Chapter 31: Abnormal Broly
"Broly can actually fly even after losing rationality during transformation? How is that possible!"
Turles muttered quietly, hardly believing what he was seeing.
Suddenly, Turles's expression changed. His body immediately plunged toward the ground.
As Turles continuously descended, his massive body began slowly shrinking. Before reaching the ground, Turles had completely reverted from Great Ape form to human shape. His transformation time had ended.
The moment his feet touched ground, Turles staggered, nearly falling flat on his face.
Supporting himself against a nearby boulder, Turles couldn't help complaining: "Great Ape transformation consumes way too much stamina!"
After venting, Turles immediately hid beneath a massive rock, suppressing his ki signature. Currently, he was essentially useless. If Broly found him, one slap would turn him into paste.
"ROAR!"
Broly's body appeared above Turles's hiding spot. Having lost sight of Turles, Broly seemed enraged. He continuously fired energy blasts from his mouth, once again destroying everything around him.
Forcibly enduring the pain from debris strikes, Turles grimaced, becoming even more careful, afraid of making the slightest sound.
"Ten minutes maximum. Just hold on for ten more minutes!" Turles silently counted time internally.
After Great Ape transformation, without continued Blutz Wave exposure, the transformation could only last about half an hour. Upon exiting transformation, one would enter a weakened state like Turles, or even fall unconscious directly. Currently, Turles was waiting for Broly's transformation to end.
Fortunately, upon seeing Broly transform initially, Turles had decisively detonated the artificial moon immediately. Though this ended his own transformation prematurely, it also meant Broly's transformation end time wouldn't differ too much from his own.
While mentally counting down, Turles observed Broly's transformation from the corner of his eye.
Originally, Turles had attempted mastering Great Ape power this time. Though he'd experimented with Raditz, Broly was different.
As the legendary Super Saiyan appearing once every thousand years among Saiyans, Broly's strength growth not only far exceeded ordinary Saiyans, but even his Great Ape transformation differed. He seemed more adapted to Great Ape power. The Great Ape force drawn from his tail far exceeded both Raditz and Turles.
Plus, Broly could infinitely increase battle power in normal form as long as his body kept pace. Turles inevitably harbored some thoughts.
After carefully observing for a moment, Turles felt disappointed. He couldn't discern how Broly channeled stronger Great Ape power.
"Seems I'll need close contact after all. Best if I could probe Broly's body with mental force like with Raditz to obtain more useful information."
Turles silently contemplated this somewhat suicidal behavior, but his body made no movements.
"Hm? This is...?" Turles exclaimed in shock, staring dumbfounded at the tail that suddenly appeared before his eyes.
He'd just been thinking about getting closer—how had Broly delivered his tail right to him? What was this? Never knowing whether accident or surprise comes first?
The tail was very close to Turles, constantly swaying before his eyes. He seemingly only needed to extend his hand to grasp this tail.
And Turles did exactly that. By the time he recovered his senses, he'd already grabbed Broly's tail, continuously stroking it.
'Honestly, the texture isn't great! The fur's somewhat hard, like steel needles!' This inappropriate thought had just floated through Turles's mind when his body was involuntarily dragged forward. He subconsciously tightened his grip on the tail.
Flying through air, Turles directly met Broly's red pupils. Before he could react, a massive palm slapped into him.
"Gah!"
A blood spray erupted from his mouth. Like a cannonball, Turles's body flew straight into the distance, continuously piercing through mountains and rocks before heavily cratering the ground.
"Cough cough!"
Unable to help coughing up more blood, looking at the severed tail in his hands, Turles smiled.
It turned out that at the instant of Broly's strike, Turles had exerted force with both hands, directly tearing off Broly's tail following the momentum. This had somewhat weakened Broly's final force, preventing him from being slapped into a mosaic.
Turles looked at Broly roaring continuously in midair from tail-severing pain, thinking internally: 'My life's saved now.'
But the next moment, Turles's just-emerged smile froze directly on his face. He looked at distant Broly with disbelief.
"This is impossible. How can this be?"
It turned out Broly hadn't exited transformation after having his tail ripped off as Turles predicted. He still maintained Great Ape form. Not only that—due to the severed tail, Broly's furious eyes were filled with killing intent as they locked onto him.
Turles recovered his senses, looking at the half-tail in his hand, then looking up at Broly again. He smiled bitterly and shook his head.
No one would have expected Broly's transformation not only wouldn't be affected by tail loss, but even the thirty-minute limitation after losing Blutz Wave exposure didn't apply to him.
This had to be called a massive blow to Turles.
Actually, though Turles had repeatedly warned himself internally about the Dragon Ball world's complexity, as his strength increased, he'd inevitably felt somewhat proud. Especially after his last transformation directly boosted battle power to 100,000, he'd uncontrollably developed slight contempt for characters from canon.
Look—this time, due to insufficient understanding of Broly, this legendary Super Saiyan, he might pay with his life.
"Seems I have no choice but to go all out!" Turles said quietly.
Turles struggled to stand from the crater, assuming a combat stance, eyes focused on the already-charging Broly.
Turles opened his eyes wide, mental focus reaching maximum concentration, carefully sensing Broly's terrifying battle power exceeding 10,000,000.
Currently, in Turles's mind, within his mental world, he continuously constructed all collected data—temperature, humidity, air oxygen content, plus the strong wind from Broly's charge. All of this gradually manifested in Turles's mental world.
Broly's fist carried terrifying pressure. Just approaching, it had already squeezed out all surrounding air, forming a vacuum environment.
Turles held his breath, body remaining motionless. Not until Broly's fist was nearly touching his skin did his body shift slightly, narrowly dodging the strike with utmost precision, leaving trailing afterimages in place.
Broly's massive fist—having been evaded—directly struck the crater Turles had just created.
A shockwave expanded from the crater's center in all directions, continuously kicking up debris along the way. Cracks continuously formed. The terrain itself was transformed.
After everything settled, only a crater with a 10-kilometer radius remained. The crater's center was bottomless.
Meanwhile, Turles had already flashed behind Broly. All expression had vanished from his face, leaving only extreme calm coldness. His lips moved slightly. A voice seemingly devoid of emotion rang out:
"Pseudo-Ultra Instinct!"