Chapter 182: Little Short Arms, Let's Spar
"So the Lightning Spear's attack method is actually an explosion rather than being thrown, automatically hitting its target, and then returning to the wielder?"
"You're confusing it with Odin's divine declaration, aren't you? You've mixed up mythology."
"According to the myths, when not in use, the Lightning Spear looks like a small rod crackling with electricity. But when thrown in battle, it transforms into a long lightning spear capable of piercing through anything."
"Looking at it now, it's obvious that the bards either got it wrong or exaggerated the truth."
After all, what they had just witnessed was the Lightning Spear detonating upon impact, heavily injuring the legendary King Ghidorah and blasting Burning Godzilla away.
But then, they saw Chang Wei raise his hand.
BOOM!
Thousands upon thousands of lightning bolts answered his call. The sky rumbled, flashing with blinding electric arcs as a thunderstorm of apocalyptic proportions erupted.
Crackle! Sizzle!
A relentless barrage of destruction unfolded, a terrifying manifestation of the wrath of thunder.
As the lightning continued to converge upon Chang Wei's palm, a new Lightning Spear formed!
"…Could this be why bards mistakenly believed it could be thrown and then summoned back?"
The members of Monarch were in utter disbelief. If the Lightning Spear was actually formed from an enormous concentration of lightning, then it made sense that its explosion would be so devastating. In fact, it was like a hydrogen bomb with a yield of a hundred megatons—perhaps even an understatement!
This time, however, Chang Wei did not hurl the Lightning Spear again. Instead, he strode forward.
The legendary King Ghidorah had absorbed a massive amount of electricity. Despite just having one of its heads obliterated in the explosion and the other two heavily wounded, it was rapidly regenerating.
Chang Wei ignored the struggling Burning Godzilla and swatted aside King Ghidorah's incoming wings with a wave of his hand. Then, he stomped down, trampling the colossal beast and sending it sprawling to the ground.
"Wuuu—!!"
King Ghidorah roared in fury. All three heads lunged toward Chang Wei, attempting to drain his energy.
Chang Wei swung the Lightning Spear—SLASH!—and lopped off the head known as Kevin.
(Kevin: ???)
With the remaining two heads still intact, Chang Wei grabbed them—one in each hand.
Then, he forcibly twisted them together.
Truth be told, he had always been curious—what would happen if he tied King Ghidorah's three heads into a knot?
King Ghidorah thrashed wildly, sensing what was about to happen.
But it was futile. The power gap was simply too vast.
"What is he trying to do?"
"That motion…"
A female researcher froze as a memory surfaced.
She had just thrown away her takeout box earlier.
Grabbing the plastic bag's handles, twisting them together, looping them, and then giving them a firm yank to tighten the knot—
No way!
On the screen, the colossal deity flawlessly replicated the exact same action in her mind, tying King Ghidorah's heads into a knot—along with the freshly regenerating one.
King Ghidorah was stunned. Furious.
For the first time in its life—no, in dragon history—it had been tied into a knot.
Never before, in all its battles across the cosmos and Earth, had any Titan attempted such a thing.
The legendary King Ghidorah flailed in sheer desperation, rolling across the ground like a tangled mass of serpents.
"Awooooo—!!"
Burning Godzilla reacted next. Staring at the knotted King Ghidorah, its body began to surge with terrifying heat.
Chang Wei's gaze turned cold.
What now, little short arms? You wanna spar with me?
He had been looking forward to obtaining G-Cells.
But, perhaps because this version of the movie was an American production, Godzilla's cells did not contain the G1 Organism he sought. This had left him anxious for quite some time, unsure whether to abandon the idea or destroy the corrupted G-Cells outright.
In the end, however, the Divine Light Virus had completely overwhelmed the G-Cells after the initial infection. And from the system's analysis, this strain of G-Cells wasn't the type that could withstand the immense pressure of a black hole. While their evolutionary potential was similar, they ultimately fell far short of his expectations.
It was like comparing Zilla to Godzilla—one was just a radiation-mutated giant lizard, while the other was an atomic dinosaur capable of unleashing atomic breath and nuclear pulses.
Chang Wei's efforts had been wasted. And now, he was in a foul mood.
If Godzilla didn't know its place, he wouldn't mind showing it what dragon-slaying truly meant.
After all, an atomic dinosaur is still a dragon.
Burning Godzilla roared, gathering an immense amount of nuclear energy within its body.
For most creatures, its Heat Ray would be a catastrophic attack.
But for Chang Wei?
Nuclear energy? Please. He had long since surpassed such things.
Now, he wielded something far more efficient—Saitama's Body.
Although his strength didn't grow as absurdly fast as Saitama's, he could feel himself becoming stronger every single day. And that sensation was breathtaking.
Burning Godzilla unleashed its Infinite Heat Ray, targeting King Ghidorah.
Its mate was dead. Revenge came first.
As the King of the Monsters, its duty was to eliminate the alien lifeform before anything else.
Its rivalry with Chang Wei could wait until after King Ghidorah was dealt with.
However—
The Infinite Heat Ray never reached its target.
Chang Wei hadn't even moved.
Yet, the devastating beam stopped abruptly, as if striking an invisible barrier.
Psychokinesis.
Chang Wei's psychokinesis grew stronger with each passing day. At this point, he wasn't even sure how powerful it had become.
But disrupting the planetary orbits in the solar system? That was probably within reach.
Blocking a mere Burning Godzilla's attack? Child's play.
"Did… did the God and Godzilla just start fighting?"
Monarch's researchers had assumed that the next step would be the God executing King Ghidorah.
But then, Godzilla's attack had been intercepted by the God himself.
Why?
"Did we misunderstand their relationship and hierarchy?"
The female researcher's eyes widened.
Previously, they had believed that the God had feared King Ghidorah, which was why he had remained hidden.
And that, in ancient times, he had needed to team up with Godzilla and other Titans just to fight King Ghidorah.
But now?
They had seen it with their own eyes—King Ghidorah had crushed Godzilla.
And then, the God had crushed King Ghidorah.
This was despite the fact that King Ghidorah had grown stronger by absorbing the electricity from modern power plants—something it had lacked in ancient times.
As for the God himself…
Had he gained new powers during his disappearance?
Or…
Had he always been this overwhelmingly powerful?
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