───「 Human POV 」───
The city was silent.
Victoria Metropolitan Area, the second-largest metropolitan area in Australia, was also the first to be rebuilt by the Australian government after the nuclear war. This reconstruction occurred because the nuclear war had severely impacted the three major metropolitan areas of Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane in the southeast, rendering them uninhabitable due to excessive radiation and steep terrain.
With the southeast beyond recovery, the reconstruction of New Australia focused on the southwest and north, with Victoria and Perth as central hubs and emerging metropolitan areas such as Geraldton, Darwin, Albany, and Esperance as secondary centers. A completely new Australia had risen from the ashes.
And now, Godzilla was about to destroy it all.
Within Victoria Metropolitan Area, skyscrapers reaching hundreds of meters in height stood in orderly harmony, obscuring the brilliance of the sky. They resembled a mountain range cast in steel or a sleeping giant quietly at rest.
The blue skylights atop the buildings gleamed like sapphire crystals. On the empty streets, machines operated with precision. There was no trace of the tension that had existed before the great war.
The towering structures formed two distinct worlds beneath the intertwining darkness and twilight glow of the setting sun. One world was dark and profound, with something stirring within, like the deepest abyss.
The other world was bright and tranquil, with the sunset's radiance freezing time, like an eternal moment suspended in reality.
Light and darkness divided the city into two halves, perpetually interweaving with a clear boundary between these worlds.
Boom...
Boom...
Boom...
In the next moment, the division between these two worlds shattered.
Far away on the horizon, a tiny black dot appeared.
It was moving toward the city.
───「 GODZILLA POV 」───
Every step shook the earth, every movement trembled the sky. Larger and more massive than anything on the ground, Godzilla's calm eyes gazed upon the city.
Here it was.
Godzilla observed Victoria Metropolitan Area, the easternmost metropolitan area of Australia. This was where its destruction would begin.
Behind Victoria lay the living areas of the Australian people, with endless sprawling cities. There were cities after cities, even more densely populated than the Far East.
As long as it broke through this city, the formal expulsion could commence.
It had penetrated the layers of obstacles created by the machines and had finally arrived.
In the city ahead, tens of millions—perhaps billions—of machines awaited. Godzilla's sonar detected their operational sounds, louder than any machine wave it had encountered before. This was the strongest defensive barrier built by the machines.
With its previous power, Godzilla needed to get within 30 kilometers of the city to inflict fatal damage to this metropolis filled with countless skyscrapers.
───「 Human POV 」───
The machines in the city activated as soon as Godzilla appeared on the horizon. In the dense forests, completely motionless units suddenly began moving.
If Godzilla advanced just a bit further—entering within 30 kilometers of Victoria Metropolitan Area—the machines buried in the mountains and forests would suddenly emerge. They would surround Godzilla just as before, climb onto its body, and force it to damage itself to cleanse them.
This was the machines' new strategy. In previous attacks, they had discovered that Godzilla couldn't detect their "false death" state. They'd also determined that Godzilla avoided destroying forests.
So, the machines had hidden "dormant" units throughout the forests near Victoria Metropolitan Area. They knew Godzilla would inevitably come to destroy Victoria and would fall into their trap.
This was a brilliant machine strategy! Their intelligence now rivaled that of top human tacticians.
───「 GODZILLA POV 」───
Godzilla knew this, and the machines knew this.
The city remained dozens of kilometers away, but Godzilla could see it. It stopped in its tracks, its massive body blocking out the setting sun.
The reactor inside it began fusing.
Unprecedented energy gathered.
Incomprehensible power was being born.
A brilliant light emanated from Godzilla's mouth.
───「 Human POV 」───
Light brighter than the sun itself made the sunset turn pitch black. Meanwhile, in the distant Victoria Metropolitan Area, countless machines awakened at this moment.
They rushed toward Godzilla from outside the city, but the speed of light outpaced them. In mere seconds, the blinding, scorching energy descended.
Tens of millions of robots gathered at Victoria's center had no time to escape.
When the silent flames spread, the machines were engulfed.
Silent death, quiet death—only pure light enveloped everything.
As mentioned earlier, the boundary between light and dark was broken. Then rebuilt, with pure darkness transforming into pure white under the brilliance of absolute light!
And the pure white, under even more intense brightness, turned into pure black!
Next, darkness expanded, light expanded! They filled every moment in the sky and on earth, claiming territories on every hill and every tree.
Silent evaporation of moisture began as soon as the energy touched the ground. The concrete surface started silently releasing vapor.
The flames burned without sound. The formerly dark city became the world's largest light source. And then...
Boom!
With a thunderous sound, pure light turned into a blinding white screen.
Tens of millions, perhaps billions, of robots remaining in Australia vanished in the white expanse. They might have wanted to escape, might have prepared battle plans, but at this moment, all strategies proved futile.
The sound of trees igniting, buildings collapsing, and machines being destroyed echoed through the air.
Crash...
This was the sound of buildings collapsing.
Zzz... Zzzzz... Zzzzz...
This was the sound of machines being destroyed, their circuits completely shattered.
Boom, boom, boom.
───「 GODZILLA POV 」───
This was the sound of Godzilla moving away from the forest and toward the next city.
The decisive battle in Australia had come to an end.
Godzilla's power far exceeded imagination.
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[Remaining Construction Robots in Australia: ???? million]
[Progress in Analyzing Godzilla's Behavior Logic: 70%]