"What is this thing? A cube?"
Garou held that black cube turning it over and looking for a while, also didn't see anything special about this object.
Originally he thought this was some training tool Qin Chuan had brought out again, like the turtle shell he'd carried before... but now it seemed that wasn't the case.
"Hold this thing and try praying to it that you can obtain even stronger power."
Qin Chuan commanded Garou—he wanted to test whether "God" could cross worlds to bestow Divine Power on Garou.
Although the probability was unlikely, trying it didn't hurt. After all, it wouldn't cost anything.
"Pray... alright then."
Although Garou didn't know Qin Chuan's objective, during this time Garou had also learned to shut up and listen. He knew deeply that resisting Qin Chuan wouldn't lead to any good outcomes.
So he slightly closed his eyes, beginning to pray to the black cube in his hand that he could obtain even stronger power.
But after quite a while, Garou opened his eyes, then looked at Qin Chuan with a puzzled face, speaking in a somewhat uncomprehending tone:
"Seems like nothing happened?"
"Nothing happened... then there's no problem."
Qin Chuan nodded satisfactorily, reaching out to take back that black cube from Garou's hand—"God" being unable to produce influence across worlds was correct.
Looking at it this way, to avoid having power extracted by "God," besides being controlled by Qin Chuan's "King's Army," there was another method—having Qin Chuan bring them to another world.
As long as they went to another world, "God's" big hand couldn't reach over. Wanting to "confiscate" power and life would also be impossible.
After taking back the black cube, Qin Chuan met Garou's puzzled gaze and said to him:
"Next I'm taking you back to your original world for a trip."
"As I thought. When you asked that just now, I had roughly guessed it would be like this."
Hearing this, Garou didn't show a very surprised expression—when Qin Chuan asked him "have you thought about going back" just now, he had vaguely had this premonition.
However, honestly speaking, compared to his original world, Garou actually preferred this side more.
So after hearing Qin Chuan was going to bring him back to his original world, Garou hesitated, but still asked the question in his heart:
"That... Master, can I come back to this world afterward?"
"...How many times have I said it, I'm not your master."
Qin Chuan looked at Garou somewhat speechlessly, then answered meaningfully:
"As for whether you can come back... that depends on your performance."
Garou was one of Qin Chuan's special mission targets in the One Punch Man world. This point wouldn't change. Qin Chuan definitely had to kill Cosmic Garou to obtain the mission reward.
If it were before, once Garou died he'd be dead. Basically no possibility of resurrection.
Unless the mission rewards had "Garou" as an option, and the other two options were garbage, then Qin Chuan might reluctantly choose Garou, just like choosing Irisviel back then.
But Garou's luck was good. The situation now was different—Qin Chuan could already project Dragon Balls.
In other words, as long as Qin Chuan was willing, he could completely kill Garou, complete the mission objective, then use Dragon Balls to resurrect Garou.
Don't look at how the "projected" knockoff Dragon Balls Qin Chuan had now had limited abilities. But "resurrection" was the most basic of basics. If they couldn't even do this, what face did they have to be called Dragon Balls?
Of course, his willingness to resurrect Garou was mainly because he valued Garou's "breaking the limiter" ability.
This guy, although unlike Saitama who was constantly in a "limiter broken" state, had to be at his limit before having a chance to break through himself.
But this also meant Garou truly had unlimited improvement potential. Using him as a fighter wasn't bad either.
Moreover, Garou was now very obedient before him. Qin Chuan felt directly killing him like this was indeed a bit wasteful—wouldn't that waste all his previous cultivation efforts?
To be continued…