Shin had to admit that those few Bronze Saints were very likely the reincarnations of Goddess Athena's guardians. And in this world, something like destiny truly did exist.
Otherwise, after so many death matches, only Seiya and the other three Bronze Saints wouldn't have emerged to comprehend the Seventh Sense. As for the rest, even the best-performing Silver Saints, Marin, was still at a distance from the Seventh Sense that seemed simple yet remained out of reach.
However, while several Bronze Saints had comprehended the Seventh Sense, the Gold Saint, through their combat training during this period, had also gradually mastered the Gold techniques of the previous generation and significantly strengthened their Cosmo, even if none had comprehended the Eighth Sense yet. Coupled with the now incredibly powerful Saori Kido, the entire Sanctuary could be said to have entered its peak period.
Figures like the Mariners, Specters, and God Warriors hadn't popped up during this time either. Shin decided he might as well head back to the Marvel World to take a look.
After all, time didn't stop in the Marvel World. He had to check on the Scarlet Witch to make sure she hadn't lost her mind and gone on a rampage again just because he left... There wasn't much to say about the journey in the Marvel Universe. It was worth mentioning that with the help of a large number of electronic-version high-tech scientists under Shin, Apokolips' technological level had made significant progress.
They had input a specific program into the original molecular rearrangement capability of Apokolips' mother boxes, which could directly manufacture nanites to modify any technological equipment on Apokolips.
In other words, as long as there was one mother box and enough time and resources, the entire technology tree of Apokolips could be replicated.
Another thing was that Wanda had sensed a strange summons on the day of the Convergence. Following her intuition, she had crushed a large group of nonsensical Dark Elves who wanted to "bring the universe into a dark age."
Only then did Shin remember that a certain Mad Titan hadn't been dealt with yet!
But thinking about it, the space stone was currently with him. Unless there was a Thanos who held a space stone and traveled through time and space, the snap from the original story certainly wouldn't happen.
Shin had originally thought the space stone couldn't be used in a different space-time, but then he remembered: if it was also a Marvel parallel space-time with the same restriction of six stones, and the original stone had disappeared, then the stone brought over would automatically take its place and could be used.
Although it sounded a bit silly to guard against others traveling through worlds, Shin still gave the people of Apokolips a task: to create a machine capable of stabilizing the world line and guarding against travelers.
After that, there wasn't much to say. He went shopping with Wanda, rolled around in the sheets, and listened to her gossip about strange news like Professor Charles finding love in his old age with the Queen of the Shiar Empire and staying in space during the war with the Brood. She also complained about the embarrassing incident where her father, Magneto, had created a large number of Mutants only to be kicked out of the Brotherhood of Mutants... Shin just listened to these things. After all, Wanda herself wasn't going to seek justice for her father, nor was she going to look for Professor Charles, who had now become an alien Prince Consort. Shin cared even less.
After staying for a month and seeing that no major events were happening in the Marvel World and DC movie worlds, he instructed Wanda to beat any Mad Titan she saw to death, gave her a few more chakra fruits, and returned to the Saint Seiya world.
However, the world was still at peace. Apparently, after the Battle of the Twelve Zodiac Temples, there would be at least several months of peace.
Shin was bored out of his mind every day. With nothing to do, he simply put on his cloth and went to train with a group of Saints—or rather, he went to torment them.
Now, relying on the insights from absorbing the Cosmo of all the cloth in the Sanctuary as nourishment, Shin's own cloth Cosmo had reached the peak of the Eighth Sense. Even without counting his Chakra, Devil Fruit, Superman physique, and other abilities, his cloth Cosmo alone was enough to beat all the Saints until they cried for their parents.
Just as Saori Kido's Eighth Sense, tainted by Athena's Divine Cosmo, was completely different from the Eighth Sense of the Gold Saint, Shin—who possessed a Body of Steel and didn't need to worry about the physical pressure of a Cosmo eruption—had an Eighth Sense that was worlds apart from ordinary Saints.
Other people's Cosmo was called an "eruption," which is why these Saints developed a lot of ultimate moves, aiming to output maximum attack power in the short time their Cosmo burned to its peak.
Shin's Cosmo was his "normal state." Moves like the Plasma Lightning or Pegasus Meteor Fist were just basic attacks to him; he could fire them tens of thousands of times in a row without breaking a sweat.
Among the twelve Gold Saint, even Taurus, who had the strongest physique, would cough up blood and be bedridden after firing ten consecutive ultimate moves, and that was only because the new gold cloth had strengthened his body.
In the past, this kind of continuous eruption could be called a mutual destruction move—that's how a certain dragon and Libra's Rozan Koryu Ha came about.
When every move could exert the power of a mutual destruction attack, how could a Gold Saint under normal circumstances possibly be his opponent?
Even if several Gold Saint attacked him together, they would be shocked to find that Shin's physical defense was incredibly high. Even without his cloth, their attacks had no effect.
In just a few days, almost all the Gold Saint were beaten within an inch of their lives by Shin. Their rate of progress was much faster than training with each other.
After all, Shin was truly beating them to death. He modified the barrier so that when fighting inside, even if they died, the soul's departure from the body would be much slower. As long as there was a soul, plus Yang Release Chakra and the Rinne Rebirth technique, it would be hard for these Gold Saint to die even if they wanted to.
The reason he trained them this way was that Shin wanted to see if they could trigger the Eighth Sense. While it wasn't impossible to "ripen" them using the insights from the cloth directly, only an Eighth Sense they truly erupted themselves would allow Shin to gain new insights after absorbing it from the gold cloth.
Surprisingly, these people actually showed signs of breaking through to the Eighth Sense, especially Shaka. Several times when Shin saved him again, he felt that Shaka had faintly touched that realm, though he quickly fell back after coming back to life.
Shin believed that if he killed Shaka right now, Shaka would definitely comprehend the Eighth Sense—though whether he could return from the Underworld was another matter.
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