The Expedition

Lan Mu defeated Saitama. Although both of them still had the strength to continue fighting, the outcome had already been decided.

Saitama had no means of directly restoring energy from the void. After suffering such grievous injuries, he needed a long period of proper recovery.

But Lan Mu did not. He recovered quickly.

Not to mention the Golden Cudgel lodged inside Saitama's body. If Lan Mu had allowed it to expand, its properties would definitely have blown Saitama apart.

But Lan Mu had not done that, because he knew Saitama was about to disappear.

This had been the hardest battle Lan Mu had ever experienced, to the point that he had lost one transformation.

By switching transformations, he could alter his current state. Different transformations had different states. Back then, Cell had been severely injured and sealed by a secret art, yet the Dante transformation had remained perfectly lively. But now, for the first time, he had allowed one transformation to die.

The price was that he could never transform into an angel again. The instant he did, he would die.

He had conceived of this method long ago, but had never used it because it was too risky.

The old him simply had not possessed such sharp awareness, enough to switch transformations at the critical instant.

It placed immense demands on both the transformation serving as a substitute death and the reaction speed of his current transformation.

The angel had undoubtedly been the best choice. From the annihilation of an angel's energy body to the annihilation of its divinity, there was an infinitesimal interval. That gave him a chance to switch in a desperate gamble. Had it been Jigglypuff instead, he would have died before even realizing what had happened.

This method was still far too dangerous. It was