Gatanothor, with its thick, ridged shell, savage face turned upside down, and a pair of incomparably crimson eyes!
At this moment, it was in the central Pacific region of this world. Most of the super-ancient ruins here had already risen above the surface!
As the Ruler of Darkness, it stood in the center of those ruins, letting out cries like an elephant's trumpeting!
Knowing this might be the final battle, Daigo, aboard the Artdeise, felt especially heavy-hearted!
Even across the vast ocean, with his super-ancient genes, he could still sense the overwhelmingly powerful pressure radiating from Gatanothor!
Because this world had descended into chaos, and because Gatanothor had not fully awakened beneath the sea when Daigo and the others evacuated the base!
This time, unlike in the original storyline, Daigo had not transformed at Victory Team headquarters just as it was about to be completely swallowed by the black fog!
Instead, like his teammates, he had boarded the Artdeise and left the base, arriving at a relatively safe stretch of coast nearby!
"So powerful... stronger than every opponent I've ever faced!"
"But even so, I can't let the tragedy of thirty million years ago repeat itself in this era!"
"Humanity won't be defeated by you. We will all have a brighter future!"
Standing outside the Artdeise, Daigo looked alone at the sea shrouded in dense black fog before him!
The direction of his gaze was precisely where Gatanothor had appeared!
"Daigo!"
Just as Daigo was preparing to face this enemy—one he stood almost no chance of defeating—alone, Rena's voice suddenly rang out behind him!
"Rena? Captain! And everyone... you...?"
Daigo, who had just been about to take out the Spark Lens from his clothes, hurriedly withdrew his hand!
"Enough, Daigo! The captain and Rena have told us everything!"
"All this