In that instant.
Time seemed to freeze.
Tony, who had already closed his eyes awaiting death, snapped them open.
In the distance, Professor X, Mr. Fantastic—everyone's gaze was fixed on the back of this one man.
A mortal body, standing equal to the gods.
Perhaps that phrase described not just power, but this very will that moved the soul.
However.
"Pfft..."
A stifled snort of laughter broke the tragic atmosphere.
Frieza's shoulders began to shake.
Then, the laughter grew louder, more exaggerated.
"Ohohoho..."
"HAHAHAHAHA!"
Frieza threw his head back and laughed until tears nearly formed in his eyes.
He looked at Captain America as if looking at an idiot, his eyes filled with sheer absurdity.
"Do this all day?"
"Are you serious, you little ant?"
Frieza stopped laughing. His expression turned ice-cold in an instant.
There was no longer any mirth in those eyes, only endless cruelty.
"I admire your courage."
"But..."
"Courage, in the face of absolute power, is the greatest joke of all!"
Frieza didn't even raise his hand.
He simply looked at Cap, his gaze sharpening slightly.
BOOM!!!
An invisible, yet terrifyingly potent wave of Ki exploded outward with him at the center!
"Urgh..."
Cap only managed a muffled grunt.
The next second.
SPLAT!
Like a tomato under a hydraulic press.
Under that terrifying atmospheric pressure, Captain America's body—enhanced by the Super Soldier Serum—instantly disintegrated!
Bones shattered, muscles tore, blood sprayed.
There was no room for resistance.
No miracle occurred.
He didn't even survive the first second of that "all day."
The man who symbolized the spirit of America.
He was blasted into an unrecognizable pile of gore, spread evenly across the surface of the ruins.
Only the star emblem from his chest, not yet completely shattered, lay quietly in the pool of blood. It looked blindingly stark.
Frieza glanced at the biological matter that used to be called Captain America.
A sneer of extreme disdain appeared on his face.
"Do this all day?"
Frieza elegantly spread his hands toward the pile of gore.
"Please."
"Do you really have the strength for that?"
Tony Stark remained slumped in the powered-down Anti-Frieza Armor.
His brown eyes stared blankly at the blood and flesh.
"Jarvis..."
"Here, sir."
"Turn off the alarm."
"Sir, your heart rate is currently..."
"I SAID TURN IT OFF!!"
Tony suddenly roared like a madman, then collapsed again as if deflated.
"It's too loud... it's really too loud..."
He closed his eyes, two streams of clear tears cutting through the grease and grime on his cheeks.
There was no "do this all day" anymore.
The little guy from Brooklyn.
The fool who would always stand up even after being beaten down and say, "I can do this all day."
He really wasn't getting up again.
In the face of absolute power, will is like a soap bubble—it pops with a single touch.
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Elsewhere on Earth.
World leaders and top military brass who witnessed this live on screen...
At this moment, their fingers, trembling over nuclear launch buttons, finally recoiled as if electrocuted.
Some even felt their bones turn to jelly, collapsing limply into their chairs.
Launch?
Are you kidding?!
Watching the grand, tragic meteor shower from the moon on their screens...
A cold bucket of water named "Despair" extinguished the last spark of luck in everyone's hearts.
That man could blow up the moon with a wave of his hand!
That man could reverse time!
That man could crush a spiritual totem like Captain America as easily as stepping on a bug!
Nukes?
In front of him, they probably wouldn't even count as firecrackers!
They gave up.
They completely gave up.
From this moment on, the collective spine of human civilization, under the gaze of those scarlet eyes, was thoroughly snapped.
And this was exactly what Frieza wanted.
[Ding! Detected global human population has fallen into absolute despair and submission!]
[Fear Points +100 Billion!]
[Ding! Detected world governments abandoning the will to resist!]
[Fear Points +200 Billion!]
...
Listening to the notifications in his head, the corners of Frieza's mouth curled into a smile of extreme pleasure.
The numbers were ticking up faster than a heartbeat.
900 billion... 1 trillion...
Finally.
The anticipated critical point was breached!
[Ding! Congratulations Host! Cumulative Fear Points exceeded 1 Trillion!]
[Achievement Unlocked: Lord of the Planet!]
[Unlock conditions met! Lord Frieza Template (Final Form) unlocking...]
Without any warning.
A terrifying aura that defied description suddenly erupted from Frieza's seemingly slender body!
The originally clear sky turned black as ink in an instant.
Purple lightning shuttled madly through the clouds, as if even Earth's magnetic field was thrown into chaos at this moment.
"Ohohoho..."
Frieza's laughter became slightly distorted—the euphoria of overflowing power.
"Is this... true power?"
His body began to glow.
His human head began to shrink and smooth out.
His body didn't grow larger; instead, it began to shrink.
Becoming more compact, more streamlined.
A few seconds later.
The light faded.
A brand-new Frieza appeared before everyone.
No longer the elegant gentleman in a suit.
His whole body was white as jade, with only the top of his head, chest, and shoulders covered in purple, gem-like plating.
His build was slender and symmetrical, every muscle looking like a masterpiece carefully sculpted by God.
But this seemingly petite body contained energy enough to make galaxies tremble!
Frieza—Final Form!
It was also his original, truest form!
Base Power Level—120,000,000!
Frieza slowly opened his eyes. His scarlet pupils were now deeper, more abyssal.
He gently clenched his fist.
Crack.
Space itself seemed to groan in his palm.
"This feeling..."
Frieza took a deep, intoxicated breath.
"It's simply wonderful."
"No wonder Frieza usually stays in his First Form to suppress his power. It's actually quite distressing to feel like I could poke a hole in the Earth just by twitching a finger."
He didn't even need to try to sense it.
Just releasing a tiny bit of his aura caused the entire atmosphere of Earth to vibrate with his breathing.
If the previous version of him needed to charge a beam to destroy Earth...
The current him only needed to sneeze at the ground, and this blue planet would shatter like a glass marble.
This was the terror of a hundred-million-level combat power!
Just then.
Zzz—!
The sound of shattering glass came from the space nearby.
With the death of the Ancient One, the Mirror Dimension spell that had been maintained for so long...
Finally collapsed due to the loss of magical support.