Levos' pupils quivered. His throat worked once, and he forced out a single word. "Alright…"
Releasing Android 18, he clipped one Potara earring onto her ear and the other onto Bulma's, each on a different side.
The orange gems flashed.
Whoosh
The two were yanked together as if by an invisible cord and collided in midair.
When the light faded, both were gone.
In their place stood a lithe, breathtaking figure wreathed in a mysterious, silvery-white aura.
Her features were exquisitely sculpted, her gaze unshakable. "My name doesn't matter. Let's begin."
Levos drew a deep breath.
In the next instant, his tail flared to its widest span and wrapped the fused woman, swallowing her whole.
He closed his eyes and listened to the change coursing through his body.
Boom
Power surged out of him in a roaring tide, flooding the sky.
The air seemed to boil; heat rolled across heaven and earth.
A vortex coalesced around him like a newborn black hole.
Levos snapped his eyes open.
Cell Max had finally reached his Perfect Form.
The Genetic Route complete.
Limitless strength churned inside him.
In that heartbeat, his power underwent a qualitative shift; his aura spiked to a height he had never touched before.
"What terrifying power… I can barely breathe," Piccolo gritted out, brow furrowed.
"Levos got stronger again! I can't even imagine the gap between us now," Trankon said, fists clenched.
Frieza couldn't help himself. "To think Mr. Levos could obtain such monstrous might… unbelievable."
All eyes widened at the war god now standing among them.
Light braided and unbraided in his pupils.
His face was sharply handsome, his irises blazing a searing crimson.
The mottled patterns on his body gleamed as if licked by flame.
His original tail had shrunk back, tucked away beneath a pair of vicious, bone-like wings.
His frame was tall and balanced, proportions like a model carved to golden ratio.
In this stance, Levos radiated a wild, domineering presence.
He glanced at Rose Vegito two scarlet lances fired from his eyes.
Zzt
The beams speared straight through Rose Vegito's pupils.
Sizzle
"My eyes! Aah !"
They punched out the back of his skull. A spray of viscous gore fanned the air.
Rose Vegito was dead.
His body went limp and fell, terror frozen on his face.
Silence swallowed the field.
Trankon and the others stared at one another, at a loss for words.
A roar tore the hush in half.
"Mortal! You're courting death!" Rose Gogeta abandoned Champa, flashed in front of Levos, and struck.
Levos' gaze was cold. He raised a palm, caught the blow, shifted his stance, and drove a fist forward.
Boom
His punch drilled through Rose Gogeta's chest.
Rose Gogeta shot backward, crashed into the earth, and ripped through layers of bedrock.
The sight stunned everyone.
"Kid, finish him!" Champa shouted, shaking with excitement.
Levos instant-transmitted beside Rose Gogeta, fisted a handful of hair, and drove his knee into the man's skull.
Crunch.
A dull, wet crack. The cranium split; gore sprayed.
An instant later Levos reappeared before Rose Broly, one hand dangling Rose Gogeta's headless corpse.
"What is…" For the first time, shock rippled through Rose Broly's eyes. "What is happening?"
"He's dead. Now it's your turn." Levos' voice was level, free of hatred or bile.
He let go. Rose Gogeta's body drifted down.
"Damn you, mortal. You'll be judged by a god." Rose Broly's roar curdled the air, his face a mask of madness and rage.
He tore past Vados and hurled himself at Levos.
Flames blazed off him, and his fists swelled with destructive force. His onslaught was savage beyond reason.
Vados shot Levos a startled look; gravity creased her brow. "You've been over-drafting your body this whole time. At this rate "
She moved to block, but Levos cut her off.
"Lady Vados, let me try." The iron in his words left no room for argument.
Vados dipped her chin once and slipped silently aside.
Levos swallowed the blood rising in his throat and forced Kaioken higher still.
"One thousand times."
Crack
They hadn't even touched yet when blood beaded at the corner of his mouth. Fracture lines spidered across his body as if it would come apart at the seams.
But the pain in his flesh was nothing next to the numb resolve in his heart. He had to end this himself.
Rose Broly's storm of blows crashed down. Levos didn't flinch he met it head-on.
Rumble
Whole swaths of ground vanished. Fissures raced outward, threatening to tear the planet in two.
Levos clenched his teeth and slammed into Rose Broly again and again.
Almost no one could follow their movements.
They could only watch space shatter and shockwaves scour everything bare.
Anything that touched the blast-front turned to dust.
Moments later
The apocalyptic clamor cut off.
The Sacred World of the Kais was on the verge of annihilation. Magma fountained; smoke rolled.
Everyone stared with eyes stretched wide.
A lone figure stood over the sea of fire, wrapped in a crackling mantle of lightning.
Levos shook, head to toe. There wasn't an unbroken inch left on him.
His body had begun to fail; his right leg was simply gone.
Gaping holes punched through his chest and abdomen, blood pouring freely.
And yet
He wore a faint smile.
Rose Broly's lower half had been almost completely blasted away; only his torso hovered above the flames.
Both arms were gone. A cavern gaped in his chest. His eyes were sunken; his breath was thread-fine.
His pupils were unfocused. His mind drifted. He looked like he could die at any second.
"Impossible. I can't lose to a mere mortal. If I go, I'll take this planet with me."
His face twisted, his voice dripping hatred and unwillingness.
Boom.
A terror beyond measure descended.
Blinding light spread outward.
Matter around Rose Broly started to unravel and collapse.
Endless dark-violet radiance spun into a titanic vortex that devoured all.
His body disintegrated at speed.
Those who remained felt death press against their throats.
Watching all things come apart, Levos let his eyes fall shut.
Beating Rose Broly had been his limit.
He had nothing left to stop the self-detonation. He could barely hold himself together.
"So this is the end? I can't accept it…"
"I still lost in the end failed to protect everything."
"Besides, that bastard Fused Zamasu will survive even this…"
Suddenly
A soft, gentle light wrapped around him.
He realized he was being ripped away from the heart of the blast at tremendous speed.
Rrrrmm
The power of ruin swallowed the Sacred World of the Kais whole.
In the cold dark of space, a single, blazing flower bloomed.
"Hey, kid! You've still got one more chance to change how this ends. Make it count!"
"What?!"
Levos snapped back to himself and saw several familiar figures gathered at his side.
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