Broly looked back at Jiren, who was slowly walking towards him. He raised an eyebrow as he noticed Jiren powering up as he walked.
"Oh? You are approaching me? Even after seeing my physical strength, instead of running away, you are coming right to me?"
Jiren gave off a low snort as he interlocked eyes with Broly. "I can't beat you up without getting closer."
'Wait, why do I get a déjà vu?' Broly rubbed his chin as he thought before dismissing this line of thinking, he needed to concentrate on the opponent to his front.
Now Broly began to walk to his opponent as well. "Come as close as you like, Jiren! It won't make any difference!"
They both strolled towards each other before they met in the middle and as soon as they got into range, both moved out.
Jiren punched out and Broly met it with a kick. Broly's kick seemed to have forced Jiren to take a step backwards, but in fact, he distanced himself on purpose to release hundred attacks through his mere glance.
Invisible and traceless that was what it seemed, but Broly was fully aware that there were two variants to his glare.
One was just a barrier to fend off attacks and the other is him controlling his ki to fasten his attacks to a degree that they disappear from everyone's sight.
Jiren's current attack was the latter, but Broly's Super Saiyan 4 and due to him entering Ultra Instinct was confident to clash head on with this attack.
Broly and Jiren seemed to stand still merely looking at each other, but in fact they were exchanging hundreds of attacks in an instant.
Contrary to their attacks, the aftermath of this exchange was more than clear. Explosions devastated the surroundings, shaking the whole stage.
Every warrior on stage and even those on the spectator seats felt their battle, even if they weren't observing. The warriors still focused on themselves and moved out to fight against the other universes.
Although these two were probably the strongest on this stage, it didn't mean the victor of that duel would win the whole tournament.
Vegeta had unexpectedly teamed up with Cabba to fight against Toppo, who was slowly considering using his Hakai energy.
However, he knew that Vegeta still wasn't going all out, so neither would he. He had to consider the other strong participants, after all.
Suddenly they sensed something and the three separated immediately. Just an instant passed after they decided to distance themselves and two flashes came in wrecking the surroundings.
Vegeta followed the two flashes with his eyes and saw that it was Broly and Jiren.
He could only grit his teeth, but he wouldn't just lament that he wasn't as strong as they were right now! He will use this Toppo guy as a steppingstone!
Vegeta concentrated again on the fight ahead and moved out. His blue aura was flickering as if it would change every second.
Cabba saw Vegeta and Toppo engage in a fight again, but they were increasing the power output by a lot and was therefore unable to keep up with the two.
He turned and looked for other opponents.
Kefla and Hit tried to follow Jiren and Broly as best as they could, while firing several ki blasts at Broly.
Kefla was sure that Broly was going to win against Jiren, there was no doubt in her heart. Hit on the other hand wanted to wash away his previous failure.
However, he didn't share her assessment of Broly being the sure winner. In his eyes, the two were equally terrifying.
Jiren and Broly's battle grew increasingly fierce and both seemed to put tremendous effort in the fight, but both knew that they were still holding back.
While they passed several different fighters, Broly diverted several shockwaves towards them to get them injured or even knocked them off the stage.
he didn't want to move out personally later and cleaned them up now instead. Broly thought that the stray energy of them were enough for these canon fodders.
Jiren obviously noticed this and he was getting furious.
It has been a long time since he was looked down upon. He enjoyed a high status in the pride troopers, and many knew his name.
If they were ignorant about him and dared to go against him, would be crushed, but this Saiyan in front of him…
He admitted that Broly was strong, but he should notice that Jiren himself was no pushover, in fact, he still hid a lot of strength, and every decent fighter like Broly would be able to guess this.
He was even stronger than the god of destruction of his universe! Yet, this Saiyan still dared to divert his attention!
His ki suddenly flared up and a red aura enveloped his body. His strength and speed increased by a notch and directly appeared on Broly's side.
"You arrogant Saiyan, your inattention marks your defeat!" His kick whipped towards Broly's head at lighting speed.
If this dimension in the void wasn't personally created by Lord Zeno, this kick would have sliced apart any other universe and damaged the surrounding ones as well.
Broly saw Jiren's kick and directly bend backwards with only his feet to his knees supporting his bodyweight.
The kick brushed his hair slightly, slicing them off. Broly used his hand as a support and spun around, trying to kick Jiren's standing leg away and sent him to the ground, but Jiren quickly evaded it by jumping.
Broly saw Jiren land on a boulder and Broly cracked his neck as he focused back on the main event.
Although he could only win if the other participants were knocked off as well, if Jiren was still there, there would be no way for him to knock them off.
Besides he still got teammates that were cleaning the trash off the stage.
As he made up his mind, Broly walked towards Jiren, who, for the first time, prepared himself for the incoming attack. Broly gained momentum as he moved towards Jiren until he was sprinting full power.
His body turned into a red line directly heading for Jiren, whose aura was still increasing and growing into the void above.
Jiren pushed forward his hand and several red ki blasts shot out immediately. Broly maneuvered between the spheres and arrived in front of Jiren.
With all his gained speed and weight behind it, Broly punched out. Jiren's expression changed as he saw that he wasn't able to stop his approach and opted to meet it with a punch himself.
His ki had retracted and formed a thin glow on his body. Jiren's arm was strengthened to the current highest degree.
However, as he was still a standing target, he was overwhelmed by the power behind Broly's attack.
He was sent flying through several boulder and even collided with some other contestants as well, instantly knocking them off the stage.
Jiren quickly regained balance and pierced the ground with his feet to slow down his flight.
Of course, Broly didn't miss this chance and followed Jiren and was about to chop at Jiren's shoulder, when he was suddenly knocked into the air.
Broly grew dizzy from the strike to his chin as he heard a low voice, "From now one I am getting serious!"
Broly quickly backflipped and landed. He wiped off the little blood drop on the cornered of his mouth before staring at Jiren, who had yet again increased his strength.
It was like Jiren was a bottomless well of power.
Jiren saw that Broly was only scratched by that and couldn't help but praise this Saiyan's tough physique in his mind.
He was just about to clash with Jiren again as he suddenly felt another presence right behind him.
Broly directly turned around to kick the person away but a fist already landed on Broly's chest. He instantly noticed a force enter his body.
"I only needed this one hit. This hit will bind you in a cage of time!" Hit spoke out as he poured immense energy into Broly's body, freezing the time in Broly's body and its near periphery.
Broly was sent flying and felt his body freeze after he landed. Broly's body was trembling as his head slowly turned towards Hit.
It seemed like Hit has used his trump card, however, he was gritting his teeth hard as he felt that he couldn't completely contain Broly in his time cage.
"I guess I just have to put all my chips on the table! Even though gambling is not very assassin-like." Hit said with conviction filling his eyes.
All or nothing! Just as he was about to move to push Broly off the stage a figure landed next to Hit. This was of course, Jiren, who looked at Hit's struggle.
Jiren's eyes flashed looked at his clenched fist before glaring at the trapped Broly.