Kapitel 249: The End
"Broly! You will pay for this!!" A Zeno screamed out as he slowly dissipated slowly as he was being sucked into the sword.
"Yeah, yeah hurry up and die." Broly spoke out coldly as he saw Zeno disappear. It was faster than the other Zeno, but Broly was still dissatisfied with the speed.
After the death of the first Zeno was settled, the waves through their soul resonance will surely have delivered the message of that fragments demise.
Broly was getting anxious with every second. Of course, this Zeno was trying to delay the dissipation of his energy as much as he could, but at his deathbed, his strength hardly mattered anymore, facing the First Sword.
Broly had always used his fists and after getting the First Sword, he only learned the very basic of wielding a sword, but he never considered himself as a true swordsman.
His swords skill was based on his perfect control over his body, but his insights in the way of the sword was merely superficial.
However, everything considered, now two fragments of an Overlord still had fallen to this sword in Broly's hands. Broly couldn't help but begin to get fond of it.
'I should probably go down the path of the sword in the future.'
The balance of the sword was perfect and each strike, pulled out most of the wielder's strength, even if the wielder himself wasn't proficient in wielding it. Adding the power of the sword itself, it was a terrifying force to be reckoned with.
It had to be expected as it was the first sword ever.
Indeed, the First Sword was not only Pera's rulers' weapon and the first sword created by that civilization, but also the first sword coming into existence, at least in this part of the omniverse.
However, this wasn't the reason, why it could pull out this tremendous amount of power.
Broly hadn't thought deeply about this as he thought that improvement came with newer versions, but Broly hadn't considered that since it was created early on, it had a long time to resonate with the omniverse and was now even stronger than back at its creation.
Obviously, the material and creating techniques used were also exceptional as it was made for Pera's king, but only time had allowed this sword to be almost an untouchable existence amongst other swords.
If Broly only had a glimmer of insights into the way of the sword, his strength would have allowed him to completely decimate a mere fragment of an Overlord.
After Broly finished absorbing Zeno's energy, he quickly stored the material used for the planet and the sphere into a pocket dimension of his sword and quickly headed to the meeting place, they had discussed beforehand.
Broly rushed towards the spot and saw Pera's island in the distance, he quickly flew towards it and shortly afterwards the whole island disappeared into the empty space of the omniverse.
*****
"So? How did it go?" Alea asked as she ate something in the throne hall. "Everything went as expected." Broly said as he was digesting Zeno's energy.
He looked up and saw the solemn faces of his companions.
"What's wrong?" He asked them, but already knew their concerns. They had already discussed it when he filled them in on the plan.
"Broly…We have destroyed several universes. With the exception of universe 11, 6, 7 and 1, every other universe was destroyed forever. Sigh." Alea reported to Broly.
What they did could be seen as incomparable evil and ruthless. Wasn't it only because Broly thought that this kind of opportunity to reach the peak would otherwise never appear again?
Broly knew that he had no limitation on his soul anymore, but this didn't mean he would certainly reach the Overlord level.
Maybe if he stayed low, not daring to offend Zeno, he would one day become an Overlord.
To achieve a substantial rise in power further in the higher realms, he had to spend more time and energy into training.
One had to consider that Zeno's injury had yet to heal after hundreds of millions of years.
Obviously, Broly could maybe halve this time with incomparable luck and opportunities. Maybe he would only need a couple of million years if he invaded another multiverse, but Broly wasn't willing to wait so long.
He was in his 30's, how could he think about waiting hundred or even thousands of years, much less millions of years.
The reason why he was so determined wasn't only the long period of time to reach the higher realms.
Additionally, it also wasn't anything lofty like resurrecting his loved ones, to protect the weak or to bring justice to the world. He was just a stubborn man.
He always said that his ambitions had risen and in a way that was the case. Be it strength or status, he wanted to be above everyone! But his core values remained the same.
If it was phrased in a simple sentence it would be, "I want to have the strength to live free of any restrictions!".
After getting stronger over the years, he got more ruthless and unwilling to bow his head to the wills of others. With time this determination cemented and even grew inside him.
He hated the feeling that the gods of destruction could kill him, that the angels could kill him, much less that Zeno could erase everything he had built thus far.
He would never kneel or back away ever again. Even something like love wasn't able to stop him from moving forward! He would only stop after there was no one to surpass!
"What I did was certainly ruthless and could be said to be evil. However, if I have to, I will go even further." Broly said with conviction as he stared into the eyes of his wives and those, he called friends.
He was being honest with them and they knew that he would never going to be considered a hero or even a good person, but they didn't walk away.
Maybe it was because he had saved them numerous times, maybe they thought he would succeed and his side would be the most secure for them and their family, maybe their loyalty made them go to the death with their liege, maybe they just supported a friend at the time when he needs it the most, maybe they just loved him too much, maybe they didn't want him to be a hero or even a good person, just himself. Who knows?
They were all different and had their own thoughts and feelings.
Broly quietly continued to absorb the energy of the deceased Zeno and rapidly accumulated more strength.
The different types of energy on the back of his palm were slowly converted into pure soul energy.
As Broly delved deeper into the soul realm and entered a higher level of being with his own understanding of the laws of the omniverse, the distinction between the energies began to disappear.
Every energy, every life and every dead object had the same origin. There was no need to distinguish between these things.
As he came to that realization, the tattoo glowed with a pure white hue until it disappeared completely.
Broly quietly watched it and immediately knew that there was no need for an identification to control this island anymore. His soul was now on the Pera's unique Overlord level.
He didn't need a multiverse and other universes to get more strength. As long as his soul got more energy and his understanding of the omniverse deepened, he would grow stronger.
There were probably only a handful of Overlords in the entire seemingly endless omniverse, who went the same route as Broly, and most were probably from civilizations affected by Pera itself.
*****
After a few days.
"Your Majesty. Zeno has finally appeared on the battlefield." Aize reported as he activated a hologram that showed the spot, where the planet, Zeno and Broly had fought on, was.
Zeno looked around with a furious expression and after a short time found the camera that was deeply hidden in the folds of space.
The camera involuntarily flew towards Zeno's face. Zeno's face revealed a sneer as he seemed to watch through the device and looked at Broly and the rest.
"Don't think you can just run away!" Zeno said coldly after which he crushed the camera.
Broly didn't show any emotions as he looked at the disconnected screen. "How is the island?" He asked Alea and the rest.
"We are currently flying at 20 percent.", "Our shields are on 40 percent.", "Half of the island was converted into energy.", "Our canon is ready to fire."
They each reported to Broly.
*****
"There you are! Broly, today is the day you die!" Zeno waved his arm towards the island. The strength was incomparable to the single fragments that Broly had killed.
There were only three other fragments left and after they fused, their strength didn't only add up to each other. This Zeno could be said to be a real Overlord!
Broly flew above a forest at the edge of the island and looked at the attack that pierced through the mist that was used to hide the island and directly entered through a pale white sphere that surrounded the island.
Broly waved his arm, sending out an invisible attack that directly collided with Zeno's attack. Of course, Zeno didn't stop there and hurled dozens of mighty attacks towards the island.
Broly countered every single one of them, but as he was only barely able to defend against Zeno, he had to unsheathe his sword to block the relentless attacks of Zeno.
Broly waited for Zeno to come closer before the whole island would release an attack to severely injure Zeno.
The only thing he was concerned about was whether Zeno had called the surrounding Overlords to aid him. After all, Broly had revealed the remains of Pera. The ruins would be more than enough to make these old monsters move.
Of course, Zeno would never consider what Broly was concerned about. The Overlords grew in strength with additional universes. If they knew how weak Zeno currently was, Zeno would be a sheep in a pack of wolves.
Death would be absolutely certain, instead of the current situation of an opponent that was clearly weaker than him and was fleeing for his life.
Beside him, several figures appeared that were ready to fight. Goku, Vegeta, their sons, the Xeno-Versions of them and of course Jiren and other strong mortals and the deities, were all ready.
Seeing that the island was on the verge of breaking apart, Zeno steeled himself and rushed with his soldiers towards the island.
Just as he entered the mist, Broly pierced the sword into the ground and the whole island began to glow. In an instant a giant hole appeared in Zeno's stomach.
The island's whole energy reserve coupled with Broly's input of omniversal laws inflicted a heavy injury to the Overlord.
The Overlord looked at the gaping hole in his stomach. The infused laws made it difficult to heal himself. It was nothing that he could easily shrug off.
His little soldiers he had removed their limiter of were rushing to stop Broly. Broly frowned as he saw the familiar childhood heroes of his past.
He had nurtured the Z-Fighters to 'let them become his rivals'. Of course, these faces were just for him to have something familiar in this hostile multiverse.
He had always indulged in the fantasies about getting back to his past life, back to his old family and friends, but in the end he couldn't and later he didn't want to.
Still, the Z-Fighters had always been there, so he could cling on something of his past life. Something that made him relish in memories of his past innocent self.
Despite his resolution about getting stronger, his willingness to inflict harm to others and himself in pursuit of strength, he wasn't willing to lose this.
Although he knew that this past life was already long gone, he just couldn't let go, but now the time had come.
He had to sever this last restriction that had always resided in his being. He had to be willing to let go forever and let his soul return to the purest form, free from everything.
Just as Zeno was injured, Broly moved out and with slashes of his sword, he absolutely decimated them. Less than a second was needed to get rid of all of them.
It didn't matter if it was a mortal that had reached the level of gods, gods or the angels themselves, they simply couldn't content with Broly's might and were easily slain.
Zeno distanced himself again. Even this short delay of Broly had given him time to recuperate a little. He couldn't help but nod inwardly. These soldiers did their job as cannon fodder perfectly.
However, as he looked into Broly's eyes. They seemed to have grown deeper and more profound, but most importantly, he seemed to be freed of something.
Zeno frowned as he suddenly saw a light appearing in his view. He quickly dodged by bending backwards as Broly flew past him with his sword in hand.
Zeno's vision seemed to slow down as he could see Broly's calm expression as he flew past. Zeno's eyes widened as he saw Broly's eyes suddenly turn towards him. Broly's body seemed to have accelerated as he made a flip and slashed at Zeno.
Zeno panicked and quickly released a tremendous amount of energy to block the attack.
Broly's attack was quickly destroyed as if it was paper. Broly had long dodged the attack and looked at Zeno, who just wasted a lot of energy.
A feint!
Zeno calmed himself down as he analyzed the situation. He then went back to attacking Broly without hesitation. He was an old monster that went through a lot of battles across the years.
Although he was flustered by the sudden increase of Broly's powers, it was nothing to be concerned of!
As he thought about it, he started to relentlessly attack Broly, who seemed undisturbed by the attacks.
The calm and seemingly unaffected Broly slightly disturbed Zeno's confidence, but he wouldn't be shaken too hard by it. He had slain those kind of calm warriors thousands of times!
Zeno bellowed as his attacks grew wilder and more devastating. In this wild storm of attacks Broly blocked and dodged every single attack of Zeno, who was getting more exhausted by the second.
Fortunately, they were deep in the void and the island had already retreated until it was barely seeable.
If they had fought inside a multiverse, it would have been annihilated in the first few seconds.
Of course, every stray energy that headed towards the multiverse wasn't able to do any damage.
These universes were an Overlord's lifeblood, it would be too difficult to destroy a multiverse from the outside, which had made Pera develop several methods to infiltrate them.
Their movement had already surpassed every limit of a multiverse and entered the level of true Omni-Kings.
Everyone on the island that used long distance surveillance to watch the battle was unable to capture anything.
Too fast to be seen or to be sensed. Every attack was arriving instantaneously. The only reason these two could dodge or block the attacks were because they could perceive them before they were even performed by the enemy.
Even though the two had reached this kind of level that compared their knowledge of the omniverse, and the amount of energy gathered in their bodies, Broly seemed relaxed as he fought.
Their energy level was somewhat close to each other, but Zeno still had the clear advantage on that area. However, he still seemed unable to close an invisible gap after Broly's mentality changed.
Unease spread in Zeno's mind. He was an old monster that had fought numerous battles against great foes, but he was now struggling against a race that he had created!
A Saiyan born in his multiverse. Was the advantage of inheriting Pera's knowledge and past resources this great??
Thoughts of fleeing came into his mind, but he quickly dismissed them. If he let go of this chance to kill Broly, he would never get his energy back and he would have to live in fear of Broly's schemes.
The unease seemed to materialize and wrapped around his neck like a tight rope, suffocating him as he continued to fight with Broly.
"You know…" Broly suddenly spoke out, but the injured Zeno tried to not heed his words as he still attacked to the best of his ability. "…You aren't my opponent, especially after Pera…"
Zeno's body seemed to tighten up at the arrogant words of Broly, who seemed to be about to reveal something.
"In fact, I don't see any Overlord that uses the accumulation of universes to gain power as my opponents anymore. The universes may grant you a lot of power, but they are also a limiting factor. It is just an obstacle between the Overlord and his understanding towards the omniverse."
The words shook Zeno hard and, in that moment, Broly let go of his sword and rushed towards Zeno.
Zeno widened his eyes in surprise of Broly's sky-high arrogance, but his body was already on the move. As an experienced warrior, how could he miss such an opportune moment?
"Die, Broly!" Zeno desperately punched out towards Broly. He passed his defense and directly smashed into Broly's head.
Broly's head exploded into tiny bits, killing him on the spot. Just as Zeno was about to feel happy, he felt something amiss.
"Imposs-" Zeno couldn't finish his words as a sword exited his forehead and then moved down to slash him into two parts.
Broly's headless body disappeared like smoke in the wind and another figure appeared behind Zeno.
"You know everything has an origin, especially illusions, which are just imitation of reality, but this makes them even closer to reality itself.
It isn't affected by transmutation of the constantly changing reality and sometimes the copy is so great that one couldn't tell it from the original apart."
As Broly's voice fell Zeno's body was already sucked into his sword. Broly then looked at the distant lights that resembled the other multiverses before beckoning the islands towards himself and back to the Dragon Ball multiverse.
On the way back he noticed a palace inside a black hole like star. Broly steered towards it and entered it.
He instantly recognized it as the prison of Kakos and the other souls that had escaped Zeno's influence.
Zeno wanted to keep them to study them at another time to find out why they were able to escape his influence.
In the beginning Broly was apathetic to this but he noticed that there was a cluster of souls of which one he was faintly familiar with. It was his mother.
Broly couldn't help but sigh. It seemed that Kakos had somehow sent her with several others here in his stead to take his place. It was obviously so Zeno wouldn't be alarmed.
He didn't hesitate and waved his arm and sent all the souls to the reincarnation system of this multiverse except for his mother.
"I suppose I do Broly's original soul a favor at last." Broly said as he recreated her body and sent her on Exousia.
The earthlings of Broly's timeline surprisingly were still on Exousia. It seemed like Zeno had avoided them as he wasn't sure if they were hidden dangers Broly had left behind and for the confrontation with Broly he needed to be in top shape.
He only locked down the multiverse with a seal to trap everybody inside and ran towards Broly, while only taking the other timeline's strongest beings with him as cannon fodder.
*****
"I am still not comfortable with this responsibility…" Alea said quietly as she leaned on Broly. They were currently standing on a balcony in Zeno's palace.
"You will do just fine, Omni-Queen Alea." Broly smiled as he looked at the pearl like universes. He then looked towards his other wives next to him, who were smiling satisfied.
"I am going to leave soon and visit my old multiverse. Don't worry, it won't be long. Maybe a year or two." Broly said with grin on his face. His wives were pouting until Alea spoke out again.
"I think I am going to recreate Goku's and the other timeline's versions of those that you have erased. Just come back when you are satisfied with your trip and see what I have done with the place."
Broly only nodded with a seemingly everlasting smile on his face.
*****
Broly hovered silently above the multiverse that he originated from.
As a Soul Overlord his understanding of the omniverse was incomparable deep and every second it would only deepen.
After entering the Overlord realm, he was getting stronger every second. Zeno's energy of course helped him a lot as well.
The other Overlords that were injured by Pera's were already no match for him.
If he wanted to, he could force the other Overlords to never leave their multiverse and hoard the treasures of the deep void for himself.
The void had always seemed empty but there were numerous universe seed's and other universal level of treasures.
Of course, the multiverses still were one of the most valuable things in the void, which had tempted even the greed of Pera.
By now, Broly's eyes could penetrate into the complex flows of time of the omniverse.
He was even able to perceive his own soul floating around just outside his home-multiverse.
He looked down and saw faint passages that connected the multiverses. They resembled naturally formed peepholes, if one could say it that crudely.
It allowed most of the ordinary beings to perceive other multiverses, be it the future, present or past. Of course, these visions would only come as a dream or even only as an idea.
He glanced at his past family and friends, who were living their life like ordinary people, but he seemed to only watch them without emotions. He still had his memories of them, but he was emotionally detached from them.
"Let's see what secret you have in store." Broly smiled as pointed his finger towards this multiverse and separated a part of his soul and sent it into a newborn baby on his old world.
Even though it was less than 1 percent of his soul that he bestowed that body with, it was still countless times stronger than his original soul.
It will be able to gain strength and one day conquer this multiverse like he did with the dragon ball multiverse!
One day after the soul piece had become an Overlord itself, it would return back to Broly and gift him all the knowledge that he had gained in his conquest.
The Overlord of this multiverse didn't even notice Broly's invasion as Broly had already far surpassed not only him but even the ruler of the past Pera in terms of omniversal knowledge.
Living inside a multiverse and growing stronger inside and through it had given him another side of the omniverse that Pera had long forgotten when they were ready to become nomads.
Although these Multiversal Overlords didn't have the same direct view on the origin of the omniverse like the Soul Overlords, they saw the omniverse through multiverse that were born from it and this different perspective was as valuable.
At that point he seemed to have realized something. He thought back to when he named his children.
Now he understood these visions that he got back when he named them. In the future his own children would walk the same path that the was now stepping on.
Their incarnations would become great figures in the future and perceived by these ordinary beings, who would create myths, legends or even movies about them and their struggles.
For him or for his children their stories hadn't ended, in fact, it has just started!
As quickly as he came, he went back to his own multiverse and his family to spent time with them.
But even when he was hugging, playing, eating and having fun with them, he knew that he wouldn't stay here forever, but he also wouldn't be away forever.
It was just that even if he had, what most preserved as everything, and continuously grew in strength in this endless mysterious omniverse, in this existence where the sky seemed infinite and uncertain, there was one thing he knew without a doubt, "I will continue to strive, but I don't think, I will ever be satisfied.".
"What was that, darling?" Alea turned around to her mumbling husband.
"Oh, don't worry about it. Everything is great." Broly smiled happily.
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