The Tournament of Power 10/27

Jayr POV - Dragon Ball Universe, Null Realm - Age 780

Following Auta Magetta's elimination from the Tournament of Power, the Grand Minister announces, "The 6th Universe's Auta Magetta-san has dropped out," followed by the Zenos, who quickly mark his elimination on their GodPads and cheerfully comment.

"Auta Magetta... Tap!"

"Holy Angemon and Paildramon knocked off another warrior!"

"They can transform so many times, too!"

"They are amazing!"

At this point, the Grand Minister also nods in agreement as he says in his usual even tone, "Indeed, their ability to evolve is truly exceptional. Each single evolution seems to massively increase their powers and abilities. It makes one truly wonder how many times they can evolve, how they would change after each evolution, and what their limits are."

In response to the Grand Minister's words, Zeno-1 looks at me and asks, "Hey Jayr, can you tell us more about them?" followed by Zeno-2, who repeats, "Can you? Can you?"

Hearing that, I smile and start to talk, "Sure. As you know, Holy Angemon and Paildramon are known as Digimon, and all Digimon are divided into 6 different Evolution Stages."

I quickly use my Spiral Cosmo to produce an image of Poyomon before I continue to explain, "The first is known as the Baby I, which is the Evolution Stage that Digimon typically belong to immediately upon hatching from a Digitama, basically an egg. At this stage in development, their composition data has not yet stabilized, so they are very weak. They are incapable of fighting and possess very little offensive capability, but can often produce some sort of weak technique to attempt to intimidate or surprise threats, such as blowing bubbles, spitting small projectiles, creating visual distractions, or swelling in size."

I change the image from Poyomon to Tokomon and say, "Baby I Digimon evolve into Baby II Digimon, at which point their compositional data stabilizes, although they remain unable to fight. This evolution often occurs relatively quickly as they only need the right amount of nutrition to stabilize their Data. Despite that, one shouldn't underestimate Baby II Digimon too much, as even at this early stage, their bodies still contain enough power to strike down a tree even in the Digital World, which in comparison makes them physically stronger than the average mortal."

Then I once again manipulate the projected image, changing from Tokomon to Patamon before I continue my brief lesson, "Baby II Digimon evolve into a Child Level Digimon. A Child Digimon is still in the process of growing and developing. At this point, the Digimon demonstrates progress not only in its cognitive development but also in developing its strength and awakening its combat instincts. As such, the Child level is the threshold where Digimon typically become able to fight. Child Digimon also commonly have a mischievous streak to their personalities. The Child level is a formative period in the lifespan of Digimon, and the course of a Child Digimon's future evolution can diverge drastically depending on its experiences and how it is raised while at this Evolution Stage. This is the evolution stage that Patamon and his brothers stay most of the time, as it is very stable and requires the least energy to maintain."

I yet again manipulate the projected image, changing from Patamon to Angemon, and say, "Child Digimon evolve into Adult Level Digimon. Adult is the next Evolution Stage following Child, and as their respective names suggest, the Adult level is the point at which a Digimon is considered to be fully grown. Adult Digimon, compared to their prior form, have developed even more power and intelligence."

After saying that, I once more manipulate the projected image, changing it from Angemon to Holy Angemon, and continue to explain, "The majority of Digimon never evolve any further than the Adult level. Only the exceptionally powerful among Adult Digimon are able to evolve yet again and reach the significantly more powerful Perfect Level. The Perfect level is the point where further evolution becomes increasingly rare. Compared to Adult Digimon, Perfect Digimon possess overwhelming power. In the wild, they typically take on the role of pack leaders or even regional rulers. This is the current Evolution Stage of Holy Angemon and Paildramon."

In the end, I manipulate the projected image one last time but this time instead of spoiling the surprise, I simply form a unclear shadowy figure, and then, I conclude my explanation by saying, "Those few, rare Perfect Digimon who endure countless battles and overcome their own limits can evolve again to reach the Ultimate Level. This is the Digimon's ultimate form. The form is beyond Perfect. This is technically the cap for Digimon Evolution. The most iconic and powerful Digmon are Ultimate levels as well as the Royal Knights and Olympus Xlll, and other God-like entities like the Three Great Angels, the Four Great Dragons, and the Four Holy Beasts. This is technically the end-all, be-all form that every Digimon who seeks power claims to achieve. But then, among the Ultimate, there are those that are referred to as the Super Ultimate. This is the form that usually surpasses Ultimate in power. These Digimon usually require special means to reach such a level, it could be a fusion, an external item, a power transfer from another Ultimate Level, and so on. These Digimon are powerful almost beyond reason to the point that the Guide Angels, and even the Grand Minister, may have trouble facing them."

At this point, the Zenos look at me with starry eyes as they mutter in awe, ""Wow! Digimon are so cool!"" followed by the Grand Minister, who chuckles and comments, "Heh. Truly, the wonders of the Omniverse never fail to amuse and interest me."

Suddenly, I notice another interesting clash about to take place, this time it is between a warrior from the 11th Universe and Clova from the 9th Universe.

The one about to fight Clova is K'nsi, a blue, ogre-like individual with a short stature and purple dots on his head.

(Image Here - K'nsi)

The reason why this match-up is so intriguing is that both K'nsi and Clova can actually be considered string users. On top of that, their power levels are also quite similar, which means that their battle is mostly going to be a battle of pure strategy and wit.

On one side, there is K'nsi, a quite powerful member of the Pride Trooper, maybe the fourth strongest among the ones who are taking part in the Tournament of Power, who has vast experience fighting against evil all over his universe, protecting people and even entire planets, facing all kinds of adversaries.

On the other side there is Clova, who is without any doubt one of the worst criminals of the 9th Universe and from what I have seen he too also has quite a bit of fighting experience, the only difference is that he is quite cunning, ruthless, and even slippery as he didn't hesitate to retreat whenever the situation is not in his favor.

The battle between the two starts without much fanfare or talking with Clova who uses his Ki to create very fine and solid wires of energy, almost invisible to the naked eye, and launch them toward his opponent who creates crimson-glowing, golden threads of energy to use them to deflect his opponents energy wires causing them to entangle with each other before K'nsi's threads of energy glows for a brief moment and then they burst out in a strong explosions that easily blows up Clova's wires and creates a thick black smoke between.

Shortly after that, many more crimson-glowing, golden threads of energy come out of the thick black smoke as they quickly advance toward Clova who quickly creates another one of his wires to pull a nearby rubble in front of himself using it as a shield against K'nsi's threads that wrap around it before immediately exploding blowing the rubble into pieces.

With this brief first exchange between Clova and K'nsi, it is already very clear that Clova and K'nsi decided to develop their techniques in almost opposite directions.

Clova cleary favors a more stealthy and deadly approach as the wires he creates are almost invisible to the naked eye and even using something like Ki Sense they can be quite difficult to stop, proof of that is that Ganos, a considerabily powerful warrior himself, didn't even notice them until it was too late.

On the other hand, K'nsi's approach is much more direct but equally effective, his threads can be spotted much more easily as they are much thicker, but they are also notabily more durable as they can obviosly endure much more punishment than Clova's wires, on top of that, K'nsi's threads can also be detonated to cause much more direct damage.

Shortly after K'nsi's thread blew up the rubble Clove used as a shield, Clova doesn't waste any time and starts his counter attack as he generates another set of very fine and solid wires of energy before he launch them toward his opponent, however, this time the wires aren't almost invisible to the naked eye as they glow in a faint, almost menacing, purple light.

The difference between this set of wires and the one he used before it becomes very clear when K'nsi jumps out of the way to dodge them and the wires continue to advance toward the floor slicing it with such ease that they leave behind a very clean cut on it upon the Katchi Katchin floor, a clear show of their deadly sharpness.

Just like that K'nsi and Clova continue to jump around the area using their threads or wires trying to attack or ensare the opponent by neither is able to do so as their familiarity with each other's fighting styles, which despite the differences in approach are still quite similar, makes it quite difficult for them to gain an advantage over their opponents.

Before long, the entire area encircled by rubble where they are battling becomes completely ravaged by their ongoing battle, as there are marks of explosion, cuts, and craters all over the place.

Neither is able to land a single hit on their opponent, but the situation is about to change very quickly because someone is going to interfere in this battle very soon.

As expected, the situation immediately changes as K'nsi jumps away from a nearby rubble to dodge yet another deadly assault of Clova's energy wire, which slices the rubble into tiny cubic pieces in an instant.

As soon as he lands on the ground some distance away from Clova, the floor under his feet starts to ripple like water before K'nsi suddenly sinks into the floor until only his head and his shoulder remain exposed.

At the same time, the figure of the axolotl-like alien from the 9th Universe Cyenne emerges from the floor with the same ripple-like effect before he ruthlessly kicks K'nsi's head, knocking him out, and says, "Stop playing around, Clova. You are wasting way too much time and energy with this justice-loving trash."

In response, Clova simply chuckles and asks, "Hehe, what's wrong with playing around a little bit? We've been sealed for so long, and I just want to let loose a little bit. After all, meeting another string user is so rare that I wanted to have some more fun."

Cyenne simply shakes his head and walks away as he says, "We can play as much as we want after we won this freaking tournament. I don't know if you noticed, but there are still some warriors that even Peppar is wary of. So try not to catch their attention by playing around too much!"

Clova simply grins evilly before he uses his Ki to create yet another set of very fine and solid wires of energy that glows in a fain purple light before he uses them to cut a block of the floor containg the knocked out K'nsi and then he casually thows the whole block out of the fighting stage into the abyss eliminating K'nsi from the Tournament of Power much to the disappointment of the deites of the 11th Universe.

"Ah man, now there's only three left."

"But two of those are Jiren and Top. So there's no cause for panic yet."

At the same time, the Grand Minister gracefully announces, "Contestant K'nsi-san of the 11th Universe has been eliminated," which makes the Zenos bring up their GodPads as usual and happily mark his elimination while commenting.

"Tap, tap. Let's see, K'nsi... Huh, where'd he go? Oh! Bye!"

"I wonder who'll be out next!"

"Yes, so do I!"

While this is happening, another warrior from the 11th Universe, Dyspo, is about to face yet another formidable opponent in the shape of Hit, the most fearsome assassin of the 6th Universe.

Dyspo is slim, purple, and hairless with wide, elongated, pointed ears, similar to Cornish Rex and Sphynx cats in appearance.

His eyes are bulging and yellow. Dyspo heavily resembles Beerus, though they share no relation.

He has rabbit-like front teeth, unlike Beerus' more pointed, catlike teeth, and also seems to lack a tail.

He wears a red and black form-fitting suit and tall white boots, like the rest of his Pride Trooper teammates.

(Image Here - Dyspo)

Standing in front of the calm Hit, Dyspo asks, "You're Hit from the 6th Universe, right?" which makes Hit answer with a plain, "That's right."

At this point, Dyspo starts to introduce himself to Hit, "Well, I'm Dyspo from the 11th Universe's Pride Troopers, and I'm the guy who's gonna overcome that Time Skip of yours."

In response, Hit calmly asks, "So you know about my favorite move?" which makes Dyspo enthusiastically state instead of directly answering Hit's question, "For my proud universe, and my fellow troopers, I will set the hammer of justice upon you!"

Hit simply takes his fighting pose and mutters, "Is that so?" while Dyspo chuckles and also prepares to fight.

Watching from the sidelines, Kale asks Caulifla if they should help Hit, however, Caulifla says that Hit will be fine and to focus on recovering her stamina for now.

After a few tense moments where the two stare at one another, Dyspo charges at Hit, and before Hit can utilize his Time-Skip, Dyspo notices and lands a clean hit, much to everyone watching this battle's shock.

"Ah! What's happening!?"

"Well, this is an unexpected development."

"How strange."

"Yes, what just happened?"

Dyspo laughs while watching his opponent slowly getting up while Hit realizes, "It appears your confidence isn't just for show, now is it?" which makes Dyspo rebout, "Ha! Of course it's not."

At the same time, Champa remarks, "Getting in one good shot is just a fluke. Nothing more! Gah! What a pain!" which makes Vados tell him, "Careful, my lord. Getting upset will raise your blood pressure."

In response, a clearly annoyed Champa points out, "What's worse, that clod looks like Beerus!" which makes Vados jokingly exclaim, "You think so? Seeing as Beerus-sama is your brother, then he must resemble you, too, Champa-sama.

However, Champa immediately denies this, "Ehhhh! They look nothing like me! I have a robust, classically handsome face! Not like those ninnies with their high cheekbones and chiseled jawlines!"

Beerus and Shin are shocked that Hit, of all people, is struggling against another opponent.

"I never thought I'd see Hit under this kind of pressure."

"His opponent is one of those 11th Universe fighters. They really are a formidable bunch, aren't they?"

Meanwhile, Dyspo praises his opponent, "That's what I'd expect from Hit the assassin. You don't get rattled after one punch, do you? Still stoic as ever." before he adds, "But you know, that whole arrogant vibe you got goin' on? It really pisses me off!"

Dyspo and Hit charge towards each other again, but Dyspo's speed increases as he knocks Hit down, making his whole body spin in mid-air before he crashes on the ground, while Champa panics as Hit is hit once again.

At the same time, the deities of the 11th Universe discuss Champa being flustered as Hit is getting pushed back.

"Huhuhu. Looks like Champa's losin' his mind."

"It makes sense, my lord. Hit appears to be their most valuable fighter."

"And with his composure, he serves as their emotional pillar, too. If he is defeated, there's a strong chance that the entire 6th Universe team will fall apart."

"You mean when he's defeated, not if."

Meanwhile, the Zenos whine about Dyspo's attack being too fast to see, and Grand Minister tells them he added a new recording function to their GodPads that allows them to see the attack in slow motion.

Hit remarks that it feels like Dyspo is using Time-Skip on him, while Top, who is watching this battle from the sidelines with Jiren, comments that through repeated battles, Dyspo's speed has surpassed the speed of sound and light, calling him their blitz captain.

At this point, Dyspo taunts "Quittin' already?" which makes Hit growls, however as they stare at one other, Hit suddenly realizes something, smirks, and mutters, "So that's it." before he says, "Right before I employ my Time Skip, for just a fraction of a second, you move at supersonic pace, don't you?"

Dyspo is impressed at his analysis, smirks and praises in a mocking tone, "Aren't you clever?" before further explaining, "Yes, I can do it briefly. Ramp up my own speed several thousand times over."

Hearing that, Hit slowly stands up and comments, "No wonder I couldn't see you," which makes Dyspo laugh and says, "Haha! Now you're probably asking yourself, 'How does that dashing and gifted warrior time his attack to the exact moment I use my Time Skip?'"

In response, Hit confidently states, "I'll find out soon enough," which makes Dyspo question in an amused tone, "Oh, yeah?"

At this point, Hit attacks again, this time not assuming a defensive fighting stance, but Dyspo lands another attack on him so strong that sends Hit crashing against a nearby boulder-sized rubble that crumbles under the force of the impact generating a thick cloud of dust while Dyspo pridefully comments, "No matter how many times you try, the outcome will be the same."

From this exchange, Hit, whose body is resting on the remains of the rubble, glares at his opponent as he realizes, "It's the sound. Whenever I engage my Time Skip, for a split second, I flex my entire body. And you're able to hear the sound of my muscles contracting."

Dyspo praises Hit in an amused tone, "That's very good," before he adds, "But still, you'll lose. There's just no way to get around it. Every time somebody moves, their muscles make a sound I can hear. It's completely unavoidable. And it's even more pronounced when using a special technique."

Hearing this, Champa tries to find a counter to this by suggesting, "All righty, then. We just need to create a loud ruckus to drown out the sound! Ohy, my vuvuzela! Bring me my vuvuzela!"

However, Vados says, "I doubt that will work, Champa-sama. He can probably pick out individual frequencies as well. Background noise aside, I would imagine he can focus on any sound of his choosing," which makes an embarrassed Champa stutter, "Uh. Eh... Well, duh, of course I knew that."

Knowing that his Time Skip is countered, Hit gets up and says, "You may have defeated my Time Skip, but you won't defeat me," before he attacks Dyspo directly, but he quickly gets overwhelmed by Dyspo's superior speed.

Watching the two fight, Top comments that Hit is slowly adapting to Dyspo's speed, purposely trying to defend against any attacks to his vital areas.

Realizing Hit is up to something and that he may be setting a trap, Top prepares to make a move in case the now overconfident Dyspo need some help, as he realizes that they can't lose yet another warrior so soon, especially not because of some careless mistake.

Shortly after, Hit is immediately knocked to the edge of the fighting stage, and he is cornered.

Seeing that, the overconfident Dyspo tries to knock Hit off; however, Hit takes a page from Obito's book and evades his attack by making his body intangible, while a surprised Dyspo phases through him and falls off the edge.

Before Dyspo falls too deep, he is saved by Top, who jumps after him and then fires an Energy Wave to push them both back on the fighting stage.

A little embarrassed, Dypso thanks Top for saving him, and in response, Top comments, saying that Hit is not to be taken lightly before he adds that it is way too soon to focus their energy and stamina to deal with such a strong opponent and that, for now it is better to retreat.

At first, Dyspo is reluctant; however, Top reassures him that he can battle and defeat Hit once there are fewer warriors competing and thus fewer chances of something unexpected happening before reminding him once again that at the moment their main priority at the moment is only survival and avoiding erasure.

Hearing that, Dyspo agrees and retreats with Top, leaving Hit alone, looking at them for a few moments before he decides to walk away and recover while searching for another target.

Shortly after that, I focus my gaze on another area of the fighting stage where Peppars, the warrior from the 9th Universe, is now confronting Monna, the warrior from the 4th Universe.

Monna is a round and fat green-skinned humanoid female fighter, much like Ribrianne, however, she is wearing a yellowish suit with red bands on the neck and armholes, has indigo hair with 2 large ponytails, yellow gloves with orange bands, a white belt, blue small pants, and clover boots.

(Image Here - Monna)

At first it seems that only Monna and Peppars are in that particular area, but through my senses it is clear that it isn't true at all, as there are two more presences hidden in almost plain sight very close to them that are only waiting for the right moment or an opening to act.

One of the two presences is Gamisalas, another warrior from the 4th Universe and thus an ally of Monna.

His full appearance can't actually be seen as he is currently invisible, however, the silhouette that I perceive through my other senses resembles a short chameleon-like creature, with horns, pointy ears, and short spiky hair.

(Image Here - Gamisalas)

The other presence is of the last warrior from the 4th Universe, Damom, but different from Gamisalas, who is invisible; Damom is only incredibly difficult to spot and sense.

The reason for that is that he is extremely small, and only those with greatly enhanced or sharp senses can see him.

He is a round, dark green cicada-like insect with small orange antennae and red eyes.

He has a blue section on his chest, a small triangular tail, and no fingers on his hands, having giant, rounded balls for hands instead.

(Image Here - Damom)

The confident Monna simply states that she is going to break all of her opponent's limbs before she quickly charges at him, however as soon as she throws a punch, Peppars simply makes a circular movement with his hand and a small circular portal appears right in front of her fist's path so suddenly that Monna is unable to stop herself.

In an instant, her fist passes through the portal, and the next moment, a strange series of sounds is heard from within the portal, like the sound of many continuous pops, which makes Monna immediately pull her hand back while screaming in pain.

Seeing that, her allies do not hesitate and hastly decide to make their move and attack Peppars, but his senses are much sharper than they thought because as soon as the got close enough to him, I see that Peppars' tentacle slightly twicht before he qucikly turns around and kicks the extremely small Damom sending him flying out of the fighting stage and then he spins and knees the invisible Gamisalas in the stomach with such force that he is sent soaring up in the air before he knocks him out of the fighting stage with a precise Ki Blast.

However, my attention isn't on the eliminated warriors at the moment but on Monna, who his still holding her injured arm since the damage on it is quite peculiar.

From her fist up to a part of her forearm, there is missing flesh everywhere, leaving sizable holes all over the affected parts, and more intriguing is the fact that all the holes are perfectly cubic in shape.