Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 93

The monster of steel's transformation finally took shape, turning a previously monolithic fortress into a semblance of a body. One of the standing towers, which had broken under the pressure of an unknown force, literally started to tilt. It looked as if that part of Poseidon's body was going to crumble. And yet at the moment when the tower's crown touched the fortress-like part of the ship, it froze in space. Then, in violation against the natural order, it literally merged seamlessly with the fortress. After the tower was fused, the foundation of the tower that was now exposed cracked, and broke into five finger-like objects. If the fortress is Poseidon's torso, then the now transformed tower. is the hands.

A second later, a similar transformation began on another tower, which turned into the next hand of Poseidon. Finally after the two hand forms, the fortress began its transformation into Poseidon's torso. Breaking under the hail of Poseidon's Authority, multi-ton boulders fell off the fortress in a single moment. The torso of a god which was hidden under them, showed its true nature into the world.

Slowly, the figure of the ship-like creature, Poseidon to be more precise - transformed. The transformation was very disturbing to watch. Instead of flowing into each other's forms and to transform that way. The bulk of the ship, the giant machine, the original shape Poseidon took, begins to warp like a constantly shrinking piece of metal. Poseidon's transformation forced the towers of stone to break over and over again while clinging to each other, turning from a monolithic fortress into a jumble of iron and stone. Slowly the amalgamate took the form of monstrous limbs that looked more like anthropomorphic tentacles than the hands of a living creature. However, given the state and nature of Poseidon, such a thing was not that much of a surprise.

The figure that has now formed calls to mind what the mind of ancient Greeks imagined what Greek gods would look like, outrageously beautiful. The silhouette of the transformed god looked just as majestic as a marble statue in a temple dedicated to the Lord of the Oceans. But when one looked closer, they would see just how ugly he actually looked.

Poseidon's body was composed of barely connected metal and stone. Such patchworks made his entire magnificent figure a mockery of people's perceptions of his Helenistic roots. Many fissures and tears cut through his face like ugly scars. His body looked mangled and badly stitched together, as if it was assembled like Frankenstein's monster. Patched together from separate, barely living, pieces of flesh.

Poseidon's body then ascended to the heavens like a living mountain, going up hundreds of meters. But even this was insignificant when one sees that in his right hand. As if it was always there, a long trident appeared out of nowhere. Cast in gold and marble, whose handle pierced into the sea's abyss, with the pommel and three sharp, monstrously huge blades towering over the already mountain-like head of the god. When one's eyes were focused on the tip of the trident, one would notice that the hair of the god had been turned into marble and steel by the power of the maddened god.

However, the most strange part of the transformation is that the entire lower half of Poseidon's body was still that of a ship. A ship that continued to sail slowly across the sea, hardly disturbed by Poseidon's transformation.

Finally, finished with its transformation into its true form, the giant slowly opened its mouth before letting out a shockwave like howl.

There was not even a hint of intelligence or awareness in this maddened howl. It was more like a wordless howl of a beast, a howl that did not express any specific emotion. Pain, despair, anger, rage, love, hatred, contempt, curiosity - all the emotions that could be imagined are equally merged in this howl of an insane monster.

And against the background of the scream that is spreading throughout the Singularity, Mashu stood.

In the end, looking at the sights in front of her, she was forced to state one fact.