Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 259 I Am Already a God

Poseidon?

This word felt both familiar and unfamiliar to Xiusi. He knew about the Church of Poseidon and had even heard rumors about the Temple of Poseidon, but Poseidon? Did such a god really exist?

Wait, if Poseidon exists, why was the Poseidon Church removed from the five major churches?

More importantly, how did Monica know all this?

The sea of Poseidon had been polluted for thousands of years, and Zeus had a bad suspicion.

"That time I was polluted and eroded was actually the remains of the Sea God trying to merge with me. At that time, I was in the Abyss, the Abyss." Monica smiled bitterly. "The Abyss is actually the entrance to the Sea God's Temple."

Temple of Poseidon, Zeus had heard this word before - it was really strange. It was clearly called the Church of Poseidon and the Temple of Poseidon, but he had never had the slightest desire to explore the "Poseidon". The person who told him the news also completely ignored this point, as if the Church of Poseidon was just an ordinary name.

Thinking about it now, he felt a chill down his spine. What was this? Sunken memories? No, it must be something more advanced than that. His comprehension seemed to be cut off. Seeing the name, he couldn't form any relevant associations.

And
"Monica, you know, I've actually been in Castel all along, and only occasionally came to this corpse through some special means." Xius stared into her eyes. "You, you still remember your people, right?"

"Of course I remember. Sister Ash is always cool and quiet. Sister Nini is very narrow-minded. Sister Oona becomes speechless when she gets nervous. She gets nervous when she sees people."

Xius sighed inwardly and spoke cautiously, "But they seem to have forgotten you. No one remembers you anymore."

After saying this, he looked at Monica with some worry, but the Banshee, who had grown taller in front of him, was not surprised. She looked at the soil under her feet with some reluctance and said softly:

"I know they won't remember me, and no one will remember me in the future. Look, you can't remember Poseidon either, right?"

Zeus' eyes widened, a certain ominous feeling rising in his heart. He said in a trembling voice, "You said before that Poseidon was trying to merge with you."

“Yes, He is almost there.”

Xius felt his scalp tingling.

Is the fusion almost successful? Then, will Monica still be Monica?
What is she, the new Poseidon?

She has so much ancient knowledge that she can even see her own threads
Monica looked gloomy. She sighed and began to tell the story.

Since the drastic changes that happened a thousand years ago, the God of the Sea has also perished. His body is in the Temple of the Sea God. The death of the God of the Sea directly caused part of the Temple of the Sea God to collapse, creating a huge hole, which is the eye of the storm.

In addition to this void, there are countless small cracks distributed throughout the abyss.

Pollution is the product of the disintegration of Poseidon's body. Thousands of years after Poseidon's death, physical pollution continued to overflow from Poseidon's Temple, filling the entire Storm Ocean with pollution.

The four major churches have been away from the ocean for a full thousand years.

Xiu Si's heart suddenly moved. He remembered that Una once told him that the pollution in the sea was different from other pollution.

Is it
After Xius raised his doubts, Monica nodded. "Indeed, the pollution in the sea is the corpse of the sea god. It is indeed unique. I don't know much about other pollution."

The other pollution was actually caused by Zeus's cognitive interference with soap. The accumulated pollution at that time had long been used up, and the subsequent pollution was all transformed from the corpses of the fishmen and arm monsters.

Huh? The murlocs and the arm monsters turned into pollution after their death, and the Sea God's body also turned into pollution?!

"Monica, many monsters have appeared on Castel, and they will become pollution after they die."

"Those are all made of the flesh and blood of the Sea God. Are these monsters stronger in the sea?"

Hughes nodded.

"That's right. These flesh and blood possess the properties of life, and they possess some of the Sea God's powers. They will be even more powerful when in the sea, and they are controlled by believers."

"Wait, believer manipulation?"

Monica nodded with a complicated expression. "Yes, this is the culprit of everything. The Sea God has long since perished and wouldn't have attacked me. It was the Sea God Church's believers who have been offering sacrifices and praying continuously for thousands of years that have given the Sea God new life."

"Believers give life to gods?" Zeus was extremely surprised. "Those believers can actually resurrect dead gods?"

"Originally, it was forbidden, but the wills of those believers were too strong. They sacrificed their lives without hesitation, generation after generation, for a full thousand years."

Monica looked out at the sea around her.

"This is a cognitive interference that spanned a thousand years - the gods were dead, but the believers disagreed. In the end, their firm will allowed the gods to revive again." Xius stood there in a daze. The shock he received today was greater than the total shock he received after traveling through time. In the past, he had heard others' comments about the Church of Poseidon were all irrational lunatics, and most extraordinary people looked down on these people with flawed abilities.

But this group of people, these lunatics, actually spent a thousand years resurrecting their dead gods bit by bit.

Like tiny drops of water, they come together to form the vast ocean.

"Those monsters aren't actually monsters, but humans. They are believers of the Church of the Sea God. They voluntarily transformed into monsters just to be sacrificed to their god."

Were the fishmen and the arm monsters once human?
Xiu Si suddenly remembered a lot of details. The arm monster was full of human arms, not sea creatures. The structures in the bodies of those fishmen were in a mess, just like
Just like the monsters that humans have tried to imagine.

After they die, they will turn into pollution. They are the flesh and blood of the sea god.
These believers of the Church of Poseidon sacrificed everything, replacing the flesh and blood of Poseidon with their own flesh and blood. For a thousand years, countless believers continued to dedicate themselves, gradually filling the vacancy left by the body of Poseidon.

Such planning, such sacrifice, even though they were Castel's enemies, Hughes couldn't help but admire them.

He only lamented that the monsters were endless like the tide, but he didn't know that the monsters that fell one after another were once lives and devout believers.

They used their lives to consume one of Castel's bullets, and then fell down, letting the rest of the people step on their corpses to move forward.

Castel's enemy is not a group of monsters, but all the believers who have sacrificed throughout the millennia of history!
An inexplicable emotion was stuck in Xiusi's chest. He opened his mouth but didn't know how to express it. He was silent for a while, then asked in a daze, "But, didn't you say that the Sea God merged with you?"

Since Poseidon merged with Monica, what did Poseidon's followers resurrect?
Why did they attack Castel so frantically?

Monica shook her head. "You got the order wrong. The believers resurrected the Sea God first, which is why He happened to corrupt me. Those polluted beasts were all the Sea God's will. He would have been resurrected normally in some time, but I happened to show up at this time."

"So He attacked you?"

"To be more precise, he was driving away all the creatures in the Abyss in preparation for his own resurrection. That's why Ash's departure wasn't hindered much. He didn't intend to revive from me."

"At this point, He already had some will of His own and could make some rough judgments. He only needed to wait for the believers to continue their sacrifices. There was no need to take any risks."

"Then why did He merge with you in the end?"

Monica sighed deeply, her expression complex. "It's a bit unbelievable, but it's all just a coincidence. After I was attacked, the pollution did hurt me, but once I left the Abyss, it would have gone away. Unfortunately—"

Monica suddenly turned to look at Xius: "Do you still remember the effect of flesh magic?"

"Force your body to stay in a fixed state." Zeus said without hesitation.

"Yes, I passed out at that time, but the other members of the tribe took turns using flesh and blood magic on me. Although this maintained my condition, it also fixed the soul of the sea god in my body."

"Wait, this isn't right? It's just the pollution on you, right? How come the Sea God's soul is here with you?"

Monica's eyes dimmed a little. She looked deeply at the sea and spoke after a while:
"This is the most coincidental part. After the Sea God's demise, his soul was also annihilated. The way the Sea God Church's believers resurrected him was by sacrificing flesh and blood. The soul resurrected in this way is naturally also in flesh and blood."

"And the flesh and blood of the Sea God is pollution. Every trace of pollution in the sea is a wisp of the Sea God's soul."

"Originally, this wouldn't be a big deal. Losing a few soul fragments wouldn't affect the Sea God's resurrection, but I chose to take these souls out of the sea."

"After leaving the sea, the Sea God's power was greatly reduced, and my power took over. It was equivalent to me actively integrating this part of the Sea God's soul. Then, due to the destruction of the Banshees' cognitive barrier, the pollution in the sea was attracted to me, and I was once again connected with the Sea God's soul in the Sea God Temple."

Monica smiled sadly: "So you didn't just cleanse the pollution in me, you cleansed the entire soul of the Sea God."

Zeus' pupils shrank to the size of needle tips and trembled constantly.

So that's how it is, everything is connected!
No wonder Monica became so incredibly powerful after being eroded, and no wonder purifying pollution could actually cause a storm in the Ocean of Storms!

Purification, purification, Zeus knew what purification meant. The original Moth Lord in this body was purified by him.

"so you"

"Yes, the sea god's soul has been annihilated in the sea, and I am the only sea god's soul now."

The setting sun shone on her, casting a long shadow. Monica looked into the distance, and spots of light fell on her profile, making her look as holy as a sculpture.

"I am now the God of the Sea."

(End of this chapter)