"Golden Form... Transform!"
With those casually spoken words from Frieza...
BOOM——————!!!
A golden light, brilliant enough to blind the naked eye, instantly exploded over Manhattan!
Sentry, who had been charging up for a self-destruct sequence, felt his vision blur. A shudder rose from the depths of his soul, causing the sphere of mixed gold-and-black energy in his hands to nearly destabilize and dissipate.
"What... What is this light?!"
On the ground.
On Ultimate Iron Man Antonio Stark's faceplate display, every stream of data turned into gibberish in an instant.
"Warning! Warning! Hyper-energy reaction detected!"
"Energy Level: Infinite!"
"Damn it! My sensors are fried!" Tony covered his eyes and cursed. The radiance pierced right through his specialized lenses, stinging his retinas.
In the center of that endless golden light.
The figure that was once white as jade had undergone a heaven-and-earth transformation.
His skin now flowed with the luster of liquid gold. His hands, feet, and face retained that noble purple hue.
Golden Frieza!
He had descended upon the Ultimate Universe!
"Haa..."
Golden Frieza slowly opened his eyes. His crimson pupils now looked even more bewitching, more soul-stealing.
He clenched his fist slightly.
Crack! Crack!
The surrounding space emitted the groaning sounds of glass being crushed under unbearable weight.
"This is... the power of Gold."
Frieza took a deep, intoxicated breath.
"I've used it once before, but the feeling of being able to crush a galaxy at will... it truly never gets old."
He slowly lowered his head.
He looked at Sentry, who was still hovering nearby, holding his energy ball with a dumbfounded look on his face.
"Hey, Golden Retriever."
A teasing smile curled on Frieza's lips.
"Didn't you just say you were going to show me who the true God is?"
"Now..."
"You may begin."
Sentry, Robert Reynolds, felt like a clown holding a wooden sword trying to challenge a dragon. The terrifying aura emanating from his opponent was like a boundless ocean; every cell in his body was screaming at him to run.
But!
"I don't believe it!!"
Sentry let out a roar of despair.
In that moment, his rationality snapped completely. Replacing it was the darkest, most terrifying persona he had suppressed within himself—
The Void!
HUMMM——————!!!
The originally golden energy ball instantly turned pitch black. Countless black tentacles drilled out of Sentry's body, wrapping around and swallowing his once-holy form.
His eyes turned pure black, and his mouth split open to his ears, revealing razor-sharp fangs.
"Heh heh heh..."
A hair-raising, sinister chuckle emerged from "Sentry's" throat.
"Finally... out..."
The Void stretched his pitch-black limbs, savoring the air filled with fear.
"Is this the taste of freedom?"
He turned his head, his eyes like black holes staring dead at Golden Frieza.
"You are strong."
The Void's voice was raspy and twisted, sounding like countless vengeful spirits screaming in unison.
"But before The Void, everything returns to nothingness!"
"I am the Darkness! I am the End!"
BOOM!!!
The Void's body expanded instantly, transforming into a black storm that blotted out the sun. That pure negative energy caused the temperature of the entire Earth to plummet by dozens of degrees in a second.
On the ground, plants withered instantly. Buildings began to decay. Even the hope in the hearts of the Avengers began to dissipate bit by bit under the erosion of this dark aura.
"What kind of monster is that?!"
Ultimate Captain America watched the mass of black matter, his hand gripping his shield trembling. This was ten thousand times scarier than that guy Kang!
"Is this what was hiding inside Robert?"
Nick Fury's single eye widened in horror. He always knew Sentry was a ticking time bomb, but he never imagined the explosion would be powerful enough to end the world!
Meanwhile, on the Frieza Legion's side.
Thanos frowned, his purple brow furrowing as he looked at the black storm.
"This power... feels a bit like some ancient eldritch god."
"However, in front of the Great King, it is still insignificant."
Loki was practically cowering behind Apocalypse, poking his head out and shivering.
"Why does this Earth produce such freaks? He's even scarier than the Hulk from my world!"
High in the sky.
Faced with The Void, who had fully released himself and transformed into a world-ending demon god...
Golden Frieza simply let out a bored yawn.
"My, my... are you done transforming?"
"Is this your full power?"
Frieza looked at the clawing, teeth-baring black storm with a look of extreme disappointment.
"It's all pitch black. Zero aesthetic appeal."
"Furthermore..." Frieza extended a finger and lightly tapped the massive body of The Void. "Your energy looks intimidating, but the density is far too low."
"It's like a puffy ball of cotton candy."
"DIE!!!"
The Void was thoroughly enraged by Frieza's attitude.
He roared, and countless black tentacles shot out like vipers, attempting to entangle and devour the golden figure.
"Darkness Descends!!"
The entire sky was shrouded in darkness, as if the apocalypse had arrived.
However, just as those tentacles were about to touch Frieza...
"Too slow."
Frieza's voice remained elegant and unhurried. He didn't even move from his spot.
Hum!
A faint layer of golden Ki surfaced from his body.
Sizzle—!
The moment those seemingly unstoppable black tentacles touched the golden aura, they reacted like snow meeting a blazing sun.
Instantly melted! Vaporized!
"What?!"
A trace of astonishment appeared on The Void's grotesque face.
"Impossible! My power is invincible!"
"I am The Void! I am..."
"You are trash."
Frieza cut him off.
He slowly raised his right hand. He didn't charge up any terrifying energy blast; he simply gave a casual wave.
"Scatter... now!"
BOOM——————!!!
A terrifying gust of wind, impossible to resist, instantly swept across the sky!
It wasn't ordinary wind. It was pure fist pressure, amplified billions of times by the Golden Form!
Whoosh!
With that single wave, the black storm that covered the sky was forcibly blown away!
Revealing the dumbfounded, battered body of Sentry within.
"Th... This..."
Sentry looked at his collapsing body, watched the black energy dissipating into the sky, and his worldview utterly crumbled.
His strongest trump card, his Void form that could destroy the universe... was fanned away by a casual wave of the opponent's hand?
"Is the gap... this wide?"
Frieza slowly flew in front of Sentry. He wasn't in a rush to finish the job; instead, he looked with interest at the man who had completely lost his fighting spirit.
"So-called invincibility is nothing more than the delirious rambling of a frog in a well."
"In this Multiverse, there is only one Emperor."
Frieza pointed at himself, a cruel smile curling on his lips.
"And that is me. Frieza."
At the same time.
In the deepest reaches of this universe.
Asgard. The Odin of this universe sat on his throne, holding a somewhat comical-looking war hammer.
His single eye snapped open, filled with shock.
"This power... coming from Midgard?"
"That monster called The Void was suppressed in an instant?"
"That golden aura... what kind of divinity is that?!"
And at the other end of the universe.
A massive swarm of mechanical insects was devouring a planet. This was the Galactus of this universe—Gah Lak Tus. It was a collective consciousness nanotech swarm.
At this moment, trillions of nanobots stopped eating simultaneously. They sensed a terrifying threat capable of erasing their existence.
"WARNING! WARNING!"
"DIMENSIONAL-LEVEL ENERGY BURST DETECTED!"
"THREAT LEVEL: SURPASSES ALL KNOWN ENTITIES!"
"ADVICE: EVACUATE THE GALAXY IMMEDIATELY!"
This fear even pierced through the barriers of dimensions, reaching the ears of ancient gods slumbering within this universe.
However, for Frieza, this was just a little light exercise before dinner.
"My, my. It seems everyone has sensed my arrival."
Frieza felt the prying gazes from the depths of the universe. Not only was he not angry, but he laughed even more happily.
"Good. Very good."
"The further the fear spreads, the greater my harvest."
He looked back at Sentry.
"Well then, game over."
"As a reward for letting me stretch my muscles a little, I will show you a color even more noble and despair-inducing than Gold."
Frieza slowly spread his arms. The golden light on his body suddenly began to retract and collapse inward.
"Normally, I wouldn't need this form to deal with trash like you."
"But..."
Frieza glanced at the Avengers below, who still harbored a sliver of hope in their eyes as they looked up.
"To make these ants give up completely..."
"To bring the fear in this universe to its peak..."
"This Emperor doesn't mind wasting a little stamina."
HUMMM——————!!!
The brilliant golden light vanished instantly.
Replacing it was an aura of darkness—pitch black like ink, deep as the abyss!
The entire sky went completely dark. Not the black of night, but an absolute nothingness that swallowed all light.
In that endless darkness, a figure appeared—black and gold, radiating a suffocating oppression.
Black Frieza!
"Th... This is..."
Sentry looked at the demon god before him, who looked like he had walked out of the depths of hell, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.
The Void inside him—that once arrogant dark personality—was now cowering in a corner like it had met a natural predator, not daring to even peek out.
"Is this... true power?"
Sentry's eyes went completely dim.
"Alright, stop spacing out."
Black Frieza's voice was low and magnetic, carrying an unquestionable majesty.
"It's time to go."
BOOM!!!
Frieza merely raised a single finger.
No energy wave. No beam.
Just the terrifying air pressure generated by that finger...
Directly crushed Sentry's broken body, along with The Void inside him!
Crushed!
Splat!
Like squashing a tomato.
Sentry, known as invincible in this universe, turned into a mist of golden blood and dissipated into the wind.
Not even a soul remained.
"ROBERT!!!"
On the ground, Captain America let out a heart-wrenching scream. It was a cry of utter despair.
Their strongest trump card, their last hope... just gone?
"How is this possible..."
The bottle in Tony Stark's hand slipped again. He looked at the black-gold figure in the sky, his legs gave out, and he knelt directly on the ground.
"We can't win..."
"Against a monster like that... we can't win..."
A seed named "Submission" took root and sprouted in everyone's heart.
[DING! Detected total mental collapse of the Ultimates! Fear Points +500 Billion!]
[DING! Detected fear from the Supreme Existence of this Universe! Fear Points +1 Trillion!]
[DING! Detected global population falling into the abyss of despair! Fear Points +2 Trillion!]
...
The numbers on the System Panel soared wildly once again.
Hovering in the air, watching the numbers jump, a smile of satisfaction curled on Frieza's lips.
"Oh ho ho ho..."
"This feeling of a bountiful harvest is simply exquisite."
He slowly descended, landing in front of Tony and Cap, who were kneeling on the ground.
His crimson eyes looked down from above at these former heroes.
"Well?"
"Gentlemen."
Frieza spread his hands, his black-gold skin glistening with an eerie sheen under the light of the ruins.
"Have you now learned..."
"How to properly offer your knees to an Emperor of the Universe?"