The Darkness Descends

After doing all this, the light faded, and Masaki Keigo's form returned to that of a human.

He staggered a step and dropped to one knee on the cold metal floor.

His ragged breathing echoed through the empty ruins.

Every cell in his body wailed in agony, and his mind was utterly exhausted as well.

This feeling was far more painful than running a marathon.

He had expected reversing time to consume an enormous amount of energy, but the reality was even more exhausting than he had imagined.

However, it was far too early to rest—

Masaki Keigo took a deep breath. As he had reversed the torrent of time across the entire world, he had keenly caught a faint ripple of discord.

The will entrenched in Earth's deepest darkness, the being known to the ancient civilization as the "Great Evil god"—

To a certain extent, it had not been fundamentally affected by the time reversal.

His actions had undoubtedly completely ruined its plan to bring darkness upon humanity through human hands.

But darkness would never let the matter rest so easily—

The next moment, as if to confirm Masaki Keigo's deepest fears, the entire underground base—and even the whole surface of the Earth—began to shake violently.

At TPC's Far Eastern Headquarters, a shrill alarm tore through the brief silence in GUTS's command room.

"Simultaneous high-intensity tremors detected worldwide!

Epicenter locked! Central Pacific Ocean, coordinates R-1!"

Yazumi's fingers flew across the keyboard, fine beads of sweat forming on his forehead.

He quickly projected the live satellite feed onto the central screen.

In the footage, the azure ocean surface was brutally torn apart by a force rising from the deep sea.

An unimaginably massive, pitch-black pyramid-shaped structure rose from the seabed amid boiling white waves.

As the pyramid rose, endless black