After traveling through the Webway for an unknown length of time, the Emperor led the group into a vast space filled with the remnants of ancient Aeldari architecture.
This area spanned the size of an entire stellar system, and in ages past, it had been a great Aeldari super-city.
"Let us fight here. This place is far enough from Holy Terra. No matter what happens, it will not affect Terra," the Emperor said.
He had chosen this place deliberately.
Long ago, during his explorations of the Webway, he had discovered this particularly open region.
Here, the ancient buildings of Aeldari design still stood, though long abandoned.
"This was once an Aeldari city of the old age," the Emperor explained, "But it has been left to ruin for a long time."
Even so, the architecture remained extravagantly ornate. The Aeldari truly deserved their reputation as the race that had inherited the most from the Old Ones.
To dominate the material universe for tens of millions of years was no accident.
This was the remnant of an empire. One day, he too would lead Humanity to such heights, not as the Aeldari had done, but as the Old Ones once had, building vast Webway cities of Humanity's own.
Axis nodded.
The Emperor stationed the Lion, Valdor, and Kasha on a distant Aeldari high platform, shielding them with psychic wards before he flew to stand before Axis.
The two met each other's gaze, nodded silently, and released their golden auras, the golden blaze of a Super Saiyan and the golden psychic radiance of the Emperor mingling, creating a vision too magnificent to forget.
"You look rather splendid all gilded like that, Axis. I can tell this state is far stronger than your usual one," the Emperor remarked with satisfaction, his eyes on Axis's golden hair and shimmering aura.
Since ancient times, Humanity had favored gold.
In Old Terra's ages, gold was without exception the color of royalty. It was the symbol of wealth, the most precious of currencies across civilizations.
Humanity's fascination with gold was deep-seated. It was why his armor was gold, why his psychic light shone gold.
"This form gives me fifty times my normal strength. I can go greener, but let's start with this," Axis said with an eager grin, rushing toward the Emperor.
He would test the waters with Super Saiyan first before deciding whether to use the Legendary Super Saiyan form.
In the Webway, they should be able to shield themselves from Slaanesh's gaze.
After all, the Dark Eldar survived here partly by hiding from She Who Thirsts, and with the Emperor beside him, Axis felt at ease.
The Emperor's psychic power erupted like a storm, golden light gathering around him like a god descending to the mortal plane.
His voice was deep and commanding:
"As you wish!"
In the next instant, both figures vanished. All that could be seen were golden afterimages.
BOOM!
A deafening detonation thundered through the Webway.
The shockwave's force was so great that even the Lion, Kasha, and Valdor, tens of thousands of kilometers away, struggled to keep their footing.
The entire expanse turned gold as the two became blurs of light, colliding again and again, their immense energies clashing in an endless storm.
"What's happening?" Valdor stared in alarm at the distant spectacle.
The Lion's pupils narrowed to pinpoints. "That… was just one collision."
The sheer scale of their power was far beyond the reach of mortals. Even he could barely track their movements.
"My lord, he hasn't even gone all out yet," Valdor said quietly.
"Nor has Axis," Kasha replied.
Axis still had his gold-and-green transformation in reserve.
Their battle flashes tore the Webway's air as shockwaves shattered vast stretches of Aeldari ruins.
Axis's fists carried destructive ki, while the Emperor's psychic shield stood like the strongest bastion.
Long ago, when Leman Russ had first introduced him to the Emperor, Axis had fought the Master of Mankind and couldn't so much as bend a finger of his hand.
Now, it was different.
The old man had to take him seriously.
"Glorious!" Axis roared in laughter, a heavy punch sending the Emperor skidding back kilometers, "This is the fight I've wanted!!"
The Saiyan blood in Axis boiled. An indescribable thrill surged through him.
Only battle could stir a Saiyan's heart like this.
The Emperor was the perfect opponent. Axis pushed his Super Saiyan power to the fullest, forcing the Emperor to yield ground.
Golden light engulfed the world.
The Emperor steadied himself, surprise flashing in his eyes. It had been long indeed since he had felt the sensation of being forced back.
"Axis, your strength… exceeds my expectations," the Emperor admitted.
This youth's power far surpassed that of the Primarchs. He wondered whether even they, at their fullest, could stand against Axis.
"This is just the beginning!" Axis clasped his hands, gathering a blinding sphere of energy. "Taste this!"
A colossal energy wave, over ten kilometers across, roared forth. Space twisted around it, annihilating countless Aeldari ruins in its path.
The Emperor stood his ground, arms spread, and a radiant golden barrier manifested before him.
The collision of energies birthed an explosion powerful enough to rend atoms apart. If this battle had taken place on Terra, the Imperial Palace would have been obliterated.
When the smoke cleared, they floated high in the Webway sky.
The Emperor's eyes gleamed with brilliant gold. "You are, indeed, worthy of my full attention."
Feeling the Emperor's power surge, Axis trembled with exhilaration. "Yes! That's it! Show me the true might of the Master of Mankind!"
From the Emperor's back, a pair of wings made entirely of psychic light unfolded. His form began to blur, as if he existed across multiple dimensions at once.
Axis drove his ki to its absolute limit, the golden aura around him blazing so fiercely it seemed to illuminate the entire region of the Webway.
Two powers, each capable of destroying a planet, collided…
In that moment, time itself felt frozen.
Then, the next instant, a terrifying shockwave detonated in the heart of the Webway city!
High above, Axis and the Emperor crossed like lightning, their fists and feet meeting in impacts that seemed to tear space apart.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Every clash unleashed an earth-shattering blast.
Axis's fists carried annihilating force, while the Emperor's psychic shield stood as an unbreakable bulwark, turning aside every strike.
"Not enough! Not nearly enough!" Axis roared with laughter, the Saiyan blood in his veins boiling over, "Emperor! Stop holding back! Show me your full strength!"
A flicker of approval passed through the Emperor's eyes, and then—
"Let us see if you can handle it."
Vmm!
An unprecedented psychic storm erupted.
The Emperor's eyes blazed with pure gold, and his figure seemed to rise without limit, like a god descending into the mortal realm.
Psychic Release—Thirty percent.
The earlier battle had seemed fierce, but he had not even tapped thirty percent of his psychic power.
BOOOOM!
The entire Webway shook, bathed in the Emperor's golden psychic storm.
Axis's pupils contracted, then his face split into a grin of savage delight. "Then I'll show you something in return!"
With a roar, his golden aura flared anew, muscles swelling, veins standing out—
"Super Saiyan Second Grade!!!" Axis bellowed, pouring his ki into his own flesh.
His frame thickened slightly, power surging again as he shot toward the Emperor like a cannon shell.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Their fists slammed together again and again, each impact hurling shockwaves across the Webway. Ancient Aeldari structures crumbled to dust in the wake of their blows.
Kasha hastily reinforced their protective ward with her own psychic power just to keep their platform stable.
Even at this distance, the aftershocks of the battle shook them to the core.
The Lion stared unblinking at the battlefield, battlelust burning in his eyes. "This… this is a duel of true warriors!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Axis and the Emperor now fought beyond the bounds of reason.
Their speed was such that mortal eyes could not follow them, only golden explosions in the sky and the thunder of their strikes marked their passage.
"Come at me with everything you have!" Axis roared, driving a fist toward the Emperor's chest.
The Emperor caught the blow on his arm, then countered with a psychic blast that hurled Axis into the ground.
CRASH!
An ancient Aeldari city was blasted into a crater tens of kilometers wide.
The next moment, Axis burst back into the sky, his aura burning hotter than ever.
He had now pushed his Super Saiyan form to its utmost, Super Saiyan Full Power.
"Again!!!"
The Emperor's lips curved into a faint smile.
Psychic Release—Fifty percent.
His psychic might flared like a star, warping the Webway around him.
Golden energy torrents formed countless radiant halos around his body. His voice rolled forth like it came from the depths of the cosmos:
"Bear witness to my wrath."
When he had defeated the Void Dragon, he had used fifty percent of his power, but never had it burned so brightly as now.
Axis felt the crushing pressure slam into him, his bones creaking under the psychic weight.
But his battle spirit only blazed brighter, this was the opponent he had longed for!
"HAAAAAH!!!"
With a roar that shook the Webway, the s cells within him fully awakened. He no longer restrained the power of his Legendary Super Saiyan form.
His golden aura darkened to an emerald hue. His once-upright hair surged wildly, his muscle mass swelling beyond reason, his frame expanding rapidly.
The Legendary Super Saiyan transformation!
BOOM!
A storm of green-tinted energy swept across the realm, the Webway quaking violently as though its colors themselves were being leeched away.
Axis's pupils vanished, his eyes consumed by an eerie white glow. His mouth twisted into a near-rending grin. His hair had turned gold-green, his presence steeped in savage, destructive malevolence.
Now standing over three meters tall, Axis radiated raw oppression.
This form was nothing like the standard Super Saiyan, he now resembled a god of destruction, cloaked in gold and green energy mist.
Kasha withstood the pressure, but the Lion and Valdor fared far worse.
An indescribable fear gripped their hearts, sinking into their very genes, as though they faced some calamity that can end a cosmic age. It was the instinctive terror of prey before an apex predator.
Their ability to reason swept away by the aura that poured off Axis, but there minds were gradually clearing.
"What… what is this? Is this Axis's true power? He won't go on a rampage would he?" the Lion muttered, leaning with his hands on a crumbling wall, his body trembling slightly.
"Calm yourself. It is only his aura. And yes, he can control this state," Kasha replied with a faint smile, weaving an extra psychic shield around them to blunt the worst of it.
Anyone seeing this transformation for the first time would feel fear.
"He is nothing like before. Now… I feel only evil from him."
"Hahahahaha!!!" Axis's wild laughter split the air as he hurled himself at the Emperor.
Seeing this form, the Emperor knew he could not afford any arrogance, he raised his power to eighty percent…
Axis, in his Legendary Super Saiyan form, became a green bolt of lightning, his elbow smashing the Emperor down into the Aeldari city's crust.
The shockwave vaporized ancient ruins for a tens of thousands kilometers in every direction, while cracks spiderwebbed across the Webway's dimensional walls.
The Emperor was forced entirely onto the defensive. Axis's fists shattered his psychic barrier, hammering against the One True Armor itself.
Even that peerless armor began to crack under the force of Axis's strikes.
The Emperor could feel it, Axis's power had climbed to an unthinkable level.
This was far more than just a swollen frame and bulked muscle.
Valdor dropped to one knee. "This… this isn't a battle… it's a natural disaster!"
The Lion whispered in disbelief, "Father… is actually on the defensive?"
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