The True निर्णative Battle

Jiren's forehead veins bulged as he used every ounce of his strength to hold back the Spirit Bomb.

Goku was the same.

With the Twentyfold Kaioken pushed to its fullest, his body was already nearing its limit.

Both of them continuously pressed against the Spirit Bomb suspended between them, trying to force it completely toward the other.

The Spirit Bomb had long since lost its original spherical form.

Under the compression of those two terrifying forces, it had gradually been flattened into a massive oval, lying horizontally between them.

All the Gods of Destruction who had still been sitting had unknowingly risen to their feet.

They craned their necks forward, staring at the center of the battlefield as though that would let them see more clearly.

"Who has the upper hand?"

That question came from somewhere.

No one could answer it.

Because neither side had shown any real sign of defeat.

Goku and Jiren had both raised their power to the limit.

But...

Was the limit truly the end?

In the next instant, the two of them almost simultaneously squeezed out the last trace of their strength!

"Gah!"

"Hmph!"

They gritted their teeth, their hands not daring to loosen in the slightest as they desperately drove their power forward.

Boom—!

The Spirit Bomb shook violently.

The next instant!

The Spirit Bomb, which had already been compressed into an oval, suddenly changed.

First, it abruptly shrank by a full circle.

Then, it returned to a spherical shape.

Goku and Jiren's tensed hands loosened along with it.

As though...

Their strength had suddenly lost its point of leverage.

Time and space seemed to freeze at that moment.

Everyone's expressions became incomparably clear in that instant.

Goku froze.

Jiren froze as well.

With their bodies losing their support, surprise appeared on both their