Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 42 A Corner of the Truth

Nora lowered her head silently.

It seems that the enemy is more difficult than she imagined.

Nora clenched the flail in her hand. She originally thought that she would see a gathering of cultists and maybe one or two sea monsters that needed to be dealt with. Unexpectedly, the place was full of monsters.

Nora closed her eyes in despair. Could she really accomplish her original goal? Even though she was the Undertaker and had all the equipment, she couldn't defeat such a large number of monsters.
And Zeus actually let them out. This madman, doesn’t he know that these monsters are irrational?

What am I thinking? Cultists are crazy. Nora gritted her teeth and tried to lean against the mountain wall. She felt that she understood what Zeus meant. The monster in front of her was just testing her. Only after defeating it would she be qualified to negotiate with him.

Damn cult leader!
Nora held up the tower shield and waited for a long time but there was no attack from the opposite side. She carefully moved the shield away a little and glanced at the direction of the opposite side with her peripheral vision.

She was wearing the thickest White Crow heavy armor, not to mention holding a shield that was only used when charging into battle. She was confident that she could take any attack head-on, even from that huge monster.

If there is only one.
No problem, we'll win.

Nora encouraged herself.

At this moment, the voice of the six-armed monster came from above: "Hello, my name is Ash."

Is it talking?

This, how is this possible, is it still maintaining its sanity?

Impossible, that's a monster in the sea.

Nora gripped her shield tightly, but the imagined attack never came.

She hesitated for a long time, then moved the shield away a little.

When she moved the tower shield away, she saw Ash's confused face in front of her. Seeing that Nora didn't move, Ash decided to bend down and talk to her.

Before she could say anything after opening her mouth, Ash looked at the smoke around her in surprise. She sniffed and took a big breath.

"It smells wonderful, like coral reef weeds. Hmm, what do you need to know? About the pollution? Or about what's happening in the Abyss?"

Nora was stunned for a moment before she realized that her incense burner was still burning.

She looked at the incense burner, then back at Ash.

“Not contaminated!?”

Ash gave her a strange look and nodded, "Yes, Monica is the only one of us who is contaminated."

She had been bending over and felt a little tired, so she stood up again. Her tall figure blocked the setting sun on the sea in the distance.

Nora looked up blankly at Ash as he slowly stood up.
click!
The back of the helmet hit the armor again.

Nora took off her helmet in annoyance. She looked at the tall Ash in front of her doubtfully. Reason told her that there would be no mistake in purifying the incense burner, and the other party did not seem to have lost his mind, but she really couldn't understand it.

Biting her lip, Noila Mo couldn't help but ask: "How do you stay uncontaminated?"

Ash looked at Nora in confusion, stepped aside, and pointed to Monica: "She's the only one contaminated. We're fine. She's the only one who needs your treatment."

Nora glanced at Ash, and could not see any madness or violence in her eyes, only confusion?

"This is impossible."

Nora took a deep breath of the purifying smoke from the incense burner. Mmm, the sweet smell of orange.

When I looked up again, everything in front of me was still the same.

Is all this true?
This monster from the sea is not crazy? It's even a little friendly?

No, no, something must have gone wrong.

Nora suddenly panicked. She carefully turned around, watching Ash with a wary gaze, and slowly retreated to the seashore. The flail swung, sending smoke billowing. When it hit the seawater, it seeped down like coffee grounds in a cup, specks of it falling.

The banshees looked at each other, and although they showed hesitation, they did not avoid it.

The smoke entered the sea and gradually spread out, dispersing around the banshees.

"Hmm, it's a bit like sweet shrimp."

"No, only the pearls from giant clams have this taste!"

"This is clearly the smell of sunshine in the coral!"

The banshees debated quietly, and although their opinions varied, they all agreed that it was a very pleasant smell.

Xius stood aside and looked at it with a strange expression.

It's really strange, can you smell something in the sea? He thought randomly. Although Nora's behavior was very strange, he didn't stop her. He knew that this was Nora's way of dealing with pollution.

When I first met Nora, she used the incense burner to instill a similar message into my mind.
Wait, isn’t that the incense burner used for missionary work?

Hughes looked at Nora's flail with a somewhat strange look.

Waving a flail and hammering doctrine into your head, is this what you call preaching?
Well, it does work. At least now Zeus knows a lot about the Temple of Silence.

It would be better if the process could be more gentle.
Looking at the banshees discussing in a low voice, Zeus's eyes suddenly lit up.

He noticed the contamination on Monica's body, which was slowly stagnating.

The black substances that were originally wriggling like leeches gradually stopped moving as if they were placed in ice water.

Monica also showed a somewhat painful expression on her face.

it works!

As expected of the Undertaker of the Silent Temple, he can indeed deal with pollution!
"Look!"

"Monica, she seems to be feeling better!"

"Look at the pollution on her!"

“Pollution, pollution is receding!”

"It actually works! The treatment methods on land are so unique!"

The banshees began to look at the flail and tower shield in Nora's hands with awe. Although they looked strange, they actually worked.

Nora blushed a little. She felt like her defensiveness was a joke. Now she had calmed down and looked up and down at Ash and the banshees in the sea. Her gaze paused on their scales before finally looking at Zeus: "Are they from the sea? Have they always lived in the sea?"

"Yes," Zeus replied. He also felt something was wrong. "There has been pollution in the sea recently, which will drive the creatures crazy, so I came..."

"You said there was pollution in the sea?"

"Yes, look at Monica, she has that..."

"I know." Nora interrupted Xius again, with a very complicated expression on her face, as if she had seen something incredible.

She seemed to want to say something, but found it difficult to speak because it was too outrageous. Even Zeus and the banshees around her felt this subtle emotion.

"I know Monica was polluted, and I know there is pollution in the sea."

Hughes and Ash looked at each other, both confused, but Nora's next words made them freeze in their tracks.

"But this pollution has been going on for more than a thousand years."

(End of this chapter)