Chapter 81: Frieza, Father and Son, and Vegeta's Plan
Yes—if Bulma could think of it, how could Turles not?
He guessed his mental seal had let Vegeta learn something similar to mental simulation. Though he didn't know exactly how Vegeta managed it, the end result was accidentally boosting Vegeta's mental power.
Mental power's massive effect on ki control—Turles understood that better than anyone. That's why he couldn't sense Vegeta's ki.
Though Vegeta couldn't perfectly hide his ki like Turles, he could lower it enough to evade Turles's detection. Especially now that Vegeta had left Red Stone Planet.
"So your mental seal technique can actually train mental power? If we find the method..." Hearing Turles's analysis, Bulma momentarily forgot her sister's danger. She eagerly discussed it with Turles instead.
Bulma naturally understood Vegeta's situation. But she hadn't expected Turles's sealing technique could be used to boost mental power.
If true, not only could Broly's mental issues be solved—other Saiyans could benefit too.
Currently, only Turles could transform into humanoid Great Ape alone on Red Stone Planet. Others needed Turles's help to complete the transformation. The main reason? Other Saiyans lacked sufficient mental power to meet the humanoid Great Ape transformation requirements alone.
If Turles's mental seal could boost their mental power, that would be enormously beneficial for Red Stone's Saiyans.
There was another advantage: When Planet Vegeta was destroyed, Frieza had King Vegeta recall the elite warriors. So most surviving Saiyans in the universe now were lower-class warriors.
Meaning these Saiyans couldn't maintain rationality during Great Ape transformation like Turles. Once these Saiyans were recalled and their mental power improved, even if they couldn't immediately master humanoid Great Ape transformation, they could at least stay rational in Great Ape form—massively boosting their combat power.
Thinking this through, Turles immediately looked at Bulma with some admiration. He couldn't help praising, "Bulma, you're truly a priceless partner. Meeting you is my greatest fortune!"
Turles's sudden sweet words snapped Bulma from her excitement. Her face immediately flushed red. She shot Turles a glance, then shyly lowered her head. That enchanting look made Turles unconsciously swallow.
The slower-reacting Nappa and others finally caught on. They immediately looked at Bulma with worshipful eyes.
Originally, they'd looked down on Bulma. Being from Earth, Bulma was far too weak—completely failing to meet Saiyan mate selection standards. But now they realized true strength wasn't just battle power—it was also wisdom.
After worshiping Bulma, they looked admiringly at Turles again. Inwardly thinking: "Truly worthy of being Boss. His eye for talent is incredible!"
Turles had no idea he'd just earned another wave of praise from his subordinates. He really couldn't hold back anymore. In one stride, he appeared before Bulma. Amid her startled cry, he directly lifted her up. Then with a flash, he vanished from everyone's sight.
Seeing this scene, Nappa and the others grew excited. They exchanged glances, all revealing meaningful smiles.
While Turles busied himself creating the next generation, on the other side, news about Slug reached King Cold.
"What did you say? Saiyans?" Hearing his subordinate's report, King Cold was immediately shocked. He unconsciously stood from his throne.
As an adult mutant of the Frost Demon race, King Cold stood much taller than Frieza. He looked more like a true demon—two vicious black horns making him appear even more terrifying.
The subordinate below the throne was now pressed to the ground by King Cold's terrifying pressure, not daring to lift his head.
After a long moment, King Cold withdrew his aura. Only then did his subordinate reclaim his life. Not daring to delay, he immediately reported the news he'd received.
After Turles used Instant Transmission to escape from that planet under Slug's control, Slug remembered the Saiyans were King Cold's subordinates. The unwilling Slug immediately sent King Cold a message questioning his overreach.
Clearly, Slug's information was somewhat outdated. He didn't know King Cold was now semi-retired—not only handing Saiyan forces to his younger son Frieza, but that the Saiyans had been exterminated by Frieza over a decade ago.
So hearing about Saiyans, King Cold was somewhat surprised. Especially since this Saiyan possessed 25 million battle power.
King Cold unconsciously recalled the prophecy his ancestors left behind. Feeling somewhat uneasy, he immediately contacted his younger son.
"Father, it's been quite a while since we last spoke."
Soon, Frieza's projection appeared before King Cold, greeting his father in that unique voice.
King Cold couldn't bother with pleasantries with his excellent son. He directly asked, "Frieza, did you completely destroy the Saiyan forces back then?"
Hearing this, Frieza was stunned. Somewhat confused, he unconsciously replied, "I destroyed them. I told you—I set off a big firework on Planet Vegeta."
"What about the remaining Saiyans?" King Cold pressed.
"What? Those so-called lower-class warriors among those monkeys? Why waste the effort? Eliminating most of the Saiyan elite warriors was enough!"
Frieza appeared completely unconcerned. If not for his father and Destruction God Beerus's orders, he wouldn't have bothered destroying Planet Vegeta's Saiyans.
Though King Vegeta had some schemes, Frieza didn't care at all. His strength was his greatest confidence.
"You!"
Hearing Frieza's words, King Cold's face immediately showed anger. Just about to curse him out, he remembered he was no longer his younger son's match. He forcefully swallowed the words almost leaving his mouth.
Taking a deep breath, King Cold suppressed his inner fury and said gravely, "Do you realize a Saiyan with 25 million battle power has now appeared? This is very likely one of those Saiyans you didn't eliminate!"
"What?"
Hearing King Cold say this, Frieza could no longer maintain composure. Because that level of strength could already threaten his life.
After all, Frieza's age was still too young relative to the Frost Demon race. Though born with excellent talent and stronger battle power than his father, he couldn't control that power. That's why he had to maintain transformation to suppress his battle power.
And 25 million battle power was already enough to kill him before he released his transformation. Moreover, Saiyans also had transformation abilities to boost battle power.
Frieza didn't know 25 million was already Turles's maximum battle power after transformation boost. His expression just grew gloomy as he coldly asked, "Where is this Saiyan?"
Frieza decided to strike first, nipping this threat in the bud.
"West Galaxy. Slug encountered this Saiyan. Though he didn't say so directly, I know he definitely suffered a huge loss at this Saiyan's hands!" King Cold didn't hesitate, directly telling Frieza.
"Hmm? Slug? That old thing from West Galaxy?"
Frieza felt somewhat surprised.
He'd thought this Saiyan appeared in North Galaxy. After all, the Saiyans' main activity range was North Galaxy. But unexpectedly, it was West Galaxy, and connected to that old thing Slug.
However, none of that mattered now. Even if it was West Galaxy, as long as Frieza wanted to go, there was nowhere he couldn't reach.
Moreover, taking this opportunity, he might as well extend his forces into West Galaxy. He'd heard that old thing Slug couldn't live much longer.
Thinking this, a vicious smile appeared at the corner of Frieza's mouth.
After disconnecting, Frieza immediately arranged preparations—readying ships to advance toward West Galaxy.
Naturally, Slug had no idea Frieza had set sights on him. He just looked with some amusement at this Saiyan before him claiming to be the Saiyan Prince.
After a long while, Slug spoke, "You say you want to cooperate with me. But what qualifications do you have to cooperate with me? After all, your strength is so weak, Prince of the Saiyans!"
Hearing Slug's mockery, Vegeta didn't get angry. He just released his ki, directly displaying 100,000 battle power. Then he concealed his ki again, maintaining it at 100.
"I wonder if this strength qualifies me to cooperate with the great King Slug?"
Sensing Vegeta's ki fluctuation, Slug sat up slightly straighter, reassessing this Saiyan Prince before him.
After a long time, Slug continued, "What do you want to cooperate on?"
Vegeta didn't state his cooperation proposal. Instead, he brought up something else: "I heard the great King Slug was recently toyed with by a Saiyan. Moreover, that Saiyan escaped intact from King Slug's grasp. I wonder if this is true?"
Hearing Vegeta's words, Slug's expression immediately darkened. He released his full aura, pressing toward Vegeta.
Sensing Slug's ki, Vegeta's heart sank. But his face showed no change. He continued calmly watching Slug.
Just as Slug grew impatient and wanted to strike, Vegeta's words directly stopped his action.
"I know where that Saiyan is!"
Whoosh!
Vegeta only saw a black shadow flash by. The next second, he felt iron-grip hands seize his throat.
Vegeta tried to struggle. But these hands locked firmly on his throat. Soon he felt breathing grow difficult. His vision gradually darkened.
Suddenly, Slug released his grip. Reborn, Vegeta couldn't help kneeling on the ground, constantly coughing and gasping for fresh air.
"I hope you're telling the truth!" Slug's light words fell into Vegeta's ears, the killing intent in them completely undisguised.
After experiencing Slug's intimidation, Vegeta didn't dare be presumptuous anymore. He honestly told him everything he knew.
Soon after, Slug's forces also began moving—advancing toward Red Stone Planet's location.
Just like that, Frieza's forces advanced toward West Galaxy. Slug's forces advanced toward Galaxy Center. Half the galaxy grew chaotic.
Galaxy Patrol Headquarters.
The Galaxy King looked at the just-returned Jaco, asking with false bravado, "Jaco, what exactly did you do in West Galaxy? Why is Slug advancing toward Galaxy Center looking ready for war?"
Hearing this, Jaco felt somewhat wronged. He felt he hadn't really done anything. He didn't know why the Galaxy King would blame this on him.
"Galaxy King, sir, I truly don't know what happened. I completely followed your instructions—just went to West Galaxy to investigate Slug's intelligence. With my battle power, I couldn't do anything else!"
Jaco was practically in tears, hugging the Galaxy King's tentacle and wailing loudly. Even Merus on the side couldn't bear watching.
"Enough, Jaco, stop your performance!" Merus spoke to stop Jaco. Then he looked toward the Galaxy King, telling him about Turles and Slug's battle.
After hearing this, the Galaxy King felt somewhat emotional. He hadn't expected Slug still had gigantification ability—boosting battle power 10 times. This worried him somewhat.
Five hundred million battle power—even the old Galaxy Patrol didn't have such monsters. Looked like the Saiyans were in trouble this time.
While the Galaxy King still lamented the Saiyans' predicament, on King Kai's planet, Goku had already contacted Turles via North Kai.
"Boss! Boss! This is bad!"
Turles was training in the gravity room when suddenly Goku's voice appeared in his mind.
"Kakarot?" Turles first looked around, then immediately reacted, speaking to confirm.
"It's me, Boss! This is really bad! North Kai observed Frieza's forces advancing toward West Galaxy. I'm guessing they might be coming for you!"
As North Galaxy's number one villain, Frieza was always North Kai's key focus. Now with Frieza leading forces in large-scale action, North Kai naturally learned about it immediately.
"Frieza!" Turles felt somewhat surprised. He hadn't provoked Frieza recently. Even defeating Ginyu happened on Earth. How would Frieza know he was currently in West Galaxy?
"I'm not entirely clear either. North Kai saw Frieza's forces mobilize. From their conversation, he learned it's because of your battle with someone named Slug that attracted his attention."
Turles understood somewhat. Seemed his battle with Slug had been leaked by someone with ulterior motives. But he hadn't expected it so fast—even North Galaxy's Frieza received the news.
Naturally, Turles didn't know Slug still had connections with King Cold, and that King Cold valued Saiyans so highly—contacting Frieza immediately upon receiving news.
After thinking, Turles said to Goku, "Kakarot, raise your ki to maximum now. Let me see if I can come over!"
Turles wasn't currently Frieza's match. So he planned to learn King Kai's Kaio-ken technique first.
With Kaio-ken, combined with Turles's humanoid Great Ape transformation, opposing Frieza shouldn't be a problem.
"Huh? Okay!"
Though Goku didn't know what Turles wanted to do, he readily agreed.
With that, Goku removed his hand from North Kai's back and began releasing his ki.
Turles searched for Goku's ki with full power. After a long time, he finally faintly sensed Goku's ki from a special space.
Turles didn't dare relax. He immediately used Instant Transmission following Goku's ki.
Whoosh!
Turles's figure vanished from his location. When he reappeared, he was already on a miniature planet.
This planet wasn't large—even excessively small. Not even as large as a mountain peak on Red Stone Planet. Didn't seem like a place befitting one of the galaxy's administrators.
"So small!" Turles couldn't help exclaiming.
Hearing Turles's exclamation, North Kai—who'd been somewhat curious about Goku's clansman—froze. As if recalling some painful memory, he turned and squatted beneath this planet's only large tree, sadly crying.
"What's wrong with North Kai?"
Goku walked over now, watching North Kai's actions. Somewhat confused, he scratched his head.
"Heh heh!"
Turles chuckled lightly. He naturally knew the reason.
Previously, King Kai's planet was also a giant planet. But because North Kai accidentally angered Beerus, Beerus struck—directly destroying off half of King Kai's planet. That's why King Kai's planet became its current size. For this, North Kai received plenty of mockery from the other three Kais.
However, Beerus's Destruction energy was truly terrifying. Only destroying most of the planet without affecting planetary operation—actually operating it would reveal just how difficult achieving that truly was!
Suppressing his yearning for the God of Destruction, Turles looked at Goku and directly stated his purpose: "Kakarot, I need your help this time!"
"Hm? My help?" Goku felt somewhat puzzled, not understanding what he could help Turles with.
"Yes, that's right! I need to learn Kaio-ken!"
"No!"
Turles's words just fell. Before Goku could react, North Kai directly jumped out, refusing Turles's request.
"Why? North Kai, sir!" Goku recovered, looking toward North Kai.
"Hmm?"
Turles also narrowed his eyes, expression calm as he watched North Kai, wanting to hear this fatty's reason.
Being stared at by Turles, North Kai felt somewhat nervous. He unconsciously swallowed.
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