Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 713 Perpetual Madness
It's just an evil god, Beatrice has seen it before.

The Candlelight Church is a righteous church that has suppressed at least eight hundred, if not a thousand, evil gods. Beatrice's only disadvantage is that she is young. Among the more experienced investigators, who hasn't seen an evil god a few times?
Putting everything else aside, the Fire-Chasing Moth likes to summon the Moth Lord every few days to deal with the pollution. Who in the Vatican hasn't dealt with it a few times?

However, for some reason, they haven't been summoned for the past two years.

It's important to know that the Candlelight Society seals not only forbidden knowledge, but also a considerable number of evil objects.

Therefore, Beatrice remained calm and reassured the two, "Don't worry, I've seen this kind of thing in the Vatican, so I won't be scared."

"The Vatican? Hmm, if it's a religious church like the Candlelight Church, then it's possible, isn't it?" Zoe glanced at Gaia.

Gaia shrugged: "I don't know either. Although I am a Fire Moth, most of what I have learned is in research and development. My knowledge of the extraordinary is about the same as yours."

Beatrice's eyes lit up upon hearing this. Although she was only the nominal pope, she was indeed a member of the Candlelight Order and had spent her days in the library during her house arrest, so she had quite a bit of knowledge in this area.

"Since you don't know much about evil gods, let me introduce them to you. Evil gods are just intimidating in name. Their main danger is that you can easily be corrupted and polluted upon contact. In terms of actual combat ability, they are not very high."

Zoe and Gaia nodded, and the elevator slowly ascended. This time, the darkness lasted longer than ever before after they left the upper platform—they were entering the stellar furnace layer.

"The strength of an evil god is generally easy to determine. The larger the evil god, the stronger it is. Most evil gods are only slightly larger than banshees, and a tactical team of seven [investigators] can handle them. Larger ones, such as those the size of whales, will be a little more troublesome."

"What if it's even bigger?"

"Even bigger? There aren't that many gigantic evil gods. Besides, even if there were,..."

Beatrice was speaking when she suddenly froze.

The darkness in front of the elevator had turned into a crimson light, as if we were rising into lava.

But the scorching orange-red color was blocked by the steel furnace. The thick rivets and heavy steel plates had a sense of power, which firmly held the explosive energy inside the furnace, preventing any of it from overflowing.

Beatrice, however, paid no attention to the magnificent steel structures; her gaze was fixed on a round observation window.

The slightly murky observation window was firmly nailed to the furnace wall, but this did not give Beatrice any sense of security. She looked at what was inside the window and trembled all over.

That was an eye.

It wasn't looking at Beatrice, or even outside, but Beatrice could only see this eye—it was so big that the viewing window couldn't even see the entire eyeball.

Even its eyes are so enormous, its true form...
The elevator was much hotter than before, as it was now close to the stellar reactor. But Beatrice only felt a chill run through her body.

She felt as if she had been thrown into the deep sea, the cold seawater brushing against her body like sticky tentacles, carrying the chilling sensation unique to sea creatures.

No one attacked her, no one targeted her; she had almost lost control simply by catching a glimpse of the presence within the stellar reactor.

The reason she hasn't been completely corrupted and turned into a monster yet is simply because she hasn't understood everything before her.

Her reason screamed, refusing to comprehend what was happening before her, but it was all a futile struggle. She knew she had gone mad; her sluggish will simply hadn't yet grasped the truth. The secrets she had seen in the forbidden library, the countless forbidden knowledge sealed deep within her mind, had breached her will's defenses in an instant, turning her body into a polluted paradise.

There's no need to think about treatment anymore—she's like a water-filled balloon that'll burst at the slightest touch.

She's finished.

Beatrice closed her eyes in despair, released all her mental defenses, and let the seawater of the Sea of ​​Ignorance pour into her body.

He was completely controlled by the evil god inside the stellar furnace, and next, the evil god would descend through his body to escape the furnace!
Zoe and Gaia are likely doomed; she has killed two of her new friends, and Castel may also fall to this incredibly powerful being.

Beatrice was filled with remorse. She shouldn't have been so arrogant. She had never imagined that the evil god in the Stellar Furnace would be so powerful that all the specimens she had seen in the past seemed like a joke.

She's about to...
Beatrice suddenly frowned, a hint of doubt flashing through her mind as she teetered on the brink of collapse.

If this evil god is so powerful, how was it managed to be stuffed into this stellar furnace?
Unfortunately, she didn't have a chance to think any further. The evil god in the furnace seemed to sense the attraction of the outer shell, and an enormous tentacle had already touched her face.

The enormous eyeball in the observation window suddenly turned slightly and looked at her.

Beatrice's mind exploded, everything before her eyes instantly turned to dust, her will was crushed inch by inch, and she fell into permanent madness.

With just one glance, she was doomed.

But the eye in the window paid her no attention at all. It seemed to be puzzled as to why there was an extra body outside. Its body seemed to have subconsciously climbed over and was about to descend into it. At this moment, its gaze was looking out the window.

He moved closer to the observation window and glanced outside.

Hughes was bored in his office. Logically, it should be time for him to switch bodies and start his mini-lesson, but Beatrice was about to arrive.

After hesitating for a moment, he decided to postpone today's lecture and wait for Beatrice to arrive first.

After all, he can give a lecture anytime, and if Beatrice isn't watching him, she might just be snatched away by someone else.

Just as he was getting impatient, he suddenly felt a tremor under his feet.

This startled Hughes, who then sprang up from the table: "An earthquake?"

He wasn't worried at all about the earthquake causing trouble. The concrete for Castel Cathedral was piled up to the top, all of the highest grade. Even if Castel collapsed, the cathedral wouldn't.

But this is, after all, the first earthquake on the island, so it's worth commemorating to some extent.

But it seems he was overthinking it.

The tremor was only intense at first, then quickly subsided. A moment later, a banshee rushed into the room: "My lord, the stellar furnace is alarming! The boiler chamber pressure is too high, and the output is rising wildly, exceeding the alarm threshold!"

(End of this chapter)