The Wrath of God

The cold wind swept across the desolate battlefield, where smoke and dust blanketed the shattered earth.

Jiang Che stood on a split boulder, his black hair stirring gently in the wind as a cold smile tugged at his lips.

"Heh."

His scoff struck like an icicle hitting the ground, so cold it sent a shiver through anyone who heard it.

Jiang Che's gaze was sharp, two blade-like glints fixed on the colossal Great Ape Baby.

"You Tuffles created Baby and made him a weapon to conquer the universe. Put simply, you're no different from the Saiyans. You just lost, so now you're nothing but pitiful wretches."

His voice was low and resonant, every word laced with anger.

The night wind stirred the rubble on the ground, making it clatter softly.

Jiang Che paused. The atmosphere suddenly grew tense, as if even the dust in the air had stopped moving. Only his increasingly icy voice lingered: "As for me..."

Before he could finish, his figure vanished!

This wasn't merely ordinary movement. He had crossed the limits of the naked eye in an instant, leaping out of a half-meter-deep fissure in the ground as rubble flew and dust billowed.

The air seemed to tear open with a sharp crack.

In the next moment, Jiang Che was standing right before Great Ape Baby's enormous nose.

He was so fast that it was suffocating. Baby's blood-red eyes had no time to react.

Jiang Che's presence suddenly appeared before him, and Baby's massive body instinctively shuddered, his thick fur trembling slightly.

Their gazes met—Jiang Che's crimson pupils blazed with fire as he stared into Baby's blood-moon-red eyes.

Time seemed to hold still.

The air was so oppressive it was hard to breathe. Jiang Che's breathing remained steady and powerful; he could even smell the hot, fetid breath rushing from Baby's nostrils.

"I'm a Saiyan. A parasite like you can't control me."

His voice was calm as still water, but every word cut like a knife, carrying murderous intent.

The hem of his black battle suit fluttered slightly from his high-speed movement, and the ancient runes on the silver belt around his waist glimmered in the dim light.

He slowly raised his hand. The air in his palm trembled continuously, giving off a low rumble.

A crimson Ki Blast quickly gathered in his palm, a fist-sized sphere encircled by spiraling energy. Its searing red glow illuminated his resolute profile, while the gravel hissed from the heat.

It was as if lava churned within the Ki Blast, a frenzied power—the energy of a god, the distinctive aura of a God of Super Saiyans!

Baby's body jolted violently.

Fear appeared in his blood-red eyes. The energy made every cell in his body tremble, like an ant facing a deity.

His fur stood on end, and the ground beneath his feet cracked under the panicked force of his movements.

"You..." Baby's voice was hoarse and trembling. He opened his mouth to shout, but could only stumble backward, each clumsy step pounding out a heavy thud and kicking up dust.

But he was too enormous. Before Jiang Che, he was like a giant beast trapped in the mud.

Jiang Che gave him no chance.

He casually flicked his hand, as lightly as if shooing away a fly.

The red Ki Blast became a beam of light, trailing a long tail of flame like a meteor streaking across the sky. A piercing whistle rang through the air.

"Boom!"

The explosion swallowed the entire sky, and a thunderous flash of red light crashed down like lightning.

The shock wave spread outward, violently overturning everything in its path.

Spiderweb cracks split the ground. Boulders were blasted away, and the broken mountain ridge collapsed with a roar.

Huge rocks tumbled from the cliff, raising a storm of dust.

The clouds overhead were blown apart, revealing a blood-red hole, and moonlight poured through.

Great Ape Baby let out a despairing roar. It tore through the air, tragic and hoarse, like the final whimper of a dying beast.

His body crashed to the ground, smashing open a horrifyingly deep crater.

The earth trembled, and soil and rocks flew as high as buildings.

Rubble rolled down the rim of the crater like rain.

A huge hole several meters across had been blasted through Baby's chest. Its edges were charred, and the flesh within was mangled.

Dark red, foul-smelling blood poured out, pooling in a small puddle with a choking, metallic stench.

His limbs twitched twice, his claws scraping deep gouges in the mud, then went limp.

Jiang Che slowly lowered his hand, his movements graceful.

He stood at the edge of the crater, looking down at the fallen beast.

The wind stirred the stray locks over his forehead, revealing his utterly emotionless crimson eyes.

His tone was casual, as if he were merely stating a fact:

"You're just a parasite who survives by living in someone else's body."

The night wind swept across the battlefield, carrying away the stench of blood but leaving behind a heavy, oppressive silence.

Jiang Che's lips curled slightly, his eyes gleaming with a cold light—the look only a predator gave its prey.

"And I—"

He raised his head and lifted his chin. Beneath the moonlight, his crimson eyes were like burning stars.

"You will never be worthy of controlling me."

Great Ape Baby lay sprawled in the deep crater, the bloody hole in his chest gushing dark red blood that flowed slowly along the crater wall like magma from beneath the earth.

The blood hissed and steamed as it hit the rubble, filling the air with a mixture of scorched and metallic odors.

The rocks along the crater's edge were stained dark red, and the earth itself seemed to groan in grief.

He struggled to stand, his thick limbs gouging deep furrows through the rubble, the scraping sound grating on the ears.

But the divine power of Jiang Che's attack had made the Tuffle cells inside him tremble, as if a giant hand had seized his heart, each beat tearing through him with pain.

"W-what... what's going on?" For the first time, fear showed in Baby's voice. A low whimper rose in his throat, like an injured animal struggling in its final moments.

His eyes were wide, Jiang Che reflected in his pupils. The contempt and arrogance were gone, replaced by nothing but confusion and trembling.

He tried to sense Jiang Che's ki, but found nothing around him—as if he weren't facing a person, but an empty phantom.

"Why can't I sense your ki? Why is your power so pure?" Baby's voice was hoarse. He couldn't accept it.

His fingers dug hard into the mud, their tips turning pale with exertion.

Jiang Che looked down at him from above, his body hovering three meters above the edge of the crater.

His crimson hair fluttered in the wind, its tips like flames, gleaming brilliantly in the sunset.

The ground below still trembled from the lingering divine power. Rubble spun in the air before slowly falling with a series of clatters.

Jiang Che's eyes were as calm as a lake, utterly unruffled, as if the giant beast before him were nothing more than a cloud.

A trace of inscrutable composure touched his lips. "You don't need to know the answer."