A/N: I don't care if the chapter is short or long. When I write a chapter, I have a goal for what to add. Sometimes it is big. Sometimes it is small. I could have made this longer, but I don't want to add unnecessary stuff. Btw, the next ch is 1400 words.
I am still busy with my studies. I had this chapter written weeks ago. I decided to publish it now.
Good News: While I didn't write new chapters due to my studies, I finished my take on Saiyan biology. Their transformations & why most of them are/were weak despite being a warrior race and having the great potential to become strong fast. And why only a few managed to become strong enough.
Small Info: [I will soon introduce this.] Saiyans are known as an almost perfect warrior race. Not a perfect warrior race. But has the potential to be a perfect warrior.
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Back in the white dimension, Jin was flying through the white space, and then soon he came to a stop.
He frowned, glancing down. It was an altar stretched below — carved from an unfamiliar stone, half-floating, half-solid.
He clenched his fists.
"Again… back here?"
He had flown in this strange place for hours or maybe even days. Yet no matter the direction or time, he always kept returning to this same altar since the moment he encountered it.
He descended, landing softly. His boots scraped the smooth surface, leaving faint ripples of light.
He muttered under his breath, "This isn't normal. No matter the reason, I should've noticed something by now… but nothing. It's too strange that I keep coming back to the same place over and over. What exactly am I missing?"
He exhaled slowly and sat cross-legged on the cold stone. He took a deep breath and released it.
"Thankfully, I learned that meditation technique; otherwise, I wouldn't know what to do!"
He shut his eyes and let his mind empty — suppressing all thought until only his heartbeat remained. He entered the state of Emptiness through the technique known as Mind Eye, a technique designed to erase external interference on the mind and senses, and see beyond.
In the 5 years of his journey in space, Jin came in contact with many species. Got to learn many techniques. Some deemed useful, some deemed useless. But over time, he soon realized that even those useless techniques proved useful in some situations, like this one.
Mind Eye — it is said to let one see what can't be seen, let one sense what can't be sensed, let one feel what can't be felt. Due to its lack of practical usage, it was often overlooked. Nevertheless, Jin learned it as he believes that knowing many techniques might help him make new techniques.
Moments passed. The silence around him deepened — unnaturally. And then, faintly… he sensed them. No, more like felt then. Some presence. It was not energy, not magic, or any living thing. It was some sort of presence in space.
He opened his eyes and could see now. — a distortion in existence itself.
"What is that?!"
He quickly rose to his feet and flew away from those strange distortions. Soon, the space rippled & the distortions started coming closer to him.
A faint hum built in the air. Blue light swirled around him, condensing into a spinning sphere that grew brighter and hotter until it formed a dense core at his center.
"Let's see how you like this."
"Omega Burst"
In the next instant, the sphere erupted without warning, tearing the calm apart.
A massive wave burst outward in all directions, blinding white light expanding like a second sun. The shockwave tore through the space — yet Jin stood untouched at the center. The altar beneath him shook and was destroyed.
The surrounding whiteness fractured like glass. For a moment, the air was still.
He breathed heavily, sweat beading on his temple. "That… took a lot more than I expected."
The silence stretched. He scanned the horizon, waiting.
Then — a sound. A low hum. Like whispers crawling up his spine.
He turned sharply. His eyes widened.
The strange beings or whatever that was were forming again. But this time in a large number.
This caused the space ripple with a much higher frequency.
Jin's expression hardened with a look of concern. He clenched his fists, ki flaring faintly around him.
"Heh… guess things are about to get rough."