Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 277 Castel's Return

"Evacuate the workers near the furnace immediately. Everyone come to help! Hurry! The furnace is about to catch fire!"

"Monica, come to the west observation hole. I'm here."

"Ash, you're on the military side, right? Let Alexi lead the Skitarii to maintain order!"

After lifting the monster during the day, most of the banshees went back to rest. The installation of the furnace cover was completed by the workers, and only the airship participated in part of the lifting.

At this moment, the banshees rushed out of the door in a hurry. Most of them lived in the cathedral, and some came from the webway.

The banshees in the cathedral roughly observed the situation, jumped directly from the church into the atrium, used the walls around them to gain leverage, and jumped onto the furnace.

Then they immediately divided into several groups, carried the workers who were unable to evacuate in time, and left in all directions.

Most of the workers heard Hughes' warning. They dropped their tools and fled along the maintenance platform. Hughes' hand touched the outer wall of the furnace, and he couldn't help feeling anxious.

This furnace is too impatient!
At this moment, only one or two minutes had passed since the furnace was installed. Monica was even still on the airship. Xius told her directly through the link that she was the key to igniting the furnace.

It was definitely too late to wait for the airship to land, so she gritted her teeth and jumped directly from the airship.

The other banshees didn't even have time to stop him. Zeus heard the screams coming from the mind link and immediately looked up.

Monica jumped down from the airship, holding the lifting rope in her hand, her emerald green scales and long hair shining in the night.

"Monica!!!"

The banshees were extremely anxious, but they couldn't think of any solution. Although their bodies were strong, they would probably die if they fell from such a height. Even though Monica had the soul of the sea god, her pure physical strength was not increased much.

Monica descended rapidly, leaving a green shadow in the air. She gripped the rope tightly as she was about to fall.

The rope was used for lifting, and only strength was considered. The surface was extremely rough. In just a moment, deep wounds were worn on her hands where the bones were visible, and the rope was covered in red.

Monica gritted her teeth and grabbed it with more hands, and tried to wrap her tail around it. The rope passed by quickly and instantly knocked many of her scales away. The long snake tail shrank for a moment, and then wrapped around it more firmly.

The rope rubbed against her rapidly, causing countless scales to fly off and blood to wet the tip of her tail, but with her efforts, her speed did slow down.

boom!
Monica fell on the furnace. Just as Hughes was about to rush over to check, he suddenly felt a strong throbbing in his palm that was in contact with the furnace.

Got it together.

Soul and flesh, iron and fire, sacrifices and obsessions spanning thousands of years, secrets buried in the deep sea, everything that no one knows, are now all in this furnace of steel.

The furnace cover had only just been roughly installed, and many of the screws had not been tightened in time, and some places had only just been covered.

But at this moment, those different pieces of steel parts gradually combined tightly together, becoming indistinguishable from each other.

Tiny imperfections become smooth and neat, hidden scratches in the steel from casting are automatically repaired, and bolts that were occasionally forgotten to be tightened slowly rotate on their own.

The will of the furnace itself is gradually awakening. Without the need for additional maintenance, it adjusts the status of every gear and every rivet by itself.

Zeus suddenly understood that the ritual was just an extension of the will. When the will itself was strong enough, it could replace the ritual and directly achieve the result!

At the moment when the will of the furnace was pushed to its highest point, Zeus shouted the command:

"Ignite!" The furnace was silent for a moment.

Immediately, blazing flames filled every inch of the furnace.

The worker who was just installing on the furnace top was picked up by the banshee and looked at the furnace in shock.

The banshee coming from afar emerged from the webway, fire reflected in her eyes.

The Banshee team on the airship anxiously clung to the guardrail and shouted Monica's name below.

The order shouted by Zeus made the huge furnace start to breathe, and the fiery red light was reflected around. The entire atrium surrounded by the Castel Cathedral was glowing red, like an erupting volcano.

A moment later, the red light rose from the furnace, surged upward, and rushed straight into the sky.

A red beam of light penetrated the center of Castel and then quickly spread out in all directions with this place as the center.

There was a crisp sound of shattering, like glass being shattered by a huge rock. The entire island began to tremble, and many people lost their balance and fell to the ground.

A wail rang out from the furnace, the world was shattering, and a crack appeared in the barrier that had trapped Caster for months.

The Skitarians patrolling around Castel were shocked to find that the originally dry seabed was suddenly filled with sea water, and stars appeared in the sky. A familiar feeling came over them - they had finally returned to the real world.

Monsters, wars, murlocs, pollution, everything that had happened in the past few months appeared before their eyes. Many people knelt on the ground, crying and laughing at the same time.

Hughes didn't care about anything else. He used his hands and feet to climb up to the top of the furnace along the inspection platform. The hot furnace seemed to feel his will, and the top of the furnace became cooler.

Zeus rushed to Monica's side. She fell down and was silent, but Zeus could know through the mental connection that she was not dead.

Not only was she not dead, she was also constantly absorbing vitality through the symbiotic contract. When Zeus rushed to her, he was surprised to find that she was no longer the tall banshee.

She was small, even shorter than Hughes, and had returned to her original appearance.

Monica's body was covered with red blood, which scattered on her pale skin, making everyone feel distressed.

The symbiotic contract healed her injuries but did not wake her up. Zeus gritted his teeth, carried her on his back, and quickly ran down the furnace.

"Monica!"

"Oh my god, she's Monica!"

"How is it possible? How can there be two Monikas?"

"Damn it, I remember now, I remember everything, we forgot about her before!"

"Monica"

The banshees surrounded him, many of them covering their heads. As Caster returned to reality, many memories gradually revived, including the short Monica and the Monica he had seen in the past few days. The messy memories were intertwined and could not be distinguished.

An exceptionally tall banshee suddenly squeezed out of the crowd. It was Ash. After seeing the little Monica, her silver eyes widened. She rushed forward, stretched out her hand to touch her, but shrank back.

She didn't say anything, but big tears flowed from her eyes and she couldn't stop.

(End of this chapter)