Ultraman Any Key: Qiming

Chapter 598, Section 594: Gatanothor Unleashes His Slaughter, the Garshians Are Annihilated!
Meanwhile, deep in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean.

The Dyna submarine was moving silently through the cold water, while Kishida and Fujimiya, two experts in naval warfare, were tasked with investigating unusual fluctuations in the ocean.

“The signal strength is increasing, but the positioning remains blurry…” Fujimiya frowned slightly.

Before he could finish speaking, he abruptly turned his head to look at the porthole to his right rear, which was shrouded in deep darkness.

"It seems something... flew past there."

Kishida glanced at the sensors: "The instrument readings are stable, and there's no feedback from the sonar. Aren't you being too nervous...? You're Ultraman, I should be the one who's nervous!"

Fujimiya remained vigilant, his gaze still fixed on the unfathomable darkness.

In the midst of this suffocating silence, a massive shadow suddenly tore through the curtain of the deep sea without warning, appearing abruptly in the water ahead!

It has a pair of sharp horns on its head, its body is blue and white, its body is covered with a carapace-like structure, and it has organs on its back that look like huge wings.

It silently blocked the submarine's path, looking like it had ill intentions.

The deep-sea monster [Rega] makes its appearance.

After the Gashi aliens escaped to Earth, they discovered the Rega, a group of aliens living in colonies.

He installed a "Community Device" on the heads of these Reiga, allowing them to merge with the Garsian and transform into the battle form that is currently blocking Dyna's submarine.

The one who controls this body is none other than Ren, the leader of the Gashi aliens.

He gave Fujimiya and Kishida no time to react, and as soon as he appeared, he raised his arm and unleashed a strange, seven-colored light that completely enveloped the Dyna Submarine.

This is the [Gemification] ability bestowed upon him by Dark Toregia.

There wasn't even a moment to defend or dodge; every inch of the Dyna submarine's structure solidified and crystallized in the light, transforming into a gigantic, seven-colored gemstone sculpture.

The power stopped, the system went silent, and all the indicator lights went out in an instant.

"It still came to this." Looking at the Dyna submarine silently sinking into the endless seabed, Regal's [Ren] felt somewhat complicated.

The unusual fluctuations were bait they deliberately released, with the aim of luring these enemies who "might hinder Lord Toregia" here and eliminating them.

He used to only want to guard his small piece of land in the blue region, but now he has no choice but to take the initiative...

He knows what this means.

He was swept up in these things by fate, and now there's no going back.

Just as they were about to leave, believing they had turned the Dyna submarine and its pilot into gems.

A beam of azure light suddenly burst forth from the direction where the Dyna submarine sank, instantly dispelling the surrounding darkness!
Ren suddenly turned around and saw Ultraman Agul appear, rushing up with the gem-transformed Dyna submarine in his arms.

“A deep-sea monster? No, it’s a monster that’s been manipulated by something.” Agul stared at Rega, and Fujimiya immediately saw the truth beneath the surface.

"Still alive!" Ren was stunned. After being hit by the gem-transforming ray, the submarine and its occupants should have solidified into gems, so how could...?

Under normal circumstances, that is indeed the case.

For example, Kishida, who was in the driver's seat, had now completely transformed into a lifeless gemstone statue.

However, Fujimiya's situation was special. When his lower body turned into a gem, the Light of Agul automatically protected him and bloomed in time, allowing him to escape death.

“Change him back,” Fujimiya said, wanting [Jin] to free Dyna Submarine and Kishida inside.

Ren, who was controlling Rega, looked at Agul with a complicated expression.

Ultraman Agul...?

He had been searching for this power, and he was just a hair's breadth away from obtaining it, but in the end, he missed it.

Damn it, this power should have belonged to me—that old resentment and anger surged up in my heart again.

Now that he has fired the first shot, the Gashi aliens and the Blue Region have been exposed.

There's no stopping now; it's a fight to the death.

With that in mind, he launched an attack on Agul, spitting out a blue wave blast from his mouth.

This is Rega's strongest attack, called "Ocean Ascendant," which in the original series possessed the destructive power to destroy Skepis in one strike.

Agul quickly dodged, as if the flowing water not only could not stop him, but instead propelled his every move.

Holding the Dyna submarine in his left hand and extending the Agul sword in his right, he stepped forward to fight Rega and quickly gained the upper hand.

Although he was fighting with one hand, he still had to be wary of his opponent's gem-transforming ability and dared not get too close.

However, in terms of strength, speed, and combat skills, Agul completely surpasses [Jin] who controls Rega.

Even with the arduous journey and the need to support the Dyna submarine with one hand, I, Agul, am still invincible on the vast ocean!

"Whoosh!" After more than a dozen rounds, Fujimiya seized the opening his opponent made and thrust out the Holy Sword of Agul, piercing through Rega's abdomen!

"Ugh!" Intense pain instantly spread throughout his body, causing [Ren], who was one with Rega, to let out a painful roar.

This made him resentful—was I really not as good as him, so I didn't deserve the Ocean Light?
Before he could recover from his injuries, Agul seized the opportunity and struck its right leg again.

A sharp pain, like an electric shock, instantly coursed through his body, causing Ren to clench his teeth.

The intense physical and emotional pain intertwined, and the overwhelming sense of defeat filled him with utter hatred.

"Whoosh..." The next moment, a commotion came from afar. Fujimiya was startled when he saw a dozen or so Reiga approaching rapidly from the deep, dark seawater from all directions, in the form of stingrays! "Are they here to support their comrades?" Fujimiya glanced at them and tried to break through their protection to kill the Reiga that [Jin] had transformed into.

But the other Rega warriors risked their lives to protect him, and Agul's color timer started flashing as he was besieged.

He made a quick decision and retreated with the jeweled Dyna submarine.

If he gets caught up in the enemy lines, Kishida, whom he controls, will also be in danger.

He didn't want to fight to the death with deep-sea monsters, who were also creatures of Earth; these monsters were clearly bewitched.

"I need to find a way to break free from their control... I need to go and discuss this with Qi Ming and Ai Ran Cheng." With that thought, Agul left.

"No...don't let them go!" Ren said through gritted teeth, trying to get the Reiga to stop Agul and keep him here.

Otherwise, those selfish and cruel humans will surely come back for revenge!
But the Reiga did not do that; they simply stayed by his side as he was injured.

Ren had no choice but to return to the blue region with resentment.

"What happened, Ren? You're badly injured." His companions immediately surrounded him.

"I didn't succeed completely; one of them wasn't gemified." He sighed as he thought about how he had messed up the task Tregear had given him.

At this moment, a Gashi alien named Xiao stepped forward: "Ren, actually I think this is not right."

“But we have no other choice,” Ren said. “And right and wrong are no longer important. For the future of the Garsians, I can only… wait, what is this?”

The azure sky above the blue region, simulated by technology, was being tinged with darkness.

This is... black fog?
The black mist spread rapidly, accompanied by a suffocating, heavy sense of oppression.

Immediately afterwards, the entire space began to tremble violently. The environmental control equipment emitted a wailing sound as it overloaded, and the seawater overhead, which had been isolated by the force field, began to transform into countless columns of water that crashed down!
"How is this possible!" Ren stared wide-eyed in disbelief upon seeing the column of water.

The last home they painstakingly built is collapsing?

"It's that black mist. That black mist has paralyzed the system used to maintain the blue region, and the phase conversion barrier has also been disabled!"

What? Black mist that can paralyze high-tech devices?
At the same time, the sky over the entire blue area was completely obscured by black mist, and a roar like that of a walrus resounded throughout the space.

That was the doomsday proclamation issued by the evil god Gatanothor.

The commotion from the ambush on Dyna's submarine was so great that it attracted the attention of the resurrected evil god, causing it to turn its gaze here.

Upon hearing Gatanothor's roar, all the Gashiians froze in place, fear piercing their hearts like ice spikes.

That was a tremor stemming from the instinct for survival, the most primal despair in the face of natural disaster.

"Boom!" In the next moment, more than a dozen dark figures tore through the crumbling spatial barrier like messengers of the apocalypse.

They are the retinue of the evil god, the ancient vanguard [Zoga]!
Even though the ancient giants fought for a long time, more than a dozen Zoga still survived and were resurrected along with the evil god.

They have now been summoned by the evil god Gatanothor to erase everything in front of them!
"Boom!" The Zoga horde rushed in and began spewing fireballs, destroying everything below.

The coconut grove was carbonized in the flames, the dwellings of the Garsian people collapsed instantly, and the research institute that once gathered the light of the ocean was completely destroyed.

In the blink of an eye, this paradise had been transformed into a burning hell.

Gazing at the sea of ​​fire that illuminated the sky, the Gaxi alien trembled violently as painful memories of Saint Delos's destruction of their home planet flooded back.

"Protect our homeland! We have no way out!" Ren shouted, urging his people to use every means to fight off the enemy.

The people of Gaxi took up laser guns and other weapons and fired them into the sky, but with little effect.

The nearby Rega swarm arrived quickly after receiving a distress signal from the Gashi aliens via a K2 wave and engaged in a fierce aerial battle with the rampaging Zoga.

However, despite having a slight numerical advantage, the individual combat strength of the Reiga was far inferior to that of Zoga, and some Reiga were immediately shot down by fireballs.

"Damn it!" Despite the excruciating pain from the wounds inflicted by Agul, [Ren] forcibly fused with a Reiga again, transforming it into a battle stance, ready to fight.

He was about to rush towards Zoga, who was attacking two Reiga, when a tentacle tore through space and tightly bound him, who had transformed into Reiga.

“This is…” Ren tried to struggle, but found that he couldn’t break free at all.

The tentacles, with an irresistible force, dragged him from the battlefield and pulled him into the deep sea.

"Ren!" The people of Jiaxi were even more terrified when they saw their leader being taken away without any resistance.

The next moment, Ren was pulled by the tentacles to the source of the tentacles.

Its overall shape resembles a giant nautilus, standing upside down. The surface of its shell is pitted and covered with irregular patterns and protrusions.

A single tentacle could bind it so tightly that it couldn't break free, and there were hundreds more around it.

When he met those two red eyes, his heart nearly stopped and his soul froze.

"I came to Earth to escape Saint Delos, but it turns out there are things here that are countless times more terrifying than Saint Delos..." These were Ren's last thoughts before his consciousness dissipated.

At the same time, the black mist descended, completely engulfing everything remaining in the blue region.

Flames, screams, the lament of Rega, traces of the Garsian civilization... all vanished into nothingness in the darkness.

The blue region was utterly destroyed.

The Gashi aliens were thus completely wiped out.

(End of this chapter)