Universe 11 God of Destruction's World
Toppo tumbled through the air, then flipped with his momentum, one hand slamming to the ground. A sharp push, a skid, and he steadied himself.
"Boy, you're outrageously rude. Guest of a God of Destruction or not, I won't show mercy," he growled. The measured, solemn Toppo was gone burned away by Gohan's relentless taunts.
"Talk, talk, talk. You fighting or posing? Sanctimonious types like you are the worst," Gohan said, crooking a finger at him.
"Hmph!"
Toppo's bulk vanished. Gohan's eyes narrowed above!
That massive body dropped like a boulder. Both of Toppo's feet hammered down onto Gohan's shoulders.
For all his barrel chest and bear-like torso, Toppo's legs were oddly lean; the stance looked almost… natural.
"Justice Tornado!"
Toppo twisted from the waist, channeling torque through Gohan's neck and shoulders to spin him like a top.
"Get off!"
Boom!
Dark-gold lightning tore outward as Gohan snapped into Super Saiyan 2. His aura punched the sky open spray-like tongues of ki clawed at the heavens, rolling and rolling like a tidal sea. Black arcs of thunder crawled over his skin, bending the air, fraying the edges of space.
Belmod's eyes tightened.
"Didn't expect Universe Seven to raise a monster like that, Whis."
Gohan was hiding the Power of Destruction, but a thread of God Ki thinned, diluted still leaked free. Belmod felt it: weaker than Toppo's in density, yet… higher in dimension.
"Oh-ho-ho… what can we do? I'd hate to miss out on good food in the future," Whis laughed lightly. "Lord Beerus naps to cultivate so often, Universe Seven is overdue for prodigies."
"He might not win," Marcarita murmured. "Toppo isn't simple."
On the field
In raw aura, SS2 Gohan now steamrolled Toppo.
But Gohan knew this wasn't Toppo's ceiling. In the original story, Toppo's base could pressure "Mystic" Gohan. Even without that anime's 1,000× oddity, Mystic still eclipsed Super Saiyan 3. The timelines didn't quite match; maybe this Toppo was a shade weaker… but not by much.
"Still hiding cards, Toppo?" Gohan said, dark-gold SS2 burning at a savage 300× multiplier. He didn't suppress the violence in that form he let it surge.
In this skin, he was feral edge razor-sharp, killing intent thick.
"Evildoer!"
Toppo felt that blood-hungry current and stamped Gohan as a villain on the spot. His holy zeal surged.
Boom
A heavy, ancient pressure rolled off him, like a mountain exhaling in the dark. Thick God Ki flooded the arena.
You couldn't sense God Ki with mortal methods; it had already climbed out of "ki" and into the divine.
Toppo finally got serious.
"There it is," Gohan thought, pulse quickening. "God Ki."
Dragon Ball Super has two tellings: in the manga, Toppo steps into a Godly State no outward change, just ki elevated to God Ki, with power around full Super Saiyan Blue. In the anime, he goes straight to God of Destruction Mode, hurling Hakai and overwhelming Blue until Vegeta's beyond-Blue form can resist the erasure.
Right now, Toppo was at full burn the Godly State.
With ki sublimated, his power leaped past dark-gold SS2 Gohan.
Gohan didn't transform further. He chose to fight like this.
He'd come to awaken a godly power of his own to evolve his life-state and tear past the mortal limit.
He moved first flash right in Toppo's face.
Both arms thrust out, palms forward Compressed Air Cannon.
Pop!
Simple in principle: rammed ki compressing the air into an invisible shock-shell.
It burst against Toppo's skin without a scratch to show for it.
Toppo's thick arm scythed in, a sledgehammer of a fist aimed for Gohan's face bigger than Gohan's head.
Gohan slid his body a hair's breadth; the punch scraped his gi and whistled past. He wrapped both arms around Toppo's elbow, adding to the big man's force instead of stopping it
Boom!
Toppo's stance faltered. He staggered forward three hard steps before catching himself.
"Oh? Messy, but you dodged the full face-plant," Gohan said, needling him again.
Toppo said nothing. He turned his head, gaze like a blade, cold hate flickering behind the righteousness.
Gods and angels were watching.
You made me lose face. I'll take your life.
The thought crystallized; the killing urge solidified. His justice had crossed a line. When a creed goes extreme, it bends toward evil. Toppo's ironclad sense of justice was hypnotizing itself anyone who stood against him became "evil."
Gohan felt the murderous edge and grew wary.
"So that's how it is. You want me dead? Try it," he thought, attention honing to a point.
Whis, Belmod, and Marcarita saw it too. None of them moved.
Even if someone died, two angels could simply rewind time and restore them.
Crack!
Shockwaves burst from the center of their next clash. Toppo came in at full tilt every blow loaded, speed howling.
Gohan met the first punch head-on. Every one after, he bled the force, stepped off-line, let it slide. Mr. Popo's clay-doll drills were paying off.
Toppo chopped down from above, that casserole-sized fist splitting the air.
Gohan leapt up a fraction, stepped on the incoming forearm to ride over the blow, and slid in close both palms snapping out in a classic White Ape Offers Fruit, smashing across Toppo's cheek.
Bam!
Toppo's head snapped back. For a second, the world rang.
Gohan seized the beat he clamped the arm he'd stepped on, sank his hips, drove from the waist, and heaved Toppo went up, then slammed down hard enough to crater the God Planet's armor-thick ground.
The pain shocked the fuzz out of Toppo's head. He saw Gohan dropping from above, both heels about to stomp him flat.
"Presumptuous!"
Toppo raised a hand; two fingers together spat a condensed orange finger beam.
A flicker of danger crawled over Gohan's skin. Instinct screamed: don't take that head-on.
He aborted the stomp, checked his fall midair, and slid sideways. The beam screamed past and lanced into a nearby satellite.
KRA-THOOM!
The satellite blew apart.
Gohan wiped a bead of cold sweat. "Yikes. Good thing I didn't eat that."
He didn't notice Toppo had already disappeared.
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