The final duel of the first round of friendly challenges finally began.
After witnessing battles of overwhelming destruction, impossible speed, absolute nullification, and concepts capable of severing existence itself, the candidates believed they had already seen the limits of what their peers could achieve.
They were wrong.
Because the final battle would reveal a completely different aspect of power.
Not the power to destroy.
Not the power to erase.
But this power can reproduce the reality itself
On one side stood Maria
the third candidate of an eternal Body . The copyist eternal body
A being capable of copying any phenomenon, any energy, and any ability that entered the domain she controlled.
Opposite her stood Tiago,
the candidate of the Celestial Gravity body
A warrior whose control over gravity was so profound that within his domain, he could become a cosmic monster known as a Black Hole
The force from which almost nothing could escape.
The referee gave the signal.
The battle began.
Neither moved forward.
Neither attacked.
Instead, they both posted their domains.
A vast field of power expanded from Maria's body.
Within that territory, the laws of reality began to change.
Every energy entering her influence was analyzed.
Understood.
Copied.
Then transformed into something she could control.
At the same time, Tiago's gravity spread across the arena.
The ground trembled.
Space bent.
The light itself curved as invisible forces attempted to drag everything toward him.
Two worlds collided.
One represented endless adaptation.
The other represented inevitable attraction.
The first phase of the battle was a silent war of territories.
The two domains pushed against each other.
Every inch of ground became a battlefield.
Maria copied the forces entering her range and used them against Tiago's gravitational field.
Tiago increased the pressure, creating waves of gravity powerful enough to collapse mountains and crush stars.
Yet Maria continuously adapted.
She modified the energy she obtained and reshaped it to counter his control.
Slowly.
Inch by inch.
Her domain advanced.
Tiago's territory began to shrink.
After a long struggle, the result became clear.
Maria possessed the larger field of influence.
The first contest belonged to her.
But Tiago had not reached the top ten by surrendering after a single disadvantage.
His eyes became serious.
"So, a battle of domains is not enough."
A small sphere appeared in his hand.
At first, it seemed harmless.
Then the surrounding space began collapsing.
Light bent toward it.
Matter trembled.
A miniature black hole had been created.
With a movement of his hand, Tiago launched it directly toward the region where Maria stood.
A disaster capable of consuming everything in its path.
Maria remained calm.
She extended her hand.
The surrounding temperature dropped beyond comprehension.
She did not merely create ice.
She made an absolute ice
Matter approached the point where all movement ceased.
A dark, dense structure of frozen energy formed around the black hole.
Then—
it exploded.
The attack destroyed everything surrounding the miniature black hole, isolating it from the battlefield and leaving it drifting in empty space.
The arena's cosmic restoration system immediately recognized the unstable celestial object and eliminated it before it could threaten the environment.
Maria did not allow him a moment to recover.
A spear of black ice appeared in her hand.
It was so dense that even light seemed unable to escape its surface.
She threw it toward Tiago.
The spear crossed the battlefield instantly.
Yet Tiago's understanding of gravity was extraordinary.
He created two linked regions of space around the spear.
Each possessed a different gravitational pressure.
Different attraction.
Different direction.
The conflict between those forces tore the spear apart before it reached him.
Maria continued attacking.
She showed why the Eternal Copy Physique was feared throughout the universe.
A single method was never enough.
One moment, she cut through space and time, allowing her attacks to appear directly beside Tiago.
The next, she created countless attacks with different trajectories and purposes, making it nearly impossible to defend against all of them simultaneously.
The battlefield became a storm of impossible phenomena.
Yet Tiago endured.
When attacks ignored distance, he sensed the disturbances in the vibrations of space itself and moved before they appeared.
When countless attacks came together, he created multiple gravitational wells that swallowed or redirected them.
Again and again, he survived.
But a cruel truth slowly became apparent.
He had no way to win.
The only possible strategy left was to exhaust Maria.
To force her energy to run dry.
However—
that was impossible.
Because she possessed an Eternal Physique.
Unlike the Celestial bodies, which could only manipulate a single form of the universe's energy forms—whether it was fire, ice, gravity, space, or even pure energy in a fixed form
But the Eternal bodies operated on an entirely different level.
They could draw upon the universe's purest primordial energy in its natural state.
More importantly, they could alter that energy itself, transforming it into whatever form was required.
Fire.
Ice.
Light.
Space.
Or countless other manifestations.
Their power was not bound to a single path.
It was the ability to command the source from which all paths emerged.
Time passed.
The battle of endurance continued.
Tiago fought with flawless calculation.
Maria fought with limitless adaptation.
Eventually, the difference between the two categories of physiques became undeniable.
Tiago's control over gravity began to weaken.
His movements became slower.
His domain shrank further and further.
Meanwhile, Maria remained almost unchanged.
Her connection to the surrounding cosmic energy allowed her to continue indefinitely.
Finally, Tiago lowered his hand.
The gravitational distortions around him disappeared.
He looked at Maria with respect.
"There is no meaning in continuing."
Maria lowered her own power.
She did not celebrate.
She simply nodded.
"You forced me to reveal more abilities than I expected."
A faint smile appeared on Tiago's face.
"That is enough for me."
The judge looked at both candidates.
"The winner of the fifth duel..."
His voice echoed throughout the arena.
"Maria, Candidate of the Eternal Copy Physique."
The first round of friendly challenges had come to an end.
The candidates had witnessed one another's strengths.
They had discovered weaknesses.
They had learned new possibilities for their bodies.