"Impossible…"
Infinity's golden form shook violently, releasing a thunderous dissonance of disbelief.
"That was erasure on the conceptual level, a reversal of causality!"
"How could you be… completely unscathed?!"
It was beyond their comprehension.
In this Universe, physical law is bedrock, and they are its Guardians and framers.
Never has a mortal creature torn through their web of rules with sheer muscle alone.
"Oh dear, such country-bumpkin shock." Frieza spread his arms in resignation.
His black tail flicked, each lash shattering a patch of void.
"Rules?"
He raised a finger, violet light dancing at the tip. "When your power level is high enough, so-called rules are just tissue paper waiting to be torn."
"And I just happened to tear a little too hard."
"Arrogant!"
For the first time, Oblivion's hollow voice carried uncontainable fury. As incarnate nothingness, he could not endure such contempt.
"If the rules cannot bind you, let the Universe itself crush you!"
BOOM—
The Four Cosmic Deities moved again.
This time, they chose the most primal, most titanic method: conceptual assimilation.
Eternity's body ballooned without limit, becoming the boundless physical cosmos. Trillions of galaxies, black holes, and quasars, whirled at his will, forming a colossal millstone.
Infinity sealed every dimensional exit.
Death stripped all vitality.
Oblivion became the millstone's base.
They would grind Frieza to dust with the mass of an entire Universe.
"Exhaust your strength in this endless cycle, mortal!"
RUMBLE—
The star-mill began to turn. Each second of friction saw tens of thousands of galaxies being born and die.
The pressure was a thousand times greater than before.
At the center, Frieza felt spatial density leap by hundreds of millions of times, like a fish frozen in cement.
"Tch…"
He braced his arms and black ki flared into a shield against the crush.
His brows knit slightly, not from fear, but from annoyance.
He punched, shattering a Nebula that pressed down.
The next instant, Eternity re-formed it and it pressed again.
Endless.
Nonstop.
"My power's already sky-high. Given time, I could pull you four antiques apart."
"But…"
He glanced at his black fist.
"How long would that take? I still have dinner plans."
Frieza understood: his physical might now surpassed a single Universe, but against conceptual gods it was like punching water. You can scatter it, yet it always flows back.
Compared with the Hakai only Gods of Destruction wield, pure Ki is simply less efficient at deleting concepts.
"Honestly, I tried to get along by strength alone, and all I got was endless pestering."
He sighed, wearing a look of 'you forced my hand.'
"Fine."
"I won't pretend anymore."
"I'm a cheater—coming clean."
Frieza lowered his fists, abandoning crude brawling..Hovering at the mill's center, he let star-crushing pressure batter his shield.
Then, with elegant poise, he raised his right hand. Above the black palm, six gems flared into being.
Though the stones had merged within him, he now activated their root authority.
Infinity Stones!
In this Universe, they are the supreme admin rights.
"You enjoy rules, do you?"
Grinning at the four vast, indifferent faces, he sneered.
"Since you are the incarnation of rules, what if…"
"I simply rewrite them?"
HUMMMM—
Six-colored light erupted, amplified by black Ki into a rainbow beam that pierced past, present, and future.
"By Infinity I command: reality—rewrite!"
The red Reality Stone blazed.
"Your immortality is revoked!"
"You are now flesh-and-blood things that bleed and die!"
CRACK—
The Four Cosmic Deities stiffened.
Eternity's star-forged body condensed into something like meat and bone.
Death's hollow frame sprouted rotting flesh.
"What… what is this sensation?!"
Eternity howled in terror—he felt pain, felt weight.
"Not finished yet."
Frieza snapped his fingers.
"Space—imprison!"
Blue light flared and the dimension froze, pinning the four titanic forms like insects in amber.
"Time—accelerate!"
Green light flowed and their energy drained billions of times faster as age was forcibly granted.
"Power—amplify!"
Violet light burst and Frieza's aura smashed through dimensional limits.
"Mind—terror!"
Yellow light seeped in, injecting absolute dread of Frieza into their once-rational thoughts.
"Soul—harvest!"
Orange light blazed and their life essence streamed uncontrollably toward him.
In a single heartbeat, the tables turned.
The lofty avatars of cosmic law, were now slabs of meat on a butcher's block.
"No… impossible…"
"How can the Infinity Stones wield such might?!" Infinity shrieked as her concept crumbled.
"Oh-ho-ho…"
Frieza beheld the four deities reduced to mere matter, delight sparkling in his eyes.
In the void.
It was a silence like death.
Only the four former gods who once embodied the Universe's highest laws remained, now reduced to wretched physical forms, gasping in pain.
Frieza hovered before them, four golden chains, materialized from the Reality Stone, gripped in his hand. The other ends of the chains were fastened around the necks of Eternity, Infinity, Death, and Oblivion. It was like leading four newly tamed hounds.
"Oh my…"
Frieza gave the chains a gentle tug, gazing at the four figures whose faces were twisted in terror.
On his black visage bloomed an elegant yet cruel smile.
"You look much more agreeable now."
"Compared to those intangible concepts, having flesh and blood to hold is what I prefer."
Eternity opened his mouth, trying to speak. But the fear rooted in his very soul left him unable to utter a sound.
They had lost.
Their laws rewritten, their existence reduced.
They were no longer gods, but merely toys in Frieza's hands.
"All right."
Frieza raised his left hand and the blue light of the Space Stone flared brilliantly.
"Since the fight is over, it's time to go home. After all, I still have to show my employees the fruits of this business trip."
Boom—
A gigantic blue portal large enough for a Planet to pass through tore open in the shattered dimension.
On the far side of the portal, lay the already-transformed steel fortress Planet Frieza 002, formerly Xandar