Whenever a powerful enemy or institution appears, it suppresses the ambitions of domestic schemers in the shortest time possible.
It's as if overnight, any dissatisfaction with the federation vanished into thin air.
However, how the federation handles its relationship with the borders afterward is not Alice's concern.
Shen Sui plans to have the fleet gather some Spell Cards or Event Cards to complement and enhance the construction of the Shipgirl Card Set, thus they avoided Red Maple Fortress and instead took the shortest route to the nearest Deep Sea Occupation Zone.
As they continued on, they circumnavigated while battling the Deep Sea, advancing towards their destination.
During this process, the fleet encountered an unexpected enemy.
These ugly creatures were neither shipgirls nor of the deep sea.
Although the deep sea is tainted by the ocean's malevolent thoughts, they are not ugly—at least according to human aesthetics, they wouldn't be considered ugly.
