They had been crushed—utterly and decisively!
Earlier, Tejes and the others had been skeptical when Barros said, "Defeating you will take no effort at all."
Only now, after seeing with their own eyes how Bardock was knocked from his pedestal with a single finger while in Super Saiyan form, did they truly believe him. That hadn't been a boast. It had been the truth.
And with Bardock's defeat right before their eyes,
Tejes, Stone Tyrant, and the other Super Saiyans felt their shock give way to an even fiercer desire to fight.
So it wasn't only the hidden powerhouses who had concealed themselves in the depths of the universe for years who could suppress Super Saiyan Bardock with a single finger. Their emperor, Barros, was among them!
The overwhelming gap in strength—more than tenfold—made it seem as though an unfathomable abyss lay between the two.
And because the disparity was so great, Barros had easily beaten Bardock after he transformed without even getting serious.
Just as he'd said: defeating him really took no effort at all.
If he'd truly wanted to kill Bardock, he could have added just a little more force to that finger or followed it up with a blast of ki,
and the Super Saiyan who had once swept across entire star regions would have been erased on the spot.
At the bottom of the crater, Bardock lay on his back, his eyes somewhat vacant.
The first time he'd faced an enemy as a Super Saiyan, his opponent had been Cooler, and he'd nearly lost his life;
the second time, he'd fought Barros before Barros transformed. They'd battled for a long time, and though Bardock had lost, he'd fought with honor;
the third time, facing Barros after he transformed, Bardock had felt only one thing down to