Miracles Exhausted!

Crack.

Son Gohan exerted force through his feet, instantly shattering Vegeta's sternum and causing his entire chest cavity to cave in.

A massive amount of blood, mixed with fragments of internal organs, gushed from Vegeta's mouth.

But the next moment, a dense white light erupted once more; the collapsed chest cavity bulged back out at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the broken bones knit themselves back together as if they had never been damaged.

BOOM!

A violent golden aura forced Son Gohan back half a step.

His power level climbed once again.

Sixteen trillion!

Vegeta flipped and leaped up, his right leg swinging down like a battle-axe toward the side of Son Gohan's neck.

Bang!

Son Gohan blocked with a single arm, taking the blow head-on before countering with a heavy punch to the side of Vegeta's face. Half of Vegeta's jaw was blown away, and his body was sent flying like a cannonball into an armory in the distance.

But in less than a second, an unscathed Vegeta soared back into the sky, his power level skyrocketing to twenty trillion!

Son Gohan stood his ground, letting his green aura burn wildly across his body.

He was waiting for Vegeta to recover and grow stronger time and time again. Only by fighting an equal or superior opponent could the traits of the Legendary Super Saiyan be fully realized—the stronger the opponent, the more intense the desire to fight, and the faster the combat power would rise!

Vegeta, bolstered by Miracle Power, was undoubtedly an excellent stepping stone.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Above the ruins, two streaks of light collided again and again.

With every clash, Vegeta was shattered by Son Gohan in an increasingly brutal fashion. Arms were snapped, abdomens were pierced, and skulls were fractured. But the white light always pulled him back at the moment of death, granting him even greater strength.

Thirty trillion.

Forty trillion.

Fifty trillion!

In the distance, several Saiyan officers hiding behind blast-proof bunkers gripped their latest tactical scouters tightly. The numbers on the screens were jumping faster and faster!

"Sixty trillion..." one officer knelt on the ground, trembling all over. "These two monsters... they're going to crack the entire planet apart!"

BOOM!

In mid-air, Vegeta slammed a fist into the side of Son Gohan's face. Son Gohan's head jerked to the side, and his body slid backward for hundreds of meters.

Vegeta hovered in mid-air, glancing at his own fists—unscathed and brimming with explosive power—before throwing his head back in a hysterical, manic laugh.

"Hahahaha! I hit you!"

The Super Saiyan 3 aura around Vegeta's body became almost tangible, with golden arcs of electricity dancing wildly. The Miracle Power had forcibly pushed his combat power to match Son Gohan's!

"You were acting so arrogant just a moment ago, weren't you, Son Gohan!" Vegeta raised both hands, palms aimed at Son Gohan below. "The Legendary Super Saiyan isn't all that special! I have already surpassed you!"

Countless golden, highly compressed energy blasts poured down like a torrential rain.

Vegeta had unleashed the classic Prince-style barrage!

The dense swarm of light blasts sealed off all of Son Gohan's escape routes, filling the entire sky with blinding golden light.

Son Gohan cracked his neck, his lips curling into a wild, savage grin.

"You're celebrating too early."

He raised his lone right hand, palm facing upward, and the violent green energy instantly split into thousands of emerald-like orbs, rising up to counter the golden rain from above.

Explosive Meteor!

Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom!

The green and golden energy blasts collided violently in mid-air, turning the entire horizon into a sea of fire composed of destructive energy. The chain of explosions shook the crust so severely that it collapsed on a massive scale, and magma surged out through the fissures.

Vegeta tore through the sea of fire, closing the distance to Son Gohan in an instant.

"Big Bang Attack!"

He thrust one hand forward, and a blinding golden orb detonated less than half a meter from Son Gohan's face.

Son Gohan did not dodge or retreat; his right hand condensed a high-pressure green energy sphere, and he smashed it straight into the attack.

"Massive Meteor!"

Two energies reaching the tens of trillions exploded at point-blank range. The terrifying recoil sent both of them flying. Son Gohan crashed into the magma lake below, kicking up waves of molten rock hundreds of feet high; Vegeta was blasted into the wreckage of a downed heavy battleship, shattering its indestructible interstellar armor into a cloud of debris.

Splash.

Son Gohan soared out of the magma, not even a trace of a burn on his body. The physique and energy shield of the Legendary Super Saiyan were defensive to the extreme.

On the other side, Vegeta smashed through the battleship and emerged. The left side of his body had been blown away in the previous clash, but the white light squirmed rapidly, and within two seconds, a brand-new torso had regrown.

The battle between the two had reached a fever pitch.

They fought from the high heavens to the planet's core, then killed their way back to the stratosphere.

"Go to hell! Final Flash!!!"

Vegeta clasped his hands together ten thousand meters in the air, and a golden beam of light, thick enough to pierce the moon, roared downward.

Below, Son Gohan stood with his feet slightly apart and raised his right arm. Gold and green energy compressed frantically in his palm before transforming into an equally massive beam of destruction that surged upward to meet the attack.

"Massive Masenko!"

BOOM!

The two beams locked together in mid-air. The distortion of space reached its limit, and pitch-black rifts in the fabric of reality began to appear around them.

Seventy trillion.

Eighty trillion.

One hundred trillion!

The battle between the two had lasted for a long time.

In their unbridled exchange of blows and life-or-death struggle, their combat power had soared to a suffocating, astronomical figure.

The dark red sky had been completely torn apart, exposing the starry expanse of outer space directly above their heads.

"Push it back!" Vegeta's eyes were bloodshot as he desperately channeled the ki within him, trying to crush Son Gohan's Masenko.

Son Gohan exerted force with a single arm, and his violent Legendary Super Saiyan aura erupted like a volcano, forcing the Final Flash back.

The beam grazed Vegeta's shoulder and shot into space, instantly vaporizing tens of thousands of warships on the outer space defense line.

"Tch!" Vegeta gritted his teeth and shook his scorched shoulder. He tried to call upon the Miracle Power within his body to heal the wound and then use that momentum to push his strength even further.

But this time, things had changed.

The surging white light he expected did not appear. Only a few faint wisps of white luminescence flickered over the wound on his shoulder, barely repairing the skin before extinguishing completely.

Vegeta froze.

He tried to channel the Miracle Power again, but his body was empty. That power, which could ignore all rules and twist reality, had vanished.

Miracles were not infinite. The Miracle Power Kakarot had bestowed upon him ultimately had a limit.

One hundred trillion in combat power, combined with the countless times he had regenerated severed limbs, had completely drained his reserves.

Vegeta's heart skipped a beat. An unprecedented chill crept up his spine to the back of his head.

Without the Miracle Power, it meant he was no longer immortal, nor could he continue to grow stronger without end.

And standing opposite him was Son Gohan.

BOOM!

The grass-green aura surged once more. The wild aura radiating from Son Gohan not only failed to weaken, but became even more savage and profound amidst the high-intensity combat. The inexhaustible energy pool of the Legendary Super Saiyan knew nothing of fatigue.

One hundred and ten trillion.

One hundred and twenty trillion.

Son Gohan's combat power was still skyrocketing, with no sign of stopping!

"How is this possible..." Vegeta stared blankly at the green figure before him, who resembled an ancient demon god, his voice trembling.

His prized talisman had run dry, yet where was the other's limit?!

SWISH!

Son Gohan's figure vanished from where he stood.

Before Vegeta could even track the afterimage, an unimaginable pain erupted in his abdomen.

BANG!

Son Gohan delivered a heavy knee strike directly into Vegeta's stomach.

This time, no white light emerged to protect his body. Vegeta's stomach was pierced through, and the excruciating pain instantly overwhelmed his reason. He opened his mouth, and blood mixed with fragments of flesh sprayed out in a torrent.

"Don't stop now, Vegeta! Let's keep fighting!"

Son Gohan's arrogant voice rang out. He raised his right fist high, and with a dull sonic boom, it slammed solidly into Vegeta's face.

BOOM!

Vegeta's nasal bone shattered instantly, and he plummeted toward the ground like a meteor, smashing a bottomless crater into the devastated earth.

He tried to stand. Just as his right arm braced against the ground, Son Gohan descended from the sky and stomped heavily onto his back.

CRACK.

The sound of his spine snapping was jarringly loud in the deathly silent ruins.

"AAAAAAH!" Vegeta let out a shrill scream. He desperately tried to squeeze ki from his body, but his golden Super Saiyan 3 hair began to regress uncontrollably. It shortened from his waist, the electric arcs dissipated, and finally, it reverted to his short, black, base-form hair.

Power exhausted. The miracle severed.

"Oh? Vegeta, have you reached your limit already?" Son Gohan noticed that Vegeta was not healing his wounds and said in surprise, "I haven't had enough fun yet. You really are trash, Vegeta."