As mentioned before, Fang Zheng did not need Valentine to investigate what those Cultists were planning. In fact, he could more or less guess already. March, earthquakes, storms, frequent riots across the world—all of it was a sign of Cthulhu's awakening.
When the stars aligned, R'lyeh would rise from the seabed, and the great Cthulhu would awaken.
Cthulhu in the original story had not fully awakened. Strictly speaking, what had rammed into the ship back then had merely been a projection of Cthulhu. It was supposed to have fully awakened through a mysterious ritual, but because the ritual was interrupted, it reverted to its original state.
To put it in terms of the Main World, it was like a third-rate Magus using a summoning spell to call forth a Hell Demon King, only to be interrupted just as the ritual began. As a result, the Demon King could not enter the Main Plane and display its power at all.
It was not that the heroes who destroyed the Magic Circle and defeated the Summoner had been particularly powerful.
Otherwise, how could Cthulhu have been defeated by a fishing boat?
But this time was different.
Fang Zheng had no intention of directly interfering with the projection as in the original story, because that would not completely solve the problem. The Great Old Ones had all the time in the world. The alignment of the stars would happen again in a few hundred or thousand years, and to Cthulhu itself, it would be no more than a nap.
So this time, Fang Zheng intended to let the ritual succeed. Once Cthulhu's true body surfaced together with R'lyeh... he would throw a seafood barbecue PARTY!
I'll happily grill it, happily grill it...
Perfect. No matter what, Cthulhu was the most famous being in