It was not that Baros had grown weaker. The one who had been chatting and laughing with them in the stands while watching the contestants fight had never been his true body!
First Encounter with Dragon Ball World's Supreme Being, Zeno's Purpose
"Hey, who are you?"
Zeno widened his large eyes curiously and looked toward Baros, who had suddenly descended.
Other than the Grand Minister, this was the first lifeform that had made him sense an indescribable "threat."
"Lord Zeno, he is Baros, whom I mentioned to you—the Saiyan leader of Divine Martial Battle Star in Universe 7!" The Grand Minister smiled as he cleared up Zeno's confusion. After introducing Baros once more, he turned to Baros, nodded slightly, and smiled. "Mr. Baros, it is a pleasure to meet you."
"Baros?" Zeno tilted his head, then nodded as if he had suddenly remembered. He said happily, "I remember now, Grand Minister. He is... the Overlord like you who appeared in our era, the lifeform in our era most likely to achieve Transcendence!"
Zeno's words seemed like the embodiment of rules.
The moment he uttered that one's "divine name," a great will that stood above the Twelve Universes and this era descended, completely concealing the identity within Zeno's words.
Within the entire Microcosm, aside from Baros and the Grand Minister, the two Dominion Level beings, even powerful figures like Whis and Vados could not hear those two words.
Baros's brow twitched. The era-defining giants who had achieved Transcendence and controlled all space-time were indeed terrifyingly powerful.
Had his strength not become incomparable to what it once was, even his hearing and cognition would likely have been blurred and altered, causing him to forget it.
Compared to when he had used Primordial Dao Imbuement to trick Vados and Champa in Universe 6,