"Beyond Super Saiyan?!"
Gohan was shaken to his core, his face filled with disbelief.
"Is something like that really possible?"
Xia Le nodded firmly. "Of course! And right now, Gohan, you have the best chance of achieving it out of the three of us."
"Me?!"
Son Gohan pointed at himself, looking doubtful.
"But I have no idea where to even start."
Xia Le chuckled, his gaze profound. "If you don't try, how will you ever have a chance?"
"Gohan, the main reason your strength hasn't improved much over all these years is that your training has lacked direction."
"And that's something I can help you with!"
At those words, Gohan felt a jolt of excitement. "Really? Xia Le!"
Though he didn't know why, he trusted the man before him completely.
"So."
"Gohan, help me become a Super Saiyan first!"
Xia Le grinned.
"Huh?!"
Son Gohan froze.
Trunks rolled his eyes beside them, silently thinking how gullible Gohan was to actually believe Xia Le.
After all, Gohan was still the strongest of the three.
Still.
Super Saiyan 2?
Could they really achieve it?
A little while later.
The three moved to another location.
"Gohan, let me see a real Super Saiyan transformation first."
Xia Le spoke up.
Son Gohan smiled and nodded. "Sure!"
He also felt that Xia Le had secrets of his own. Otherwise, his power couldn't have skyrocketed to a million in just half a day.
At that rate, he would probably catch up to Gohan before long.
He had once asked Aunt Bulma to estimate his power level, and before his recent injury, it should have been around two hundred million as a Super Saiyan 1.
After recovering from that injury not long ago, he was already approaching three hundred million.
The Artificial Humans, meanwhile, were above three