Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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During the time The Great Purge persisted.
Billions of Viltrumites, from the initial melee spreading across the entire Planet, to fighting each other to near extinction in patches, and then to only scattered powerhouses remaining, still continuing to slaughter each other in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Time lost its scale in this sea of blood.
And the battle between Hillel and Conquest, from the very beginning, never stopped.
When tired, they would lie in place to rest, like a wild leopard rampaging among the mountain ranges, with no animal daring to approach.
When awake, they would continue fighting.
Hillel had forgotten the passage of time, and the combat factors within his body were activated bit by bit.
He looked exceptionally ferocious overall.
They forcefully trampled the continental plates into large areas of ruins, rivers flowed backward into deep pits, and even the still-intact surface was crisscrossed with cracks, oozing large gushes of magma from within.
During this period, Thragg even ordered the two of them to get lost and fight in outer space.
And so, as they fought, they made their way up into the high altitude.
Boom!
Conquest punched Hillel up into the clouds.
Hillel steadied his figure in mid-air, turned his hand to rush down with a stream of light, and the two collided again at an altitude of several thousand meters, causing the air wave to explode and tear a huge hole in the clouds below.
Then they fought out of the atmosphere.
In space, relying on each other’s impacts, they changed direction again and again.
Hillel grabbed Conquest’s ankle and violently flung him toward a wandering asteroid.
While shattering that asteroid, Conquest used the recoil to turn around and pounce back, slamming a punch into Hillel’s chest and sending him tumbling far away into the void.
There was no air and no sound.
There were only two figures, crashing into each other again and again in the dead space.
Every collision would stir up a ring of ripples distorting the void.
Such a battle lasted for several years once fought.
More than once, Hillel was beaten all over with injuries by Conquest.
Bones were broken and flesh was mangled.
But every time, those wounds would heal again at a speed defying conventional logic.
Every time Conquest was injured, his strength would also increase; the Viltrumite would never stop the pace of growth.
The same went for growing old.
Hillel’s growth speed was also very fast, and the only thing he lacked was combat experience.
This battle was actually not fair.
Conquest could never kill Hillel.
There was a gap between the two, but it wasn’t outrageous to that extent; Conquest could injure Hillel, but it was limited to that.
Yet strangely, from start to finish, Conquest did not have a single word of complaint.
He didn’t care that Hillel had Super Speed Healing.
"Strong is strong, weak is weak!"
Once, when the two fought to exhaustion on the surface of an abandoned Planet, lying side by side in a crater and panting.
Hillel asked a question.
Conquest’s mindset was simple and brutal: "Only the weak look for excuses, the strong only fight, don’t look for excuses!"
"If I were truly powerful, sooner or later I would train to the point where I could punch you into interstellar dust with a single punch. Can your healing speed keep up then?" The veteran grinned widely.
"That indeed wouldn’t be in time!" Hillel answered very crisply.
"This is what combat is! You are very strong, you should choose a powerful woman, conquer her, and give birth to your own offspring!" Conquest said.
The Conquest that Conquest spoke of was completely different.
Reproduction among Viltrumites, as could be seen from Anissa and Mark, didn’t care about that whole set of romance at all.
Taking a fancy to a man or a woman, you just went up and beat the other side into submission, then requested the right to reproduce.
The other party would most likely agree.
If they didn’t agree, then use force, just like Anissa mounted Mark.
I’m stronger than you, why should I need your consent?
Hillel only wanted to say: This is fucking rape! Do you know it’s illegal?
I’m still a young boy!
"Have you rested enough? Get up and keep fighting!"
Conquest stopped chatting about family matters.
Being able to say so much to Hillel was already the veteran’s ultimate recognition.
Conquest, a warrior pure to the extreme.
His entire life consisted of three words!
Combat, be awesome!
Whatever conspiracy, tricks, or cunning—he didn’t care.
The strong should go conquer even stronger people!
Instead of swinging blades at the weak!
In this battle, Hillel’s strength underwent a metamorphosis. From frequently getting injured and having naive combat experience at the beginning, to finally being able to fight evenly with Conquest, and even steadily suppressing him.
This was all thanks to Hillel’s Viltrumite genes, which engraved the veteran powerhouse’s combat experience of thousands of years into genetic instinct bit by bit.
Saiyan, kid!
His bloodline, in this endless limit battle, was repeatedly pushed to the edge of Death, and then locked into a tougher state time and time again.
Until one day... BOOOM!
Hillel slammed a punch into Conquest’s chest, solidly smashing this stalwart man deep into the crust of another Planet.
At that moment, he clearly felt... His strength finally crossed that threshold!
Large Planet level!
He caught up with Conquest and surpassed him.
Hillel could already kill Conquest, but he never chose slaughter; instead, he beat Conquest until he was completely drained, allowing him to heal himself.
He still needed this whetstone.
Conquest had no complaints about this.
Hillel not killing him felt like a humiliation, but when he discovered that Hillel enjoyed the battle even more than himself, the wrinkles in Conquest’s brain suddenly smoothed out.
Back and forth.
These two opponents who should have fought to the Death in The Great Purge gradually developed a mutual appreciation. In Conquest’s long years, this encounter was a first.
...
At this point, Hillel’s reputation completely resounded within the Viltrum empire.
Even Thragg could not ignore his existence.
In the blink of an eye, decades passed. Hillel stood proudly at the top of the many Viltrumites, becoming an existence at the upper layer of the food chain, and his legend was passed on by word of mouth among the surviving Viltrumites.
In the later stages of The Great Purge, what truly made Hillel win the title of greatness was not his slaughter.
Quite the contrary.
It was his mercy!
In the later period, Hillel no longer wildly slaughtered Viltrumites, but when beating every challenger until they were powerless to resist, he wouldn’t deliver a fatal blow, instead letting the opponent recover.
Even several times, he used Super-speed Healing to forcefully pull those dying Viltrumites back from the gates of hell. Inside Viltrum, which advocated social Darwinism, this was an unimaginable thing.
The great Hillel actually submitted to weakness?
Soon someone questioned him.
"Why do you want to save them?" A blood-soaked Viltrumite watched Hillel heal his defeated opponent, his face full of incomprehension and even carrying a hint of disdain. "They have already lost, they should die in humiliation, weakness must be eradicated! A truly strong person will not have this kind of ridiculous mercy!"
Hillel slowly turned his head.
"Then.. Kill me!"
That Viltrumite was stunned.
"If you can kill me, then you have the qualification to define what is called weakness. Before that, all of you are trash!"
Hillel’s gaze was calm as he swept across all the Viltrumites present.
This was no less than directly flipping the table and cursing everyone present as sissies and gays!
Yet unexpectedly not a single person dared to step forward to refute.
Deathly silence.
Those Viltrumites saved by him soon chose to continue challenging Hillel, and were then knocked down by Hillel again.
Hillel still chose to heal them.
Back and forth, behind him, there was a batch of firm supporters.
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