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When we finally slew that great leviathan, we thought that day was one to be celebrated. Such a moment would go down in history, and people would be telling the tale to their children and grandchildren for years to come. It took only a month or two before we realized that such a time would be seen as a regret rather than a victory. The failed demolition of the corpse and the resulting worm swarm should have been our first clue, but we were still blinded by our successes. Surely that was an inconvenience and not an omen of things to come, right? When Bitoso reared its many heads and began to terrorize our cities, we finally had to accept reality. The great titan that we defeated was not just a colossal beast, it was an entire ecosystem. A creature of that impossible size would be the perfect home for many critters and parasites, with plenty of resources to be had both inside and out. When we killed the leviathan, we destroyed the food and shelter for countless of organisms, and they were forced to relocate. Since its massive corpse was laying on top of a city, the fleeing denizens found refuge in our own homes, and then the problems started. Bitoso was the first one to reveal itself to the world, and we had hoped it was the only survive of that exodus. Sadly, this was not the case. Not long after Bitoso burst from the sewers and slithered through the streets, another terror was found. A trail of sinkholes and collapsing tunnels led investigators into the wilds, and then straight into the heart of another unfortunate metropolis. When an entire city block sank into the earth, we knew that normalcy would never return to this world.

The giant beast that caused such destruction has only been fully seen a handful of times, as it spends most of its life underground. Regardless, it has earned itself the name: Infradestructor. The title certainly isn't as clever and sophisticated as Bitoso's, but it certainly fits the beast. A creature that size with the ability to burrow through practically anything is an absolute nightmare to building foundations and infrastructure. The many tunnels it carves out are prone to collapsing, causing everything sitting up top to come crumbling down. If the Infradestructor kept to the wilds, than perhaps its wouldn't be so bad. Unfortunately, it has quite a liking to human towns and cities. Scientists believe this may have to do with the creature's origins, as they claim this horrid monster was a type of parasitic skin mite. It would have been living in the hide of the leviathan, carving through the epidermis and feeding on the flesh around it. Any witness to the battle can tell you that the titan was in no way thin skinned, it took bunker busters to even break through its armored hide. Thus it can be reasoned that the mite was familiar with a rather hardened and tough stratum, so perhaps it finds our tons of concrete, gravel and asphalt a fitting substitute. Maybe it thinks our cities are just another titan to carve through and feed on, despite the fact it is much bigger than it originally was. Just like Bitoso, it is believed that its escape from the corpse landed it in a nutrient rich slurry of blood, flesh and sewage, causing it to grow astronomically. Who knows, maybe the leviathan's blood is a freaking mutagen...

Regardless of how it reached such size, all that matters now is finding a way to destroy the Infradestructor before it topples any more cities. It possesses three pairs of limbs that are coated in powerful claws and spikes, which allow it to shred through any substance. Its whole body is covered in these spines, helping it carve its way through the earth as it digs. To aid in its efforts, its arms and body secrete a powerful digestive enzyme that turns rock and steel into goop. People have seen this powerful fluid in action, mainly when the mite surfaces and engages attackers. As it flails and fights, gobs of the stuff go flying and splatter across buildings and streets. There are plenty of videos out there showing this enzyme eating through solid concrete within seconds, and no one dares mention the footage of when this stuff lands on a person. With its claws and acid, it tears through the earth with ease as it searches for food. It isn't fully confirmed what the Infradestructor eats, but it is believed it is a combination of melted concrete and sewage. It tends to target areas that are dense with sewage lines and waste. Quite a few nearby landfills have suddenly vanished into the earth, possibly serving as a feast for this insatiable monstrosity. Due to its love for cities and towns, it is believed that some material we use for construction is another favorite of the creature. Concrete and cement is the current guess, as it goes after larger buildings as well as bridges. That sadly does not mean that smaller structures and places are safe, as the mite often burrows through them to get to the juicy parts, which means that your house or business is going to get eaten by the resulting sinkhole.

Efforts to kill the Infradestructor have ended in failure, with the best plans only wounding or scaring the beast. Since it spends so long underground, it is hard to target it for an aerial assault. Planes, helicopters and tanks are pretty much useless until it emerges, and getting it to the surface is incredibly difficult. Bunker busters and buried charges have been used to try and kill it, but the ground absorbs too much of the impact and the mite moves ridiculously fast. Even when it is hit, it is very hardy and prefers to hide underground to nurse its wounds. By adding more detonations, it is possible to drive it to the surface, but that can also scare the mite and cause it to panic. While this may be good against other combatants, it isn't when this beast is hiding beneath populated areas. When it gets scared, it tries to throw off its attackers by fleeing in a rather erratic way. It pretty much burrows wildly through the earth, going every which way to try to confuse its opponents. This has the unfortunate effect of undermining the entire area and causing widespread collapses. One operation accidentally caused this frenzy and wound up burying three different towns as the mite went crazy. Even when they flush it to the surface, it isn't an easy beast to take down. The many spines seem indestructible and its flesh is quick to heal. Its claws tear through any armor or vehicle nearby, making a land assault suicidal. Attacking from the air isn't safe either, as the mite has learned an obnoxious tactic. Using its claws, it rips into the ground, scoops up the debris and then launches it into the air. With all limbs flailing and throwing, the creature is capable of spraying plumes of dirt and rock everywhere, clogging the airspace. A stone the size of a fist doesn't seem like much, but it is a huge problem to a copter or jet. Then factor in a couple thousand of them as they are launched into the sky, only to come raining back down. At this point, it is best to keep your distance and attack from super long range. However, if pressure is not kept on the Infradestructor, then it will burrow back into the ground and escape. Nothing angers the military more than sacrificing countless of lives, resources and weapons just to have the target grow bored and leave.

With all this devastation and destruction, the new plan is to nuke the creature when it emerges. Hopefully the strength of an atomic bomb can finish it off once and for all, but that can only happen if it is on the surface. Unfortunately, the Infradestructor is learning and adapting, and it is getting harder and harder to drive it upward. It knows our tactics and it is growing bolder. Scaring it from its burrow may no longer be an option. The other issue people bring up is what will happen to the creature or corpse once we irradiate it? If we fail to kill it with this one strike, will it only grow stronger? And what if it does die? We have killed a titan like this before, and see what misery came from that. Who knows what is dwelling inside these beasts, ready to escape and continue its legacy of terror?

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Kaijune is winding down, but we aren't done yet! Giant parasites! Bitoso has company!

Description
When we finally slew that great leviathan, we thought that day was one to be celebrated. Such a moment would go down in history, and people would be telling the tale to their children and grandchildren for years to come. It took only a month or two before we realized that such a time would be seen as a regret rather than a victory. The failed demolition of the corpse and the resulting worm swarm should have been our first clue, but we were still blinded by our successes. Surely that was an inconvenience and not an omen of things to come, right? When Bitoso reared its many heads and began to terrorize our cities, we finally had to accept reality. The great titan that we defeated was not just a colossal beast, it was an entire ecosystem. A creature of that impossible size would be the perfect home for many critters and parasites, with plenty of resources to be had both inside and out. When we killed the leviathan, we destroyed the food and shelter for countless of organisms, and they were forced to relocate. Since its massive corpse was laying on top of a city, the fleeing denizens found refuge in our own homes, and then the problems started. Bitoso was the first one to reveal itself to the world, and we had hoped it was the only survive of that exodus. Sadly, this was not the case. Not long after Bitoso burst from the sewers and slithered through the streets, another terror was found. A trail of sinkholes and collapsing tunnels led investigators into the wilds, and then straight into the heart of another unfortunate metropolis. When an entire city block sank into the earth, we knew that normalcy would never return to this world.

The giant beast that caused such destruction has only been fully seen a handful of times, as it spends most of its life underground. Regardless, it has earned itself the name: Infradestructor. The title certainly isn't as clever and sophisticated as Bitoso's, but it certainly fits the beast. A creature that size with the ability to burrow through practically anything is an absolute nightmare to building foundations and infrastructure. The many tunnels it carves out are prone to collapsing, causing everything sitting up top to come crumbling down. If the Infradestructor kept to the wilds, than perhaps its wouldn't be so bad. Unfortunately, it has quite a liking to human towns and cities. Scientists believe this may have to do with the creature's origins, as they claim this horrid monster was a type of parasitic skin mite. It would have been living in the hide of the leviathan, carving through the epidermis and feeding on the flesh around it. Any witness to the battle can tell you that the titan was in no way thin skinned, it took bunker busters to even break through its armored hide. Thus it can be reasoned that the mite was familiar with a rather hardened and tough stratum, so perhaps it finds our tons of concrete, gravel and asphalt a fitting substitute. Maybe it thinks our cities are just another titan to carve through and feed on, despite the fact it is much bigger than it originally was. Just like Bitoso, it is believed that its escape from the corpse landed it in a nutrient rich slurry of blood, flesh and sewage, causing it to grow astronomically. Who knows, maybe the leviathan's blood is a freaking mutagen...

Regardless of how it reached such size, all that matters now is finding a way to destroy the Infradestructor before it topples any more cities. It possesses three pairs of limbs that are coated in powerful claws and spikes, which allow it to shred through any substance. Its whole body is covered in these spines, helping it carve its way through the earth as it digs. To aid in its efforts, its arms and body secrete a powerful digestive enzyme that turns rock and steel into goop. People have seen this powerful fluid in action, mainly when the mite surfaces and engages attackers. As it flails and fights, gobs of the stuff go flying and splatter across buildings and streets. There are plenty of videos out there showing this enzyme eating through solid concrete within seconds, and no one dares mention the footage of when this stuff lands on a person. With its claws and acid, it tears through the earth with ease as it searches for food. It isn't fully confirmed what the Infradestructor eats, but it is believed it is a combination of melted concrete and sewage. It tends to target areas that are dense with sewage lines and waste. Quite a few nearby landfills have suddenly vanished into the earth, possibly serving as a feast for this insatiable monstrosity. Due to its love for cities and towns, it is believed that some material we use for construction is another favorite of the creature. Concrete and cement is the current guess, as it goes after larger buildings as well as bridges. That sadly does not mean that smaller structures and places are safe, as the mite often burrows through them to get to the juicy parts, which means that your house or business is going to get eaten by the resulting sinkhole.

Efforts to kill the Infradestructor have ended in failure, with the best plans only wounding or scaring the beast. Since it spends so long underground, it is hard to target it for an aerial assault. Planes, helicopters and tanks are pretty much useless until it emerges, and getting it to the surface is incredibly difficult. Bunker busters and buried charges have been used to try and kill it, but the ground absorbs too much of the impact and the mite moves ridiculously fast. Even when it is hit, it is very hardy and prefers to hide underground to nurse its wounds. By adding more detonations, it is possible to drive it to the surface, but that can also scare the mite and cause it to panic. While this may be good against other combatants, it isn't when this beast is hiding beneath populated areas. When it gets scared, it tries to throw off its attackers by fleeing in a rather erratic way. It pretty much burrows wildly through the earth, going every which way to try to confuse its opponents. This has the unfortunate effect of undermining the entire area and causing widespread collapses. One operation accidentally caused this frenzy and wound up burying three different towns as the mite went crazy. Even when they flush it to the surface, it isn't an easy beast to take down. The many spines seem indestructible and its flesh is quick to heal. Its claws tear through any armor or vehicle nearby, making a land assault suicidal. Attacking from the air isn't safe either, as the mite has learned an obnoxious tactic. Using its claws, it rips into the ground, scoops up the debris and then launches it into the air. With all limbs flailing and throwing, the creature is capable of spraying plumes of dirt and rock everywhere, clogging the airspace. A stone the size of a fist doesn't seem like much, but it is a huge problem to a copter or jet. Then factor in a couple thousand of them as they are launched into the sky, only to come raining back down. At this point, it is best to keep your distance and attack from super long range. However, if pressure is not kept on the Infradestructor, then it will burrow back into the ground and escape. Nothing angers the military more than sacrificing countless of lives, resources and weapons just to have the target grow bored and leave.

With all this devastation and destruction, the new plan is to nuke the creature when it emerges. Hopefully the strength of an atomic bomb can finish it off once and for all, but that can only happen if it is on the surface. Unfortunately, the Infradestructor is learning and adapting, and it is getting harder and harder to drive it upward. It knows our tactics and it is growing bolder. Scaring it from its burrow may no longer be an option. The other issue people bring up is what will happen to the creature or corpse once we irradiate it? If we fail to kill it with this one strike, will it only grow stronger? And what if it does die? We have killed a titan like this before, and see what misery came from that. Who knows what is dwelling inside these beasts, ready to escape and continue its legacy of terror?

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Kaijune is winding down, but we aren't done yet! Giant parasites! Bitoso has company!