Monsters: Evolving from Titans to Ancient Gods

Chapter 230 The Curtain Falls

Transport ships from the Mars base performed various maneuvers, evading lunar debris as they landed on the surface.

Each ship carries as many selected people as possible, along with various hard drives containing technological data, as they traverse the skies and outer space.

Many ships that are too large to avoid meteorites and have no possibility of landing on the ground remain in space, waiting for other ships to dock with them to accommodate more people. This also provides opportunities for ships with excellent maneuverability to save more people.

Men and women dressed in the uniforms of the United Government's Space Force, standing in the observation window of the bridge of a ship several kilometers in size, gazed at the apocalyptic scene unfolding on Earth and fell into a long silence.

They clearly saw the tsunami sweeping across coastal cities around the world, and terrifying meteor showers striking the earth, igniting flames and bringing terrifying shockwaves and various highly toxic fumes.

Where the red and blue light enveloped, streams of scattered energy exploded like fireworks, tracing visible arcs as they swept across every corner of the world, causing explosions.

They could clearly see the scorched earth spreading, dust rising into the stratosphere, the trembling earth undulating like waves, and countless cracks opening and closing, swallowing up one architectural complex after another that once represented civilization.

The sight of all the disaster filled the survivors with extreme fear and sorrow.

Humanity spent hundreds of thousands of years spreading across the world, ten thousand years building civilization, and a few hundred years developing technology from feudalism to the colonial era, possessing a vast array of weapons.

However, under the destruction of the Titans, which were naturally formed, these areas were completely turned into wasteland in just a few days.

There is no more devastating way to destroy humanity.

This horrific disaster struck unexpectedly, and most people had no idea why the Titans and monsters had suddenly rioted, threatening to kill humanity.

All they knew was that the powerful Titans had rioted on this day, destroying countless cities, killing many people, and driving the survivors off Earth.

After a long time, under their watchful eyes, the sea near Sakurajima changed again. A patch of pale white appeared and then spread in all directions at a speed many times faster than sound.

According to the spacecraft's AI analysis, the spreading white light is a kind of extreme low-temperature cold wave that freezes everything in its path.

The sea transformed into a boundless glacier, as if a barrier of ice hundreds or thousands of meters high had been erected over the surface to tightly restrict the effects of turbulent tides.

Wherever the cold wave passed, everything turned white. The overwhelming cold wave spread in an extreme amount of time, dragging the entire world back to the Ice Age.

The scorched earth turned into frozen soil, the overwhelming flames subsided, and the toxic smoke that had lingered in the lower atmosphere was carried back to the surface by the condensed hail.

Looking up, the entire planet was frozen, a pale white. In a short time, Earth transformed from a lush, life-bearing planet into a desolate wasteland, and then into one of the most common frozen planets in the universe.

People could immediately tell that this was the work of the Snow Demon, which, like Godzilla, was rated as an Alpha-class Titan. Over the long course of history, it had frozen the entire world more than once.

In the ancient mythology of the Ivi people, it is also known as the ancient king who freezes all things.

Ten thousand years later, it once again demonstrated its power to freeze everything, temporarily calming the tsunami caused by the chaotic tides.

Artificial intelligence clearly detected that this freezing was not an uncontrollable forced freezing.

The ocean and the land face vastly different temperatures from the cold currents, and the entire ocean has now become an indestructible glacier.

However, the land only extinguished the fire and pulled the toxic gases back to the surface, but the temperature remained within a range that organisms could tolerate, so even temperate and tropical organisms would not die immediately.

This short-duration, world-wide cold wave, coupled with its incredibly precise control, made humanity realize once again that they had underestimated the terrifying power of this relatively inactive Titan.

After a long time, with the arrival of the Ice Age, human aircraft were subjected to incredible loads, and prolonged stays would lead to shipwreck and loss of life, so the rescue was eventually abandoned.

One by one, the aircraft carried the last batch of chosen people away from the land, leaving behind pairs of desperate and unwilling eyes weeping helplessly.

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In the waters near Honshu Island, the Snow Demon lowered its massive head slightly, as the cold current had temporarily brought the raging sea under control.

Although the Ice Age also caused staggering casualties, it was insignificant compared to the fate they would have faced otherwise, and was within an acceptable range.

Once the war ends, it won't take long to restore life to its former prosperity, provided that the weapon created by that person is destroyed.

Earth cannot accept such an out-of-control weapon, capable of easily destroying a planet, remaining on its body; this is its bottom line.

Humans have done countless things throughout their long history, but since there has always been someone to clean up their messes and things have always been within a controllable range, the Earth has never truly abandoned humanity.

Until this moment, humanity created Mechagodzilla, which has threatened the very existence of Earth, and Earth's benefactor no longer protects humanity, so He ultimately chose to abandon humanity.

This is the dangerous situation facing humanity.

The Snow Demon sprinted wildly through the thousands of meters thick glacier, its massive white body emitting a deep rumble as it ran, leaving scratches in its sharp claws.

The Snow Demon is incredibly fast. Although it is over 100 meters tall at the shoulder and its weight is immeasurable, it still reaches an astonishing supersonic speed. Its mere running has caused a significant polar storm.

As it set foot on the battlefield, and saw countless battered Titans and monsters appearing in its field of vision, an even larger shadow collided in the distance, creating a deafening roar.

Looking up, the hard ice did not last long under this terrible collision, and hundreds of kilometers around it were once again turned into burning scorched earth.

The steel-cast mountain clashed with several shadows, much smaller than itself, amidst the burning flames.

Mechagodzilla's body was also covered in scratches, a large section of its twisted mechanical tail was broken off, and one of its Specium weapons on its shoulder was destroyed.

The relentless attacks rendered its own nano-repair mechanisms completely inadequate to keep up with the rate of damage.

It was confronted by Titans and monsters with agility and mobility.

Mothra, Rodan and his son, and the volcanic bird Barton spun and swooped down in the sky, while Ridor and Kong fought Mechagodzilla at close range, all in an effort to restrict Mechagodzilla's movements.

Mechagodzilla is made entirely of steel and weighs hundreds of thousands of tons, but thanks to its sub-light-speed engine, it still possesses terrifying maneuverability.

Without restrictions, even a powerful monster like Godzilla would find it difficult to win a battle.

Although Godzilla possesses the ability to destroy all planets in the solar system except the sun, its excessively slow mobility is its biggest drawback.

Godzilla is better suited to be a long-range artillery turret sitting on Earth, firing charged particle cannons at the entire solar system, rather than a melee combat unit.

Against Mechagodzilla, a powerful weapon capable of reaching hypersonic speeds even in planetary environments, it would be difficult to win without assistance.

Its bulky size means it is not a unit that excels in melee combat.

Therefore, many monsters and Titans that still had the strength to fight did not hesitate to step forward and assist Godzilla in fighting Mechagodzilla.

Godzilla stood in the distance, surrounded by wisps of charged particles, and charged particle cannons continuously fired at the barrier of Mechagodzilla.

Although most of it was blocked, it still consumed a great deal of Mechagodzilla's energy.

Compared to Mechagodzilla's energy reserves, Godzilla possesses the energy supply of the entire Earth, which is a significant advantage for it.

With the arrival of the Snow Demon, the desolate, scorched earth was once again covered with a layer of white frost, and a biting cold spread.

The Snow Demon opened its gaping maw, unleashing a chilling breath that instantly enveloped Mechagodzilla.

Wherever the breath passed, the low temperature spread rapidly, turning the scorched earth white with frost, and icicles rose one after another like towering buildings.

The sudden life-saving reaction and the cold wave alerted Mechagodzilla, causing its internal sensors to sound alarms and its thrusters to ignite as it attempted to move away.

Lidor roared, having naturally sensed the change. It hissed and spewed its breath, its massive body closing in and slamming into Mechagodzilla, sending it stumbling.

King Kong, also enduring the pain, leaped up and roared as he landed on Mechagodzilla's back, grabbing its spine and climbing up, trying to push it down.

The Titan monsters soaring through the sky also spewed out breath, attempting to stop Mechagodzilla.

The continuous interference caused Mechagodzilla's combat program to keep alarming. It had to increase the energy output of its shield to eliminate the interference. It wobbled as it rose into the air until a charged particle cannon shot broke in and hit the shield, causing its energy to be rapidly depleted. Finally, the sub-light speed engine shut down, and its hundreds of thousands of tons of body crashed into the ground.

The programming inside Mechagodzilla malfunctioned, emitting a roar similar to that of the Atomic Titan, as if venting its anger. However, the low-temperature breath struck its body and quickly froze into ice.

In just a moment, Mechagodzilla's steel mountain-like form was encased in a layer of ice, looking up at it as if it were an untimely, cold iceberg standing next to a giant laboratory pit.

The battlefield became unusually quiet at this moment, and all the giant beasts looked extremely exhausted, their wounds constantly draining their energy.

The Snow Demon opened its blood-red maw and roared at Godzilla as if urging it on. Now that the weapon was restricted, it had to be dealt with.

Godzilla did not respond, but it had the same intention. The energy flow around it began to flicker, changing from pure blue to a chilling red.

The raging heat began to spread across its body, relentlessly eroding the entire world.

Ten thousand years have passed, and its form has undergone tremendous changes. Its flesh and blood body has been replaced by steel-like plants, but it still has the ability to activate the Crimson Lotus form, and it unleashes its full power at this moment.

In an instant, Godzilla's over 300-meter-tall body was enveloped in red light, and lava-like patterns appeared on its body, while the ground began to turn into magma.

A sweltering heatwave spread rampantly, and the crimson charged particle field leaping across Godzilla's body converged, as the fully powered charged particle cannon was poised to fire.

At that very moment, alarms blared inside Mechagodzilla, which rapidly consumed vast amounts of energy to heat itself and melt the ice enveloping its body.

With a deafening roar, Mechagodzilla burst forth from the ice, letting out a deep, guttural roar. But instead of launching a counterattack immediately, it turned to look at the massive crater beside it.

There, there is energy that was recently extracted from the inner world and stored in a special device. Now its own energy is nearly exhausted, and it is necessary to replenish the energy in order to completely kill these giant beasts.

Godzilla, who was gathering its power, noticed this scene, narrowed its eyes slightly, and swung its long tail at several times the speed of sound, unleashing a highly corrosive plasma slash.

Just as the plasma slicing force, powerful enough to split an entire continent in two, swept across, Mechagodzilla's massive body leaped into the enormous crater, its internal program simultaneously activating the wireless transmission device.

Within a very short time, the energy consumed after the battle with Mechagodzilla surged dramatically until a white atomic breath pierced through the rock and steel, destroying the massive energy storage device.

The deep void collapsed at that moment, with large strata of rock and steel structures crumbling away amidst a roar, burying the exit along with the mechanical Godzilla.

But seconds later, a deep red proton shriek tore through the earth's surface, sending tons of rock and dust into the sky and stirring up the icy currents that had been condensing there.

Steel claws rose from the smoke and dust, slamming heavily onto the ground. The giant winch tightened, the claws sinking deep into the earth, revealing a steel-cast head with waves of heat emanating from the thrusters behind it.

Having replenished its energy, Mechagodzilla once again stood on the Earth's surface. Although it had not fully reached its peak power, according to the program's assessment, it was more than capable of annihilating the giant beast blocking its path.

Facing Godzilla's charged particle cannon, which was about to be fully charged, it made no attempt to dodge and instead opened its blood-red maw made of steel.

A crimson glow was brewing, and the proton shriek, combined with the Specium particle, was also poised to erupt.

The armor on its back opened layer by layer, revealing the Specium Amplifier, a cosmic-level black technology product, which rapidly unfolded in front of it.

At the very moment the charged particle cannon fired, the proton shriek also ignited and fired. Amplified by the Specium amplifier, the proton shriek, which had expanded many times over, collided instantly with the charged particle cannon.

In an instant, an eerie light rose, overshadowing the world's original colors, and a violent torrent of energy caused the human probes far away in space to overload and shut down instantly.

At the edge of the solar system, many civilizations that came to explore after receiving requests for help from humanity also fell silent after receiving soaring readings.

In their calculations, any one of these energy torrents, even if it hits the sun, would be enough to trigger a solar storm of considerable scale.

This astonishing energy stagnated on the Earth's surface, illuminating half the planet. The dissipated energy flowed into the atmosphere, causing the air temperature to rise sharply and the low temperatures of the Ice Age to rise rapidly.

This astonishing collision, with the energy released alone threatening to dismantle the Ice Age, forced the Snow Demon to open its blood-red maw once more and unleash a torrent of cold air to cool the Earth.

The violent impact spread, overturning the surrounding Titans and scattering them in all directions.

Lidor stood up, gazing at everything happening in the distance, and keenly realized that the weapon created by mankind, amplified by that device, had surpassed Godzilla's full-power charged particle cannon.

Even with the combined energy of the entire planet, Godzilla is slowly losing ground, and the balance of power is tilting towards the man-made weapon.

Seeing this, Lidor in his white lotus form did not hesitate at all. He charged towards the center of the collision again, braving the chaotic impact, and opened his mouth to fire a dazzling white breath in an attempt to destroy the amplifier.

This action was immediately detected by Mechagodzilla, which instantly activated the last remaining Specium weapon on its shoulder, firing the Specium Ray to block the atomic breath and prevent the Specium Amplifier from being destroyed.

The amplification effect of the Specium amplifier does not affect Mechagodzilla's own energy utilization, and it still has energy reserves even when facing attacks from two generations of Godzilla.

However, the program also clearly knows that if it continues to delay like this, an accident will inevitably occur.

Therefore, it is necessary to first resolve the unstable factor of Lidor, and then quickly increase the power of the Specium Ray to the maximum.

The dazzling Specium Ray advanced layer by layer, easily suppressing Lidor, who was already severely damaged and had depleted energy reserves.

This sight caused Godzilla to narrow its eyes slightly, and a deep roar came from it as it took heavy steps and continued to advance towards Mechagodzilla.

Mechagodzilla remained unmoved, its cold, hard programming preparing to deal with Lidor first, before steadily and methodically taking down Godzilla.

However, just as the Specium Ray was advancing and about to engulf Lidor, Mechagodzilla's cold program was suddenly plagued by an indescribable disorder, a bug.

Interference originating from within the machine forced it to uncontrollably reduce the power of the Specium Ray. This change caused Mechagodzilla's program to frantically perform self-checks, but it could not find the source of the bug.

Although it couldn't find the bug, it suddenly realized that every attack it launched against Godzilla II was blocked and its power was reduced to a minimum.

This is an unsolved mystery for the program.

But Godzilla in the distance sensed something. It knew clearly what the skeleton of this weapon came from. Its thoughts went back to the distant past, ten thousand years ago, to the day it personally welcomed the birth of Lidor, which was also the day it sent away one of its last remaining kind.

As the power of the Specium Ray decreased, Lidor, unaware of the reason, unleashed his full power, directly pushing the Specium Ray back and engulfing it.

The atomic breath instantly pierced through the Specium amplifier floating in mid-air, causing it to explode in a flash of fire, and the proton shriek immediately returned to its original power.

The battle turned in an instant. The proton shriek could no longer contend with the full-power charged particle cannon and was almost instantly annihilated. The surging torrent was reflected in Mechagodzilla's mechanical pupils.

At this moment, Mechagodzilla's program frantically performed a self-check, searching for possible ways to save itself, but ultimately found no solution.

Mechagodzilla roared in defiance, just like a real living being, but fell silent in the next instant, as if it had been replaced by something.

In its final moments, Mechagodzilla turned its steel-cast head and calmly gazed at the battered Lidor. Its crimson mechanical eyes turned blue, and it let out a low roar.

Lidor looked up in confusion; in its perception, this was no different from the Atomic Titan.

This puzzled it; it remembered never having heard this sound before, yet its instincts told it that it seemed to have been with this sound for a long time—

But before it could get an answer, the torrent of charged particle cannons pierced straight through Mechagodzilla, the violent energy instantly evaporating it. With its momentum undiminished, it plunged into the cold starry sky and disappeared at the edge of the solar system.

Once it was confirmed that Mechagodzilla had been destroyed, Godzilla slowly stopped attacking, exited its Crimson Form, and returned to its original form.

Although it destroyed man-made weapons that could have threatened the survival of the Earth, it felt no joy whatsoever.

Godzilla gazed at the spot where Mechagodzilla had vanished, his thoughts churning once more. He had once again killed Ridor's mother before Ridor's very eyes—

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The war has ended, and although the embers of intense heat and the icy cold still coexist, everyone can feel the passing of that devastating crisis.

Standing before a pile of ruins, Shingo Sakamizu held a filthy child in his arms, while holding another slightly smaller child by the hand. He gazed into the distance with a complex expression, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.

"Professor, did we do something wrong?"

Finally, he looked at the priestess beside him and asked the question.

The priestess calmly replied, "At least as far as the earth is concerned, you have made mistakes, more than once."

"You've seen the power of Mechagodzilla; Earth cannot contain its existence."

"Even if it's just in standby mode, we'll destroy it, even if it temporarily damages the ecosystem."

"That's why all of this happened."

Shingo Sakami remained silent, having already understood everything.

Human creations threaten the Earth itself.

Therefore, the destruction of civilization is not determined by the Titans, nor by the gods and professors, but by the consciousness of Earth. Earth's consciousness cannot be forever destroyed by weapons created by humankind that are sufficient to destroy itself.

This time, neither the professor nor the gods intended to clean up humanity's mess, so Earth chose an extreme method to resolve the crisis—