How did this drowsiness even arise?
Kangqiao pondered it, but he could not be sure.
How should he put it? Every time he had awakened and fallen asleep before, it had been like this.
Moreover, after his last sleep, he had become what he was now, so perhaps sleep was also related to his growth.
But he was already this enormous. Was he still going to grow?
How big would he have to become?
Wasn't he developing in the direction of Planet Godzilla?
If so, perhaps that was a good thing, but it might also be an unpredictable and terrible future.
The good part was that, in this unknown supernatural world, the stronger he was, the more he could ensure that he lived as he pleased.
But growing stronger also meant growing larger. He was destined to drift ever farther from ordinary life, and loneliness might follow him, this monster, for the rest of his existence.
Was that the life he wanted?
Lowering his head to examine the countless Dinosaur People and Primal dinosaurs on the ground, Kangqiao fell strangely silent.
These forty sunrises and sunsets had not benefited only the Dinosaur People.
Kangqiao had gained something as well.
He had already figured out his current condition, more or less.
Using the things on the ground as reference points, and measuring by the standards of his former human world, he was now roughly three hundred and fifty meters tall.
If he stood upright, he would be as long as a modern aircraft carrier.
An aircraft carrier was hollow, yet at three hundred and fifty meters, it weighed at least sixty to over a hundred thousand tons.
And his Godzilla body was bloated and solid. At the very least, he had to weigh several hundred thousand tons, right?
Three hundred thousand tons?
Or perhaps five hundred thousand?
Kangqiao truly felt a certain indescribable helplessness toward his current self.
With his current weight, merely taking a small step would make the ground beneath his feet sink dozens of meters, while rocks and mountains shattered.
Actually managing to move with a light touch was simply too difficult.
Still, he could slowly work on those things. This was a supernatural world, after all. There had to be a way, right?
Kangqiao could only comfort himself like that.
And this was merely what he could do in his ordinary state.
As for his previous Crimson Lotus State, as long as Kangqiao did not release his beams or other energy, it would remain for roughly twelve sunrises and sunsets before fading.
That dissipating energy did not vanish into thin air, of course. It became nourishment for Kangqiao's growth.
Yes, while Kangqiao absorbed vast amounts of lava and maintained the Crimson Lotus State, his overall height had subtly increased again.
Although Kangqiao himself had no way of knowing how much he had grown—whether it was a few millimeters or several meters was hard to say.
But considering Kangqiao's enormous size, even growing a few millimeters would be an astonishing thing.
A few millimeters in ten days—how much would that be in a year? In ten years?
What about a century, or a thousand years?
How large had he been when he was still a lizard?
And how large was he now?
Perhaps he had slept for tens of thousands of years, millions of years, or even tens of millions of years?
After all, when Kangqiao had been asleep, the entire world had looked apocalyptic. There had been water everywhere, and not even any land yet.
Even if someone told him he had slept for hundreds of millions of years, he would not be too surprised.
Humanoid monsters had already appeared, after all. Based on the difficulty of biological evolution that he knew from his previous life, what was so hard to understand about that?
However, precisely because this was a supernatural world, the natural rate of biological evolution could not be guessed by common sense.
Just like the Dinosaur People before his eyes: under his radiation, they had become practically another race in only forty days.
Thus, Kangqiao felt that he had probably slept no more than several hundred thousand years, or perhaps a million or so.
Hundreds of millions of years still felt a little too exaggerated to Kangqiao.
Crimson Lotus State was a condition caused when Kangqiao entered a kind of meditation that intensely drew in lava energy.
It was obvious that this state promoted his growth even more.
That was the first thing Kangqiao now knew.
The second was that, in this state, Kangqiao became completely Lava Flame.
By controlling Lava Flame with all his might, much as he controlled his limbs, he could barely make the lava form simple shapes outside the surface of his body.
Something like Lava Flame armor?
Well, Kangqiao still could not control it that well. At most, he could make Lava Flame cling to a small area of his body's surface for a few seconds.
Then the Lava Flame would break free of his restraint and drip onto the ground.
In the end, Kangqiao's power of consciousness was still too weak.
Yes, this world truly could produce a consciousness power similar to spiritual power.
This was also the beginning of Kangqiao's explorations during these days: using consciousness power to control Lava Flame as an extension outside his body.
He had used consciousness power for too short a time and was still exploring it. At present, Kangqiao could only use it to control the flow and reshaping of energy within his body.
Things like projecting spiritual power outside the body or communicating through it, as in novels.
Kangqiao felt those things were still rather far beyond him.
Still, even if they were far away, he could try them gradually. Whether he could truly achieve them, Kangqiao could not say.
After all, everything was unknown to Kangqiao now. There was no experimentation, no reference point. He had to feel out everything himself, so naturally it was different.
Later generations could quickly learn useful things from the experience and knowledge of those before them, but Kangqiao, as one of those predecessors, had quite the headache now.
Fortunately, Kangqiao remembered a great deal of information about Godzilla.
For example, in Crimson Godzilla's state, an officially released piece of merchandise showed Crimson Godzilla using energy to form two pairs of Lava Flame wings on his back.
Although no Godzilla with that appearance had shown up in American comics, films, animation, or the main Ultraman tokusatsu series.
Could that not be seen as some later state? Could Godzilla at the peak of Crimson Lotus State freely control Lava Flame energy and form all kinds of "prosthetic limbs" outside his body?
If he could truly form two pairs of enormous, terrifying wings on his back, would that mean he could fly into the sky as well?
At the mere thought, Kangqiao grew eager.
That was right. This was an unknown supernatural world. Even if the original Godzilla could not do such a thing, could he not create it himself?
His outward appearance was indeed Godzilla, and his abilities were also very similar to the Godzilla he knew.
But official Godzilla lore had never included any setting where he could radiate creatures into mutating species.
Not to mention that his current size had already far exceeded the official setting of Crimson Godzilla being one hundred meters tall.
His future was still full of variables, both exciting and intriguing.
As a Giant Beast, perhaps his days ahead would likely be somewhat lonely, but one thing was certain: his life would absolutely never be dull or tedious.
Instead, much fun and many unknowns awaited him to discover and create.
At that thought alone, Kangqiao was once again filled with eagerness and motivation for the future.
Besides, Kangqiao felt that if he wanted to live better and have more fun in the future, perhaps he should first help these little fellows beneath him who believed in him.
Leaving aside everything else, this primitive tribal lifestyle of living in caves was hardly appealing.
Now that he was awake, he should at least get them living in houses and learning writing. At the very least, they ought to begin—or enter—the age of city-states, right?
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