Castel.
The furnace beneath the cathedral had finally been fully completed. According to the original schedule, this should only have been the time to begin lighting it—but plans could not keep up with change. The Pirate King had already been burning in the furnace for quite some time.
Today, the final cover plate was fitted over the furnace roof. This largest furnace in Castel's history—perhaps the largest in the world—officially began operations at last.
Although the furnace had been burning before, the subsequent equipment had not been operating alongside it. First, the pipelines had not all been completed, since this portion of the planning had followed the construction of the furnace itself. Second, the factory's operating methods had yet to be fully transformed.
This completion ceremony could be said to proclaim the complete end of the Deep Sea War. Castel could finally cast aside all worries and begin expanding outward.
Thus, after the equipment completed its basic testing, nearly all the islanders, aside from the workers needed to keep things running, gathered at the cathedral.
The cathedral had been designed to be enormous from the start. After the ceiling over the central atrium was removed, it became the finest viewing platform. The Faithguard Army and the Banshees bustled about maintaining order, while the engineers carried out the final adjustments.
The members of the new newspaper office led by Nini were randomly interviewing the onlookers, embellishing their words into news reports. Ever since Nini learned they were starting a newspaper, she had thrown herself into it with three hundred percent enthusiasm.
The other Banshees were also fiercely competing for reporter positions. From reporting styles to eye-catching headlines, they quickly iterated through several versions. By the time Nini successfully ran for editor-in-chief, even Theus found their articles strangely familiar.
Banshees were simply