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Chapter 332 - Facing the Challenge

In the Behemoth universe, every Titan is inextricably linked to the food chain. While the positive impact of destructive Titans on the natural environment is relatively limited, those like Behemoth are key to the natural cycle. Within Monarch, these are known as "Guardian Titans."

Mothra is the quintessential guardian Titan. Each stage of its life possesses different abilities. The scales produced by its wings after it has fully matured are crucial. In previous monster movies, Mothra's scales were extremely important, with a unique characteristic that it could not continue flying once it lost them. Therefore, the scale attack is Mothra's "last stand."

However, the Mothra Scale Powder from Legendary Pictures' Beast Universe is not simply for attack. At least, right now, Ron can sense that beneath the black cloud formed by the horde of death, protecting the Yunnan rainforest from complete destruction and pollution, is the life energy contained within the Mothra Scale Powder.

In fact, whether it's the movies, the movie setting books, or the Legendary Beasts comics, there's very little depiction of Mothra. Aside from enchanting Godzilla, its scales don't possess any particularly significant abilities. Its primary combat capability lies in the bio-beta energy emitted from its sternum. In the movie, a single beam of this life energy directly dispersed a storm on the sea.

Similarly, Ron is now certain that Mothra's presence greatly enhances the vitality of tropical rainforests and the coastal areas' resistance to typhoons.

As it stands now, facing a swarm of deadly insects, the Mothra scales prevent these tiny flying insects from causing any real damage to trees or other crops. Abundant life energy permeates every corner of the forest; although it is constantly being depleted, the forest itself continuously nourishes Mothra, preventing it from losing its power due to the depletion of its scales.

The battles on the outskirts were just minor skirmishes; what truly caught everyone's attention was the distant center of the battlefield.

Deep in the jungles of Yunnan stands a sci-fi building that is completely out of place with the tropical rainforest environment—Monarch Outpost No. 68.

However, it was completely different from the other outposts. Outpost No. 68 had now become a sea of ​​war. Located atop the fortress, fully armed soldiers, wielding rifles and machine guns, unleashed massive amounts of ammunition into the sky. Even in broad daylight, the trails of tracer bullets filled the entire sky, their interwoven arcs shattering the insects encased in black exoskeletons.

No matter how much they increased their firepower, the number of insects in the sky remained unchanged. In fact, they were barely managing to protect themselves.

With a roar, Godzilla's enormous body emerged from a lake—or more accurately, from underground.

This world is different from other worlds. At its core lies a vast subterranean world, the origin of all life on Earth in the Giant Beast Universe, and the homeland of all giant beasts. Connecting this subterranean world are countless tunnels of varying sizes. Some are located in the deep sea, others in mountainous regions. Without exception, they are all mysterious realms that humanity at this stage cannot traverse.

But for the behemoths, this is the perfect shortcut. Especially as an Alpha Titan, Godzilla frequently travels to various parts of the world to suppress behemoths that challenge his authority. And now, Godzilla is also traveling through the Earth's core tunnel to absorb subsurface radiation, and upon sensing that his wife is threatened, he arrives at the scene immediately to join the battle.

Upon seeing Godzilla's arrival, the swarm of insects unleashed a deafening shriek. Millions of insects simultaneously emitted a shriek far exceeding the chirping of cicadas; the mere rolling sound waves caused many present to roll their eyes back and foam at the mouth. Following this, the insects rapidly coalesced, eventually forming a terrifying behemoth that was half a head taller than Godzilla.

It was none other than the true form of the horde of death. A gigantic, arthropod-like titan composed of countless insects.

As a long-dead destructive Titan, the current Death Swarm is completely different from the Death Swarm recorded by Monarch. From what Ron could sense, it was certain that the Death Swarm possessed the unique ability to multiply infinitely as long as energy was sufficient, and to evolve according to the characteristics of the creatures it devoured. This meant that once Mothra was consumed by the Death Swarm, every flying insect in the swarm could evolve scales to spread the infection over a large area.

These infections, due to the weakness of individual members of the dead horde, may not be as powerful and effective as Mothra, but the food chain is so fragile that it can cause the food chain of a region to collapse at an alarming rate simply by destroying or corrupting a portion of the tiny life forms at the bottom, such as decomposers.

Now, witnessing Godzilla's arrival, the swarm of death roared after merging. As all the individual insects of the swarm became one, the initial cacophony transformed into raw violence. A deafening white noise surged towards Godzilla, who stood amidst it, head held high, the thorns on its back gleaming with dark blue arcs. With a humming energy pulse, it unleashed a deafening atomic breath!

Godzilla's power still held the advantage; the white noise shockwave of the Death Horde was almost instantly torn apart by Godzilla's atomic breath—as a master of energy release, Godzilla's atomic breath was all about simplicity, brutality, and devastating power. Unfortunately for them, the Death Horde seemed completely unfazed by Godzilla's attack. Faced with the energy blast at point-blank range, the Death Horde simply lowered its heads. Then, as black liquid continuously seeped from the gaps in the swarm's bodies, the areas of their bodies that had withstood the atomic breath rapidly formed smooth, liquid prisms.

Buzz! Whoosh!

First, a strange light wave suddenly spread out, followed by the forced decomposition of the energy flow of the atomic breath. Like sunlight under a prism, the atomic breath, with its unimaginable energy density, transformed into dozens of branching rays that swept in all directions. Wherever it passed, even with the protection of Mothra's scales, the lush primeval jungle was still cleaved into dozens of deep and shallow trenches!

But at that very moment, as the fragmented atomic breaths cleaved through the clouds, the rapidly falling warships in the sky also drew the attention of all life present.

"What is that?!"

The person in charge of Outpost 68, played by Zhang Ziyi, looked up at the sky with a furrowed brow and said, "That's... a transport ship from Monarch's Outpost 33? Why is it here?!"

Before Zhang Ziyi could recover, Azure Star, atop the warship, had already stood up, gazing downwards. After a brief observation, a cold glint appeared in her eyes. Despite being high in the sky, as one of the elite members of the Hunter's Guild, Azure Star had never suffered any fall injury due to altitude—doesn't she understand the significance of falling from the very top of the Ancient Tree?

As he stood on the tilting, crashing warship, Azure Star snorted coldly and then took out a massive greatsword from his spatial storage. It was as wide as a door panel, over two meters long, and made entirely of bones and scales.

The Black Dragon series greatsword, Black Dragon Blade.

Ancient dragons are immortal, especially the highest-ranking ancient dragons like the Black Dragon. This immortality isn't just limited to the armor worn by Azure Star; similar to the Black Dragon Annihilation Blade previously used by Azure Star, its description includes the statement that "wounds inflicted by this blade will never heal." The Black Dragon Annihilation Hammer also possesses a unique ability—to be reborn from the dragon veins, channeling energy into the portals of the Divine Body.

The name itself clearly indicates an enhancement of the user's physical abilities. The Black Dragon Blade, however, has an even more unique effect: its wielder will forever face the destiny of battling ancient dragons.

It lacks the straightforward power of the Black Dragon Annihilation Blade and the enhanced body of the Black Dragon Annihilation Hammer. However, this doesn't mean the Black Dragon Blade has lost its unique power as a derivative weapon of the Black Dragon. Rather, it's more straightforward: the Black Dragon Blade doesn't need any fancy embellishments.

As he did now, looking down, Azure Star leaped into the air, gripping the massive dragonbone greatsword tightly in his hand. His wings unfurled, and his legs violently slammed into the warship behind him. A deafening roar echoed, and the transport ship, its tonnage unknown, even momentarily halted its descent, hovering briefly in the air. With this powerful thrust, Azure Star transformed into a black meteor. Amidst the intense sparks generated by atmospheric friction surrounding him, a deafening roar echoed as he fell from the sky, almost instantly attracting the attention of Godzilla and the Death Horde.

By the time the swarm of death raised its heads, Azure Star was already upon them. The heavy greatsword in its hand crashed down, and with the force of the rapid descent, Azure Star's life energy erupted around the sword. An invisible, jet-black dragon shadow coiled around the dragon-bone greatsword. The moment it struck, the armor of the swarm of death insects, which had withstood artillery fire unscathed, was shattered almost without resistance.

Fragments flew skyward, the immense pressure of the greatsword crushing countless insects' bodies. Black slime exploded with a satisfyingly squeak, and intense, irrational pain surged through each exploding insect, coursing into the collective consciousness of the swarm. Even though the pain had been amplified hundreds of times, the massive horde of death still couldn't help but stagger back several steps—though few, given its sheer size. In just a few stumbles, they had covered hundreds of meters.

With a single sword strike, he repelled the horde of death, using the resistance from the collision between the horde and the greatsword to slow his descent. The black-armored, black-sworded Azure Star landed on the ground. Although he had slowed down, his equipment and the remaining impact still left a deep crater in the ground.

"??"

Staring at the fallen blue star with a puzzled expression, Godzilla's face was filled with the fat man's confusion.

Although Godzilla had never seen the Azure Star, it could clearly sense the terrifying life energy emanating from it—energy far exceeding that of ordinary high-ranking Titans. Especially at the moment it launched its attack on the horde of death, Godzilla felt an indescribable oppressive force sweeping in from all directions. In a daze, it seemed as if a black dragon, bringing doom, had emerged from the clouds, heralding the prelude to the world's end.

Looking back at Godzilla, Azure Star raised his dragonbone greatsword, pointing it at the distant swarm of death creatures that were shaking their heads and repairing their wounds through individual fusion, then let out a low growl.

Released pheromones and sensing the message within, Godzilla hesitated for a moment in a human-like manner before letting out a low growl.

But before Godzilla could react, the sky darkened, and King Kong's massive figure leaped down from the heavens. His enormous body slammed into the horde of death like a meteorite, accompanied by cracking sounds as the exploding worms sprayed out copious amounts of black slime.

Although he didn't know the current situation, his instincts told King Kong that the monster in front of him, made up of a large number of insects, was no different from the giant skeletal lizard—that same sense of disgust made King Kong, as the guardian Titan, feel a deep sense of loathing.

With a roar, King Kong swung his iron fists, unleashing a series of powerful punches before the horde of death could regroup.

Upon seeing King Kong, Godzilla's eyes narrowed slightly.

King Kong and Godzilla are also literal enemies.

The conflict between the Kongs and the Atom Dinosaurs had already erupted countless times in the inner Earth before the rise of surface civilization. Even in Kong's clan's main hall, there are still Atom Dinosaur corpses and a battle axe made from their dorsal fins. Under these circumstances, logically, the moment Kong and Godzilla met, their reason would be consumed by the hatred inherited in their blood, leading to a brutal attack until one of them was completely killed.

The death of any individual represents the complete annihilation of an entire species—Godzilla was the last descendant of the atomic dinosaurs, and while King Kong wasn't the last great ape, he was the last great ape on Earth. It could be said that they were born with a bloodline instilled with hatred.

But now, sensing the hostility from the world's consciousness towards the horde of death, after a brief hesitation, Godzilla roared and then strode towards the horde of death with its massive legs—putting aside any past grudges, dealing with this abominable creature was the most important thing!

(End of this chapter)