Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1381 The Current Situation of the Alien Royal Court and the Teaching Nation
"Commander, before Arthas led the Crusade Knights to the Northern Territory, there were a total of ten alien royal courts on the continent of Saint Lothalon."

The Iris aircraft carrier girl, with her white hair spread out, leaned her smooth body against his chest, and looked at Southwest Wind and Marco Polo playing in the water in the middle of the bathtub, and said to him gently and in detail:
“Since the failed attempt to invade Natlan a thousand years ago, these foreign royal courts have become a loose group and have never truly united again.

“There is also a huge gap in the combat effectiveness between the royal courts of different races.

"Some are as strong as the dragons of the Dragon Heart Royal Court. A single adult dragon can cause a devastating blow to a town in the Teaching Kingdom that does not have high-level professionals in charge.

"Weak courts include the barbarian courts that include goblins, centaurs, and orcs. Their throne inheritance has been destroyed. The only difference between them and the Warcraft is that they use simple tools and conduct organized looting attacks."

Lin Lan listened quietly to the girl's explanation, and from time to time she gently wiped the water that splashed on the girl's face when Marco Polo and the others played water fight.

“There are also many alien races in the country who disguise themselves as mercenaries or planeswalkers and integrate into human society.

“Generally speaking, the Holy Light Church will turn a blind eye to these alien races, and will not pay special attention to them as long as they are not organized to cause sabotage.

“The noble lords of the Teaching Nation would also spend a lot of money to recruit these alien races in their respective territories as private soldiers to fight against the assassins sent by monsters or political enemies.

“On the other hand, some alien races that have not yet grown up or whose strength has been suppressed by magic items will also be captured by mercenaries and sold on the black market as slaves.

"If they were sold to mine owners or nobles who believed in the Church of Holy Light, it would be fine. At least these slaves could keep their lives."

“But many tower wizards like to use these alien slaves to conduct magic experiments. There are also pagan nobles who will buy slaves in large numbers and use their lives to cruelly sacrifice to pagan sorcerers to summon sub-space demons.

“Even though the Holy Light Church has already launched multiple strikes against the black market and slave traders throughout the teaching country, it has also asked local churches to adopt orphans of other races as much as possible and educate them from a young age, and has also relaxed the racial requirements for the academy.

“But to this day, the black market and the alien slave trade are still rampant and difficult to eradicate.”

Lin Lan narrowed his eyes thoughtfully. What Xia Fei said about the current situation of the Teaching Country was quite consistent with his imagination of the Western fantasy world.

To put it bluntly, the Church of Holy Light uses the illusory means of faith to unite the lords of Saint Lothal and form a teaching country.

When the goddess Saint Lothalon did not give up and often performed miracles, the Kingdom of Doctrine still had a certain degree of order.

But as the Holy Light Church performs fewer and fewer miracles, this loose-sand model of national political system will run into big problems.

In the medieval Europe of Blue Planet, wasn't it that feudal religions were gradually abolished by monarchs who controlled capital power, and eventually entered the modern era relying on the Industrial Revolution?

The reason why the Doctrine Kingdom has not entered a chaotic era of separatist rule by lords and nobles is that the priests and paladins of the Church of Holy Light can still cast holy light spells, and the church has real transcendent power.

Then again, he remembered that the current Teaching Country had indeed experienced an alternate world version of the "Industrial Revolution".

When he was chatting with the girls at dinner, he had already learned that a new magic association had emerged in the Doctrine Kingdom.

There have even been many frictions between this emerging Magic Association and the old and authoritative traditional Magicians Association, the Tower. Spokespersons of both sides have publicly stated that they are the future of magic inheritance.

Regarding magic technology, to put it simply in Mogador's words, it is actually a combination of steam technology and magic.

Thanks to the collision of civilizations between the United States of Oran and the Teaching Nation a hundred years ago, the Magic Association received inspiration from Oran's modern industrial technology and grew rapidly, and even produced several magicians whose strength was comparable to that of legends.

Because of this, the Magic Association has even forced the Mercenary Association and various colleges to distinguish the profession of "Mage" from "Wizard", making it a brand new profession and opening independent training courses.

"Commander, there's no need to hang around with Xia Fei! Come and help me!"

"Oh, the children are so energetic. I need the help of the Commander and Miss Xiafei~"

Before he could continue to hold the blushing Xiafei in his arms and ponder, Marco Polo and Andrea's cries for help made him look up.

Marco Polo and Andrea, who were obviously the main battleships, were besieged by Mogador and three Sardinian little lolis, and were at a disadvantage in the water fight.

A water fight is not a real battle. Even as a main battleship, it cannot make up for the difference in numbers between the two tall sisters. Looking at the embarrassed Marco Polo and Andrea with a doting smile on her face, as well as the snow-white skin that was displayed in front of him without reservation, Lin Lan did not want to continue thinking about those problems.

"Unfair competition is not an option, Marco Polo, Andrea, I'm here to help you!"

"Wow! Everyone attack the commander together!"

Accompanied by the happy laughter of the southwest wind, Lin Lan and several ship girls stayed in the big bath until late at night before returning to the dormitory that Andrea had asked sister Bri to arrange.

As for why it takes so long when it’s just taking a shower?

Ahem, he was just fulfilling his duties as a commander and he would have to work overtime later.

Through his practice in the big bath, he came to a very useful conclusion.

That is, even if he does not use the blessing of the little sword spirit, he can still become more and more courageous in battle, and even stronger than with the blessing of the little sword spirit.

The fact that Marco Polo, who had already fallen asleep tiredly with a smile on his face, was carried back to the door of the cruise dormitory in his arms as a princess, proved this point.

This may be considered a special benefit that he has brought to himself after his high-dimensional conceptualization.

For safety reasons, Lin Lan asked a few lovely Kimbury sisters to keep an eye on his cabin before entering the dormitory with several ship girls to continue in-depth communication.

Although he felt that in order to activate Helofen's management machine, his authority and a sufficient number of mind cubes would definitely be needed.

But this is just his personal judgment.

If he were to fall asleep in the middle of the night and find someone else in bed, he would be scared to death.

"Leave it to us, purin~!"

"Commander, you have to keep going purin~purin tonight!"

Seeing several Jinbuli sisters holding golden alloy drills and giving him full assurances, Lin Lan also smiled with relief.

Fortunately, Marco Polo brought a few barracudas with him before leaving the temporary port of Sardinia, so he didn't have to worry about the logistics.

Having become the master of the Rubik's Cube concept, he can now evolve the Brie sisters with his mind, without having to degenerate back into Savages.

But his ship girls have already graduated, and he doesn't need Caili's power to help them upgrade their ship equipment, so it's fine to maintain the status quo.

But when they set off tomorrow, if the Sardinian ship girls' vehicles are not convenient to carry too many Bries, he will still have to let the Brie sisters turn back into Savages first.

"Huha~ Commander, what are you still doing standing at the door? Keep going, keep going~"

At this moment, Mogador's charming and greedy urging voice floated from the room behind him.

"It's coming, don't rush it."

He waved lovingly to the Kimbri sisters, then turned and walked into the dormitory of the ship girls on the cruise ship.

Brie's sisters also considerately closed the door for him.

Looking at the several ship girls who were lying on the big bed with affectionate and blushing faces, looking at him with confused and longing eyes, Lin Lan knew that he would have to wait until the second half of the night to fall asleep tonight.

Marco Polo, curled up in his arms, was just tired from the ceremony. He would take a short nap first, but he would definitely have to get up and continue working overtime.

(End of this chapter)