Fidayans

Elsewhere, after leaving the group, Chaya passed through the dense primeval rainforest and casually fired several energy blasts to deal with a few native beasts that tried to attack him. He carefully surveyed the surroundings, and after confirming that no one was nearby, he steadied his mind and activated Instant Transmission...

Seven days' travel from Planet Longju, a small silver-gray celestial body revolved periodically around the sun.

Two intertwining silver halos encircled the planet's outer ring. Their equally brilliant hues made Fidaya look like a gigantic pearl set between two intersecting disks. Viewed from the distant starry sky, it appeared exceptionally magnificent.

Those two intersecting silver halos were actually two space corridors orbiting the planet at perpendicular angles, constructed by the Fidayans using their highest technology.

But at that moment, the two majestic silver serpents were slightly tilted. The alloy sections at several junctions had already collapsed and buckled, while fierce explosions rang out from time to time. Crimson flames and wisps of smoke continuously rose from the space corridors.

On the surface of Planet Frieza, enormous tectonic plates of lithosphere floated haphazardly above the mantle. Scalding lava gave off steaming green smoke, and lava streams thousands of meters high erupted into the sky everywhere. Falling from the heavens, they turned into lava rain that submerged the land before continuously flowing back into the mantle along the lowlands between the plates.

"The geological disasters on Planet Frieza are this severe?!"

Chaya was stunned by the scene before him. How could this still be called a geological disaster? It was clearly the result of the planet being struck by a massive object!

"No, if it had been struck by a celestial body from outer space, the Fidayans' advanced technology should have detected it long ago. But this scene shows that the Fidayans did not even have time to react before the surface was devastated like this!"

Doubts filled Chaya's mind. He quickly ruled out the possibility of an extraterrestrial impact, but a sudden change in the planet's core could not have happened so swiftly either.

"Someone attacked Fidaya!" Chaya suddenly realized. The scene before him had definitely been caused by an immense energy impact.

What kind of energy impact could inflict such devastating damage on an entire planet? Planet Frieza was a gigantic hard-shelled planet; every vulnerable area had been reinforced with advanced technology!

Yet even so, it had still been reduced to this state!

Chaya's expression turned grave. To cause this much destruction, the attacker had to be extremely powerful, perhaps with a battle power above 10,000.

In the universe, 10,000 battle power was a dividing line. Below 10,000 battle power, even large-scale attacks could at most exterminate the species living on a planet. Completely destroying the entire planet was not so easy.

Only attacks from experts above 10,000 battle power could cause such severe damage to Planet Frieza. More terrifying still, someone like Frieza could erase an entire planet from the universe with a full-force strike.

Chaya could not help but smile bitterly. He had merely wanted to recruit a group of high-tech talents as subordinates, yet he had unexpectedly run into something like this.

"Still, this is fine. With disaster looming, it should be easier to recruit them."

Chaya then began seriously sensing the energy signatures on Fidaya.

Very quickly, he sensed tens of thousands of weak Ki signatures on the planet. Those should have been the native people of Fidaya—the Fidayans—and also the people he had come to find.

The Fidayans' Ki was very faint. Before the violent power engulfing the entire planet, it was like the glow of tiny candles, liable to be extinguished at any moment amid the apocalyptic storm. Besides these native energy signatures, he also sensed several hundred extremely powerful presences.

Every one of those signatures had a battle power above 1,000, and a very few had even reached 3,000.

"Fidaya really has been attacked by an outside force!" After a while, Chaya opened his eyes with a look of realization.

Suddenly—

Farther away, an abnormally powerful Ki entered Chaya's sensing range.

"That Ki..."

Chaya's expression immediately grew solemn. That Ki felt incredibly cold, as though he had suddenly detected a colossal block of ice. That feeling... even from thousands of kilometers away, made him clearly feel a chill.

"What an evil aura. That Ki is actually stronger than mine, with at least 20,000 battle power!"

Chaya was greatly startled. This was probably the most powerful energy he had encountered since entering the Dragon Ball World.

Moreover, dozens of energy signatures with battle power exceeding 1,000 hovered around that Ki.

"It seems someone else set their sights on this planet first. But why, after all this time, have they still not wiped out the natives of Fidaya? Could they be searching for something?"

Countless questions flashed through his mind. Chaya immediately concealed his own Ki. He had to be extremely careful now; he absolutely could not let them discover him.

Passing through a ruined city where lava continued to gush forth, Chaya appeared in an open square within a city's capital. At that moment, the enormous statue in the center of the square had fallen over and broken into several pieces.

This had once been a broad and magnificent open-air plaza, but now it was covered in broken walls and ruins. The majestic square no longer held its former atmosphere of laughter and song.

Standing in the square, Chaya was overcome by a bleak and melancholy feeling.

Here, Chaya could not sense any trace of life. Everyone who had once lived here had already left.

"It looks like everyone here has fled. Hm?"

Chaya halted. Three hundred kilometers to the northeast, he sensed a large cluster of Ki gathered together. There was also an energy signature above 1,000 battle power unleashing its might, while the weaker lives were dwindling bit by bit.

Inside a huge metal shelter, groups of short Fidayans hid behind barricades.

Outside, a scaled alien wore traditional battle armor, with tubular energy-launching devices attached to its arms.

Clusters of dark-red energy blasts shot out from the launchers.

Rumble!!

A huge breach was blasted open in the metal barricade, immediately exposing tens of thousands of Fidayans to the alien's gaze.

"Wahaha, so you were hiding here. You really made me search hard. Tell me obediently where the Ancient Warrior is, and maybe if I'm in a good mood, I'll spare your lives." The alien spoke arrogantly, its scaled skin making harsh, sizzling sounds.

The Fidayans retreated several steps, their faces filled with terror as they stared desperately at the alien in the sky.

"We truly don't know anything about an Ancient Warrior. Please spare us. At the very least, let these children live!" A figure who appeared to be their leader stepped forward and pleaded.

The alien snorted twice, flicking out its long tongue like a lizard.

"You lowly little dwarves dare use lies to deceive the clever Lord Xitaxi? Let me tell you, Lord Zarbon already told us that you Fidayans know the whereabouts of the Ancient Warrior." The alien called Xitaxi flew into a rage.

Xitaxi was a smart one. Lord Zarbon had already said so.