Chapter 326: Return

Deep within the endless Multiverse Labyrinth, everyone found themselves trapped by the one sight they could never forget.

The Spiral King had defeated the Antispiral and become a hero.

Simon had rescued Nia.

Viral, a Beastman, had a wife of his own.

"That's all it took to trap you? Don't forget who the hell we are!"

At that critical moment, a voice suddenly thundered across countless worlds.

"What an endless dream. Why couldn't you let me sleep just a little longer?"

The Spiral King, Lordgenome, sighed helplessly. He left the city where he had been living and flew toward the sky.

"Looks like it's time..."

"Nia, I'll see you in the real world!"

Simon gently caressed Nia's cheek. His cape billowed behind him as he soared into the sky.

"What an intoxicating dream..."

"The kind you never want to wake up from."

Viral sighed helplessly, abandoned the things he knew he could never truly have, and flew into the sky.

In truth, he had been the first one to realize what was happening.

A wife? Children?

Hahaha...

What a joke.

The Spiral King had never given the Beastmen the ability to reproduce in the first place!

As one warrior after another awakened, they appeared within the Antispiral's dimension beneath his incredulous gaze.

"Impossible!"

The Antispiral stared at the people confronting him in stunned disbelief. Never before had so many individuals broken into his world at the same time.

"Just who the hell do you think we are?!"

The members of Team Dai-Gurren roared at the Antispiral.

"Everyone! You know what comes next!"

Standing at the center, Jovian shouted to them.

"COMBINE!!"

Their voices rang out together as limitless Spiral Power erupted from their bodies.

Terrifying torrents of Spiral Energy engulfed everyone.

In an instant, an unimaginably enormous mecha appeared before the Antispiral.

"TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN!"

The colossal mecha burned with terrifying Spiral Energy. Every movement carried enough force to effortlessly destroy galaxies and churn the universe itself.

"Heh..."

"If that's how you want to play it, then I'll join you!"

The Antispiral sneered at the enormous mecha before him. His body instantly began transforming, and in the blink of an eye, he became just as colossal.

"Just who the hell do you think we are?!"

With that roar, the mecha controlled by Jovian and the others moved.

It charged through the universe, instantly appearing before the Antispiral and throwing a punch.

"Heh..."

Facing a fist larger than a galaxy, the Antispiral casually shifted aside, intending to dodge it.

"Naive!"

Unfortunately for him, Jovian was the one piloting the mecha this time.

Jovian unleashed a boxing technique he hadn't used in years.

He turned the straight punch into a vicious hook that slammed directly into the Antispiral's cheek.

BOOM!

The Antispiral was blasted away by Jovian's punch and crashed into the galactic disk behind him.

"Ugh..."

The Antispiral apparently hadn't expected Jovian and the others to possess such overwhelming combat instincts, and for a moment, he looked dazed.

"DIE!"

The next instant, the Antispiral recovered.

He had already realized that fighting Jovian's mecha at close range would give him no advantage whatsoever. He immediately opened the distance between them, grabbed a nearby galaxy as though it were a discus, and hurled it at Jovian's mecha.

"Heh..."

Jovian simply shifted sideways and dodged the incoming galaxy. Then he reached out, grabbed another galaxy beside him, and hurled it straight back at the Antispiral.

WHOOSH!

The galaxy sliced through space and severed one of the Antispiral's legs.

"Why are your combat instincts so refined?!"

The Antispiral stared at his destroyed leg in confusion.

"Because I'm always fighting!"

Jovian strode toward the Antispiral, raised one leg, and kicked him.

BOOM!

With another deafening explosion, the Antispiral was launched away.

"Ahahahaha!"

"Always fighting?! What ridiculous nonsense!"

"As I thought, you damned Spiral beings should all be exterminated!"

As the Antispiral spoke, his severed leg regenerated completely.

"Then allow me to put you through the ultimate trial!"

The Antispiral roared and seized the two largest galaxies around him.

"Not good..."

Inside the cockpit, everyone froze when they saw what the Antispiral was doing. An ominous feeling gripped them.

"Let this attack reduce every last one of you to ashes!"

The Antispiral crushed the power of the two galaxies together, and a blinding light erupted between his hands.

"I'll annihilate everything, right down to every strand of DNA in your bodies!"

"INFINITY BIG BANG STORM!!"

With the Antispiral's thunderous roar, limitless energy erupted from his hands. Carrying enough power to obliterate galaxies, it surged toward Jovian.

"I've been waiting for you to use that!"

Jovian laughed as he stared at the limitless torrent of energy before him. He directly controlled the mecha and opened its mouth.

"What?!"

The Antispiral froze. He clearly hadn't expected Jovian to suddenly do something like that.

"Now! Devour it!"

At the united roar of Jovian and the others, the Big Bang-level energy released by the Antispiral was completely swallowed into their bodies.

"Come on! This is our final super transformation!"

At Jovian's words, unimaginably pure energy erupted from the mecha.

A colossal giant composed entirely of cosmic energy and countless galaxies suddenly stood before the Antispiral. Its feet seemed to rest upon the universe itself, its arms crossed before its chest, and an enormous cape spread behind it. The horrifying giant seemed larger than the universe itself, and its appearance was unmistakably Jovian's.

"You think making yourself bigger is enough to defeat me?!"

"If you're going to grow..."

"THEN SO WILL I!"

Flames seemed to ignite within the Antispiral's eyes as immense power boiled inside him.

In the blink of an eye, he transformed into a giant every bit as enormous as Jovian.

"You're enjoying this, aren't you?"

Jovian looked at the suddenly enlarged Antispiral.

"Enjoying it?!"

The Antispiral froze.

His eyes narrowed.

It almost seemed as though he had never felt his blood burn like this before.

"I'm not enjoying anything! I'm doing this to defeat you!"

The Antispiral roared as immense power poured out of his body.

"That's what enjoying yourself means, idiot!"

Jovian laughed and threw another punch.

"This isn't enjoyment, asshole!"

The Antispiral dodged Jovian's fist and roared, "Do you have any idea how much my people have sacrificed for this universe?! To prevent the destruction of countless universes, our race sealed ourselves away inside our homeworld! We had only one goal, to protect the universe even if it meant sacrificing ourselves!"

"But look at what you've done! You're nothing but a bunch of ignorant children, assholes who recklessly abuse Spiral Power!"

"If you really want to protect the universe, then use Spiral Power to do something that actually benefits it!"

"Power itself has never been good or evil!"

"Power is a tool! It's the person wielding it who decides whether it's used for good or evil!"

"You condemn everyone who possesses this power without distinction. What, are you trying to make yourself the god of the omniverse?!"

Jovian controlled the colossal form as endless dark-gray light flickered within his eyes.

"What I choose to become is none of your business!"

The Antispiral roared.

His arm suddenly transformed into an enormous reverse-spinning drill.

"ANTI-SPIRAL GIGA DRILL BREAK!!"

At the same time, Jovian's arm transformed into a drill of its own.

"SUPER TENGEN TOPPA GIGA DRILL BREAK!!"

BOOM!

The instant the two drills collided, the universe seemed to stop.

The multiverse, the sealed hyperdimensional universe around them, everything froze.

Time, space, and energy were all drawn toward the two drills.

Everything was compressed between them until all that remained was an infinity symbol floating within endless darkness.

"Disappear, Antispiral!"

That was when Jovian finally began pouring out his own Spiral Power.

The already colossal drill suddenly expanded even further, instantly shattering the balance between them.

"Don't tell me..."

The Antispiral stared at the rapidly expanding drill in shock.

The next instant, his body began exploding.

"Have I... lost?!"

Filled with unwillingness, the Antispiral was completely overwhelmed by Jovian's drill.

BOOM!

As the universe reappeared, the Antispiral returned to his original body, now tiny as a speck of dust, and lay suspended amid the cosmos.

"Whew..."

"We won."

Jovian calmly withdrew his drill.

"YEAH!!!"

Cheers simultaneously erupted from the cockpit and from everyone back on Earth.

Once again, they had achieved victory.

"Cough... cough..."

"Did I lose...?"

Lying among the stars, the Antispiral stared at his trembling arm and muttered to himself.

"You fought well at the end."

At some point, Jovian had appeared beside him.

"You're here to take my power, aren't you?"

"I've already seen everything..."

The Antispiral calmly looked at Jovian.

Jovian's origins, Jovian's goals, none of them could escape his perception.

"Then become the final contribution to my strength. From here on, I'll carry your power with me and keep fighting."

With that, Jovian delivered the final blow and completely absorbed the tremendous power within the Antispiral.

But he wasn't finished.

Jovian traveled directly to the Antispirals' homeworld. Looking down upon the countless Antispirals trapped in endless slumber, he unleashed his power.

"Every last one of you will become a foundation stone on my road to victory!"

A terrifying devouring force erupted from Jovian and completely drained the power of the entire Antispiral race.

"Now it's finally time to leave..."

After completing everything he had come here to do, Jovian's body radiated a terrifying power capable of shaking not only the multiverse, but even the omniverse.

DONG!

Wedding bells rang.

Simon and Nia stood before a white church, completing the most important ceremony of their lives.

"Congratulations."

Jovian stood outside the church, silently watching them.

"Your journey has reached its destination. Mine is about to begin again..."

Jovian turned away, leaving everyone with only the sight of his back.

"You're going to keep moving forward?"

Yoko looked at Jovian as he turned to leave.

"Of course..."

"I never stop."

With those words, Jovian continued toward the distant horizon until he eventually disappeared from sight.

When Jovian came to his senses again, he had returned to the world of Man of Steel.

The instant Jovian descended into this universe, the entire cosmos groaned and creaked as though crying out in pain.

"Don't like having me here?"

Jovian looked out at the wailing universe, the corners of his mouth curling upward.

"Jovian, you're back..."

Nolan and the others who had remained behind in this universe immediately came to meet him upon sensing his return.

The moment they saw Jovian, however, they froze.

He was completely different from before.

Now, merely the power leaking from his body was enough to destroy an entire universe in an instant.

The difference between the Jovian standing before them and the Jovian who had left was fundamental.

"Jovian, what are you planning to do next?"

Nolan looked at Jovian, whose depths had become completely unfathomable, far beyond the limits of anything he could imagine.

"Kill Darkseid."

Jovian smiled.

SNAP!

Jovian lightly snapped his fingers, and an enormous portal appeared before everyone.

On the other side was Apokolips.

"Advance, everyone!"

Seated upon his throne, Jovian issued his command to his soldiers.

BOOM!

One warrior after another shot through the enormous portal toward Apokolips.

They had been enhanced with Kryptonian genes, correcting the flaws in their genetic structure while eliminating the inherent weaknesses of both Viltrumites and Kryptonians.

They had only one objective.

Fight for their master until the very end.

"AAARGH!!"

Across Apokolips, countless Parademons were caught completely off guard by the sudden invasion.

They fought back desperately, but against Jovian's overwhelmingly powerful genetically engineered warriors, the Parademons were pitifully weak.

The battle was almost completely one-sided.

At that critical moment, the New Gods entered the fight.

These New Gods possessed earth-shaking power. Compared with Jovian's mass-produced soldiers, they were vastly stronger.

For a time, the New Gods and Jovian's warriors fought on relatively even ground.

Then everything changed again.

Once Apokolips fully recognized the invasion and began organizing a counterattack, its mass-produced Doomsdays were activated and unleashed against Jovian's army.

For the first time, Jovian's forces were actually pushed back.

BZZZT!

Watching his soldiers steadily retreat, Jovian's eyes suddenly lit up.

Red light instantly swept across the battlefield.

One Doomsday after another was reduced to ash beneath the mysterious power carried within Jovian's eye beams.

"Jovian! I never expected you to actually find your way here!"

"Looks like you're in a hurry to die..."

Just as Jovian's blazing eyes continued erasing the trash below, a massively built New God radiating overwhelming authority flew straight toward him.

It was Darkseid.

The same Darkseid Jovian had killed before.

Except last time, Jovian had only destroyed an avatar.

The Darkseid approaching him now was vastly more powerful than the one he had faced before.

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