Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 262: The Sea Surges Back, Attacking and Defending Change

Hughes' pen tip rested on the paper, and he did not move for a long time.

Chloe's slightly scribbled handwriting continued to emerge.

"After I summoned the evil god, I detonated the airship. I couldn't even hold out for a moment, let alone defeat the monster. There's only one possibility—the monster is about to succeed."

Hughes thought for a moment and wrote with his own blood, "What is it?"

[Pirate King.]

"Just before I died, I touched the monster's body. Although it was immediately completely destroyed, I managed to use my abilities before I died. I could see inside its body."

It tampered with the will of the believers of the Church of Poseidon, shifting their sacrificial offerings to itself. Oh, and this may be hard to believe, but the Church of Poseidon actually intended to revive an ancient being, and thus sacrificed for a full millennium.

[Poseidon, right?]

This time, Chloe's handwriting hesitated. She tried to spell the word "Poseidon", but gave up halfway, as if some inexplicable force was stopping her.

"In short, the Pirate King has been accepting sacrifices from the cultists in this way. Originally, if he had persisted in this way, perhaps he could have truly controlled the entire Storm Ocean. However, something unexpected seems to have happened recently, causing him to begin urgently and forcibly absorbing pollution from the ocean."

[Is this even possible?] Xiu Si was a little surprised [Isn’t pollution a deadly poison to extraordinary beings?]

"Of course not, but that pirate king was truly a genius. He came up with a brilliant solution—let the cultists who offered sacrifices to him share the harm of the pollution."

Can the harm of pollution be shared?

"Originally, it was impossible, but the cultists' sacrifices to him created a mystical connection between them. Through this connection, contamination could be passed on. Any link is dangerous."

Link Xius suddenly remembered the silk threads of worker Xius. Can this also transmit pollution?
"In short, although he used a clever trick to avoid being directly swallowed by the pollution, he still absorbed a lot of it, and he went crazy on the spot. I learned this from the cultists. They had almost merged with the Pirate King. The scene was truly tragic."

Zeus's eyes flickered. It was almost certain that the Pirate King was planning something. The Jewel Bay was being boiled like a frog in warm water by Her Majesty the Queen, and the entire Storm Ocean couldn't get any supplies. Would the Pirate King just sit there and wait for death?

If he had just sat there and waited for death, he would not have been able to unify the countless pirates, big and small, and establish the Pirate King's Court.

But no one expected that his means of resistance would be so radical that the entire Gem Bay would be buried with him.

[So, as long as the Pirate King is killed, Caster's crisis will be resolved?]

"Yes! After that monster dies, the trapped Poseidon believers will disperse on their own, so the chrysalis is effective. I know the cost is extremely high, but this is indeed the best way."

"This is my plan, Hughes."

I know this is a difficult decision to make, but...

"For Castel we are ready to die."

Hughes looked at Chloe's hurried handwriting, her anxious face seemed right in front of him. Hughes was silent for a while, closed the diary and handed it to Richard.

"Thank you, Mr. Richard. Chloe is indeed right. Her plan can indeed save Caster."

"My Lord, do you want to use the pupa?" Richard's voice trembled slightly.

"No," Hughes said slowly. "The information Chloe sacrificed helped me complete the last piece of the puzzle. Now I have a better option."

Feeling the excitement coming from the spiritual connection, Xiusi's eyes gradually became firm.

He had kept the mind link open before, not only to understand the battle situation, but also to tell the banshees what was happening here.

At this moment, the banshees already knew the whole story, including Monica and everything about the Pirate King's Court.

"Monica!"

I'm listening

"How are you doing now?"

"Hmm, I can sense the monster from the Pirate King's Court. It's much more powerful than me. I can't fight it head-on, but I'm half-sea god after all. I can control the water!"

Hughes gradually grinned.

"I can make the sea water drop. Not only that, I can make the sea water in this space flow back into reality. You know the result, right?—"

"The sea will become land, and Castel and Gem Bay will meet on land!"

Hughes grinned through gritted teeth. "That's enough. You lower the water, and leave the rest to Castel. What supernatural power can solve, so can equivalence. I don't believe that monster can survive after blowing the Pirate King's Court up into the sky!"

In the mind link, the banshees cheered.

They had been suppressed for too long. Castel had been shrinking the defense line and making sacrifices. Everyone was trying their best, but the front line was still being eroded by the sea water.

The rising sea water was like a curse, weighing on everyone's heart.

In the distant sea of Castel, Monica mobilized the power in her body. As long as she was in the sea, the water was an extension of her will, and her power could be exerted unrestrainedly in this space.

As her eyes looked, the sea water that was originally surging in suddenly stopped, then changed direction and left at a much faster speed, roaring like a mountain and rushing towards the eye of the storm.

The huge vortex that had originally formed in the eye of the storm stopped instantly, and the sea water gushing out from the abyss at the bottom rushed to the surroundings with endless power. Dark clouds grew from the top of the eye of the storm, and lightning shuttled through it like light snakes.

From the ice fields in the far north to the continent in the south, from the Blood Harbor of Tis to the Corridor of Despair in the east, it was raining across the entire Storm Ocean.

The bottomless abyss in the eye of the storm turned into a huge spring gushing outward. The Black Pearl, which was stuck on a ridge due to the drying up of the sea water, suddenly trembled. Jeremiah walked onto the deck, was stunned by the heavy rain from the sky, then rushed to the side of the ship, and laughed hysterically at the gradually rising sea water.

The crew members knelt on the deck, some praying, some crying, and some screaming wildly.

In the cathedral of Castel, Kyle carefully poked his head out from the firing hole with a group of new recruits. Now there were no more sea urchin spikes and murlocs climbing along the walls outside. The sea water that had originally submerged everything gradually lowered.

Ash supported himself with his long sword and gasped for breath. He tore off his tattered armor and gave a ferocious smile to the sinking sea water and the gradually degenerating monster.

Now, it was Castel's turn to counterattack.

(End of this chapter)