Before long, a hazy outline appeared on the horizon ahead of the giant beast: the eastern coast of Honshu, Nippon.
Behind it, the churning sea left a white wake stretching for miles. Blue light shimmered through the wake, like a glowing road laid across the dark ocean.
Meanwhile, Namor stood on the observation platform of Atlantis's western outpost, a holographic map of ocean currents projected before him by deep-sea technology.
Dense clusters of red dots advanced west across the map in precise formation. Each dot represented a marine battle group attacking Nippon.
"One giant beast isn't enough. We need more."
He pointed to several key coordinates on the map, and the communications officer beside him immediately converted his orders into low-frequency pulses.
The pulses passed through thousands of meters of seawater and reached the sensory core of each giant beast.
Within minutes, more ancient creatures sleeping in the depths of the Pacific Ocean began to wake, one after another.
The first giant beast to rise from the bottom of the Mariana Trench was over eighty meters long. Heavy, armor-like plating covered its body, and rows of sharp bony spines lined its back. Every step carved a trench several meters deep into the seabed.
Its shape called to mind the reptilian rulers of some prehistoric age, though it was several times larger than any species in the fossil record.
When it surfaced, seawater poured from the gaps in its shell, forming ribbons of white like waterfalls in the morning light.
The second giant beast to wake in the depths of the Pacific Ocean basin was something else entirely.
Its main body resembled a floating island. It was translucent, packed with luminous organs, and hundreds of hundred-meter-long tentacles extended from its core.
At the tip of each tentacle grew a sensor capable