Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 252 Chloe's Life

Chloe had actually considered finding a safe place, arranging the ceremony step by step, and at the same time sending an airship back to the island to pick up more people for support, and by the way, summon an evil god to show the other side.

Unfortunately it was too late.

She could feel that the strange existence in the palace was about to break through some limit. Although Chloe didn't know what it was, her intuition screamed wildly and warned her to stay away from here at all costs.

In the transcendental world, breaking through boundaries often means radical change. Will is initially just an ethereal individual's thoughts, but once it breaks through the walls of reality, cognitive interference and pollution will descend. Pollution is merely a slowly accumulating negative effect, but once the boundaries of will are breached, the transcendent will go mad, their bodies contaminated and twisted into monsters.

Now the monster can still be defeated. Once it breaks through the limit, the world may not be destroyed, but the entire Storm Ocean will be buried with it.

Do you want to sacrifice for this?

Chloe is a cultist, the leader of the Fire Moths, a member of Castel, and a powerful transcendent. Stripping away all these identities, she is just a girl.

She had too many things to consider and too many things to bear, but at this moment, looking at the monster in the palace, somehow, the first figure that came to her mind was her mother.

Her mother was a mortal, the daughter of a miller, who married a city craftsman and gave birth to Chloe.

She couldn't remember the specific things clearly, as they happened too long ago. Only vague impressions of the city and her parents were left, buried deep in her memory.

She always thought that she would die without hesitation, calmly facing death, or die on the battlefield, or sacrifice for more people like she is now.

But what appeared in her mind at this moment was the vague outline of her mother's face.

How strange! Was she such a weak person? Candlelight would always think that the Fire Moths were a bunch of lunatics, and she actually kind of believed it.

Will a madman also think of his mother before he dies?

This made her a little irritated. She wanted to focus on the ceremony, but she couldn't help thinking about her parents, the city where it was always raining, the Candlelight Society's Crusaders and their cold expressions when they massacred the city.

Memory is such a useless thing, it always hinders her from living a good life. If she hadn't remembered these things, perhaps she would still be just an ordinary nun of the Candlelight Society.

Then she could live on without knowing anything, spend her life happily, and die peacefully in bed.

Unlike now, even the human body has been lost.

Soon, the last bit of her soul would no longer exist.

This was a very important matter, and she was making a great sacrifice, Chloe kept telling herself this, but she could only feel confusion in her heart.

She made the decision to sacrifice without hesitation. She had made this decision many times. The Fire Moths always went to their deaths calmly, and she was no exception. She shook her head, thinking that she must have been affected by the messy memories again.

Chloe sighed and gave up thinking, figuring it all out wouldn't make her death any more beautiful, it would only make her waver.

But the more she tried to avoid thinking about it, the more memories came flooding back: the wanderings of her short life, the faces of her dead companions, the helplessness of finally fleeing to the sea, and finally, meeting Hughes on this remote island.

Her tragic memories suddenly got stuck.

After meeting Zeus, the background of my memories seems to be different. My memories have become more colorful, and my life has become brighter.

Her organization was accepted, her ideals were understood, and she dragged Hughes into many crazy experiments. Although she was scolded every time, she was still happy. The position of chief no longer seemed to be a shackle. She was happy that she could be useful, and that her inhuman body could actually be of some use.

She built Castel with her own hands and met many people, both humans and aliens. This was their common home.

Castel, Castel, fire and light in the storm, the ideal country of those who pursue knowledge, her utopia.

Sometimes she would feel that all this was just a dream that was too beautiful. At this time, she would secretly arrange a ritual to break the illusion. After the ritual took effect, she would look at the factory and the noisy people still in front of her, and be happy in silence.

"Master Chief, the ceremony is ready and the sacrifice is about to begin."

She looked down at the polluted snake, and the corners of her mouth gradually dropped, then pursed.

A sacrifice was to be made, and she was the sacrifice.

The other fire-chasing moths looked over, and Chloe saw a familiar feeling in their eyes. They were also members of Castel, and at this moment, the moths were about to rush into the fire together.

Memory is really useless. She had so many emotions for nothing, wasted a lot of precious time, and still ended up dying.

When she became a fire moth, the ending was already determined. She would eventually turn into ashes in the flames, but there were many meaningless things in between. That was her life.

Her life was insignificant and unremarkable, and even she herself didn't care much about it. As long as she completed her mission, nothing else mattered. Death was her greatest value.

"let's start."

Chloe's voice was very calm, but her face had a crazy expression. She couldn't tell whether she was crazy or not. If she was, it would be better. The more rational you are in this world, the more painful it is.

The others also laughed with relief. They were no longer weak human beings. They were the craziest cultists. Madness was their mask and the knife in their hands. What reason could not solve, madness could.

The fate of the fire moth——

Abandon emotions, abandon reason, abandon weakness, abandon everything, and embrace madness.

This was the lesson Chloe had learned, and it was very useful. The feeling of pain dissipated from her heart, and she looked at the monster below, with only insane and fiery hatred in her eyes.

She would never allow everything she cherished to be destroyed. She wanted to protect everything she had. This will was as strong as steel and above reality.

Several different people had the same will in their hearts and the same anger in their eyes. The high walls of reality collapsed, and the bitter waters of the sea of ignorance rushed into the present world.

The world seemed to stop for a moment.

They interfered with the operation of the world with their personal will, and now the laws of reality have to give way to them!
This is cognitive interference!
The originally faint ritual light suddenly became as strong as the scorching sun, shooting straight towards Caster.

The summoning of the evil god, which originally required dozens of people to maintain, suddenly broke through numerous obstacles. The delicate and strict supernatural rules were torn apart and filled with enormous energy. The ceremony skipped all the steps and was completed directly. The body prepared in advance opened its eyes, and a strange and huge breath descended.

The airship shattered and fell into the palace with the newly born evil god.

A moment later, a huge flame enveloped everything.

(End of this chapter)