"Serious?"
Hearing Lin Chen's words, Son Goku shook his head.
"Wake up. Do you really think you can beat me as you are now?"
"Hm?"
Lin Chen frowned, puzzled.
Had Son Goku gotten full of himself?
Who had given him the confidence to think that Lin Chen was no match for him?
Lin Chen folded his arms, looking entertained as he waited for Son Goku to continue.
"Lin Chen, I have to admit that Super Saiyan God is a powerful transformation, but there's something you may not have noticed. That transformation is nothing more than an imitation of a god."
Hm?
Lin Chen's eyes lit up.
Son Goku's viewpoint was rather new to him.
"An imitation of a god?"
"That's right. Your appearance, your ki-I can feel how similar they are to the Supreme Kai's. In the other worlds I've seen, the ki of those deities called Gods of Destruction was even closer."
"Your Super Saiyan God is really just imitating their ki."
"But Super Saiyan 4 is different! My power is rooted in the Saiyan bloodline within me! This is the true way for Saiyans to grow stronger!"
"What?"
For a moment, Lin Chen was dazed.
He realized that what this timeline's Son Goku had said actually made some sense.
The clearest living example was undoubtedly Broly.
Even now, Broly still couldn't transform into a Super Saiyan God, yet with his Legendary Super Saiyan Form alone, he could utterly trounce Son Goku and Vegeta in Super Saiyan Blue.
Seeing the uncertainty in Lin Chen's eyes, Son Goku continued, "You come from another timeline, so I don't know whether Vegeta and the others in your timeline ever said anything like this..."
"In my timeline, when my big brother Raditz first came to Earth and saw that I'd lost my tail,