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The Devouring Menace - 017
🕑 Added 2023-10-19 03:27:07 +0000 UTC[MC's POV]
It seemed I was late to the party as I saw the mangled remains of Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon floating in the water.
'You will be remembered for your sacrifices.' My monk self offered a prayer meant for departed souls.
'Amitabha.'
My naughty self felt that my concerns were hypocritical and borderline sarcastic.
I killed to evolve. I killed to survive. I was an apocalyptic monster. Did Buddha teach people to do such atrocious acts, keke?
I honestly didn't care and treated those thoughts as just something to pass the time. Who thinks about the sea of suffering?
Currently, I have bigger problems to deal with in front of me.
Two Category IV Kaijus and a Jaeger.
One of the Kaijus looked like a monkey, er, I meant buffed gorilla, covered in defensive armour plating. Its upper body was more muscular than its lower body, making me think that buddy here skipped all of his leg days.
The yellowish thin lines on its body looked like runic linings, I bet it was just alien aesthetics. On top of its head were blue tendrils which wiggled with each movement it made. That was the EMP organ which caused a blackout to anything digital.
What were the Precursors thinking when they designed the EMP organ to be located on the outside? Wasn't it flashing itself to be torn off?
Truthfully, I thought it looked… yummy.
Kill Target 01: Leatherback
I went into 047 mode.
I then diverted my attention to the other Kaiju.
Otachi.
She had hornlike protrusions on its huge head which somehow looked like 'em hammerheads.
Her mouth shone with a blue luminescence when she slightly opened it.
What caught my attention the most was her long barbed tail which had three prehensile pincers at the ends.
It was quite distracting as if it had a life of its own whenever it moved.
Kill Target 02: Otachi
Then that only left out the Jaeger - Striker Eureka - which was currently rendered comatose by the 'handsome' gorilla's EMP discharge.
Otachi was the first to notice my presence as she turned motionless due to immense surprise.
'God, who is this hot dude? Hey creators, was this guy on the production list?'
'Pre-cursors: Nah, that's not one of ours. Why don't you capture and bring it to us for extensive research?'
I chuckled inwardly when I tried to envision Otachi reporting back to the Precursors camping in the Anteverse.
Otachi didn't stay in a stupor for long as she opened her mouth and released an intimidating screech to lower my morale and serve as a warning.
Her screech immediately caught the idiotic Leatherback's attention who stopped playing around with a hopeless Striker Eureka.
Leatherback looked in my direction and loudly roared while flexing its muscular arms.
Leatherback wanted to seem big when he saw my height.
'Sorry buddy, I am not into short gu-'
'I ain't gay, okay?'
I released a steam of hot air through my nostrils as I silently growled, finding it beneath me to compete with these guys about who barked the loudest.
After all, the more cowardly the puppy, the louder it barks.
Otachi and Leatherback and all Pacific Rim Kaijus were like a collective mind whose thoughts were connected to the Precursors. They functioned under a hive mind system with the Precursors as the ultimate puppeteers.
I could already guess that what they were currently doing was all due to the will of the Precursors. My status had been elevated to the top of the priority list. I was an anomaly that posed a great risk to their plans.
'All instabilities will be removed. For eter-' What the hell was I thinking?
I quickly shook those voice lines off my head and concentrated on the two Kaijus who were slowly circling me.
From time to time, Otachi would dive into the water and come to the surface within four seconds. To Jaegers, it would feel downright horrific, making the situation full of suspense.
I was unfazed by her little play and turned my attention to the gorilla boy who was hiding underwater and probably trying to find ways to sneak attack this EMINENCE.
Noticing that my attention was totally on Otachi, Leatherback saw that it was the perfect time to launch his attack.
Through [Perfect Vision] and [Bullet-time Perception], I saw Leatherback creepily emerge from behind me in slow motion… 960fps?
Its two huge knuckles were raised in the air in an attempt to go physical on my back, a blindspot.
I dodged the brazen Kaiju and due to the force of his own momentum pulling him down, his back was exposed.
Leatherback had a height of around eighty-one meters which was smaller compared to my current 90 meters.
I also weighed more than him by a few thousand metric tons but the weight class didn't determine much in a Kaiju fight. Take for example how Final Wars Godzilla easily threw Keizer Ghidorah into space who weighed almost two times his size.
What's special about Pathogen-R was that those brilliant scientists just had to integrate the DNA of a Rhinoceros beetle. And what was a Rhinoceros beetle? The humble guy was the G of weight lifters. The GOAT.
A Rhinoceros beetle could go full-on Atlas on weight 850 times its size. Additionally, there were also the Dung beetle and Leafcutter ant who were specialists in weight lifting.
Entomo-
I quickly target the fucker's exposed back and my ultra-sharp fangs then deeply bit through his spinal cavity.
Gallons of venomous poisons immediately flowed from my fangs into his system and I only withdrew when I allowed Otachi to narrow the distance between us.
Her prehensile tail quickly tangled up my neck as it tried to asphyxiate me.
I pretended to be weak, easily beaten by her but that was all according to plan.
I used my claw to clutch on the base section of its tail before deciding that it was better for her to be a tailless bitch. I offered her a free docking service by forcefully cutting her tail.
Otachi released a painful screech like a cat that had its balls run through an orchiectomy without anaesthesia.
She looked at me angrily as her throat began to gradually swell.
'As if I will allow it.'
I swapped my paw and gave it a heavy sideways punch that almost ruptured its mouth.
I saw Leatherback on the side shaking its disoriented head while trying to raise itself from the ground but only to fail miserably.
The venom had already kicked in under a minute. Paralysis was the first effect of the venom formed due to the amalgamation of various venoms from the most terrifying species on Earth.
Leatherback was losing strength all over its body.
I left him alone before gazing at Otachi who was still stunned.
After returning to the world of the living, she furiously gazed at me while screeching.
Then from the front of her legs, wings started to manifest.
'Could it be that you want to escape, girl? What a clever girl.' I scoffed lightly before ripping off one of her wings with my claw.
A bird with a dead wing couldn't fly. No shit Sherlock.
Otachi cried for help from Leatherback but Leatherback was fighting for his own life and couldn't respond.
Otachi's cries made me remember another whiny bitch called Slattern. I planned on killing that one.
I took hold of Otachi's neck, unbothered by its fragile and futile resistance, as golden yellow light began to light up each of my dorsal plates within a matter of seconds.
'Have you ever been to Iraq and Afghanistan, eh, Itachi?'
*Energy intensifying*
I opened my mouth and attacked with a Thermonuclear Breath that completely erased Otachi's head from existence.
I then carried her corpse to where Leatherback was and dropped her.
These Kaijus had an uncanny ability of playing dead so I made sure that Otachi was carefully registered in hell.
Leatherback's back had already been severely affected by necrosis and was rapidly decaying.
Instead of needlessly suffering, I punctured his back and dug out his spinal cord, making blue blood spill all over the water.
I then ravenously ate his corpse but could finish him in one go due to his size but I made sure to savor his EMP organ. It tasted like… instant noodles?
I also didn't forget to eat Otachi and her newborn.
I didn't want to risk a revenge arc, pfft.
One can never be more careful, pfft.
Um.
'Bon Appetit.'
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