Illusion

Vegito arrived in front of Vermoud. By then, Jiren had already sunk into his meditative space. This was also why Jiren had been able to fight Goku, who had Ultra Instinct, to a standstill in the Tournament of Power.

"Jiren, why did you become our enemy? You weren't like this before."

Vegito asked Jiren coldly, but Jiren still had his eyes closed in meditation, as if he did not take the Vegito before him seriously at all.

"Who are you?"

At that moment, Vermoud slowly spoke.

The instant Vegito thought of the scene of Vermoud killing his family, energy burst uncontrollably from his body, and he did not pay Vermoud any attention at all.

Vegito did not waste words with him either. Instead, he gathered energy in his hand and used his signature technique, "Spirit Sword."

At that moment, Jiren also slowly withdrew from his meditative state. His black eyes had already turned bloodred. No one knew what brainwashing content the God of Destruction had fed into him to make him become what he was now.

At that moment, Vegito instantly moved in front of Vermoud at a speed that even Jiren in his base state could not detect. Vermoud, who had still been laughing and joking a moment ago, was struck by Vegito's sudden move and immediately raised his hands in a defensive stance.

Vegito gave a cold smile and teleported again. This time, Jiren and Vermoud, left standing where they were, used every trick they had to search for Vegito's figure.

"What are you looking for!?"

The instant those words left his mouth, Vegito arrived behind Vermoud, and with one strike, stabbed viciously into Vermoud's waist.

And this was only Vegito in his base state! He actually possessed such powerful energy, and his speed was so great that even Vermoud, whose strength ranked among the best of the Gods of Destruction, had not discovered his movements.

"Vermoud, you really made me search hard for you!"

After saying that, Vegito yanked the Spirit Sword lodged in Vermoud's waist sharply upward. Seeing this from the side, Jiren used his fastest speed to save Vermoud, but everything was already too late.

With that move from Vegito, Vermoud's body had already been split in two. Purple blood still sprayed from inside him, but after Vermoud's body fell to the ground for only a few seconds, it vanished.

And Jiren beside him also disappeared without a trace. At that moment, Vegito, who remained in place, seemed to understand something. These had all merely been their phantoms. Their true strength probably had not even reached one-tenth of their real bodies.

"No wonder killing Vermoud this time was so easy. So this was the appetizer they prepared for me!"

Vegito smiled. Even if they had only one-tenth of their true strength, he would still slaughter these ugly Gods of Destruction all the same.

Vegito stopped keeping a low profile. He stood in place and began charging his energy, transforming into Super Saiyan form. Slowly, his hair changed from gold to red, then blue, and then blue-white.

"He actually inherited Goku's Angel Power, not Vegeta's Seed of Divine Wrath? Sigh, what a shame. Now it'll be hard for his strength to get a full one-hundred-percent boost."

These words appeared in Vegito's mind, but he found that his power was far from reaching its limit. He raised his strength again, and very soon, his blue-white hair turned scarlet. The power of the Seed of Divine Wrath also erupted inside his body.

"The power of the Seed of Divine Wrath is still stronger! It's the purest core for increasing one's combat power!"

Just after Vegito finished raising his power, several slow claps sounded from the sky.

"Very good, very good. Now this is someone worthy of being my opponent."

Vermoud slowly descended from the sky to stand before Vegito. The scarlet aura around Vegito gradually turned into bolts of lightning, and those bolts of lightning seemed to possess consciousness as they quickly gathered in Vegito's right hand. At that moment, the Spirit Sword seemed to truly gain a soul.

"Vermoud, please feel just how pure the power of the Seed of Divine Wrath—created by you Gods of Destruction gathering divine power—really is."

And at the very end, he added, "That illusion body just now was nothing more than your final struggle before death."