The Kaiju grew with every step of the charge, and it had already been the largest living thing any human had ever seen.
Kaiden ran at the heart of his army and watched it sharpen out of the pale distance: four legs the size of skyscrapers, a hide of raw stone carapace, six burning eyes, each of which was much bigger than Kaiden himself.
The world had met this creature when it stood up out of a mountain range it had been wearing as a disguise, and it had eaten twenty dungeons on its way to his door.
Humanity had named it Kaiju because no smaller word fit.
Its chest swelled.
Kaiden knew what came next.
"Monoliths, move to the front!"
The order ran through the ranks, and the fortress-variant Maulfiends slammed down into a wall of obsidian plating across the army's face just as the howl arrived.
