Something Bad Happened!!

Boom! Boom!!

Betkas found a large city up ahead and began bombarding it without a second thought. One golden Ki Blast after another rained down on the urban district, setting off a series of explosions. Mushroom clouds rose everywhere, and thick, black smoke spread across the sky. Screams rang out from the city...

"This worthless planet... I doubt it'll sell for much. Ah, forget it. Better to finish this and get out of here."

Betkas rolled his shoulders and looked down at the city, now reduced to ruins. He sneered...

Then he checked his scouter again to see where else there might be a city.

"Hm? There's someone with a power level of fifteen thousand?!" Betkas saw the number on his scouter, and his expression changed at once. He clearly remembered scanning the planet earlier. The strongest person he'd found had a power level below eight thousand, while the weakest had barely two thousand. It was no wonder that the sudden appearance of someone at fifteen thousand startled him...

After all, he wasn't much stronger than that himself! If he fought someone on his level, they'd certainly both end up badly injured. Anyone with a power level above ten thousand wasn't a fool. If things went south, Betkas would have a hard time even escaping...

Betkas pondered for a moment whether he should leave or go take a look. He didn't want to gamble with his life, after all.

"Forget it. If things really go wrong, I'll use the Great Ape Transformation!"

Remembering this trump card, Betkas made up his mind. He no longer cared about the other small places; he only wanted to see what this person with a power level of fifteen thousand was like. He immediately took off into the sky...

After flying at full speed, Betkas arrived at the location marked by his scouter. It was a place that looked like a scientific research city, filled with machines running automatically...

"They're somewhere around here..."

Betkas scanned the area below, his expression grave, then looked more closely... Suddenly, he caught sight of a sneaky figure down below. He shouted, "Come out!"

Without hesitation, he fired a golden Ki Blast at the figure below. At the same time, the person seemed to launch a Ki Blast in return...

"Was I seeing things? This guy's so weak!"

When the two Ki Blasts collided, Betkas realized that his opponent was incredibly weak. All he had to do was add a little more force, and he could completely obliterate him. This left him puzzled, and he wondered if the other person was concealing his strength by suppressing his ki...

"Forget it. If I keep blasting you, you'll show your true face soon enough..."

Betkas stopped thinking about it and poured more power into his Ki Blast. It slammed down without meeting any resistance, kicking up clouds of dust and a tremendous roar. Half of the mechanical city was nearly destroyed...

"What... How is this possible?!"

When the dust finally settled, Betkas saw two figures still alive below. A green protective barrier surrounded them. One was an adult man with a scar over his left eye; the other was a seemingly timid youth. Yes, a youth...

The scouter clearly showed that the youth had a power level of fifteen thousand, while the adult man's was only close to six thousand. He was the one who had just fired the Ki Blast that clashed with Betkas's...

What shocked Betkas most was the youth. He was younger than Betkas, yet already had such a high power level. It was a strange feeling...

He slowly descended, watching the two with caution. Betkas noticed that the youth's face was utterly calm—or rather, expressionless. His eyes seemed vacant. If the youth hadn't moved just now, Betkas might have wondered if his soul had left his body.

"You're a Saiyan!!!"

The adult man seemed to notice the tail wrapped around Betkas's waist. His face filled with shock as he spoke...

"Hm?!"

Betkas saw the man's astonished expression and felt confused. Saiyans were famous throughout the universe, but that had been a long time ago. Ever since the Saiyans were wiped out, hardly any aliens remembered their race...

"I'm Paragus. I used to be a Saiyan. He's my son, and he's a Saiyan too..."

The adult man introduced himself with an excited expression... Betkas glanced at the youth beside him, suddenly feeling that something was off. "Your son?!"

"Could he be..."

Betkas suddenly thought of the Saiyans rumored to have power levels above ten thousand. There hadn't been many of them... And if this youth really was a Saiyan...

Then he had to be someone famous... And there was only one person like that—the berserker known as Broly!

At the thought, Betkas felt a little breathless... Broly was a Legendary Super Saiyan by birth. If they fought, Broly would turn Super Saiyan and Betkas would be completely screwed. Even the Great Ape Transformation wouldn't give him the slightest chance...

But the strangest thing was, if this really was Broly, why was his power level only fifteen thousand? The Legendary Super Saiyan was supposed to grow stronger every moment...

His power supposedly doubled almost every year... Broly looked to be nearly ten years old already. How could his power level still be only fifteen thousand?

"I see..."

Suddenly, Betkas noticed the "ornament" on the youth's head. His pupils shrank... He immediately felt the urge to run for his life. It wasn't that Betkas was a coward; he simply didn't dare fight Broly right now...

Broly was wearing the control device from the original story, which suppressed his power. And yet, even with his strength heavily suppressed, he still had a power level of fifteen thousand?

You had to be kidding. Without the control device, Betkas had no idea how powerful Broly might be... Perhaps he'd already reached one hundred thousand—or even more. If he turned Super Saiyan... Tsk, he could kill Betkas instantly without breaking a sweat...

Could anyone blame Betkas for wanting to run? Paragus's next words confirmed the youth's identity...

"My son... Broly..."