The Universe's Choice, Destroyer Malvis

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In Age 764, a massive spaceship streaked through the outer reaches of the solar system.

On board, Frieza, now half-mechanical, and King Cold watched as they steadily approached Earth.

"Father, that is Earth. It looks like we'll arrive before the Super Saiyan we're hunting."

"Why not just destroy such a tiny planet with a single strike?"

"If I did that, I wouldn't be able to vent the anger in my heart. Besides, my power has grown immensely; there is absolutely no one who can compare to me."

"Are you referring to that Super Saiyan?"

Watching the small red dot closing in on the radar, Frieza understood that Goku was also heading toward Earth.

"When the time comes, I'll show you who the strongest in the entire universe really is."

On Earth, Gohan and the Z Fighters also sensed the powerful, evil energy radiating from outside the planet. The Z Fighters who hadn't participated in the battle on Namek might not have understood it, but Vegeta and the others could never mistake it—that was Frieza's energy.

Upon detecting the general landing trajectory of this energy, the Z Fighters scattered across the globe converged toward that location.

On the way, Gohan happened to run into Krillin. Feeling the evil energy drawing closer, Krillin couldn't help but recall the moment he was killed by Frieza on Namek, and he involuntarily picked up his pace.

"I never imagined Frieza was still alive. Kakarot was truly too naive. But who could that energy be, ten times stronger than Frieza's, following right beside him?"

Vegeta felt furious that Goku hadn't finished Frieza off for good, and he had no intention of slowing down for Yamcha, who was struggling to keep up behind him.

Before long, Vegeta and the others landed in a deserted rocky area. Bulma followed closely, piloting her aircraft to rendezvous with them.

"They're here!"

Piccolo, who had been on high alert, was the first to notice that the spaceship carrying Frieza and his party had reached Earth and was closing in on their position.

No sooner had Piccolo finished speaking than a colossal spaceship appeared in their line of sight, sweeping over their heads before descending toward an open field in the distance. The group was stunned by the terrifying energy radiating from Frieza and his father, King Cold, standing frozen in place for a moment before Vegeta and the others finally regained their composure.

"Listen to me, all of you. Do not use Flight with your energy. If we go, we go on foot, so we don't get discovered."

Having served under Frieza, Vegeta knew they would be wearing power level detectors, so he warned Yamcha and the others, who had never faced Frieza before, not to use their energy to avoid revealing their positions.

Piccolo and the others, who had fought Frieza, quickly accepted the suggestion, but Yamcha, having never encountered him, voiced his doubts after feeling that dreadful energy.

"Wait a second... Frieza's energy, is this monster-like energy really his?"

"Yes, and he will only keep getting stronger."

Gohan answered Yamcha's question. Upon hearing this, Yamcha remarked that with their current combat power, what could they possibly do against two such powerful enemies? When Piccolo heard this, he asked if they were supposed to just stay here and wait for death, noting that everyone knew the odds were slim anyway. After a brief internal struggle, the group decided to go and see for themselves.

On the other side, Frieza and King Cold emerged from the ship with a group of henchmen. To make Goku suffer, Frieza intended to have his men slaughter everyone on Earth before Goku could return. Upon receiving the order, the soldiers behind Frieza immediately took to the sky, intending to deal with the Earthlings first, but they were all wiped out in a single instant.

The next moment, a young man appeared before Frieza and his party. Frieza was puzzled by the sudden arrival, but he quickly regained his composure and ordered his men to kill the youth.

Following Frieza's command, the soldiers immediately surrounded the boy. A green-skinned alien stepped forward and checked the boy's power level with his scouter, only to find it displayed as a mere 5—a typical weakling.

He then pressed the trigger on his energy launcher, intending to blast the boy to death. However, the scene he imagined—the boy being vaporized—never happened. Instead, the energy blast was deflected by the boy with a single hand. Refusing to believe it, he fired several more times, but they were all deflected without exception.

The soldier was then sent flying into a support pillar of the spaceship by a single punch. A group of soldiers swarmed the boy, but they were all killed in an instant. Only one soldier remained, and he was finished off by Frieza himself. With all his men eliminated, Frieza prepared to take matters into his own hands.

Seeing Frieza prepare to attack, the youth stated that he wouldn't be like Goku; he would go all out from the very beginning, adding that Goku wasn't the only Super Saiyan—he was one, too.

With those words, the boy began to power up. The sheer force of his energy caused the ground beneath his feet and the surrounding corpses to be swept into the air.

Soon, the transformation was complete: sharp eyes, green pupils, and hair standing on end, turned a brilliant golden yellow.

Seeing the boy's transformation, Frieza couldn't help but think of Goku on Namek. Terrified, he retreated repeatedly before firing a blast of energy in a fit of rage, kicking up a cloud of smoke.

True to the law that smoke means no damage, the boy remained completely unscathed.

Seeing that the boy was uninjured, Frieza unleashed an even more powerful energy blast, but the boy blocked it with his arms crossed. The blocked blast split into numerous smaller energy waves, continuously tearing up the surrounding terrain.

Seeing his attack blocked once again, a humiliated Frieza took to the sky and condensed a Planet Destroyer bomb, intending to annihilate the Earth directly. As for Goku, he could just be dealt with in space.

Seeing his Planet Destroyer bomb engulf the boy and continue to sink into the ground, Frieza prepared to leave Earth with his father.

Just as they were about to enter the ship, they saw the Planet Destroyer bomb stop sinking and begin to rise. Looking closely, they saw the boy holding the massive energy sphere with one hand, walking out of the crater.

Seeing the boy was unharmed, Frieza immediately fired a small energy wave to detonate the bomb. The terrifying energy obliterated everything in the vicinity, and the remaining shockwaves rippled outward.

Seeing no figure in the center of the explosion, Frieza assumed he had killed the boy, failing to notice that the youth had already reached a high ridge behind him.

"Frieza!"

The boy shouted from the high ground, firing an energy blast at Frieza and King Cold.

To dodge the attack, Frieza and King Cold flew into the air, but the boy instantly moved behind Frieza, drew the sword from his back, and with one swift motion, sliced Frieza in two.

The boy pressed his advantage, hacking Frieza into pieces before finishing him off with an energy blast. With that, the Emperor of the Universe, Frieza, was offline.

The moment Frieza was taken out, the Z Fighters, who were still rushing to the scene on foot, were stunned. Vegeta, shocked beyond measure, immediately cast his previous words aside, flared his energy, and used Flight to charge toward the battlefield at full speed.

Seeing Vegeta fly toward the battlefield, Piccolo and the others followed suit using Flight.

On the other side, although King Cold watched Frieza get killed right in front of him, he felt no sorrow. Instead, he became fixated on the sword the boy had just used to cut Frieza down.

King Cold used a taunt, asking the boy to let him see the sword. The boy drew the blade from his back and tossed it to King Cold.

King Cold examined the sword after catching it from the youth. He concluded that the boy's victory over Frieza was largely due to the weapon, believing it impossible for him to have won otherwise.

He then swung the blade toward the youth, but the boy caught it firmly with one hand. As he held the sword, the youth began to power up again, his overwhelming strength forcing King Cold to retreat step by step.

"My strength isn't limited to just this sword."

Watching the suppressed King Cold, the youth pressed his right hand against the tyrant's chest and unleashed a ki blast that tore straight through him. The sheer force caused King Cold to lose his grip on the hilt and crash into the mountain behind him.

Seeing the youth still poised in his firing stance, King Cold hurriedly begged for mercy, offering a multitude of lucrative conditions, including all the planets under his command.

The youth remained unmoved by the offers and instead fired another ki blast, sending him down to reunite with Frieza.

After killing King Cold, the youth turned to destroy their spaceship, sheathed his sword, and tilted his head at a forty-five-degree angle as he deactivated his Super Saiyan transformation.

At that moment, Vegeta and the others had already flown into the nearby sky.

The youth showed no surprise at their arrival, as if he had known they would come all along.

"I am going to meet Mr. Goku now. Would you like to come with me?"

The youth asked the tense group.

"Why? How do you know about my father?"

Gohan felt a surge of confusion upon hearing the mention of Goku.

The youth did not answer Gohan's question, pointing in a specific direction instead.

"He is this way. Mr. Goku should arrive in three hours. Please, follow me."

With that, the youth used Flight and soared off in that direction.

Although the group still had many questions, they held a brief discussion and decided to follow him, whether out of curiosity about Goku or the youth's true identity.

During the flight, the youth glanced back, and only after seeing that everyone was keeping up did he continue forward at a speed they could all maintain.

Soon, they stopped at a location. The youth took a small refrigerator from a capsule he carried, retrieved some chilled drinks, and handed them to the others.

After three hours of waiting, the group sensed Goku's ki rapidly approaching their location from outer space.

Before long, a small spaceship appeared before them and landed nearby, the massive shockwave kicking up a ring of dust and earth for dozens of meters.

Once Goku emerged from the ship, the youth asked him to step aside for a private conversation.

Away from the others, the youth first asked Goku to transform into a Super Saiyan and spar with him. After gauging Goku's strength, the youth confessed the truth: he was Future Trunks, Vegeta's son from twenty years in the future.

Trunks revealed that desperate future to Goku: a fatal viral heart disease, Androids with suffocating power, and the successive deaths of all the Z Fighters.

His words were calm yet carried immense weight, painting a picture of a broken world where he and his mother, Bulma, fought in isolation.

After listening, Goku accepted the small medicine bottle from the future and the heavy responsibility of changing fate, feeling a mix of urgency and excitement.

Although Trunks did not want anyone other than Goku to know about the future, he was unaware that Piccolo, standing in the distance, had overheard every word.

Afterward, Trunks flew away, and the group gathered around Goku.

Just as Goku struggled with how to explain the future to the others, Piccolo—who had listened openly the entire time—took over the task, cleverly relaying the events in a way everyone could understand without revealing Trunks' identity.

While the group still doubted the truth of the matter, Trunks reappeared before them.

Under their complex gazes, Future Trunks and his time machine blurred and vanished, returning to the future that still required his salvation.

Somewhere in the center of the universe, cosmic energy converged to form a brilliant, colorful vortex. At the heart of this swirl, a figure slowly took shape, surrounded by flickering purple energy of destruction.

His hair was styled in the iconic, gravity-defying Super Saiyan fashion, with sharp, vibrant purple strands standing on end—a look both clean and intense that fit the series' combat aesthetic. His facial features were rugged, and his purple eyes were sharp and cold, radiating a powerful intimidation as if he could see through any opponent.

His attire consisted of a black bodysuit that highlighted his muscular frame, with gold armor adorning his shoulders and elbows, adding a sense of grandeur and power. A purple gem on his chest stood out, appearing to be an energy core. He wore loose, light-gray trousers paired with a black cape that fluttered in the wind, perfectly complementing the classic look of a God of Destruction.

Surrounded by a surging purple aura that blended with the starry background, the energy shifted in light and shadow, clearly containing the power to destroy worlds.

"Where am I? Didn't I die saving someone?"

Lin Fan opened his eyes, confused by the strange surroundings. Suddenly, a flood of information rushed into his mind, revealing his current situation.

So, I've been reborn into the Dragon Ball world? My original consciousness has merged with the consciousness birthed by this universe to form a brand-new me. Since the old me is dead, I will live on with this new identity.

Having processed the information transmitted by the universe, he now understood his identity: a deity birthed by the cosmos based on the Saiyan race, which possessed the greatest potential—the God of Destruction, Malvis.