Just as she spoke, she sensed something wrong.
She looked up suddenly.
A massive energy surge flashed in outer space.
As realization hit her, Herta's lips quivered for a while before she could react, her teeth aching from the shock.
"Hiss~ This big guy has teleportation skills?!"
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Godzilla, unaware of Herta's thoughts, had already arrived in space.
The unique environment of space made him pause briefly. After a moment, he landed on a meteor.
This meteor was about three times the size of Godzilla, currently drifting above the head of a colossal Giant Sting.
Godzilla stood atop it, eyes locked on the giant creature below.
The giant Giant Sting didn't look much different from others of its kind—except for its sheer size.
"Screech screech." The Giant Sting's limbs clicked together. Godzilla understood its message.
It was confused—wondering why something had appeared above its head.
But it quickly lost interest in that question. Its limited brain couldn't sustain such thoughts for long.
Now, its only instinct was to swallow Godzilla whole!
With that single thought, the Giant Sting opened its maw and lunged at Godzilla!
Its immense shadow nearly engulfed him completely—and that was with part of its body still hidden, making its full size hard to discern.
"ROAR!!!"
Seeing this, Godzilla's internal atomic furnace roared to life. The powerful energy waves excited the Giant Sting even more, spurring it forward!
Temperature—soaring to extremes.
Before the Giant Sting could react, a wave of searing heat struck!
Ultra-high-temperature thermal barrier!!!
Godzilla didn't use the barrier defensively—he extended it without restraint, melting the Giant Sting's limbs with intense heat.
The intense pain made the Giant Sting shriek in agony.
Still, it didn't give up. It stubbornly tried to wrap its twitching body around Godzilla.
Godzilla snorted coldly, his heated breath scattering sparks—strikingly visible in the vacuum of space, even under the energy barrier.
...
"Ugh! What's going on?! What happened?!"
Inside the Giant Sting's abdomen, the temperature rose sharply with each violent twist of the Giant Sting's body. The two individuals inside felt as if they were in a steamer.
Velite's entire body turned red from the heat.
"This phenomenon… it's as if we're inside a living creature's stomach—and someone outside is attacking... Mr. Velite, I think I get it now!"
Suddenly, Argenti shouted.
"Do you remember the Giant Sting we encountered earlier?"
"Of course I do, but now's not the time for that! Wait! Don't tell me we're in the Giant Sting's stomach?!"
Velite had enough talent to join the Interasteral Peace Corporation—especially in life-and-death situations, he could burn through every last brain cell, deducing the unthinkable from limited information.
"Exactly. And if I'm not wrong, someone is attacking the Giant Sting from outside. If we coordinate from inside, we just need to let them know someone's in here."
"Good idea. Let's just hope I don't get blown up with this giant bug."
Velite had already given up resisting.
The heat was so intense he thought he nearly saw his great-grandmother.
Argenti burst from the ship, raising his spear high. He was ready to fulfill his will—and answer Velite's request.
To bring him back to the Interasteral Peace Corporation!
"Is someone inside? Who's so unlucky to have been eaten by it?"
Godzilla looked suspiciously at the giant Giant Sting, which suddenly began to assume a strange posture.
Just now, he sensed an energy moving inside the Giant Sting's belly.
Considering the size of the Giant Sting and its history, it was likely that some poor soul had been swallowed.
Shaking his head, Godzilla had no intention of getting involved.
The Giant Sting also had danger perception, and upon sensing Godzilla's extreme danger, tried to retreat—only to be attacked from within by Argenti.
At this moment, Godzilla was preparing a new round of attacks.
The atomic furnace spun.
Energy surged throughout Godzilla's body, powerful electromagnetic waves began to convert into thermal energy, and the rapidly rising heat clashed with outer space, generating thick white mist.
Even mist wafted from between Godzilla's jaws.
Muscles tensed, the dorsal fins stood erect.
Godzilla—Power Up!
A powerful technique that enhances his attack by converting electromagnetic waves into heat!
Like the Space Shred, this was a power Godzilla had mastered after inhaling the storm.
At this moment, Godzilla radiated with blue light!
The Giant Sting tried to flee.
Godzilla let out a low growl.
With a light flick of his tail fins, blue light surged, dorsal fins glowed, and massive energy gathered in his mouth.
Even his eyes lit up blue!
"Raaaah!!!"
A thunderous roar shook the cosmos, and the blue light, unstoppable and mighty, blasted toward the Giant Sting, which had already turned to flee some distance away!
Blue Atomic Breath!
The scorching heat pierced through the Giant Sting from front to back—it died without even letting out a scream.
Its charred body floated silently in space.
Like a dead planet.
But it wasn't over—the Blue Atomic Breath barreled forward, blasting through a distant asteroid belt and piercing it completely!
The remaining asteroids, not directly hit, began to orbit the beam's path under its influence.
Eventually, the beam struck a planet roughly half the size of Jarilo.
A barren planet that perhaps might have birthed life in a distant future.
But that hope was forever lost.
"Boom!!!"
Brilliant fireworks bloomed in the universe.
Just like Jarilo, once ignored by all, this lifeless planet had now lost its chance to ever bear life.
"Whoo!" Godzilla exhaled with satisfaction, the heat drawing out white mist.
He looked at the Giant Sting's corpse with disgust.
This thing had no nutrients and couldn't be a minion.
Not even as useful as a Doomsday Beast.
At least the Doomsday Beast gave him two free meals.
Flicking his tail, Godzilla prepared to open another portal.
"Buzz!" The portal opened.
Just as Godzilla stepped into the portal, a bizarrely shaped spaceship also rushed in.
Godzilla noticed but didn't pay much attention.
He sensed no malice from the ship.
After all the help he gave, collecting a little fee should be fair, right?
...
Belobog.
When Godzilla reappeared through the portal, the pressure in the area instantly spiked.
Even Herta felt a wave of heat rush in.
Just as she was about to question Godzilla about the situation and the nature of the portal, a strangely shaped spaceship burst out.
Even with her sharp eyes, Herta couldn't immediately identify which civilization the ship came from.
Beneath the high-temperature melting marks, traces of corrosion from stomach acid could be seen on the hull.
Even with her vast capabilities, without knowing the context, she couldn't identify the ship's origin.
But soon she wouldn't have to guess—the spaceship's hatch opened.
Two figures stepped out, one stumbling, the other walking upright.
Despite just enduring such chaos, the latter still maintained his elegance.
Herta narrowed her eyes slightly.
She had a good idea who this was.
"A Knight of Pure Beauty—and a high-ranking one at that. Tsk, even here we run into this bunch."
Despite her complaint, Herta wouldn't let this rare opportunity slip by.
Besides, she was extremely curious about Godzilla's transformation.
He changed so dramatically just after she turned her back—how could she not investigate that?
Shaking her head slightly—although her body was stronger than Velite's—she still felt the residual impact.
Especially that sudden temperature spike at the end.
In that moment, Argenti almost believed he had reached the end of his journey.
His only regret was not having seen the pure and beautiful Idrila.
Idrila, whose beauty was unmatched in the world!
"Th-that, Argenti, can you stop praising unmatched beauty now? Shield! Shield up!"
Velite practically shouted to get Argenti's attention.
This desperate cry successfully drew his focus.
"Mr. Velite, let me make it clear—we owe our rescue to our friend out there, and we must look upon them with admiration, not rudeness. Let me behold, my friend, your magnificence."
"..."