Time passed, little by little.
A minute later.
Far away, a wall of water hundreds of meters high suddenly exploded into the air.
Frieza's figure emerged from it.
It was clear just how furious he was.
His eyes were bloodshot, and there was a streak of blood at the corner of his mouth.
It was the first time he had truly bled since the battle began.
"Damn you, damn you, Namekian!!! I hadn't even attacked you yet, and you went and pushed your luck by ambushing me!!" Frieza hovered in midair, glaring fiercely at Piccolo. "Very well! So you've all decided to join in, have you? In that case, I'll wipe you all out in one go!!"
As he spoke, Frieza only grew angrier. Unable to hold back any longer, he let out a furious roar: "No!! I'll turn you and this entire planet into nothing but dust in the universe!!"
Frieza's roar carried a long way.
Everyone on the battlefield heard it.
Everyone except Ron was shocked by his frenzied appearance.
The Emperor of the Universe was nothing if not direct in his madness: whenever a problem arose, he simply destroyed the planet.
"Damn it! Son Goku, are you done yet? If this goes on, that lunatic Frieza really is going to do something completely insane!" Piccolo gritted his teeth.
He had intended to buy more time, but it was clear now that Frieza had no intention of fighting him hand to hand. Instead, he was going to unleash that terrifying evil energy and destroy Planet Namek.
"Wait a little longer, just a little longer! It's almost there! It's nearly here!!" Son Goku was even more anxious than Piccolo.
Every second counted now.
Piccolo gritted his teeth. All he could do was stand in front of Son Goku and shield him from every attack.
Meanwhile, when Son Gohan and Krillin heard Frieza say he was going to destroy Planet Namek, they immediately tensed up. Their energies gathered, as if they meant to attack Frieza and draw his attention, buying more time.
Ron simply watched without stopping them.
To be honest, it was precisely because Frieza had been repeatedly attacked by them that, in his fury, he eventually failed to notice the Spirit Bomb right above him and got caught when he unleashed the Planet Destroyer Bomb.
"Gohan, let's give it everything we've got left! This is our only chance. We can't just stand by and watch!" Krillin said through gritted teeth.
"Yes, Uncle Krillin!!" Son Gohan nodded solemnly.
"Kamehameha!!!"
"Masenko!!!"
They gathered all their strength into energy blasts and fired them straight at Frieza.
At that moment, Frieza had just raised his hand, preparing to form a Planet Destroyer Bomb.
BOOM!!!
An energy attack came out of nowhere and exploded against his back, making him wince in pain. He turned his gaze toward the cliffs on a distant island.
There he saw Krillin—the one who had cut off his tail—and that little Saiyan brat again. His anger surged beyond control.
"Gnyaaaaaah~~!! Insects! Damn insects! This ends now!!!"
Frieza's hysterical roar rang through the sky.
As he raised his hand once more, a terrifying sphere of energy gathered at his fingertip, radiating an aura of absolute destruction.
The energy ball didn't look very large, but its energy had been compressed to the extreme. Arcs of black lightning danced around it, making it exceptionally terrifying.
Just then, Son Goku sensed something.
He knew that the Spirit Bomb had finally absorbed the life energy from all the surrounding planets and grown enormous. Overjoyed, he shouted out loud.
"It's ready... It's complete!"
"Did it finally work?" Piccolo asked urgently.
Son Goku nodded, and Piccolo shouted even more anxiously, "Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and attack, Son Goku! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"
"I know!" The next second, Son Goku stopped hesitating and slammed both hands downward.
The Spirit Bomb beyond the planet seemed to answer his call. Locking onto Frieza's evil energy, it hurtled straight toward him.
Frieza was in the middle of his rage, completely focused on the fight. He didn't notice anything amiss above him.
Only when a crushing pressure swept down like a mountain did he snap back to his senses. The more powerful energy purified and dispelled the Planet Destroyer Bomb gathering on his fingertip, and Frieza finally looked up.
"Th-this is bad!"
The sight before him made Frieza's heart pound with terror.
The terrifying energy was already closing in. Gritting his teeth, he had no choice but to raise his hands and block it, despite his fear.
As the Emperor of the Universe, he refused to retreat.
"No... I'm not—I'm not afraid! This strange energy can't possibly defeat me. I'll break through it..."
Frieza struggled against the Spirit Bomb. By now, his entire body was wracked with tearing pain.
The Spirit Bomb's power didn't just destroy the body; it also punished the soul.
A Spirit Bomb of this level truly approached a power measured in hundreds of millions.
So it was only natural that Frieza was afraid.
He couldn't stop it!
There was no way he could stop it!
At last, fear took hold of Frieza's heart.
He realized there was no way to escape. The Spirit Bomb swallowed his entire body, then slammed him deep into Planet Namek's crust.
Almost in an instant, an incomprehensibly powerful explosion erupted, its blinding white light seeming to pierce everything in the world.
Hurricane-force winds swept across tens of thousands of miles, and the entire planet shook.
At the center of the blast, a horrifying shock wave crushed almost everything in its path.
Hundreds, even thousands, of islands shattered in an instant, and the seas evaporated.
The scene was like the end of the world.
A nuclear explosion with a yield of tens of billions of tons would have been no different.
Several minutes later, the massive explosion gradually subsided. The surface of the planet across thousands of miles had been utterly transformed.
At the spot where the Spirit Bomb had struck, a terrifying abyssal crater continued to swallow the surrounding waters, as if it were bottomless.
It hadn't punched through Planet Namek, but it had come close to reaching its core.
North Kai's Planet.
After witnessing the destruction caused by the Spirit Bomb, North Kai anxiously sensed the situation.
Only when he confirmed that Goku and the others were still alive, while Frieza's energy seemed to have disappeared, did he finally let go of his lingering worry. His expression turned excited and jubilant.
He even started cheering and jumping for joy.
"Great! I never thought Goku would actually use the Spirit Bomb to defeat that monster Frieza! He really is the student I chose—and it really is my Spirit Bomb!"
North Kai's excited words naturally brought smiles to Yamcha, Tien Shinhan, and Chiaotzu.
"It really worked!"
"I knew that kid Goku could do it!"
"Thank goodness!"
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