One day, Beerus was sleeping on a beach chair when he suddenly sensed a Ki blast hurtling toward his head. His eyes flew open.
Crack!
The moment the Ki blast approached Beerus, the aura of destruction around him broke it apart!
"Lord Beerus, is destruction power all you know how to use? Face me head-on if you dare!"
Glen appeared beside Beerus in an instant and kicked his beach chair to pieces.
Beerus naturally dodged Glen's attack. He looked at the wrecked beach chair, the corners of his mouth twitching incessantly.
I can't get angry. I chose this disciple myself, and he's so talented. I can't get angry!!!
"Lord Beerus, come fight me!"
Glen beckoned to Beerus, then, unafraid of making things worse, stuck out his little foot and stomped on the wrecked chair twice.
"Looking for a beating, are you? Then I'll give you one!"
Beerus could no longer hold back. After suppressing his power to the same level as Glen's, he twisted his body and vanished in an instant.
Bang!
Bang!
Violent collisions rang out overhead, and the shockwaves from their clashes spread rapidly in every direction.
"I really can't with those two!"
Whis, who was having afternoon tea nearby, instantly formed a transparent protective barrier ten meters in diameter around himself.
"Lord Beerus, take this kick!"
Using the force of the rebound, Glen spun counterclockwise and kicked at Beerus.
He had been in the God of Destruction Realm for a year and a half, and his power level had naturally risen to 700,000. He put all his strength into that kick.
"You're still too green!"
Beerus raised a hand and gently pushed to one side. Although he was using power on the same level, the motion of his push was extraordinarily strange.
There was no violent impact. Instead, an invisible force actually redirected Glen's strength away!
"This is fighting technique. This is combat experience. Without countless battles under your belt, you can't understand these things."
Beerus retreated some distance and put one hand behind his back, seemingly intending to face Glen with just one hand. He smiled and said:
"You'd better use the results of your training over the past year and a half!"
In Beerus's eyes, Glen had already achieved the "semi-selflessness" state of mind, although his combat instincts-his power, combat reactions, fighting technique, combat awareness...-were still very weak.
But with the "semi-selflessness" state of mind, he could link his current bodily instincts together and still give them a hint of a rudimentary Ultra Instinct!
"Damn you, Lord Beerus!!"
From what Beerus meant, he wanted Glen to use his rudimentary Ultra Instinct state while Beerus himself used pure power.
Glen gritted his teeth, and his expression suddenly became perfectly calm.
Humm!
A glimmer of silver light appeared around him, his hair turned pale silver, and an ethereal aura swept across the entire sky.
On the ground, Whis set down his teacup, his expression turning serious.
"Watch out, Lord Beerus!"
"Come on!"
Glen moved in the sky.
Silver light streaked across the sky as Glen launched the first attack.
Straight punches, swinging arms, palm strikes, sweeping kicks... every movement felt natural!
Faced with Glen's storm of attacks, Beerus used no enhanced state or rules. He simply responded with pure power at the same level.
Calling it a response was less accurate than saying he was feeding Glen moves to practice against. Otherwise, even using the same power, Beerus would still have beaten the shit out of Glen!
The main problem was that Glen's bodily instincts were still too weak. They couldn't match his "semi-selflessness" state of mind.
Within seconds, the two exchanged over a hundred blows, sending visible shockwaves spreading in every direction.
Fortunately, this was the God of Destruction Realm. Glen's little bit of power couldn't cause any serious damage here.
Twenty seconds later!
Glen's attacks began to slow.
"It seems that with his current power, he can only maintain it for this long."
Whis shook his head on the ground.
Ultimately, Glen had only mastered his own power and cultivated his state of mind to "semi-selflessness."
During his year and a half in the God of Destruction Realm, he hadn't trained his power. His power was still too weak, so lasting twenty seconds in that state was already impressive.
"Let's end this. Get down there!"
Up in the sky, Beerus caught Glen's little fist with one hand and kicked him!
Bang!!!
Glen crashed down by the lake, instantly throwing up clouds of dust.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
Glen got to his feet, clutching his little stomach. When he saw Beerus land, he said resentfully, "You're obviously so strong, but you wouldn't even go a little easy on me!"
"..."
Dark lines covered Beerus's face as he shot back, "You suck, but you love to play. And I'm not talking about anyone else-I'm talking about you!"
"You... fine! Don't expect any dinner tonight!"
"You dare!!"
The veins on Beerus's forehead throbbed. The kid was incredibly talented, and his cooking was excellent, but he was just as infuriating!
"All right, can't you two stop arguing all day?!"
Whis walked over.
"Hmph!"
"Hmph!"
The two of them, one big and one small, folded their arms and turned their heads away.
Whis: "..."
He found it a little strange. These two had clearly grown close; it wouldn't even be an exaggeration to say they were joined at the hip.
But...
Why were they always arguing? Was this just how they got along? How strange!
"Glen, what did you feel after that fight?" Whis looked at the little fellow in front of him.
Glen glanced at Beerus, then said, "Although I've mastered my power, I still make too many unnecessary movements in battle. That wastes a lot of my stamina."
Whis nodded and asked, "What else?"
"Ultimately, I haven't fought enough. Compared with Lord Beerus, my combat awareness, technique, experience... are still far too weak!"
"At least you know yourself."
Beerus suddenly cut in from the side.
Glen said irritably, "Lord Beerus, can you stop talking?"
"..."
Whis put a hand to his forehead and said helplessly, "All right, stop arguing. Anything else?"
"And... my power is still too weak. I can't keep fighting for long at all."
Glen fell into thought.
Half a year ago, he had actually asked Whis whether it was time for him to train his power.
But Whis had told him that he still wasn't very familiar with the second level of the state of mind and needed to keep training it.
"Very good, very good. I didn't expect you to see all your shortcomings after fighting Lord Beerus for just a little while!"
Whis's voice was full of amazement.
Beerus also nodded slightly. The kid's comprehension was as monstrous as ever!
Whis continued, "Your power certainly isn't strong enough, but compared with power, your state of mind is more important. That's why I had you train it for another half year!"
"Now your state of mind has reached a bottleneck, and it will be difficult to improve it further in the short term. It's time for you to train your power."
Whis had planned this long ago.
First, he had Glen master his own power, then had him cultivate his state of mind.
After that came power, fighting technique, combat awareness, combat instincts... and finally, dimension and rules!
Of course, there was deeper training still, but Glen would have to reach Beerus's level first!
"Then how should I train my power?"
Glen was very excited.
Although his current power was decent, reaching 700,000 when measured as a power level,
a power level of 700,000 wasn't even enough to qualify him to lay a finger on Frieza.
After all, Frieza was only the first boss in the Dragon Ball story!
"Very simple."