Gene Mark

The entire Heaven's Arena fell into a deathly silence.

The audience was utterly quiet, every person staring fixedly at the figure radiating a terrifying aura in the center of the ring. Genos's boosters continued to hum, while Bang's brows furrowed even tighter. He could feel that something fundamental was changing in Meruem's aura. This was not a simple increase in strength, but an elevation to an entirely different dimension.

"You must be wondering why, after Leol died, the Rental Pod not only failed to disappear but even evolved to this extent." Meruem's voice rang out calmly, as though he were recounting a story unrelated to himself. "Then let's start with what happened after you killed him."

He slowly closed his eyes, and a sealed memory gradually unfolded in his mind.

In the silent valley, the faint glow of the Rental Pod lit up again amid the dust.

A nearly transparent pale-golden substance, carrying Saitama's careless quality, was drawn into the Rental Pod.

Leol suddenly opened his eyes. His originally collapsed heart was beating powerfully within his chest, each beat sending a kind of strength he had never imagined through every limb and bone—pure and heavy, without any of Nen's flashy tricks, yet an absolute physical force capable of crushing mountains with ease.

He lowered his head and looked at the back of his hand. The lion mark of the Rental Pod had already entwined itself with that pale-golden pattern.

After being reborn from death, the Nen ability Rental Pod had received an epic-level enhancement.

Once a debt of gratitude was established, the debtor had to "repay" the corresponding price. Saitama owed him a life, so this power—power sufficient to pierce through a planet—had temporarily passed into his body as an "advance payment."

"Saitama..." Leol clenched his fist, his knuckles cracking