The Admiral of Hogwarts

Having completed the inspection of the lunar base, Hugo now had a greater grasp of the war. Although, from the perspective of pure-blood wizards, achieving an overwhelming victory wasn't easy, they now had the means to completely upend the table.

Of course, besides accumulating enough capital to develop into space, one of the most important goals was to resolve potential conflicts between wizards and ordinary people in the future.

Considering the developed internet and the ubiquitous smartphones with internet access in the future, Hugo felt that if the wizarding world didn't change, exposure would be inevitable sooner or later.

Although, according to the last chapter of the original text, the wizards successfully kept their secrets even into the internet age, Hugo felt it wouldn't hurt to prepare for this aspect, even without knowing the inside story.

At least, in Hugo's view, the most likely cause of conflict between wizards and ordinary people would be the competition for resources and dissatisfaction with the concentration of magical power in the hands of a few.

Now, the overall plan laid out by Hugo and the ship girls could fundamentally solve this serious problem, as they had pioneered a new extraordinary system and found a nearly infinite source of resources in a short period.

In fact, even at this very early stage, the space program had begun to give back to the ship girls' various nodes on Earth.

For example, during the construction of the lunar base, they were able to plant and cultivate some magical creatures sensitive to cosmic energy on the moon and in outer space, and collect materials similar to Star Iron, which came from the universe and were very rare on Earth.

For example, they found a special magic metal on the moon called Lunar Silver, which had extremely strong magic conductivity and could replace mithril, which was very rare on Earth.

And there were now no fewer than a hundred kinds of various magic materials similar to Lunar Silver produced in outer space. Although mining and refining these things were not easy, Hugo and the ship girls almost completely monopolized the production of these materials, and the profits were imaginable.

For example, before, because the mining of high-end minerals such as mithril was monopolized by those pure-blood families, Unyielding and the others were naturally easily held back by those pure-blood families in the production of many high-end items.

But now, with the launch of lunar mining, all previous shackles had been broken. They would not only be free from being controlled by others, but could even turn around and cut off the economic lifeline of the pure-blood families at any time.

However, considering that outer space development required sufficient manpower, and the current state of secrecy was conducive to recruiting manpower, the ship girls had been keeping quiet.

Soon after Hugo visited and returned from the lunar base, Hermione also took the opportunity to briefly visit it. She proposed recruiting house-elves without masters to join the construction work.

This suggestion was quickly approved by the ship girls collectively. After all, the magic level of house-elves was no less than that of ordinary adult wizards, and the whereabouts of those house-elves who had lost their masters were basically not noticed, so it was not easy to attract suspicious eyes.

Soon, it was mid-May. The final exams were about to begin. However, unlike in previous years, Hermione didn't rush to prepare for the review work this year because she had become a ship girl. Instead, she put more energy into some work belonging to the ship girls.

On the one hand, it was because the first two colony ships had just finished all the assembly and adjustment work and were heading to Mars, so the entire organization was busy, and every ship girl needed to contribute their strength.

On the other hand, after becoming a ship girl, Hermione also possessed the ship girl's unique characteristics of photographic memory and quick thinking. Therefore, she didn't need to concentrate a lot of energy on repeated memorization and thinking and understanding like reviewing in the past.

However, the aftereffect of this was that because too much computing power was used to think about things related to the current war, the whole person's reaction seemed a little slow.

"Calculating the defensive artillery array for the new colony is a very complicated thing, because we have to find that critical balance point between the power of the artillery and the consumption of the artillery," Hermione explained to her brother what she was busy with that day.

Although, as a ship girl, she could completely report this information to Hugo through the admiral network, Hermione, a ship girl who was a novice, was still more accustomed to communicating with other members of her kind in language rather than information flow.

"Which side are you calculating?" After confirming that there was no one around, Hugo asked his sister in a low voice. Although he was indeed the admiral, he really didn't care much about these details.

"The Mars side," Hermione replied, "In three weeks, the first two exploration ships will arrive on Mars to begin early construction work, and the buildings that will begin construction at the same time naturally include the base defense system.

"Has the progress been advanced to this point? Then the time is indeed a bit tight," Hugo nodded and said. At least, judging from the documents sent by the ship girls before, the Mars base was obviously much more important and larger in scale than the lunar base.

Unlike the moon, which mainly relies on Earth for material support and is only regarded as a sightseeing base and transit station, the Mars base will become the core of near-term outer space colonies.

According to their plan, all the remaining needs of this colony, except for the basic materials used for start-up in the early stage, will come from Mars itself and the nearby asteroid belt, completely achieving self-sufficiency.

Because of this importance, Hermione had been so busy recently. So much so that even the exams that she usually valued most could be temporarily put aside.

Fortunately, Hermione's current approach did not arouse suspicion from others. After all, their usual studies had been very high, and coupled with the fact that their friend Veneto was preparing for the final item of the Triwizard Tournament, it was understandable that they didn't focus on reviewing.

Because now, except for Veneto, the contestants participating in the Triwizard Tournament had not focused their attention on the final exams.

Although an unexpected incident occurred, everyone still decided to let the competition continue. However, because of the accident of personnel death, this competition was inevitably shrouded in a shadow, and everyone's enthusiasm for the competition had also significantly cooled down.

For example, there were obviously fewer people wearing support badges now, and there were not as many people watching the contestants.

Of course, it may also be because this kind of thing had been going on for more than half a year, so everyone already seemed a little aesthetically fatigued, just like eating big meals every day would also be boring.

But no matter what, since the competition had decided to continue under such circumstances, whether the competition could win was also very important, and the contestants naturally did not dare to relax their preparations in this regard.

At least for these contestants, whether it was 1,000 Galleons or the title of Triwizard Tournament champion, they were very precious, belonging to the kind of things that could make the path of life much easier after obtaining them, so they absolutely needed to strive to get them.