"You're not Piccolo anymore?"
Cell furrowed his brow, seemingly unable to understand what Piccolo meant, but he quickly cast the thought aside.
"You're right. None of that matters anymore. As long as I absorb you, my power will rise considerably."
Hearing Cell's words, Piccolo's eyes narrowed as he immediately asked, "And after absorbing me, what do you intend to do?"
Cell suddenly said in a very gentlemanly manner, "Since you want to know, I don't mind telling you."
Boom!
A powerful aura suddenly erupted from Cell's body. Sensing it, Piccolo's expression immediately turned grim.
That was because the enormous aura was incredibly chaotic. It contained Son Goku's energy, his own energy, Vegeta's energy—Cell possessed the energy of nearly every strongest fighter on Earth.
"That's Goku's energy, and Frieza's, King Cold's, Vegeta's too... What's going on?"
At Kami's Lookout, Tien Shinhan and the others wore puzzled expressions. They had even sensed their own energy within it.
"No matter what kind of monster he is, his energy is already terrifyingly powerful!" Yamcha's expression was rather unsightly.
Seeing the shock on Piccolo's face, Cell spoke with pride. "I was one of the earliest android projects developed by Dr. Gero. My purpose was to gather the cells of all the strongest fighters and create the most powerful life-form on Earth!"
"Combining the strengths of every powerful fighter while discarding their weaknesses, I was ultimately born."
Piccolo continued probing. "What strongest fighters? Why do I feel like you're nowhere near as strong as those androids?"
Cell sneered. "They're just modified human projects in the end, with limits to their growth. I'm different. I possess unlimited potential for growth, and to me, they're nothing more than nutrients."
Piccolo noticed the word "nutrients" and immediately said, "Their strength can only serve as your nutrients? What kind