Third, without violating the First and Second Laws, the Ship Spirit must protect its own existence.

As long as it doesn’t violate the Three Great Laws, the Golden Deer can satisfy your every request.

Please give the order, Captain!"

Every "Ship Spirit" born for Humans must strictly obey the three constant Laws of the [Silver Code].

These Laws are automatically branded into the deepest part of an artificial soul and cannot be altered by its own will.

The master’s orders are the very meaning of their existence.

And every Legendary Warship’s Ship Spirit is the equivalent of a Fifth Order Legend, able to exert one hundred percent of its power without a single crew member.

It is a pillar-like existence within a faction, a country, no less significant than a hereditary [King’s Title] passed down through the generations.

Byron stared fixedly at the little Ship Girl before him, eyes burning, as if looking at an incomparable treasure.

He stepped forward to help her put on the oversized captain’s hat that kept slipping down, then activated the [Sailing Logbook] and threw an [Echo of History] at her:

"Captain sir, you are both the designer and the owner of the [Golden Deer].

After using the Dragon Taming Technique to tame her, you even helped her Challenge a whole series of "Dragon Knights" once deemed impossible, so of course you naturally possess the highest-level compatibility.

Even if someone else got hold of the permission key, they still wouldn’t be able to steal your Legendary Warship.

But please note, an early lead is not a permanent lead.

As the Source Tide rises, all kinds of Bizarre beings, Evil Spirits, Elemental Creatures, and Ship Spirits will be born more easily in the future; fall behind and you get beaten.

[Challenge the Impossible] shall become this Sacred Relic’s new Mandate of Heaven!"

At the same time, the Legendary Warship Skills of the Ship Spirit, which are akin to Strange Arts, surfaced on the logbook.

[Legendary Warship Skill·Fleet Assimilation]:

"The Golden Deer is a Schrodinger-style Warship; every observer sees a completely different ship.

When acting in a party, it can share its own abilities with an entire Fleet; when moving, it can activate [Deep Sea Blessing], freely traversing the Material World and the Primordial Ocean, leading a grand Fleet on long-range raids.

In Battle, it can activate [All United], linking an entire Fleet into its own "national territory," massively expanding the range of the National Border Lock.

The more warships that form up into the grand Fleet, the stronger the combat power!

And it doesn’t restrict the types of Warships in the Fleet; whether Cruisers, Battleships, or Heavy Cruisers, all are acceptable.

Even future Steam Battleships can be perfectly compatible with it and won’t be left behind.

The trigger condition is: when the captain asks, ’So, do you think my ship is a Battleship, or a Cruiser?’, as long as the Warship being asked answers, ’I think you look like a ***’—and then says whatever type it is itself—it can share its abilities."

Theoretically, relying on its own Legendary Warship Skills, each Legendary Warship is enough to suppress an entire sea.

Only after successfully building a Legendary Warship does a country truly qualify to vie for the throne of a maritime hegemon.

The reason Castilia can always remain firmly seated on the Overlord’s throne is largely thanks to the [Legendary Warship - Holy Trinity].

Only after Byron obtained the [Legendary Warship Golden Deer] did he have the possibility of conquering the entire North Sea and fusing those scattered enclaves back into the North Sea Empire.

Moreover, the [Golden Deer] has great significance for the country and the collective, and even greater significance for Byron himself.

"Divinity" is the Anchor, "Beastliness" is the Sail, "Human Nature" is the Rudder; if you want to sail both fast and steady, all three are indispensable.

The [Golden Deer]’s [All United] in "Battleship Form" is the Anchor; [Deep Sea Blessing] in "Cruiser Form" is the Sail; [Hand of Balance] in "Heavy Cruiser Form" is the Rudder; they respectively correspond to Power from the collective, the Primordial Ocean, and oneself.

At the same time, the Legendary Ability [Fleet Assimilation] pushes collective Power to the extreme, and combined with the Interdiction Cruiser Fleet title effect [Unrestricted Wolfpack], it’s absolutely capable of becoming a Nightmare for all enemy countries.

Just imagine, some King wakes up from a nap and finds that Hightins’s maritime "territory" has suddenly extended right to his doorstep—what could be more terrifying than that?

The entry [Why Did You Carve Your Name on My Pipe] is about ready to naturally evolve into [Why Are You Establishing Your Country on My Land].

Balancing the individual and the collective, the [Golden Deer] fits perfectly with Byron’s own power system and quietly bears the weight of his extraordinary path.

And now that he is already a [False God], by constantly refining the Golden Deer with his own [Divine Radiance], he can also make it his exclusive Divine Artifact, letting it grow alongside him; that little Ship Girl will slowly grow up as well.

Just like the Zero-Level Sacred Relic [Sea King’s Trident] that grew up together with the sea king.

"The [Noah’s Ark] that is said to contain an entire Ecosystem within it also started out as just an artificial big ship.

The [Golden Deer] may well have the potential to grow to such heights."

When Byron was facing his own relatives, he boasted confidently that he could hold back the "Great Flood," but only gamblers go all-in on a single hand; with such a great family and vast estates, he’d never do something that stupid.

He was just about to have a little heart-to-heart with the Golden Deer to deepen their bond when the cute little Ship Girl was already surrounded tightly by the women of the family.

Heather even turned back to shoot Byron a glare, the implication painfully obvious.

—Pushing for marriage! Pushing for babies!

"The Stolen Country has already succeeded; if you don’t have children now, then when?

If you don’t take advantage of this relatively peaceful period on the Old Continent to have a few more, once the Spiral Annals descend, where will you find the time?

Haven’t you heard? When the environment for survival gets harsh, even animals lose the desire to reproduce."