...
They landed in an extremely disheveled state, looking like refugees who had just escaped a disaster.
"I thought I was going to die! I really thought I was going to die!" Trunks collapsed onto the ground, completely exhausted.
"I can't sense Grandpa Gran's aura anymore, but the pressure from his power was terrifying!" Pan repeatedly patted her chest.
"Exactly. If we had been even a little slower, we would have been completely doomed!" Vegeta's face was still deathly pale.
"So this is Gran's full power... So this is the power of the Angel Realm!"
Goku's heart remained in turmoil for a long time.
"Goku, what are you talking about? What do you mean by the power of the Angel Realm?"
The Old Kai quickly ran over.
Seeing the Old Kai standing before him, Goku explained, "It's that Gran I told you about before. His level of power has actually reached the Angel Realm!"
"What?!"
The Old Kai was utterly stunned.
"Didn't you say he was a Candidate God of Destruction? How could he possibly possess power at the level of an angel?"
"Lord Old Kai, what level is the Angel Realm exactly?"
Goku scratched his head.
The Old Kai jumped up and smacked Goku on the head.
"Idiot! Do you even have to think about it? The power of the Angel Realm is the power possessed by angels!"
"I've never seen an angel before! How am I supposed to know how strong an angel is?"
Goku covered his head and crouched down, sucking in a sharp breath.
The Old Kai had no time to argue with Goku. He turned toward Chronoa.
"That guy is the Candidate God of Destruction of Universe 7 from another timeline. How does he possess power at the level of an angel?"
Chronoa rolled her eyes.
"You know perfectly well that every timeline has certain differences. Gran just happens to be one of those differences in another timeline. What's so strange about him possessing the power of the Angel Realm?"
"..."
What's so strange about it?
It was strange as hell!
How could there possibly be a Candidate God of Destruction this powerful?
Forget Candidate Gods of Destruction—even the strongest Beerus didn't possess power at the level of an angel!
The Old Kai was completely dumbfounded by Chronoa's casual response.
After a moment of silence, he looked around at everyone.
He knew all of them.
Clearly, Gran was not among them.
"Goku, the entire universe was trembling just now. That was caused by you fighting Demigra, wasn't it?"
"Yes... and no."
"?"
The Old Kai frowned. He didn't understand what Goku meant.
"If you're saying that Gran possesses power at the level of an angel, then Demigra should have been nothing more than a minor nuisance to you."
Everyone nodded.
That was true.
If Gran hadn't deliberately wanted to toy with Demigra, Demigra wouldn't have lasted even a second against him.
"Goku, didn't you say you were going to bring him here to the Supreme Kai's Realm? Where is he?"
Faced with the Old Kai's question, Goku hesitated.
The Old Kai frowned.
"Speak."
"Lord Old Kai, it's like this..."
Pan stepped forward and began explaining everything that had happened to the two Kais.
After hearing what had happened at the edge of space-time, the Old Kai froze once again.
"A rift?"
"There was actually a rift left behind at the edge of this timeline?"
"Then it seems the terrifying tremors that shook our universe were caused by Gran striking that rift."
The Old Kai looked almost dazed.
He genuinely had no idea that such a mysterious rift had been hidden at the edge of his timeline.
"Lord Old Kai, do you know what's behind that rift?"
Before the Old Kai could answer, Chronoa shook her head slightly.
She had investigated the GT timeline back then as well, but she had never been able to determine how the GT timeline had ended up like this.
As expected, this old man probably didn't know either.
Sure enough...
"I don't know."
The Old Kai let out a deep sigh.
"But if my guess is correct, that rift must have something to do with the disappearance of the God of Destruction of this timeline."
Chronoa rolled her eyes.
"Who doesn't know that?"
Trunks and Vegeta were still confused.
After Goku explained everything to them, their eyes widened.
So this timeline had once possessed its own God of Destruction and angel.
But because of some mysterious crisis, both of them had disappeared.
"Kakarot, so our timeline has been hiding a potential crisis like this all along? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Vegeta grabbed Goku by the collar and roared.
"I... I just didn't want you guys to worry."
Goku looked a little guilty with Vegeta's face practically in front of his own.
"Hmph. This time, Gran is investigating it himself, so I'll let you off."
Vegeta released Goku's collar.
"But if there's a next time, I won't forgive you."
Goku finally asked, "Lord Old Kai, what should we do now?"
Everyone looked toward the Old Kai.
After all, it was this old man who had previously instructed Goku to bring Gran here.
"Originally, I wanted Goku to bring Gran here so I could tell him about the secrets of our timeline. I also wanted him to help us search for Lord Beerus of this timeline..."
The Old Kai fell into deep thought.
"That rift must have something to do with Lord Beerus and the angel's disappearance."
"Since you said Gran has already broken through that rift and gone inside to investigate, and even Lord Chrono King has personally appeared... the situation probably won't spiral completely out of control."
"Right now, all we can do is wait."
With that, the Old Kai looked toward the little Chronoa.
"What do you think?"
"Wait. Only when Gran returns will we know what lies behind that rift."
Chronoa nodded as well.
And so, everyone remained in the Supreme Kai's Realm, waiting for Gran to return.
...
Deep inside an unimaginably dark passage, a figure was rapidly flying forward.
That figure was none other than Gran.
After entering the area behind the rift, Gran had continued flying.
He wasn't moving particularly fast.
Instead, he flew while carefully observing the surroundings.
The passage was pitch-black, but through his senses, he could still perceive everything around him.
This passage really did feel like a sewer.
Cold.
Damp.
Foul-smelling.
Those were exactly the same sensations as the strange aura that had seeped through the rift earlier.
And there was something else.
This passage was frighteningly long.
Gran had been flying for quite some time. His speed couldn't be considered extremely fast, but it certainly wasn't slow either.
Under normal circumstances, he would have already crossed the distance of an entire galaxy.
Yet he still hadn't reached the end!
Just as Gran was becoming increasingly irritated...
"ROOOOAAARRR!"
A series of roars suddenly came from ahead.
The voices were hoarse and distorted, sounding like monsters howling in the darkness.
Gran felt as though he had heard them somewhere before.
"The monsters!"
Gran immediately remembered the monsters he had encountered earlier.
Their voices sounded exactly like this.
"As I thought... there really is a connection between this rift and those monsters!"
Rather than retreating, Gran advanced.
He began moving toward the source of the roars, gradually increasing his speed.
As time passed, the roars grew louder and louder.
Gran had no idea how much time had passed or how far he had traveled.
Finally, he saw a light ahead.
"Is this the end?"
Gran had been flying through this dark passage for what felt like an eternity.
The oppressive feeling weighing on his heart finally began to ease when he saw that light.
Whoosh!
Gran accelerated toward it.
The instant he reached the light, he was completely stunned by the scene before him.
The starry sky was shattered.
Fragments of stars and celestial bodies drifted everywhere.
It looked as though this place had endured a massive cosmic war.
"Why does this look so much like Universe 7?"
Gran clenched his fists.
As the Candidate God of Destruction of Universe 7, he naturally knew the universe extremely well.
Although this place was a complete wreck, he could still recognize it.
This was a region of Universe 7.
"Wait... could this be..."
Gran suddenly realized something.
According to what Chronoa had told him, the GT timeline had once been struck by a mysterious force.
In the end, almost the entire universe had been destroyed, leaving behind only the small fragment of space where GT Goku and the others remained.
That fragment of the universe had eventually become known as the Lost Land—a place without a God of Destruction or an angel.
And this place...
Could this be the other side of the Lost Land?!
Gran looked around.
This place looked even more like a true Lost Land than the Lost Land itself.
"Then... are Beerus and Whis still alive?"
Gran suddenly thought of the two of them and hurriedly looked around.
The shattered starry sky wasn't as pitch-black as the passage, but it wasn't exactly bright either.
Everything was dim, almost like the Dark Demon Realm.
And everywhere was filled with that cold, sinister, evil aura.
"ROOOAAARRR!"
A deafening roar suddenly reached Gran's ears.
He turned toward the source.
Behind the scattered remains of several planets, black smoke suddenly began to rise.
Two crimson eyes appeared within the smoke.
"That really is the roar of a monster!"
Gran was about to rush forward and kill it.
But the next moment...
"ROOOAAARRR!"
"ROOOAAARRR!"
"..."
Countless monsters emerged from behind the ruins of planets and stars.
The scene was strangely reminiscent of Meta-Cooler's army appearing one after another.
Even Gran couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.
However...
After sensing their power, Gran quickly relaxed.
These monsters weren't particularly strong.
The strongest among them only possessed power equivalent to the Third Stage of the Divine Realm.
"You scared the hell out of me!"
Gran let out a heavy sigh of relief.
He had genuinely been afraid that all these monsters possessed power at the level of angels.
If that had been the case, he really would have had no choice but to run for his life.
But that made sense.
There were only a dozen or so angels throughout the entire Omni-King's universe.
There was no reason for these monsters to all possess such overwhelming strength.
"Then die!"
Gran reverted from his Super Saiyan 4 state back to his normal form.
Against this trash, he had no intention of wasting his energy.
Whoosh!
Gran shot forward.
In an instant, he appeared beside one of the monsters.
"ROAR!"
The monster opened its enormous jaws and fired an energy beam at Gran.
"Stop barking. You're about to die."
Gran merely tilted his head and effortlessly avoided the beam.
His right hand clenched into a fist and slammed toward the monster's head.
BOOM!
The force of his punch generated a terrifying shockwave.
Before Gran's fist even touched the monster's head, the sheer force of his attack had already dispersed the black smoke surrounding its body.
The monster's true form was revealed.
Just as Gran had expected—
It was a strange skeletal creature.
Its entire body was covered in spikes.
Its head resembled that of a crocodile, with a long, sharp horn protruding from the center of its forehead.
The next instant...
Gran's fist finally struck the monster's head.
Although he had returned to his normal form, his pure physical power still remained at the Initial Stage of the Sixth Stage of the Divine Realm.
CRACK!
The monster's entire head exploded.
Gran's killing of that monster was like lighting a fuse.
The remaining monsters suddenly went berserk and charged toward him.
"ROOOAAARR!"
"ROOOAAARR!"
"..."
They came in dense waves, covering the sky and earth.
Gran stood atop a fragment of celestial debris, his expression turning increasingly irritated.
"So damn noisy!"
The endless roaring was getting on his nerves.
"Destruction!"
BOOM!
Gran raised both hands toward the sky.
A vast purple radiance rapidly blossomed from his body.
Bang!
Bang!
...
Wherever the purple light passed, the monsters were completely destroyed.
Their bodies transformed into countless points of light before disappearing into the Demon Realm.
"If these things ever escaped into the GT timeline, they'd definitely become a catastrophic threat."
Gran stood atop the remains of a shattered celestial body.
The monsters around him had been completely wiped out.
He nodded in satisfaction.
"But what exactly happened here?"
Gran fell into deep thought again.
This shattered region of space was simply too strange.
It looked as though it had been struck by some tremendous force.
And what about these monsters?
Where had they come from?
Were Beerus and Whis of the GT timeline still alive?
One question after another flashed through Gran's mind.
He closed his eyes and tried to sense their auras.
If Gran hadn't become a divine being, he wouldn't have been able to use aura sensing like this.
After all, divine beings could not normally sense the aura of other divine beings.
After a while...
"The aura here is way too chaotic. There's no way I can sense anything!"
Gran opened his eyes and sighed helplessly.
From what he could sense, the entire world was saturated with those cold and sinister evil energies.
There was simply no way to locate Beerus and Whis.
As for whether those two were still alive...
He had no idea.
"So how am I supposed to investigate this?"
Gran frowned.
He had originally thought that once he reached the other side of the rift, he would be able to uncover the truth.
But now that he was here, he was still completely clueless.
For a while, Gran had no idea what to do.
After standing there and thinking for a long time, he finally decided to head to the God of Destruction's Realm.
Perhaps Beerus of the GT timeline hadn't died yet.
Maybe he and Whis were still staying in their original God of Destruction's Realm.
As long as Gran could find Beerus and Whis of the GT timeline, he would surely be able to uncover the truth.
With that thought, Gran stretched out his hand and swiped forward.
He attempted to use his spatial power to travel to the original location of the God of Destruction's Realm.
However...
Nothing happened.
Gran couldn't tear open the space here at all.
Unwilling to accept it, he swiped several more times.
Still, he couldn't create even the slightest spatial rift.
"Hm?"
Gran's eyes widened.
"What's wrong with the space here?"
He carefully sensed his surroundings.
It seemed that this place didn't possess the kind of conventional space that existed elsewhere.
His spatial power simply couldn't be used to travel through space here.
END OF CHAPTER
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