Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 336 The Knight Charging Towards the Train

He stood there blankly, watching the dust rise from the road in the distance.

A monster she had just seen was moving rapidly in front of her, followed by dozens or even hundreds of other monsters.

Upon closer inspection, the one running in front was holding a stack of papers, while the one chasing her was actually trying to snatch the papers from her.

What kind of paper would make these extraordinary monsters fight so desperately for it?
Galahad shuddered; it was probably covered in twisted blasphemous writing.

No, that's not important. What's important is: how come there are so many extraordinary beings here?

Were there a hundred? There must have been at least several dozen, right?
How many extraordinary beings does the entire Holy See have? Even if there are more than the current number, the number is still limited.

How could such a remote island be home to so many extraordinary beings?
Am I crazy, or is the world crazy?

Galahad felt as if he were hallucinating, and heard strange whispers in his ears, which were noisy and irritating.

Oh no, his cognition is starting to go astray; he is slowly sinking into a sea of ​​ignorance.

Calm down, calm down, you must calm down. Don't look at those monsters, look at normal things instead.

Galahad tried to calm himself down, looking around. The sparse pedestrians and the huge tentacles in the distance coexisted. Although his situation was somewhat troublesome, it was not too dangerous. As long as he gradually solidified his understanding, there would be no problem.

The hallucination was easy to identify; the tentacles that appeared out of nowhere in the distance were a good reference point. How could such a strange thing exist on the island?

Galahad kept telling herself it was a hallucination and tried to calm down, but the dizziness didn't go away at all; instead, it got worse.

Alexei noticed his unusual behavior, followed his gaze to the black, polluted serpent, and nodded in realization.

“That’s Castel’s power supply system. You’re an extraordinary being, right? Please stay away from it. It contains materialized contamination, which is the fuel for the stellar furnace.”

Physical pollution? Energy supply system? Stellar furnace? Fuel?
Why can I understand each word individually, but not when they are put together?

Oh no, those damn tentacles aren't an illusion at all; he's chosen the wrong anchor!

Galahad's consciousness began to blur.

Alexei didn't pay much attention to any of this; he was still leading the way and explaining things. According to the plan, the two of them would next take a steam locomotive to Castel Cathedral.

Unfortunately, the network system is currently undergoing renovations and involves many secrets, making it temporarily inconvenient to open to the public.

The cathedral had long been completely fortified, with only the passage reserved for armored trains on the ground accessible, while all other access points to the walls were underground.

Galahad stood there blankly, following Alexei to the platform in a daze. Only when the piercing whistle of the steam locomotive sounded did he shudder, draw his longsword, and look around warily.

"Mr. Galahad? Galahad!?"

Alexei called out to him several times, but Galahad's reaction to the continuous stimulation was quite stressful.

He flipped and jumped off the platform, wanting to fight the huge steel monster in front of him with his longsword. The sharp whistle sounded like the monster's roar before attacking. Galahad gripped his longsword tightly.

"Monster! Come on, I'm not afraid of you!" He charged towards the locomotive, brandishing his longsword. Just before they were about to meet, he dodged the monster's attack with a sidestep, his sword striking the monster's head precisely.

From the perspective of the onlookers, he suddenly went mad, shouting incoherently as he rushed toward the steam train.

Fortunately, the train was intended to stop here. By the time he rushed over, the train had almost come to a complete stop. His longsword only struck the front armor of the train, and upon contact, it flew away, spinning and flying into the distance.

Galahad is a superhuman with extremely strong physical strength, far exceeding that of ordinary people. He can almost single-handedly take on an entire elite team of ordinary soldiers.

But facing him was a steam locomotive weighing hundreds of tons, covered with armor. How many ordinary soldiers it could take on depended only on how much fuel it carried.

The powerful superhuman was defeated by an ordinary steam locomotive. Fortunately, it was stationary, so neither side was seriously injured.

Alexei stood there stunned for a moment before realizing that the other party was not joking with him, and quickly called for help.

The patrolling banshees noticed the commotion, rushed over, picked Galahad up, and took him to the hospital.
Incidentally, the hospital on the island was opened by Richard, who finally found a hobby other than dissecting corpses.

Hughes listened to the report in disbelief.

He genuinely hadn't expected that the first guest to arrive in Castel would run into trouble.

Hearing Galahad attack the locomotive, he could no longer contain himself and interrupted Alexei:

"Wait a minute, did he really charge at the steam locomotive? Are you sure his name is Galahad and not Don Quixote?"

Don Quixote? Who's that?

"Never mind, let's not worry about it," Hughes said, covering his face. "Is there anything else?"

"Yes, Nini has written a new report, and it's receiving fervent praise from the banshees—truly fervent praise."

"Whatever she writes, ban it all, prohibit its distribution! What else?"

"Captain Jeremiah insisted on installing two new steam engines, saying that one was not powerful enough and not worthy of his Black Pearl."

Since Castel emerged from the Temple of Poseidon, he has been unable to reliably summon the Roarer using rituals; this steam engine seems to have an intricate connection to the soul of Poseidon.

But soon the engineers on the island discovered that they could summon machine spirits by using a summoning ritual near the reactor. These machine spirits seemed to be easier to communicate with, and there were many successful examples of communicating with them. The engineers were trying to figure out a whole process to please the machine spirits.

There were still quite a few Rumblers left from the previous Deepsea War, so the new steam engines on the island coexist with the Rumblers at this time.

"He wants to add a new steam engine? Will he please the machine spirit?"

"Captain Jeremiah does seem to have some talent. After he drank a few bottles of sweet fruit wine with the steam engines, two of them did acknowledge him. He said he wanted these two 'new friends' to go on adventures with him this time."

Hughes's face twitched; it seemed Castelpan Technology was heading in increasingly skewed directions.
"By the way, my lord, there's something else strange. Our experiments have revealed that all mechanical creations near Castel are enhanced."

(End of this chapter)