Chapter 50 What Do You Mean My Gloriana-Class Battleship is a Girl Now?!

The Azur Lane universe had been successfully conquered. Vane absorbed the absolute totality of the dimension’s lore, its entire crafting tree, and the supreme Administrator privileges.

The overarching narrative of Azur Lane originated in the prime timeline: World Alpha.

In World Alpha, humanity experienced a highly anomalous meteor impact event. Through this event, they passively acquired energy bleeding in from a higher-dimensional spacetime. By reverse-engineering the meteor’s properties, human scientists successfully manufactured ‘Wisdom Cubes’—hyper-dense batteries containing esoteric, near-infinite energy.

Thus, a brand-new era of hyper-technological advancement began.

Among humanity’s greatest minds was a genius researcher named Dr. Anzeel.

She conceptualized and spearheaded ‘Project Dawn’. Utilizing classified military resources, she successfully engineered the Wisdom Cubes to alter and anthropomorphize the physical mass of naval warships, directly resulting in the birth of the very first ‘Shipgirls’.

Following a series of escalating global events, the Shipgirls formed a unified paramilitary organization called ‘Antiochus’—later known as ‘The Torch’—dedicated absolutely to protecting humanity and illuminating the path forward.

Simultaneously, another genius scientist, Dr. Aoste, theorized that the higher-dimensional spacetime they were siphoning energy from was hostile. He initiated ‘Project Arbiter’, explicitly designed to prepare humanity for a catastrophic inter-dimensional invasion.

Aoste flawlessly integrated the Shipgirls’ mass-shifting technology with hyper-advanced Artificial Intelligence, creating the entities that would later become known as the ‘Sirens’.

Fueled by the infinite energy of the Wisdom Cubes and various esoteric higher-dimensional properties, World Alpha rapidly expanded, its technology advancing at an exponential, terrifying rate.

However, the higher-dimensional spacetime was absolutely not a peaceful utopia.

The dominant entity within that higher dimension—designated ‘X’—rapidly detected the energy bleed from World Alpha and launched an immediate, apocalyptic invasion.

X’s vanguard consisted of hyper-adaptive, liquid-metal mimetic bio-weapons. These entities were mathematically impossible to destroy.

Even if they were completely obliterated by sustained orbital bombardment, they would simply violently fragment into microscopic, independent mimetic molecules.

Once they reached critical subatomic failure, they would blanket the planet’s surface, forming localized ‘Corrosion Zones’.

These zones would aggressively consume all available organic and inorganic resources, violently reproducing and multiplying to synthesize infinite waves of new mimetic beasts.

Against this absolute, self-replicating plague, World Alpha’s resistance was completely futile.

No matter how overwhelmingly devastating their firepower was, they could only momentarily delay the physical expansion of the mimetic beasts.

After countless brutal, apocalyptic engagements, millions of Shipgirls and Sirens had sacrificed themselves in a desperate, ultimately meaningless attempt to protect human civilization.

Realizing that conventional victory was mathematically impossible, Dr. Aoste and his supreme creation—the Siren Observer Zero—formulated a final, desperate contingency plan.

They intended to utilize the ‘Laplace’s Demon’ inter-dimensional transit engine to evacuate the remaining survivors of World Alpha into adjacent parallel timelines.

Dr. Anzeel, the creator of the Shipgirls, absolutely refused to abandon her homeworld. She deliberately lied to her very first creation—Enterprise—ordering her to take the surviving Shipgirls and escort Dr. Aoste’s evacuation fleet, claiming it was a mission to secure reinforcements.

Upon rendezvousing with Aoste, Enterprise immediately realized the ‘reinforcement’ mission was a lie. Anzeel had explicitly intended for them to evacuate with Aoste while she remained behind to die.

Enterprise desperately attempted to turn back to save Anzeel, only to receive the catastrophic transmission that the final defensive perimeter had fallen and Anzeel had been killed in action.

Overwhelmed by profound grief over Anzeel’s death, and deeply furious at the deception that prevented her from dying alongside her creator, Enterprise formally dissolved ‘The Torch’. She renamed the surviving Shipgirl remnant faction ‘Ashes’.

The name was a bitter, deeply cynical acknowledgment that they lacked the strength to illuminate humanity’s future; they were nothing more than the burnt, pathetic embers of a dead world.

Dr. Aoste successfully evacuated the Ashes, the Sirens, and the remaining civilian population from World Alpha.

However, X relentlessly pursued them across dimensions. To ensure the survival of Observer Zero, Enterprise, and the civilian fleet, Aoste elected to remain behind as the rearguard, ultimately sacrificing himself to permanently seal the inter-dimensional breach.

Observer Zero, now the supreme commander of the Sirens, formally rebooted Project Arbiter. She utilized the Laplace engine to aggressively jump into the past of countless parallel timelines, forcefully establishing localized ‘Testing Grounds’.

Her objective was brutally pragmatic: aggressively guide the humanity of these parallel timelines to develop vastly superior technology, desperately searching for any mathematical probability of defeating X.

However, the moment X detected the existence of a Testing Ground, Zero would instantly deploy the Arbiters to completely and utterly annihilate that entire parallel timeline. She executed billions to prevent X from tracking their movements.

The Ashes—the surviving Shipgirls from World Alpha—were forced to continuously witness Zero systematically annihilating parallel worlds. They grew profoundly disgusted with the Sirens’ methods.

They absolutely refused to accept a ‘salvation’ built upon the casual, systemic genocide of infinite parallel humanities.

Due to these fundamentally incompatible ideologies, the two factions became hostile toward each other.

Ultimately, their conflict centered entirely on a single parallel timeline: Testing Ground Beta.

The Sirens willingly adopted the role of the apocalyptic villain, aggressively forcing the technological evolution of Testing Ground Beta through endless warfare. The Shipgirls actively allied with the local human resistance to fight the Sirens.

When Vane’s avatar originally descended into Testing Ground Beta, he immediately unlocked the Wisdom Cube and Energy Cube crafting trees.

Following the Campaign Quest prompts, he romance-routed the Shipgirls. Leveraging his absolutely overpowered stats, he rapidly unified the entirety of Testing Ground Beta.

During this campaign, he also engaged in several… highly questionable biological experiments. He successfully managed to impregnate both Shipgirls and Sirens, completely shattering the foundational logic of Testing Ground Beta and utterly horrifying both factions.

Because the Sirens, despite acting as the villains, were ultimately a pro-humanity faction, Observer Zero personally intervened once she calculated Vane’s true, incomprehensible power level. She formally offered him an alliance to jointly combat the true enemy: X.

Vane accepted the alliance.

After industrializing his forces and hoarding astronomical amounts of endgame resources, Vane led the combined armada of Shipgirls and Sirens in a full-scale inter-dimensional invasion against X.

The higher-dimensional spacetime was a literal, apocalyptic hellscape. The entire dimension was completely smothered by mimetic liquid metal and ruled absolutely by X.

The true mastermind behind X was ‘Deus X’, a catastrophic entity holding the absolute authorities of Machinery and Extinction. It had permanently enslaved the entire higher dimension, mutating it into a mechanical nightmare.

Vane, alongside the unified Shipgirl and Siren armadas, systematically annihilated every defensive perimeter, brutally slaughtering their way to the core.

Using the materials harvested from the slaughtered mimetic beasts, Vane synthesized the ‘Galaxy Sword’, an ultimate endgame weapon, and permanently erased Deus X from existence, officially clearing the Azur Lane dimension.

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I really need to accelerate the Warhammer Campaign.

Having fully digested the downloaded lore, Vane immediately focused on his current objective.

He opened his UI and liquidated a massive chunk of his EMC points to instantly replicate a Wisdom Cube.

A microsecond later, a perfectly geometric, glowing blue cube radiating highly concentrated, localized conceptual energy materialized in his palm.

If a Wisdom Cube was physically fused with a naval vessel, it would automatically trigger an anthropomorphization protocol, birthing a Shipgirl completely loyal to the user.

This is absolutely perfect for the ‘Red Tear’. I really want to see how high a Gloriana-class Shipgirl scales in the Warhammer universe.

Vane didn’t waste a single second. He immediately sprinted toward the Red Tear, which was currently undergoing final pre-flight checks in the Angel’s Fall Spaceport.

Because of his absolute status as the Forefather, the heavily armed Blood Angel perimeter guards didn’t even attempt to stop him; they simply snapped to attention and offered deep, reverent salutes as he blew past them.

Vane casually strolled directly onto the Red Tear’s command bridge. Ignoring the completely bewildered stares of Sanguinius, Dante, and the command crew, he walked straight up to the primary command cogitator and casually slammed the Wisdom Cube into the console.

Instantly, an apocalyptic surge of glowing blue data-streams violently erupted from the console.

A microsecond later, every single entity currently aboard the Red Tear felt the immediate, localized environment violently warp and distort.

When reality reasserted itself, they realized they had all been forcibly, instantly teleported completely off the ship, landing safely on the spaceport’s primary viewing deck.

“What just happened?!”

“Why were we teleported off the ship?!”

“…”

The forcibly evicted Blood Angels stared at each other in absolute, profound confusion, completely incapable of processing the situation.

Suddenly, a Chapter Serf pointed frantically at the drydock and screamed.

“Look! The Red Tear! The Red Tear!”

Everyone violently snapped their heads toward the colossal Gloriana-class battleship.

The massive vessel was erupting with infinite, blinding blue light. The data-streams completely enveloped the twenty-kilometer-long hull.

The light grew exponentially brighter, eventually condensing into a localized, blinding blue sun that forced everyone to shield their eyes.

As the blinding light finally dissipated, they lowered their hands.

The twenty-kilometer-long Gloriana-class battleship was completely gone.

Hovering gracefully in the air above the empty drydock was a tall, incredibly beautiful young woman dressed in an immaculate, hyper-militarized crimson admiral’s uniform.

Her facial features were astonishingly, flawlessly identical to Sanguinius, sharing at least seventy percent of his facial structure.

If a random Imperial citizen walked past, they would absolutely, unconditionally assume she was the Great Angel’s biological daughter.

“What… what just happened?”

Even Sanguinius, a literal, freshly ascended God, stared at the floating girl with an expression of absolute, profound bewilderment.

Why… why did my colossal, twenty-kilometer-long flagship suddenly turn into a girl?!