Beneath the charred carapace stripped away by the nuclear blast, new structures were forming at ultra-high speed—thicker, sharply angular black bone plates that flashed with a cold, metallic luster rapidly spread and covered its body like living armor, producing a teeth-grating series of cracking growth sounds!
Its form underwent a horrifying mutation under the catalysis of energy: the muscles in its limbs swelled like hills of congealed lava, so thick and powerful they were suffocating to behold; at the tips of its enormous claws, energy condensed to an extreme degree, emitting piercing Screams like two pairs of colossal energy drills capable of boring through the Earth's crust; at the end of its thick tail, the carapace split open, revealing an Energy Core within that continuously gathered power and flashed with an ominous purple light, like the muzzle of a destruction cannon poised to fire.
Yet the most utterly terrifying transformation was still taking place within its wildly blazing dorsal fin Crystal Clusters!
Not only did they grow larger and sharper as they absorbed energy, like World-Ending Spears pointing toward the heavens, but what made souls tremble even more was that something resembling a living thing seemed to be pulsating deep within those pitch-black crystals!
Dark-red Energy Veins, like a mixture of molten magma and filthy blood, were wildly birthing, condensing, and pulsating between the crystals' bases and cores!
Each pulse was accompanied by a violent flash of crystal light, as though another heart—an Energy Core birthing an even more terrifying existence—was being forcibly brought forth in the depths of those Dorsal Fins!
"God... it's... it's absorbing the nuclear bomb! It's treating the nuclear blast as fuel!"
Dr. Angela's shriek, so sharp it broke her voice, suddenly Tore apart the dead silence in the Command Center. Her voice was filled with