A sudden spark of inspiration lit up in Levos's mind, his eyes flashing with a dangerous brilliance.

Perhaps the solution was simple: consume energy faster than he could be overwhelmed by it.

How far could this body push the Kaio-ken?

He tested it cautiously, letting his energy surge outward. The fiery aura of the Kaio-ken erupted and spiraled rapidly.

"Seventy-five times… one hundred times…"

The searing magma around him was repelled by the sheer force of his aura, forming a warped zone of distorted space a battlefield carved out just for him.

Power surged through Levos's limbs, and for the first time, he felt like he could tear the fabric of reality apart, shatter planets with a mere gesture.

But even now, he hadn't reached the limits of the perfected Cell Max body.

He was going to push the Kaio-ken to the absolute edge of what this body could endure.

One hundred and fifty times.

Boom!

The ground quaked violently. The land caved in. A wave of fire and smoke billowed outward, engulfing the horizon like a hellish tide.

Even the boiling magma burst from beneath the earth, soaring into the skies in furious fountains as if the entire planet had ignited into a sea of flames.

Every eye turned toward the bottomless crater at the heart of the chaos.

A pillar of crimson light shot from the pit, piercing the sky, dyeing the heavens a blood-red hue.

Gasps rang out across the battlefield.

"Hiss… what is that pressure?!"

"I-I can't breathe!"

"Levos… what is he?!"

"His power… might already rival Super Saiyan Rose Vegito's…"

Vegito's eyes narrowed, his expression growing darker.

With a snarl, he sent Tranks flying with a punch and immediately launched a destructive energy blast from his palm.

"Die!"

"Ultimate Kamehameha...Ha!!"

Caught off-guard, Tranks roared in defiance and retaliated with a desperate energy wave.

Boom!

A clash of tremendous force tore through the landscape. The resulting shockwaves whipped into countless spiraling tempests.

Vegito's blast was overwhelming. Tranks's energy was swiftly consumed, outmatched.

"Heh." Vegito sneered, his pupils blazing with madness. "Foolish mortal! Disappear already!"

But in that moment a figure wreathed in scarlet flame stepped in front of Tranks and unleashed his own energy blast.

"What?!"

Vegito's eyes widened in disbelief.

A massive, spiraling beam of power collided with his own blinding, colossal, and utterly unrelenting.

BOOM!

The explosion echoed through the void like divine thunder. Winds howled across the land, the air itself torn apart.

The earth buckled. Even the raging magma calmed under the pressure. For a moment, only that blinding beam of light remained in the world.

All others on the battlefield were blown back by the shockwave, barely holding their ground.

Vegito's figure was completely engulfed by the blast.

Whoosh.

The energy beam pierced through Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the cosmos, blooming like a nova that lit up the stars.

High above, Vegito coughed blood, eyes wide with shock.

"Am I seeing this right?! Vegito actually got hurt?" Tranks muttered in disbelief.

As someone who had fought Vegito to the brink of death, he knew how terrifying the fusion warrior was.

Even while severely injured, Vegito had obliterated Golden Frieza. That alone was a feat to make gods tremble.

Compared to him, Tranks wasn't even on the same scale. Not even close.

They had thrown everything they had just to delay Vegito for a few seconds.

The thought of injuring him was something none of them had dared dream of.

"So… you're Levos." Vegito's expression twisted as he stared at the one who had hurt him. "Monaka mentioned you. The Zamasu of this world was defeated by you!"

His gaze then swept to Levos's thick, twitching tail, his eyes filled with more than shock they burned with envy.

Everyone followed Vegito's line of sight… and stared wide-eyed at Levos's bizarre tail.

Feeling all those eyes on him made Levos's backside feel oddly cold.

But his voice remained calm.

"This body… is more than enough to take you down."

As they locked eyes, sparks seemed to crackle in the air.

Levos moved first.

"Giant Form!"

His body expanded rapidly and his tail, too, grew proportionally, no longer hindering his movements.

He charged at Vegito like a living comet, his speed blinding.

"Damn, he's fast…" Vegito's face tensed.

Still, he didn't retreat. He charged in to meet the attack head-on.

Boom!

Their collision shook the skies. Each exchange sent shockwaves tearing through the clouds, rending space itself.

Their fists met, and both fighters felt it the terrifying durability of each other's bodies.

Though Levos hadn't spent much time training in this new form, his compatibility with it was astonishing.

His power level, while slightly beneath Vegito's, was nothing to scoff at.

Physically, he held his own and his agility wasn't compromised by his larger size at all.

In fact, the increased size allowed him to burn through the overflowing energy faster.

Without even realizing it, Levos began to naturally apply the techniques he had learned during his sparring with Mr. Popo.

The best defense… is relentless offense.

With Fusion Zamasu trapped inside his tail, Levos had no reason to fear injury.

His cells were approaching perfection as long as his energy held out, they could regenerate from almost anything.

And with Namekian DNA, even losing limbs was barely an inconvenience.

So he abandoned defense entirely and went all-in on offense.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

Their battle grew fiercer by the second.

The others couldn't intervene sometimes, they couldn't even see the two fighters clearly.

Bulma, Gamma, and Piccolo, being the weakest present, had already been forced far away by the shockwaves.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Vegito was being pushed back by Levos's crazed assault.

He screamed in rage. "You filthy mortal!"

Levos didn't respond. He simply took the opening and smashed Vegito with a brutal combo.

"Damn it! How dare you… break my nose?!"

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