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"What? Lord Beerus… has actually fallen?" Vados's composed demeanor cracked as Jiang Chen's words echoed in her ears, and a rare look of shock flickered across her face.
"Yes," Jiang Chen confirmed with a solemn nod. "That's why I came, to harness the power of the Super Dragon Balls and resurrect Lord Beerus. If we don't act quickly, Universe 7 might be erased by Lord Zen'ō."
His tone was calm, but every word carried weight.
"I see…" Vados's expression shifted slightly. "Then, for this instance, we won't hold your trespassing into Universe 6 against you."
She paused, then offered, "Do you need assistance?"
Her voice softened, polite and measured.
"No need, Lord Vados. Thank you," Jiang Chen replied with a smile, gently shaking his head. "I've already gathered the Dragon Balls. Returning to Universe 7 is all that's left."
"I'll lend a hand regardless," Vados said with a light chuckle. "If you cross the universal boundary carrying objects from Universe 6, Lord Champa is bound to notice."
She glanced toward the temple behind her. "He's sleeping now."
With a graceful wave of her staff, light wrapped around Jiang Chen and the three colossal Dragon Balls beside him. Within seconds, they dissolved into a stream of flowing multicolored light and vanished from Universe 6.
"Beerus has fallen…" Vados murmured as the light faded. Her brow furrowed faintly. "The universe will not know peace for some time."
While Universe 7 might not be as powerful as her own Universe 6, there was no denying that Beerus, the God of Destruction of that realm, was far superior to Champa in raw combat power.
And yet, even he had fallen.
Even if it was due to the demise of the Supreme Kai, the threat that brought such ruin could not be ignored.
Something greater was stirring. But for now, Jiang Chen remained unaware of Vados's deeper thoughts. Bathed in the radiant flow of her divine light, Jiang Chen pierced the void and reentered Universe 7.
With all of its Supreme Deities, both Kaiōshin and God of Destruction, now dead, the universe was quiet. No divine resistance remained to stop his movements.
Back in his home universe, Jiang Chen wasted no time.
He swiftly gathered the remaining four Super Dragon Balls scattered throughout the stars.
And there, in the cosmic sea…
Seven colossal spheres floated in the void, pulsing with power.
Staring at them, Jiang Chen's heart swelled with a mixture of awe and nervous anticipation. These were the Super Dragon Balls, among the most legendary artifacts in all of existence.
Only the original prototypes, crafted by the Dragon God Zalama himself, were said to surpass them. These were his legacy, divine constructs closest in essence to Zalama's own unfathomable power.
Jiang Chen inhaled slowly, steadying his breath.
Then he raised his voice.
"Come forth, Shenron!"
He spoke in the sacred tongue of the gods, a language only divine beings or time-space patrollers like himself could understand. The moment the invocation left his lips, the seven Super Dragon Balls went still.
Their glow faded briefly… as though time itself paused.
Then,
A thunderous rumble echoed across the cosmos.
All of Universe 7 trembled as celestial energy surged forth, rolling through nebulae and galaxies alike. The Super Dragon Balls lit up once more, but now their brilliance grew exponentially, transforming into spheres of radiant starfire.
Their combined light intensified, forming a divine pillar that lanced through the heavens.
In that instant, seven radiant beams burst out in every direction, piercing through star systems.
The entire universe turned a brilliant gold.
Golden clouds swept across the galaxy seas. The stars, the planets, even the dark void between them, all of it shimmered in Zalama's divine glow.
ROAR!
A deafening cry resounded across all space and a surge of searing golden light and divine heat erupted, spreading out toward the infinite edges of reality.
Boom! Rumble!
The explosion of power shook the very fabric of the universe.
And then, he appeared.
Super Shenron.
An awe-inspiring form burst forth, so large that size lost all meaning.
Golden-scaled and wreathed in celestial energy, his wings stretched farther than galaxies. His divine body shimmered like a star-forged serpent coiled through the multiverse.
He didn't merely exist in the universe. At this moment, he was the universe.
Stars spun within his body. Galaxies orbited his form like dust caught in a hurricane of light. Every scale on his body radiated divine energy, each one the size of a stellar system.
Before him, the mighty Universe 7 looked as insignificant as a grain of sand.
"So this is… Super Shenron…" Jiang Chen whispered to himself, his voice barely audible to himself.
Even though he had seen it in the anime before, seen this very form unfold on a screen, witnessing it here, in person, was something else entirely. No amount of training, no memory, no tale could have prepared him for this.
The overwhelming sense of power, of presence… it was simply beyond comprehension.
A being born from divine creation itself. A wish-granting god, echoing the will of the Dragon God Zalama.
And now… he was listening.
"Roar!"
Super Shenron let out another thunderous roar, and in the blink of an eye, its colossal mouth opened wide, swallowing Jiang Chen whole. As Jiang Chen was engulfed, time and space around him twisted and spiraled uncontrollably.
Here, time and space had completely lost their meaning.
Even his authority over time, granted by the divine Book of Time, was utterly suppressed.
"Buzz..."
A subtle vibration came from the Book of Time. Jiang Chen glanced at it briefly, but quickly turned his attention outward, observing his surroundings.
What unfolded before him was a surreal, dreamlike realm. Rivers of golden light flowed beneath his feet like living galaxies, while vast constellations shimmered all around him in a cosmic sea of starlight.
Amid this star-forged plane, he scanned the horizon.
There, within the shimmering brilliance of celestial light, the translucent, ethereal form of Super Shenron emerged once again.
"Mortal, speak your wish!" The deep, divine voice of the golden dragon echoed across the dimension, its mighty eyes, red as burning suns, casting down as if a cosmic deity were judging the mortal realm.
Even Jiang Chen, no stranger to divine entities, felt a crushing pressure he'd never experienced before.
"Shenron, I wish to restore the original timeline of the Seventh Universe!" His voice was solemn as he gazed up at the godlike dragon.
As a Super Divine Being, Super Shenron could grant wishes on an unfathomable scale. Jiang Chen had weighed many possibilities before settling on this one.
This wasn't his Super Shenron, nor his timeline. As a Time and Space Patroller, he understood all too well that bringing foreign elements from one reality into the main timeline could create uncontrollable paradoxes or even dimensional collapse.
So, asking for personal power-ups was out of the question.
(To Be Continued…)