With no intention of continuing to play, Talot grabbed Bojack's wrist to stop his attack. His powerful grip erupted out, causing Bojack's face to change drastically.
"You b*stard... how is this possible!!!" Bojack bellowed hoarsely, continuously increasing his power, trying to break free from Talot's restraint.
Though his strength had reached its current peak, Talot's strength was still greater, causing even his steadiest resolve to begin to waver.
"My expectations of you were too high. It seems the gap between us is indeed much larger than I imagined." As the words fell, Talot's arms shook; he flung Bojack's hands aside, gathered his strength, and delivered a kick that struck Bojack squarely in the chest.
Bojack, struck hard, flew out like a kite with its string cut.
After struggling to stabilize himself, Bojack suddenly felt his Ki and blood churn; blood was about to spurt from his mouth, but he forced it back down.
Before Bojack could react, Talot moved toward him like a ghost.
"Damn you!!!" Bojack suppressed the pain in his body, charging his left arm as an energy beam shot out in a straight line.
Strangely, the energy beam passed right through Talot's body and exploded in the distance.
"Afterimage? No, that's not it!" Bojack realized what was happening, but it was already too late.
Abruptly he felt a chill run down his spine, and immediately after came an unparalleled force that flipped his body, sent him soaring into the sky, and slammed him hard against the seal.
"This ends now, Bojack. Explosive Bombardment!!!" Talot raised his hand to gather energy; in an instant a brutal pillar of energy blasted from his palm, striking the wailing Bojack who had crashed against the seal.
'KABOOM~~!!!!' The flames from the explosion filled the sky, its terrifying destructive power enough to pulverize a large planet.
The terrifying blast swept across the entire Kina Star, causing the whole planet to tremble.
Even the seal suffered irreversible damage under the force of that attack.
In his Ki Sense, Bojack's Ki had completely vanished.
But as the former overlord of the universe, was this ruthless character really going to be taken out so easily?
Obviously not!
In the center of the explosion, Bojack's eyes were bloodshot, his features contorted, like a beast about to go berserk.
His tough body bore a dozen shocking wounds. After Talot's powerful attack, his aura, silent for a time, suddenly surged like the last radiance of the setting sun.
"Oh? Pushing even further? But this is your limit." Talot watched Bojack's aura skyrocket in the flames, seemingly able to see Bojack's real situation.
At this moment Bojack had reached the absolute limit.
Being suppressed by Talot again and again had been a crushing blow for him.
This humiliation, in his eyes, had to be washed away with Talot's life!
Provoked to the core, Bojack ignored his wounds and forced his aura to erupt. Pressing his hands together to gather energy, a massive cyan energy sphere pulsed rapidly in his palms.
"Die!!!" With a roar, Bojack pushed with both hands, and a cyan energy beam blasted out, like divine punishment falling from the heavens, slanting toward Talot.
Facing this powerful energy bombardment, Talot neither dodged nor avoided, instead the moment the energy beam drew near, he charged forward.
Talot chose to collide head-on with Bojack's cyan energy beams. His powerful aura split the immensely powerful beam in two, while he pressed forward, crushing everything in his path.
In the blink of an eye, Talot arrived before Bojack, breaking the energy bombardment. Under his opponent's horrified eyes, a fist capable of piercing anything was unleashed.
'BANG!!!' The deafening sound of flesh tearing apart was harsh and spine-chilling.
Talot's attack pierced through Bojack's chest.
"Guh~~!!" Struck with a devastating blow, Bojack spat out a thick jet of blood.
His life aura plummeted, and his body trembled uncontrollably.
As a former overlord, Bojack wouldn't die so easily.
"You b*stard... take this...!!" Bojack refused to surrender, gritting his teeth against the pain as he swung his fist at Talot.
'BAM!!!' The unstoppable punch struck Talot's face, but the result was the same as before. It couldn't inflict direct damage on Talot.
"A dying struggle." Talot's cold words pronounced Bojack's death sentence.
'BOOM!!!' The violent Saiyan energy erupted, and a golden light burst forth, completely engulfing Bojack.
"Impossible!! I can't end like this!! How could I die here?!" Bojack erupted with a cry of unwillingness.
But no matter how unwilling he was, it was of no use.
Times were changing; he truly was a king of the old era, but in the new era, clinging to past achievements would only lead to being eliminated.
'Vrrr~!!!'
The golden aura rapidly retracted; when it completely vanished, Bojack's body was gone without a trace.
Thus, the battle was truly over.
"Though you didn't force me to really go all out, it was still an unforgettable fight. A pity the timing was wrong," Talot remarked, acknowledging Bojack's strength.
Among all the opponents Talot had ever met, Bojack was the strongest and the only one to gain Talot's recognition, which speaks volumes about his strength.
Standing in the sky, Talot drifted into reverie.
In fact, through the battle with Bojack, he truly realized what level his strength had reached.
He had been training with all his might, striving to reach a higher realm.
Now, if he calculated carefully, even if it was the Super Perfect Cell from the original work, he would have the strength to overpower him.
This is without even relying on the power of Super Saiyan 4, but merely using the power of Super Saiyan 2 combined with the power of the Great Ape.
If he used Super Saiyan 4's power, battling Majin Buu would be absolutely no problem.
[For the next period, I should indeed think properly about my future plans. Calculating the time, it's only Age 753 now; the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament in Age 774 is still a full 21 years away.] Talot thought to himself, feeling quite proud.
After all, his current strength, even if it can't compare to the base form of Goku and Vegeta in the Majin Buu arc, has already taken a significant leap forward.
That said, the Great Demon King Piccolo hasn't been eliminated yet, who knows what the future of this world will be?
He had previously thought of, in a way, guiding Goku to become stronger and then letting him run free.
Now Talot's thinking had changed.
In four months, Vegeta and the others would arrive on Earth.
With four months to train Goku, using his training methods plus the Tree of Might's fruits, and helping Goku unlock his potential, perhaps he could get Goku to briefly reach power levels in the ten-thousands and beat Nappa and Vegeta...
Maybe he could even help Goku rage into a Super Saiyan. What would that scene be like then?
He couldn't find a shortcut before, but now he had completely mastered the shortcut to transformation.
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