The bunker-busting warhead was dropped and successfully pierced the glowing "mountain," sending a large amount of material spraying from Godzilla's back that was less like blood and more like biological coolant.
But this could no longer be called a "minor skirmish"—and that was not necessarily a good thing.
For amid that cry of pain, something even more terrifying seemed to have been quietly awakened.
The damaged structure rapidly contracted and reorganized. The endless thorns that had recovered from the flesh once more transformed into dorsal spines, standing even denser than before.
The profound thing called a "scar" could not remain for long on this seemingly clumsy, massive body.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the giant figure on the screens. In the darkness, the increasingly scarlet patches of light on its shell suddenly stopped moving in an uncanny manner.
An invisible "influence" spread directly in all directions, extinguishing all the remaining lights along its path. At the same time, the footage suddenly began flickering violently like snow, and many cameras simply went black!
"What's going on?! What happened to our surveillance vehicles and aerial cameras?"
Someone shouted in confusion, but the answer they received left them speechless.
"This influence is probably high-intensity ionization and atomic radiation. It's interfering with the normal operation of some optical and electronic components."
Almost no one knew what was about to happen.
Only the more distant cameras, along with those watching the giant in the darkness with their naked eyes, could see relatively clearly as the beast—or god—lowered its head. As though enduring the pain of some kind of fetal movement, it was brewing something amid the coral-reef-like, towering back covered in vast patches of fluorescence shifting from red to purple!
It was deeply unsettling.
It had to be understood that the different wavelengths between red