It saw it—the mountain-like, motionless remains of Godzilla were being lit from within by a steadily intensifying deep-blue radiance!
The glow shone through the scale crevices, through the tough tissue that had regrown over the wounds, casting vast, swaying light and shadow through the deep sea.
What terrified it most was that at the torn stump of Godzilla's neck, where ruptured tissue ducts lay exposed, the outline of another colossal beast's head—rougher in structure, covered in newly formed keratin and jagged Bone Spikes—was rapidly condensing from the churning flesh-and-blood energy, taking shape, and rising!
Atop that head, the roots of Godzilla's destructive dorsal fin were once again flowing with deep-blue light like molten lava!
How was this "growing back"? This was clearly Godzilla's Life Core, having fused with Connors' existence, driving this ruined body through an ultimate reconstruction beyond death in an incomprehensible manner!
By tearing open that damned Gravitational Field seal, he had not released destruction energy on the verge of self-detonation. By some cruel twist of fate, he had instead lifted the shackles that had nearly frozen time itself, providing a cradle of rebirth for this monster that should have been utterly annihilated?
This utterly absurd reality was like a bucket of ice water poured over Norman's fiercely burning will.
In that one-thousandth of a second when Norman's mind was shaken by this world-upending realization and his movements fatally slowed—
"HULK—SMASH!!!"
Hulk's roar, built up to its peak and powerful enough to tear apart souls, was no longer merely an enraged bellow. It became a tangible horn of destruction!
The sound did not travel merely through the seawater. The low-frequency vibrations triggered by the terrifying Gamma Energy Level within it made even the bedrock ten thousand meters beneath the sea hum.
With a beast-like instinct for battle, Hulk