The sun is starting to set in the west.
The sky above the crater changed from white-blue at noon to light orange. The light of sunset and the light of magma were mixed together, and it was impossible to tell which one was brighter.
Goku and Nuova Shenron have played more than three thousand rounds, and the island's landscape has changed significantly.
The altitude of the main peak dropped by about 500 meters. The reason was that when Goku was kicked into the crater wall by Nuova Shenron, half of the mountain collapsed.
The diameter of the crater expanded from two kilometers to nearly four kilometers, and the magma level rose dozens of meters.
Goku is standing on a piece of suspended broken rock.
The orange Martial Arts Uniform top was burned to ashes around the 1,000th round, and the dark blue lining did not survive the 2,000th round.
At this moment, his upper body was naked, with dark red down covering his muscular torso, and his arms, chest and abdomen were covered with old and new burn marks.
Some of the burns have begun to scab over, but new injuries are still growing.
Nuova Shenron stood on another piece of broken rock opposite, and his condition was not much better.
The molten golden skin on his body has many cracks, which were punched out by Goku's fist.
One of the dark purple lines on the waist and abdomen was broken, and a large piece of the membrane wing of the left wing was torn off.
Goku let out a sigh of relief.
"How long has it been since you fought like this?"
"Never."
Nuova Shenron's answer is very honest.
"It has only been a few hours since I was born. You are my first opponent."
Goku blinked.
"You can fight like this in a few hours. Your talent is too outrageous, right?"
"You defeated the entire Red Ribbon Army when you were five years old. Who is outrageous?"
"You actually know?"
"I know a lot of things. Dragon Balls's memory retains the background information of every wish. I read all of your stories when I was born."
Goku was silent for two seconds, and then looked at Nuova Shenron with a very strange expression.
"Then you also know... I ran naked when I was a child?"
Nuova Shenron's mouth twitched.
"I selectively forgot that part."
The two people looked at each other.
Goku couldn't help laughing, and Nuova Shenron also laughed.
This laughter echoed in the empty crater, and was made particularly clear by the sound of surging magma.
Two enemies who were supposed to be life and death stood on a volcano that had been beaten beyond recognition by themselves, laughing together.
Ridiculous, yet extremely natural.
After the laughter stopped, Nuova Shenron's expression became serious.
"Goku, this next move is the concentrated expression of all my strength."
He raised his right hand, palm facing up, and a ball of flame condensed in his palm.
This flame is rotating and compressing, its volume is getting smaller and smaller, but its luminosity is getting higher and higher.
From orange-red to blue-white, from blue-white to almost transparent.
Finally, a transparent light ball with a diameter only the size of a table tennis ball floated above the palm of Nuova Shenron.
No trace of flame can be seen on the surface of the light ball, but the surrounding air is expanding outwards with the ball as the center.
The broken rock and gravel closest to Nuova Shenron were directly vaporized the moment the light ball was formed.
"Frenzied Fire Needles."
Nuova Shenron whispered the name, and the transparent ball of light broke the moment he finished speaking.
The ball of light split into thousands of flame rays as thin as an ox's hair, each of which was straight, high-speed, and carried a terrifying high temperature that could vaporize steel.
The fire needle fanned out from the position of Nuova Shenron to the direction of Goku.
Goku's pupils contracted and his body moved before the brain made a judgment.
He directly activated Instant Transmission, and his figure disappeared on the spot.
The torrent of fire needles passed through the place where he stood before disappearing, burning out dense pinholes on the entire mountain wall behind him, and then began to collapse in large areas.
Goku appeared twenty meters directly above Nuova Shenron.
"Hey! That's a great move!"
Nuova Shenron looked up at him, and the transparent light ball condensed in his right hand again.
The second wave Frenzied Fire Needles.
This time it's all-encompassing.
Nuova Shenron uses himself as the center point and releases it in all directions simultaneously, forming a spherical coverage with him as the origin.
Instant Transmission of Goku starts again.
Disappear, appear, disappear, appear.
He flashed seven times in succession in the gap between the fire needles, and each time he appeared, his position was accurately embedded in the gap between the fire needles.
When he appeared for the eighth time, he was already standing in front of Nuova Shenron, one meter away.
Two fists were pumped out at the same time.
"Bang!"
Fist to fist.
Energy Blast pressed down from between the two of them, neither of them stepped back, their fists were still touching each other.
Goku felt that his fist surface was being continuously burned, and a layer of skin was scorched, but new skin immediately grew underneath.
It hurts, but Goku doesn't want to take back his fist at all.
"This fight!"
Goku pushed forward a little harder, his voice trembling slightly with excitement.
"It was such a good beating!"
Nuova Shenron is also pushing forward hard.
"Same."
The two finally bounced away at the same time, each retreating.
They fight without skills or dodge, just pure strength.
The result is a draw.
Goku shook his numb right hand, the skin on his fist was still puffing with white smoke.
"Your temperature is really too high."
"Your resilience is also ridiculous."
Nuova Shenron looked at the new skin that had grown back on the back of Goku's hand and spoke calmly.
"After fighting for so long, your anger has not diminished much."
Goku shook his tail and smiled.
"That's because the more fun I play, the less tired I feel."
"What kind of reasoning do you have..."
Nuova Shenron shook his head and spread his wings.
"Goku, try my trick!"
Goku's smile softened a little and entered a serious state.
"Okay."
The flames all over Nuova Shenron began to shrink.
All the heat energy, all the Negative Energy, all the will to fight, all converged on his right fist.
The color of his right fist changed from gold to dazzling white, and everything around him was being swallowed up by this fist.
Nuova Shenron put all his energy into this punch, making a desperate move.
Goku looked at the fist opposite and licked his lips.
"Is this the last resort..."
His hands slowly closed together, forming the classic starting position of Kamehameha.
Between the palms, the blue-white energy core began to take shape.
But unlike before, this time the energy core is not spherical, but is deliberately compressed into an extremely thin needle shape by Goku.
Needle-shaped Kamehameha.
Concentrate all energy on one point, giving up coverage in exchange for maximum penetration.
This was a temporary solution that Goku came up with during the battle after Nuova Shenron said he had "insufficient penetration".
Learn in battle, evolve in battle.
This is Goku.
Nuova Shenron sensed the extremely condensed energy on the opposite side, and his red pupils expanded slightly.
"Are you imitating my Frenzied Fire Needles?"
Goku's golden pupils flashed in the blue-white energy light.
"I am indeed inspired by you, thank you."
Nuova Shenron was stunned for a moment, then showed a relieved smile.
"Very good."
His legs were bent to the extreme, his wings were completely attached to his back, and all his muscles were tense at the same time.
Goku's feet also sank into the gravel beneath his feet, his body leaned forward slightly, and his center of gravity fell on the soles of his front feet.
Both sides are gathering strength.
The magma in the crater stopped surging under the pressure of the two people's auras.
The whole world fell silent.
But at this critical moment, an extremely evil aura erupted in the distance.
Goku suddenly turned to the northeast, and the stored energy quickly dissipated in the palm of his hand.
Nuova Shenron also felt it, and the light on his white right fist stagnated.
"You feel it?" Nuova Shenron's voice changed its tone.
Goku nodded, and there was something like Dragon Balls in the air.
It comes from the same source as the aura exuding from Nuova Shenron, but the concentration, purity, and density of Negative Energy contained in it are completely different from the same level.
Nuova Shenron's flames fluctuated, and he knew who it was.
"Syn Shenron..."
Nuova Shenron's voice changed from calm to solemn.
"He's awake."