The Admiral of Hogwarts

As Lamias who mastered magical creature breeding and some special magic, their first line of defense was these dangerous magical creatures, which not only served as an early warning system but also sounded the alarm in case of an attack.

Besides, perhaps because they were better at utilizing flesh and blood, these Lamias' spells also tended to be related to flesh and blood magic. These spells were not only used to cultivate vampire bats or some dangerous poisonous insects but also for reconnaissance.

As a result, because these Lamias never imagined that there would be non-flesh and blood creatures in the world, these very ingenious settings were basically ineffective when facing ship girls who were non-flesh and blood lifeforms.

In this situation, the Missouri and her sisters quickly moved down the tunnels and cracks inside the mountain as if entering an uninhabited land, towards the Lamia base hidden in the cave.

As the altitude decreased, the surrounding temperature began to rise, and the previous poisonous insects and bats gradually disappeared. Just when the temperature had exceeded 60°C, and the oxygen content in the air had dropped to less than 1/5 of the ground level, the brooch pinned to Missouri's chest lit up.

"Magic cannot be cast in this place. The warning magic of those Lamias in this place will sound an alarm as soon as it detects a magic reaction," Missouri said through the admiral network after taking a look at the brooch.

This high-temperature, oxygen-deficient environment was obviously not something that humans could withstand with their own bodies, and using magic would trigger traps. For the Lamias, this was a foolproof defense facility.

However, for the ship girls, this place was even easier to pass through than before. Because unlike the tunnels and mountain cracks densely packed with various creatures just now, there were no creatures in this area, allowing the ship girls to move forward at full speed.

Finally, after seven minutes, the ship girls flew to a fork in the road. According to the memory obtained from the Lamia's mind before, these two roads respectively connected the magic control center of the entire base and the cave hall where the Mother Lamia was located.

"Whoosh—Bang!" Just after the four ship girls turned a corner, a short spear flew straight out of Missouri's hand, directly pinning a large bat the length of a human arm to the wall.

This kind of short spear, made with mithril from the fairy race added to the head of the spear made by Eight-Eyed Giant Spiders, coupled with the power of the ship girls, became an extremely terrifying kinetic weapon. Therefore, after the big bat was hit by this, it only struggled a few times before stopping moving, and then it reverted to its original Lamia form.

"It seems that those Lamias have focused their attention on the Mother Lamia," Missouri nodded in satisfaction after confirming that there were no other living things around.

The reason why she launched an attack before was because the previous memory clearly marked that there would be one or two Lamias transformed into animals stationed in this place, so after sensing the existence of living things, she launched an attack at the first time.

"New Jersey, Wisconsin, the two of you go up this way to control the magic hub of the entire cave. Iowa and I will now go to the entrance of that large cave hall to prepare for an attack."

Missouri quickly assigned tasks, and then everyone immediately split into two groups and acted. After watching New Jersey and her sister leave along an upward cave entrance, Iowa and Missouri proceeded along that large passage towards the target cave hall.

The next journey was unexpectedly smooth. After all, the cave hall ahead was a very sacred place for the Lamias, and it was located extremely deep underground, so naturally, there would not be too many people on the road at this time.

There were indeed some dangerous alchemical traps and alchemical alarm devices, but the ship girls could completely figure out how to use these devices through the admiral network and use the equipment in their construction space to crack these traps.

The main reason why the ship girls were able to infiltrate such a critical place so easily was that the group of Lamias failed to imagine that there could be creatures like ship girls in the world, whose survival habits were completely different from humans.

Of course, from another perspective, this secret base located in a complex mountain not only had a large number of defense facilities, but also countless forks in the road in the middle, making it indeed difficult for outsiders to find the target in the first place.

If the ship girls hadn't used special means to read the memories of those Lamias all the way, they would not have been able to rush straight to the target without taking any detours like they were now.

Even in the section of the cave two hundred meters away from the target, Missouri and her sister didn't even feel the existence of any traps or detection equipment.

Instead, the walls on both sides and the top of the cave were covered with a thick layer of gold leaf and inlaid with a large number of gemstones, decorating the entire cave in a magnificent manner.

At the beginning, Iowa and Missouri thought that this place was using various gold and gems as a cover for setting up certain traps, but the inspection results showed that there was nothing here.

Come to think of it, even normal people don't like to install surveillance cameras or traps in their own homes. The Lamias were the same; they didn't want to install too many of these types of magic arrays in their residences.

It wasn't until the end of this road, in front of a golden gate, that two Lamias with four behemoths were stationed in this place, and extremely sensitive warning spells were cast on them.

"Next, it depends on New Jersey and her sister." After reaching the last corner less than 20 meters away from the last door, Missouri quickly loaded an Mk23 onto her ship-borne artillery, and then waited with Iowa for the other party's actions.

Just as Missouri and her sister arrived at their positions, New Jersey and her sister also came to the side of the core magic array and began to study it, and five or six meters away from them, two Lamias were nailed to the wall by two javelins.

"Good news, Missouri." After using the admiral network to connect to Indomitable and check the entire magic array, Wisconsin called Missouri and her sister through the admiral network.

"This group of Lamias obviously has deep collusion with certain pure-blood families, because we found that this entire defense system is very similar to the defense system of those pure-blood families."

"That is to say, that giant cave hall below can temporarily enter the sub-dimension in an emergency, but unlike the core secret rooms of those pure-blood family manors, that cave hall can only enter the sub-dimension for one minute."

The magic of wizards is naturally not limited to those small magics. Some large-scale war magics are specifically used to attack buildings or certain fortified areas.

For example, in the original Hogwarts battle, Voldemort's side used this type of magic to open the magical defenses of Hogwarts Castle.

When facing flexible and changeable attackers, the defenders naturally developed a series of defensive measures. In addition to hard defenses similar to magical shields, wizards also developed soft defenses that focused on evasion.

The space transfer magic that the ship girls have now discovered is one of them. For those wizards, allowing the building to move and enter another space when the enemy launches an irresistible attack is obviously the culmination of this type of defense system thinking.

But this approach is also excellent news for the ship girls, because they don't need to worry about how troublesome it would be to deal with the big commotion caused by the explosion of the MK23 shells.