Planet Vampa.
After losing his reason completely, Broly pushed the aesthetics of pure violence to their limit.
His skyrocketing battle power was nothing short of terrifying.
Bang, bang, bang!
A small figure and a massive one clashed again and again. Every collision shook the land, blowing open craters larger than meteor impact sites.
Ten billion.
Twenty billion.
Fifty billion.
One hundred billion.
That savage, bloodthirsty aura spread across the entire planet. All the creatures near the battlefield, big and small, abandoned their territories and fled in panic.
In an instant, the mountains crumbled and the ground split.
As time passed, the two of them fought from broad daylight into the night.
The scorching heat gave way to howling winds. The temperature plunged, lightning tore through the sky, and a violent storm poured down.
The heavens were dark, but the ki auras blazing from their bodies lit the whole battlefield.
One white. One grass-green.
Gohan still hadn't transformed. He had been fighting Broly the entire time in his base form.
Broly might be a monster pushed to the extreme, but thanks to Gohan's knowledge of the original timeline, his own power had long since surpassed even Super Saiyan Blue Goku from Dragon Ball Super.
If Broly was busted, then Gohan could only be described as busted in a different direction.
Broly's ki was still climbing. As night settled in completely, his battle power finally broke through to one hundred billion, closing in on Gohan's base.
For a while, the entire sky-and-earth battlefield was at a stalemate.
Broly's ability to take a beating was in no way inferior to Golden Frieza's.
The overwhelming pressure around them vaporized every raindrop within range the instant it fell.
"Yah!!"
"Aah!!"
They both drove straight punches forward. Their fists collided head-on.
Whoosh.
The shockwave kicked up a raging gale.
"Broly!"
Gohan's fighting spirit boiled over. Other than his showdown with Toppo, this was the first time he'd enjoyed a battle this much.
With a roar, a dark-golden aura burst from his body at last he finally transformed into a Super Saiyan.
With a 160-fold increase, his battle power leapt to sixteen trillion.
The crushing pressure instantly smothered Broly's aura.
The explosive ki shockwave blasted Broly away. Gohan flickered in front of him at extreme speed, drove his elbow forward, and buried it deep into the thick muscles of Broly's chest.
"Gah !"
Tap, tap, tap!
Broly staggered back three steps, clutching at his chest in agony, a mouthful of blood spraying from his lips.
But that massive surge of pain only pushed him further into frenzy.
"Rrraaah!!"
He threw his head back and roared to the sky, his ki climbing again.
"Tch. So this really isn't going to end quickly."
Seeing this, Gohan attacked first.
Bang, bang, bang, bang!
As a Super Saiyan, Gohan utterly overwhelmed Broly. The berserk Broly had no concept of dodging or blocking.
All he had was trading life for life meeting blows with his body and trying to exchange injury for injury.
Too bad for him, against someone who completely crushed him in battle power, he couldn't even manage to scratch Gohan.
Originally, Gohan had thought Broly might force him to break out Super Saiyan 4 or even his God form.
After all, in the new movie, Broly had stomped both Super Saiyan Blue Goku and Vegeta in a short span of time.
It had taken the fused Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta to defeat him in the end.
But after thinking about it, Gohan quickly figured out why things were different.
Right now, it was the end of Age 769. There were still almost four years to go before Majin Buu.
And Majin Buu, in all his various forms, only had battle power in roughly the 100–200 billion range at best.
In the original story, when the main cast confronted Buu, they were no match for him at all. You could even say they were being completely crushed. If it hadn't been for the cheat known as the Spirit Bomb at the very end, they might never have truly erased Kid Buu.
Beerus didn't show up until Age 778.
Even if four years passed with no major enemies, their battle power wouldn't increase drastically for no reason.
Not until Beerus appeared.
With the birth of the Super Saiyan God form, the two Saiyan princes' strength took another leap.
But even then, their base forms absolutely could not have reached Gohan's current level.
Using Broly as a benchmark, Gohan estimated that back then, their base power levels were at most in the one-to-two-billion range.
Broly himself didn't show up until after the Tournament of Power, which began in Age 780.
At that time, Goku couldn't even freely access Ultra Instinct. In the end, it again took Gogeta to take Broly down.
So it wasn't that this version of Broly was any less broken than in the movie.
It was simply that Gohan was far, far too strong.
Right now, Broly's battle power was still rising. Every brutal hit he took only drove the energy in his body to swell even further.
Broly was the type who got stronger the longer he fought, like someone whose upper limit you couldn't see at all.
Facing a monster as strong as Gohan, he simply didn't understand what fear was. Soon his power broke through into the trillions. One trillion, then more.
Even so, he still couldn't beat Gohan.
But Gohan hadn't struck to kill. He wanted to see just how far Broly could grow.
As his power climbed, Broly's height stretched up toward three meters, towering like some enormous beast.
The muscles on his arms bulged so thick they were almost wider than Gohan's waist.
Boom, boom, boom!
Broly's body was wrapped in a sphere of grass-green energy. Countless beams fired out of it, lancing toward the ground like a rain of light.
Gohan crossed his arms. A barrier of ki extended around him, blocking the cascading green beams.
"Get stronger, Broly. Let me see just how far you can go."
Gohan let Broly vent to his heart's content.
But at the same time, he could clearly feel Broly approaching his ceiling. Once he broke through the one-trillion mark, his ki no longer jumped in those terrifying leaps from before.
Eventually, his aura plateaued around four trillion.
That wasn't far from Gohan's own estimation.
"Rrraaah!!"
With a furious roar, Broly charged Gohan again.
He clenched his hand, forming a grass-green energy orb, and hurled it at him.
"This is it."
Gohan opened his palm. A dark-golden sphere shot out, swallowed the green ki bomb in an instant, then crashed into Broly's body and detonated.
Boom!
Broly was blown away, his consciousness completely snuffed out as he dropped into deep unconsciousness.
The battle was over.
Heat still sizzled off Broly's skin.
The fight had pushed his body to its absolute limit, but the Legendary Super Saiyan bloodline's absurd traits were clearer than ever at this point.
Gohan's eyes turned mismatched one black, one gold. He could see the hidden injuries all throughout Broly's body rapidly knitting themselves back together.
This mismatched gaze was an ability given to him by the Primordial Qi and the Eerie Qi back when he'd fought Tien. It was like a form of x-ray vision, able to see through the body's structure and the flow of ki, analyzing the essence of things.
Gohan had given this mutated pair of eyes a suitably overbearing name: the God Eyes of Breaking Illusions.
They weren't as versatile as Tien's third eye with its bizarre array of techniques, but just being able to see through bodies and energy flows was enough for him to gain a huge advantage against enemies on the same level.
"Your starting point was only twenty thousand… but as a Legendary Super Saiyan, your potential and battle power grow by the day. You're getting stronger every second.
"This fight dragged all that hidden foundation out of you.
"Monstrous. Absolutely monstrous," Gohan sighed.
"Cough…"
Broly slowly woke up.
"Father!"
The moment he opened his eyes, he rushed toward where Paragus had been, but he didn't attack Ba at all. The innocence buried in his heart brought back the memories of his time with Ba.
And Paragus had never truly given him a father's love only treated him as a tool. A tool for revenge.
"Broly, come with me. I'll teach you how to control yourself so your wild, raging nature won't devour your reason. How about it?"
Gohan extended a sincere invitation.
"…Okay."
After a brief hesitation, Broly glanced toward where Ba was hiding, and finally nodded.
"Good. Grab my hand. Let's go."
Smack.
Broly's massive hand gripped Gohan's tightly.
Whoosh.
The two of them vanished from Planet Vampa.
Down in the huge crater, Ba slowly raised his head, watching in silence as Broly disappeared, reluctant to see his only friend leave.
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