>>5205932“Tch....D-Dammit.” you mutter, clenching your fists. Both of them are now more powerful than you, and you don't exactly have the means to surpass them. There is that one form you achieved once, against Universe 11's Jiren, but you haven't been able to retake it since. Which leaves you only one option. Crossing your arms before you, you allow your overflowing ki to blaze up to life around you. Concentrating that power, you begin condensing it into a heavy Energy Body of your own.
“Can't match our power, so thinking that'll even the odds? Well let me tell you it's useless!” your more feral counterpart shouts, drawing back his right hand and slashing forward like a beast. And from his fingertips spring out five Death Slashes, all aimed directly at you! “Begone!”
The five lethal slashes all crash into your armor-like ki, but to both the other Karns' surprise, the energy blades all crash into you and <span class="mu-i">shatter</span> simultaneously!
“Wh-What?” Apex Karn says, the shock evident on his face. “No way.”
“Just how dense is that Barrier?” that divine Karn asks, dashing in and firing off a heavy flying kick directly into your face. But you almost don't even feel it, the impact negligible. Your god-defying energy is actually resistant to divine energies, your Energy Body repulsing his divine aura and mitigating his power substantially. “No way! How is your Energy Body this dense?”
“That's the biggest advantage of this form, besides all this extra muscle.” you say as the wannabe-godling back flips away, landing on his feet just out of range as you straighten back up. “I cannot run out of ki, no matter how much power I exert. I can hold a Final Flash at full power for an entire day if I need to.”
“HRRYAAA!!” Apex Karn shouts, dashing in and slamming his fist into your jaw. Unlike with your divine counterpart, his energy isn't repulsed by yours. So his fist impacts your Energy Body at full power, knocking your head a few degrees to the side. But otherwise doesn't affect you much his punch lacking lethal power against you inside your Energy Body. “Tch. Well, this isn't going away anytime soon.”
“HAAAA!” you shout, turning towards Apex Karn and firing off a powerful punch of your own. But he dodges you easily with the Su Ma technique, twisting around your fist counterclockwise and striking you upside the head with a right backfist and a left hook that your energy tanks, then as you fire off a left uppercut he flips back away, kicking you in the chin with both feet before landing on his hands, and flipping back up to his feet further away from you. “Tch.”
