"Want to keep going, Prince Vegeta?" Reiz asked, a bright smile spreading across his face.
Still blindfolded, he turned accurately toward Vegeta.
"How... how did you do that?" Vegeta stammered, eyes wide with disbelief and confusion, frustration written all over his face.
"Just stop thinking about everything. Let your body become one with nature, and let it sense dangers from the outside. That's all," Reiz explained simply, his tone calm.
"What kind of ridiculous training method is that?" Vegeta frowned, then gave an indignant snort. "Your technique can only help you dodge. It can't hurt your opponent!"
"I'm not just good at dodging!" Reiz smiled.
"Then fight me head-on if you've got the guts!" Vegeta bellowed, resorting to provocation.
"All right. I'll fight you head-on this time." Reiz nodded.
"You said it. Don't regret it!" Vegeta's lips curled into a faint smile, a crafty glint flashing in his eyes.
"Come on!" Reiz beckoned to Vegeta again.
Vegeta didn't hesitate. He took a deep breath and summoned all the energy he had left.
His aura surged once more. Like a cannonball, he shot toward Reiz and hurled a powerful punch at him.
The punch carried all his strength. Its force whistled through the air, its momentum astonishing.
Reiz watched Vegeta's fist come at him.
Though he couldn't see, he could clearly sense the fist's trajectory.
He merely leaned slightly to one side and dodged it with ease.
"Smack!"
In the next instant, Reiz swung his palm and struck Vegeta squarely on the back of the neck.
The slap looked casual, but it landed with pinpoint accuracy and just the right amount of force.
Vegeta's pupils shrank. His mind went blank.
"Thud!"
Vegeta toppled face-first to the ground, his eyes rolling back as he passed out on the spot.
The Training Room fell so silent that a pin could have dropped.
"Oops, sorry about that. I didn't mean to hit you so hard," Reiz said with an awkward smile, his voice tinged with apology.
After he finished smiling, Reiz realized Vegeta wasn't responding. He was lying motionless on the floor, so Reiz pulled the blindfold off his eyes.
"Uh... did he pass out?" Reiz scratched his head, embarrassed as he looked at the unconscious Vegeta.
Raditz, Nappa, and the others stared at Reiz and the unconscious Vegeta in utter shock, their jaws nearly hitting the floor.
That was Prince Vegeta!
Prince Vegeta, with a Combat Power of 15,000!
He'd been knocked out with a single slap?
"In that case, why don't you all take me on together?" Reiz said to Raditz, Nappa, and the others, his face alight with anticipation.
Raditz, Nappa, and the other three twitched in unison and hurriedly waved their hands, shaking their heads like rattles.
All of us, together?
You've got to be kidding!
Your Combat Power is so high that even all of ours combined wouldn't match it.
We'd just be asking for a beating!
"Um... Reiz... let's not," Nappa said hurriedly, waving a hand as he took a step back.
"Yeah... you're so strong that even all of us together couldn't beat you," Raditz agreed, remembering what had just happened to Vegeta. A chill ran down his back.
"Even Prince Vegeta couldn't beat you... our Combat Power is far too low," Carnegie added, hunching his shoulders.
"It's fine. I'll blindfold myself and won't fight back at all!" Reiz smiled, then swiftly tied the blindfold over his eyes again.
Raditz and the others were speechless. They exchanged glances.
He'd just beaten Prince Vegeta with ease while blindfolded.
They'd only be asking for a beating if they tried!
"How about this? Whoever manages to hit me gets 10,000 Space Coins." Reiz said, pulling a blue coin from his pocket and tossing it in his hand.
The blue coin gleamed with a deep azure sheen under the lights. It bore the symbol and denomination of the universal currency.
That blue coin was worth 10,000 units of universal currency.
Ten thousand wasn't a fortune, but it wasn't a small sum either.
It could buy roughly as much as 10,000 yuan could have in Reiz's previous life.
Generally, support staff on Planet Vegeta earned at most 3,000 Space Coins a month.
Combatants had to make major contributions to earn bigger bonuses.
Now, all Raditz and the others had to do was hit Reiz to earn 10,000 Space Coins. They couldn't help being tempted.
Their eyes all fell on the coin in Reiz's hand, gleaming with desire.
"You're sure you won't fight back?" Raditz rubbed his hands together, eager to give it a try. The money had already eased some of his earlier fear.
"Of course. I won't fight back," Reiz replied with a slight nod. "All of you can come at me together."
Raditz, Nappa, and the others exchanged glances, then looked at the blue coin in Reiz's hand. They all nodded.
There were always brave souls when a generous reward was offered.
Besides, all they had to do was land one hit. It wasn't like they'd have to risk their lives.
Kuri then carried the unconscious Vegeta out of the Training Room and laid him on a chair in the hallway, propping him against the wall to rest.
In the next instant, Raditz, Nappa, Carnegie, Kuri, and Baru surrounded Reiz and took up fighting stances.
The five spread out to encircle Reiz from different angles, their gazes focused and tense.
"We're starting now, Reiz!" Raditz said, taking a deep breath and preparing himself.
"Come on!" Reiz nodded, relaxing his body and entering the empty-minded state once more.
The five rushed forward, launching a fierce attack on Reiz from different angles.
Raditz attacked from the front, Nappa from the right, Carnegie from the left, while Kuri and Baru circled around behind him. All five struck at once, their punches and kicks raining down.
Reiz used only the movements of Ultra Instinct to deftly dodge every attack from Raditz and the others.
His body darted through the five-man assault like a fish in water.
He leaned to one side, bent at the waist, then leaped. Every movement was perfectly timed to evade an attack, as if he could predict where each punch and kick would land.
However, Reiz's Ultra Instinct hadn't even reached the beginner level.
On top of that, there were too many of them.
There were five of them, after all!
And they were attacking from different angles, making it a little hard for Reiz to dodge everything.
About a minute passed.
"Smack!"
Raditz spotted an opening and punched Reiz in the shoulder.
He'd hit him!
Raditz was thrilled, but before he could celebrate—
"Aaagh!"
In the next instant, Raditz let out a scream. It felt as though his fist had nearly cracked, and his entire arm had gone numb.
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