Zzz—zzz—zzz!
He had yet to transform, and no aura had ignited around his body.
Yet arcs of deep blue lightning were already darting out like living creatures, crackling as they snaked around him.
As the electric light flickered, Bardock, Xuesaiya, Xuesaili, and Palanti, standing behind Barros, all went pale at once!
Compared to the others, Xuesaiya, Xuesaili, Palanti, and Bardock felt their hearts sink sharply. A crushing pressure from the deepest depths of their bloodline, carrying an instinctive submission of the soul, descended upon them without warning.
Before they could even think of resisting, the four of them, who had steadily maintained their Super Saiyan forms, were forcibly reverted to normal!
The instant they returned to their base forms, it felt as though every ounce of strength had been drained from their limbs and bones. Weakness flooded through them like a tide. The shock had yet to fade from their faces, but even lifting their eyes now seemed difficult.
This was completely different from exhausting their strength and being unable to maintain the form—
They had been forcibly stripped of it, utterly suppressed! In that instant, it was as if their power, bloodline, and even their right to transform had silently been taken away.
The chill brought by the unknown, the sudden fear and submission, and that utterly inexplicable collapse of their forms...
At this moment, as the four looked at Barros, only two words remained in their eyes—cold, piercing, suffocating—
Deprivation!
Yes. After their brief daze, those were the only words they could think of.
Power, bloodline, Super Saiyan state...
No resistance, no buffer, no room to struggle—all of it had been stripped away.
Other than "deprivation," no words could describe that fleeting yet bone-deep sensation of collapse.
Just as Bardock and the others were scared out of their