Chapter 121
"Excellent! Truly excellent!"
Seeing King Cold's half-bodied corpse fall from midair, Piccolo finally completely relaxed.
His body staggered. He collapsed directly, chest continuously rising and falling as he began breathing heavily.
Though the just-concluded battle ultimately ended in Piccolo's victory, to lure King Cold, he'd paid a terrible price. Those injuries on his body weren't fake.
But before Piccolo could recover much stamina, applause rang out above him, followed by an admiring voice.
Hearing the unfamiliar voice, Piccolo's muscles subconsciously tensed. He quickly looked toward the sound's direction.
"I knew it was you!"
After seeing the newcomer clearly, Piccolo finally relaxed. However, he still maintained a certain vigilance, watching Turles warily.
Hearing Piccolo's words, Turles felt no surprise. He'd known earlier that Piccolo had already detected both his and Bulma's presence.
This wasn't because Piccolo's greatly increased strength could now sense Turles's aura. Rather, Bulma's aura was sensed by Piccolo.
Moreover, both had spoken without hiding their voices, so Piccolo knew their identities.
Looking at the broken-bodied, continuously bleeding Piccolo, Turles directly extended his hand.
Turles's motion startled Piccolo. After all, he and Turles had no friendship. However, next moment, his wariness completely vanished. Eyes widening, he stared at Turles's palm.
"This is...?"
A green light orb condensed in Turles's hand. From this orb, Piccolo felt noble majesty.
Turles ignored Piccolo's astonishment. He just casually tossed it. The energy in his hand flew toward Piccolo.
Seeing Turles throw energy at him, Piccolo initially wanted struggling to evade. But his injuries were truly too severe. He couldn't dodge at all. Could only helplessly watch the energy approach.
But when the energy contacted his body, it didn't—as Piccolo imagined—harm him. Rather, like a water drop, it merged into his body.
"This—"
As the energy merged, Piccolo felt like he'd eaten a Senzu Bean. No—the effect was even better than eating Senzu Beans.
Piccolo struggled once, directly standing from the ground. His originally broken body—as if injected with powerful life force—began rapidly repairing.
In less than one minute, all injuries on Piccolo's body had completely vanished. Except for his severed right arm, he no longer looked like he'd been dying moments ago.
"This—"
Piccolo lowered his head. Disbelievingly touching where injuries had been. But smooth sensation told him—all of this was real.
"How did you do this?"
If ordinary healing, naturally Piccolo wouldn't be so shocked. On Planet Namek, he'd seen healing-type Namekians.
But Turles's just-used healing felt different.
This wasn't merely recovering injuries. He felt his current self not only had stamina restored—even battle power had faintly increased. That energy seemingly supplemented part of his bodily potential.
Clenching his fist, thinking of the feeling Turles's energy gave him, Piccolo suddenly thought of a possibility.
His voice somewhat trembled. But he still stated his guess:
"You... you became a deity?"
Looking at Turles, Piccolo felt somewhat disbelieving.
Only deities—moreover, deities higher-ranked than Kami—would give him this feeling. That noble majesty, eternal quality aura couldn't be mistaken.
This was also because he'd fused with Kami. This allowed him sensing Turles's current aura's difference.
On Planet Namek, Grand Elder had told him about Turles's special nature. But how much time had passed? Turles had already truly taken that step.
Hearing this, Turles couldn't help glancing at Piccolo with surprise. But thinking current Piccolo had already fused with Kami, he felt relieved.
However, Turles didn't directly respond. Just looking at Piccolo's empty right arm, he said surprised, "What? Not regenerating your arm?"
Turles knew Namekian abilities. To prevent Piccolo continuing questioning, he could only change topics.
Hearing Turles say this, Piccolo recovered from shock.
After looking deeply at Turles once, Piccolo finally used Namekian limb regeneration ability, regrowing his right arm.
"Hah, hah!"
Regrowing the arm—even though Turles had already helped Piccolo recover all stamina—remained a tremendous burden for him.
"I didn't expect you had such ability, Piccolo. That's really cool!"
At this moment, Bulma—who'd just quietly watched both—after seeing Piccolo's severed limb regenerate, felt somewhat surprised.
This was her first time seeing Piccolo possess this ability. As a scientist, even though Bulma didn't primarily focus on biological directions, she still developed intense interest.
As for Turles becoming a deity—she wasn't that curious.
One reason: she already knew Turles had been training with Supreme Kai.
Another: the "becoming a deity" concept felt somewhat abstract to Bulma.
Though she currently—due to Grand Elder's potential unlock—possessed considerable battle power, she still lacked much interest in training.
In her concept, Turles becoming a deity was just training results. So currently, she was actually more interested in Piccolo's limb regeneration ability.
Body recovery or limb regeneration—regardless where—was a magical ability. If she could research its principles, whether for her or Turles, it would greatly benefit both.
Piccolo didn't know Bulma's thoughts. But when Bulma's gaze fell on him, somehow, an ominous premonition flashed through his heart.
Seeing this, Piccolo quickly changed topics. Looking at the half-corpse on the ground not far away, he gestured with his mouth, asking Turles:
"By the way, do you know who that person was? Why did he come to Earth?"
Current Piccolo—due to fusing with Kami—had developed a sense of responsibility toward Earth. So seeing new enemies appear on Earth made him think more.
Earth remained too fragile. Even though his current battle power already exceeded twenty million, he still felt endlessly worried.
"Him? If I remember correctly, he's Frieza's father—the former cosmic overlord. Oh right, you should know about Frieza."
Hearing Turles's words, Piccolo's expression darkened somewhat. Expression grave, he nodded.
Naturally, he knew Frieza. He'd learned from Goku previously.
"As for why he came to Earth, I don't know. But isn't there still someone over there? You can go ask her!"
After speaking, Turles looked toward Beliblu—currently preparing to secretly slip away in the sky.
"Hmm?"
Following Turles's gaze, Piccolo also discovered that figure. Seeing her attire completely different from other soldiers, he immediately thought she seemed like a leader.
Without saying more, Piccolo directly erupted his aura, rapidly flying toward Beliblu. However, no matter how Turles looked, Piccolo seemed somewhat like fleeing in panic.
Watching Piccolo fly away, Bulma smacked her lips somewhat regretfully.
Hearing the sound, Turles turned his head glancing at Bulma. Seeing her still staring at Piccolo's back, he felt somewhat amused:
"How come you're suddenly so interested in Piccolo's ability? Previously, you were only interested in mechanical aspects."
Bulma came to her senses. Rolling her eyes at Turles, she directly turned toward home, flying away. She still remembered earlier matters.
Turles touched his nose, smiling bitterly. Then he chased after Bulma.
As the three departed, this area again fell into calm. Only the ground's devastation testified that an unknown Earth defense battle had occurred here.
Unknown how much time passed. An uninvited guest suddenly visited this land.
A mechanical insect only finger-sized drilled from the ground.
Just emerging from the ground, the mechanical insect's body expanded. Then mechanical wings extended from its back. Next second, this mechanical insect vibrated its wings, slowly flying into midair.
The mechanical insect—as if conscious—continuously ascended. Only after reaching certain altitude did it stop ascending. Then next second, it began circling this battlefield, seemingly surveying something.
Finally confirming no abnormalities, this mechanical insect flew down from the sky. Finally landing on a palm, it slowly merged into this palm's flesh.
Naturally, Turles wouldn't know—after his departure, another visitor would come here.
Currently, he looked with curiosity at Vegeta and Goku—both just exiting a space capsule ship.
"How come you both also came to Earth? And together?"
Turles didn't know their relationship had become this good—actually able to ride the same spaceship. Didn't they fight aboard?
"Boss, I sensed a powerful aura appear on Earth. North Kai transmitted to me saying Frieza's father was invading Earth. Where is he? Why can't I sense his aura anymore? Did you already handle him?"
Goku remained that same Goku. Upon meeting, he immediately asked Turles about King Cold's situation.
Seeing his excited appearance, those who didn't know might think he was happy about enemies invading Earth.
Turles ignored Goku. He placed his gaze on Vegeta. Though not speaking, Vegeta guessed his eye's meaning.
"What's the situation with you two?"
After guessing Turles's thought, Vegeta's stern expression couldn't maintain. His mouth corner twitched. Especially seeing Goku still chattering endlessly asking Turles questions—this made him even more annoyed.
Speaking of it, the matter's source lay with Turles.
Before attending the Supreme Kai meeting, Turles had pointed Nappa toward Earth's Hyperbolic Time Chamber. Nappa also immediately rushed to Earth. After applying to Kami, he plunged inside.
Nappa also went all-out. He didn't exit after the first day ended. Rather, he directly stayed in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber for two full years.
After emerging, Nappa's first challenge target was Vegeta.
Two years' time, plus the three Spirit Tree fruits Turles left Nappa—this made Nappa's strength greatly improve. Even already far exceeded Vegeta.
So unsurprisingly, Vegeta again lost to Nappa.
Nappa's strength improvement also caused tremendous commotion on Red Stone. They didn't understand—merely two days' time—how could Nappa's strength improve so tremendously?
Among them, the one who couldn't accept this most was Vegeta.
However, unlike other Saiyans, Vegeta knew Nappa had previously found Turles.
As long as Turles's participation existed, Nappa's battle power improvement wasn't strange. Previously, Nappa and Raditz were perfect examples.
So after secretly checking Nappa's spaceship flight logs, Vegeta directly locked this matter's cause on Earth.
As for why he rode the same spaceship as Goku—this involved Vegeta's awkward status on Red Stone.
Due to betrayal, current Red Stone Saiyans weren't very welcoming toward this former Saiyan prince. Except for Goku.
So wanting to use Red Stone's space capsule ship, Vegeta could only rely on Goku's face.
Meeting Turles's somewhat curious gaze, Vegeta several times wanted speaking. But after his mouth opened and closed several times, he still couldn't say it.
"What's wrong, Vegeta?"
Seeing Vegeta's appearance, Turles seemingly already forgot his own experience leading Slug. Just felt current Vegeta already had several parts of the original's later-period appearance.
"I—"
Vegeta just started speaking when Goku spoke again.
"Oh right, Boss! Vegeta and I came back this time also because of Nappa's matter."
"You don't know—just two days passed, but Nappa's battle power already reached 2.5 million. Not far from the base battle power for Super Saiyan transformation."
"Vegeta said this was because of you. Moreover, this reason is on Earth. That's why we came back to Earth."
"Boss, can I also use this method to improve? I really want to transform into Super Saiyan!"
After speaking, Goku looked at Turles with shining eyes.
After hearing Goku's words, Turles glanced at Vegeta, then looked at Goku somewhat surprised:
"Kakarot, you didn't know? I remember you already went inside before."
"Ah?" Goku looked somewhat dumbfounded.
"Kakarot!"
Hearing Turles say this, Vegeta immediately shouted loudly. Then darkly stared at Goku.
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