"The Supreme Kai of Time… has a special kind of power even among the gods."
"And it must taste divine…"
The instant Chronoa appeared, greed flooded the faces of Ozotto's clones.
Beerus and the others erupted with terrifying pressure and lunged at them.
Chronoa's expression changed. She immediately unleashed the Power of Time, entering her Time Unleashed form.
"Freeze!"
A ring of pure-white crystalline light wrapped around her, and the flow of time in the entire area ahead of her slowed violently.
Ozotto's clones began to stall, their movements inching toward a stop.
"Hah… hah…" Chronoa panted hard. "I can't hold this for long. Now, while you can… take them down…"
Before she could finish, Merus had already broken free. His staff shot forward like a spear at Chronoa.
"Before an angel… what is a Supreme Kai of Time?"
Chronoa's face tightened. She snapped out a sharp command.
"Spacetime Vortex!"
A white, constantly rotating spatial field swallowed everyone at once.
In an instant
Their movements became slow as snails!
But on Levos' side, the flow of time surged faster.
"So this is what the 'Power of Time' can do…"
No time to think. Levos erupted with full strength, gathered a beam of energy, and blasted it straight at the enemy.
Stars shattered.
RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE !
Countless brilliant rays slammed squarely into the bodies of the three.
The Spacetime Vortex detonated.
At the exact moment Levos blew Beerus and the others apart, time itself seemed to freeze for several seconds.
Their silhouettes twisted and struggled inside the explosion
Then, in only a moment, their bodies were erased completely.
"It's over." Chronoa exhaled in relief. "I can't sense their ki anymore…"
Levos' voice was heavy. "Next comes Ozotto's true body. The one that swallowed the Grand Priest and Zeno."
"…Yeah." Chronoa looked at Levos, determination flowing in her eyes. "We'll win."
Levos still wanted to tell her to leave.
But she seemed to know what he was about to say.
"I'm not like ordinary Supreme Kais. I'm on the front lines all the time. My strength is not weak."
"You saw it just now. The two of us together are unbeatable."
"And I have experience and knowledge. I can help you a lot…"
Levos frowned. "I'm still worried "
"I know you're worried about me, but…" A faint smile lifted Chronoa's lips. "Without me… can you do it?"
Levos paused.
Fine. Having help wasn't bad.
But that also meant she was standing in danger with him.
If they failed, the risk could balloon into something that threatened all timelines.
"If anything feels wrong," Levos warned, "leave this world immediately. Don't get swallowed."
"And if there's truly no other way… go to Whis and Beerus in my world. They're being punished at Zeno's palace, but they have a complete set of Super Dragon Balls."
It was the last backup plan he could think of.
The Super Dragon Balls didn't belong to him, and how they were used would be Beerus' decision.
But having a fallback was better than having nothing.
"I'll remember," Chronoa said, nodding seriously.
The two had just started to move
When, all across the cosmos, one wave after another of horrifying aura rose, steeped in boundless darkness.
New enemies arrived again. In the blink of an eye, they were already near.
And their faces… were still Merus, Beerus, Moro, and the rest.
Worse still behind them came more terrifying presences.
"Champa… Belmod… Sidra… Heles…" Levos' gaze went slightly unfocused.
All the Gods of Destruction gathered together. Without a word, they charged straight at Chronoa.
The Spacetime Vortex covered the battlefield again.
In the next instant
Chronoa's face went deathly pale.
"Damn it! There are too many of them! And they have no restraint at all they're unleashing everything!"
In the face of an entire swarm of Gods of Destruction throwing out their trump cards, even with everything she had, she couldn't fully lock down their movements.
The very next moment, the battlefield space split apart entirely.
The cracks kept expanding, forming terrifying black-hole whirlpools one after another.
The Gods of Destruction broke free in succession, greed burning ever brighter in their eyes.
"The Supreme Kai of Time is mine!"
"No one is stopping me from swallowing her!"
Levos exploded forward at full power to intercept.
But they didn't even take him seriously.
"Kid, you're special, sure. But next to the Supreme Kai of Time, you're nothing!"
"Don't even think about stopping us!"
Levos managed to halt four or five of them
The rest went insane, ramming through his attacks and charging Chronoa.
"Not good!"
Levos' heart jolted.
These enemies were all monstrously powerful. Any one of them was no weaker than him.
More importantly, their coordination was terrifyingly seamless.
If Chronoa got surrounded, she might not escape.
"Run! Leave this world!" Levos shouted.
Chronoa understood the danger, but she hesitated, torn.
"No… I can't abandon him!"
But she also refused to become dead weight.
"If I use that move… there won't be much 'Power of Time' left. It will take an extremely long time to recover."
"And during that time… the City of Time will lose almost all protection."
Chronoa clenched her teeth.
Then her heart hardened. She unleashed the Supreme Kai of Time's strongest technique.
"Spacetime Exile!"
"What?!" The Gods of Destruction all changed expression.
The spell completed instantly. With a light tap of her finger, invisible ripples of time spread through the void.
In that moment, every enemy and everything around them froze solid.
Then space tore and segmented, sealing Ozotto's clones inside separate, isolated pockets of space.
Slowly, they were dragged deeper into the cracks between space.
By past experience, the next step would be their banishment into the gaps between time and space.
"Without proper preparations for a seal, I can only restrict their movements like this for now…" Chronoa gasped, breathing hard.
But then
Space began to warp again.
Time… started to flow, little by little.
"Merus!" Chronoa's face turned ugly.
She realized it: her ultimate move not only failed to affect an angel, it was being broken.
"Angels…" Bitterness filled her voice. "We're finished."
"…Not bad," Levos sighed. "An angel really is terrifying."
In this situation, there wasn't much else he could say.
Merus glanced at Levos and smiled faintly.
"I'll be blunt. I'm Ozotto's strongest clone."
Levos couldn't accept it. "How did you even swallow Merus? How is that possible?"
Merus' form twisted and reshaped, returning to Ozotto's appearance smugness all over his face.
"He wanted to save everyone I swallowed. So when he was stronger than me back then… he chose to be eaten on purpose."
"But you can see how it ended." Ozotto sneered. "A naïve, foolish idea. Heh."
Levos raised an eyebrow. He'd had the same thought before.
It wasn't strange.
After all, they had erased Ozotto's clones once yet clones with the same identities could be born again.
It was hard not to suspect that the 'original' victims were still preserved somewhere.
"At least so far," Levos said quietly, "a clone belonging to the Grand Priest hasn't appeared. The situation isn't completely hopeless."
It was the only thing he could still feel grateful for.
But at a time like this, he didn't dare be optimistic.
Ozotto could swallow even angels completely. Levos refused to believe a plan this old and deliberate had no safeguards.
Levos looked at Chronoa. Their eyes met.
"What's your plan?" Chronoa said firmly. "I'll cooperate with everything I've got!"
"Bring Cell Max in," Levos said.
Chronoa hesitated. "Can he really stop Ozotto? Your clone only just stabilized. And the Gods of Destruction's power isn't something you can fully control so quickly…"
"We can't give him time to finish swallowing the Grand Priest," Levos said. "Better to gamble."
"…You're right." Chronoa didn't hesitate anymore. "Then we try."
She cast immediately.
On the plaza of the Time Nest, a mirror-like gate of light unfolded, giving off a faint pulling force.
Cell Max snapped his eyes open and strode straight through.
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