"Who are you...?" Zeno asked in a deep voice, then added, "An outsider?"
The multiverse contained countless spaces and planes, some large, some small. Generally speaking, the higher the plane, the larger its territory.
Even the lowest high-level plane theoretically encompassed the scope of a great universe. Within that universe alone, it was boundless and endless.
Some low-level planes, on the other hand, were no larger than a single continent. Only when the people of that world had fully explored it and raised their power level would they trigger what was known as a universe upgrade, also called world ascension.
At such times, the entire plane would merge into a brand-new universe, and both its power system and size would undergo a marked increase.
When this happened to an individual, it was called ascension. It was common throughout the multiverse. When it happened to an entire plane, it was far rarer, though not unheard of.
However, a place like Dragon Ball, where twelve universes were interconnected and countless powerful beings existed, already occupied an extremely high position even among high-level universes.
Trying to trigger another world ascension there was undoubtedly harder than climbing to the heavens!
To contain a universe and world of this level, only an exceedingly rare "superior plane" would likely suffice. Every superior plane was an extraordinarily scarce existence, each one the center of one of the Three Thousand Great Worlds, with endless planes beneath it.
Even compared to the Central Primordial World, they were only half a tier below.
A supreme god like Zeno, who governed twelve Dragon Ball universes, was a terrifying powerhouse even within the multiverse. Naturally, by "outsider," he meant someone from elsewhere in the multiverse.
Such a powerhouse inevitably possessed an extremely deep understanding of origin and the multiverse. Even if he