Over on Goku’s side.
“Is Vegeta going to use that move? I wonder if it’ll work on that masked guy…” Goku’s heart was heavy, but he still chose to watch from the sidelines.
He had experienced the destructive power of Vegeta’s new finishing move firsthand. In terms of sheer power alone, it far surpassed his Kamehameha.
A finishing move of this caliber could blow the entire universe to pieces and throw space-time into chaos if it was not controlled properly.
…
Over on Vegeta’s side.
At this moment, Vegeta’s muscles bulged, and his God Ki surged to unprecedented heights. His face twisted into a savage expression, as though his body was about to explode.
He gathered all his God Ki into his hands. After this attack, he would completely lose the ability to fight.
He was staking everything on this one strike. He would either succeed or die trying.
Seeing that the time had come, Masked Goku Black began charging his own finishing move.
He assumed the stance for unleashing a Kamehameha.
A sinister, dark pink light flickered between his hands. His chilling, terrifying God Ki continued to rise, and an ominous, shadowy glow enveloped half the sky.
The power erupting from the two of them divided the sky over the entire Earth into two halves, one deep blue and the other pink.
Behind Masked Goku Black, Black silently retreated to a safe area after sensing the terrifying divine might erupting from their bodies.
A clash between fighters of this caliber was already beyond anything he could withstand.
Vegeta: “Gamma Burst Flash!!!!”
Masked Goku Black: “Dark Kamehameha!!!!”
With a roar from each of them, their finishing moves hurtled toward one another, carrying the ultimate destructive power to obliterate everything.
The finishing moves collided, unleashing an unbearably dazzling light of destruction. Everyone raised their hands to shield their eyes.
When the light faded, a terrifying sight unfolded before them.
Vegeta’s Gamma Burst Flash was being steadily driven back by Masked Goku Black’s Dark Kamehameha.
At this point, the gap in their strength was laid bare.
Masked Goku Black’s power far, far surpassed Vegeta’s!
“How could I possibly… lose to someone like you… Get back!!!” Vegeta roared furiously. His Super Saiyan Blue Evolved form seemed to achieve another breakthrough, increasing his God Ki output. The Gamma Burst Flash in his hands swelled, pushing Masked Goku Black’s Dark Kamehameha back in turn.
“Oh? Interesting. You seem to be a little stronger than the other Vegetas I’ve encountered.” Feeling the sudden increase in pressure against his hands, a flicker of surprise crossed Masked Goku Black’s face. Immediately afterward, however, a shadow flashed through his sinister eyes.
He had some strength, but that was all there was to it.
He was still far from being able to contend with him.
“HAAAAAH!!!” Masked Goku Black roared. His arm muscles swelled, and the dark God Ki surrounding him erupted in jets as he unleashed the full power of Super Saiyan Rosé 2!
In a single instant, Vegeta’s Gamma Burst Flash was dispersed. The dark God Ki, powerful enough to annihilate everything, opened its bloody maw like a demonic dragon bent on destroying the world and hurtled straight toward Vegeta.
“What?!” Vegeta’s expression changed drastically. He could no longer dodge the Dark Kamehameha bearing down on him.
With that deadly sense of impending danger, coupled with the fact that he had almost exhausted all the God Ki in his body, he would almost certainly be reduced to nothing if the attack struck him.
Time and space seemed to freeze at this moment.
At the critical instant, Goku arrived using Instant Transmission and brought Vegeta out of the battlefield just in time.
The Dark Kamehameha surged onward, carving an immensely wide chasm through the earth before finally shooting off the planet’s surface and into the depths of the space.
“Goku, you’ve finally made your move. I thought you were going to keep watching forever.” Masked Goku Black had anticipated this.
Or rather, his target had been Goku from the very beginning, not Vegeta.
Vegeta was merely an appetizer to warm him up. Goku was the main course. Next, he would devour this Goku from a past timeline down to the very last scrap!
Having been rescued by Goku, Vegeta dropped out of his Super Saiyan Blue Evolved form, his face etched with exhaustion.
Masked Goku Black’s arrogant expression infuriated him, but there was nothing he could do.
This guy was far too powerful. The strength of Super Saiyan Rosé 2 had already surpassed the Super Saiyan Blue Evolved form he currently knows.
Moreover, he could vaguely sense an even greater, unfathomably deep evil power hidden within Masked Goku Black.
“Are you all right, Vegeta? Here’s a Senzu Bean.” Goku pulled the small bag of Senzu Beans out of his waist pouch, took one out, and handed it to Vegeta.
“Even now… I still have to rely on something like this… Damn it…” Vegeta cursed in frustration as he accepted the Senzu Bean, then swallowed it in one gulp.
Once the Senzu Bean reached his stomach, its powerful restorative effects swept through his entire body, healing all his injuries and replenishing his depleted energy.
However, the God Ki he had expended during battle could not be fully replenished so quickly, and the same went for his mental strength.
“Now it’s my turn to face that guy.” Goku stood ready, his piercing gaze fixed on Masked Goku Black in the distance.
His Saiyan instincts told him that the man had been waiting for him for quite some time.
The next second, Goku placed two fingers of his right hand against his forehead and used Instant Transmission, crossing space to appear before Masked Goku Black.
“You’re finally here, Goku.” Masked Goku Black loosened up his body. He had been looking forward to this for a long time.
He then turned his head and exchanged a glance with Black behind him. Black immediately understood and left the battlefield.
“Just as I thought, you’ve been waiting for me all along. I don’t know what you’re after, but I won’t be that easy to deal with!” As Goku finished speaking, a deep blue divine light flashed in his eyes.
“Vmmm!!!!” In an instant, a deep blue radiance of God Ki shot into the sky. Boundless divine pressure swept in every direction, and Goku completed his transformation, bathed in that deep blue divine light.
It was the same Super Saiyan Blue Evolved form as Vegeta’s, and even the strength of his God Ki was nearly identical.
However, Goku’s control over his God Ki in Super Saiyan Blue Evolved seemed considerably better than Vegeta’s. This was evident from the deep blue divine light flowing around his body.
“Oh? I didn’t expect you in this timeline to have mastered this transformation too. The strongest transformation possessed by the versions of you I encountered in other timelines was always that white-haired form,” Masked Goku Black said, slightly surprised by Goku’s Super Saiyan Blue Evolved transformation.
It also sparked a little interest in him.
He wanted to see how Goku in Super Saiyan Blue Evolved differed from Vegeta in the same form.
“The versions of me in other timelines mastered a white-haired transformation?!” Goku looked astonished at those words, and a thought began to form in his mind.
This masked Goku Black before him had probably already done some terrible things in other timelines.
“It seems you’ve figured it out. That’s right. I traversed history and crossed space-time, fighting versions of you from different times to slowly gain perfect control over this body. And now, you’re the ninety-fifth!” Masked Goku Black sneered.
Those words shocked Goku.
This guy had already fought ninety-four versions of him?
Did that mean ninety-four versions of him had already died at his hands?
Had he… already surpassed him, the original owner of this body?!
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