After Blowing Up Dodoria, My Stamina Was Depleted. I Was Walking to the Spaceship When My Hairs Stood on End Midway

Gou Kong had no intention of slowing down. His foot smashed hard through the rock layer beneath him, and his body shot toward Dodoria like a cannonball.

The air was compressed by him until it let out thunderous blasts. Broken stones along his path were flipped backward more than a dozen meters by the shockwave, and the hard plateau surface turned as soft as rotten mud under his feet. Every step left a half-meter-deep footprint, with spiderweb cracks spreading wildly in every direction.

Dodoria had just gotten to his feet while clutching his collapsed nose bridge. Before he could even wipe the blood from his face, he met Gou Kong's eyes, blazing with fury.

His pupils shrank sharply. He had just started to raise his arms to block when Gou Kong's knee, carrying overwhelming force, slammed viciously into his face!

Crack—!

The clear sound of bone splintering stabbed painfully at the eardrums. Dodoria screamed in agony, his entire body pitching backward out of control.

How could Gou Kong give him a chance to escape? He followed through and pounced on him, pinning him down in a standard mounted position. His arms lifted high, and without even bothering to adjust his breathing, his fists came smashing down like a torrential storm.

"W-wait—!"

Dodoria's face was swollen like a steamed bun. He had only managed to squeeze out a few words before Gou Kong's fist mercilessly blasted into his already-collapsed nose bridge.

Bang!

The first punch smashed blood from his nostrils, and the second followed right after it, giving him no chance to catch his breath at all.

Then the third punch and fourth punch fell like rapid-fire cannon shots, leaving not even half a second to recover!

The fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth punches all slammed into the same spot, battering that pink-skinned toad until his features could no longer be made out. He could not even let out a groan.

By the tenth punch, the rock layer beneath Dodoria finally could not withstand the continuous immense force. It cracked with sharp snaps, collapsing and sinking outward in all directions.

But Gou Kong did not care in the slightest. His punching speed did not decrease by even half a fraction, and he blasted out over a hundred punches in one breath!

Boom! Boom! Boom—!

The shockwaves kicked up by the unending fist shadows blew the surrounding earth apart inch by inch, as if a natural disaster had descended. The entire plateau trembled violently, and rolling dust surged more than a hundred meters into the air, hanging over the battlefield like a gray-black mushroom cloud.

The muffled thuds of fists hitting flesh merged into one continuous sound, enough to make one's scalp tingle. Thick dust was shaken into the sky, dyeing half the heavens gray.

Looking at Dodoria beneath him, utterly powerless to fight back, Gou Kong could not help throwing his head back and laughing wildly. His laughter shook the dust into churning waves, venting all the frustration of having been suppressed and beaten by this pink-skinned toad earlier. It felt so damn good that even the top of his skull went numb.

After throwing over a hundred punches, Gou Kong finally felt his arms grow heavy, his lungs burning in agony, and even his breath carried the taste of blood.

He took a deep breath and poured all 19,000 points of energy in his body into his right fist. The power of this final strike was even more terrifying than all his previous attacks combined!

Rumble—!

The terrifying force of the punch directly shattered the rock layer within a hundred meters. The ground sank violently, and in the blink of an eye, a giant crater several hundred meters in diameter had been smashed open. The dust surged even higher than the gray haze that shrouded Planet Vegeta year-round.

Gou Kong stood up from his mounted position over Dodoria and took a few steps back, lowering his head to look.

This ace officer under Frieza was now rolling his eyes back, his limbs limp as rotten mud, unable to move at all. The green scouter hanging by his ear had long since been shattered to pieces by the force of the punches, leaving only half a wrecked remnant swaying there.

Gou Kong grinned. The pink-skinned toad who had been so arrogant just moments ago was now worse than a dead dog.

Strangely enough, aside from the bit of pain when Dodoria's sneak attack had smashed him in the face earlier, Gou Kong had not suffered any real injuries at all.

This pink-skinned toad's combat power was several thousand points higher than his, yet he had been surprisingly easy to deal with in a fight. Aside from landing that sneak attack at the very beginning, he had been suppressed by Gou Kong the entire time afterward.

It was just that the Energy Body-Forging Technique's consumption was truly absurd. His stamina drained faster than if he were getting beaten, completely exceeding his expectations.

Winning was enough. In the end, it was still a good result.

Only after Gou Kong confirmed that Dodoria had completely stopped breathing did he withdraw the waves of energy around him, actively restraining his 19,000 combat power.

The muscles that had bulged like rock because of the Energy Body-Forging Technique instantly shrank back to normal size. The terrifying energy consumption made his vision go black, and he nearly planted himself into the crater. He staggered several steps before barely managing to steady himself.

When the spinning black fog before his eyes slowly dispersed, Gou Kong looked up and saw King Vegeta City burning crimson in the distance. The Frieza Force's energy cannons were still continuously bombarding the city, and the flames lit up half the sky.

He gave a derisive laugh, then turned and headed toward the depths of the plateau where he had hidden his Space Pod.

Going to the royal city, which had already been blasted into a sea of flames, was pure suicide. There was no point to it at all.

Frieza had made his move a month faster than he had expected, throwing all his escape plans into chaos.

It would be a lie to say he did not feel bad about Bardock and Gine, but in this situation, he could barely protect himself. How could he have any spare strength to save others?

Those who wanted to live could struggle for their own lives.

Besides, according to the original line of fate, even without his help, Bardock would eventually detonate the energy inside his body, travel back to the past, and leave behind a spark.

Gine...

There really was nothing he could do. But she and Bardock were both people from the established fate. There was no need for him, an outsider, to forcefully interfere.

He could not throw away his own life for two unrelated people.

That bit of guilt in his heart stabbed at him like a thorn, but Gou Kong still gritted his teeth and turned around.

From the first day he had transmigrated to Planet Vegeta, he had desperately built up his combat power, hidden a ship, and calculated the timing, all so he could escape alive today.

This chance had been bought with his life. He absolutely could not waste it.

"Sorry, you two. I can only look after myself first."

He had originally wanted to fly over directly with the Flight Technique, but as soon as he tried to raise his energy, his chest felt stifled, and his body felt terribly empty. Even lifting an arm took effort, so he simply moved forward step by step.

In any case, Dodoria had already been hammered to death by him. There was no one left on this plateau who could stop him. Slow was slow. Recovering his stamina first was the proper thing to do.

As he walked one step and gasped three times, Gou Kong simply went over the battle with Dodoria from beginning to end.

Now that he thought about it, this pink-skinned toad's combat power was quite a bit higher than his, yet he had performed so poorly in the fight. Most likely, he had underestimated him too much and had also been stunned by Gou Kong's opening headbutt, so he had never managed to bring out his real strength afterward.

Still, being able to fight a real battle against an expert of this level would be greatly beneficial for his future improvement. The next time he ran into Zarbon or those guys from the Ginyu Force, he would not be caught completely off guard.

The wind over the plateau blew over with the smell of sulfur, gradually scattering the dust that filled the sky.

Gou Kong was just planning to gnaw down a couple tubes of high-energy nutrient solution to replenish his stamina once he reached the ship when, suddenly, the hair on his back stood on end.

"No, something's still wrong."