"Round two. Begin."
The moment the words fell, Frieza vanished.
It wasn't a teleportation via the Space Stone, nor was it speed in the traditional sense.
In that split second, it was as if he became the only absolute reality in the universe. Space, time, and even the laws of physics were reduced to mere decorations around him.
A streak of black-gold light tore a dark fissure through the void.
In the next instant, that small figure—radiating an aura of infinite terror—was already face-to-face with the colossal visage of Eternity, a face composed of billions of stars.
"You are... entirely too large."
Frieza stared at the vast star map before him, a flicker of distaste in his crimson eyes.
"With a target this big, the feedback when I hit you is nice, but honestly? It feels like wailing on a giant heavy bag."
"Since you are the physical embodiment of the universe..."
Frieza slowly drew back his right arm. On that black-and-purple fist gathered a force pure enough to crush dimensions.
"Let's see just how much punishment your universe can take!"
BOOM!!!!!!
He threw the punch.
THOOM—!!!
Eternity's body—massive beyond calculation—violently arched backward!
Right in the center of his chest, where Frieza's fist connected, a brilliant nebula was instantly extinguished!
No, not extinguished.
Erased.
Hundreds of millions of star systems, including several massive superclusters, were blasted into absolute nothingness by that single punch!
The cosmic star chart, once flowing smoothly, now looked like a canvas that had been stabbed through with a red-hot poker—leaving behind a gaping, pitch-black void.
"Arghhhhhhh—!!!"
Eternity let out a bloodcurdling scream.
The sound wasn't majestic or god-like; it was filled with the raw, visceral pain of a living creature having its flesh torn apart.
Every corner of the multiverse shuddered violently.
In countless parallel worlds, living beings felt a sudden, inexplicable palpitation in their hearts, as if the sky above them had cracked open.
"This texture... this feeling..."
Frieza retracted his fist, admiring the massive hole he'd created. A look of twisted, ecstatic flush appeared on his face.
"It is simply... magnificent!"
The sensation of a single punch obliterating countless civilizations, lives, and cosmic laws...
It was more intoxicating than the finest vintage wine.
"I'm not done yet, Chairman Eternity."
Frieza grinned savagely, his figure flickering once more.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
In a single microsecond, Frieza threw ten million punches!
Every blow landed with surgical precision on different nodes of Eternity's body.
And with every punch, an entire sector of the universe fell into total, dead silence.
If you were to look down from a higher dimension, you would see Eternity's once-dazzling body now looking like a tattered rag, being frantically torn and riddled with holes!
Superclusters collapsed!
Quasars annihilated!
Dark matter structures pulverized!
This was the power of the Black Form!
Compared to his Golden Form, this wasn't just a boost in combat power numbers—it was an absolute superiority in the hierarchy of life!
"Stop! Stop it!!"
Eternity wailed. His very laws were crumbling; his existence was thinning out.
The immortality he prided himself on—"I am the Universe"—had become the biggest joke in front of this unreasonable maniac.
Because this monster was literally destroying the universe itself!
[DING! Detected Host destroyed the Virgo Supercluster Core! Fear Points +100 Trillion!]
[DING! Detected Host exploded the Laniakea Supercluster! Fear Points +500 Trillion!]
[DING! Detected fear emotions from the Universe itself! Fear Points +1 Quadrillion!]
...
Listening to the system notifications cascading in his mind like a torrential storm, the red glow in Frieza's eyes nearly spilled over.
"Yes!"
"This is it!"
"So this is what a true harvest feels like?!"
He glanced at his System Panel.
The next stage, Diamond Form, had seemed unreachable before. The Fear Points required were an astronomical figure: 100 Sextillion (10^23).
But at the speed he was dismantling this place...
It didn't seem impossible anymore, did it?
"In that case..."
Frieza raised his fist again.
This time, the purple-black aura on his knuckles condensed into a miniature singularity.
"I might as well tear your head off, too!"
"Lunatic! He's a complete lunatic!"
To the side, Infinity—who had been frozen in shock—began to tremble violently in her golden form.
She saw Eternity's wretched state. The pain of being erased on a conceptual level was something she could feel vicariously.
"If we don't stop him, we will all die! We will actually die!"
The ghostly fire in Lady Death's hollow sockets nearly flickered out.
She was the embodiment of Death, yet right now, she felt the cold grip of her own demise.
"We can't watch any longer!"
Even Oblivion, whose voice usually carried the weight of nothingness, spoke with an emotion he had never known: Fear.
"Attack! Everyone, attack together!"
"Hold nothing back! Even if it causes a universal reboot, he must be killed!"
BOOM!!!!
The three cosmic abstracts, previously paralyzed by shock, finally moved.
This time, there were no probing attacks, no reservations.
Infinity slammed her hands together.
"Space: Infinite Fold!"
The entire spatial dimension crumpled instantly like a piece of waste paper, frantically crushing in toward Frieza. It attempted to flatten him into a two-dimensional plane, or even a zero-dimensional point!
Lady Death threw open her cloak.
Endless death energy manifested into billions of black chains. Every link was wrapped in the curse of cosmic termination.
"Life: Final Deprivation!"
The chains drilled into the void like vipers, binding Frieza's limbs and neck tight.
Oblivion transformed into an abyssal maw that swallowed everything.
"Void: Existence Erasure!"
He swallowed the very space where Frieza stood, intending to return every concept in that area to absolute nothingness!
And Eternity, currently being pummeled, unleashed one last burst of desperate energy.
"Time: Causal Reversal!"
His broken body emitted a blinding light, attempting to forcibly drag Frieza's timeline back to before he was born and strangle him in the cradle!
The four Great Abstracts, outputting at maximum power!
It was a terrifying combined strike never before seen since the birth of the universe.
The multicolored forces of cosmic law surged like a world-ending flood, instantly drowning the black-gold figure!
"Did it work?"
Infinity gasped, staring intently at the center of the energy explosion.
Space was collapsing, time was flowing backward. The area had turned into an unobservable chaos.
"No living thing could survive that kind of rule-based strangulation..." Lady Death whispered, as if trying to comfort herself.
However.
The very next second.
From the center of that chaotic mess, a voice rang out—clear, elegant, mocking, and utterly despair-inducing.
"Oh ho ho ho..."
"Is this the extent of your full power?"
"As a little post-meal exercise..."
RIIIIIIP—!
A hand covered in black-gold skin reached out from the energy storm casually—as if reaching through water.
Then, with a gentle tear.
Like ripping through a thin sheet of paper, the cage of laws formed by the combined might of the four gods shattered instantly!
Frieza walked out, completely unscathed.
Even his aura hadn't dimmed in the slightest.
He tilted his head, looking at the four dumbfounded cosmic entities, and a cruel smile curled on his lips.
"That amount of force..."
"It wouldn't even be enough to give this Emperor a decent back scrub."