The Earth crew all wanted to go over there and see what was really going on.
"With this many people, it's perfect for sightseeing!" Krillin was already treating the whole trip like a vacation. "Besides, Levos and Miss Vados are here."
"My angel power has already been forbidden by the Grand Priest," Vados sighed. But her gaze slid to Levos anyway, a teasing curve to her lips. "If something happens, Mr. Levos, don't focus on protecting everyone else and forget about me, alright?"
Levos immediately felt the pressure.
He tried to talk everyone out of it. If they really wanted to watch, they could go back to Earth and use the crystal ball. Watching a livestream was basically the same.
"How can that be the same?" Yamcha protested. "The atmosphere is the whole point of being there in person!"
Of course, some of them didn't want to be dead weight.
"With battles at that level… I don't think we can participate yet. I can still do what I can, though. I'll head back and keep Earth safe…"
Tien wasn't happy about it, but more than anything he wanted to get into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and properly figure out this Saiyan bloodline.
"Then I'll send you back first."
Levos turned to the stubborn trio. "Bajitena do you want to go back to Earth and lie low for a bit?"
"I'm a soldier of the Saiyan Empire. Only cowards run back to Earth!"
Bajitena lifted her chin, arrogant as ever, and shot a disdainful look at the Earth fighters who were wavering.
That single sentence lit a fuse.
"She still knows exactly how to tick people off."
"She's only Super Saiyan 1 and she's daring to jump into this mess. What are we scared of?"
"Who isn't a Saiyan now?"
"Levos, let's all go. Don't worry about protecting us. We'll watch our own backs."
"Worst case, you can have Cell Max swallow us with his tail."
"Wait Cell Max isn't he training in that… whatever 'City of Time' place is? Can he even make it in time?"
Supreme Kai Shin answered quickly, as if he'd been waiting. "Don't worry. Mr. Levos said Cell Max can be deployed to his side."
That finally put everyone at ease.
Space twisted. Vision blurred.
Levos used Instant Transmission.
One second they were worlds away. The next, they were standing in the heart of a raging energy storm.
The roar was deafening. Shockwaves tore the air apart and slammed into their faces, carrying heat fierce enough to melt steel.
The dark purple ground writhed like a living thing. Bottomless ravines spread beneath their feet, vomiting crimson magma and ominous black mist.
"H-hey! Isn't this a little too close?!" Krillin yelped, hurriedly raising his ki to withstand the aftershock.
Even with her newly enhanced body, Bajitena found herself struggling to stay upright under the pressure. She gritted her teeth and stared toward the eye of the storm, horror in her eyes.
So this is what the universe's top-tier monsters look like…
Her own strength, in front of them, was a joke.
At the center of the battlefield, the two clashing figures halted at the same time.
As expected Cooler and Moro.
They'd been tearing into each other over prey, and the sudden intrusion had interrupted them.
"Hm?" Moro paused, his eyes sweeping the newcomers. When he spotted Goku, his lips peeled back into a greedy grin. "Son Goku from that tournament, huh… and so much delicious energy. What a feast."
Cooler's gaze, however, locked onto something else.
He recognized Goku and Piccolo, but he didn't linger on them. His attention clamped down on a blue-haired girl.
He'd watched the tournament footage. He knew how frightening her potential was deeper than any Saiyan he'd ever seen.
"A priceless specimen… and it walks right into my hands," Cooler's eyes flickered as calculations churned behind them.
Their stares alone were oppressive, heavy enough to make the air feel solid.
Bajitena and her two companions could barely breathe under the pressure.
Only now did they truly understand the chaos on Earth had been child's play compared to this.
Their greatly boosted combat power wouldn't even be enough to stick between these monsters' teeth.
And yet, though the Earth fighters were shaken, not a single one backed down.
It was as if the Saiyan instinct for battle had been triggered. Facing overwhelming enemies didn't make them want to flee it made their blood run hot.
Even Tien felt the heat surging through him.
"So strong… both of them are crazy strong!" Goku's expression sharpened. He immediately transformed into Super Saiyan 4 and moved toward the center.
Unlike everyone else, Levos' eyes didn't stay on Cooler and Moro.
His gaze slid past them toward a third presence behind them.
A female figure, her body sheathed in metallic armor. The sleek lines were both biologically graceful and mechanically cold.
Pink hair. Crimson eyes. A strange smile tugging at her lips. She stared at everyone present the way a predator looks at meat.
"Android 21?" Levos raised an eyebrow, baffled.
Why was she on the Supreme Kai's planet and why did she look like this?
"Levos, you know her?" Piccolo noticed the shift in his expression.
"An unexpected problem," Levos said simply. "Her name is Android 21."
"Android… again?" Piccolo frowned hard.
Something about 21 was deeply wrong.
Her aura carried a resemblance to Majin Buu, yet the dominant traits she gave off were unmistakably like Cell Max.
And her current body this mechanical route looked almost identical to Cell Max's machine form.
Levos' eyes narrowed at her tail. "She's got absorption and evolution abilities comparable to Cell Max."
"Could it be…" Piccolo's voice lowered. "Did someone fuse Cell Max's cells into her too?"
"It certainly looks that way," Bulma said, studying 21. "Just no idea when it happened."
"The bigger question is… enemy or ally?"
They were still talking when Android 21 moved.
Her target wasn't Goku, or Piccolo, or even Levos.
It was the dozens of Golden Coolers waiting on the edge of the battlefield.
"Don't you dare!" Cooler's eyes turned cold. His body vanished.
He reappeared in front of 21 and chopped down with a knife-hand. Space split open in a black裂 an ugly tear in reality.
But 21's body liquefied into two halves of pink fluid, slipping past the strike like it was nothing.
The two halves merged again in an instant. Her tail-tip flared into a funnel shape and wrapped around one Golden Cooler, dragging him inside.
Szz szz
Her tail writhed. In moments, it shrank back to normal.
That Golden Cooler had been completely absorbed.
Android 21's aura swelled just a little stronger than before.
Moro's eyes glittered. "Interesting. I'm starting to look forward to how far she can grow. If she keeps evolving like this… her life energy will taste incredible."
As he spoke, he stepped between Cooler and 21 again.
"Moro. What do you think you're doing?" Cooler's voice sharpened.
"I want to see her limit," Moro said, smiling.
"Letting her keep absorbing?" Cooler sneered. "Then why don't you feed her your people too?"
"Gladly."
Cooler wasn't surprised in the slightest. "The real question is who does she belong to?"
"We'll settle it with strength," Moro replied. His greedy gaze swept the Earth fighters. "But first… letting her eat a few annoying pests wouldn't be bad."
Cooler narrowed his eyes, not responding immediately, weighing something.
And in that brief opening
Android 21 plunged into the Golden Cooler formation and began hunting.
Her combat style was grotesquely efficient. Those terrifying golden mechanical bodies folded in front of her like paper, torn apart and swallowed.
"This woman… she's insane," Yamcha muttered, stunned.
"Her technique…" Tien's eyes were grave. "It's like she's fused the experience of countless masters. There's no gap to exploit."
Bajitena's heart pounded so hard it hurt. Her Super Saiyan form her pride couldn't even survive a single exchange with that monster.
"Hahahaha… eat," Moro chuckled softly, delighted. "Go on. Eat as much as you want. Show me your ceiling. The higher your growth potential, the more valuable you become."
Cooler also showed no concern for the loss of his golden units.
Within minutes, dozens of Golden Coolers were gone devoured.
Android 21's form shifted again.
Gold patterns crawled across her cold silver shell. Her aura spiked into something terrifying.
"She's about to evolve into a golden mechanical form…" Levos watched coldly.
With Cooler deliberately fattening her up, 21's mechanical evolution route had nearly caught up to Cell Max.
"That's enough." Cooler finally moved, seemingly ready to personally measure the combat power of this "perfect test specimen" he'd raised.
Then he threw a line at Moro, casual and deadly.
"Moro, here's some unfortunate news. The people interested in her aren't just you and me. That guy Levos also has absorption abilities. He'll definitely want to eat her too."
The smile on Moro's face froze.
"What are you planning?" Moro asked, voice turning sharp.
"You'll see."
Cooler lifted his eyes to the sky.
A pressure descended from deep space, heavy enough to crush breath from lungs.
Everyone looked up.
The dark purple heavens were swallowed by shadows countless warships blotting out the sky. A massive fleet tore open space and arrived in full.
Bajitena's expression twisted. "The main force of the Saiyan Empire… they're here."
Yamcha swallowed hard. "This… this 'spectacle' might be a little too big…"
Krillin's face went bloodless. "H-how many people is that?!"
Moro's stare hardened. "You already knew when they'd arrive. So tell me does our alliance still mean anything?"
"Of course," Cooler replied calmly. "Saiyans are the race I hate most whether they're from Earth or the Empire. So I want that woman to swallow a few more Saiyans before we decide who she belongs to."
The next second, countless black metal pods launched from the warships like falling meteors and smashed into the ground.
Then seeds scattered, sinking into the planet's裂 those abyssal cracks.
The entire purple world convulsed.
The instant the seeds touched the Zamasu-tainted soil, they rooted and sprouted, hungry and violent, drinking down the planet's life force.
Roots exploded outward at visible speed. In moments, grotesque towering trees rose one after another.
The Tree of Might.
Their roots dug deep, greedily draining the corrupted energy of both the Supreme Kai's planet and Fused Zamasu. Fruit formed rapidly along the trunks radiating an even more ominous, powerful aura than ordinary Tree of Might fruit.
The planet itself seemed to wail.
Deep beneath the earth, the sealed Zamasu felt as if he'd been jolted awake, his furious howls echoing through the ground.
On the battlefield, everything paused.
Everyone stared at the apocalyptic scene.
"Not only did they send an entire Legendary Super Saiyan corps…" Bardock's face tightened. "They even used all their Tree of Might seeds."
The Bio-Broly units in the stasis pods were still asleep, but violent auras were already stirring.
Compared to this, the mutated Saibaman incident on Earth felt almost harmless.
And then
On the Saiyan Empire's flagship, a massive gate slowly opened.
An old man descended, clad in battle armor. One eye. Cold, stern face. Surrounded by elite soldiers.
Paragus the ruler of the Saiyan Empire.
His ki might not have been the most overwhelming here, but the pressure of someone who'd sat at the top for too long made no one dare underestimate him.
Yet what truly made every powerhouse's pupils contract
Was what followed behind him.
A colossal block of ice, tens of meters tall, radiating bone-deep cold.
Inside it was sealed an equally towering, hulking figure. Eyes closed. Face peaceful. Like someone merely sleeping.
But everyone could sense it.
Within that still body was a destructive power enough to make the entire universe tremble.
Thin streams of dangerously violet energy slithered around him like electric serpents.
Hakai energy energy of a God of Destruction.
"Destruction energy… no mistake," Goku said, his voice low and sharp. "My body's actually shaking from fear."
"Broly…" Bardock stared at the figure in the ice, expression heavier than ever. "His injuries… they're completely healed."
"He absorbed Lord Beerus' Destruction energy," Vados said softly, a hint of surprise in her tone, "and has fully controlled it."
Levos swept his gaze across the battlefield.
The Saiyan Empire's Legendary Super Saiyan corps. Cooler's mechanical army. Moro's galactic prisoners. Android 21 evolving by devouring everything in sight.
"Just like I thought," Levos murmured. "Every single one of them is a monster."
"Levos…" Yamcha swallowed again, voice small. "Should we maybe… back up a little?"
"Back up? For what?" Bajitena planted her hands on her hips. Her legs were trembling slightly, but her face was still arrogantly proud. "This is the moment the Saiyan Empire reigns over the universe! You Earthlings watch closely!"
Paragus hovered in midair, looking down at Cooler, Moro, and the Earth group as if they were ants.
"This planet, and the lives of everyone here, will be placed under the Saiyan Empire's control!"
His voice wasn't loud, but it carried clearly into every ear domineering and absolute.
His gaze swept across them, pausing on Cooler, on Moro, and on Levos.
"How rare… to gather you all in one place."
"Today, you will be honored to witness the birth of this universe's true king."
"Submit to me…"
"Or die."
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