I Am The Swarm

Facing the strange fish that blatantly screamed “suicidal attack,” Godzilla’s eyes also turned red, and the LED lights on its dorsal fins lit up wildly.

Then, with a sudden motion, it dove in the opposite direction of the strange fish, attempting to escape.

However, before it got far, another group of strange fish charged toward it from ahead, forcing Godzilla to turn around quickly.

In this manner, the strange fish formed a fan-shaped encirclement, relentlessly driving Godzilla toward a specific direction.

The strange fish moved fast, but Godzilla’s propulsion system was no slouch either. The two sides engaged in a chase, raising the water level rapidly, and soon approached a shallow sea area.

An idea struck Godzilla’s clever brain: these strange fish surely couldn’t come ashore. If it managed to reach the land, wouldn’t it be safe from their pursuit?

Although Godzilla still had no idea where these strange fish had come from or why they seemed to bear such a deep grudge against it, this didn’t stop it from grasping the wisdom of retreating when faced with overwhelming odds.

Using unprecedented speed, Godzilla clambered onto the shore. As expected, the strange fish could not continue their chase. Turning back, Godzilla unleashed two blasts of thermonuclear breath, venting its earlier frustrations.

Suddenly, alarm bells rang in Godzilla’s mind, a visceral instinct warning of a life-threatening danger, even more severe than the sense of peril it felt when confronting the strange fish earlier.

Frantically scanning its surroundings for the source of this danger, it soon spotted strange creatures slowly materializing in the void. Their appearance reminded Godzilla of its old toys—those octopuses with long tentacles it used to tear apart in the shallow seas for fun. Watching them flail their tentacles to support their bodies as they scrambled ashore in a panicked retreat always amused it.

But why were these creatures so enormous? They dwarfed even Godzilla by a significant margin. And since when could they fly? Even Godzilla couldn’t master that skill.

The flying creatures crackled with blue arcs of electricity, which emanated from either their backs or a long cylindrical structure underneath their bodies, where blue lights flickered on and off in rapid succession.

As beautiful as this display was—reminiscent of the glow of Godzilla’s dorsal fins—it only intensified its sense of crisis.

Before Godzilla could devise a strategy, something shot out from the cylindrical structures beneath the flying creatures.

In the next instant, Godzilla lost consciousness.

Directly hit by dozens of electromagnetic cannon blasts, Godzilla’s massive body froze mid-motion but didn’t collapse outright. Its head, however, had been blown into a bloody mist.

The dozens of mature entities tasked with executing this strike had been meticulously selected by Luo Wen from the neighboring star system. Each was about 200 meters in length, and the electromagnetic cannon barrels on their bodies stretched over a hundred meters long.

Even with Godzilla’s formidable defenses, being struck by so many gigantic cannons at once left it with no choice but to succumb. From the moment the strange fish drove Godzilla to the coastline, the battle’s outcome had already been sealed.

A larval body hovered over Godzilla’s headless corpse. Its surface tissues split open, revealing a half-meter-long beetle that crawled out—Luo Wen’s true form.

Godzilla was a rare treasure, an exceedingly precious ingredient that required the utmost care in handling. Such high-end fare needed no elaborate cooking; it could be consumed as-is.

Unable to wait any longer, Luo Wen burrowed directly into Godzilla’s wound. To ensure he absorbed every bit of Godzilla’s genetic fragments, he resolved to consume as much as possible.

Godzilla’s entire body was a treasure trove, brimming with black-tech marvels. However, even after several days of devouring Godzilla’s flesh, Luo Wen only managed to acquire some basic genetic materials related to its bodily structure and skeletal composition.

While these genes were incredibly powerful—essential to Godzilla’s unparalleled defenses and its ability to grow to such a colossal size—they were not what Luo Wen urgently needed. Luo Wen already possessed the means to achieve similar effects through the Swarm’s existing genetic repertoire.

This anomaly left Luo Wen deeply perplexed. It was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

Was it possible that Iphieash’s abilities were ineffective against such organisms? Could it be that only ordinary genetic fragments could be absorbed? Or was it simply a matter of not having consumed enough?

Yet, other highly advanced genetic materials, such as those from atmospheric organisms, had posed no such issues in the past.

As he continued to consume and analyze over the next half-month, Luo Wen began to doubt whether Godzilla was even a biological entity. But suddenly, a new genetic fragment was successfully assimilated.

Excited, Luo Wen immediately examined it and finally found the gene fragment he had been yearning for, letting out a sigh of relief.

Upon reflection, Luo Wen realized the complexity of this particular gene fragment—it operated on an atomic level. Even Iphieash’s abilities required time to parse it.

This gene fragment, named the “Atomic Furnace,” described an organ resembling a fleshy sphere made of a special nanomaterial highly resistant to heat, capable of withstanding temperatures exceeding billions of degrees.

Within the Atomic Furnace, reactive materials were heated under electromagnetic forces until they reached a plasma state. Once in this state, electrons were stripped from atomic nuclei, allowing the nuclei to move freely and collide directly.

The collisions were tightly constrained by magnetic fields emitted from the Atomic Furnace’s walls. When the atomic nuclei collided, they released massive amounts of energy, which was absorbed by the furnace’s interior walls and distributed throughout the body via a unique energy system.

This process essentially created an artificial sun encased in biological material, akin to a portable Dyson Sphere, capable of generating unimaginable amounts of energy.

This was why Godzilla could remain active despite long periods of hibernation and fasting. Sustaining its multi-thousand-ton body on carbohydrates alone would require consuming thousands of tons of food daily, an impossibility.

With the Atomic Furnace, Godzilla only needed periodic refueling with reactive materials. This also explained its preference for nesting in high-radiation areas.

This single gene fragment allowed the Swarm to bypass nuclear fission and leap directly into the era of controlled nuclear fusion—a monumental enhancement.

As for its offensive capabilities, Luo Wen found them secondary. Godzilla’s thermonuclear breath, while potent, had limited range, making it somewhat lackluster for use even on planetary surfaces, let alone in outer space.

Thus, Luo Wen had no intention of replicating Godzilla as a Swarm combat unit. It was simply an expensive and underwhelming target, with short range and limited utility—barely sufficient to intimidate early-stage civilizations.

Any civilization capable of interstellar travel would have countless methods to easily neutralize it.

If not for the Riken sending only a single reconnaissance vessel, the Swarm wouldn’t have had a chance to intervene. Thankfully, it turned out this way; otherwise, the Swarm would have had to engage in a large-scale space interception battle.

In situations where information was unclear, rushing into conflict was not something Luo Wen desired to see.

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