"Fire."
The mont Drex Valen gave the order, the warship's AI locked onto the Kaiju.
Four blazing energy pillars erupted from the vessel's primary batteries.
The atmosphere itself seed to ignite.
The ocean split apart beneath the beams, carving four massive trenches through the sea surface like so twisted reenactnt of Moses parting the Red Sea.
The Kaiju, monts away from reaching the coastal district, was struck head-on.
The beams punched through its enormous body instantly.
Flesh exploded into clouds of shredded gore.
Its roar shook the heavens.
Then a thinner crimson laser slashed in from the side.
As the mutilated Kaiju tried to turn toward the attack, the beam pierced straight through its skull.
The result looked absurdly disproportionate to the size of the laser itself.
The creature's head exploded like a smashed waterlon on a beach carnival ga.
Blue blood rained across the surrounding region, contaminating everything it touched.
The second Kaiju resembled a gigantic gorilla.
Except it had no fur.
Its body was covered in thick keratinous armor plating, and its hanging forearms resembled enormous war hamrs.
A deep blue crystalline glow pulsed from its forehead.
Its movent speed matched its size: slow, heavy, unstoppable.
But in exchange, its raw power and defensive capability surpassed every Kaiju Earth had encountered so far.
It was currently tearing through the Philippines.
The warship arrived seconds too late to prevent the damage.
And through the hive consciousness linking the Kaiju, the Precursors already knew what had happened to the first monster.
Impossible.
Wasn't Earth supposed to be a civilization trapped inside its own solar system?
How could they possess a super battleship like this?
Without aerial Kaiju, every monster they deployed would beco nothing more than target practice for that ship.
"Accelerated Particle Cannon... online."
A section of the warship unfolded.
Then the weapon fired.
Drex had perfectly replicated the Angel-class accelerated particle cannon.
Possibly improved it.
A beam moving faster than lightning tore across the battlefield.
The gorilla-like Kaiju never even had ti to react.
The instant the shot connected, its head and upper torso vaporized completely.
The blast continued onward, shredding buildings behind the target into collapsing debris.
The resulting shockwave pulverized the ground across several hundred ters.
Concrete, steel, and stone erupted skyward like volcanic debris.
Only after countless layers of atmospheric scattering did the beam finally dissipate in the far distance.
Then the white warship changed course.
Destination:
Shenzhou.
Drex stood at the very front of the ship's deck while violent winds scread around him.
Ahead, the coastline of Shenzhou gradually erged into view.
A Kaiju had already reached the shore.
Military forces were actively engaging it, limiting its movent.
And from the looks of things...
Soone was fighting it directly.
Drex narrowed his eyes slightly.
The Spear?
In Marvel lore, S.H.I.E.L.D. operated as a global organization under the World Security Council.
But Shenzhou had its own counterpart.
The Spear Bureau.
Though strangely enough, the organization barely appeared in the cinematic universe at all.
If Drex rembered correctly, parts of the comic continuity suggested the Spear Bureau rose to prominence after Thanos's invasion.
Still, the existence of local superhumans in Shenzhou wasn't surprising.
No matter the universe, the country always carried an aura of mystery around it.
A convenient place for hidden monsters and hidden heroes alike.
The sunset-painted sea churned violently beneath the approaching warship.
Under normal circumstances, it would've been beautiful.
Right now, no one had the luxury to appreciate scenery.
Not with Kaiju marching toward civilization.
Canghai City sat along the central coastline of Shenzhou facing the western Pacific.
A major economic hub.
A tourism center.
A coastal city connected to international trade routes across the East Sea toward Kyushu.
Under ordinary conditions, it was lively and prosperous.
Now it was drowning beneath panic.
As long as the Kaiju remained alive, a shadow would continue hanging over the city.
Kaiju ca in endless biological variations.
Crab-like.
Simian.
Reptilian.
Mutated nightmares stitched together from alien genetics.
Every specin possessed different body structures, tabolisms, combat traits, and biological weapons.
But even mass-produced Kaiju carried distinct specialties.
Knifehead possessed imnse offensive capability.
Leatherback carried devastating durability.
Otachi wielded corrosive biological attacks.
And the creature attacking Canghai City had its own terrifying advantages.
It resembled an evolved crocodile crossed with a streamlined reptilian predator.
Its enormous body was covered in tallic scales that glead beneath the setting sun.
Unlike the bizarre, awkward body structures of many Kaiju, this one possessed an optimized, aerodynamic form.
Fast in the ocean.
Fast on land.
In a strange way, it resembled a dinosaur straight out of a blockbuster movie.
For the mont, S.W.O.R.D. designated it:
Swiftclaw.
Swiftclaw had already entered Canghai City and was advancing deeper into the urban districts.
Its scales were so durable that most of the city's deployed heavy weapons barely slowed it down.
And its size alone turned movent into catastrophe.
Buildings shattered beneath its weight.
Roadways collapsed.
Even without actively attacking, the creature resembled a walking natural disaster.
Under normal logic, hoping for a lone savior to appear and defeat a Kaiju in single combat sounded ridiculous.
Far more realistic to pray that the orbital cannon showed up again.
Naturally, no miracle hero descended from the sky.
But this was Shenzhou.
And in every world, there was always one universal truth:
Hidden experts existed everywhere.
Sotis the guy delivering takeout food secretly knew seventeen martial arts and two forbidden breathing techniques.
So when people realized their city was about to be destroyed...
A few of them finally stopped staying quiet.
As Swiftclaw pushed into the Bund district, several strange figures suddenly broke away from the fleeing crowds.
Facing a Kaiju head-on took courage bordering on insanity.
Still, they charged anyway.
Not that it seed to matter much.
"Forget pedicures," one man muttered bitterly after getting blasted backward again. "I don't think we even chipped one toenail."
"That's not true," another argued while gripping a steel spear. "I definitely cracked part of its claw earlier."
The first man stared at him.
"That sohow sounds even more pathetic."
The group had only t minutes ago.
Now these ard "enthusiastic citizens" of Canghai City regrouped awkwardly after being driven back once again.
Technically speaking, they hadn't even been repelled.
Swiftclaw simply ignored them completely.
Their attacks landing against its armored scales felt less like combat and more like toothpicks poking a tunnel through a mountain.
Several of the volunteers were already debating whether they should retreat to the city's second defensive line and wait for reinforcents that might never arrive.
Because with the level of power they currently possessed...
Fighting a Kaiju felt utterly aningless.
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