use the power of the virtual world to help you!"

"Remember to say hello to Santiago-chan for me. Kizuna Ai will definitely come to Minato and hold another lively virtual concert!"

……

"Chizuru, go get Akane and Kakusu to come here. The commander needs their help."

"Okay princess! But Rikka, Minami, and Namiko-san..."

"Contact them as well, quickly."

……

"Something bad is happening! Miss Xue Bugui, Miss Banjiu, Xuequan-chan!"

"Why are you so flustered, Miss Asuka? You are too impatient and reckless. Please calm down."

"Hmm? Miss Asuka, why do you smell like the commander?"

"Xue, Xuequan-chan, the commander, the commander..."

……

"Mary! You said the commander came to our world, where is he?!"

"Don't worry, Ms. Honoka and Ms. Luna. I have asked Sister Helena to send the commander to the best hospital under DOATEC. Sister Tamaki, Female Tengu, and Kasumi are all with the commander."

……

Lin Lan's consciousness was repeatedly awakened from nothingness by the familiar and kind voice, making him unable to figure out what was going on.

But every time his consciousness briefly regained consciousness, he would keep engraving one thing in the deepest part of his mind.

I am the commander...I am the commander.

I am the commander!
……

Carlo Village in the southern part of the continent of Saint Losolon Teaching Country is a rural village adjacent to the South Wind Plain, far away from any large town.

Nearly a hundred villagers have lived here for generations.

The two most conspicuous buildings in the village are the ancient chapel in the center of the village.

This little church stood in the center of the village long before many of the villagers of Kalo were born.

It is said that there used to be a priest living in the church, who often brought miracles from God to the villagers.

But as the number of miracles gradually decreased, the Church of Holy Light gradually stopped sending priests to such small villages.

As a result, the church lost its original function.

Only when monsters or goblins attack, the villagers will take their families and hide in the church, using the terrain to resist and wait for dawn.

The second conspicuous building in the village was built in the past two years at the call of the village chief. It is an inn specifically for accommodating foreign merchants and mercenaries.

That's right.

The remote Carlo Village, which had originally found it extremely difficult to defend against goblins, finally became lively as the entrance to the dungeon maze appeared in the South Wind Plains.

Even the lord to whom Carlo Village originally belonged but who had never appeared in Carlo Village, Earl Conrad, sent a team of guards from the castle to stay in the village and collect taxes from mercenaries and merchants.

This also allowed the villagers who had been harassed by monsters and goblins to finally live a peaceful life for two years.

The dungeon maze is an ancient site with entrances that randomly open within the borders of the Teaching Country.

In these dungeon mazes, there are always various treasure chests, which contain lost alchemy, spellcasting materials, or rare weapons with ancient magic, or potions that increase people's strength...

In the taverns in each city, there are always rumors about some people getting rich overnight and becoming powerful figures, which are talked about by mercenaries with great relish.

However, opportunities are often accompanied by risks.

The treasures in the dungeon maze are not easily accessible to anyone.

In these dungeon mazes that were created who knows how long ago, there are often guardians with exaggerated strength stationed on each floor.

They could be magical beasts, the undead, or ancient magical creations and the powerful alien royal courts who were hiding and dormant in them.

Rather than rumors of lucky people conquering mazes or getting lucky and finding treasures, the tavern is more likely to hear sighs and lamentations about a well-known mercenary group being tragically wiped out in a maze somewhere.

However, for the villagers of Carlo Village, this news is not worthy of attention.

During this period, they found that fewer and fewer mercenaries came to Carlo Village.

Even the lord's guards had basically withdrawn, leaving only the oldest, white-haired fourth-level warrior in charge of collecting taxes.

After repeated inquiries by the village chief and villagers, the villagers learned the bad news.

It turns out that the underground maze of the South Wind Plains was just within these two weeks, and all the mercenary groups that entered it were hit by explosions of unknown causes and suffered heavy losses.

If only that was it.

But when the mercenaries entered the dungeon maze and continued to advance to the lower levels, they found that all the treasure chests that had originally surrounded the guardian had disappeared.

This news has been spread to the nearest main city where the lord is located, and many mercenary groups have completely lost interest in this maze in the South Wind Plains.

Even the Mercenary Association revised the maze rating, defining it as an A-level difficulty maze that is not recommended for strategy.

It is said that a magician from a mercenary group said that he sensed the evil aura of paganism in the maze.

Although this news has not been confirmed by personnel sent by the Association and the Church, it is enough to make mercenary groups from all sides stay away from the maze in the South Wind Plains.

This sudden change has made the villagers of Carlo Village look worried these past two days, and they are once again worried about the goblin colonies and monster attacks.

Of course, many young villagers were also very angry.

Those mercenaries only knew how to brag about how powerful they were, but they were unwilling to even help them with small favors like destroying the goblin's nest.

What the villagers of Carlo Village didn’t know was that at this moment, two big men from the church were rushing here non-stop.

(End of this chapter)