"That depends on your ability!"
Frieza's voice had not yet dissipated in the air.
BOOM!!!
A golden pillar of light, like a spear of judgment cast down by God, instantly pierced through the cloud layer over Manhattan.
Sentry moved.
No fancy moves, just the pure combination of speed and power.
His golden eyes burned with a nearly tangible rage, his fist carrying kinetic energy enough to shatter mountain ranges.
He smashed it ruthlessly toward Frieza's disgusting smiling face.
"Die! Invader!"
This punch was so fast that even light seemed to be distorted.
Even Thanos and Ultimate Captain America, who were fighting below, had to momentarily stop and look up at the sky in horror.
However.
Faced with this earth-shattering strike.
Frieza did not dodge.
He didn't even take his hands out of his pockets. He only tilted his head slightly, a habitual little movement he made when watching a show.
"My, my..."
"Too slow."
BANG!
A dull, heavy boom exploded in mid-air.
A visible shockwave swept out in all directions, instantly dispersing all clouds within a few kilometers!
But Sentry's pupils contracted sharply to the size of pinpoints.
Blocked?
No, not blocked.
He tanked it with his face?!
Frieza was still hovering in the same spot, not a single hair out of place.
And Sentry's fist, capable of punching through an aircraft carrier, was stopped right next to Frieza's cheek.
It was forcibly halted by a thin, almost invisible layer of purple Ki!
The distance was less than a millimeter.
Yet it felt like an uncrossable chasm.
"Is this the gold standard for the strongest in this universe?"
Frieza turned his head slightly. His crimson eyes looked through the aura, gazing mockingly at Sentry who was inches away.
"If this is all the strength you have..."
"You aren't even qualified to give this Emperor a massage."
"Bastard!!"
Sentry felt humiliated like never before.
He roared, the energy inside him surging madly like a stellar explosion.
Golden light condensed around him into a miniature sun. The temperature rose sharply, and even the surrounding space began to show signs of melting.
"Get... OFF ME!!!"
BOOM!
Sentry threw a flurry of punches, turning into a sky full of golden meteor showers, frantically bombarding Frieza's Ki shield.
Every punch made the sky tremble.
The terrifying momentum made every superhero on the ground feel despair.
Is this a realm humans can even reach?
But.
"Tch."
Frieza frowned with some impatience.
"It's getting a bit noisy."
"Since you like boxing so much, this Emperor will play with you."
Frieza finally took his hands out of his pockets.
He unbuttoned his suit jacket, his movements as elegant as if he were attending a banquet.
"However, this suit is very expensive."
"To prevent it from getting dirty..."
Frieza's eyes suddenly turned cold.
"Let's switch forms to play with you!"
HUMMM——————!!!
A suffocatingly terrifying aura instantly erupted from Frieza's seemingly slender body!
The originally clear sky turned pitch black instantly, purple lightning flashing madly through the clouds.
"What is this?!"
Sentry felt an unprecedented sense of crisis and instinctively retreated violently.
But it was too late.
Within that blinding white light.
Frieza's figure began to change.
That expensive white suit shattered instantly.
Replacing it was a body white as jade, streamlined to perfection.
Purple crystals covered his head and chest, and a thick, powerful tail flicked gently behind him.
Frieza — Final Form!
This was his original, most stripped-back form!
"Phew..."
Frieza rolled his neck, making a crisp cracking sound.
He looked at his own white hands, a smile of intoxication appearing on his face.
"As expected, this form is the most comfortable."
"No need to worry about dirtying clothes, or ripping them because of too much power."
He looked up at Sentry, who had retreated several hundred meters away.
A cruel smile curled on his lips.
"Hey, Golden Retriever."
"Are you ready to experience true hell?"
Whoosh!
Before the words fell.
Frieza's figure vanished directly from the spot!
It wasn't speed invisible to the naked eye, but something even divine consciousness couldn't capture—Instant Transmission!
"Over here!"
Sentry whipped around and punched backward.
But he hit nothing but air.
"Too slow."
Frieza's voice came from above his head.
Sentry looked up in horror, only to see a white tail like a steel whip, carrying a shrill sound of tearing air, whipping down ruthlessly!
CRACK!!!
A crisp explosion sound that made teeth ache.
Sentry's handsome face was whipped out of shape. He was spiked like a volleyball.
At dozens of times the speed of sound, he smashed ruthlessly toward the ground!
RUMBLE——!
An abandoned building in Manhattan was punched straight through, dust rising everywhere.
"Robert!!"
On the ground, Steve Rogers, the Ultimate Captain America, roared.
He had just held off a stomp from Apocalypse with his shield, only to turn around and see their side's strongest combatant swatted down like a fly.
The despair was even stronger than when facing that guy named Kang.
"Is this your hope?"
Apocalypse grinned savagely on his blue face. He looked at Cap struggling under his foot and added more weight.
"Do you see? This is the Great King's power!"
"What do you mortals have to fight against the Emperor of the Universe?!"
"Give up! Kneel! That is your only way out!"
On the other side.
Thanos sent Iron Man flying with a slash. He looked at the white figure in the sky, his eyes full of fanatical worship.
"Do you see, Tin Man."
Thanos stepped on Tony's chest plate, his voice low and majestic.
"This is the gap."
"Your so-called technology, so-called mutations... in the face of the Great King's pure power, don't even count as dust."
"Cough, cough..."
Tony coughed up a mouthful of blood. The eyes under his faceplate were losing focus, but he remained stubborn.
"Fuck your... Great King..."
"As long as Sentry isn't dead... we haven't lost!"
As if responding to Tony's hope.
BOOM!!!
The ruins of the collapsed building exploded outward.
A golden pillar of light shot into the sky!
Sentry charged up again.
Only this time, he looked a bit wretched.
There was a red, swollen whip mark on his face, and golden blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.
But the aura on his body was even more violent than before!
It was rage!
It was the extreme rage of having the dignity of the strongest trampled upon!
"I'm going to kill you!!!"
Sentry's eyes had turned completely gold; even the whites were gone.
The energy inside him was fissioning madly, as if a million stars were exploding in his cells simultaneously!
"Oh?"
Frieza hovered in mid-air, looking at Sentry whose power had surged, and felt a slight twinge of interest.
"Angry?"
"Not bad. This energy reaction..."
Frieza licked his lips.
"Is getting a little interesting."
"At least you'll be able to take a beating now."
"Come! Let me see where your limit lies!"
BOOM!
The two collided again.
This time, it wasn't a one-sided stomp.
Sentry seemed to have gone mad, completely abandoning defense. Every punch carried the momentum of mutual destruction.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The muffled sounds of flesh hitting flesh exploded continuously in the sky.
The shockwaves generated by each collision bathed the city ruins below in destruction once more.
"Hahahaha! Delightful!"
Frieza laughed with pleasure as he parried Sentry's storm-like attacks.
Although he appeared to be on the defensive, anyone with eyes could see...
He was doing it with ease.
Like an adult teasing a raging child.
"Your strength is indeed decent."
Frieza casually slapped away a heavy punch from Sentry and countered with a chop to Sentry's shoulder.
Splurt!
Golden blood splattered.
"However, your technique is garbage."
"Do you only know how to use brute force?"
"If this is all the skill you have, this Emperor is going to get bored."
"Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!!"
Sentry's rationality was crumbling bit by bit.
He had never encountered an enemy like this.
No matter how he exploded, no matter how much he increased his strength, the opponent was like a bottomless ocean—forever unfathomable.
That sense of powerlessness made the negative persona inside him—The Void—start to stir.
"I am invincible!"
"I am Sentry!"
BOOM!
Sentry suddenly grabbed Frieza by the waist and drove him upwards toward outer space.
"You want to fight up there?"
Frieza didn't resist, allowing Sentry to carry him out of the atmosphere.
"Just as well. It's too crowded down below. I can't stretch out."
The two instantly broke through the clouds and arrived in the silent vacuum of space.
Here, it was Frieza's home court.
"Get down there!"
Sentry roared, clasped his hands together, and smashed them ruthlessly onto Frieza's back.
Bang!
Frieza was knocked downwards, but only slightly.
He spun around abruptly and grabbed Sentry's wrist.
"Your strength has increased."
Frieza looked at Sentry's eyes, which were starting to turn black, and a playful smile curled on his lips.
"It seems there is a little monster hiding inside you."
"That guy called 'The Void'?"
"How do you know?!" Sentry was horrified.
This was his biggest secret!
"This Emperor knows far more than you can imagine."
Red light flashed in Frieza's eyes.
"However, even if you call it out, it won't change the outcome."
"Because..."
Frieza's aura suddenly changed.
If he was just playing before, now he was getting a tiny bit serious.
Maybe... fifty percent?
BOOM!!!
Purple Ki surged instantly, transforming into a ferocious beast that firmly suppressed Sentry's golden light.
"In front of this Emperor, so-called invincibility..."
"Is only because you hadn't met me yet."
Wham!
Frieza drove a knee into Sentry's abdomen.
"Urgh—!"
Sentry's eyes nearly popped out. His body instantly curled into a shrimp, dry heaving in pain.
Immediately after, Frieza clasped his hands together and smashed them heavily onto Sentry's back.
BOOM!
Sentry fell like a meteor, straight toward Earth.
"Not done yet!"
Frieza extended his index finger, a black energy ball the size of a ping-pong ball condensing at the tip.
Death Ball!
"Go!"
Whoosh!
The black energy ball, launched later but arriving first, caught up with the falling Sentry.
RUMBLE————!!!
At the edge of Earth's atmosphere, a brilliant and deadly black firework bloomed.
The terrifying shockwave even blew away all the clouds below, revealing the outline of the entire North American continent.
On the ground.
Everyone watched the terrifying explosion in the sky with their hearts in their throats.
"Robert..."
Cap's hand gripping the shield was trembling.
That was their last hope.
The smoke cleared.
A figure hovered unsteadily in mid-air.
It was Sentry!
He was still alive!
But he no longer had his previous divine demeanor.
His golden suit was in tatters, half his body charred black, revealing golden muscle fibers underneath.
He gasped for air, the golden light in his eyes flickering.
"I... I haven't lost yet..."
Sentry stared dead at the white figure high above who was completely unscathed.
He felt an unprecedented humiliation.
He, Robert Reynolds, the strongest hero with the power of a million exploding suns.
Was being toyed with like a monkey by an alien?
"Unforgivable..."
"Absolutely unforgivable!!"
Sentry's eyes changed.
Original rationality collapsed completely in this moment.
Replacing it was a twisted confidence, or rather... the madness of a dying flash.
"Do you think you've won?"
Sentry suddenly started laughing, a neurotic sound.
"That attack just now didn't kill me."
"That proves your power is nothing special!"
The energy inside him began to collapse inversely.
Mixed into the golden light were traces of heart-palpitating black void energy.
He was going to fully release The Void in this moment!
Even if the cost was destroying this world!
"I will let you know..."
Sentry slowly raised his hands. An energy ball mixing gold and black condensed in his palms.
Though the ball wasn't large, the destructive power contained within it caused the magnetic field of the entire Earth to fall into chaos.
"Who is the true God of this universe!"
Seeing this scene.
The Avengers on the ground showed looks of surprise and joy.
"He still has a trump card!" Tony shouted excitedly. "That monster is in trouble!"
"We won... We're going to win!" Cap also clenched his fists, hope igniting in his eyes.
However.
High above.
Frieza looked at Sentry, who was charging up his ultimate move with a look of "victory is in my grasp."
A trace of boredom flashed in his crimson eyes.
"Again?"
"Another one of these boring 'I'm going to self-destruct, are you scared?' tricks?"
Frieza shook his head and sighed.
"I wanted to play a little longer."
"But looking at you, it seems you have no new tricks."
"In that case..."
"Then this Emperor will bring out some real skill to play with you!"
"Golden Form, Transform!"