The Dread Saiyan remained silent during the answers, his smirk growing slightly with each distrustful response spoken from the warriors. His eyes slowly turned back to Whis, who was the one to speak with a calm tone.
"Perhaps we are blinded in our assumptions."
Beerus' eyes instantly narrowed.
"Enough of this game, Whis. What are you playing at here?"
Whis chuckled slightly, slowly breaking the metal cuffs around his wrists much to the fusions' shock. Vegetto and Gogeta both continued to blink in confusion, watching on as Whis summoned his sceptar while speaking.
"Lord Beerus, has it ever occurred to you that after all these years serving with each other, you never really inquired where I came from?"
Beerus kept a suspicious glare, his tone flat.
"No..."
Whis bowed his head slightly, clutching onto his sceptar before turning towards the fusions.
"As for you two, seeing as you are the only ones who had access to the history of the Sith Empire, I assume Marr explained the full details of Vegetto's predecessor?"
The Dread Saiyan's smirk widened a bit at the mention of the Emperor, watching on as Vegetto kept the same perplexed stare.
"Only fragments. That the Emperor was comprised of three entities...one of them standing right in front of us."
The Dread Saiyan nodded his head once.
"One of the two born from the first-"
"-but not the original."
Whis kept a genuine smile, watching the realization slowly sink into the fusions. Gogeta's eyes went wide, his voice weak.
"You're...the third Emperor?"
Whis nodded his head once, turning his attention to the scepter as it began to glow. A playback of the energy used to eradicate the life forms on Ziost began to play, showing the bodies reduced to dust as they were ensnared in the golden energy.
"The technique you witnessed on Ziost is not a new one, known to only a handful of us in the entire multiverse. Many centuries ago, before I found myself attending to Lord Beerus, I discovered the technique in one of my studies. It possesses similar properties to the Spirit Bomb used by Goku...but the comparison ends at the level of potential each technique grasps at..."
The still image of the bodies disintegrating came to a halt in Whis' orb, having full turned to face towards the others.
"The Spirit Bomb relies on drawing raw energy from multiple sources, yet there is more to life itself than simple energy. The depths of a being's mind are nearly limitless, filled with potential in ingenuity and ideology that no one can truly comprehend."
His eyes turned back to the sceptar.
"What you saw on Ziost was more than life itself being extinguished. Every energy signature, combined with their mental psychology, was bonded together into a single entity. Gaining not only the raw power of a planet itself, but the wisdom of it as well."
The image in the orb disappeared, Whis turning back to the group.
"Despite the limitations of power many of these people had, their minds still possessed great ideology and foresight that could be used to progress power in ways you can't possibly imagine. Potential became limitless, as I quickly discovered after completing the ritual for the first time centuries ago."
Beerus' eyes widened slightly.
"You couldn't control it...so you had to expel it somehow?"
Whis nodded once.
"Yes. But it wasn't as simple as expelling energy, as the mental psychology of the people sacrificed remained. So instead of pockets of energy, I ended up creating two new beings altogether in the process."
The Dread Saiyan kept a smirk.
"Valkorian. And Vitiate."
