Great, we're doomed now!

It was a darkness completely different from her own.

Carmilla herself is the embodiment of dark power; her very existence is the manifestation of this concept. But the being in the dream is completely different from her, radiating an excessively evil will, like a bottomless abyss, whose mere presence is enough to devour everything.

"Whoo~"

Carmilla closed her eyes, trying to calm her breathing.

She knew that what she was seeing was not her own memory, but an echo transmitted from the ancient source, or perhaps the murmur of some slumbering behemoth that turned over in its dream and inadvertently revealed itself...

This chaotic mental pollution transcended time and space, crashing into her dreams and exploding into one destructive scene after another in her consciousness.

It's fortunate that she's not an ordinary human, otherwise she might have gone insane. Even Ultraman needs to carefully maintain his rationality to avoid being corrupted by that monster.

She finally understood what Ye Shou had been preparing all along.

For a long time, she felt that Ye Shou was too cautious. Even though he already possessed power that surpassed most monsters and giants, he still seemed to be walking on thin ice.

It should be noted that Earth now possesses so many giants, and TPC has completed the integration of all human resources; the combination of the two makes it an invincible force.

Even though the final boss once destroyed an era, Ye Shou has always been growing, and 30 million years later he has clearly evolved to an unimaginable level.

Carmilla couldn't imagine what enemy Ye Shou couldn't defeat in his state of light and darkness being one.

She used to think it was all due to his personality, that instinctive caution of "doing everything perfectly"... but now she knows.

He wasn't being overly cautious; rather, the evil god's methods of intrusion were not conventional physical or energy attacks.

--【pollute】.

Its very existence is a huge source of pollution. The human spirit is powerless against Gatanothor. The moment it awakens from its slumber and appears in sight, all of humanity will be unable to control themselves and will fall into despair.

Even Ultraman can be affected if his will is not strong enough...

"No wonder he said that once war breaks out, it must be a quick and decisive battle."

Carmilla threw back the covers, her bare feet touching the cold floor, and walked step by step to the window, pulling back the heavy curtains.

Sunlight streamed in, illuminating her pale face, and the warmth lifted her spirits somewhat.

"We really can't delay; the longer it goes on, the more trouble we'll run into!"

Outside the window was a white line of sand and an endless blue sea. The surface of the sea shimmered with golden light under the sun, and a few white boats drifted far away, like grains of rice scattered on a blue silk cloth.

Carmilla stood by the window, her gaze fixed on the horizon where the sea met the sky, her eyes slightly narrowed.

What seemed like a peaceful and beautiful daily life has been silently invaded by some force. In this vast ocean, something is awakening...

A month ago, she would probably have scoffed, believing that no matter how vast the darkness, she could tear it apart with her own strength. But now, standing in the warm sunlight, looking at the calm sea in the distance, a feeling she had never experienced before welled up inside her.

Are we fighting to protect what is good?

I never expected that a dark giant like her would have such naive thoughts... Was she influenced by someone?

Honestly, he absolutely has to take this responsibility seriously!

-

At the bottom of the sea... at depths inaccessible to humans, light has long since vanished. And from some unknown point in time, the once perfectly calm seabed tectonic plates began to vibrate intermittently, which then became more and more frequent and gradually increased in intensity.

Finally, the strata could no longer hold on, like a piece of paper torn in the middle, with cracks spreading in all directions. The deep trench continued to expand, with rocks at the edges peeling off, collapsing, and falling into even deeper depths.

Those ancient rock layers, covered over tens of millions of years, have finally seen the light of day again.

Strange architectural ruins loomed in the darkness, with bubbles gushing from the cracks, making the sea appear to be boiling...

-

TPC Headquarters, Command Center.

Red lights flashed, alarms sounded incessantly, and a dozen different images were displayed simultaneously on a huge screen.

Megumi Kijima stood in front of the control panel, her brows furrowed, her eyes quickly scanning the constantly changing data on the screen.

"How is this going?"

"Earthquakes occurred almost simultaneously around the world." Ye Rui's voice came through the communicator, speaking quickly. "The distribution of the epicenters is irregular, and we don't know what caused them."

"Could it be an attack by aliens?" Munakata's voice came from the side.

"No energy transfer from space was detected... Moreover, satellite images show that many ancient ruins have appeared near the epicenters... These earthquakes have brought up some very deep things."

Ye Rui pulled up a geological profile map, marked with complex lines and color blocks: "A large amount of sediment from 30 million years ago was found in the fault, as well as some structural remains."

"Ancient civilization?"

"The data is still being analyzed, but the initial assessment is that it is very likely."

There was a moment of silence in the command center as everyone realized what was happening.

"The prophecy of that time capsule... could it be..."

"In any case, now is not the time to hesitate."

Megumi Kijima took a deep breath, her voice hardening: "Immediately mobilize all available unmanned detectors to conduct detailed surveys of each epicenter, Victory Team..."

She paused, her gaze sweeping over the team members standing around her.

"Prepare to strike."

"understand!"

-

The aftershocks of an earthquake do not simply disappear. Under the immense force of the pressure, the tectonic plates fracture, shift, and uplift, stirring up seawater thousands of meters deep, like a pot of soup being boiled over a raging fire. The rock layers on both sides of the fault zone squeeze against each other, emitting a muffled roar, and the tremors from the deep sea can be felt even on the surface of the sea.

Then, the seawater began to recede...

It wasn't the gentle, slow ebb of the tide, but rather a near-tyrannical contraction towards the deep sea, as if an invisible giant hand were pulling the entire ocean into its embrace.

In the distance, a white line appeared where the sea and sky met, and it grew thicker, higher, and closer at a breathtaking speed. At first, it was just a faint silver edge, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into a wall of water tens of meters high!

Southeast Asian countries collectively issued alerts, shattering the afternoon tranquility.

But it was too late. The water wall advanced much faster than the humans could evacuate. Those still on the coast didn't have time to reach higher ground and could only watch helplessly as the grayish-white giant shadow drew ever closer...

hum!

Suddenly, a blue figure fell from the sky, moving as fast as a shooting star, stopping between the tsunami and the city the instant everyone looked up!

—Bayel!

In his super-powered form, Ye Shou didn't speak, but simply raised his right hand, spread his five fingers, and pressed forward lightly.

An invisible barrier expanded outward from him, its edges shimmering with a faint blue-white halo, like a transparent wall stretching from the sea to the clouds. The barrier covered almost the entire coastline, casting its shadow over all the towns, ports, and docks that hadn't had time to evacuate.

When the tsunami struck, the sound was so loud it almost deafened people.

Tens of millions of tons of seawater crashed into the invisible barrier with the force of thunder, producing a dull and enormous roar. However, the water wall was abruptly cut off at the point of contact, and huge splashes of water flew upward along the surface of the barrier, forming water curtains hundreds of meters high, like giant dragons rolling in the sky!

The seawater couldn't get past this protective barrier even an inch!

Guided by an unseen force, they flowed along the surface of the barrier, roaring over the city and to both sides like a plowed-out river. The seawater, carrying mud and gravel, drew arcs in the air before crashing heavily onto the distant sea, stirring up white waves.

The entire archipelago was covered by that huge blue shadow, and sunlight refracted through the water curtain, casting countless tiny spots of light that fell on the faces of the still-shaken crowd below.

The first wave of the tsunami had barely passed when the second wave arrived.

His figure vanished from the spot, leaving only a faint blue afterimage, and the next second he appeared in front of another island tens of kilometers away...

Deep in the Pacific Ocean, a deep-sea probe is slowly sinking. Shaped like a silver torpedo, it carries sophisticated sensors and sampling devices inside. Its tail thrusters emit a faint blue light as it glides silently in the darkness.

This is one of the unmanned probes built as part of Project Agul.

Ye Shou had previously divided the Victory Team into three parts: the Space Force and the Earth Headquarters, which goes without saying; and the "Agul" team, which is actually a global maritime control system composed of AI and drones.

Unlike the empty space, the ocean is too vast and too deep to see anything from satellites alone; one has to go deep inside to gain anything.

This large-scale geological activity naturally alerted these drones, prompting them to begin exploring various nodes.

This drone was one of them; it slowly descended along the edge of the trench, avoiding the huge rock fragments, and headed deeper into the ocean...

The detector's main control screen kept refreshing the data: water temperature, pressure, depth, mineral composition... everything was within the normal range.

Then, the waveform on the screen jittered violently before quickly returning to normal. However, the detector's main control program had already automatically flagged this anomaly and began deploying more sensors to that direction.

The image gradually became clearer.

It was a massive, unnaturally shaped black rock wall, its surface so smooth it didn't seem naturally formed, as if it had been polished by something. A thin layer of black substance covered the surrounding rocks, like ink spreading in water, slowly seeping outwards.

The detector slowly approached and extended its robotic arm to prepare for sampling.

However, just as the robotic arm was about to touch the black substance, the detector's main control screen flickered, and then only a red warning sign remained on the screen. The detector quickly sent out its last data and then the communication was cut off!

...At the same time, similar black substances began to seep from cracks in the earth at the epicenters around the world.

Some are on the seabed, blending into the seawater like ink, and slowly spreading under the influence of ocean currents;

Some of them are on the plateau, gushing out from cracks in the mountains like volcanic eruptions, turning the rocks and soil along the way into a deep black color, and causing the vegetation to wither, curl, and die rapidly.

Fortunately, their spread rate is not very fast, and they stabilize after reaching a certain range, without expanding indefinitely.

TPC and the defense forces acted swiftly, deploying mech units to various sites to seal off infiltrated areas, while also sending out a large number of sampling robots to attempt to analyze the composition and properties of the black substance.

At the same time, abnormal fluctuations began to appear in the global network!

Initially, there were only occasional minor delays in data packet transmission speed and brief peaks and troughs in server load. Then the fluctuations became more and more pronounced, and many networks began to experience frequent outages due to the influence of unknown forces...

-

Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, thousands of meters below the surface, at the very spot where the Agulh drone went missing, earthquakes continue and are becoming increasingly violent.

The seabed cracks continued to expand, and large amounts of bubbles surged out from the depths. Black substances poured out of the cracks, forming thick, inky columns in the water that swirled and floated upwards, making the seawater extremely turbid.

Then, something slowly emerged from the bottom of the trench...

It was a colossal object about a hundred meters long, slowly adjusting its position in the darkness. Its mass was unimaginable, like a mountain submerged in the sea. As it moved, the entire tectonic plate trembled slightly.

The edge of the trench was squeezed by immense force, causing rocks to crumble and collapse, forming a larger crack. And the thing emerged part of its body from the crack, its wing-like outline slowly unfolding in the darkness, black material peeling off its surface and spreading in all directions like melting asphalt.

Upon closer inspection, the monster's outline resembles a dragon from Western mythology... except it looks like a rotting corpse, with viscous fluid constantly dripping from its body, polluting every inch of land it passes by.

Then, a large amount of "black fog" surged out from the depths of the trench.

The mist-like energy ignored the obstruction of the seawater, penetrating the water layer and rising straight towards the surface—

The sky began to change color.

The once azure sky turned gloomy in a matter of seconds, with dark clouds surging in from where the sea met the sky, like a giant wall slowly advancing. The color of the clouds deepened, from gray to dark gray, and then to a dark purple that was almost black.