In the ruins of the cosmos, light and shadow overlapped in layers.
Under the Gods of Destruction's all-out, no-holds-barred assault, Levos was gradually pushed to the brink.
"Damn it! The spatial order here is completely messed up. The teleport point is off!" Chronoa cried.
"It's fine. Just hold out a little longer!" Levos endured another wave of attacks.
"Sending Cell Max in used up my last bit of strength. I can't help you much anymore." Chronoa's voice was frighteningly weak. "Don't worry about me. Your safety is what matters most. The rest of the fight… you'll have to handle it alone…"
As she spoke, she forced herself forward, intending to take the field and share his burden.
Levos didn't let her.
One large hand grabbed the back of her collar and yanked her back.
"I've got energy to spare. Tell me how much you want, and I'll give it to you."
The next moment, an immense, pure surge of divine power poured into Chronoa's body.
Her spirit jolted awake but her gaze dimmed again almost immediately.
"Too bad the Power of Time recovers so slowly. Otherwise, the two of us wouldn't be getting bullied like this. We might've even suppressed them all."
Levos' eyes narrowed. "Easy. Teach me how to cultivate the Power of Time."
A flicker crossed Chronoa's eyes. She stared at Levos for a long beat then nodded hard.
A phantom golden hourglass formed at her fingertips. If you looked closely, the "sand" inside wasn't sand at all, but countless shards of moving images.
"Watch carefully." Chronoa suddenly flipped the hourglass upside down. "This is the most basic Ripple of Time."
Levos' pupils reflected a miracle. The grains that should have fallen at a steady pace split into three streams one accelerated downward, one froze in midair, and one… flowed upward.
The instant Levos reached out and touched the upward-flowing grains, wrinkles crawled across his entire arm.
"Don't touch it!" Chronoa slapped his hand away and released a restoring halo. "The river of time is like this full of dangers. What you need to do isn't change the direction of the flow…"
She seized Levos' wrist and pressed it to the side of the hourglass.
"…It's to become the riverbed."
Levos' consciousness was dragged into a strange dimension. The golden hourglass vanished. The battlefield vanished.
In its place was a roaring river woven from countless glowing scenes, surging forward.
But some of those scenes were grey and dead. They gathered into black-and-crimson tributaries that poured into the main current, spreading through it like cracks.
"Those are spacetime wounds," Chronoa's voice came from somewhere distant. "The Power of Time isn't brute force. It's understanding and sensing the time dimension. First, you locate yourself. Find the node."
She gripped Levos' hand and flicked one of the scenes.
In the distance, a collapsing nebula abruptly restored itself.
Levos grunted. Blood spilled from the corner of his mouth. The river in his vision twisted, and countless noises flooded his ears as if echoing from endless parallel worlds.
"Focus!" Chronoa's shout trembled. "Remember that vibration frequency. That's the Ripple of Time!"
The entire strange dimension began to quake violently. Ozotto's clones were tearing space apart without restraint.
Chronoa's face turned paper-white. "There's no time…"
Merus' eyes lit up, as if he'd just made a huge discovery.
"This timeline's restraints on me are getting weaker and weaker!"
"As long as we keep breaking interdimensional space and its self-repair can't keep up with the rate of collapse, we will definitely escape this sealed timeline!"
"Levos, was it?" Merus continued calmly. "I didn't expect our battle would create such a pleasant surprise forcing spatial rules into chaos to this extent."
"It's rare you've reached a level comparable to us. Unfortunately… you're only one person. You have zero chance of victory."
"Soon, all parallel worlds will become my hunting ground. Fresh prey, everywhere, waiting to be tasted."
"Of course… none of that compares to the Supreme Kai of Time…"
Ozotto's clones closed in again, trapping the two of them at the center.
"I've already given you everything I have…" Chronoa leaned against Levos, her face pale as snow. "Remember you only get three chances to use this power."
Levos stared at the silver motes dancing in his palm. It was the source of the Power of Time forcefully injected into him by Chronoa.
Moro, Merus, Beerus and the others struck from above.
Levos' pupils narrowed into a thin line.
In his vision, cosmic dust that had once seemed motionless suddenly revealed its trajectories.
He saw more than ten possible variations of Beerus' hand movement.
He heard, in the distance, the countdown echoes of a star body collapsing.
And at the instant the other clones tore open spatial cracks, Levos even predicted the contraction range of their muscle fibers.
His body moved on instinct.
He tilted aside and left behind an afterimage half a second "earlier" than where he stood.
The moment Beerus' figure passed through that afterimage, Levos' fist was already buried in Beerus' chest and abdomen.
It was as natural as breathing.
The moment Chronoa guided him into touching the Ripple of Time, enlightenment struck like a sacred baptism
Levos completely grasped Flash-Time.
Every technique Beerus aimed at him became meaningless.
"How did this kid suddenly get so damn weird?!" the clones couldn't understand.
But they quickly realized what had happened.
"The Supreme Kai of Time! She injected the source of the Power of Time into that kid!"
"Doesn't matter she's still getting swallowed! Let's see how you protect a weak, broken scrap like her!"
This time, the clones moved in perfect coordination splitting into two groups and striking Levos and Chronoa from different angles.
In an instant, Ozotto's clones froze as if someone pressed a pause button.
Levos formed a circle with his index fingers and thumbs. Silver light the glow of Time-Freeze sparked at his fingertips.
A grey giant shadow condensed around him.
In less than one ten-thousandth of a second, it delivered over a hundred lethal strikes to every enemy.
When the flow of time returned to normal, the frozen clones shattered completely.
In his Super Saiyan 4 Beast form, Levos' silver fur fluttered lightly, and motes of time-light swirled within his pupils.
"Time-Freeze can create a stop-time domain!"
"Not over yet!" Chronoa's warning rang in his ears.
In the dimensional ruins, clones of Beerus and Merus regenerated no sign of weakened aura at all.
"Try this!"
The two of them flung their arms in wild, overlapping arcs.
Countless purple energy bullets flooded the sky and swept in like a storm.
Each one carried Destruction energy. Wherever they passed, space collapsed layer by layer, tearing open black-lines across reality.
"I want to see how many seconds you can freeze time!"
The Destruction bullets detonated in an instant. Rampaging violet energy swallowed the entire starfield.
Levos frowned.
Flash-Time could only last four or five seconds at most.
Even if he expanded the Time-Freeze domain to its limit, it covered only about a hundred meters.
Chronoa's voice transmitted directly into his mind.
"Idiot. Don't trap yourself inside someone else's technique."
Levos' thoughts turned like lightning.
He abruptly accelerated his own time-flow.
In his perspective, everything slowed to a crawl so slow he could stroll through the gaps in the energy storm as if walking in a garden.
At the edge of the battlefield, Beerus' body suddenly stiffened
And Levos' fist had already punched through his chest. The pierced body turned to dust in the next breath.
Merus raised his staff across his chest. It was a perfect defense
And it still couldn't stop the Special Beam Cannon that shot from Levos' fingertips.
The trainee angel's body was erased under the savage beam.
Chronoa lay weakly on Levos' back, her voice heavy with worry.
"They'll reconstruct again soon. This is a fight with no end…"
Sure enough, a heartbeat later, Ozotto's cackling laughter echoed through the void.
"My clones are endless undying, unkillable…"
"You will never have a chance to defeat us!"
One silhouette after another began to take shape again.
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