Chapter 83: The Great Battle and Vegeta's Death
Turles didn't let Vegeta's actions cloud his judgment. He returned to Red Stone Planet and immediately had Karl assemble everyone.
Soon, Paragus and Broly led Nappa and the others before Turles.
Seeing everyone gathered, Turles first looked around, his eyes calmly observing each person.
Everyone present didn't know what had happened. But being swept by Turles's gaze, they felt a chill in their hearts. Even the somewhat lazy Raditz was frightened, unconsciously straightening his body.
Seeing everyone grow serious, Turles directly briefed them on the current situation—especially regarding Vegeta.
Unsurprisingly, Paragus and Nappa held the strongest opinions. One had been screwed over by King Vegeta, the other nearly died at Vegeta's hands. Neither had any good feelings toward Vegeta.
Bela and the Cury brothers felt the same. They'd all been exiled to remote planets during King Vegeta's reign. Though that saved their lives, it didn't mean they'd be grateful to King Vegeta.
Only Raditz, having previously served under Vegeta, still felt some teammate sentiment toward him. But just a little. Seeing all the other Saiyans' attitudes, he didn't dare stir up trouble.
Seeing unified opinion, Turles nodded inwardly.
Initially, Turles had no sense of identification with Saiyans. By his previous life's moral standards, all Saiyans dying out wouldn't deserve pity.
But now he was essentially the Saiyan leader. Moreover, Saiyans related to his future plans. So integrating the Saiyans was essential.
Vegeta had undoubtedly enraged everyone this time. So when Turles killed Vegeta, no one would say anything.
Don't underestimate this point. Vegeta was still the Saiyan Prince. In this universe with so few Saiyans left, if Vegeta wanted, he could still rally many Saiyans.
Moreover, killing Vegeta without cause would make Bela and the others feel that "harm to one is harm to all" sentiment. Though not enough to make them disloyal to Turles, at minimum, no one wanted a boss who was a temperamental tyrant.
Over the following days, everyone maximized their strength improvement. Turles was generous with his guidance, striving to help them achieve greater advancement in this short week.
Because this was war—a life-or-death war. Under this intense stimulus, everyone's strength made significant leaps, even Raditz.
Actually, Turles had considered going to Earth or Namek. That way, he could not only avoid Slug but use Earth's Hyperbolic Time Chamber at Kami's Lookout to gain two years of training time. But ultimately, he abandoned this idea.
Simply because he was Saiyan. Paragus, Broly, Nappa, Raditz, Bela, the Cury brothers—they were all Saiyans. There were only Saiyans who died in battle, not Saiyans who fled from combat.
If they chose retreat this time, next time facing strong enemies, they'd choose retreat again. The Saiyan warrior spirit would be lost. Even if Turles ultimately revived the Saiyan race, they wouldn't truly be Saiyans anymore.
Moreover, Turles wasn't unprepared.
This day, Turles was instructing Nappa on ki control fundamentals when suddenly, many powerful ki began descending on Red Stone Planet.
Turles looked at the eight people still remaining on Red Stone Planet, then turned and flew toward the sky.
The coming days would make Red Stone Planet the most brutal battlefield. Naturally, Turles had already sent Bulma and Karl's people away. So only nine Saiyans remained, including Turles.
Paragus, Broly, and the others exchanged glances, then followed Turles, flying together toward Slug's space fleet.
By the time Turles reached high altitude, Slug's military fleet had broken through Red Stone's atmosphere and was hovering in midair.
On one side, nine lone figures. On the other, a dense steel armada. No matter how you looked at it, the two sides' scale wasn't on the same level.
Of course, that assumed comparable strength. If one person's strength reached planet-destroying level, then numbers were just digits.
Like now—facing the overwhelming fleet before him, Turles showed no fear whatsoever. Rather, he examined them with interest.
Suddenly, Turles sensed Vegeta's ki. His expression hardened, a trace of killing intent flashing in his eyes. He said gravely, "Vegeta, won't you come out to greet an old friend?"
On the main military vessel, Vegeta stood at Slug's right hand. Hearing Turles's words, his heart sank. He glanced at Slug. Seeing no indication, he could only stand quietly in place.
Actually, Vegeta felt somewhat regretful now. He'd escaped Red Stone Planet to avoid Turles.
Because he clearly knew he was currently far from Turles's match. Especially after cooperating with Slug and learning Turles's battle power during his fight with Slug, he wished he could hide far away. After all, he'd already failed twice under Turles. His heart had developed certain acceptance capacity.
His cooperation with Slug was just using Slug to stall Turles, preventing Turles from finding him. Of course, eliminating Turles would be even better.
But Slug didn't trust him. Even after revealing Red Stone's location, Slug still dragged him along. Under Slug's power, Vegeta had no choice but to agree.
But judging from Turles's current behavior, once battle erupted, he'd probably be the first to die.
While Vegeta worried about himself, Slug had already stood. He flew from the ship's hatch, appearing before Turles.
"Turles, we meet again!"
Slug wore a false smile, like a hunter toying with prey as he watched Turles.
Turles remained unmoved, calmly watching Slug. Noticing the wrinkles on his skin, Turles's mouth curved up. He said meaningfully, "Yes, we meet again. Looks like you've been doing quite well lately."
Slug's smile couldn't hold. His expression immediately darkened. Eyes filled with killing intent, he stared at Turles's young face and said hatefully, "Yes, thanks to you, I've been doing wonderfully!"
The last two words Slug spoke through gritted teeth.
Indeed, Slug's recent days had been "wonderful."
That day, to deal with Turles, he'd had no choice but to display full battle power. Moreover, he'd overdrafted his life force using gigantification. If he'd eliminated Turles, that would be fine. But ultimately, Turles escaped right under his nose with his people. For this universe overlord, this was undoubtedly being slapped in the face.
Moreover, after releasing gigantification, the side effects of overdrafting life force appeared. Now every moment, he felt himself approaching death. Maybe the next second, maybe tomorrow. How could he not hate Turles?
As if not hearing the meaning in Slug's words, Turles slightly bowed with a happy expression. "Then that's truly my honor!"
This one sentence completely broke Slug's defense. He shouted, "Kill!" The next second, he charged directly at Turles.
Hearing their boss's call, his subordinates naturally didn't dare delay. All military soldiers swarmed toward Paragus, Broly, and the others like locusts.
Of course, Turles was left for their boss.
Vegeta had originally wanted to slack off. But Nappa actively sought him out.
"Vegeta, your opponent today is me!" Nappa stared at Vegeta with hate-filled eyes. If looks could kill, Vegeta would've been stabbed to death by Nappa several times over.
"Hmph, Nappa, looks like Turles trained you well. You even dare bare your fangs at me!"
Being treated as an opponent by Nappa naturally displeased Vegeta. With his temperament, how could he easily let Nappa off? Speaking, he prepared to strike.
"Hmph, compared to Boss, you're just garbage!"
Nappa knew in normal state he wasn't Vegeta's match. Seeing Vegeta charge at him, after mocking Vegeta, Nappa directly began transforming.
"Ha!"
With a loud shout, Nappa transformed into humanoid Great Ape form. His battle power also rose from 30,000 to 300,000, already surpassing Vegeta.
Nappa's transformation looked even more imposing than Turles's. Though lacking Turles's lean muscle perfection, it appeared more wild.
However, one flaw remained—he still had no hair.
Vegeta was shocked by Nappa's transformation. He immediately stopped, examining him with uncertainty. Then scanning the battlefield, he discovered every Saiyan on Red Stone—except Broly—had activated the same transformation as Nappa.
Sensing Nappa's 300,000 battle power, Vegeta felt vaguely uneasy. Expression gloomy, he asked Nappa, "Did Turles create this too?"
"Hmph!"
Nappa snorted coldly without answering. He directly launched an attack on Vegeta.
Vegeta also couldn't keep hiding his battle power. His full 150,000 battle power exploded as he charged toward Nappa's attack.
Just upon exchange, Vegeta felt Nappa's battle power truly wasn't fake. A full doubling gap directly knocked Vegeta from midair to the ground, blasting a huge crater.
Nappa knew that attack wasn't enough to kill Vegeta. So after knocking Vegeta down, he immediately condensed energy blasts in his hands, continuously firing them toward where Vegeta landed.
Boom boom boom!
The terrifying energy blasts not only exploded the ground—Slug forces' soldiers along the path suffered worse, directly vaporized by Nappa's energy blasts.
Seeing this, Nappa grew even less polite. Energy blasts continuously condensed in his hands and fired out.
Nappa's arrogance finally attracted attention from one of Slug forces' elites. Abandoning their own opponents, they charged toward Nappa.
Slug forces' elite tried ambushing Nappa. Unfortunately, after this week's hellish training from Turles, Nappa had finally mastered ki-sensing combat techniques. The moment the elite approached, the already-prepared Nappa counter-ambushed, ending the elite's life.
However, this interruption let Vegeta recover from Nappa's unceasing attacks.
Vegeta stood from the crater, wiping blood from his mouth corner. Expression ugly, he looked at airborne Nappa.
Currently, Vegeta was utterly wretched. Not only was his battle suit completely shattered with just a few cloth strips barely covering his body—numerous wounds appeared on his body with blood continuously flowing from them.
After dealing with that elite, Nappa directly descended from midair. Due to the earlier battle, all Slug forces' small fry stayed far away from Nappa.
Standing at the crater's edge, Nappa looked down at Vegeta from above.
Vegeta didn't speak, still standing in place, staring back at Nappa.
After a long staredown, Nappa clicked his tongue. Extending his finger toward Vegeta, a light beam shot from his finger, directly piercing Vegeta's heart.
"Ugh!"
An indistinct sound came from Vegeta's mouth. Then he fell just like that. Finally, his eyes stared directly at an inconspicuous ship among Slug's forces.
Nappa didn't notice Vegeta's abnormality. After dealing with Vegeta, he immediately charged toward where small fry were densest, viciously killing everyone he could see.
In midair, Turles still didn't know Vegeta had died at Nappa's hands. He just focused fully on responding to Slug's attacks.
Turles had already transformed into humanoid Great Ape form. Because only this way could he survive under Slug's attacks.
Fortunately, after Slug's last gigantification massively reduced his life force, Slug didn't dare easily use gigantification again. Otherwise, even using Kaio-ken, Turles might not hold out.
Bang!
The two collided fists again. Terrifying shockwaves continuously spread outward from them as the center. Some Slug forces' soldiers who got too close were directly pulverized under this shockwave.
Seeing this terrifying scene, everyone retreated further back, opening sufficient distance from the two.
After the collision, both were somewhat winded. However, Turles's condition was slightly better than Slug's. If it continued wearing down like this, final victory would definitely belong to Turles.
Slug understood this too. So after their fists collided, his body sharply retreated, breaking from battle with Turles.
Taking deep breaths, Slug decided to use gigantification again.
He took a deep breath. His body began expanding.
Seeing this, Turles immediately whistled, hoping to interfere with Slug. But no matter how Turles whistled, Slug showed no effect.
Turles immediately reacted. His eyes looked toward Slug's ears. Sure enough, he discovered a special device in his ears.
Knowing Slug had covered his weakness, Turles knew the moment for desperate battle had arrived. He took a deep breath and assumed his stance.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
Fully mobilizing his internal ki, stimulating ki explosion according to Kaio-ken's method—soon, Turles's body was enveloped in blood-red ki flames.
"Ten times Kaio-ken!"
Turles finally used Kaio-ken. Moreover, he used ten times Kaio-ken in one go. Combined with humanoid Great Ape transformation, he now had 100 times boost over normal state. Meaning he now possessed 250 million battle power.
This boost already matched Super Saiyan 2's boost.
However, this was also Turles's limit. The stronger the battle power, the stronger the aftereffects from using Kaio-ken boost.
With only 2.5 million base battle power, stacking boosts put far more pressure on Turles's body than simple Super Saiyan 2 transformation.
So currently, he absolutely couldn't waste time. He could only completely eliminate Slug as quickly as possible before the boost ended.
Whether Slug's gigantification or Turles's post-transformation Kaio-ken usage—both their battle powers were now like an insurmountable chasm to others. Whether Red Stone Saiyans or Slug forces' small fry, everyone tacitly stopped and retreated aside to watch the two's final showdown!
"This is Boss's ultimate battle power?" Watching the continuous violent fluctuations in the distance, Nappa couldn't help murmuring.
He could now sense ki. But precisely because of this, he more directly felt how astonishing Turles's ki was!
"Yeah, truly terrifying! Boss's improvement speed is just too fast!"
Raditz also moved beside Nappa. Watching the two battling in the distance, those space-tearing battle aftershocks made Raditz sigh involuntarily.
Hearing Raditz's sigh, Nappa turned his head disdainfully. "You still have the face to sigh? Look at you—with Boss's guidance all this time, your battle power only improved this much. Aren't you embarrassed?"
Regarding Raditz, Nappa had always looked down on him. Especially after this guy beat him to making a move on Bela, Nappa would seize opportunities to mock him.
Hearing this, Raditz smiled bitterly without speaking.
On the other side, Paragus stood beside his son Broly, asking quietly, "Broly, can you still beat Turles now?"
Broly was worrying for his good friend. Hearing Paragus ask this, he immediately grew unhappy. "Dad, why do you always think about me fighting Turles?"
"You!" Hearing this, Paragus was immediately speechless. Looking at Broly for a long time without words, he could only snort coldly and continue watching the two battling.
Currently, Turles was forcefully enduring the tearing sensation from his body's muscles. Relying on his size advantage, he continuously attacked Slug.
Though Slug gained battle power after gigantification, his massive size reduced his speed. He could only watch helplessly as Turles darted around without any solution.
After enduring another attack from Turles, Slug's body couldn't help retreating several steps. He knew continuing like this wasn't working.
Though Slug also knew Turles's current state probably couldn't last long—visible from his constantly rupturing body covered entirely in blood.
But his own condition wasn't optimistic either. Current Slug wasn't like the original story where he'd already restored youth through Dragon Balls. Now he was completely dragging his aged body, constantly overdrafting life force to maintain gigantification. Could say Slug was now completely fighting with his life.
Seeing he couldn't take down Turles for so long, Slug prepared to deliberately expose a weakness to lure Turles into close combat. Unfortunately, his wishful thinking failed.
Though in his current state Turles couldn't actively use his ultimate technique Pseudo Ultra Instinct, he still relied on bodily instinct to dodge Slug's attack. He even crippled one of Slug's arms!
With his arm pierced by Turles, Slug couldn't help crying out loudly. Clutching his bleeding arm, he finally could no longer maintain his gigantified body. He slowly returned to normal.
After reverting, Slug looked even more aged. Loose skin like rotting wood about to decay. Left hand clutching right arm's wound, eyes staring deadly at Turles.
Seeing this, Turles's heart relaxed. He immediately released Kaio-ken's explosion. Standing at a distance while gasping heavily, he kept warily watching Slug.
After releasing Kaio-ken, Turles felt not one part of his body didn't hurt. His muscles felt like they'd been torn then reassembled. Not just pain—accompanied by ant-gnawing itching. This made Turles's mouth twitch constantly.
But Turles still forcefully endured this, not retreating an inch as he stared at Slug.
At this moment, in the galaxy's center.
Not just Galaxy Patrol—Mercenary Alliance, Business Union, even Namekians on Makaio. As long as they were forces or individuals who could detect battle power, all stared toward Red Stone's direction.
"How many years has it been since such powerful battle power appeared in the galaxy!"
"Yeah. Wonder which planet such a massive battle erupted on. Judging from the sensing, it's probably not far from us—should be right in Galaxy Center!"
"That direction—I remember it was recently given to Saiyans by Mercenary Alliance. I heard their leader exploded with over 800,000 battle power on Obsidian Planet. Think it could be Saiyans?"
"Saiyans? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Meanwhile, Frieza's forces just entering West Galaxy.
"My king, this is bad! Two battle powers exceeding 100 million just exploded in West Galaxy!"
"What?"
Hearing this, Frieza crushed the wine glass in his hand. He stared at his subordinate in disbelief.
Frieza's subordinate didn't dare delay. He immediately handed over his tablet, displaying the detected battle power data before Frieza.
Looking at the battle power data displayed on the tablet, Frieza fell silent.
He'd previously tested his maximum battle power—only 120 million. Now one appeared at 250 million, another even higher at 500 million. Frieza felt somewhat afraid.
"Have you identified these two battle powers' owners?"
After long silence, Frieza asked. His voice somewhat hoarse.
"Reporting to my king, according to Intelligence Corps' analysis, the 500 million battle power very likely belongs to West Galaxy overlord Slug!"
Again silence. Finally, Frieza only said one word.
"Retreat!"
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