Rumble!
The terrifying energy appeared in the universe as quickly as it vanished.
Soon, everything was peaceful again.
Lin Chen stared coldly ahead. A thousand meters in front of him, a bloodied, mangled body floated through space.
It was none other than Frieza, the once all-powerful emperor of the universe.
But now, less than a quarter of his original body remained.
Frieza's entire lower body was gone, as were both his hands. The part of his head that had been repaired with machinery had also been completely destroyed.
And yet, somehow, Frieza's life signs still remained!
He had taken Lin Chen's Instant Transmission Kamehameha head-on while Lin Chen was in his Super Saiyan form, and he still wasn't dead. His vitality was truly terrifying.
Lin Chen now understood why Cell could revive even after his entire upper body had vanished, despite Piccolo being beaten to death by Nappa with a single blast.
The difference was that Frieza's race possessed extraordinarily powerful life force.
Lin Chen floated up in front of Frieza, looked at him, and raised his right hand, ready to deliver the final blow.
As if he knew there was no escaping his fate this time, Frieza's face took on a pleading expression.
"P-please, save me... Forgive me!"
"Save you? I'm no Son Goku. I don't have his foolish mercy!" Lin Chen sneered.
Frieza didn't understand who Lin Chen meant by Son Goku, but he understood that Lin Chen had no intention of sparing him.
Fear gradually gave way to despair, then turned to rage.
"Saiyan! This time... you win... but at least... I've taken plenty of Saiyans down with me... and that female Saiyan, she must be your mate... Hahaha... When we get to Hell, I'll make sure to teach them a thing or two!"
"Idiot. They won't be going to Hell with you," Lin Chen said coldly.
"What?"
"After you die, I'll find the Dragon Balls and bring Hanasia and the others back to life! I can even restore Tiwei Planet!"
"D-Dragon Balls?"
"So go to Hell by yourself!"
Lin Chen pointed, and a golden beam of energy shot out, identical to Frieza's Death Beam. It sliced off Frieza's remaining right arm.
"Death Beam? W-why do you know my technique?"
"It's a simple trick. I only had to see it once. Frieza, I'll let you die by your own technique!"
With that, Lin Chen fired five more Death Beams. Each one completely vaporized what remained of Frieza's body.
As the last Death Beam shot toward Frieza's head, he screamed, "I don't want to die!"
The vicious emperor of the universe, infamous throughout the Dragon Ball world, was finally dead.
This time, Frieza's body had been completely destroyed and vaporized. No technology, no matter how advanced, could bring him back to life.
After finishing off Frieza, Lin Chen turned toward the Frieza Force ships in the distance and slowly spread his fingers.
The Frieza Force soldiers aboard the ships cried out in alarm.
"Run! Run for it!"
Come on! It was King Frieza who'd picked a fight with you. You were insanely powerful—why were you going after us little nobodies?
The aliens were in tears.
But just as the enormous spaceship started up, a powerful blast of energy tore across the sky and surged toward it.
The spaceship exploded into pieces, and the aliens inside were all melted by the intense heat.
"Hm?"
Lin Chen suddenly furrowed his brow.
Just before Frieza's spaceship had exploded, he thought he'd seen a small, spherical ship escape.
Should he chase after it?
Lin Chen thought it over, then decided to leave it alone.
It was only some insignificant Frieza Force underling, not worth going out of his way for. It was more important to hurry and bring Hanasia and the others back to life.
With that thought, Lin Chen used Instant Transmission and left the area.
What Lin Chen didn't know was that the one aboard the small ship that had escaped ahead of the others wasn't some insignificant underling at all. It was Captain Ginyu!
When this elite, Frieza's ace, saw Lin Chen slaughter Frieza, he reacted faster than the others. He immediately fled aboard one of the spherical ships used by combatants, narrowly escaping with his life.
Now, watching his former mothership disappear in the shock wave, Ginyu gasped for breath, looking like a man who'd just cheated death.
"Thank goodness... Thank goodness I got away in time!"
"Saiyans... I never imagined Saiyans could have such terrifying power..."
"But just you wait, Saiyan! I'll bring King Frieza back to life! The Frieza Force will rise again!" Captain Ginyu shouted.
Thanks to the spaceship's advanced equipment, everyone aboard—including Ginyu—had heard about the Dragon Balls when Lin Chen told Frieza about them.
The others aboard had paid it little mind, but Ginyu remembered a legend he'd once heard.
According to the legend, there was a mysterious race in the universe called the Namekians, who had the incredible ability to create wish-granting orbs.
It was said that if you gathered all seven, you could have any wish granted.
The Dragon Balls that Saiyan had mentioned had to be those wish-granting orbs!
So the legend was true. Such things really existed!
"Just you wait! I, Ginyu, will get the Dragon Balls, revive King Frieza and the Ginyu Force, and then we'll have our revenge!"
Captain Ginyu shouted inside the spaceship.
Meanwhile, in space tens of thousands of kilometers from Tiwei Planet, a spherical spaceship of the same model as Frieza's mothership began to accelerate, heading away from the planet.
"King Cooler, King Frieza's life signs have disappeared!"
As one of the aliens reported this, gasps rang out across the ship.
"What? King Frieza is dead?"
"Are Super Saiyans really that powerful?"
Just then, an egg-shaped flying pod drifted in front of them.
A voice resembling Frieza's came from inside it.
"Quiet! Frieza was always so naïve!"
"He learned his lesson from the Saiyans last time, yet still failed to heed the warning. He brought this on himself!"
At the sight of the occupant of the egg-shaped pod, all the aliens present fell to their knees.
For seated inside was their master: Cooler, the elder brother of Frieza, emperor of the universe.
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