Oa Galaxy.

In the starry sky, the Monitor Mothership, as massive as the sun, hovered in space. Its steel hull was cold and sharp like the open maw of a cosmic beast, dominating the starfield. The adjacent catcher ships, like barbed anchors, pierced the void with chilling intent. Though smaller, they were each the size of Earth.

Considering the sun's volume is 1.3 million times that of Earth, the size of the Monitor Mothership was staggering. Even the escort ships were Earth-sized. Countless such ships densely surrounded and protected the mothership.

Not to mention the destroyers—each three times the size of the catcher ships and Earth itself. It was a fleet so powerful it seemed invincible across the cosmos.

Yet now, these warships, occupying a swath of the dark starry universe and dimming the surrounding stars, seemed to tremble faintly as if touched by an invisible force.

Golden Superman's sculpted golden face suddenly grew solemn. The golden cloak behind him fluttered in fear.

"Are you deaf? I asked you!"

"Stay for a while. What do you mean by that?"

Bardi's expression darkened with fury. Around him, a vortex formed with his body as the singularity. A massive hurricane surged outward like the birth of a new universe.

Golden Superman felt the overwhelming pressure, as if it would tear his very soul apart.

Bardi was enraged. The stars dimmed, black holes emerged. Behind him, like the claws of a rabid demon, a vast black hole spread, growing larger and more terrifying.

Golden Superman's face twisted, about to respond.

Then Bardi's expression shifted. A voice echoed in his mind.

"Bardi, I'm fine..."

It was Raven's voice.

At that moment, their spiritual connection was severed.

They took Raven hostage.

A surge of rage burst from every cell in Bardi's body, turning into a roaring river of fury. His blood boiled, trembling with wrath at every corner of his being.

"You dared touch my family!!"

Bardi roared. The starry sky shook. Oa behind him was jolted from orbit, turned into a golden meteor that flew across space, vanishing into a flash of light—its trajectory unknown across countless light-years.

In an instant, his form transformed into the full manifestation of a One God. He expanded madly, his body monstrous and titanic like a primordial deity.

His face grew tyrannical and cruel. Bony spikes protruded from his skin. His jaw thickened with hardened bone, and his body bristled with sharp, pale-white bone spurs.

He grew larger than the sun. In comparison, the Monitor Mothership resembled a speck of dust. Bardi's form spanned light-years.

In the universe, he resembled a wrathful abyssal demon god. The black hole around him expanded furiously, its gravitational force forming a massive singularity. Stars within millions of light-years shattered and collapsed.

Boom.

Time itself blurred. The universe was crushed under immense force. The black hole roared and regenerated, devouring domain matter.

Bardi's furious face appeared before Golden Superman in an instant. His spiked hand reached out, infused with speed force lightning.

His eyes burned with fury like a supernova.

Golden Superman was caught off guard. He had no time to evade.

"Aaargh!!"

Golden Superman screamed in pain. He hadn't escaped in time. Bardi had caught him, tearing half his body apart. Golden blood splattered into the void.

In agony, Golden Superman retreated into the Fifth Dimension to escape.

Bardi crushed the torn half of Golden Superman's body. His eyes blazed like twin supernovas. He raised his head and let out a furious roar that shattered nearby starfields millions of light-years away. They vanished like dust on the wind.

Fierce veins bulged from his body, on the verge of bursting. The fury from Raven's capture surged uncontrollably. The black hole behind him expanded, now over 100,000 light-years wide, devouring nearby galaxies.

He descended like a Demon King of the Abyss, bringing ruin to the cosmos.

"Your end has come!"

Bardi's face twisted. His eyes flared like the burning surface of a collapsing star, locked onto the dimensional space where Golden Superman had vanished.

Suddenly, Bardi's eyes turned pitch black. From the twin cosmic abysses within him, a blast of darkness erupted, piercing through Golden Superman's Fifth-Dimensional projection and lancing toward the Monitor Mothership.

The massive sun-sized mothership was like a sesame seed before Bardi, instantly consumed by his dark vision. There was no explosion, no shockwave. All the Monitor ships, the Earth-sized catcher vessels, and the triple-Earth-sized destroyers—vanished without a sound, melting into cosmic chocolate, disintegrating in silence.

Golden Superman looked on in horror at Bardi's wrathful face and the immense form of the One God. This was the first time he had confronted a true One God. Being torn apart in a single blow, a deep fear rooted itself in his heart.

Without his Fifth-Dimensional attributes, survival would have been impossible.

"Aaargh!!!"

Bardi roared in rage. Golden Superman remained visible, protected by Fifth-Dimensional physics. Bardi could see him but not hurt him. His bloodshot eyes burned red like a crimson neutron star, locking onto Golden Superman.

"Golden Superman! Hide all you want. I will find your universe. Your family will be buried with you!"

Golden Superman, terrified, avoided eye contact with Bardi and quickly fled the universe via the Fifth Dimension.

As Golden Superman escaped, Bardi let out a furious howl and unleashed a massive punch. His strike pierced the universe.

Across more than a million light-years, the cosmos was torn open. Beyond it lay the viscous latitudinal matter of the Blood Domain, dividing each universe like a celestial membrane.

Once pierced, the thick, red latitudinal matter of the Blood Domain surged back like a galactic river.

This flowing matter was deadly to all lifeforms. Even a quasi-sole god could not survive its effects. Only the Monitor race could refine it using technology, extracting the Blood of the Sky to fuel their tech.

Now, that massive cosmic rupture flooded with Blood Domain matter. It poured toward Bardi's massive form.

Bathed in the scarlet blood of the heavens, it was as if the universe itself wept crimson tears, drowning him.

Bardi absorbed the flowing Blood Domain matter like a vortex, growing stronger and more monstrous by the second. His rage echoed through the starry sky. His roar shook the multiverse.

"Multiverse! All must be buried for Raven!"

(To be continued.)