Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 596 seems to have given birth to something?
Time seemed to have stopped at this moment.

The people here, whether they are banshees, superhumans, or mortals, all sense a powerful will.

As if by telepathy, they closed their eyes simultaneously.

Inside the church, the friars instinctively placed their hands on the sacred texts.

Inside the factory, the workers who were arguing with the boiler stopped what they were doing, and both the machine spirit and the workers quieted down.

Throughout Castells, tens of thousands of people felt a colossal will, and they joined in.

All people, all machine spirits, and the will of all existence were united into one at this moment.

This newborn will, like the soul of the banshee, is the sum of everyone's will and is recognized by everyone.

Therefore, people have a natural affinity and familiarity with it.

Just a moment later, people slowly opened their eyes, but it felt as if many years had passed.

People looked at each other, feeling a sense of familiarity between them.

What just happened?

"I don't know, but it's as if I know a lot."

Did you feel it just now?

"Have"

"I haven't said what it is yet."

"but I know."

Such dialogues occurred throughout the island, with different people experiencing the same magical experience; at least for that moment, their will was the same.

Meanwhile, the Banshee's mind link was in an uproar.

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!"

"For a brief moment, I felt as if I had gained thousands more members of my race!"

"It was so shocking, that will was so immense it was completely indescribable."

"It seems that the human soul is not much different from ours."

"Can we do it again? I want to try again!"

"That seems a bit difficult. Soul synchronization requires us to actively link up, which humans don't have."

"How did you connect just now?"

"have no idea"

The banshees discussed it excitedly, treating it as some kind of accident or an unrepeatable miracle. Only Nini looked at Hughes, who was standing to the side, with a strange expression.

"Lord Lord?"

".What's wrong?"

"Am I just imagining things? You seem worried about something?"

Hughes's expression was somewhat gloomy and uncertain. After hesitating for a moment, he took a deep breath and said in a low voice:
"I have a feeling that the will from just now hasn't left."

"Didn't leave?" Nini blinked, somewhat confused. "What do you mean by 'didn't leave'? Mind synchronization is essentially about opening our souls completely to each other, merging our wills into one. In other words, the will that appeared just now was actually ourselves. Now that the ritual is over, hasn't that will dispersed to each of us?" "That's what I find strange. I always feel that the moment the entire Castel was linked together, what appeared wasn't just a collection of our wills, but more like... we created a new will!"

Nini was stunned for a moment, and when she came to her senses, she couldn't help but gasp.

"This, this is impossible! Mind synchronization has never had this function!"

"Not necessarily. This world can be changed by an excessively strong will, and the entire Castel, plus the Machine Souls, with such a massive will, do you think it can influence this world?"

Nini fell silent, lowered her head, and fell into deep thought, clearly wavering.

"And how many of you succubi did you have at your peak?"

"I wonder if most of our people died in the battle to break free from the enslavement of the merfolk? There must have been several hundred?"

“Even if you have a thousand people, Castel’s population is now in the tens of thousands. The will of a hundred people united might only cause cognitive interference, but what about ten thousand people?”

"Can the will of ten thousand people create an existence out of thin air? A collection of our wills?"

"what!?"

Nini couldn't sit still any longer: "Then, then we have to do something, right? The will of ten thousand people... that's just creating an evil god out of thin air! Let's strike first! Luckily, our Banshee Warband is here, and I even brought my Dragon Breath Cannon with me, which will be perfect for gathering supplies on the battlefield!"

Nini became more and more excited as she spoke: "And maybe the evil god can even set things on fire. Castel is now protected by the sea god, and Bloodharbor is in dire need of a power source. I can also write a few articles about it."

"It's not that bad."

Hughes was somewhat helpless; he even felt that Nini was being a bit too extreme.
Whether this will exists is questionable, and even if it does exist, it may not necessarily be an enemy.

This is the embodiment of the will of the entire Castel, so the Castel people are relatively at ease. Although they worship size and preach fallacies like "bigger is better" and "more is better" all day long, and some even regard him as a god, they are still quite unified in their pursuit of knowledge.

Wait a minute, why does this feel more and more like an evil god?

Does this mean that all Castel people have the potential to become evil gods?
Impossible, absolutely impossible! Hughes quickly shook his head, banishing the terrible thought from his mind.

"My lord, how can you sense that presence hasn't dissipated?"

“Of course.” Hughes was about to speak subconsciously, but then he paused, realizing what he had just said.

"Right, why can I sense it? Is it somehow connected to me?"

Hughes thought carefully about the entire process of soul synchronization, from beginning to end, and quickly realized that there were indeed some differences.

He played a very special role in Soul Harmony.

In the beginning, it was his words that touched the hearts of the people nearby, making them share the same thoughts.

These ideas coalesced into a will that challenged the high walls of reality.

The mental link between the banshees spread Hughes' words and will to all the banshees. The banshees were beings of the mind, and they were linked together by a symbiotic contract. Hughes' words triggered a soul-synchronization among the banshees.

Here comes the first interesting point—Hughes is not a Banshee, and he doesn't have the innate ability of mind synchronization. Theoretically, he shouldn't be able to enter mind synchronization.

But he went in anyway, and it was entirely under his own will.

Upon closer examination, it's not surprising at all. The banshees entered into mind synchronization because of his words, and Hughes also had a mind link. It can be said that at this moment, the banshees' will was aligned with Hughes' will.

Hughes also has a symbiotic contract with the banshee, and they are already faintly connected from the Sea of ​​Ignorance, so it is not surprising that he was able to overcome this obstacle.

But the next anomaly was different; Mind Synchronization brought the entire Castel into play.

(End of this chapter)