On King Vegeta's side.
The Saiyans were fighting Frieza's forces.
Only Bardock and King Vegeta had yet to move. They kept their eyes fixed on Frieza.
"Frieza, surrender. Your men are no match for us Saiyans," Bardock said coldly.
"..."
Frieza hovered in midair and glanced at his men, who were dying one after another.
Every Saiyan on the opposing side had a power level of over 8,000, and another dozen Saiyans with power levels of 100,000 watched from the sidelines.
Even the members of the Ginyu Force had been killed in just a few exchanges.
The rest of Frieza's forces could barely put up a fight!
It was a one-sided slaughter.
"Are you relying on that Candidate God of Destruction?"
Frieza paid his men no heed. His eyes brimmed with murderous intent. "Once I get the Dragon Balls, that Candidate God of Destruction will die too!"
King Vegeta furrowed his brow. What did this have to do with Louis?
Bardock was even more confused. Who was the Candidate God of Destruction?
Rumble—!
Frieza began unleashing his power, and Namek trembled.
The terrifying power made King Vegeta's body shudder. Frieza really did have a power level of 530,000, just as the rumors said!
"Bardock, watch out!"
"Right. King Vegeta, be ready to create an Artificial Moon at any moment. There's no way we can beat Frieza in our normal forms."
Bardock moved. He flashed in front of Frieza and threw a punch.
Bam!
The air exploded. The tremendous force shattered the ground below, and lake water surged in!
Both sides, still fighting, turned around in an instant. The final battle was about to begin!
Frieza took the punch to the chest and said calmly:
"Is that all 150,000 gets you?"
"Hmph!"
Bardock ignored Frieza's taunt. He had chosen to face Frieza head-on, so he had already prepared himself for the worst.
He quickly retreated, gathering a powerful blast and firing it at Frieza.
At the same time, King Vegeta joined the fight.
King Vegeta, with a power level of 120,000, and Bardock, with 150,000, attacked Frieza together.
The world seemed to lose its color.
Far off on the horizon, Louis shook his head.
Compared with Bardock and King Vegeta, Frieza was simply too strong.
Against a power level of 530,000, a power level in the hundreds of thousands was an insurmountable chasm. They had no hope of winning.
Just as expected!
After only a short while, Bardock and King Vegeta were hit and sent crashing toward the ground.
"King Vegeta! Bardock!!!"
After Bibert and Theodore finished off their opponents, they charged at Frieza.
The other Saiyans with power levels of 100,000 or more did the same.
Bardock and King Vegeta hit the ground. They spat out the blood in their mouths, then took off into the sky once more!
In an instant.
Sixteen Saiyans with power levels above 100,000 were surrounding Frieza.
Rumble—!
The magnetic field grew unstable, and bolts of lightning streaked across the clouds.
The Namekians watched, feeling as if the world were coming to an end. Thankfully, a purple barrier protected them.
"Die!"
High in the sky, Bardock darted about, gathering all his power into a blast that shot toward Frieza like a giant wolf.
"Trash. You think that can hurt me?"
Frieza drove a knee into Bibert and sent him flying. Then, unfazed by the incoming blast, he raised a hand and smacked it aside!
Bardock's blast instantly veered off course.
"Die!"
Taking advantage of the opening, the other Saiyans attacked all at once.
In just a few seconds, thousands of energy blasts rained down on Frieza.
Rumble—!
Rumble—!
A world-shaking explosion erupted where Frieza stood, as if thousands of nuclear bombs had detonated there.
Smoke billowed, and flames blazed everywhere!
Vmm, vmm!
Even space trembled faintly.
"Hah... hah...!"
"He should be dead, right?"
"He's only at 530,000! The sixteen of us attacked together. He's definitely dead!"
Bibert, Theodore, and the other Saiyans panted heavily.
"No!"
King Vegeta wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said gravely, "Frieza can't be that easy to defeat!"
Bardock clenched his fists. "Right. If he were that easy to deal with, he couldn't have held the title of Emperor of the Universe for so long!"
Suddenly!
Whoosh!
A gust of wind swept past!
The smoke hanging in midair slowly dissipated, revealing a massive figure.
Bardock's pupils shrank. "King Vegeta, use the Artificial Moon!"
As soon as he spoke, a beam of purple light tore across the sky.
Bibert and the other Saiyans hovered in midair, unable to react in time. The blast struck them directly.
"Urgh!"
The sixteen Saiyans clutched their stomachs and spat blood.
"How... how is this possible?"
Theodore's eyes were filled with disbelief.
"Hahaha, King Vegeta, do you know how strong I really am?"
Frieza had unlocked his first transformation, and his power level had soared to 1,000,000!
Frieza snarled, "I have a power level of 1,000,000 now. How are you going to fight me?"
One million?
Bardock's heart clenched. He had suspected that Frieza's true power exceeded 530,000, but he hadn't expected it to reach one million.
This was bad!
Bardock's panic wasn't unwarranted. They could transform into Great Apes to fight Frieza.
But not every Saiyan could stay rational in Great Ape form.
Bardock himself was one such Saiyan!
A Great Ape without reason stood no chance against Frieza.
There was no doubt about it!
Of the Saiyans present with power levels above 10,000, only King Vegeta, Bibert, and Theodore were Elite Warriors!
"Die!"
Frieza roared and raised both hands, gathering an energy sphere two meters in diameter.
He was going to wipe out the entire Saiyan race in one strike!
"Everyone else, don't look at the sky! Bibert, Theodore, look up!"
An Artificial Moon shot into the sky. King Vegeta had been ready to create one even before the battle began.
Louis had watched King Vegeta and the others fighting Frieza from start to finish.
The Saiyans had grown a great deal over the past dozen years.
Frieza's forces were no match for the Saiyans.
Seeing King Vegeta throw a dazzling sphere of light into the sky—
"Are they transforming into Great Apes?"
Far off on the horizon, Louis felt his tail twitching nonstop. He didn't dare look toward King Vegeta and the others again.
Suddenly.
Louis looked up sharply. He sensed four auras breaking through Namek's atmosphere.
The four auras were familiar.
"Kakarot, Vegeta, you're finally here!"
Outside Namek, a medium-sized spaceship entered the atmosphere.
"Vegeta, can you sense it? That's an incredibly powerful ki!" Son Goku clenched his fists, his blood beginning to boil.
"I can. That evil aura has to be Frieza's power."
During their years on Earth, Vegeta and the others had learned how to control and sense "ki."
Vegeta looked down at the ground through the spaceship's transparent window.
"That aura is terrifying. His power level must be over a million. I wonder how my father and the others are doing!"
"A million?"
Raditz was startled. "Can we beat Frieza?"
Nappa gritted his teeth. "So what if he has a power level of a million? If we transform into Great Apes, we can reach a million too!"
Nappa had barely finished speaking when three violent auras suddenly appeared below them on Namek.
"Raditz, hurry up and speed up! My father must have transformed into a Great Ape!"
An Artificial Moon hung in the sky over Namek.
"Roar..."
"Roar..."
"Roar..."
Three terrifying roars rang out across the entire battlefield.
Bibert, Theodore, and King Vegeta transformed into Great Apes.
Their power levels soared past one million.
The other Saiyans didn't dare look at the moon. They weren't Elite Warriors, and they couldn't stay rational after transforming into Great Apes.
Bardock was the same. He didn't dare look up and kept his eyes firmly fixed on Frieza.
"Hahaha! You can transform, but so can we Saiyans!"
Bardock didn't know that Frieza hadn't transformed; he had merely unlocked a new form.
"Frieza, die!"
King Vegeta had successfully transformed into a Great Ape and managed to stay rational.
He, Bibert, and Theodore attacked Frieza at the same time.
Lightning flashed across the sky!
The wind howled!
The three Great Apes instantly grappled with Frieza in midair.
Ten minutes into the fight—
The three Great Apes were indeed very strong. Every punch made space tremble.
But...
The Great Apes were clearly slower than Frieza, who could easily dodge their attacks.
Thankfully, they outnumbered him three to one!
With Bardock occasionally sneaking in an attack, King Vegeta's side managed to avoid falling behind.
"Damn Saiyan monkeys!"
Frieza dodged a punch and retreated a hundred meters.
He clenched his fists, burning with rage.
If he were only facing one Great Ape with a power level of a million, there'd be nothing to worry about. He could even handle two Great Apes at once without much trouble.
With three more million-power Great Apes appearing all at once, this was quite a predicament!
Frieza glanced around again. By now, all his men were dead.
Not a single Saiyan had fallen, and only a few had suffered serious injuries at most!
"Frieza, surrender!"
King Vegeta, in Great Ape form, flew in front of Frieza and glared at him.
Bibert, Theodore, and Bardock circled nearby, forming a pincer.
"Bardock, you were right before. I really am wary of you Saiyans."
Frieza looked at Bardock ahead of him and said coldly,
"Now I see that my wariness wasn't misplaced. In that case, I'll stop holding back. I'll kill you all, then find the Dragon Balls and take revenge on your Candidate God of Destruction!"
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