The Next Opponent

The smoke and dust in the sky gradually dispersed.

Visibility high above returned to clarity.

Everyone on the deck below stared fixedly at the center of the recent explosion.

Yet Beerus did not appear in the disheveled state they had expected.

Within the white mist that had yet to fully dissipate,

an even deeper, more intense purple divine aura erupted instead.

Purple light blazed brightly!

The texture of that light was completely different from the state Beerus had displayed earlier.

Originally, Beerus had emitted nothing but pure, noble God Ki.

But now,

what surrounded him was a destructive force that made one's scalp tingle at a single glance.

It was Destruction Energy capable of completely erasing all things from existence.

A breeze swept past.

Beerus's lean figure slowly emerged.

He floated in midair, his entire body tightly enveloped in purple Destruction Energy.

That point-blank Instant Transmission Kamehameha

had not even harmed a single hair on his body.

There was no doubt that, in that critical instant, Beerus had used Destruction Energy.

He had directly and forcibly erased that Kamehameha powerful enough to destroy heaven and earth.

At this moment,

on the deck of the luxury cruise ship below,

Whis, who had been sitting at the dining table and savoring a small cake,

paused his knife and fork and looked up at the sky.

Whis swallowed the dessert in his mouth, a smile curling across his lips.

He murmured to himself,

"Oh my."

"Lord Beerus actually used Destruction Energy?"

Whis lightly shook his head, having seen through everything.

"Even if he had taken that move head-on, his physical toughness would have been more than enough to withstand it."

"It seems..."

"Mr. Son Goku's unusual technique truly gave him quite a surprise."

Whis understood perfectly well.

The only reason Beerus had used