214: Chapter 213 The End of the High-Dimensional Hunter

When Godzilla returned to the vicinity of the Bridgehead, it shrank into a 500-meter "compact version."

When its 3,600-meter true form stood beside the camp, the Bridgehead vanished—not destroyed, but completely overshadowed by its figure.

Even the sun couldn't shine through it, let alone a cluster of tents.

Five hundred meters was still plenty large.

The ten thousand-plus members of the Expeditionary Force spent so long staring up with their heads tilted back that their necks were so sore the next day they collectively went to the medics for plasters.

Luo Yu did not leave the Abyss immediately.

He stayed at the Bridgehead for two days, primarily doing three things.

First, he coordinated with The Three Kings for a comprehensive resource map of the Abyss World. Abaddon handed over the distribution of mineral veins, energy node coordinates, and territory divisions of all tribes from the past 47,000 years. The sheer volume of information took Su Qingxue's data team an entire day just to barely finish categorizing.

Second, he designated three sites for permanent human bases in the Abyss World, located in the northern plains, eastern canyons, and the outskirts of the energy mineral vein Core Area in the south. Construction orders were transmitted back to the East Sea Defense Line via satellite relay, and then to the Dragon Country Supreme Command Headquarters.

Third, eating.

Godzilla strolled around the Bridgehead for two days, driving away all Abyssal Giant Beasts below the seventh Rank within a thirty-kilometer radius. It didn't fight or kill; it simply walked over and stood there for a while.

The giant beasts fled of their own accord.

Standing there in its 500-meter "compact version,"

it was like a sun suddenly emerging from a volcanic crater to the seventh-Rank giant beasts.

On the evening of the second day, Luo Yu was eating a bowl of instant noodles in the Bridgehead canteen—the Expeditionary Force's logistics had actually brought instant noodles, leaving one unsure whether to call it foresight or a lack of focus—when a prompt popped up from the System.

[Warning]

[Abnormal high-dimensional spatial fluctuations detected]

[Source: Direction of Earth · Above the Antarctic ice sheet]

[Dimensional barrier is being torn by external force]

[Evaluation Rank: Extremely High Risk]

Luo Yu put down the instant noodles.

The chopsticks rested on the rim of the bowl, soup still dripping from them.

"Zhiruo."

Su Zhiruo was eating right across from him. Her spatial array had already automatically deployed, with a holographic image floating in mid-air.

"I see it."

Her array was 0.3 seconds slower than the System, and data was already scrolling across the screen: "Large-scale spatial fission has appeared over the South Pole. The crack's expansion speed is more than three times faster than last time."

Luo Yu said nothing.

He connected to Abaddon via mental link.

"Master."

Abaddon's reply was swift. "There are no unusual movements on the Abyss side. The source of the spatial fluctuations is not in the Abyss World."

"I know."

Not in the Abyss.

On Earth.

High-Dimensional Hunter.

Last time, in the depths of the Abyss, Godzilla had torn off half its face. Before retreating, it had left behind the words, "I will be back."

It was back.

Faster than expected.

Luo Yu stood up. He was done with the noodles.

"Sister Qingxue, I'm leaving the Bridgehead to you. All members of the Expeditionary Force are to stay in the Abyss; do not return to Earth through the wormhole."

From the other end of the communicator,

Su Qingxue's voice came through: "Understood. You're going back?"

"It won't take long."

Luo Yu jumped onto Godzilla's shoulder, and Su Zhiruo followed closely behind.

"It's safer for you to stay here," Luo Yu said, glancing back at her.

"I'm not staying."

Su Zhiruo's spatial array had already switched to teleportation mode, her fingers rapidly connecting nodes on the array. "You need someone to help with spatial positioning and data relay."

Luo Yu didn't try to persuade her further; he could never talk her out of anything.

Godzilla did not shrink.

Its 500-meter body stepped out of the Bridgehead's defense line, and after twenty steps, it reached the wormhole entrance.

It glanced back at The Three Kings behind it.

Abaddon, Belial, and Azathoth stood in the distance, their dragon head, eagle head, and stone face all turned toward Godzilla.

They did not follow.

Not because they didn't want to,

but because Godzilla had sent a brief command via mental link: Guard the home.

The Three Kings obeyed the order.

Godzilla turned and walked into the wormhole.

The Transmigration process took only three seconds, and the exit at the East Sea Defense Line unfolded before them.

As soon as it stepped out of the wormhole,

Godzilla's body expanded over the sea.

From 500 meters, it stretched to 3,600 meters.

Its gold-black scales reflected blinding golden light under the East Sea sun, and its 3,600-meter figure cast a shadow over a ten-kilometer radius of the sea.

The radars at the East Sea Defense Line were instantly overloaded.

"Report! An ultra-large biological entity has appeared at the wormhole..."

"It's not an enemy! It's Godzilla! But its size... its size has nearly doubled! 3,600 meters!"

General Zhankuang stood before the command console, the cigar he had just lit held in his mouth, unpuffed.

"Good God."

Luo Yu's communication patched into the main channel of the East Sea Defense Line.

"General Zhankuang, what's the situation toward the South Pole?"

General Zhankuang bit his cigar and pulled over a display screen. "Twelve minutes ago, the global satellite network detected spatial fission over the South Pole. The scale of the crack far exceeds any previous occurrence. Beijing has already activated the highest-level warning."

"High-Dimensional Hunter."

"Confirmed?"

"Last time in the Abyss, I ate its son and tore off half its face. It's likely here for revenge."

General Zhankuang took the cigar out of his mouth.

"You say that quite casually."

"Because it really is quite casual."

Luo Yu sat in the horn groove, looking toward the southern horizon. Over the Antarctic ice sheet 14,000 kilometers away, a purple-white light fissure was expanding.

He could feel that energy.

High-dimensional.

Stronger than the previous two times.

The High-Dimensional Hunter didn't come stealthily.

This time, it tore open a dimensional crack large enough for its entire body to pass through.

No longer just reaching out a hand or poking its head through.

Its whole body.

It was descending in its entirety.

"It's crazy."

Su Zhiruo's array tracked the crack data in real-time. "Descending with a full body requires over a hundred times the energy of a partial projection. It's essentially burning its own life to open this door."

"Then it's gambling its life," Luo Yu said.

"Gambling on what?"

"Gambling that it can defeat the evolved Godzilla."

Luo Yu patted the scales.

"Let's go."

Godzilla took a step forward, treading onto the sea.

With a size of 3,600 meters, a single stride covered over ten kilometers.

The seawater beneath its soles was compressed into steam. Every step left a high-temperature footprint two kilometers in diameter, which instantly vaporized as seawater poured back in.

Godzilla was walking on the ocean.

From the East Sea to the South Pole, the straight-line distance was 14,000 kilometers.

According to its stride and speed, it would take approximately,

Twenty-three minutes.

At the seventh minute,

the crack over the South Pole tore open completely.

A massive silver-white figure plummeted from the dimensional crack.

Three thousand meters.

Its entire body was finally fully exposed under the sky of the three-dimensional world.

Its silver-white, streamlined body resembled an infinitely elongated hybrid of a snake and a dragon.

A single eye sat in the center of its faceplate, over sixty meters in diameter, with a purple-gold spiral iris. A large piece of the right side of its faceplate was missing—the piece torn off by Godzilla last time had still not grown back.

The High-Dimensional Hunter landed on the Antarctic ice sheet.

Its 3,000-meter body crushed the ice into a crater five kilometers in diameter.

It stood up.

Its single eye swiveled around, locking onto the north.

Mental fluctuations traversed the entire Earth's geomagnetic field, covering every biological entity capable of receiving mental signals.

Awakeners from all countries received this message simultaneously.

"Puny three-dimensional reptile."

"You ate my child."

"I have come."

During the three seconds of global silence, the underground command room of the Eagle Country White House was already in chaos. The nuclear submarine fleet of the Northern Border Federation entered a state of combat readiness. In the Geneva headquarters of the Western European Alliance, leaders were holding an emergency conference call.

The Dragon Country military Supreme Command Headquarters was surprisingly quiet.

The Supreme Commander sat in his chair, watching the massive silver-white silhouette on the large screen.

"Where is Luo Yu?"

The staff officer glanced at the tracking signal: "The Marshal is over the South Pacific, estimated..."

A red dot appeared on the screen.

From the direction of the East Sea, it headed straight for the South Pole in a linear trajectory.

The movement speed of the red dot... the staff officer tapped a calculator twice and then put it down.

"Estimated to arrive in six minutes."

The military Supreme Commander picked up his teacup and took a sip.

"Open global broadcast permissions."

"Yes, sir."

"Let the whole world watch."

The sixteenth minute.

The Antarctic ice sheet.

The High-Dimensional Hunter stood on the white wasteland, its single eye staring north.

It felt it.

A sense of pressure it had never experienced before was closing in from across the horizon.

When it last fought Godzilla, the opponent was 1,900 meters while its own body was 3,000 meters, giving it the size advantage.

Yet back then, it had only poked half its face in, only to be rubbed into the ground.

This time, it was descending in its entirety.

It had gambled nearly a third of its life force.

Its entire carapace was covered in burn marks from the dimensional crossing, and white-gold body fluid was still seeping from the damaged faceplate.

But it had to come.

Its child was dead, and its face was lost.

If a hunter of the high-dimensional world did not seek revenge, it would be seen as trash by its kin.

So it came.

And then it saw the silhouette rising from the northern horizon.

Gold-black.

Larger than itself.

3,600 meters.

The High-Dimensional Hunter's single pupil contracted violently.

Last time.

1,900 meters.

This time.

3,600 meters.

In the time it had been recovering in the high-dimensional world, this damned Lizard—had evolved again?

Mental fluctuations were released involuntarily; their content was not a threat, nor fear, but something akin to confusion.

Why?

How did it grow so fast?

Godzilla stepped over the final ice ridge.

The 3,600-meter gold-black titan stood on the ice sheet, the millennial ice beneath its feet melting dozens of meters deep under the radiation of its high-temperature body.

The meltwater didn't even have time to flow before it evaporated.

The two behemoths faced off from less than twenty kilometers away.

Single eye against vertical pupil.

Silver-white against gold-black.

3,000 meters against 3,600 meters.

Luo Yu sat in the horn groove, looking at the High-Dimensional Hunter.

The silver-white giant beast with a piece missing from half its face.

When it tried to squeeze through in the Abyss last time, Luo Yu had felt a tiny bit of tension.

Now, there was none.

It wasn't a pretense of calm.

It was because the threat assessment on the System panel stated clearly:

[High-Dimensional Hunter · Dimension-Reduced State]

[Rank Evaluation: 11th Rank Peak (Due to full-body dimension reduction consuming massive life force, actual combat power is approximately 11th Rank Middle Stage)]

[Threat Level: Low]

Low.

The System used the word "Low."

Luo Yu let out a breath.

"Godzilla."

Godzilla's golden vertical pupils stared at the silver-white single eye opposite it, the micro-galaxy structures within the pupils accelerating their rotation.

"Hiss."

Translation: You again. You ran pretty fast last time.

The High-Dimensional Hunter's mental fluctuations surged, its rage and the pain of losing its child burning in its single eye. The energy circuits on its silver-white body were all activated, and purple-gold light burst from the gaps in its carapace.

It opened its mouth.

The grayish-white ray that had previously appeared over the Antarctic laboratory and in the Abyssal void condensed in its mouth with unprecedented density.

This was its all-out strike.

Compressing all the energy remaining after dimension reduction into a single ultimate kill shot.

One hit, total annihilation.

The grayish-white energy pillar erupted from its mouth, over a hundred meters in diameter. Wherever it passed, spatial barriers were torn to shreds. The ice, rock, and crust—the very concept of matter's existence—were being erased.

At such speeds, the twenty-kilometer distance was effectively zero.

The grayish-white energy pillar slammed into Godzilla.

To be precise,

it slammed into Godzilla's chest.

Godzilla didn't activate its Domain, didn't use a shield, and didn't release any defensive skills.

It just stood there and took it.

The grayish-white ray exploded against the surface of its scales.

The golden light patterns flowing between the joints of its gold-black scales flickered once—only once.

Then the ray dissipated.

There wasn't even a mark on the scales.

The High-Dimensional Hunter's single eye went blank for two whole seconds.

The ultimate kill shot it had gambled its entire fortune on had about as much effect as shining a laser pointer at a mountain.

Luo Yu stretched in the horn groove.

"Godzilla, let's end this."

Godzilla tilted its head.

Then it took a step.

One step.

At a stride of 3,600 meters, the twenty-kilometer distance took only two steps. When the first step landed, an entire section of the ice sheet shattered. The second step...

it was already in front of the High-Dimensional Hunter.

The High-Dimensional Hunter wanted to run.

Spacetime Anchoring activated.

Space within a fifty-kilometer radius was locked down.

No dimensional cracks could be opened.

No spatial jumps could be executed.

Even the propagation of light was fixed at a constant value.

The door it had burned a third of its life to tear open when it arrived was now locked by a passive skill.

"Hiss."

Godzilla's right front claw rose.

The High-Dimensional Hunter watched the claw, larger than its own head, descend. The golden light patterns in the gaps of Godzilla's carapace cast flowing spots of light onto its faceplate.

One slap.

The silver-white faceplate shattered completely.

This time, it wasn't cracks or dents.

It was pulverized into powder.

The High-Dimensional Hunter's 3,000-meter body was slapped beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.

Through ice, rock, and crust, it smashed down over 4,000 meters deep until it hit the hard upper mantle.

A crater three kilometers in diameter was left on the surface.

A faint mental fluctuation came from the bottom of the pit.

A fluctuation that had been smashed to pieces.

"No... this is impossible... a high-dimensional body wouldn't... by a three-dimensional..."

Godzilla walked to the edge of the pit and glanced down.

Then it opened its mouth.

Gold-red light condensed deep in its mouth. It was no longer crimson; it was gold-red.

Final Judgment Breath.

A gold-red pillar of light poured into the crater.

The temperature of the light pillar exceeded five million degrees.

Exceeding the upper limit of any natural environment on Earth.

Exceeding the temperature of the sun's surface.

The High-Dimensional Hunter's body was decomposed within the light pillar.

Its silver-white carapace vaporized, its high-dimensional tissue structure collapsed, and its white-gold body fluids evaporated into a plasma state.

Three seconds.

The light pillar stopped.

Only a thin layer of silver-white powder remained at the bottom of the pit.

The System panel.

[Ding! Godzilla has killed the High-Dimensional Hunter (Dimension-Reduced State)]

[evolution progress +1.3%]

[Current evolution progress: 1.3%]

1.3 percentage points.

The evolution contribution of an 11th Rank Peak High-Dimensional Hunter to the Star-Rank Godzilla was less than one percentage point.

That was how vast the gap was.

Luo Yu looked at the pitiful number on the panel and shook his head.

"Not even enough to get stuck in its teeth."

"Hiss."

Godzilla expressed its agreement.

After the High-Dimensional Hunter died, the dimensional crack over the South Pole lost its energy support and began to shrink on its own.

It closed completely a few minutes later,

and the sky returned to its azure blue.

In the global broadcast footage, 1.8 billion viewers saw the entire process.

Smashed with one slap.

Vaporized with one breath.

The whole thing took less than ten seconds.

The comment section could no longer be described as "boiling."

Dragon Country's social platforms crashed their servers twice.

The President of Eagle Country sat in his chair, staring at the screen for a long time. Then he stood up, walked to the corner of the office, and poured two glasses of whiskey—one for himself, one for...

He looked around the empty office.

"Forget it, both are mine."