Volume 2 Chapter 69: The Golden Sun (End)
From Australia, a radiant beam shot into the skies 5,000 kilometers above East Asia, where the Golden Sun displayed its immense power.
The light emerging from Godzilla's mouth was so intense that, in an instant, it overwhelmed the entire Eastern Hemisphere's sky. It completely outshone the sun, dragging the celestial body's luminous posture into obscurity. This light far exceeded the one unleashed a day earlier.
In a flash, before anyone, including the Ghidorah's Wings, could react, the beam collided with the sun, engaging it in a high-altitude "duel" of illumination. Yet, calling it a duel would be an overstatement—it was a moment of absolute dominance.
In a mere instant, the light emitted by the Golden Sun was completely overwhelmed. The beam from Australia pierced through the Sun's golden light curtain and struck its core directly. At this moment, the already bright sun became blindingly brilliant.
The beam persisted for four to five seconds, during which the sun dominated the sky. Its light was so dazzling that even people in Europe, who were waiting for shelter, had to shield their eyes with their sleeves. It was pure, blinding white light.
At that moment, the sky appeared void of anything else—the real sun was entirely obscured. The brilliance of this descending "sun" was so striking that people on lunar space stations could see the unimaginable intensity erupting from Earth.
This overwhelming radiance lasted only seconds, but in its aftermath, from the ground, the sun's figure appeared blurred and indistinct. Though its brightness remained unchanged, its form resembled a glowing cloud more than a defined star.
In reality, this was an accurate perception. The once flawless golden sun now bore two gaping holes from which streams of superheated gas spilled outward, giving it a fiery tail of gas.
The cause of this was the earlier attack. Within mere seconds, something within the sun had been sublimated entirely. A closer inspection of the two holes revealed melted and sublimated fragments: severed heads, disconnected wings, and a detached tail.
These fragments belonged to one—or rather, two—Ghidorah's Wings. Heads, wings, tails, and legs—all these parts were melting and sublimating. However, among these disintegrating remains, one crucial component was missing: the core body that linked the four heads.
The bodies had vanished. They had been entirely vaporized in that moment.
Back in Australia, Godzilla closed its mouth and looked toward the blurred, descending new star. It calculated the damage to its throat, exhaling steam from its sublimated body tissue. The power of the beam had far exceeded 4 petawatts.
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The sun in the sky had been gravely wounded. Two Ghidorah's Wings had lost their bodies in an instant, forcing the remaining Wings to begin reassembling themselves. This moment of reassembly created an opening—a weakness.
In this brief interval, nuclear missiles within a 1,000-kilometer range all launched an assault. Even though their primary forces had already been annihilated by the Ghidorah's Wings, it didn't matter. What mattered was preventing the Wings from fully reassembling, leaving the sun incomplete. If satellites could deliver a barrage of missiles during this moment, there was a chance to destabilize the balance and destroy this spherical formation.
Seizing this opportunity, the second wave of nuclear missiles advanced. Laser fire from the Wings had thinned significantly, allowing the missiles to approach. The 1,000-kilometer distance was traversed in moments. Though many missiles were destroyed by laser beams, some managed to advance closer.
10,000 missiles at 10 kilometers.
5,000 missiles at 5 kilometers.
1,000 missiles at 1 kilometer.
These 1,000 nuclear warheads broke through layer after layer of defense, closing in on the Ghidorah's Wings. Then, at this final range, they detonated.
From the ground, the explosions near the target were indistinguishable from those that missed. But in the command center, the operators could hardly believe what had just transpired.
Just when they thought the sky was lost, Godzilla had handed them the equivalent of a divine bow and arrow, creating the perfect opportunity for their assault. This collaboration between Godzilla and humanity was almost surreal. The operators weren't sure what to think, but it didn't matter. What mattered was that nuclear warheads had finally exploded near the Wings' solar formation.
They hoped these explosions would kill one or two Ghidorah's Wings, reducing their ability to regroup and making it possible to destroy over ten Wings in the long term. Achieving this would dramatically ease the pressure on East Asia and humanity on the ground.
"Please, let it succeed," the operators prayed.
When the sun, formed by the Ghidorah's Wings, emerged from the fiery cloud of nuclear explosions, humanity saw it—a dead Ghidorah's Wings.
However, even in death, its wings clung stubbornly to the formation. The sun returned to its complete state and descended into Earth's atmosphere, now within 3,000 kilometers.
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