Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 192: Twisted Flesh, Monsters from the Deep Sea
Zeus quickly discovered the limits of Richard's ability. This ability could penetrate obstacles such as rock formations and view the situation from any angle, but his visual ability itself was not outstanding and was only slightly stronger than the naked eye. He could only adjust the angle at will.

In other words, if you look at dim places, you will lose a lot of details, which is not as good as the Banshees' ability to see in the dark. Moreover, the clarity of the picture you see will decrease after penetrating the solid body. If you try to see the texture in the middle of a thick stone, the effect will be not much better than B-ultrasound.

Moreover, this kind of vision cannot penetrate the sea water. The sea is completely dark in Zeus's eyes. If he can check the movements of underwater enemies, it would be a magical skill.

Ash looked at the images sent by Zeus in surprise. The angles of view were extremely tricky and marked out the positions of all the murlocs. If she hadn't been on the battlefield, she would have wanted to ask what was going on.

"Don't worry, fight. I will support you."

"good"

Ash calmed himself down, gestured to the banshees behind him, and then led the charge out.

This time there were only five banshees charging with her, including Nini who was not carrying any weapons.

With the perspective provided by Richard, Zeus could directly see the situation on the battlefield. The Banshees launched an attack from the blind spot of the murlocs, and Ash's charge was like a hot knife cutting through butter, instantly splitting the murlocs into two parts.

Zeus shifted his focus, following Ash's long knife as it sliced through the flesh of each murloc, watching the expressions on their faces change from confusion to horror.

Just like every previous battle, the murloc formation was pierced through in an instant. Ash and the others then retreated slightly, keeping a safe distance from the sea, but not far away from the battlefield.

This charge yielded a lot of gains, and more importantly, Nini was holding three unconscious fishmen in her hands.

Nini and the murlocs retreated immediately. After waiting for a while, Ash found that the murlocs were just running away in panic, so he prepared to charge again.

In the distant webway, Zeus frowned unconsciously.

"Ash, last time you charged in, all the murlocs ran away?"

"Yes, just like this time, they couldn't put up any decent resistance and simply fled back into the water."

Escape directly back into the sea? Hughes zoomed in, carefully observing the expression on the fishman's face.

"No, that's not the case. I just noticed that a few murlocs didn't flee, but instead tried to fight. However, they didn't have any suitable weapons, and were surrounded by other murlocs, so they didn't make any waves. And..."

Hughes zoomed out, quickly took a screenshot, and sent it to Ash in the group chat.

"Here, at your nine o'clock direction, behind that huge reef, two of the murlocs that had just escaped into the sea have returned. They've climbed back up, and while they still look terrified, they've finally reached shore."

Ash fell silent. These murlocs were extremely weak and were like lambs to be slaughtered in front of the Banshee. How could they dare to resist?
They didn't even have many weapons, and the battlefield was littered with pickaxes, shovels and other simple tools, but the fish people were able to organize themselves in waves and land on Castel, even though they were so clumsy in their movements on the ground.

The sea surface suddenly rippled with thick, asphalt-like waves. Hughes immediately turned his gaze over and saw a dark shadow covered in spikes slowly rising. "Ash, be careful, there's a sea urchin!"

Zeus suddenly reminded him urgently and sent a picture. After taking a look, Ash immediately waved to the banshees behind him.

The banshees scattered in all directions. Judging from their skillful movements, they must have discussed it long ago. When Zeus saw that the banshees were ready, he moved his gaze back to the sea surface and looked at the sea urchin monster.

This was the first time that Hughes saw a sea urchin monster.

The description given by the banshees was very vivid. This monster really looked like a sea urchin, with countless extremely long spikes that cut through the ground like sharp swords, sending rocks flying everywhere. In the center of the monster was a black, wriggling mass that looked a bit like pollution at first glance, but when Zeus zoomed in on the image, he found that it was actually a mass of black mist.

Zeus frowned and looked at the strange structure of the sea urchin - the spines that should have grown on the surface of the spherical core were now suspended in the surging black mist, like fragments of bones suspended by spider silk.

Zeus stared carefully at the sea urchin monster that had just surfaced, and suddenly, his pupils shrank suddenly.

The mist attached to the surface of the thorns began to wriggle violently, and wisps of black smoke were pouring out from the black mass in the middle, clinging to the spikes. The spikes that were shining with cold metallic light twisted and softened like melted candles, revealing the wriggling black blood vessel network inside the spikes - these blood vessels were not biological structures, but were composed of countless tiny black worms.

Is that physical pollution?!
Under Hughes' astonished gaze, the sea urchin monster's spines cracked open, and human hands emerged from the cracks like sprouting plants. He watched helplessly as the densely packed spines transformed into arms!
Each arm was different, there were laborers' palms with bulging veins, delicate hands of noble ladies wearing jewel rings, and even the tender fingertips of children. All arms were covered with constantly wriggling black tattoos, and the originally regular spikes gradually became of different lengths, twisted and weird.

Soon, the sea urchin became a ball of flesh covered with arms. The twisted tattoos on the arms looked like paintings scribbled by a madman, and the totem-like lines seemed to be alive and moving under the skin.

All the newborn arms were twitching violently, as if they were enduring some kind of pain beyond their physical limits. They stretched outwards with great effort, like desperate drowning people trying to grab something.

Zeus subconsciously looked at the outstretched arms, and when he saw the palms, his heart skipped a beat.

The palms of those hands, where the palm lines should be, were cracked into mouth-like organs covered with sharp teeth. "Tongues" with fluorescent blue mucus curled and stretched in the air, occasionally grabbing some stones or plants, and then throwing them into the mouths full of sharp teeth without any care.

"Ash! Something's changed. That sea urchin has turned into a twisted monster!"

Zeus shouted over the mind link, taking a screenshot and sending it out of what he saw. In the cave, Ash's eyes widened.

"this"

"Be careful, it's coming!"

Ashben used herself as bait. She didn't hide her figure and just stood on the shore.

The sea urchin monster, no, the monster with arms, rushed towards her immediately!
(End of this chapter)