"Sorry! I have no interest in being anyone's subordinate!"
"If you want to change your mind and leave right now, I'll still give you one more chance.
"Otherwise, once the battle begins, what awaits you will be a nightmare.
"An endless nightmare. When it stops will be entirely up to me."
Tien Shinhan calmly rejected King Vegeta's appreciation for his talent.
Instead, thinking of how terrifying he now was in battle, he kindly gave King Vegeta another chance to surrender outright.
But King Vegeta scoffed at Tien Shinhan's kindness.
"Heh, how utterly arrogant! Are you trying to stall until your companions or the Tuffles' weapons can help you?
"Keep dreaming. They can't do a thing!"
As soon as King Vegeta finished speaking, he flared his Ki and hurled an energy ball at Tien Shinhan.
In his view, that single energy ball was enough to leave Tien Shinhan scrambling.
Contrary to his expectations, however, Tien Shinhan simply took a calm step sideways and dodged the attack.
"Very well. Unprompted kindness only invites misunderstanding and ingratitude.
"Since you don't value your last chance to reconsider, I'll respect your choice!"
Having dodged the energy ball, Tien Shinhan abruptly flickered into a position less than ten meters to King Vegeta's right.
With King Vegeta's battle power, he could naturally follow Tien Shinhan's movement.
So the instant Tien Shinhan appeared beside him, his gaze had already turned to follow.
What he did not know was that Tien Shinhan had moved so quickly precisely to draw his gaze.
Neo Solar Flare!
In an instant-
A burst of dazzling white light, accompanied by violent Ki fluctuations, assaulted King Vegeta.
"Aah-!"
A scream suddenly rang out, only to cut off moments later.
King Vegeta's eyes stung, and tears instantly streamed uncontrollably from their corners.
The accompanying violent Ki fluctuations even numbed him so badly that snot involuntarily ran from his nose.
The sudden pain in his eyes and dizziness in his head made him scream instinctively.
Only when reason regained the upper hand did he forcibly choke off his half-finished scream to preserve his kingly image.
But temporarily blinded and with his head numb, how could he know that his cry had already drawn many Saiyan warriors' attention to his current appearance?
The normally exalted, lofty king of the Saiyans now had tears and snot smeared all over his face, with not a shred of dignity remaining.
Having always fought through sheer numerical superiority, when had King Vegeta ever encountered a crafty move like Tien Shinhan opening with a disruptive special technique?
For Tien Shinhan, however, this was only the beginning.
At that moment, Tien Shinhan was excited.
Although he had given King Vegeta a chance to surrender and reconsider, deep down, he had not actually wanted King Vegeta to surrender outright.
Fortunately, King Vegeta had indeed refused to surrender outright.
Now that he had such a high-quality enemy, Tien Shinhan very much wanted to make him serve as expendable training material.
Neo Four Witches Technique!
After using the Neo Multi-Form Technique, Tien Shinhan immediately unleashed another special technique he had created himself.
Having grown eight arms, Tien Shinhan immediately moved in front of King Vegeta and rapidly swung all his fists at him.
"Ora ora ora ora!"
Thunderous punches rained down on King Vegeta in rapid succession.
Although King Vegeta did not know Ki Sensing and had never encountered many crafty combat tricks,
he still had a wealth of combat experience.
Even without any particular techniques, the combat instincts and intuition he had accumulated and honed over the years were incredibly powerful.
With sound to aid him, he successfully identified Tien Shinhan's position.
"Muda muda muda muda!"
Facing Tien Shinhan's relentless punches, King Vegeta relied on his combat intuition to meet him fist for fist.
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam...
It had to be said that King Vegeta's combat intuition was indeed accurate.
In the few seconds before his sight returned, every punch he threw with his eyes closed actually struck one of Tien Shinhan's incoming fists.
Against an ordinary opponent, such a blind counterattack would have been perfect; even with his vision obstructed, his opponent would have been unable to injure him.
Unfortunately, his opponent was Tien Shinhan.
Despite accurately trading hot-blooded punches with Tien Shinhan, King Vegeta still ended up battered and bruised.
There was no other reason: he was only clashing with two of Tien Shinhan's fists.
While Tien Shinhan's two hands were trading furious blows with King Vegeta's, the other six fists he had grown all landed solidly on King Vegeta's body.
He had matched the punches accurately, yet still taken an inexplicable beating, leaving King Vegeta utterly frustrated.
Fortunately, after that exchange, his eyes finally recovered from the Solar Flare and regained their sight.
Sometimes, however, the truth was not necessarily pleasant.
Like now: seeing that Tien Shinhan had shamelessly grown six extra arms in advance, anticipating that they would trade punches, King Vegeta wanted to cry but had no tears left.
The reason he had been beaten despite matching the punches accurately was simple: Tien Shinhan just had more fists than he did!
"Despicable and shameless! Can't you fight me properly, head-on?"
Tien Shinhan's succession of crafty moves had left King Vegeta thoroughly rattled.
First came a move that blinded his titanium-alloy dog eyes, then one that turned the fight into a contest of who had more fists!
In all his years of fighting, he had only ever heard that whoever had the bigger fist called the shots. He had never expected Tien Shinhan to teach him another truth firsthand.
Whoever had more fists could call the shots too!
"Heh, despicable and shameless? Could it be that you simply know too few special techniques? That your fighting style is too monotonous?
"If you suck, train more. If you're dumb, learn more. If you have no moves, learn more special techniques!
"To think the king of a warrior race would be such a sore loser that he calls people despicable whenever he suffers a setback!
"It seems your honor as the universe's number one warrior race is nothing but a title you made up by boasting!"
Hearing that, Tien Shinhan spared King Vegeta no dignity whatsoever.
King Vegeta had suffered because his own fighting style was too brutish, yet now he was turning around and calling Tien Shinhan despicable and shameless.
Tien Shinhan was not about to indulge him just because his face had been beaten into a pig's head!
The nightmare had only just begun!
Battered and bruised, King Vegeta was left speechless by Tien Shinhan's retort.
"Gulp!"
Goku and the others, who were also locked in fierce battles nearby, caught sight of this and involuntarily swallowed.
They had initially worried that Tien Shinhan would be no match for King Vegeta, yet no sooner had the two exchanged blows than King Vegeta suffered repeated setbacks at Tien Shinhan's hands.
Looking at King Vegeta's miserable state, where was the imposing air of a mighty leader he had possessed moments earlier?
Rather than the king of the Saiyans, King Vegeta now looked more like a vagrant!
"We need to step it up too! Tien Shinhan has such a huge advantage against the Saiyan leader. We can't embarrass him!"
The three fighters could not spare much time to watch Tien Shinhan's battle. Having seen the situation, they continued fighting their respective opponents, their fighting spirit greatly bolstered.
Dr. Lychee, who was watching the entire battlefield, was so excited that his hands trembled. He could scarcely believe what he had just seen.
"There should clearly be a considerable gap in their battle power readings, yet he can still secure such an enormous advantage?
"His opponent is that terrifying King Vegeta!
"Could it really be as Tien Shinhan said-a difference in their special techniques and combat skills?
"King Vegeta merely has a high battle power reading, while Tien Shinhan not only has a high battle power reading himself, but also possesses all sorts of special techniques perfectly suited to his own combat style.
"Perhaps it was precisely this difference that allowed Tien Shinhan to create a miracle!"
Recalling how Tien Shinhan had completely toyed with King Vegeta, Dr. Lychee felt that even describing it as combat skill was not quite accurate.
Perhaps it ought to be called the art of combat?
"Tien Shinhan really is more well-rounded!"
Dr. Lychee sighed with feeling.
At the same time, he noticed the commotion on the battlefield.
Earlier, when Tien Shinhan faced King Vegeta, the worried ones had been the Tuffles, Goku, and the others.
Now, the Saiyan warriors had seen King Vegeta beaten into a pig's head.
The side doing the worrying had completely reversed.
Seeing that King Vegeta might be no match for Tien Shinhan, they prepared to surround and attack him.
Unfortunately, just as the Saiyans had previously been able to tie down the Tuffles and special weapons under Dr. Lychee's command,
now that the Saiyans wanted to help King Vegeta, the Tuffle combat units and special weapons could likewise tie them down in return, preventing them from interfering in the battle between Tien Shinhan and Vegeta.
All the Saiyans could do was watch King Vegeta and Tien Shinhan's battle in helpless anxiety while remaining pinned down in their ongoing fierce fights!
"Looks like the situation has reversed. Now your Saiyan warriors want to help you, but they can't break away."
The commotion on the battlefield had not escaped Tien Shinhan's notice either.
However, during their preliminary exchange, he had already tested the effects of the new special techniques he wanted to try on King Vegeta.
Rather than continuing to suppress his opponent with various special techniques and flexible tactics, Tien Shinhan felt that a brutish, head-on fight would put him under greater combat pressure.
Greater combat pressure meant a stronger battle power boost from Limit Breakthrough!
So, although King Vegeta already had no rebuttal,
Tien Shinhan still smiled faintly and canceled his Four Witches Technique transformation.
"Your insults just now were completely unfounded!
"But to make this battle a little more interesting,
"I'll agree to your shameless request and have a plain, straightforward, head-on showdown with you!"
"Haa!"
With that, Tien Shinhan also let out a furious shout, fully flaring his Ki as it surged throughout his body.