Chapter 156

Standing right before Towa, I launched a Galactic burst at her yet she managed to teleport away to safety, yet my plan was never to hit her, it was to destroy the lab she was in, however, before all of her equipment was obliterated I didn't find any times rings, much to my disappointment, but that just means Towa must have them.

Turning around and grabbing hold of the staff she attacked me with, I felt an evil energy invade my body from the staff and head straight toward my head.

Towa-"Haha, nothing but a stupid beast, with my energy inside of you now it is only a matter of time before I corrupt your mind and force you into submission, you will be an excellent slave."

I guess the evil energy that invaded my brain was supposed to allow Towa to control me, though the moment it entered my mind it was immediately suppressed, no doubt that energy is very dangerous, but for 40+ years I've been keeping my anger in check, did she think I would be so easily defeated, however, I decided to play along so I stopped moving and just floated there for a while.

Towa-"Hehe, quicker than I expected but I shouldn't have expected much from nothing but a dumb brute, and to think I thought something bad would happen, now with me gaining him as a slave, taking care of 21 shouldn't be too difficult."

I heard her speak those words as she walked closer to me and when she arrived right before me I instantly exploded out at a speed too fast for Towa to react in time and squeezed her neck, when Towa realized what had happened she tried waving around her staff, so I yanked it out of her hand and threw it away in the distance, it made me feel good as it seemed to be something of importance to her considering she's been only attacking me with it.

Towa-"B-But how can a stupid animal like you escape from my control!"

Sage-"That's where you're wrong 'genius' I was never under your control in the first place, your little mind control ability wasn't even that powerful, to begin with so what gave you the confidence that you could control me with it?"

At my words, I saw how her eyes widened in response as she tried breaking free from my grasp, but honestly, her strength wasn't that much, Kakarot and Vegeta might've had a little difficulty when fighting her, but without her magic, she isn't even a threat to me. While she continued to try and break free, I quickly checked her body and clothes to see if I could find anything related to the time rings, but even after ripping her clothes off, I couldn't find anything.

Sage-'Wait, can't Whis store items within his staff?'

When I thought of that, I let go of her neck causing her to drop to the ground while taking big gasps for air but when she tried to get up and fight back, I gave her a good punch to her head, knocking her out, leaving her to sleep naked in some rubble. Now usually I would've killed her, but one thing I know about magic users is that they are usually hard to truly kill, and I'm definitely not about to try and kill someone who can manipulate space-time energy, who knows what type of crazy shit she has as backup, better to have Chronoa deal with this.

As I walk over to the staff I threw in the distance, 21 appears beside me covered in blood with a satisfied smile on her face while carrying a bloody and injured Mira by the neck before throwing him over next to where Towa's laying. Within the vicinity, I can only sense 3 different ki signatures, which means 21 has defeated everyone else or more accurately absorbed them all cause I can sense 21 has once again gotten considerably stronger than before.

21-"Have you found the time rings yet?"

Sage-"No, I had checked all over Towa's body and I couldn't find them, though I'm going to check her staff which is the last place I haven't looked yet."

Once we arrived near the staff, 21 picked it and she seemed to be analyzing it before she pointed it towards the ground while muttering the words 'Time rings', immediately after a beam shot out from the crystal sphere and several time rings appeared on the ground, most of them were green but every now and then you would see a silver one. Seeing the number of different timelines 12 universes had together surprised me a little because I know the supreme kai's are supposed to do their best to limit the number of different timelines. Yet, from this pile alone I counted 30 different timelines, and going by that logic that means on average each universe had more than 2 different timelines.

Sage-"So should we just destroy them or give them to Chronoa, because I don't know if there are any consequences for destroying a time ring?"

21-"Nope, it'll just make it so Supreme Kai's can no longer go into the future without creating another timeline, not like any of the supreme Kai's do their job anyways, to begin with, with this many time rings."

Since there was nothing stopping me from destroying them, I went ahead and fired a ki blast at the pile of time rings before me, and they instantly got destroyed, yet the moment they did I barely managed to dodge a kick coming from behind, but I couldn't block the punch to my abdomen in time.

21-"With the time rings having been destroyed, that means Towa can no longer unseal Demigra, which means we are now no longer allies! With the boost in power I received from devouring everyone beforehand, you won't be able to defeat me cupcake, it's finally time for me to devour you!"

Rising from the ground, I look at 21, who is sporting a sadistic smile on her face as she slowly makes her way over to me, however, even when severely outpowered I'm not one bit worried. From the moment 21 informed me about Towa's location with the time rings, I thought a situation like this could happen, but I was fine with it, as the Zenkai I received from fighting Cumber had increased my power.

Seeing 21 stop a few meters in front of me, I get into a fighting position while powering up to full power, yet I don't stop there, and used Ikari on top of that, causing my body to slightly bulk up once again.

Sage-"Haha, C'mon let's go, we're currently tied 1-1 so whoever wins this fight will be in the lead!"

I saw a smile appear on her face as she got into a fighting position across from me.