Uchiha Hikaru had already angered King Kai, and since King Kai knew his strength, he would go all out from the start.
Hikaru had known that his current ki was already comparable to when he transformed into a Super Saiyan.
Logically, he should have been able to defeat early-stage Frieza. Yet now King Kai had utterly crushed him. Didn't that mean King Kai was far more formidable than he remembered?
That was indeed the case. Among the gods, the Cosmic Gods were ranked from Zeno God, to the Gods of Destruction and Grand Kaioshin, then Kaioshin, followed by Grand Kai, King Kai, Yama, and Kami, with the lesser gods beneath them.
By rights, even peak Golden Frieza was only about on par with Son Goku's Super Saiyan Blue in his godly state.
Below that were nine more forms. In other words, Frieza's Super Saiyan 4 was roughly equivalent to Son Goku's first-stage Super Saiyan.
When he first fought Son Goku, he had only been at Super Saiyan 3. Uchiha Hikaru now possessed the strength of a first-stage Super Saiyan, yet he could not defeat King Kai. That meant King Kai's strength was terrifying, definitely surpassing the average Super Saiyan.
Still, no matter how strong he was, he could not surpass Super Saiyan Two.
After all, when Son Goku battled Cell as a Super Saiyan Two, it triggered Cell's self-destruction. Son Goku then used Teleportation to bring him to King Kai's Realm.
King Kai had been blown to death by Cell when Cell was at roughly that level.
So, measured in power levels, King Kai's strength lay somewhere between first-stage Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan Two.
It seemed he had underestimated King Kai. Yet apart from the blood trickling from the corner of Uchiha Hikaru's mouth, his face was filled with