Chapter 973: Weigh Anchor and Set Sail

Mm, actually, strictly speaking, the Golden Princess could be considered the second work of Dorothy's shipbuilding workshop; this workshop itself was the true Ship Zero.

When Dorothy designed these workshops, she had already decided that they shouldn't be the kind of immovable property fixed in place. After all, she was soon going to the Total Mana Wasteland, and she probably wouldn't be back for a short time. So, it wouldn't be good to just leave these wonder workshops, which she had worked so hard to build, in the Radiant Territory to gather dust, right?

Therefore, her workshops should be the kind that could move.

If she had made such a request to architects of other schools, they might have been so annoyed that they would have started grabbing brooms to chase her away. Fortunately, Dorothy was of the Noerose school; the Spider Mentor had taught her the construction techniques for giant war puppets, so building a movable workshop was not difficult for her.

However, although they were master and disciple of the same lineage, Dorothy's craftsmanship had some small differences from the Spider Mentor's.

If the Spider Mentor were to build these workshops, they would probably end up being built into giant spider-type fortresses. When she wanted to station them, those spider legs would take root on the spot, and when she wanted to move, those spider legs would stretch out to support the massive workshop and begin to move.

Mm, the Spider Mentor was ultimately a traditional architect who believed that one only felt at ease when one's feet were firmly on the ground. Even though her architecture and puppet science had a certain degree of integration, her vision was still limited.

But Dorothy, besides inheriting the Spider Mentor's mantle, was also a shipbuilder. And how could shipbuilding be such an inconvenient thing?

A giant war fortress is a building, so why can't my giant base mothership be a building?

In many games Dorothy played in her previous life, there were those cool motherships. When moving, they were fleet flagships; when stationed, they were base hubs, and they could produce various war supplies at any time.

Although the settings in the games were illusory, the Home Witch felt that such functions could be turned into reality.

Therefore, she tried it out, and unsurprisingly, she succeeded.

Well, actually, it wasn't a complete success.

Originally, she had wanted to build just one transformable super-giant workshop, but she found that if she tried to cram all the desired capabilities into one building, the structure would be too complex, and it was simply beyond her ability to build at the time.

So, in desperation, she had to simplify things, splitting one workshop into the current six, letting these six workshops take on different functions, and finally uniting them into one through a merging method.

Mm, that is, you form the engine, she forms the radar, I form the mana furnace, and so on.

Facts proved that this indeed reduced the construction difficulty, and the final product basically met Dorothy's design expectations.

The only regret was that this structure, which frequently split and merged, meant that this workshop mothership could never complete its final soul-injection. In other words, Nephthys was destined never to become a true legendary battleship, even though its hardware parameters were absolutely in the leading tier, even among many legendary battleships.

But that didn't matter. Although there was no innate ship-girl, we could still have an acquired soul-possessed ship-girl.

"Master of the House, Nephthys has completed preparations for departure."

From within the massive pyramid-shaped metal battleship, a beautiful maid, who looked three or four parts like the Home Witch but was already breathtakingly beautiful, was projected out.

This was Dorothy's Total Mana familiar, Zero.

Mm, actually, the merging of Nephthys didn't just involve those six workshops; Dorothy's small floating island—the Witch's Home—also participated in the merging, and she formed the "head."

Of course, this head naturally wouldn't be the tip of the pyramid, but rather meant the brain.

Back when the Home Witch built the Witch's Home, she had already integrated Zero's Total Mana Heart into this floating island, making the Witch's Home Zero's "body."

And now, she had built Nephthys for Zero. As long as the six workshops combined with the Witch's Home as the core during the transformation, it was equivalent to the "pilot" sitting in the "mecha cockpit."

In this way, Nephthys naturally possessed a ship-soul in disguise.

What, you say this kind of ship-girl is just a crooked path, has no soul, and the pilot mode is ultimately inferior to the soul-ship integration of a true legendary battleship?

But who told you this was a ship-girl?

We are a Home-girl, okay? Is it not allowed for a house to become a spirit and gain sentience?

The Witch's Home is a building, and the six wonder workshops are undoubtedly buildings. After seven buildings merge, it's just a house expansion. Who can say that an expanded house is no longer my home?

We Home-girls are not as precious as ship-girls; we are very easy to raise.

Hmph.

In short, although Nephthys looked like a battleship, and she had all the functions a battleship should have, and even functions a battleship didn't have, she was still essentially a house.

When she disassembles and unfolds, she is the Star Industry shipbuilding workshop group; now that she has merged, we are the Civil Engineering Society's Witch's Home, okay?

Star Industry is an arms dealer, what does that have to do with my Witch's Home?

Dorothy thought to herself as she looked at the massive pyramid battleship blocking out the sky above her.

Although she was the only one who thought so.

After all, whether it was the sisters beside her or the onlookers on the docks, they were all stunned as they watched the scene of the merging transformation.

Ah? No, so battleships could be played like this?

The witches had opened the door to a new world.

But that was none of Dorothy's business. After Nephthys finished merging, Dorothy began to call for people.

She snapped her fingers again.

"Moon, come."

The Home Witch whispered like this.

However, she was not in the Black Impermanence state where she borrowed Sister Senior Fan Ni's body, so naturally, she didn't have the ability to support the power of the authority of "speaking the law."

So, she was actually just putting on a show to act cool.

But the moment her voice fell, starlight flashed in the sky, but soon this starlight expanded rapidly, getting larger and larger, finally transforming into a bright, clear moon.

However, this was not the native moon of the Witch World, but an alien moon world.

The Moon Rabbit World, following the summons and arriving.

"Wow, what a beautiful moon, it looks like it's made entirely of crystal?"

"Ignorant, that's not crystal; it's actually jade, a special gemstone beloved by the immortals of the East in legends."

"Eh, there's even an ocean on this moon, but the seawater is a bit strange. Damn, is that mercury? But it looks quite good."

"Not only is there an ocean, but there are also palaces and people. Wow, that young lady standing at the very top of the palace with two pairs of wings on her waist is so beautiful."

"Indeed super beautiful, but why does she feel a bit like the Eldest Young Lady? A rabbit-eared Eldest Young Lady?"

"That's a Moon Rabbit, okay? I heard before that the Eldest Young Lady had a Moon Rabbit World under her command. I didn't expect it to be true?"

"Of course it's true. When the Eldest Young Lady reshaped this Moon Rabbit World, she even held a live stream. Old fans all know it."

"Damn, no way, could it be that this beautiful moon is the broken, dead moon from back then?"

The moonlight was like water, and everyone looked up at this bright moon and discussed it again. Some old fans indeed recognized the origin of this moon world, but they were even more shocked because of it.

However, it was no wonder everyone was so surprised; after all, the moon that had once been on the verge of death had now been completely resurrected.

This was all thanks to the gift of the Squid Evil God who had already been eaten in the food warehouse of the Dragon King Palace.

At that time, the Squid Evil God tried to use the World Heart of the Deep Sea World to lure Dorothy. For the generous gift of the Evil God, the Home Witch naturally accepted it all with a smile.

It just so happened that the Moon Rabbit World was still missing a key World Heart for its true rebirth.

Originally, Dorothy had thought about waiting until she earned money to go to the auction house to see if she could help the Moon Rabbits buy a World Heart, but thanks to that kind Evil God who didn't spare himself to do good deeds and didn't leave his name, she had saved money now.

Although the Ocean Heart of the Deep Sea World and the Moon Heart of the Moon Rabbit World were not a perfect match, they could still be used.

After all, according to the logic of the immortals of the Eastern Universe, both were pure yin treasures and had a certain degree of interoperability. Moreover, the moon itself had a certain authority connection with the ocean; the rise and fall of the tides were related to the moon.

Therefore, Dorothy thought that maybe it could be installed, and then she installed it.

Facts proved that it could indeed be installed. After the Moon Rabbit World was loaded with this Ocean Heart, it was completely restored. It was just that because of the characteristics of the Ocean Heart, this newborn Moon Rabbit World was a bit different from the original. For example, there was an extra layer of mercury ocean around the moon, and this long, narrow ocean circling the world lingered around the Moon Rabbit World like the ribbons of a Moon Palace fairy.

As the Moon God, the ribbons that were already on Xiao Wu, who was standing at the top of the Moon Rabbit Palace pavilion and guiding the entire Moon Rabbit World, also turned into mercury material, looking even more sacred and cold.

"Master, the Moon Rabbit Knights are ready to become your blade at any time."

The beautiful Moon Rabbit Knights came riding on the moonlight, and the leader, the Moon-Illuminating Lion-Heart Rabbit, said this to Dorothy fanatically and devoutly.

To this, Dorothy nodded at Sidweier, and then continued to call for people.

"Sun, come."

She whispered in her mouth again.

And so, the sky suddenly brightened, and a sun broke through the boundary between illusion and reality, rising from the Spirit World into reality.

This was also not the four suns of the Witch World, but an alien sun.

And if one gazed at this sun, one could discover that the core of this sun was a three-legged crow, and within the body of this massive illusory Golden Crow, there was another beautiful island full of Eastern charm.

Yingzhou Island, this immortal island that had only existed in legends in the past, appeared in the world again.

This once again made the surrounding gossiping witches widen their eyes. Even though staring at the sun easily made one blind, they still widened their eyes one after another to look at the Golden Crow immortal island within the sun wheel.

Some witches with magic eyes or special pupil techniques could even see a majestic shrine palace on the highest peak of the immortal island. On the square of the shrine, a beauty wearing strange and luxurious red-and-white priestly clothing was dancing an ancient and sacred dance.

From the terrifying pressure around her, one could perceive that this was a Sage-level powerhouse, and that Great Sun Golden Crow was the manifestation of her power.

And below that high mountain, there was another magnificent city. In the city, countless witches wearing swords and armor were ready to go, the momentum was astonishing, and it seemed that the whole city was soldiers.

Looking closely, you could find that the quality of the witches in this city was terrifyingly high, almost everywhere were Grand Witches, and the several superiors standing on the city walls were each seemingly possessing the momentum of a peak.

And opposite that high mountain, there was another eerie and gloomy high mountain. On that mountain, demons danced wildly, but there were also many fox-like beauties. On the top of the mountain, there was a luxurious restaurant, where countless enchanting beauties were singing and dancing, and all kinds of evil monsters were enjoying a banquet.

Seeming to notice the curious gazes of the witches outside, the flower-courtesan beauty lying on the main seat of the banquet, already dead drunk, raised the wine bowl in her hand high, revealing a smile, as if inviting everyone to drink together.

"Wow, Yingzhou Island, the Eldest Young Lady really went and conquered Yingzhou Island. Was that magic shadow from before actually true?"

"The profession of that dancing young lady is called a Shrine Maiden, right? So beautiful, I like that outfit."

"I still like the flower-courtesan young lady on the monster mountain."

"Aren't the Yin-Yang Master young ladies in the city fragrant?"

"Damn, I envy the Eldest Young Lady every day. She can always enjoy this exotic style."

"Sisters, I want to eat foreign food."

The gossiping passersby had their eyes sour and red one by one.

However, the sourer they were, the prouder Dorothy became.

Hehehe, this is all the territory I conquered with great difficulty.

With this, above the golden pyramid spaceship, the sun and moon appeared together, and all living things bowed in submission.

Dorothy had finally finished calling for people.

However, her mother felt that she wasn't done yet.

Behind Yufillia, a massive Dragon-Snake Martial Soul emerged and let out a loud dragon roar.

This majestic roar resounded through the sky and soon received a response.

"Roar, roar, roar!"

Successive dragon roars came from not far away, and then the sky was once again shrouded in continuous shadows.

However, this time it wasn't battleships, but it was better than battleships.

The wings of the massive ancient dragons blocked out the sky. This group of massive giant beasts, which were clearly flesh and blood, as the pinnacle of physical evolution, each had a strong physique comparable to a battleship.

Giant dragons never took any battleships when fighting; their dragon bodies were natural biological battleships.

No battleship armor was harder than a perfectly tempered dragon body. This was not the giant dragons' boasting, but reality.

Not to mention that on the bodies of these ancient dragons stood knights wearing magnificent battle robes.

Amidst the daze of the crowd, the ancient Dragon Cavalry Army descended once again.

"Eldest Young Lady, the Dragon Cavalry Legion has assembled. Our dragon roar will be the horn of your victory."

Standing on the back of a massive ancient Force Dragon, Time Dragon Mavis said this.

"Then, all troops, weigh anchor. There is absolutely no rival in front of us."

Dorothy issuing orders... ===== CHAPTER 974 =====