Chapter 26: Loss of Control
Belus's efficiency proved reliable as always. He quickly arranged Turles's next opponent.
Three days later, Turles once again stood in the competitive arena.
The energy barrier slowly rose, isolating the audience's cheers and shouts. Turles and his new opponent began their battle.
Turles's opponent this time measured over 60,000 battle power. Seems the previous fight with Doria had prompted the arena to reassess Turles's strength.
Still no unnecessary words. Both fighters launched directly into combat.
In the air, two figures continuously flashed. Battle roars echoed constantly. Even the air began trembling!
"Why's it so intense right from the start?"
"You don't know? That Saiyan already defeated Doria. How could he still use probing attacks? Of course he'd use full power immediately!"
"Really? Even Lord Doria was defeated? Then is my bet in danger?"
"What, brother? You bet on Lord Kare?"
"Yeah! I thought this Saiyan was a newcomer!"
"You should... mentally prepare yourself."
"..."
Audience discussions naturally didn't affect Turles. Though currently immersed in battle, part of his awareness constantly monitored his body's changes.
As expected, as combat progressed, his body once again experienced that blood-boiling sensation. His emotions began growing excited.
Seems Paragus was right. He truly was like Bardock—cellular activity beginning only after the mature period at age 18. Meaning his development had been delayed.
But for Turles, this was actually fortunate.
Bardock had broken through Saiyan physical limitations continuously just through reckless spirit. Now with superior training methods, barring accidents, he'd definitely achieve greater breakthroughs over the next three years. Perhaps even reach Super Saiyan transformation standards after three years.
Thinking this, Turles's spirit grew more excited. He couldn't help separating a thread of consciousness to investigate within his body.
As a transmigrator, courting death was unavoidable. No matter how cautious one normally acted, there'd always come a moment of recklessness.
And now, that thread of Turles's consciousness finally traced his body's excitement to its source. It was...
'The tail!'Turles exclaimed internally.
WHAM! The distracted Turles let his opponent exploit an opening. An attack struck his back, sending him crashing from the air to the ground.
BOOM!
Turles grimaced, wiping blood from his mouth with a bitter smile: "Careless!"
Looking up at the energy blast already forming in midair, Turles felt genuinely frustrated. Days ago, he'd delivered an energy blast to Doria. Today it was his turn to taste being bombed.
But now wasn't the time for reflection. Having found the cause, this game needed to end.
Whoosh!
Turles dropped into a horse stance, fists clenched at his waist. His aura began fluctuating. White energy flames started swirling around him.
"AAAAAHHHHH!"
Continuous roars erupted from Turles's mouth. His muscles tensed. Surrounding debris began floating upward. Cracks appeared in the ground. Under tremendous biological energy influence, lightning seemed to flash.
"HAH!"
With a mighty shout, Turles's aura reached its peak. If anyone scanned his battle power now, they'd discover it wasn't the previously displayed 50,000—but a terrifying 90,000!
Horrifying pressure radiated from Turles. Even with the energy barrier's protection, spectators still felt like massive stones pressed their chests. They could barely breathe.
Cold eyes regarded the descending energy blast. Turles's expression showed no change. Through aura pressure alone, he halted the blast's descent. He extended his palm, pushing toward the airborne energy sphere. The blast began returning along its original path.
"What? That's impossible!" Seeing this, Turles's opponent's expression changed dramatically, crying out in disbelief.
BOOM!
A brilliant white flash erupted. The energy blast exploded midair. Three days later, the arena once again birthed a mushroom cloud.
"Amazing! So powerful!"
"Lord Turles won again! Worth betting my entire fortune on him!"
"Lord Turles, can I have your babies?"
"You bitch, Lord Turles is mine!"
"..."
After hastily ending the battle, Turles shot skyward directly, dragging a long white tail flame as he left the arena.
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Ship Training Room.
Turles sat cross-legged on the floor, brow furrowed deeply, face full of confusion.
After returning from the arena, Turles had immediately thrown himself into investigating his discovery. But unlike at the platform, though his body's cells remained in an active state, they weren't generating that excited emotion. Despite continuously observing his tail, mental probing throughout his body, he couldn't relocate that clear source.
Stroking the fluffy tail in his hands, Turles fell into contemplation.
For Saiyans, the tail was an extremely important appendage. During full moons, tails received Blutz Waves reflected by the moon, becoming active. Once eyes caught moonlight, cellular mutation triggered, initiating Great Ape transformation—battle power directly increasing tenfold. Only severing the tail or the moon passing ended the transformation.
However, Turles knew another piece of information—the tail might be key to transforming into Super Saiyan 4.
In GT, Goku had transformed Super Saiyan while in Great Ape form, directly becoming Golden Great Ape. Finally, stimulated by Pan's tears, he'd regained consciousness and transformed into Super Saiyan 4.
Turles didn't know if this universe allowed Super Saiyan 4 transformation. But now, having traced his body's abnormal changes to the tail's root, he felt that controlling that excited emotion's activation still required focusing on the tail.
Turles separated a thread of consciousness within his body, continuously stimulating the tail's base. The previously dormant tail began bristling under mental stimulation—exactly like the Great Ape transformation state from his memories.
"Not good!" The moment that thought flashed through Turles's mind, incomparably violent destructive urges surged into his consciousness, nearly obliterating it entirely.
"ROAR!"
An inhuman roar erupted from Turles's mouth. Body hair on his face, hands, even his entire body began growing explosively. His lips gradually elongated. His physique began enlarging.
Desperately clinging to his last thread of consciousness, Turles staggered from the ship. Before he could distance himself further, the clarity in his eyes completely vanished, replaced by violent destructive desire.
"ROAR!"
Roaring again, Turles's body suddenly began expanding. Soon growing to dozens of meters in height, covered entirely in dark brown fur, his face fully transformed into an ape's visage. Red pupils occasionally flashed with pure killing intent.
Everyone rushing over at the commotion stared in shock at the suddenly appeared Great Ape. Paragus couldn't help asking: "What happened? Why did Turles suddenly transform into a Great Ape?!"
Raditz forcibly suppressed his body's fear, panicking: "No idea! There's no full moon—he just suddenly transformed!"
Paragus watched Turles already beginning widespread destruction. Knowing Turles's battle power, he clearly understood how terrifying he'd become after Great Ape transformation. After consideration, he finally said through gritted teeth: "Broly, go cut off Turles's tail. Use that technique Turles taught you—the Destructo Disc!"
Actually, upon seeing Turles lose control, Paragus's first thought had been to flee immediately, flee far away. He knew Turles's strength too well. After Great Ape transformation, current Turles possessed at minimum 800,000+ battle power. This battle power exceeded anything he'd ever imagined. Though he already knew his son possessed 500,000+ battle power, though he knew Frieza's true strength exceeded 530,000, actually facing post-transformation Turles—that overwhelming oppressive feeling made even his soul tremble!
But after consideration, Paragus abandoned the idea of fleeing alone with Broly. First, his relationship with Turles was decent. In this era, besides Broly, only Turles maintained good relations with him.
Second was that trace of ambition in his heart. Paragus had never abandoned the idea of becoming Saiyan King. Without Turles's help, relying only on himself and Broly, that hope would be extremely slim.
So Paragus ultimately had Broly act. Because among everyone present, only Broly could survive two moves against the irrational Turles.
While Paragus's mind was still occupied with his calculations, Broly had already charged directly toward Turles, who continuously spat energy beams.
As his only friend, seeing Turles lose rationality pained Broly tremendously. But he remembered Turles's warnings, not using his full strength. Because Turles had once told him—if he himself lost control, everyone would die, including his father and friend.
Broly suppressed his aura as much as possible, slowly approaching Turles's tail. He didn't know if the irrational Turles retained ki-sensing ability, so he didn't dare be careless.
Closer, very close!
Broly reached a position merely 10 meters from Turles. Raising his right hand, he began gathering energy following Turles's teaching. Soon, a disc-like energy vortex appeared above his head. The vortex quickly solidified, like a spinning disc rotating in his hand.
Whoosh!
Turles suddenly whipped his head around. Bloodshot eyes locked directly onto Broly's position.
"Discovered!"
Broly's heart jumped. Unable to consider anything else, he directly hurled the disc in his hand, flying straight toward Turles's tail!
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