As the sky above Planet Vegeta became crowded with artificial moons, beams of Blutz Waves shot toward the surface.
Blutz Waves are a unique form of energy generated during a full moon. Saiyans can absorb this specific wavelength through their eyes, triggering a transformation when combined with their tails: the Great Ape transformation.
As the three moons in the sky reflected in the eyes of the Saiyans below, their bodies began to swell, slowly stretching their battle armor to the limit.
Wild, savage, and powerful auras erupted from these Saiyans in waves.
Their tails elongated, and regardless of gender, their skulls protruded significantly while their teeth sharpened into those of beasts.
Before long, the landscape was occupied by terrifying, twenty-meter-tall Great Apes.
"Saiyans! Charge!"
Bardock, now a Great Ape, beat his chest and roared before launching himself toward the sky.
Behind him, countless other Great Apes took flight, surging toward the Frieza Force ships already entering the stratosphere.
Generally speaking, transforming into a Great Ape causes a Saiyan to lose their sanity, but this loss of control is not entirely absolute.
Trained Saiyans can retain a sliver of reason to complete their missions.
This time, every Saiyan shared a single goal: to annihilate the Frieza Force in the sky.
When such a massive swarm of giant apes took off from the planet, the Frieza Force in space naturally detected their approach.
"Fr-Frieza-sama! Those Saiyans have transformed into Great Apes and are coming this way!"
"What? These lowly Saiyans, what are they trying to do?" a rotund, pink alien beside Frieza exclaimed in a panic.
"Calm down, Dodoria! They're just wild monkeys, no need to be afraid! Order the legionnaires on the ship to sortie!" a handsome alien commanded.
"Y-yes, I understand, Zarbon-san!" Dodoria nodded and immediately issued the order: "Hurry, get the legionnaires on the ship out there! Stop these wild monkeys for me!"
While Dodoria scrambled to issue commands, Zarbon turned to the back, where Emperor Frieza sat in his small hover-pod. "Lord, it seems those Saiyans were well-prepared. I fear your plans have been leaked."
"Ohohoho! They are merely stinking monkeys. If they think this is enough to deal with me, they are far too naive!" Frieza laughed dismissively.
Even though a Saiyan's combat power increases tenfold after transforming into a Great Ape, they were still nowhere near a match for him, with his combat power of 530,000.
Frieza watched the situation unfold with a smile, completely unconcerned.
However, the proud Emperor of the Universe would soon have his face bruised by those very apes.
"Fr-Frieza-sama! Our main force has engaged the Saiyans! In the first wave of attacks, we lost 94% of our soldiers!"
Bang!
A finger beam suddenly struck the head of the soldier reporting the news, blowing his skull to pieces.
Frieza gritted his teeth, suppressing his rage. "Tch! A bunch of useless trash!"
"Frieza-sama, a Saiyan's combat power increases tenfold when they transform. There are at least a hundred of them out there; even the Ginyu Force would find this a handful," Zarbon whispered a warning.
"I know! These damn monkeys... since that's how it is, I'll send them all to hell!" Frieza's smile faded. He rose up and flew directly out from the top of the ship.
"A bunch of wild monkeys—wouldn't it have been better to stay on Planet Vegeta and turn into stardust along with the planet? Why insist on becoming cosmic debris?"
A cruel arc curled at the corner of Frieza's mouth as his body drifted out of the ship, hovering in the vacuum of space.
Directly in front of him, the staggering legion of giant apes was about to reach him.
Frieza raised a finger, preparing to condense his energy, when suddenly...
"Frieza!"
A thunderous shout erupted behind him.
He turned his head to see a Saiyan who hadn't transformed, standing atop the hull of the spaceship.
That Saiyan was none other than Lin Chen!
While all the other Saiyans were transforming into Great Apes, Lin Chen had used their cover to sneak near Frieza's ship.
On Namek, Lin Chen hadn't just gained an increase in raw combat power. He had also fully mastered the Namekian art of ki control.
Thus, while the Frieza Force's attention was drawn to the massive energy signatures of the Great Apes, no one noticed Lin Chen, who had deliberately suppressed his own aura, silently approaching the ship.
Lin Chen's actions were all for this very moment.
As Frieza stood stunned, Lin Chen shifted his gaze toward the artificial moons above Planet Vegeta.
The next moment, his body swelled rapidly like a balloon, and the energy within him erupted, no longer held back by any restraint.
Beep, beep, beep!
100,000, 110,000, 120,000...
The reading on Frieza's scouter climbed incessantly.
The moment the reading hit 180,000, the scouter exploded with a bang.
"D-damn monkey!"
At this moment, Frieza felt a massive sense of threat for the first time.
A Saiyan's Great Ape transformation could increase combat power tenfold, and the Saiyan before him had already displayed a power level of around 100,000 before transforming. If that were multiplied by ten, wouldn't he be even stronger than Frieza's current form?
Frieza jumped from his hover pod in a panic, shattering his battle armor as he prepared to transform...
But just then, Lin Chen, having already transformed into a giant ape, opened his mouth and let out a furious roar at Frieza.
"ROAR!"
A massive shockwave erupted from Lin Chen's mouth, shooting straight toward Frieza!
The colossal blast instantly engulfed the cosmic emperor before he could even begin his transformation. The proud ruler only had time to cry out, "How dare you...", before he turned into a phantom and vanished into the cosmos.
The shockwave that consumed Frieza did not dissipate; instead, as Lin Chen turned his head, it swept directly into Frieza's spaceship.
"Lord Frieza!"
The people on the ship let out desperate screams before they and their vessel were reduced to dust.
Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the first option. Reward: Legendary Super Saiyan bloodline. Would you like to fuse the bloodline immediately?
The long-absent system voice echoed in Lin Chen's mind.
At this moment, he suddenly felt a sense of relief.
Finally, after four whole years, he had accomplished this seemingly impossible task: defeating the cosmic emperor Frieza when his own combat power was a mere 100,000!