"Round two… begins."
The instant the words left his mouth, Frieza vanished.
It wasn't a Space Stone warp, nor movement so fast it defied perception.
In that split second, he became the sole reality of this Universe, while the surrounding space, time, even the laws themselves, were reduced to mere backdrop.
Black light tore a pitch-black fissure across the void.
The next instant, that petite figure radiating endless terror, was pressed right up to Eternity's colossal face woven from a billion stars.
"Too big."
Frieza gazed at the vast body, red pupils flickering with distaste.
"With a target this huge, the punch feels decent, but it's like slugging a sandbag."
"Since you're the incarnation of the universe itself…"
Frieza slowly drew back his right arm. On that black-purple fist, was pure, absolute force enough to collapse dimensions.
"...let me see just how much punishment your Universe can take."
BOOM!
The punch flew.
THOOOM—
Eternity's immeasurable frame lurched violently backward.
At the point of impact on his chest, tthe radiant Nebula went dark.
No, not dark.
It vanished.
Hundreds of millions of star-systems, several massive superclusters, were blasted into absolute nothingness by that single blow.
The once-flawless cosmic tapestry now looked like a painting skewered by a red-hot iron, a titanic black hole gaping in its center.
"Aaaaargh!!!"
Eternity shrieked, no longer grand and majestic but raw with the agony of torn flesh.
Every corner of the Universe quaked. Countless beings across parallel worlds felt a nameless dread, as though the sky above them had split open.
"This feeling…"
Frieza withdrew his fist, a sick flush rising in his cheeks as he stared at the void.
"…is absolutely exquisite."
The sensation of annihilating civilizations, lives, laws, crumbling between his fingers, was more intoxicating than the finest vintage.
"We're not done, Chairman Eternity."
With a savage grin, he flickered again.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom...
In a single microsecond, Frieza unleashed tens of millions of punches, each striking a different nodal point on Eternity's body. Every blow reduced an entire star-region to eternal silence.
Viewed from a higher dimension, Eternity's once-luminous form now looked like a tattered rag being shredded and pierced.
Superclusters collapsed!
Quasars annihilated!
Dark-matter structures pulverized!
This was the power of the Black form, not a mere rise in power level but an absolute suppression of life-tier.
"Stop! Stop it at once!"
Eternity howled, his laws breaking, his very existence thinning.
His proud "I am the Universe" immortality, had become a joke before this brute who was literally destroying the Universe itself.
[Ding! Host destroyed the Virgo Supercluster core! Fear points +100 trillion!]
[Ding! Host blew up the Laniakea Supercluster! Fear points +500 trillion!]
[Ding! The Universe itself now feels fear! Fear points +1 quadrillion!]
Listening to the system notifications crashing like a storm through his mind, Frieza's eyes glowed crimson.
"Ecstasy!"
"Pure bliss!"
"So this is what harvesting feels like?!"
He glanced at the system panel.
The next stage, Diamond form, had seemed unreachable, demanding a hopeless 100 sextillion (10²³) fear points. But at this rate of demolition, it didn't look impossible.
"In that case…"
He raised his fist once more, a miniature singularity of violet-black ki condensed upon his knuckles.
"Then let me tear your head off too!"
"Madman! He's a madman!"
Beside him, Infinity, frozen in shock, trembled in her golden frame.
She saw Eternity's fate and felt the conceptual erasure as if it were her own.
"If we don't stop him we'll all die—truly die!"
In Death's hollow sockets the ghost-flame nearly flickered out. She was death incarnate, yet now she tasted her own demise.
"We can't keep watching!"
For the first time, Oblivion's empty voice carried the note of fear.
"Attack—together!"
"Hold nothing back! Even if it reboots the Universe, kill him!"
BOOM!
The three stunned deities finally moved.
No probes, no restraint.
Infinity clapped her hands.
"Space: Infinite Fold!"
The dimensional plane crumpled like paper, crushing inward upon Frieza, trying to flatten him to two dimensions—or zero.
Death flung back her cloak, countless black chains of ending hissed out, each link cursed with universal demise.
"Life: Final Deprivation!"
The chains shot through the void, coiling round Frieza's limbs and throat.
Oblivion became a gargantuan maw that devoured all.
"Void: Existential Erase!"
He swallowed the spot where Frieza stood, annihilating every concept within.
Eternity, battered to the brink, flared in a last resurgence.
"Time: Causal Reversal!"
His broken body blazed, striving to yank Frieza's timeline back to before his birth and strangle him in the cradle.
Never since the Universe began had such a terrifying combined strike been unleashed.
Multicolored law-energy, a cataclysmic torrent, instantly engulfed the black figure.
"Did we get him?"
Infinity gasped, staring at the erupting core.
Space crumbled, time flowed backward and the zone had become unobservable chaos.
"No being can survive a law-storm like that." Death whispered, as if to convince herself.
Yet, the next second—
From the heart of that chaos, a voice rang out: mocking, elegant, and utterly despair-inducing.
"Oh-ho-ho…"
"So that's your full strength?"
"As a post-meal workout…"
Rip—
A hand sheathed in black skin casually reached out of the Universe-shredding tempest and gave a light tug.
Like tearing thin rice paper, the prison woven from the combined might split apart.
Frieza stepped through without a scratch, his aura not even dimmed.
Tilting his head at the four stupefied deities, he curved his lips in a cruel smile. "That level of force isn't even enough to scrub my back."
Frieza's voice was soft, elegant, and gratingly sharp in a dimension that was collapsing around them.
His crimson eyes openly mocked as he swept his gaze across the four deities who embodied the highest laws of the Universe.
A look that said they were four under-performers.