Space rippled violently. A dark vortex opened in Vanaheim's sky, like a vast, profound chaos. Crimson light and lightning poured forth, shrouding the entire land.
Richard looked up at the sky in surprise.
That is... Dark Field G?
Could Zagi have come back to haunt us?
No, that was not it. Though it was likewise a subspace similar to a Dark Field, it was not Dark Field G, but some entirely new Dark Field that had never appeared even in the original TV series.
More terrifyingly, judging from the sheer feeling it gave off, it seemed even stronger than Zagi's domain.
A dark red pillar of light descended from the vortex, enclosing the Aether like a cage. The liquid Aether struggled violently, continuously slamming and scraping against the surrounding pillars of light, but it was utterly futile. It could not shake its prison in the slightest.
In that lightning-fast instant, Nexus acted without a second thought, flinging out a Rescue Light Band at the pillar of light, trying to use its target-capturing ability to pull the Aether out from inside.
But the move did not work. The instant the blue beam struck the dark red pillar, it was repelled as though two like magnetic poles had collided. It only left a faint arc of electricity along the pillar's surface.
Such powerful energy.
Ever since he had defeated Zagi, he seemed not to have encountered an energy field this powerful again.
Yet unexpectedly, the other party's purpose was not to take the Aether away. On the contrary, it seemed to have left something behind within that black vortex.
Under the pillar's illumination, the Aether rapidly began to deform. The mud-like liquid quickly condensed and compressed into a black mass. Then, centered around that black thing, countless particles invisible to the naked