Crackle… crackle…
Sizzle… sizzle…
The chain-like lightning surrounding Goku kept forming and vanishing in loops around him. The golden aura roaring off his body rubbed so fiercely against the air that it almost seed to burn.
"Waaah so cool!"
On the throne, Zeno was practically bouncing.
"Super Saiyan Three!"
"The power boost from this form is much bigger," Goku said calmly, his voice steady despite the storm around him. "But the strain on the body is no joke. Just maintaining it eats up a ton of energy."
"Such overwhelming power… should never be allowed to stay in the hands of evil!"
Toppo narrowed his eyes at last, finally treating Goku as a serious opponent.
"Yeah? Then let see your so-called justice."
Goku's gaze went cold. He pushed off with both legs, blasting forward.
The two of them shot toward each other like colliding teors.
Boom!
A deafening impact shook the arena. A massive crater appeared right in the center of what remained of the ring.
Bang, bang, bang!
In the blink of an eye, they traded dozens of blows. Every punch that collided sent shockwaves ripping through the air, making the surrounding space shudder violently.
The poor arena couldn't withstand their aftershocks at all. It shattered fully, collapsing into a cloud of flying debris.
"That mortal from Universe 7 is weird. He's actually keeping up with a candidate God of Destruction!"
"Don't worry. That Toppo guy's strength definitely doesn't end there."
Listening to the gods muttering, the clown God of Destruction, Belmod, couldn't sit still anymore.
"Toppo! Show your true power already and finish him!"
Bang!
After another brutal exchange, the two fighters broke apart.
Toppo dipped his head slightly toward the Universe 11 stand.
"Yes, Lord Belmod."
Then he turned his gaze back to Goku.
"Son Goku, if you don't use your final transformation now, you won't get another chance."
Goku's eyes sharpened.
"Yeah? I'd actually like to see the power of destruction first."
"Arrogant! You dare look down on a god's power?!"
Toppo roared. A red aura wrapped around his body as he hurled himself at Goku.
Goku's brow furrowed slightly.
"This energy… my skin actually hurts just feeling it…"
Swoosh!
In the next instant, Goku's figure vanished from where he stood.
"Hm?" Toppo's pupils constricted. "This movent technique…"
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!
Goku flickered around the battlefield, shifting positions again and again, patiently searching for an opening.
Up on the viewing platforms, the gods were stunned.
"Just now… was that Instant Transmission?"
"That's not a technique mortals should be using!"
"With that skill, he basically stands in an invincible position."
"It's practically cheating! If he uses it just to run away, that would be completely shaless!"
"In any case, we have to completely forbid Universe 7 from using that ability!"
Universe 9's Supre Kai, Roh, hurriedly called out toward the Grand Minister.
"Grand Minister! Please add a rule to the tournant: Instant Transmission must not be allowed!"
Hearing that, Levos was speechless.
Didn't they just insist on canceling all rules before the fight started?
Beside him, Beerus' eyes suddenly lit up.
"That's right! With Instant Transmission, that guy has absolute initiative!"
He imdiately yelled down toward the arena.
"Son Goku! Make good use of Instant Transmission and teach your opponent a lesson! If you really can't beat him, just keep teleporting and dragging it out you'll wear him down sooner or later!"
The Grand Minister's eyes narrowed slightly. He smiled faintly.
"That is indeed my oversight. For the official tournant, we can add a restriction forbidding the use of Instant Transmission. However…"
He paused for a mont before announcing,
"Since it has already been decided that this is a no-rules exhibition match, I ask that the two of you continue fighting as normal."
At that, many of the gods couldn't hide their disbelief.
"The Grand Minister is… favoring that mortal from Universe 7?"
"Could the result of this fight actually be about to reverse?"
"No. We absolutely can't allow that to happen!"
On Universe 9's stand, a contestant imdiately stepped forward.
"Son Goku! What kind of ability is it to only know how to run away?! Is that all evil knows how to do relying on despicable tricks to win?!"
Everyone from Universe 7 turned to look.
The one shouting was a blue-skinned wolf… or rather, a blue-furred werewolf.
The blue werewolf continued, "If you've got any guts, fight him head-on. Stop skulking around like a coward!"
Frieza spoke up with a polite smile.
"And you are…?"
"I am Universe 9's contestant, eldest brother of the Trio of Danger… Bergamo the Crusher!"
Levos sighed inwardly. With just that one string of titles, how was he supposed to compete with:
Spokesperson for a God of Destruction, Emperor of Evil, Licensed Real-Estate Developer, Gentlemanly Madman, Honored Baby-Stroller Owner, Stubborn Golden Dumpling, the Nightmare Every Saiyan Can't Avoid, the Universe's Most Famous Saiyan Studies Scholar, and the True Guardian of Earth
Frieza.
"Oh my, Mister Bergamo," Frieza said smoothly, "don't tell you also stand for justice?"
Bergamo blinked, then straightened up and declared righteously,
"But of course! If it weren't for your Universe 7 proposing this martial arts tournant, we'd still be living peacefully never forced into a crisis where our universes might be erased!"
"Oh? Clearing out unnecessary trash what's wrong with that?"
Frieza looked genuinely puzzled.
"Shut up!" Bergamo snapped. "Everyone from Universe 7 is a demon! Just to protect your own hides, you dragged all the other universes into this!"
He unloaded on Frieza with a full round of condemnation.
Frieza's lips curved upward.
"I do hope, when we et in the real tournant, you don't beg for rcy too early."
Bergamo roared,
"Once the tournant starts, I'll crush you completely! As the enemies of the entire cosmos, you have no chance of victory!"
"Big Bro is so cool!"
"Big Bro's amazing!"
The two younger brothers at Bergamo's back chid in excitedly.
"Well said, Bergamo. You've spoken the hearts of all the universes," Supre Kai Roh said with a sly grin.
Universe 9's God of Destruction, Sidra, stroked his red beard with a look of approval.
"Heh heh… Bergamo's got quite the way with words."
The other gods also started talking at once, all of them full of resentnt toward Universe 7.
And while they were at it, their hatred spread to Champa who'd brought Goku to et Zeno in the first place as well as Levos and the other Universe 7 contenders.
"Champa's at fault too!"
"That's right, Universe 6 is also the enemy of all universes!"
"In this tournant, we absolutely can't let Universe 6 or 7 win even a single match!"
Champa wanted to cry.
Why was all the bla landing on him, when Vados was clearly just as involved?
"This is too much. They're going too far! Especially those universes that aren't facing erasure they're just here to watch the show and stir the pot!"
On the other side, Beerus was fuming.
"That bastard really talks like he's never heard of sha! Universe 9 is the one with the lowest human developnt level, and he still has the face to shout like that."
"He's stirring up public opinion," Whis said calmly, "to direct everyone's hatred toward us. Despicable, yes but it might be the only way Universe 9 has a chance of dodging erasure."
"Ohohoho… That just makes look forward to the real tournant even more," Frieza said, smiling from ear to ear. "I can't wait to see the looks on their faces when I show them my true power…"
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