Chapter 172: If Humanity Can't Kill Gods, Let the Demons Do It!
In the past, Chang Wei had always found it hard to believe that a stubby-armed, chubby creature like Godzilla could actually win battles.
"Let me think… Oh, right, the King of the Monsters?"
Matching up with the current storyline, Chang Wei recalled the news reports from five years ago: the monster battle between Godzilla and MUTO in San Francisco…
Then there was the fight between Godzilla and Monster Zero—aka the frozen King Ghidorah. In this King of the Monsters film, Ghidorah had been significantly buffed, with massive upgrades in both size and power.
Standing at a towering 158.8 meters, weighing a staggering 141,056 tons, and boasting a wingspan of 518.16 meters, it dwarfed the movie's version of Godzilla.
Godzilla had never faced an opponent like Ghidorah before and was unfamiliar with its Gravity Beams. As a result, he was mercilessly beaten.
Meanwhile, humanity seized the opportunity to deploy the "Oxygen Destroyer" against Godzilla.
There were several versions of the Oxygen Destroyer, but none of them actually destroyed oxygen in a literal sense. Instead, they instantly broke down the oxygen components within living organisms, often involving fictional substances like "Micro-Oxygen."
Chang Wei's favorite kaiju, Destoroyah, was actually born from a version of the Oxygen Destroyer.
Originating from microscopic lifeforms that existed 2.5 billion years ago in the Precambrian era, these creatures were reawakened by the Oxygen Destroyer's effects. Upon exposure to air, they mutated and evolved rapidly, eventually gaining the ability to unleash an Oxygen Destroyer Beam that could disintegrate matter at the atomic level.
Destoroyah was, without a doubt, a hexagonal warrior—almost perfect in every aspect except for its inability to reach space. It excelled in offense, defense, special abilities, and sheer intimidation. Its combat performance was off the charts, making it one of the strongest live-action Godzilla villains.
As for Godzilla? After taking a direct hit from the Oxygen Destroyer, his oxygen supply was broken down, leaving him dizzy and severely weakened. He barely survived thanks to his G-cells' insane regeneration and adaptability, retreating underground to recover.
Ghidorah, on the other hand, was an extraterrestrial kaiju with no reliance on oxygen. The attack did nothing to him. In fact, he went on to unleash hurricanes powerful enough to wipe out human civilization and even attempted to alter Earth's gravity with his Gravity Beams, reshaping the planet's environment to suit his own ecosystem.
If that had happened, humanity would have been completely wiped out.
Chang Wei wasn't particularly interested in interfering. What were kaiju even worth in terms of genetic points?
"Though… I could use my Divine Light Virus to collect some kaiju genes. Might come in handy for producing monster units later. And if I ever end up in the Pacific Rim universe, I could just drop a dozen Godzillas on the Precursors' homeworld and call it a day."
Right now, Chang Wei could already create hundred-meter-tall creatures at will, but their sheer mass limited their mobility.
Titan-class kaiju, however, were built differently. They were naturally that large and had long since adapted to moving at such sizes.
"This movie had some seriously dumb characters…"
Chang Wei recalled one of them—Dr. Emma Russell. In the original plot, this female scientist had some truly bizarre logic. She believed humanity should revert to a state of primitive worship.
She thought sacrificing billions of human lives was a necessary step to restoring Earth's environment.
A textbook case of an extremist eco-terrorist.
Like, seriously? Betting all of humanity's survival on some half-baked ideology? Even launching an interstellar migration to escape Earth would be a more realistic plan.
And as a scientist, she was actively regressing civilization? Advocating for humans to worship Titans as gods and coexist with them?
Then there was Monarch's Dr. Ishirō Serizawa… no, wait—Dr. Serizawa straight-up suggested that humanity should become Godzilla's pets in exchange for his protection.
So after thousands of years of progress—from worshiping animals and nature to establishing a scientific civilization—these people just wanted to throw it all away?
How could they call themselves scientists with a straight face?
Watching the movie from Godzilla's perspective, it was easy to sympathize—after all, humanity kept attacking him despite his efforts to help.
But outside the movie? Chang Wei wasn't buying into that nonsense.
"Living alongside kaiju? What kind of joke is that?"
He shook his head.
Right now, Ghidorah had awakened all the dormant Titans across the globe, unleashing chaos.
Standing atop a volcanic crater, Ghidorah had issued a command: "Hunt."
And so, Titans across the world emerged from their slumber, crossing oceans and continents to bow before their king.
According to the official novelization, the only Titan to resist Ghidorah's call was Kong.
But even then, Skull Island was soon swarming with Skullcrawlers crawling out from underground, all scrambling to join Ghidorah's ranks.
"Kong scratched his ribs, then charged at the invading Skullcrawlers."
That was how the novel described it.
As for the kaiju currently before Chang Wei, it was a prehistoric pterosaur-like creature.
In the movie, it had emerged from a Mexican volcano, its entire body glowing red-hot.
Standing at 46.9 meters tall, weighing 39,000 tons, and boasting a wingspan of 265.5 meters, the locals had given it the titles Fire Demon and Born of Fire.
Rodan.
After its battle, one thing became clear—its wounds didn't bleed blood, but molten lava.
According to the novelization, when protagonist Mark Russell saw Rodan emerge straight from volcanic magma, he realized:
"These Titans are not part of the evolutionary tree. They exist beyond Darwinian evolution. They are an entirely separate form of life that predates Earth's oceans—beings that existed when the planet was still a molten world. They don't even require water or oxygen to survive."
In other words, while normal organisms are composed of water and proteins, Rodan's body was made of lava and molten rock.
The other Titans weren't explicitly described in the same way, but given Monarch's practice of feeding them nuclear waste, they were clearly far from ordinary creatures.
"Well then, let's start with Rodan."
Chang Wei's gaze locked onto the arrogant kaiju below.
The American Air Force was currently engaging Rodan in battle, but they weren't the Science Special Search Party or Night Raiders from an Ultraman series—against Titans, their weapons were largely ineffective.
Just as the air force was on the brink of annihilation, Chang Wei made his move.
After some thought, he decided not to use angelic wings this time.
He had just played the role of an angel—time for a change of pace. This time, he would be a demon.
A massive pair of hellish wings, a fusion of dragon-like membranes and an infernal aesthetic, spread open behind him. With a wingspan of six meters, they exuded an ominous yet majestic presence.
And combined with his pristine, pure-white attire, he embodied a paradoxical fusion of divinity and corruption—holiness and malevolence, purity and depravity.
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