29: Chapter 28 The Sweeping Journey: An Unforgettable Experience for the High-Ranking Military Officials of the Dragon Kingdom

Over the next twelve days, Luo Yu and Godzilla initiated a sweeping mode that would go down in history, making it an unforgettable twelve days for the Dragon Kingdom's military high command.

This was a blitzkrieg without the smoke of gunpowder.

Or more accurately, it was a one-sided, crushing "feeding tour."

First stop: the "Rotting Swamp" in the Southern Frontier.

Radiation Level: S-rank.

nuclear waste reserves: 150,000 tons.

This place was originally a biochemical research institute of the Dragon Kingdom, but due to an experiment gone out of control, the entire jungle became contaminated.

Coupled with the miasma shrouding the area, countless mutant leeches and giant toads lurked in the mud. Data also indicated that an S-rank "Thousand-Eyed Demon Toad" was entrenched here, its skin capable of secreting a toxic mucus that could corrode tanks.

The transport plane hovered over the edge of the swamp.

Without a word, Luo Yu chose to parachute directly down.

At this moment, the mutant beasts in the swamp were perhaps still dreaming sweet dreams, until that 88-meter-tall black giant beast appeared and stepped into the mud with one foot.

Boom!

Mud splashed a hundred meters high.

Complex terrain? Quicksand traps? In the face of absolute tonnage, there was no difference between a swamp and a concrete floor.

The S-rank Thousand-Eyed Demon Toad, touted as having "unbeatable poison," had just poked its head out and hadn't even had time to spray its toxin before Godzilla grabbed it by its hind leg.

Then came the simple and brutal "sledgehammer swing."

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Swinging the tens-of-tons-heavy Demon Toad as if it were just exercising, Godzilla smashed it left and right in the swamp frantically.

After just a dozen swings, the Demon Toad, not even realizing what had happened, lost all signs of life and turned into a puddle of mush.

Immediately following this, Godzilla's iconic blue beam lit up.

The Spiral Heat Ray swept across, instantly evaporating the swamp's moisture, and along with it, the mutant leeches, poisonous insects, and everything else hiding in the mud were all turned into dry, hard charcoal.

Subsequently, it began to absorb the nuclear radiation.

In about two days, the radiation and miasma were gone.

Time taken: two days.

Second stop: the "Abandoned Mine" in Xichuan.

This was once a rare earth mining area and also a missile launch base for the Dragon Kingdom, but due to an accidental explosion, the entire mountain range was contaminated.

The mutant beasts within the restricted zone were primarily mountain creatures.

Mutant wild boars, mutant goats, mutant monkeys...

Among them were three A+-rank mutant apes that were highly intelligent and could use simple tools.

But... Godzilla unleashed a Nuclear Pulse.

All mutant beasts within a ten-kilometer radius instantly stiffened.

Then, the Spiral Heat Ray swept through.

Total annihilation.

Time taken: one day.

Just like that, one after another.

Every time they arrived at a restricted zone, Luo Yu's process was exceptionally fixed: jump down, release the dog (Godzilla), watch the show, and call it a day.

Those places labeled in the files as "extremely dangerous" and "human restricted zones" were as fragile as paper toys in front of the growing Godzilla.

The military's battle reports couldn't even keep up.

Often, the previous battle report had just been sent out, stating "Arrived at target area," and the next one immediately followed with "Target cleared, currently processing regional nuclear radiation."

General Zhan Kuang went from initial shock and ecstasy to later numbness, and finally, he even started betting on how long it would take Luo Yu to clear each stop.

"I bet 28 hours."

"Too long. If it's that 'Thunderstorm Canyon,' including processing the nuclear radiation, it will only take twelve hours."

Amidst this near-manic sweeping, although Godzilla's size didn't surge again, its aura became increasingly profound and terrifying. Those scales, originally black with a blue sheen, began to reveal a layer of dark red patterns, looking like flowing magma beneath the earth, ready to erupt at any moment.

Northern Territory, Icebound Mountain Range.

This was the last nuclear radiation restricted zone within the Dragon Kingdom, codenamed "Winter's Fury."

Unlike the previous deserts or swamps, this was a land of extreme cold covered in white snow.

Twenty years ago, three nuclear-powered icebreakers were destroyed here by an Abyssal Giant Beast. Their nuclear reactors sank into the ice lake, causing the glaciers for a hundred miles around to be contaminated by radiation, taking on an eerie, ghostly blue color.

The cold wind howled, mixed with temperatures low enough to freeze and crack steel.

Luo Yu stood at the hatch of the transport plane, not jumping down immediately.

He looked down at the ice lake below, which was as calm as a mirror, but... the readings on the radiation detector were jumping wildly.

"This is the last one," Luo Yu said softly.

Before he finished speaking, the Little Lizard on his shoulder opened its eyes. It could feel that a big guy with extremely high purity of radiation energy was hiding down below.

"Let's go down," Luo Yu leaped.

Whoosh!

The cold wind whistled in his ears. At a height of thirty meters from the ice surface, Luo Yu suddenly opened his Spiritual Power Shield and landed steadily.

Hmm!

The Spiritual Power Shield was a move he had newly learned.

"Godzilla."

Upon his command, blue light soared into the sky.

In an instant, the massive 88-meter body appeared on the ice field. Its scorching body temperature instantly distorted the surrounding air, and the ice layer beneath its feet quickly melted into water, only to be instantly evaporated into mist.

"Roar—"

Godzilla let out a low growl, and white steam sprayed from its nostrils like two sharp swords.

Perhaps sensing a provocation, suddenly, the originally calm ice lake exploded.

Boom!

Countless huge chunks of ice flew in all directions, and a behemoth rushed out from the bottom of the lake.

It was a giant white bear nearly eighty meters in size, covered in thick ice-crystal armor, with scarlet eyes, emitting a nauseating smell of rotting corpses.

[Radiation Ice Bear S+-rank]

This was the hegemon of "Winter's Fury." Relying on the extreme cold environment and radiation mutation, its defensive power even exceeded that of the previous Twin Scorpions.

"Roar!"

The Ice Bear roared, opening its mouth to spray a stream of white cold air.

That was absolute-zero freezing air; wherever it passed, even the air was frozen into ice shards.

However, facing this cold stream capable of freezing everything, Godzilla did not dodge. Instead, it tilted its head in disdain, its dorsal fins lighting up and rapidly shifting to a scorching crimson.

[Internal Radiation · High-Temperature Mode]!

Hum—!

With Godzilla as the center, a wave of red heat suddenly erupted.

Of course, this was not fire, but pure high-temperature radiation energy.

The white cold stream collided with the red heat wave, and it didn't even last a second before being directly vaporized.

The heat wave, its momentum undiminished, slammed fiercely into the Ice Bear.

"Awoo—!"

The Ice Bear let out a shrill, miserable scream.

The indestructible ice-crystal armor on its body instantly melted and peeled off, revealing the scorched, blackened flesh underneath.

It was terrifying; this was simply not a battle on the same level.

At this moment, Godzilla strode forward, ignoring the shattered ice layer beneath its feet, walking step by step toward the Ice Bear. With every step it took, the surrounding ice and snow melted by a fraction, revealing the black rock underneath.

The Ice Bear was afraid.

Its pride and joy—its defense and low temperature—were meaningless in front of the monster before it. Instinctively, it turned to flee, wanting to dive back into the cold bottom of the lake.

Unfortunately, Godzilla reached out its hand.

That giant claw covered in heavy scales grabbed the fur on the back of the Ice Bear's neck.

The eighty-meter-long behemoth was lifted up by Godzilla with one hand just like that.

Boom!

Godzilla clenched its other hand into a fist and smashed it heavily into the Ice Bear's abdomen.

This punch had no fancy techniques, only pure strength and kinetic energy.

The Ice Bear's eyeballs were about to pop out, its body bent into the shape of a shrimp, and its spine emitted a series of crisp, popping sounds like beans exploding.

Immediately following, Godzilla opened its mouth.

At such close range, there was no need to aim.

Blue light gathered deep in its throat, and then...

Boom!!!

The Spiral Heat Ray erupted at point-blank range, directly piercing through the Ice Bear's chest, and even melted a hole several dozen meters in diameter through the iceberg behind it.

The S+-rank hegemon fell.

The entire process took less than twenty minutes.

Luo Yu stood on a patch of snow in the distance, watching this scene, without much emotion.

He had watched such crushing matches too many times over the past dozen days; he had already developed aesthetic fatigue.

"Eat up, this is the last big feast," Luo Yu muttered to himself.

Godzilla casually absorbed the nuclear radiation inside the Ice Bear, then turned and walked toward the ice lake that was continuously emitting a ghostly blue light.

It dove right in. The lake water boiled, and a large amount of bubbles emerged.

In an instant, the radiation energy of the entire Icebound Mountain Range seemed to have found an outlet, crazily pouring into the lake, into that greedy black hole.

Luo Yu sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.

[Radiation Domain] fully activated.

[Spiritual Power +1000, Spiritual Power +1000, Spiritual Power +1000...]

Wisps of spiritual power fed back through that invisible bond and poured into Luo Yu's body.

This caused the bottleneck of the A-rank peak to begin to break.

Time passed second by second.

This time, the devouring lasted for two whole days.

When Godzilla finally crawled out from the dried-up lake bed, its size was fixed at ninety meters. Although it had only grown two meters, the invisible sense of oppression had undergone a qualitative leap, and the scales on its body had completely turned black-gold.

And Luo Yu opened his eyes at the same time.

Boom!

An invisible wave of air spread from him as the center, blowing the snow on the ground a hundred meters away.

For a moment, the whole world looked different in Luo Yu's eyes.

He could clearly see the movement of dust in the air, hear the heartbeat of a snow rabbit several kilometers away, and even feel the faint pulse deep within the earth beneath his feet.

This sense of control, this sense of power...

[Congratulations Host, level up!]

[A-rank → S-rank!]

He had broken through; he had easily become an S-rank Awakener.

All right!

S-rank Awakener!

In this world, S-rank was already an existence standing at the top of the pyramid, a figure who could guard a region.

And Luo Yu had done it in less than a month.

He clenched his fist, and the air in his palm was squeezed and exploded, making a crisp popping sound.

"Is this the power of an S-rank?"

Luo Yu's mouth curled up slightly. With a thought, he opened the system panel, but then frowned.

[Beast Pet: Godzilla (Growth Stage · Atomic Dragon King Form)]

[Current evolution progress: 76.4%]

"As expected, it's not enough?" Luo Yu sighed.

The eight major nuclear radiation restricted zones within the Dragon Kingdom were all empty. All the "stored food" from these years, plus the countless mutant beasts hunted along the way, had only pushed the progress bar to this point.

The remaining 23.6% was still an astronomical figure.