"He?!" Master Roshi pondered for a moment, then chuckled meaningfully as he looked at He-El. "If it were you, I'd believe you had already learned my Kamehameha."
Goku was only eleven, just a little kid.
It was not that Master Roshi looked down on Goku. Rather, he had fought He-El and witnessed his unimaginable learning ability. He-El had directly learned the Ten Thousand Nations Shocking Palm from him, a technique even more difficult than the Kamehameha.
Master Roshi would not find it strange at all if He-El had learned the Kamehameha simply by watching him perform it.
On the contrary, it would have been strange if He-El had failed to learn the Kamehameha from watching him use it.
Strictly speaking, the Kamehameha was merely an impact formed by gathering Ki. Its complexity was far below that of the Ten Thousand Nations Shocking Palm.
"I did learn it," He-El said with a smile. "And I improved it, making it simpler and more broadly applicable."
The principle behind the Kamehameha was not complicated. Others saw it as an energy shockwave created by gathering Ki, but He-El saw and understood far more than they did.
The impact created when particles propelled particles was a fundamental mode of particle motion in any universe.
The moment He-El saw Master Roshi's Kamehameha, he had instinctively modified it into the simplest and most powerful version of the technique.
Its output was also easier to adjust than Master Roshi's version.
Hearing He-El's words, Master Roshi nearly stumbled. Several hairs came out as he stroked his beard, and he clicked his tongue in astonishment. "You even improved it?!"
Master Roshi did not doubt him. After all, someone who could learn the Ten Thousand Nations Shocking Palm with a single glance possessed a level of genius he no longer knew