The Admiral of Hogwarts

As ship girls who are not flesh and blood, the advanced skills they can provide to Hugo are terrifyingly powerful. For example, the simplest mental immunity, if mastered, would allow him to be immune to all effects that influence the mind, just like them. In other words, after mastering this skill, he could be said to be directly immune to the Imperius Curse.

In addition to this, they are all immune to toxins, sleep, paralysis, intimidation, diseases, and various magic related to the undead, or can minimize the possibility of harm. If Hugo masters these skills, it would give him a great advantage in the Wizarding War.

Hugo even found skills related to immunity to deadly magic on the advanced skill list, which could turn lethal spells like Avada Kedavra into a simple curse that damages the soul. If he possessed this skill, Hugo would have a great advantage when facing Death Eaters who like to cast Avada Kedavra on anyone they see.

But now, the only purpose of these powerful skills for Hugo is to encourage him to earn more money and improve himself as soon as possible, as they are not something he can acquire in a short period. So, after browsing through these advanced skills and satisfying his craving, Hugo honestly started looking at the ordinary skills.

After spending more than ten minutes analyzing the skills possessed by the five ship girls he had summoned, Hugo, with Victory's help, finally selected the three skills for this summoning.

"A very good choice, at least it's useful to you now," Victory commented after Hugo reported the skills he had chosen. "I am very happy to see that you have chosen such a set of skills that takes into account both the present and the future."

The skills Hugo chose were the European Language Pack from Victory, the street fighting skills from Veneto, and the Indomitable Will from Firefly.

Victory's European Language Pack includes all languages used by more than 100,000 people in Europe, as well as Latin, a language used by the ancient upper class. Considering that modern European magic is based on ancient runes and Latin, mastering this language would be very useful to him.

On the other hand, the things that summon ship girls are definitely not only present in Britain. The magical world is not only in Britain either. In this situation, if he wants to have more knowledge and gain more power, then mastering some foreign languages is a very important thing.

Veneto's street fighting skills come from southern Italy and are a set of combat skills summarized after being tempered in the most brutal battles of the underworld. Although this fighting style is not suitable for the battlefield, it can show great value in some small-scale battles.

Firefly's Indomitable Will is one of the few ordinary skills related to the soul, equivalent to a severely weakened version of mental immunity. Naturally, this skill cannot achieve absolute immunity to those soul-related magics, but it can greatly strengthen Hugo's current willpower, giving him a greater advantage than normal people when learning magic related to will or facing soul-related attacks.

In short, if Hugo can thoroughly master these three skills, he can double or triple his overall ability in a short period of time. Hugo feels that these 300 Galleons were well spent.

However, mastering the skills completely still requires practice. Considering that the ship girls are not around and some things cannot be practiced, Hugo simply started reading a batch of magical books written in Latin through the Admiral Network that he had obtained before.

These books were all seen in the library. When they were discovered, this batch of books was placed in a very remote corner. The gold-stamped lettering and the cowhide layer on the cover were also somewhat mottled due to peeling off, and a thick layer of dust had accumulated on the pile of books. They looked like old books that had not been read for a long time.

After opening these books, Hugo and the others realized the reason why these books had been neglected by everyone, because these books were all written in Latin, which most students simply could not understand.

Because the Navy used to be an aristocratic military branch, many officers knew Latin, so these ship girls had a good command of Latin. Therefore, they also successfully discovered the value of these books on Transfiguration and Charms. In particular, some of the exquisite details were no less than the internal inheritance of some pure-blood families.

It's just that before, when Hugo wanted to read these things, he had to have the ship girls translate them, so when he looked at them, he always felt vaguely like there was a layer between them, and it always felt a little embarrassing to bother them every time. Fortunately, now that he has mastered Latin, he can finally solve these problems.

As a result, Hugo spent the entire afternoon reading, and after dinner, when he was preparing to go to the Room of Requirement with Veneto to practice fighting, he was suddenly stopped by Hermione, who had been waiting in the common room: "Veneto, Hugo, can I join you in those practices?"

Hugo was stunned by Hermione's words. Fortunately, Veneto told him what was going on through the Admiral Network: It turned out that after Veneto killed the troll that time, Hermione curiously asked her roommate what she and her brother did every weekend.

Considering that practicing fighting is not as sensitive and easily accepted as practicing shooting, and at the same time, she and Hugo go out together for several hours every week, there must be a reason. So Veneto simply told Hermione that Hugo had been learning various fighting skills from her during this period.

"Uh—why did you suddenly think of this?" Hugo seemed a little confused. In his impression, Hermione had always been a person who loved to read and was not very interested in various sports. Suddenly making a request to exercise, or even learn fighting, seemed obviously abnormal.

"Because whether it was Harry being attacked by an unknown force today or the troll that inexplicably attacked our team before, it all illustrates one thing, that even the schools in the wizarding world are obviously much more dangerous than the world of ordinary people." Pulling Hugo and Veneto to a corner of the common room, Hermione said to them in a serious and low voice.

"So, in order to be able to spend my time at school safely, I feel that I must do something. And now, with my age and the resources at hand, it is impossible to achieve much in magic in a short period of time. In this situation, I naturally thought of you."

After saying that, Hermione looked at Veneto very seriously and pleaded, "So I ask you to give me some training so that I have some self-protection in school."

For an 11-year-old girl who is far away from her hometown, the things that have happened in school during this period are really too insecure, so it is normal to want to learn something to strengthen her sense of security.

"I think I can promise you." After quickly communicating with Hugo a few times, Veneto said to Hermione. "But you must guarantee that during training you will do everything as I ask, and at the same time guarantee confidentiality about the training location and content. This confidentiality is not only for other students, but also for the professors. If you agree, I will agree to let you join the training."

"This—" Hermione seemed a little hesitant. After all, with her personality, it was still a little difficult for her to keep secrets from the professors. Seeing this scene, Veneto also knew that it was not good to force her now, so she said. "If you can't make a decision now, it doesn't matter. I can give you a few days to consider, as long as you tell me your choice before going to bed next Friday night."