Chapter 90
With negotiations finished, Isis began following closely behind Godzilla.
The battle hadn't reached the point where he needed to act—yet. But his turn was coming soon.
High above Cadia's wilderness, the Chaos fleet began its airdrops.
The first wave were the smallest of their corrupted war machines: Chaos Knights.
These towering mechs had once been noble Knight Households, sworn to the Imperium. But during the Horus Heresy and in the millennia since, many Houses had fallen to Chaos. Though they were not true Titans, many Astra Militarum soldiers often mistook them for such. After all, they weren't far off in size from the smaller Warhound-class Titans, and far larger than any tank.
Close enough. For most Guardsmen, if it walked like a Titan and fought like a Titan, you called it a Titan.
The Chaos Knights formed the vanguard of Abaddon's god-machines. Around them, troop landers dropped more Chaos Space Marines and corrupted armor into the field.
"Cadia's Navy is finished," a Guardsman muttered.
'The Cadian fleet must be wrecked by now. What about the Genesis?' Godzilla thought.
[It's fine. Fixable. After this battle, this star sector will be littered with wreckage anyway.]
The system wasn't wrong. Already, over twenty vessels were drifting as scrap near Kasr orbit. More than ten Sword-class frigates had been destroyed just in the opening stages of Abaddon's push. The Navy was bleeding out. If not for Cadia's ground-based anti-orbital guns, the Chaos fleet would already have overwhelmed the skies.
The situation on the ground was no better.
With the airdrop of the Chaos Knights, the Cadian defense lines began to crack.
These machines—smaller than Titans but far stronger than any tank—came with void shields, massive cannons, and reaper chainswords. They were killing engines, equally dangerous in the ruins of a city or the open plains.
Without Imperial Knights to meet them, there was nothing the Guard could throw in their path. For now, the soldiers of Cadia were buying time with their lives.
"For Cadia!!!"
A Guardsman lowered his anti-air gun and fired directly at a charging Chaos Knight. The heavy rounds slammed into its void shield, but failed to break through.
The Knight turned its massive arm-cannon toward the emplacement. Yet the Guardsman did not flinch. He kept firing, joined by his squadmates' lasguns. There was no escape—the blast radius of the Knight's weapon was too wide. Better to fire until the end.
The Knight's cannon lit up, preparing to fire.
But before it could, a blinding blue beam several meters thick tore across the field. It struck the Knight's void shield, shattered it instantly, and burned straight through the corrupted machine.
The beam carved a gaping hole through its torso, nearly hollowing the Knight out. With a groan of tortured metal, it toppled and fell, crushed into the mud.
The Guardsmen froze. Then, slowly, they turned to look behind them.
From the haze of the battlefield, a vast silhouette approached. Blue fire faded from its jaws.
'Your flashlights don't cut it,' Godzilla rumbled casually. 'So I brought something better.'
As he stepped into the fray, the sight of a single blast felling a Chaos Knight made the others falter. Their towering frames looked tiny compared to him. Knights barely reached ten meters; Godzilla's breath weapon alone was thicker than a man's torso, nearly as wide as a tank.
The Chaos Knights fell back, forming up into a makeshift artillery line. Their weapons thundered, cannons and autocannons hammering the advancing beast.
Godzilla strode forward through the storm of fire, unbothered. To the Guardsmen, the sight was overwhelming.
"He's like… a god," one whispered.
Like? At this moment, Godzilla was a god.
Their shells burst uselessly against his hide. No matter where they struck—head, chest, or limbs—they couldn't pierce his armor.
Inside their corrupted machine-spirits, the daemon voices raged.
"How can mere flesh withstand our artillery?!"
Even their heavier weapons, cyclone missiles and plasma blasts, bounced harmlessly from his scales.
"I don't believe it!"
One Chaos Knight broke formation and charged, its reaper chainsword screaming. At best, it could strike Godzilla's leg. Still, the pilot aimed for the calf—surely even this monster couldn't be invulnerable everywhere.
The chainsword bit into his hide, sparks spraying as adamantium teeth ground against unyielding flesh. Sparks, sparks, and more sparks… but not a drop of blood.
"AAAHHHH!" the daemon within howled in fury.
Godzilla didn't let it finish. He lifted his right foot and brought it down like a hammer.
The Knight crumpled under the blow. Its frame buckled, armor shrieking as it collapsed inward. Within seconds, the thirty-ton war machine had been crushed flat—nothing left but a twisted column of mangled metal, barely three meters tall.
The sight was so brutal that even Chaos warriors flinched.
'That was me going easy on you,' Godzilla muttered.
He turned to the other Knights. Against him, they wouldn't last five minutes.
"Praise Him!"
From behind, Isis raised her staff, shouting:
"Invincible! The mightiest warrior! Praise the great plan! Praise Godzilla!!!"
The Lizardmen roared their support in their ancient tongue. Even the Guardsmen, confused at these strange xenos, lowered their weapons. Whoever they were, they clearly weren't enemies.
Still, the Chaos host was not finished.
Behind the shattered Knights, the sky split again. More dropships descended—this time bearing Titans. From nimble Warhounds to towering Reavers, and even six massive Warlord-class Titans.
And this was still less than half of Abaddon's Titan reserves. The rest had yet to make planetfall.
The Titan legions descending on Cadia rivaled those unleashed during the Horus Heresy itself.
But Godzilla showed no fear. His roar shook the battlefield as he bared his fangs at the god-machines.
"Another one?!"
Abaddon's eyes widened in disbelief.
He already knew of the colossal beast encountered on a nearby world. How could there be another here, on Cadia itself?
And judging by the wreckage of Knights littering the field, this one was every bit as deadly.
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