Blue World?

Whoosh—

Chaya and the Giant Ape faced each other from afar. A light breeze swept up sand and dust, carrying with it dead branches and fallen leaves. Then, the gentle breeze abruptly turned into a raging gale. The silent battlefield resembled the end of the world, shrouded in bone-chilling terror.

Chaya gazed into the distance, a chilling glint flashing in his bright eyes. His mind raced as he searched for any chance to get close to the Giant Ape. He secretly mobilized the energy within him, ready to launch a fierce counterattack the instant he found an opening.

Bzzzt, bzzzt. Surging waves of Ki roiled like mountains and seas overturning, whipping the black hair across his forehead.

Crack. Leaves were shredded to pieces by the gusts of Ki, accompanied by faint rustling sounds.

Chaya suddenly moved.

He moved with the speed of the wind, launching a fierce assault on the Giant Ape in an instant. Illusory afterimages filled the battlefield, and the sounds of fists and kicks striking rang out without end. A blurred figure darted through the air, attacking with overwhelming force.

Roar—

The Giant Ape let out a pained but even more enraged roar, and its indiscriminate energy attacks began spreading once again.

Faced with the Giant Ape's nearly frenzied assault, Chaya's expression changed. Then he pulled himself together. A rapidly spinning gust rose beneath his feet, lifting his small body as he shot into the sky, the howling wind ringing in his ears.

"Ha!"

Chaya hovered in midair, spreading the fingers of both hands into claws before slowly holding them flat before his chest. The next second, a dazzling blue radiance lit up between his hands, growing brighter and brighter like a lamp in the darkness, brimming with vitality.

The pressure between his palms continued to rise as scorching energy was compressed again and again. The blue glow changed, turning pure white in that instant.

The brilliant white light grew larger and brighter, gathering intense heat like a newborn sun.

"Ki Blast!"

With a low shout, Chaya forcefully thrust his palms forward. The bright white energy blast shot out like an arrow, screeching sharply as it tore through the air.

"Ahh!!" Seemingly sensing the approaching danger, the Giant Ape let out a heart-rending roar and fired a massive crimson energy wave from its throat.

Rumble!!

The two energies met in midair and collided, followed by an earth-shaking explosion. Chaya's Ki Blast contained nearly all of his energy, but the energy wave spewed by the Giant Ape was equally terrifying. Their collision created a devastating spectacle, as violent and majestic as the creation of heaven and earth.

The sky was torn into fragments, forming patches of vacuum like shattered glass.

"Perfect!" Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the explosion, Chaya seized his chance and pounced toward the Giant Ape's tail.

A thin blade condensed in his hand. He was just about to sever the Giant Ape's tail.

But at that moment—

A black shadow appeared in Chaya's field of vision, sending a sudden chill through his skull. It was the Giant Ape's palm.

"Damn it!" Seeing that things had gone wrong, Chaya immediately tried to break free.

But the Giant Ape's battle power far exceeded Chaya's, and it was much faster as well. Before Chaya could change direction, the brown giant claw clamped down on him like a massive pair of pincers.

"Hm?"

The Giant Ape held Chaya before its eyes and examined him. It bared its teeth, bloodthirsty madness flickering in its crimson pupils, then gripped him tightly and smashed him toward the ground.

Boom!!

The earth split open, and Chaya was driven deep into the rock beneath it. He spat out a mouthful of blood as searing pain tore through his body and slammed into his mind, nearly knocking him unconscious.

"That blow broke at least several bones!" Grimacing, he crawled out from the rocks. The pain twisted his expression.

A battle power of over nine hundred against nine thousand—a tenfold gap lay between them like an uncrossable chasm. This was no longer something willpower alone could overcome. Even though the Giant Ape Selyne had turned into was merely a mindless monster that knew only destruction, the tenfold difference was still beyond what Chaya could handle.

Especially since Chaya was already badly injured!

Misfortunes never came alone. Just as Chaya suffered severe injuries, the Giant Ape's next attack came. It raised one of its huge feet high, preparing to stomp down with all its strength. If it hit him, there would be no chance of survival.

But Chaya had no time to dodge now.

The thick giant foot drew closer and closer. Chaya was about to die beneath it.

At that critical moment, something strange happened. Blue radiance rose in Chaya's black pupils, and a faint glow covered his body. Everything before his eyes turned into a blue scene.

Even stranger, everything around him seemed to have frozen completely.

Falling leaves, flying sand, even the Giant Ape—all of it stood still within this Blue World.

"What's going on?"

Chaya had no time to think. The little energy remaining in his body began draining rapidly, nearly exhausted in the blink of an eye. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind as Chaya realized he could not delay any longer. He had a feeling that once all the energy in his body was depleted, this Blue World would collapse as well.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. Chaya acted quickly, ignoring the pain throughout his body as he flashed toward the Giant Ape's tail.

At that moment, the Blue World finally could no longer hold itself together and shattered apart. Everything returned to normal, but Chaya's opportunity had arrived.

"Selyne, I'll definitely teach you a lesson once you wake up!"

A thin Ki Blade condensed from Chaya's final reserves of strength. The cicada-wing-thin blade traced a graceful arc through the air. With a thud, a massive tail fell to the ground, kicking up a thick cloud of dust.

"Wuu!!" The Giant Ape let out a miserable cry as its body slowly shrank. Before long, it returned to Selyne's form, the little girl lying on the ground and snoring softly in her sleep.

"Oh, it's finally over!" Chaya collapsed onto the ground in exhaustion, gasping for breath.

He felt that he had truly suffered an undeserved disaster today. How had a perfectly ordinary night turned into this? Planet Selma's three-hour night had actually brought a full moon, and the full moon that appeared only once every year or so had happened to be seen by him and Selyne.

"This is awful. There's no healing pod here. Injuries like these won't heal without several months of rest."

Chaya grimaced bitterly as waves of pain coursed through his body. He knew that at least six or seven of his bones were broken. Being grabbed by Selyne and smashed into the ground had already inflicted internal injuries on him. Even the slightest movement tugged at wounds across his body.

If he had not possessed such a strong physique, anyone else would likely have already gone to Other World by now.

Remembering that perilous moment, Chaya tensed up and only then realized that his back was drenched in sweat.

"But what exactly was that Blue World? At that moment, it seemed as though everything had stopped. Could it have had something to do with time?"

With the danger past, Chaya could finally think carefully about the strange event from earlier. Time itself had seemed to stop in that instant. If the sudden appearance of the Blue World had not created that brief pause at the critical moment, he would probably not still be alive.

"When that Blue World appeared, the energy in my body started draining rapidly. From entering it to leaving it, time stopped for less than two seconds."

It was a time-related superpower—Chaya was certain of it. Just like Guldo from the Ginyu Force, who could manipulate time with his own power.

But why did he possess such an ability?

The only difference between him and a Saiyan was that he had transmigrated here. Before that, he had spent a long time in a strange, murky Dark Space.

"Could it be because of that Dark Space?" Chaya murmured. Even now, he still had not figured out what that mysterious space was or how he had appeared there.

"Forget it. Why think so much about it? Having this time ability gives me another trump card. But since I have time, could there be other abilities I haven't discovered yet? I can test it when I have the chance."

Chaya's mood suddenly brightened, like someone on the verge of suffocation suddenly drawing in fresh air.

Not far away, Selyne, who had been snoring just moments ago, was awakened by a chill. She rubbed her eyes and climbed to her feet. Then she was stunned by the sight around her, as though a battle had taken place here, leaving devastation everywhere and ruins scattered across the ground.

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