Reborn as a Saiyan

"Ugh... where am I?"

Li Hao's consciousness stirred from the chaos. But what appeared before his eyes wasn't his familiar bedroom or the white ceiling of a hospital. Instead, it was a gloomy sky, streaked now and then by blue lightning—a scene straight out of the apocalypse!

"Ah!"

Before Li Hao could think any further, the agony surging through his body made him cry out. He felt pain everywhere, as if someone had repeatedly crushed him with a stone roller!

The intense pain made Li Hao's consciousness begin to blur. He had no choice but to stop thinking and force himself to stay alert so he could endure the sudden agony.

Time seemed to stretch endlessly. His voice grew hoarse from his nonstop screaming. At last, after an unknown amount of time, his body's protective mechanisms seemed to kick in. Numbness replaced the pain, allowing Li Hao's consciousness, on the verge of collapse, to cling to its final shreds of awareness instead of slipping into unconsciousness!

Li Hao had never known his mind could be so strong. He'd managed to stay somewhat conscious through such excruciating pain. He was almost impressed with himself!

Sure enough, if you didn't push yourself, you'd never know how much potential you had!

Li Hao lay on the ground, weakly gazing at the sky above him. A faint smile tugged at the corner of his mouth!

Once he'd regained a little sensation, Li Hao rolled his eyes and began surveying his surroundings. Collapsed buildings and smoke drifting through the air gave him the impression he was on a battlefield. Whatever the case, this wasn't his slightly messy bedroom. A trace of unease gradually surfaced on his face!

Then Li Hao lifted his head slightly to look at his body. The next moment, his pupils contracted, and his eyes fixed on his waist. He'd spotted a feature that no ordinary human had.

It was a tail, a furry, dark-brown tail, coiled tightly around his waist!

"Is this... a Saiyan?"

Li Hao stared in disbelief!

Before he could react, unfamiliar memories flooded his mind. The torrent of memories overwhelmed his already weakened body, and his vision went black. He immediately passed out!

When Li Hao woke again, his expression was complicated!

"Turles!"

That was the name he'd learned from the memories—the name of the body he now inhabited.

It was a name he somehow recognized, belonging to a character who had once existed only in fantasy but had now become real.

Having spent years lurking around a certain web-novel site, Li Hao had also figured out his current situation.

That was right. He'd transmigrated!

He hadn't been electrocuted or gotten into a car accident. He'd simply gone to sleep, and when he woke up, the world had changed. Somehow, he'd ended up in the Dragon Ball World, in the body of a Saiyan side character.

Turles had appeared in a Dragon Ball movie as a villain. He looked just like the Dragon Ball protagonist, Son Goku, and was also a Low-Class Warrior among the Saiyans. But their lives had taken very different paths!

Both had been sent to distant planets, but unlike Son Goku, who'd lost his memory after hitting his head, Turles had received the same memory implants as other Low-Class Warriors from Planet Vegeta's technology. When he grew up, he began killing and slaughtering worlds. By the time Turles reached adulthood, Planet Vegeta had already been destroyed, so he had no choice but to serve the Emperor of the Universe—Frieza.

But Saiyans were born rebellious. By chance, Turles obtained a Spirit Fruit, supposedly edible only by gods. It made his strength surge, and with that power, he naturally stopped obeying Frieza. He began wandering through the universe, searching for inhabited planets where he could plant Trees of Might and grow stronger.

Later, Turles invaded Earth, hoping to plant a Tree of Might there. This drained Earth's ki and began turning the planet into a wasteland. The outcome was just as predictable: he eventually died beneath Son Goku's Spirit Bomb.

Turles certainly lived up to his Low-Class Warrior origins. All of his strength came from the fruits of the Tree of Might. Against Goku, the protagonist with his ridiculous plot armor, he was doomed to be a tragic figure!

Now that he'd transmigrated into this character, Li Hao had no idea whether to laugh or cry!

With a second life, Li Hao should have been happy. But the Dragon Ball World was a place where powerful beings were everywhere and planets were destroyed on a whim. That didn't exactly put him in a good mood—especially since his predecessor had been a weakling!

Leaving everything else aside, just in terms of looks, Turles had a villain's face through and through compared to Son Goku!

But none of that was the most important thing right now. What mattered was figuring out how to survive the crisis ahead.

Li Hao—no, he was Turles now—was in a pretty dire situation!

He'd already learned what was happening from his memories, and his earlier impression had been right: this planet was on the verge of destruction!

This had originally been a simple planetary invasion mission, or so Turles had thought. At first, everything had gone as expected. The strongest fighter on the planet had a battle power of less than 1,000, while Turles, the captain of the invasion team, had a battle power of 1,200. Add in the Saiyans' ability to transform into Great Apes, and they should have had no trouble dealing with the planet's natives.

But no one could have expected that the planet's natives had passed down tales of a mysterious seed. At this final moment of crisis, they planted it.

The seed quickly took root and sprouted, then blossomed and bore fruit. As the fruit ripened, the strongest native warrior ate it—and then the nightmare began!

After eating the fruit, the native's battle power soared past 5,000. Turles's team was devastated, and its members were killed one after another. If Turles hadn't fled at the last moment, he would have died too. Even so, he was hit by an energy blast from the native and left gravely wounded!

With the last of his strength, Turles created an Artificial Moon. He transformed into a Great Ape and managed to kill the native, but he couldn't hold on. Once he reverted from his Great Ape form, his injuries caught up with him, and he died—leaving Li Hao to inherit his body!

Turles didn't know how he'd escaped this crisis in the original story, but now he had to save himself. He'd already recognized the fruit: it was the Spirit Fruit, Turles's trump card in the original story!

The Spirit Fruit grew by absorbing the life energy of inhabited planets. This planet had already been drained of all its life energy and was about to die. If he didn't escape immediately, he'd face the planet's explosion. Turles couldn't withstand the force of a planet exploding, and even if he survived, Saiyans couldn't live in the vacuum of space. He'd still die!

This was where one had to admit that Saiyans truly deserved their reputation as a warrior race known throughout the universe. Even though Turles was only a Low-Class Warrior with a low battle power, he still had far greater vitality than an Earthling. Despite suffering such severe injuries, he'd managed to cling to life—and in just a short while, he could already feel his body beginning to recover.

Using what little strength he'd managed to regain, Turles pulled the spaceship remote from his Battle Suit and pressed the button to summon his ship!

Less than ten minutes later, a white, spherical, single-seat spaceship slowly descended. It didn't look damaged. Turles didn't know why the native hadn't destroyed his spaceship, but he couldn't spare a thought for that now. He struggled to move, and after a great deal of effort, finally climbed inside.

The hatch slowly closed. Through the glass, Turles watched the planet that was about to be destroyed. Vast clouds of dust rose, and the whole sky darkened. White lightning struck the ground, leaving huge craters. Seawater began flooding inland, continental shelves sank, and enormous cracks spread across the land like hideous scars. Now and then, magma erupted from beneath the surface!

Turles had seen the destruction of planets countless times in his memories, but this scene still shook him deeply. He knew that if he couldn't gain overwhelming power, then in this dangerous Dragon Ball World, he might meet a fate no better than this planet's!

In this dangerous world, power was the only thing that mattered!

From his memories, Turles had also figured out when he was. According to the timeline, he and Kakarot should be the same age. He was eighteen this year, which meant Kakarot was eighteen too. Kakarot was still training with the Guardian of Earth and wouldn't appear at the World Martial Arts Tournament until the following year. He would also marry Chi-Chi, which meant Raditz's invasion of Earth was still a full six years away.

There wasn't much time left. Once Raditz invaded Earth and the story began, Kakarot's power would grow explosively. The rate of his growth had once made Dragon Ball fans call it absurd. But now that Turles would have to face him himself, all he felt was a mounting sense of urgency.

Just then, Turles, already high in the sky, suddenly noticed something. The corners of his mouth lifted, and excitement surged through him.

"That's... a seed of the Tree of Might!" Turles shouted inwardly!

He piloted his spaceship toward the only living thing left on the planet.

A towering tree. The lush branches he remembered had already withered, but a single green seed still hung at the top of the trunk. Turles reached out with his right hand and plucked the extraordinary seed.

Inside the sealed spaceship, Turles clenched the seed in his hand. He hadn't expected that, after all the twists and turns, the seed of the Tree of Might would end up in his hands after all. Looking at it, he began to feel hopeful about his future!

The spaceship accelerated, slowly broke through the planet's atmosphere, and finally escaped its gravitational pull. Turles could no longer hold on. His eyes slowly closed, and he sank into hibernation!

"Son Goku! Vegeta! Dragon Balls! I'm coming!"