With a thunderous boom that shook the very foundations of the realm, a cataclysmic noise echoed through the entirety of the Garden of Nurgle.
Axis appeared instantly in the center of the blight, his body radiating a brilliant golden-green light.
The mere aura radiating from him instantly annihilated the lesser Nurglings and weaker Plaguebearers inhabiting the immediate area of the garden.
"Nurgle! Come out and fight me!" Axis's voice transformed into a roar that resounded through the entire verdant domain.
As a Saiyan, cowardice was not in his nature. Previously, when he could only transform up to Super Saiyan 3, Axis had dared to charge single-handedly into the Warp.
Now, after a series of fierce battles, he had broken through the limits of Super Saiyan 4 and had even reached the realm of the Super Saiyan God. He had no reason to fear anything now.
Stealth tactics were for the weak. If he was going to fight, he would do it head-on. This time, Axis intended to launch a frontal assault on Grandfather Nurgle's Garden.
Grandfather Nurgle, who had been busy stirring a cauldron of thick soup and chatting with the new lifeforms in his garden, was startled by the commotion Axis had caused.
He was the noblest god in the universe, the most powerful of deities, a Chaos God.
He could hardly believe that a being had actually run into his garden to run amok, shouting demands for single combat.
However, the power radiating from Axis did make Nurgle pause and take notice. This energy completely surpassed that of any Greater Daemon or Daemon Prince. Ordinary warp entities would be reduced to ash in an instant under the pressure of Axis's power.
After Axis unleashed his aura, Grandfather Nurgle moved his massive, bloated feet. Like a mountain of green flesh, he arrived before Axis.
"Axis. The visitor from another world," Nurgle spoke, his voice gurgling deep within his throat. "When we first met, I told you that my Garden would always welcome you as a guest. But isn't this entrance a bit too loud? Why don't you come with me into the inner garden? I can offer you a taste of the thick soup I have painstakingly brewed."
Nurgle spoke with surprising politeness.
He recognized Axis the moment he saw him. After all, all four Chaos Gods had been involved in the death of the Dark King. Back then, Nurgle had extended an invitation, hoping Axis would visit his garden.
However, the nature of this visit seemed slightly off. Nurgle recalled having no major conflict with this other-worldly existence. He wondered why the stranger had suddenly arrived in his garden full of hostility.
"Save the hospitality. I have only one purpose for coming here today," Axis declared.
"Then state your purpose. This will determine how I treat you from this point forward," Nurgle replied.
A dark green miasma began to radiate from the Grandfather's body. His previous attitude had been extremely courteous, the kind of invitation a Chaos God only offered to a creature he considered an equal.
If this being named Axis did not respect him, then Nurgle would ensure he understood the true power of the Plague God.
"The Eldar Goddess of Life, Isha, is very important to me. I am taking her away," said Axis.
The moment these words were spoken, a deathly silence fell over the entire Garden of Nurgle.
Hordes of Nurglings looked at Axis with terrified faces, while some Plaguebearers wore expressions of horror, slowly backing away. This existence from the material universe had spoken a forbidden taboo.
It was common knowledge that the Eldar Goddess of Life was a prize Nurgle had snatched away with all his might over ten thousand years ago, a trophy won after defeating another newly born entity in the Great Game.
The Grandfather attached great importance to this trophy, regarding her as his treasure. This Eldar goddess was arguably the most precious item in his entire garden, without exception.
"Axis. I respected you as a powerhouse on the same level as myself, which is why I spoke so politely. I even treated you with courtesy, inviting you into my garden as a guest. If you were willing to be my guest, I might have even let you see Isha, the Mother of the Eldar. The two of you could have tasted my soup together. But your attitude is atrocious. I refuse your request," Nurgle said, his voice hardening.
It was an absurd proposition.
The bastard's words were insulting in the extreme. It was equivalent to a thug rushing into someone's house and saying, Be smart, hand over your wife, and let me take her.
Forget a Chaos God; no intelligent life form in the material universe could tolerate such disrespect.
"It seems we have nothing to discuss then. Let our hands do the talking. If I win today, I take the Goddess of Life. If I lose, I leave my life here," Axis stated firmly.
"Oh, that sounds wonderful. Leave your life here and become my Daemon Prince. That is a good thing. I love all life in the universe, and you are no exception. I will let you feel the true beauty of life, the beauty of rot and plague," Nurgle chuckled, the sound horrifying to behold.
"Then let's begin!" Axis scoffed.
Golden-red light erupted from his body as crimson fur covered his upper torso. His originally golden-green hair turned jet black, and red markings appeared around his eyes.
A violent shockwave of Ki expanded in a ring, instantly vaporizing all lower-level Nurglings and daemons within a hundred-mile radius into nothingness.
Even the thick, viscous layer of the green earth was scraped away, revealing the churning swamp of pus beneath.
Black hair danced wildly, and red fur covered muscles packed with explosive power. His pupils burned with pure fighting spirit and a desire for destruction.
He had pushed the power of the Legendary Super Saiyan overlaid with Super Saiyan 4 to its absolute limit.
Grandfather Nurgle showed no weakness. Terrifying dark green Chaos energy rose from his body, causing the entire Warp to tremble.
"Heh heh heh... such vigorous life! But far too crude!" Nurgle's colossal body did not retreat; instead, he took a step forward.
With the heavy sound of his footsteps, the entire Garden of Nurgle seemed to come alive.
Endless clouds of dark green plague mist spewed from his rotting carcass, turning into a solid torrent of energy filled with countless faces howling in pain. Like a billion poisonous pythons, the torrent swept toward Axis, blotting out the sky.
The air sizzled as it corroded, and space itself began to twist and ulcerate, emitting a sickeningly sweet scent of death.
If they were in the material universe, Nurgle might have feared him slightly, but this was the Warp, his domain. In the Warp, the power of a Chaos God was infinite.
"Haaah!" Axis roared, charging forward instead of retreating. Golden-green flames coalesced into the phantom image of a giant fist as he punched out.
Pure physical strength mixed with violent Saiyan energy forcefully tore a huge gap in the torrent of plague.
Wherever the wind of his fist passed, parts of the Grandfather's garden shattered. Shards of solidified plague flew like broken glass, and the wailing faces were instantly dispersed.
Axis transformed into a golden-green meteor, breaking through the poison clouds. In an instant, he closed in on Nurgle's mountain-like body.
His fist, containing the power of destruction, slammed ruthlessly into Nurgle's belly, which was covered in pustules and worms.
BANG!
A dull boom loud enough to shatter stars erupted. Nurgle's fat belly caved in dramatically, and a visible shockwave expanded outward, instantly flattening several surrounding hills made of carrion and bone. Pus and fragments of internal organs sprayed out like a torrential rainstorm.
Axis's blow was powerful enough to shatter a star head-on, yet Nurgle only let out a grunt of pain mixed with pleasure. "Oh! This punch... is full of the passion of life! You are indeed powerful!"
Nurgle extended a gigantic palm covered in mucus and moss. It seemed slow, yet it transcended the limitations of time and space, carrying the power to corrupt all things as it slapped down at Axis like a man swatting a fly.
Within the Warp, the Grandfather's body could become infinitely large, exerting unimaginable force.
Axis's pupils constricted slightly. He crossed his arms to block, his golden-green aura burning wildly.
BOOM!
Axis felt as if he had been hit head-on by a rotting star. It didn't really make sense.
The force contained not only physical impact but also a vicious curse that eroded the soul and corrupted the will.
He was smashed away like a cannonball, crashing through dozens of mountains of plague meat before finally embedding himself deep into a swamp of boiling pus and blood, kicking up monstrous, foul-smelling waves.
The power of Super Saiyan 4 superimposed on the Legendary form was earth-shattering enough to easily destroy a galaxy, but when striking Nurgle, most of the force was absorbed and converted by that Chaos physique which embodied the concepts of infinite plague and the cycle of life.
The opponent was like a bottomless pit of rotting mud. Axis felt that blasting his power into it only stirred up larger, fouler waves without truly shaking the foundation.
This is what makes it exciting! At this moment, the Saiyan blood in Axis's veins began to boil. This was the battle a Saiyan desired, a visceral, brutal fight.
Nurgle's corruption was strong, but Axis's Ki protected him. Moreover, Axis possessed the power of the gods.
"Hahaha, excite me more! Nurgle!" Axis's body emitted a tricolor light of gold, green, and red.
"Not enough! Still far from enough!"
Axis rushed forward again, erupting into a fierce battle with the Grandfather. Golden-green light clashed violently against dark green energy.
"Child, do you feel the true meaning of life? Decay and rebirth are one and the same! Join my embrace!" Nurgle urged. "You will understand this eternal peace and joy, and then experience the exquisite nature of eternity."
Nurgle's voice carried a hypnotic allure. His massive movements seemed clumsy, but every step landed on a node of space, instantly closing the distance. His giant fist gathered a dark green divine light capable of turning a star sector into a plague zone instantly as it smashed down.
"Peace my ass! What I want is boiling blood! Not your eternal stagnation!!"
Deep within Axis, the power that originated from his Saiyan bloodline but had sublimated to a higher level, God Ki, was fully ignited.
The violent golden-green aura of the Legendary mode acted like fuel thrown into a furnace, instantly replaced by a deeper, purer power containing divine majesty.
Since the Legendary Super Saiyan combined with Super Saiyan 4 couldn't cause significant damage to the Chaos God and even put him at a disadvantage, he would decide this battle in Super Saiyan God mode.
BOOM!
An indescribable aura, holy yet violent, shot into the sky.
The red fur on Axis's body instantly dissipated, and a crimson red burned within him as if igniting the primordial fire of the universe.
His originally burly and hulking body shrank, returning to the size of a normal human.
The most startling change was his hair. It was no longer golden-green, but a deep indigo blue, profound as the starry cosmos.
Yet, within this deep blue, there was a faint shimmer of the golden-green halo unique to the Legendary form, mixed with the burning crimson flames of the Super Saiyan God.
Legendary Super Saiyan God Blue.
That was the name Axis gave to his current state. In this form, Axis was far mightier than when he had first crossed into this world; it was the complete fusion of God Power and Super Saiyan mastery.
Golden-green for his Legendary foundation, red for the God flame, and blue for the Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan state, four colors of divine light intertwined, twisted, and boiled around Axis.
His aura underwent a complete transformation. The violence remained, but now it possessed a divine authority that commanded the rules of reality.
The destructive power remained, but it now contained supreme laws of purification and creation.
The space around him no longer twisted and festered; instead, it was forcibly smoothed and stabilized by this holy and potent energy, which implicitly rejected the filth of Nurgle's Garden.
"Wh... what? You actually possess such power!" Grandfather Nurgle uttered a voice of genuine astonishment for the first time.
This boy seemed even stronger than the power he had displayed when he first arrived in this world a few years ago. Was he hiding his strength back then, or had he improved this much in such a short time?
Regrettably, Axis would not answer Grandfather Nurgle. The real battle had only just begun.
The giant fist Nurgle had smashed down was stopped dead less than a hundred meters above Axis's head by an invisible force field woven from the four-colored divine light.
The dark green divine light, potent enough to rot entire star systems, slammed into this force field and emitted a piercing sizzling sound. It was rapidly purified and evaporated, like snow meeting a scorching sun.
"Now, round two," Axis said, his voice cold and brimming with power. His blue hair moved without wind, and tri-colored divine light flowed within his eyes. He slowly raised his hand toward Nurgle's gigantic fist and gave it a gentle push.
Hummmm!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only the hum of space being forcibly compressed and torn apart by extreme power.
Nurgle's mountain-sized fist, along with the dark green divine light attached to it, was shattered into dust by Axis's seemingly casual push.
It disintegrated into a sky full of dark green energy fragments and rotting chunks of meat.
"Ugh!" Nurgle let out a roar of pain, his colossal body staggering backward half a step for the first time. On his rotting face, an expression of disbelief appeared.
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