The Final Battle

That pure, dark will did not cease after condensing into Zog.

Instead, it gathered toward the center of the control room, toward the true body of the human consciousness collective.

The mass of energy twisted and stretched, finally taking the form of a giant ninety percent similar to Ultraman Gaia, yet entirely black, with scarlet light flickering in its eyes.

Black Gaia.

It stood silently between Masaki Keigo and the enormous glass window, watching him. "If humanity cannot cross this final trial known as Zog through its own strength, then they are unworthy of winning the future."

The voice of the human consciousness collective rang out once more, but this time, the ethereal quality born of countless blended voices was gone.

In its place was an absolute, unquestionable cold will.

"I... believe in humanity."

The instant those words fell, brilliant silver radiance erupted from Masaki Keigo's body!

Within the light, his form rapidly grew and transformed, becoming the giant woven from pure white and silver—Ultraman Impat!

BOOM!

The giant's body burst through the control room's dome. Amid countless chunks of metal and clouds of dust, he stood upon the ruins of this dead land.

Before him stood Black Gaia, equally colossal and emanating an endless aura of darkness.

The battle erupted in an instant.

There was no probing, no unnecessary movement.

Impat, transformed from Masaki Keigo, flickered and left a string of afterimages behind him. In an instant, he closed in on Black Gaia, chopping at its neck with a hand strike brimming with immense force.

Yet Black Gaia did not even look at Masaki Keigo's movement before its body had already made the perfect response.

It merely shifted slightly aside, evading the ferocious strike by a hair's breadth. At the same time, its right arm shot out like a