Upon hearing this, Lin Chen realized that Chronoa probably didn’t know about the situation in Trunks’ world.
So, he took out the Time Ring and said, “Chronoa-sama, the Zamasu you saw in the scene just now has already been killed by me. He attacked a world, and coincidentally, that world’s Saiyan had a connection with me. When the Saiyan came over to ask for my help, Zamasu followed, and I took the opportunity to kill him.”
“What?” Chronoa was shocked, but when she saw the Time Ring in Lin Chen’s hand, she knew he wasn’t lying.
Not only her, but Gowasu, seeing the ring in Lin Chen’s hand, was also astonished.
Because that ring, he happened to recognize, was the Time Ring of Universe 10.
The pattern on the Time Ring varies in each universe, so he was certain that Lin Chen didn’t casually grab a ring to deceive them.
As they both examined the ring, Zeno exclaimed with admiration, “Wow! Lin Chen is truly amazing! You’re so powerful!”
“I’m just so-so,” Lin Chen smiled, earning him disdainful looks from Zeno’s two bodyguards.
And at that moment, Chronoa, who was inspecting the ring, suddenly exclaimed.
“Zeno-sama, I think I know why I couldn’t locate Zamasu earlier.”
“Why?”
“Take a look at this.”
Chronoa opened her hand, revealing the Time Ring in her palm.
However, at this moment, a faint magic seemed to emerge on the Time Ring.
“This is dark magic; someone has applied dark magic related to time on Zamasu’s ring, blocking it from my observation.”
“Wow!” Zeno exclaimed, though it was uncertain whether he understood.
However, Grand Priest remarked, “Dark Demon Realm? Does that mean someone from the Dark Demon Realm is behind Zamasu?”
“It’s very likely. Otherwise, a regular Time Ring wouldn’t be able to casually traverse different timelines,” Chronoa explained.
It turns out that a regular Time Ring has limitations on time travel.
Usually, a ring can only go to the past and future of one timeline.
To travel to a parallel universe, you must use the Time Ring of that parallel universe.
In other words, a Time Ring is like an elevator in a building, allowing one to go to any floor of that building but unable to go to other buildings.
To travel to another building, one must use the ring associated with that specific building, i.e. the elevator.
However, the ring in Zamasu’s possession had been modified with dark magic, allowing him to freely travel to different timelines, like a person using an elevator to go to any floor of any building on a street.
This ability far exceeded the original function Supreme Kai of Time endowed the Time Ring with.
Not to mention, the magic on the ring prevented Chronoa from observing the owner of the ring through the Power of Time.
“But now that Zamasu has been killed by Lin Chen, it should be fine, right?” Universe 10’s God of Destruction Rumsshi said from the side.
“No, it’s not that simple!” Chronoa shook her head. “I just checked, and the last world this ring visited was World 27, a main world. In other words, there is also a Zamasu in that world!”
“The Zamasu from these two worlds have likely already met, so I suspect that the Zamasu from that world has also joined the Project Zero Mortals.”
As she spoke, she slid her hand in another direction, and a black screen appeared in the space.
Chronoa frowned and said, “In fact, I can no longer directly observe World 27. If that’s the case, there might be another modified Time Ring there.”
“What?”
Rumsshi, upon hearing this, immediately glared fiercely at Gowasu beside him. “Look at what you’ve done! If you hadn’t recruited Zamasu, we wouldn’t have so many problems!”
“I’m sorry…”
Gowasu, at this moment, was already burying his head in shame.
“Chronoa-sama, we can’t intervene in the affairs of other worlds, so we’ll have to rely on you for this,” Grand Priest said to Chronoa.
“Of course, this is already part of my duty.”
“And Mr. Lin Chen, we misunderstood you today. We’ll leave the rest to you.”
“I’ll do my best,” Lin Chen nodded.
“Wait!”
At this time, Grand Priest suddenly stopped Lin Chen.
Then, he said to Zeno, “Zeno-sama, can you give your summoning button to Lin Chen?”
“Huh? You mean this?” Zeno took out a button and displayed it in front of him.
Lin Chen recognized the round button in his hand and realized it was the summoning button Zeno gave to Goku in the original work.
“Yes.”
Grand Priest nodded. “Zeno-sama, Mr. Lin Chen will be fighting in another world. With his abilities, I suspect the Zeno of that world might also take notice. If the Zeno of another world wanted to eliminate Mr. Lin Chen, it could be troublesome.”
“So, I think it would be best if you give Mr. Lin Chen a token, letting the Zeno-sama of other worlds know that Mr. Lin Chen is a friend, not an enemy.”
“Wow, Grand Priest, you’re really smart.”
“Thank you for the compliment, Zeno-sama.”
Hence, Zeno handed the button to Lin Chen.
“Lin Chen, take care of it.”
“Thank you, Zeno-sama.”
Upon careful consideration, Lin Chen realized that Grand Priest’s words had some merit. Even if it wasn’t likely, it was an extra layer of insurance.
After all, in the original work, Goku and the others ultimately relied on this button to defeat Zamasu.
Having this item was much safer than not having it.
“That’s it, then. We’ll leave now.”
Because Chronoa still needed to investigate other worlds with Zamasu, Lin Chen made an appointment with her to meet on Earth.
Chronoa would personally send them to Trunks’ world to investigate the Zamasu there.
After making the agreement, they parted ways, leaving Zeno’s Palace separately.
However, at this moment, they were unaware that in Lin Chen’s world, in the Sacred World of the Kai of Universe 10.
Zamasu sat in shock in his abode as he looked at the GodTube in front of him. The battle of Universe 6 and Universe 7 was entirely different from what he remembers.
In the scene, the contestant from Universe 7 was not Goku but a stranger he had never seen before.
“Broly? Who the heck is he?”
But what surprised Zamasu was not this. It was when he saw Lin Chen fighting Zeno’s bodyguard after the tournament and he was even more shocked.
In this world, there is someone who could fight Zeno’s bodyguard to a standstill?
What the hell is going on?
“Isn’t he a Saiyan? Why is he even stronger than a God of Destruction?”
Zamasu’s gaze was extremely malevolent.
In fact, although this Zamasu was from the Future Trunks’ world, he had also watched videos from the world where Black Goku existed. He knew that the Zamasu from another world, who occupied the body of the person called Goku, was the most powerful warrior among multiple worlds.
But now, Zamasu found that the situation seemed to be different.
“It seems we made a mistake. Different worlds produce different strong individuals. No, it seems our plan needs to be changed. Having just Goku’s body won’t be enough to fully realize the Project Zero Mortals!”
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