Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 590 Steel Ark
"What?! The report about Nini is true?"

"ah?"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!"

"Oh no, this is cognitive interference!"

"Forget about cognitive interference. I think if Nini's reports were all true, the world would explode the next day."

"Haha, everyone, I thought Gwen was the one who went crazy, but it turns out I'm the one who's crazy."

The mind link exploded. It wasn't that the banshees were prejudiced against Nini; it was mainly because many of the reports about Nini were simply too outrageous. If these reports came true, half of Castel would go insane on the spot.
"Forget about Nini for now, go check on Gwen!"

The banshee squad heading to the rescue had been live-streaming via telepathy beforehand, and all the banshees who could connect were stunned to witness this scene:
After Jeremiah's Black Pearl and the cargo ship left, the metal platform where Gwen stood suddenly began to tremble.

The banshees are not creatures of land; their abilities are far greater underwater. The live stream in the mind link includes not only the view from the surface of the sea but also the view from beneath it.

From an underwater perspective, the twisted and gnarled scrap metal beneath Gwen's feet can be clearly seen; it comes from countless ships that sank to the bottom of the sea.

The abandoned steel is now slowly gathering beneath Gwen, with steel plates and keels falling off one by one, and steam engines bubbling and moving about, all coming together to form a massive mountain range in the sea.

The small metal platform where Gwen stood was just a corner of the mountaintop.

On the surface of the sea, only some unusual movements were visible, but underwater, a tremendous change was taking place.

Oh my god.

"this"

"Even the fish-man hordes during the Deepsea Wars weren't this bad, were they? Those were caused by the Sea God, who had gathered all the pollution from the entire Storm Ocean. Gwen actually dares to compare herself to the Sea God?!"

Hughes: "No, look closely. This area already had a lot of sunken steel piled up. Gwen merely gathered it together, while Poseidon single-handedly gathered the pollution from the entire Storm Ocean. It's not the same!"

Hughes: "And I have a feeling that Gwen didn't use her own power, but rather guided the will of the machine spirits, or rather, the ship spirits—you should know that my machine spirits have a relatively high affinity; sometimes when I pass through that sea area, I can feel the restlessness of thousands of machine spirits below."

"My lord, you should change your name to Soul of Ten Thousand Machines."

"Indeed, Lord, you don't need to please the Machine Spirits; it's the Machine Spirits that are pleasing you."

"My lord, you're right, but I still think Gwen is ridiculously strong!"

"Don't call her Big Gwen, call her Mega Gwen."

"Wow! Look! The steel from the sunken ship next to Gwen is standing up!"

"What? ! 』

The mountain of steel formed by the sunken ships beneath Gwen's feet, after piling up to a certain extent, suddenly rose upwards.

A patrol airship had just arrived from above, and the banshee on board happened to record this shocking scene.

Centered on Gwen, the azure sea suddenly turned deep black, and then that deep black rapidly expanded, becoming as large as an island in just a few moments. The blackness then deepened, and soon, the first steel plate emerged from the water.

Then came a sharp steel bar, a rusted iron plate, a wall of steel, an entire wall of steel like a sheer cliff.

The seawater, stirred up by the storm, dripped down from the sky, landing on the lower steel curtain wall before finally flowing into the sea.

The seemingly endless steel curtain wall is constructed from countless ships sunk to the bottom of the sea. Their will has been united as one, almost solidified, and has come together to form this enormous steel ark.

Yes, the Steel Ark, the mountain of shipwrecked remains, has once again come together to form the shape of a ship, and the souls that sank to the depths of the sea are once again sailing on the stormy ocean!

Even the usually noisy harbingers of death fell silent, staring blankly at the shocking scene.

The patrol airship above was already quite large, about the length of several train carriages, but it looked as tiny as a seagull perched on the deck of the huge, rusty ship below.

Gwen stood at the bow of the deep-sea ship, her feet on steel, and she could feel the will of the giant ship she had summoned beneath her feet.

"No, Lady Nora, have I done something terrible?"

Nora remained motionless in Gwen's arms, stunned. She had indeed seen the greeting procedure in the newspaper, but she hadn't expected to summon such a huge ship—no, it shouldn't even be called a ship; it was practically a moving island!
Nora's blank gaze slowly moved as she looked around. The ship was made entirely of the steel from the sunken warship, and both the deck and the hull were covered in rust. There were also many barnacles and anemones attached to it. She even saw a huge coral reef like a curtain in the captain's cabin.

The ship's style is quite eclectic, with tall masts on the deck, the keel of the sunken ship twisted into masts and ropes, and rusted iron plates clinging to them, seemingly pretending to be sails.

On both sides of the ship, the huge circular outer wheels are like giant waterwheels. With each rotation, they push countless waves of seawater into the air, which then fall back down in a gentle drizzle.

The sirens could see the propeller at the stern underwater. The enormous, disproportionately large blades had extremely sharp edges, like a razor blade, shredding the seawater and anything caught in it into tiny foam.

"This ship doesn't look like it was forcibly assembled from many ships; it was originally made from many ships pieced together!"

Gwen swallowed hard.

"This...this is Castells syndrome, isn't it? Am I hallucinating?"

"It's possible. I think the probability of the two of us seeing hallucinations at the same time is more normal than that it's real."

"Lady Nora, have I gotten myself into trouble?"

“I don’t know if you’ve caused any trouble,” Nora murmured, “but I don’t think you need to worry about not finding a job in Castel.”

As Nora and Gwen spoke, a large crowd had already gathered around them.

Jeremiah's Black Pearl had recently been fitted with the latest marine steam engines, and given its relatively small size, it boasted the most powerful overall propulsion, making it among the first to arrive and provide support.

Next to arrive was the Banshee Squad, who had been patrolling near the docks but received the message a little later.

Next came the patrol airship, which was the first to detect the anomaly in the air, but its overall flight speed was not fast, and it actually lagged behind.

Now, such a commotion has awakened the entire Castel. Coast guard ships along the coast, Castel's regular navy, and the superhumans on the island are all rushing to the scene.

(End of this chapter)