In a dojo floating in pure musical energy—Grand Kai's Forbidden Training Dome—Xicor and Rigor stand before the Five Legendary Afterlife Masters, once revered across the Kai Realms.
Each master teaches a forbidden technique… at a cost.
Master Hozai – The Echo Palm
"Strike the soul, not the body."
Xicor is taught the Echo Palm, a move that reverberates spiritual damage through dimensions. On contact, the enemy's past sins, regrets, and suppressed rage attack them from within.
Xicor (grinning): "So basically, therapy by uppercut. I'm in."
Master Jinka – Spiral Flow
Rigor learns Spiral Flow, a fluid-motion technique that lets him counter attacks before they're launched by predicting enemy muscle tension and soul signature. It's like Ultra Instinct Lite—but way more brutal.
Rigor: "Feels like dancing. With broken ribs and murder."
Master Gaijin – The Deadlock Bind
They both learn The Deadlock Bind, a forbidden technique that suspends two souls in time for one minute—only their minds can clash, turning it into a mental deathmatch.
Master Gaijin: "You lose here, you wake up crying for a week. Or you don't wake up at all."
Meanwhile…
Caelix lands on a deserted, void-like planet after escaping the Kami of War's Avatars. Here, he finds a Time Scar—a rip in spacetime that echoes with the screams of the first beings to die in combat.
"The Zero Spiral…" Caelix whispers. "The first war… the first rage… the first lie."
The Zero Spiral was not just the origin of war—it was a sentient cosmic code. It seeded every world with the potential for conflict… and it still lives.
Inside it, he glimpses ancient warriors battling…
Demon King Dabra's ancestors
Early Saiyan war tribes
Even Zalama, the Dragon God, waging war to protect the first Super Dragon Balls.
Caelix (shaken): "The Spiral wasn't created. It was released."
Floating in an ancient gravity chamber at the edge of the universe, Turles and Slug meet the Warden of the Outer Cradle—a crimson-armored, eyeless entity built from forgotten timelines.
Warden: "You seek power… but would you trade memory for might?"
They accept the deal.
Turles gains the Seed of Origin, allowing him to grow weapons and armor from dead planets.
Slug unlocks the Makyo Ancestral Gate, granting him dimensional regeneration—every time he dies in one dimension, he re-forms in another with +10 vengeance.
Turles: "We're not just survivors now. We're rewriters."
Suddenly, across all realms, the skies turn red. A thunderous voice echoes into Other World, Earth, Beerus' World, and even the Time Nest.
Kami of War: "Did you think the Spiral ended? Did you think your Zeno erased everything?"
A blinding flash, and a massive cosmic silhouette pierces the multiverse—the true form of the Kami of War is revealed.
Not a being of flesh.
A concept given will.
Born from the clash of gods.
Kami of War: "Zeno tried to erase me once. I devoured his erasure. I remember what your timeline forgot."
Flashbacks show Zeno unleashing twin erasure blasts during the First Spiral War—but the Kami of War twisted the attack, using it to forge a new body of anti-energy.
Grand Priest (narrating): "He is not immune to deletion. He is the result of it."
Back on Earth, Goten and Trunks are training, and Goku prepares to leave with Whis again. Vegeta scowls.
Suddenly, time freezes for a split second—everyone shivers.
Piccolo: "Something… ancient just looked at us."
Supreme Kai (appearing suddenly): "The Spiral has returned. And it has merged with our timeline."
The gods begin to move.
Beerus and Whis watch the stars warping.
Whis: "The old war is coming back. And I believe Xicor… may be the key."
Back in Grand Kai's Realm:
Xicor (hearing the call): "Alright, canon timeline? Prepare yourself. Your new favorite problem child's back."
End of Chapter 12
Tease for Chapter 13 – "All Out War: The Spiral Awakens in Universe 7":
Frieza is warned by Cooler of the Kami of War's return.
Caelix confronts the Time Patrol.
Xicor and Goku cross paths again—and this time, it's not for fun.
Beerus declares war on the Spiral.