Naval Gacha System: It's Time To Monopolize The Seven Seas!

Chapter 70: | 070 | United Navy Expansion

A few weeks have passed since the completion of Operation Hammer of Dawn. The United Navy had been growing and expanding its size to accommodate its firepower. And it was a lot of work for the Fleet Admiral.

First was the finalization of the resource collection facilities such as the oil wells in the eastern grassland and the quarry in the northern plateau. With these two producing resources for the United Navy, the Port of Dawn's manufacturing capabilities were fully utilized.

Second was the implementation of the beastfolk's suburban area. It resided outside of the Port of Dawn, slowly resembling a town of its own. The beastfolk refugees have also completely opened up to the United Navy and were also assisting in its operations.

The population of the beastfolk numbered around over a hundred, but this number was expected to grow as they planned to start another operation a month later to start liberating nearby dominated island tribes.

Third was the expansion of the United Navy's Fleet. Beforehand, the United Navy had four warships under its command. There was the UNS Light Bringer, UNS Zarya, UNS Guardian of the High Seas, and UNS Trinity of Solace.

These four ships, while numerous, were far from enough to handle maritime security operations. Especially with the advent of possible hostile forces, they needed to take their maritime security pretty seriously.

With this in mind, Abraham used his remaining source points, to buy four warships from the store. It costs about 1,000 source points purchasing four Admiral-Gorshkov Class Frigates.

Including these four frigates, the warships of the United Navy have finally reached a somewhat significant number of eight. Abraham wanted to increase the number of warships even further, but he needed to expand or perhaps level up the Port of Dawn to support the logistics needed for more warships.

The four Admiral-Gorshkov Class Frigates were given their respective names. The first one was UNS Marina, UNS Svetlana, UNS Alyona, and UNS Lenya.

Along with the UNS Zarya, these four frigates formed the first official fleet of the United Navy. The Fleet was amply named, the Red Fleet.

At the moment, the Red Fleet was tasked with maritime security, making them perform sea surveillance missions once a month. These missions also expanded the area of influence that the United Navy had, bringing about greater authority in the high seas.

Following the inclusion of the frigates, the population of the United Navy entered 8,000 and was about to reach the threshold of 9,000. Obviously, they were increasing in numbers.

Other than the suburban area of the beastfolks, the United Navy also needed to construct residential blocks to support more of their population. Entertainment, logistics, and law enforcement were also being increased in the Port of Dawn.

Speaking of the population, it would be far from possible to support it without food. So, the United Navy set up farms outside of the suburban area of the beastfolks.

At first, the United Navy was adamant about not opening their technology to the beastfolk regardless of their relationship, but their farming techniques weren't as effective in this world, bringing about problems for them.

They needed the help of the beastfolks who had already adapted to the environment of the foreign world, and the beastfolks seemed committed to helping them.

As such, the beastfolk and the United Navy had a joint operation of maintaining the farms, further increasing their relations.

The beastfolks have also met with the dragoness, Laplace, who considers her their guardian deity. Laplace didn't seem satisfied with it, which was somewhat unexpected.

"Get in."

When he uttered such words, the door opened revealing Charlotte who was holding another batch of files. It seems another report was about to be given, but from Charlotte's cold face, it looks like things were far from simple.

"You look like someone stole your cake while you were quietly eating in a private location," Abraham muttered with a smile as he gazed at Charlotte's empty yet grayish eyes.

"That sounds awfully specific and familiar... Wait, you saw that." Charlotte furrowed her eyebrows before raising them in surprise. There was a time when the problem dragon took her cake away from her.

That bastard actually had the gall to take a bit of it in front of her before running off somewhere into the branch building.

Naturally, Charlotte gave chase. It took hours for them to stop as Abraham had to force them into a stop since they were disturbing the personnel in the branch building.

"I saw that from beginning to end," Abraham smirked while Charlotte wondered why the Fleet Admiral didn't stop the two of them. It was then she realized that he was getting amusement while watching them from afar.

"You actually took pleasure from my suffering," Charlotte commented and squinted her gaze towards the Fleet Admiral. Abraham avoided her eyes and looked away while whistling.

"I won't comment on that."

Charlotte sighed when she heard of the Fleet Admiral's words and decided to start reporting their recent discovery about the geopolitical and sociopolitical situation of their sea region.

"Fleet Admiral, we have discovered that the Colonial Dominion of Terra is searching for our trail. They are slowly getting closer to our home island. According to our intelligence analysts, it shouldn't take longer than a week before we get discovered."

Now, that was a piece of bad news. Concealment was always an advantage for a force that didn't want to reveal itself, especially to higher powers. So, losing that status would be problematic for the United Navy.

"That's faster than I expected. I thought it would take a month longer from our previous understanding of the situation." Abraham commented while furrowing his eyebrows.

"It should have taken a month, Fleet Admiral. But the Colonial Dominion of Terra has wyvern riders expanding their scope of search." Charlotte responded as to why it was faster than before.

"Wyvern riders, huh... I expect them to be the ones that we took care of during our first maritime security mission." Abraham remembered the flying adversaries that were heading towards them in the first naval mission of the United Navy.

"Yes, although I wasn't there. They should be the ones that were terminated through anti-air missile-" Before Charlotte could continue speaking, someone tapped on her cheeks making her body instinctively squirm.

"What's the serious face about?" A teasing voice escaped her supple lips. Her white hair unveiled itself from the darkness as her body followed. She wore an officer uniform with the rank of Lieutenant.

She was none other than the dragoness, Laplace.