The entire island of Castel had never exceeded the range of the Symbiotic Pact. Many experiments had already been conducted to confirm this.
Nor were all the banshees soaking in the water. Many of them were on the island at this moment, meaning that Castel was actually covered by the banshees' network.
The will gathered by the banshees had pierced through reality's high walls and pulled Theus into Mind Synchronization. That was not difficult.
But dragging the entire island in so easily was a little hard to explain.
There had to be some other variable involved.
What could it be?
"I know!"
Nini slammed the fists of her three left hands into the palms of her three right hands. "I've got it! It's the Machine Soul—the Machine Soul!"
Theus froze for a moment, then came to a realization.
Indeed, there was another unusual factor in this Mind Synchronization: the Machine Soul had joined as well.
Mind Synchronization was an innate ability of the banshees. It was barely understandable for humans to join it, but the Machine Soul joining was extremely strange.
Strictly speaking, the Machine Soul was not a living being. The earliest Machine Soul had merely been fragments of the Sea God's soul, altered by Monica through certain modifications.
And now, Castel's Machine Soul seemed to have an even more complicated origin, yet it was undeniably an entity without a body.
In theory, such an existence should have been difficult for the banshees' will to affect, shouldn't it?
It must have been dragged in by something similar to itself. And if it was something similar to the Machine Soul...
Theus slowly lowered his head and looked at the Steel Ark beneath his feet.
"Nini, I think I may have found the source of that will."
"Huh?"
"This Steel Ark