Main battlefield.
Thick smoke billowed across the sky. Frieza was nowhere to be seen. It looked as though he had already perished under Raditz's ultimate technique.
But Raditz knew it wasn't that simple.
His "Begone" had at most caused Frieza some superficial injuries. Besides, he had used less than a tenth of his true power.
During the fight just now, he had felt even more clearly the enormous energy lying dormant within Frieza's body. The opponent simply hadn't transformed yet, unable to show his full strength.
At the center of the explosion, Frieza's figure faintly appeared.
"As expected…" Sensing Frieza's aura reemerge, Raditz grew alert.
The real battle was about to begin.
"Boom~~!!!" At the center of the smoke, an aura storm swept outward, scattering all the smoke.
"How painful… It's been a very, very long time since I last felt pain." Noticing the injuries on his body, Frieza's face turned dark as an icy blue murderous aura surged around him like an oncoming storm.
"Buzz~!!!"
An eerie radiance flickered all around Frieza.
The gates sealing all the energy inside his body opened, and the surging power burst out like a flood.
With his mind made up, Frieza skipped past his second and third transformations, choosing to fight in his final form.
"This aura…" Feeling Frieza's explosively rising aura, Raditz frowned, a huge drop of sweat sliding down his forehead as the numbers on his virtual glasses kept flashing.
"Looks like Frieza intends to go straight to his final form to fight, learning from Cooler and Cold's mistakes…" Seeing this, Talot's eyes also flashed with anticipation.
His warlike genes were resonating with Frieza's power, starting to stir restlessly.
The Frieza before him was absolutely the strongest opponent he had ever faced!
Frieza's unleashed power was so great that even the virtual glasses 3.0 he wore couldn't read the exact data, when it could detect up to ten billion.
Yet now it couldn't measure Frieza's power level at all.
This meant Frieza's final form power level had definitely surpassed ten billion.
At the same time, another battlefield was also shaken by the aura of Frieza's transformation.
Goku, Nappa, and the Earthling warriors were all stunned by this soul-crushingly terrifying aura.
The fighting was forced to stop.
…
When Frieza descended in his final form—
Everyone saw his appearance.
His body had become smaller and more compact, nothing like the savage, monstrous terrifying appearance of King Cold and Cooler.
But within this seemingly slender frame was power enough to destroy countless galaxies.
Through Ki Sense it was clear: at this moment Frieza's aura had surged to a level that could crush ordinary strong fighters to death.
"Frieza's strength… in his final form… has really reached this level?" Raditz stared at Frieza floating in midair, unable to recover for a long time.
The intensity of the aura had completely exceeded his expectations.
Even the virtual glasses broke down because it couldn't detect Frieza's power.
"Damn Frieza… From the very start… he had been toying with me…!!!" Seeing Frieza's transformed state, Vegeta was struck with the greatest mental blow of all.
Frieza's overwhelming strength awakened the long-buried fear in his heart.
Facing such a powerful Frieza, he couldn't even summon the thought of resisting.
"He'll die… Raditz is dead for sure… No one can defeat Frieza…" Under the crushing pressure of absolute power, Vegeta was completely consumed by fear.
"Ever since I emerged from my training, you are the first opponent to force me to reveal my final form, monkey. Even if you die and go to hell, you should have no regrets, hohohoho~~~!!!" Frieza sneered, relishing the horrified expressions on Raditz and Vegeta's faces.
This was exactly how one should look in front of him.
"Stop acting so full of yourself. You're strong, yes, but I won't lose to you so easily!!" Raditz gritted his teeth and unleashed all his strength, breaking through his limits in one go and reached Super Saiyan 2.
At his full strength, Raditz's power level reached 3.75 billion.
Not far away, Vegeta, seeing Raditz's Super Saiyan 2 form, had his worldview expanded once again.
Above Super Saiyan, there truly was an even higher transformation!
Although the difference may seem small, he could perceive a fundamental distinction.
"Oh? You've undergone some changes in appearance? I see. So you long-haired monkeys have developed a transformation beyond Super Saiyan? Too bad, in front of me, no matter how many times you transform, it's useless." Frieza wasn't in a hurry to attack. His scarlet eyes turned toward Goku and Nappa in another battlefield, a cruel smile appearing on his face.
"According to the intelligence provided, that little monkey over there is your younger brother, isn't he?" At those words, Raditz trembled, feeling that something terrible was about to happen.
"Frieza!! Don't you dare!!" Raditz guessed Frieza's intention and roared angrily.
"Hohohoho~~!! What would I not dare to do?" As soon as his words fell, Frieza raised his right hand, index finger locking onto his target, and a Death Beam of immeasurable power shot straight toward Goku.
"You b*stard!!" Rage surged in Raditz's heart. Forming a sword-finger with his right hand and placing it on his forehead, he performed Instant Transmission, arriving in front of Goku.
"Brother?!" Goku shouted in surprise.
"Stay behind me, Kakarot!!" Raditz gritted his teeth and released all his energy to form a Ki Shield that enveloped both him and Goku.
"Boom!!!!!!!!!!!"
An earth-shattering explosion erupted.
Frieza's Death Beam, unleashed using a ten-billion power level, could easily destroy a planet.
This strike even pierced directly through Earth, like a needle stabbing into its crust at a twenty-degree angle.
Everyone was terrified.
Especially those still fighting here; whether Nappa, Krillin and the other three, or the soldiers of the Frieza Force.
On the other side, even Talot was slightly startled.
Such power truly was remarkable.
And this was merely an energy attack Frieza released casually.
Ten billion level was indeed ten billion level!
He had truly underestimated Frieza.
"Good thing he used Instant Transmission in time to dodge. Otherwise, he might have been seriously injured," Talot said.
The next second, a spatial ripple appeared beside him as Raditz, carrying Goku, arrived in a battered state.
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