"He failed to finish turning it before he was completely corrupted and became a monster."
"Everyone who turns into a monster loses their reason, but... his will cut through the high walls of reality and broke past the limits of life and death. He was already dead, yet he continued carrying out his task."
Theus stared at the monster in shock. It... no, he was still carrying out the obsession he had held in life, even though he had completely fallen into madness, even though he had become a mindless monster.
"Kyle's Faithguard Army squad was wiped out, but they saved Castel. It was a miracle."
Ash said.
Theus remained silent for a long while, then lowered his head in salute.
"Soldier, you have fulfilled your duty."
The monster's movements seemed to pause for a moment before he continued turning the valve. No one knew of his despair and struggle in the darkness. Perhaps he had wavered, perhaps he had wanted to give up, but in the end, he quietly completed all eighty thousand turns here.
Death could not stop him. The laws of the world could not restrain him. Alone, he had used his own hands to shut off the Stellar Furnace's main Pollution pipeline. That will had created a miracle.
Theus left with the Banshees. This area would be sealed away and never used again.
In the dark underground, only the Machine Soul bore witness to his final loyalty. Yet in the future, more people would come here to pay their respects. His deeds would be recorded in the Holy Scripture, and everything he and the other fallen had protected with their lives would be sung of for eternity.
But the war was not yet over.
The long-prepared Faithguard Army swiftly took control of all of Castel. Under