"Beep, beep, beep!"
When Vegeta saw the readings on his Scouter, he finally turned back, despite having been ready to leave.
"180,000, 140,000... even the others are over 100,000? Raditz?"
"Vegeta, I'm getting the same readings! Kakarot's battle power has reached 180,000? Were they hiding their ki?"
"Impossible! Even if they were hiding their ki, they couldn't hide that much. Are they using some kind of technique?"
Vegeta looked at the red auras blazing around Son Goku and the others as he voiced his guess.
And just as he finished speaking, the red auras around Son Goku and the others suddenly dispersed, and their battle power instantly dropped severalfold.
"So that's it... they really do have a technique that can multiply their battle power in an instant..."
An icy chill seeped into Vegeta's stern expression. For the first time, he began taking these Earth warriors he had previously scorned seriously.
Meanwhile, on Son Goku's side, Yamcha and Chiaotzu immediately collapsed after stopping their Kaioken.
"Yamcha, Chiaotzu!" Son Goku shouted. "What happened to them?"
"Oh no! They might have used a Kaioken multiplier beyond their limits!" Krillin guessed.
Everyone there had used Kaioken to deal with the metal Saibamen.
But because their strength differed, each had used a different Kaioken multiplier to defeat the metal Saibamen.
Goku and Piccolo had easily defeated their opponents with just Kaioken x2.
Krillin and the others, however, had needed at least Kaio-ken x4 to match the Metal Saibaman's strength.
Yamcha and Chiaotzu, who had the lowest battle power, had gone straight to Kaioken x5, exceeding what their bodies could withstand!
Although Kaioken could multiply someone's battle power for a short time, it also placed an enormous strain on the body, effectively applying an HP-draining debuff. To raise the maximum Kaioken multiplier their bodies could withstand,