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Industrial Cthulhu: Starting as an Island Lord

Chapter 220: Monsters! The Sea Is Full of Monsters! · Oct 18, 2026

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201 Chapter 201: The Advantage of Range is Irresistible 2026-10-18
202 Chapter 202: Steam Rifle 2026-10-18
203 Chapter 203: The Killing Range Is Greater Than the Shooting Range? 2026-10-18
204 Chapter 204: The Entire Archipelago Disappeared? 2026-10-18
205 Chapter 205: Airship Skin and Technological Lock 2026-10-18
206 Chapter 206: ”Prince” 2026-10-18
207 Chapter 207: Armored Train 2026-10-18
208 Chapter 208: The Slowly Moving Steel Behemoth 2026-10-18
209 Chapter 209: Deep Sea Dream 2026-10-18
210 Chapter 210: Chloe’s Humanity 2026-10-18
211 Chapter 211: The Price of the Extraordinary Disappeared? 2026-10-18
212 Chapter 212: Swearing by the Ancestors 2026-10-18
213 Chapter 213: Hand-Cranked Gatling Gun 2026-10-18
214 Chapter 214: Beyond-Visual-Range Shooting 2026-10-18
215 Chapter 215: The Roar of the Heavy Machine Gun 2026-10-18
216 Chapter 216: The Almost Forgotten Box 2026-10-18
217 Chapter 217: You Lost the Heretical God!? 2026-10-18
218 Chapter 218: Chloe, You Screwed Me Over! 2026-10-18
219 Chapter 219: Out of Control 2026-10-18
220 Chapter 220: Monsters! The Sea Is Full of Monsters! 2026-10-18
221 Chapter 221: Fire and Light in the Storm 2026-10-18
222 Chapter 222: Pope 2026-10-18
223 Chapter 223: Total Line Collapse 2026-10-18
224 Chapter 224: The Husk of an Outer God 2026-10-18
225 Chapter 225: Need to Find a Way to Make the Church of Candlelight Take Action 2026-10-18
226 Chapter 226: Another One Who Only Listens Without Speaking 2026-10-18
227 Chapter 227: The Airship Is Complete! 2026-10-18
228 Chapter 228: Assault 2026-10-18
229 Chapter 229: The Rising Sun on the Battlefield 2026-10-18
230 Chapter 230: In the Face of Explosives, the Extraordinary and the Ordinary Are Equal 2026-10-18
231 Chapter 231: Gwen 2026-10-18
232 Chapter 232: Now We Can Set Sail to Explore 2026-10-18
233 Chapter 233: The Pope Joined the Group Chat 2026-10-18
234 Chapter 234: Your Church Is Fake 2026-10-18
235 Chapter 235: Another Coincidence? 2026-10-18
236 Chapter 236: The Monster’s Change 2026-10-18
237 Chapter 237: Traversing 2026-10-18
238 Chapter 238: The Secret Tradition of the Sea 2026-10-18
239 Chapter 239: Castel’s Sinking 2026-10-18
240 Chapter 240: Full Mobilization! 2026-10-18
241 Chapter 241: Final Preparations 2026-10-18
242 Chapter 242: Let Me Summon a Heretical God for Fun 2026-10-18
243 Chapter 243: Did None of You Notice She Disappeared? 2026-10-18
244 Chapter 244: Traceless 2026-10-18
245 Chapter 245: Restoration 2026-10-18
246 Chapter 246: Arrival at Gem Bay 2026-10-18
247 Chapter 247: Entering the Dream 2026-10-18
248 Chapter 248: Contact 2026-10-18
249 Chapter 249: The Real Culprit 2026-10-18
250 Chapter 250: Smash the Heretical God Right on Its Head! 2026-10-18

Inside the ancient palace.

On the Golden Throne, Hughes slowly raised his head.

He was dazed for a moment before realizing what had happened.

”I... I returned?”

”Huh?”

Hughes scratched his head.

The situation was rather strange.

He took a deep breath and tried to analyze it.

”This return is a bit inexplicable.”

”In the past, aside from actively returning, the only other time I would be forced back was when my vessel died.””Mm, returning after death—that’s perfectly normal. I never doubted that.”

”But then I discovered that even a dead vessel could descend again, which means ‘death’ itself is not necessarily a required condition for returning.”

”What exactly happened before I returned this time?”

He woke up in the storage room.

He searched for clues inside the cabin.

He secretly sneaked onto the deck.

He examined the figurehead of the ship—then everything went blank.

Wait.

Hughes suddenly furrowed his brows.

After looking at the figurehead, he did one more thing.

At that moment, he had breathed a sigh of relief.

He instinctively glanced around and realized that he was at sea, not at a port.

Was that unique in any way?

Just looking at the sea... could that be the reason for his forced return?

”No, not just this time.”

”I seem to have been forcibly returned to the Golden Throne once before.”

Hughes squinted his eyes.

He remembered.

Previously, when he descended at the site of Chloe’s ritual to summon a heretical god, they had conversed for a while.

Then Chloe became convinced that he was an Outer God.

She did something to him, and he was forced to return.

What exactly did she do?

It seemed like she made him drowsy.

Then, inexplicably, he returned.

Hmm...

Thinking about it this way, if the reason for passive return wasn’t death, could it be... losing consciousness?

No, that couldn’t be it.

After signing the Symbiotic Contract with Ash, he had also fallen unconscious.

Yet he hadn’t returned immediately.

When he woke up, he even thought he had already returned to the palace.

It must be a similar situation, such as... losing control over the vessel?

Hughes felt like he was getting close to the truth.

This loss of control must be severe and difficult to break free from.

If it were merely a brief unconsciousness, he wouldn’t have been forcibly returned.

If this was true, then he shouldn’t be able to descend into the worker Hughes’ vessel again!

Hughes’ heart pounded.

He took a deep breath, calmed himself, and turned to look at the worker Hughes’ vessel.

Worker Hughes stood motionless, like a puppet, making no eye contact with him.

It was real!

A flash of excitement crossed Hughes’ eyes.

Then, he remembered something else.

He had another vessel—a White-Robed Priest.

And it was in the exact same state as worker Hughes!

He immediately shifted his gaze to the White-Robed Priest.

As expected, that vessel remained still.

”I see, I see.”

Hughes muttered to himself, smiling.

”This vessel must also be under some kind of control.”

”Perhaps, just like worker Hughes, it saw something it shouldn’t have.”

What was in the deep sea?

Hughes didn’t know.

But he was sure something was wrong.

In Castel, the deep sea was filled with pollution and monsters.

Even the Banshee had been forced onto land.

Yet, aboard the Black Pearl, the waters were eerily calm.

That in itself was suspicious!

The Black Pearl was still in the Storm Ocean.

Based on Hughes’ earlier calculations, given the speed of the Polluted Serpent’s advance, the entire Storm Ocean should now be swarming with monsters.

There was no reason the Black Pearl should be this peaceful.

Unless... had it fled to the Lightless Sea?

Hughes immediately turned to his Lord vessel.

Soon, he lifted his head from the long table inside the cathedral.

Something was happening to the sea.

This was an important clue.

Next, he needed to—

『Lord? Lord, are you there?』

Suddenly, Nini’s urgent voice echoed through the Mind Link.

Hughes’ heart tightened, and he quickly responded.

『What’s wrong?』

『Thank goodness, Lord. We’ve been trying to reach you for so long! We thought something had happened to you too!』

『Too? Did something happen?』

Nini fell silent for a moment.

When she spoke again, her voice was trembling.

『Lord... just now, the coastal watchtowers reported that the sea suddenly began to churn!』

『Murlocs and Sea Urchin Monsters are emerging from the waters!』

Hughes stood up.

The sea—again!

He had just lost control of his vessel after looking at the sea from the Black Pearl.

Now, back here, the sea was undergoing a drastic change.

It was impossible not to connect the two events.

What exactly was happening in the sea?

『Where?』

『...』

『Nini? What’s wrong?』

『Everywhere.』

Hughes swallowed hard.

『All of our outposts have sounded the alarm.』

『The entire coastline is being overwhelmed by enemies.』

『There are too many to count. They’re surging up like a tidal wave. We’re surrounded.』

Hughes’ pupils contracted instantly.

Jeremiah stood at the bow of the ship, his expression dark.

He had stood there the entire night.

Kenn and the sailors were equally exhausted, with heavy dark circles under their eyes.

They had spent the whole night searching for the body that had fallen into the sea.

They had tried fishing it out.

In the end, they found nothing.

That corpse had eerily leapt into the sea and vanished.

After a restless night, Jeremiah finally ordered the ship to turn back toward Blood Harbor.

The sailors breathed a sigh of relief.

Only Kenn knew Jeremiah wasn’t giving up.

He would never let this go.

Kenn was right.

Jeremiah planned to get some iron cages and trawl nets at the port for another attempt at retrieval.

Searching for a needle in the sea might be a saying, but Jeremiah had some confidence.

He roughly knew where that eerie corpse had fallen—near where Castel’s original volcano had been.

When they had previously lowered a line into the depths, he had reviewed Kenn’s records.

Castel’s former location was not just an ordinary seabed.

It was a vast, flat seafloor.

The depth there wasn’t extreme.

There was a real chance of retrieving it.

No, not just a chance.

He would retrieve it.

He must!

Jeremiah clenched his teeth.

His expression was twisted, like a drowning man desperately grasping for a lifeline.

Before long, the Black Pearl reached Blood Harbor.

Jeremiah hurriedly instructed the sailors to lower a small boat to head ashore.

Later, they could use it to transport the cages.

He paid no attention to the sailors whispering and pointing below.

On the dock, a crowd had gathered near the water.

They were murmuring anxiously, even a few tax officers had come to check.

Jeremiah had no time for nonsense.

He shoved his way through the crowd, intending to leave the port immediately.

But just as he passed through, a passing remark made him stop in his tracks.

”The seawater... why is it so low?”

”It’s like it’s draining away...”

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