The top of the mountain range cracked open.
Rolling red lava flowed continuously down through the fissures toward the foot of the mountain.
Yet that was not all.
The giant volcano erupted. Amid a tremendous roar, black smoke burst forth alongside a violent explosion.
Countless molten boulders shot into the sky like a swarm of meteors.
Then, carrying immense momentum and blazing flames, those countless lava boulders rained down upon the battlefield around the mountain range, sparing neither friend nor foe!
At that moment, it was like a true apocalypse. Within dozens of kilometers, the land was instantly engulfed in flames!
Endless black clouds covered the peak of the mountain range!
These black clouds had formed after the eruption, spreading due to the heat and vast quantities of volcanic ash.
On the ground, countless lava boulders had fallen, turning everything into a sea of fire!
However, for the three races, who had prepared in advance, this apocalyptic opening did not cause much damage.
They were Giant Beast races, and also Extraordinary Races.
Their powerful bodies and nimble steps allowed most of them to evade the lava boulders crashing down from the sky.
Only a small number of unfortunate souls perished because they failed to react in time.
By now, the three races had already separated across the battlefield.
The Dinosaur People gathered near the mountain range as torrents of lava flowed down from the mountain.
Yet the Dinosaur People possessed great resistance to lava, flames, and even high temperatures.
Some Dinosaur People could even step upon scorching lava without feeling pain. Instead, they found it quite comfortable.
But compared to the flames and lava, the Dinosaur People were now more focused on the mountaintop, which continued to spew lava.
Their gazes burned with fervor and wild joy.
Amid this apocalyptic sight, every one of them was filled with indescribable excitement.
It was not only the Dinosaur People watching the peak. The Serpent People and Shark People also looked toward the continuously erupting volcano as though facing a great enemy.
Around the battlefield, dark clouds of smoke spread endlessly through the sky, while thick smoke and flames continued to spread across the ground.
As the temperature soared, the Shark People and the many sea beasts suffered the most. They kept shifting position and moving closer to sources of water.
As for the Serpent People and Serpent monsters, they all warily scanned their surroundings with scarlet vertical pupils.
The entire upheaval did not last long.
Perhaps five minutes, perhaps ten.
In any case, as the three races continuously relayed messages and shifted their gathering positions, finally—
Amid a tremendous roar, a colossal figure suddenly appeared at the center of the volcanic eruption.
Breaking free from the restraints of the rock layers and shaking off every discomfort, Kangqiao finally awakened.
"Roar!!!"
His excited roar resounded across the heavens.
The roar unleashed a majestic wave of sound that, in an instant, drowned out every noise around it!
Kangqiao felt that it had not been easy for him. He had finally awakened and could finally move freely!
Unable to restrain himself, he let out a long roar from the bottom of his heart.
On the mountaintop, amid the lava and sea of fire, after roaring to his heart's content, Kangqiao instinctively moved his limbs slowly, as though stretching.
Yet as soon as he moved, Kangqiao finally noticed what was strange about himself.
He was standing upright rather than crawling as before.
His forelimbs had become short and sturdy, yet they now bore the outline of human hands.
His hind limbs, meanwhile, were thick and developed, like powerful thighs carved from stone.
Stunned, Kangqiao turned his head and looked at his own body.
The next moment, Kangqiao was completely dumbfounded.
"This shape?"
"No way?"
Kangqiao was bewildered and unable to believe it.
He extended his short forelimbs, lowered his head, and touched his own head.
It was somewhat flat and somewhat square.
Then Kangqiao finally became certain.
He was fucking Godzilla!
"So I became Godzilla! No wonder the Dinosaur People felt close to me and worshipped me in their primitive faith."
Kangqiao did not know how to express how he felt right then.
He was somewhat secretly delighted, yet also a little speechless.
He was delighted because Godzilla was finally a creature that this buzz-cut bro knew about.
It might have been a so-called monster, but it was still better than being a lizard, right?
At least it had enough presence.
In this unfamiliar world, getting another chance at life was already a profit.
As for becoming Godzilla, that was simply hitting the jackpot.
What left him speechless was that Kangqiao found it utterly baffling.
How had he become Godzilla?
What was the reason?
Fine, he had absolutely no clue about something like that.
Rather than dwell on such useless questions, Kangqiao turned his attention back to reality.
Standing atop the mountain, with the erupting magma and billowing smoke behind him—
He looked down from the mountain.
Kangqiao finally noticed the densely packed insects at the foot of the mountain.
No.
They were not insects. In Kangqiao's eyes, they were Primal dinosaurs about the size of insects, along with even smaller Dinosaur People.
A great number of Dinosaur People continuously cried out to Kangqiao in high-pitched voices.
But to Kangqiao, it sounded like the dogs at home endlessly barking, "Woof woof woof."
Anyway, the tones and syllables all sounded the same. He could not make sense of any of it.
And because their cries were so disorderly, they sounded to Kangqiao like countless mosquitoes buzzing. It was somewhat unpleasant.
"Great God of Lava and Earth, our Father God!"
"You are the master of lava, the ruler of the earth, the greatest god in this world! The evil foreign races are slaughtering your people. Please rain divine punishment upon them and save your people!"
At the foot of the mountain, led by the Dinosaur Elder, the cries of the Dinosaur People gradually became an orderly, fervent prayer.
All the Dinosaur People knelt on the ground. Ignoring the lava flowing around them, they gazed at the Giant Beast atop the mountain with burning reverence and worship.
Farther away, the camps of the two foreign races silently observed the situation unfold.
Many were afraid, but some whispered among themselves, seemingly plotting something.
Kangqiao was rather curious.
Naturally, he was not curious about those Primal dinosaurs. He was curious how the Dinosaur People, with dinosaur heads but humanoid bodies, had evolved.
How could they be so humanlike?
Was that kind of evolution even reasonable?
Moreover, from the mountaintop, Kangqiao narrowed his pupils and adjusted his focus as he looked into the distance.
He saw Serpent People with human bodies and snake tails, as well as their blood relatives, Giant Serpents thirty to fifty meters long.
On the other side were many Shark People with fish heads, along with all sorts of strange-looking sea beasts.
Eight-legged octopuses? Colorful sea snakes, and things that looked like walruses.
In any case, compared to the land-dwelling groups, the Sea beast races under the Shark People were what surprised Kangqiao the most.
How had these clearly different creatures, which were not even of the same race, come together? Some sort of symbiotic relationship?
And what exactly had this world become?
Kangqiao could not make sense of it.
Still, although he did not understand the changes in this world, there was one thing Kangqiao roughly understood.
These fellows had previously gone to war with the Dinosaur People.
That conclusion could be drawn from the large number of corpses left on the distant plains.
He just did not know whether it had been a three-way melee or two against one.
After briefly looking over the positions of the three races, Kangqiao reached his conclusion.
The Dinosaur People had clearly been fighting one against two, and judging by the casualties across the battlefield, they had been completely suppressed.
If he had not suddenly awakened, these Dinosaur People would probably have been exterminated.
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