Gatanthor on Douluo Star

Su He turned to Gu Yuena.

"Aren't you worried? There's a Gatanthor sealed on Douluo Star too."

Gu Yuena kept her eyes on the Sky Curtain, her gaze calm.

"What will come will come. I've lived a long time. Even if the end arrives, I'll accept it."

"I think you could show a little more fight. You could resist." Su He looked up at the Sky Curtain. "See? Those people haven't given up."

"It would be futile." Gu Yuena shook her head. "The gap is too great. No matter how fiercely they resist, it won't change the outcome."

"I don't think it'll end so quickly."

Gu Yuena glanced at Su He but said nothing more.

Outside the meeting hall in Spirit City.

Tang San looked disdainful.

"What a fool Daigo is. He could've left that planet and come back for revenge once he was stronger. Same goes for those humans. Don't they have a moon base? They should take the Artdessei and flee. As long as they survive, they can fight another day."

Tang Hao's face hardened as he agreed in a low voice.

"Too reckless. They don't know when to retreat."

Tang Chen looked even more contemptuous. "Idiots."

They were as foolish as Qian Daoliu.

Back when he had challenged Qian Daoliu, he'd asked him to fight on the ground, and the fool had agreed.

And Qian Daoliu thought he could win Bo Saixi's heart like that?

Didn't he know women admired strength?

Bo Saixi had fallen for Tang Chen precisely because Qian Daoliu had lost to him.

Tiga's petrification had plunged the people of the Ultraman Tiga World into despair. It also left the people of Douluo Star with a chill of dread: they had a Gatanthor of their own.

The fate of the Ultraman Tiga World might be theirs too.

On the Sky Curtain, Megumi Iruma and the others refused to give up. After discussing their options, they pressed on.

The people of TPC, along with Kirino, Masaki Keigo, and the others, set to work saving Tiga.

Kirino used his ability to communicate with any number of people at once, regardless of distance, serving as TPC's link to the entire world.

Masaki Keigo and TPC's researchers built a light-conduction device that could turn the stone statue back into a Giant of Light. Masaki Keigo climbed inside to operate it.

TPC then air-dropped the device into the waters where the Dolphin was located.

With the Dolphin's help, Masaki Keigo began directing light into Tiga.

In Daigo's pitch-black Mental Space, a light suddenly appeared before him. He reached for it at once.

At the sight, every living being on Douluo Star held their breath and clenched their fists, praying for Masaki Keigo and the others.

Masaki Keigo, Shinjo, and Horii fought desperately to control the device.

But Gatanthor interfered. The device soon broke down, and the plan failed.

The light before Daigo in his Mental Space went out completely.

Afterward, a smile almost seemed to spread across Gatanthor's hideous face.

As though he had deliberately toyed with them, watching tiny beings struggle in vain before crushing every last hope himself.

News of the failure spread across the globe. Both worlds fell silent, crushed beneath despair so heavy they could barely breathe.

Just as nearly everyone had given up and the countdown to extinction began, a young but resolute cry pierced the silence.

"Tiga!"

In the shelters, countless children rose to their feet. They straightened their small bodies, struck Tiga's flying pose, and called his name with unwavering conviction.

Then, before countless eyes, the first child to stand became a wisp of clear white light. It soared into the air and flew toward Tiga's stone statue in the black sea.

A second followed, then a third... Countless children became pure particles of light, streaming into the statue without end.

At last, a few adults became light as well.

One ray, a thousand, ten thousand... Streams of light filled the sky, crossed mountains and seas, pierced the darkness, and converged on Tiga's statue beneath the waves.

Daigo's Mental Space turned bright as day. The boundless darkness vanished.

Countless points of light took human shape there and ran toward Daigo.

At the sight, untold numbers of people on Douluo Star wiped away tears.

In his Mental Space, Daigo stared at the light filling the sky and the children running toward him.

He reached out with all his strength, toward the crowd and the boundless light.

"So this is light."

Boom!

A dazzling golden pillar pierced the darkened sky. As its blinding radiance slowly receded like a tide, a new, towering figure stood upon the waves.

It was Tiga, revived. Sacred, gentle streams of golden light flowed around him, and he stood more than twice as tall as before.

"Roar!"

Gatanthor roared. Black mist churned around him, and countless tentacles lashed wildly as he poured out his dark power, trying to suppress the light before him.

Glitter Tiga swept his arms inward, gathering all the light within him into his right arm. He unleashed a Shining Burst that struck like a tornado of light.

The golden spiral shock wave roared like a dragon. It blasted Gatanthor's enormous body out of the sea and sent him flying dozens of kilometers.

Cracks spread across the shell that had seemed unbreakable before.

Tiga pressed his advantage, firing several more Shining Bursts in succession. Gatanthor howled in pain under the onslaught.

Gatanthor thrashed madly, spewing beams of darkness and corrosive black mist in an attempt to turn the tide.

But the holy light surrounding Tiga blocked and dissolved every attack, however powerful. None came close to touching him.

It was a rout. Complete and utter domination.

Gatanthor, the Evil God who had seemed invincible, was helpless before Glitter Tiga, who bore the light of hope from countless lives.

At last, Glitter Tiga crossed his arms and gathered his power. His ultimate attack, the Glitter Zeperion Beam, erupted forth!

A dazzling golden torrent of light swept across the sea and struck Gatanthor.

Darkness and light collided. The terrifying surge of energy tore space apart, opening a massive Space-Time Vortex above the sea that began swallowing the surrounding air, seawater, and ruins.

The next instant, Gatanthor's enormous body exploded into black energy that filled the sky.

Some of that dark energy was caught by the Space-Time Vortex and dragged across time and space into an unknown dimension.

The image on the Sky Curtain abruptly changed, and a line of text appeared: [Douluo Star, a hundred million years ago.]

Then a Space-Time Vortex identical to the one on the Sky Curtain appeared in the sky above Douluo Star.

Gatanthor's dark energy, having escaped the Ultraman Tiga World, fell through the vortex and sank to the ocean floor.

At last, the living beings of Douluo Star knew where their Gatanthor had come from.

Spirit Hall, Spirit City!

Gu Rong patted his chest, shaken.

"That scared me to death. Seeing how terrifying Gatanthor was on the Sky Curtain, I thought the one in our world would be just as bad. I never imagined it was only fragments of energy."

Qian Daoliu nodded.

"Yes. If they're only fragments of dark energy, perhaps we can purify them bit by bit."

"When I return, I'll immediately order the Deep Sea Demon Whale Tribe to search for waters that might contain fragments of the Evil God. Once they find them, we'll begin purifying them at once."

"Yes, I'll have the Magic Soul Great White Shark Tribe search too!"

While they were still discussing how to find Gatanthor's dark energy fragments, something unexpected happened.

A line of black text edged in gold slowly appeared: [Gatanthor can continually devour the world's darkness and absorb negative emotions to multiply. After more than a hundred million years, he has recovered and even surpassed his power at its peak. He needs only to wait for the right moment to awaken.]

Everyone: ...

Just as everyone thought the Sky Curtain's broadcast was about to end and prepared to begin the dungeon mission, its view suddenly rose, hurtling into the vast depths of space.

After Gatanthor's fall, a vast amount of dark power broke through the planet's atmosphere and reached space. It began to surge wildly, and an ancient whisper, barely perceptible, spread through the airless void.