"What's happening in there?"
"I can't see anything either!" Chronoa's face turned ashen as the blazing white light seared her eyes, forcing her to shield them with both hands.
The explosive shockwave was so intense it completely engulfed Mira's position. Everyone watching felt genuinely terrified, but Raditz showed no hint of satisfaction. Instead, he leaped backward, his boots scraping harshly against the platform's surface.
In the next instant, a purple-black energy beam pierced directly through the spot where he had been standing! Mira burst through the tremendous energy bombardment and charged straight at Raditz. Smoke and dust swirled around his form as he radiated a menacing aura. Dominating power poured forth with each movement of his arms, launching dozens more deadly beams that embedded themselves across the platform like a lethal forest.
Raditz bounded across the arena, dodging the dense barrage, but he could feel the entire combat field saturating with malevolent energy. Cold killing intent enveloped the space, making his scalp crawl with primal warning.
Such overwhelming power! This truly is the demon realm's ultimate trump card!
Sweat rarely appeared on Raditz's forehead, but now it dripped steadily.
He evaded Mira's beam attacks, but the forest-like energy projections covering the platform had claimed nearly every available space. Trapped within the deadly maze, Raditz suddenly realized the tactical danger.
Sure enough, Mira displayed an evil smile of anticipation. "There's no escape!" He narrowed his eyes and shouted with vicious glee. Every energy beam detonated simultaneously in a coordinated explosion. Massive cracks torn through reality itself crackled with black thunder and purple lightning as frigid void leaked through the dimensional barriers.
"He's shattering space itself!"
The Supreme Kai of Time's face changed dramatically, her mouth twitching with genuine terror.
Chronoa couldn't adequately describe the horrifying spectacle unfolding before them. Not only was Towa's constructed battlefield filling with purple-black corruption, but even her own controlled dimensional space was suffering damage, constantly battered by the leaked energy overflow.
She had underestimated the situation completely—Mira's power was sufficient to break spatial constraints entirely, beyond all reasonable calculation.
The smoke and crystalline light fragments dissipated as the purple-black mist cleared, yet the evil presence remained overwhelming. Raditz pushed himself up from the platform and appeared before Mira completely intact, though visibly shaken.
Having withstood that devastating assault, Raditz felt genuinely horrified. By any measure, Mira had achieved the same dimensional level as himself.
The Mystic state provided no clear advantage—in raw power, it might even be inferior!
"Hmph, so you survived that? Let's try again!" Mira's form suddenly materialized beside Raditz with a cruel smile twisting his features as he launched a devastating kick.
Raditz immediately raised both arms defensively, but this attack proved to be merely an afterimage! The real assault came from behind as Mira delivered a crushing kick to the back of his skull using the identical technique. The vicious force launched Raditz toward the battlefield's boundary wall, the impact leaving him dizzy and disoriented.
Since his battle with Broly, no opponent had exerted such tremendous pressure on him—and even Broly hadn't managed to inflict this level of damage! Before he could fully process the situation, Raditz snapped back to awareness and leaped to avoid Mira's ground-shattering stomp. Rolling desperately to the opposite side, he fired a counterattack ki blast.
Mira charged directly through the energy bombardment, his velocity increasing exponentially. His hands moved like cutting blades, their cold gleam splitting the void and shattering platform sections. The blue dimensional background cracked and splintered under the assault.
In the next heartbeat, that deadly radiance reached Raditz! At the critical moment, he decisively used Instant Transmission, appearing behind Mira to deliver a horizontal strike to the charging warrior.
Mira's rigid form tilted sideways, his left knee buckling as he slammed heavily onto the platform. He gritted his teeth in obvious pain while glaring at Raditz with renewed fury, reaching back to grab his opponent.
But Raditz had already moved to another position at high speed, whipping his leg in a sideways kick that struck Mira's face with tremendous force, sending the artificial warrior flying toward the distant boundary.
Crashing into the arena wall, Mira actually felt genuine pain! His nose felt warm—was that blood? The sensation sent chills down his spine as his optical sensors blazed with rage.
Unlike ordinary androids, he possessed true sentience, understood pain, and experienced authentic emotions. These qualities made him more real—and infinitely more dangerous!
The genetic fusion from multiple powerful warriors allowed him to combine their greatest strengths. Amid the conflicting emotions of excitement and fury, Mira's fighting spirit ascended to new heights!
"Try to defeat me!" Mira roared with violent intensity.
His figure vanished instantly, reappearing to drive his fist deep into Raditz's abdomen with a sickening BANG!
The tremendous force drilled completely through his body and emerged from behind! Raditz doubled over, blood spraying from his lips as he coughed violently.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" Mira pummeled Raditz with a relentless combination, each strike delivered with increasing ferocity. He fought with growing savagery, his synthetic muscles and bones becoming stronger with every exchange. Bang bang bang bang! The stormy assault gave him complete dominance.
Raditz finally managed to create distance between them, his entire body wracked with agony and his upper clothing completely destroyed. Close examination revealed numerous fist impressions across his torso, the deepest actually forming a visible dent in his flesh!
"Damn it! Can this monster grow stronger as he fights?" Raditz breathed deeply and wiped blood from his mouth, his Mystic state equilibrium wavering slightly.
He and Mira operated at the same fundamental power level, but the artificial warrior held a slight advantage in pure combat effectiveness.
To defeat this bastard, he would need access to an even higher level of strength! Raditz's current Super Saiyan 2 represented his ultimate state, comparable to standard Super Saiyan 3 power—similar to Future Trunks when he returned from the Goku Black timeline to challenge Goku.
But he had never achieved his own Super Saiyan 3 transformation.
The Mystic state surpassed general Super Saiyan 3 capabilities, but given that his Super Saiyan 2 had already reached Super Saiyan 3 strength levels, wouldn't a true Super Saiyan 3 be even more powerful? Raditz could predict that if he achieved that transformation, it might not match the Mystic state's balance and control, but the raw power would definitely exceed his current limits!
Whis had mentioned that Super Saiyan 3 could be derived from the Mystic state. If the Mystic form represented restrained power, then Super Saiyan 3 must be an externally explosive state.
Goku had managed to break through to Super Saiyan 3 while in Other World—surely he could accomplish the same feat.
After all, he had been born with Super Saiyan 3 potential embedded in his very name!
"Die!" Mira suspended himself in mid-air, raising his palm high above as countless purple-black energy needles materialized from the void behind him!
Indifferent killing intent enveloped everything as endless darkness swallowed Raditz whole. External observers could no longer see clearly into the combat domain—all light had vanished into pure chaos.
Yet Raditz actually closed his eyes and entered deep meditation!
Only under extreme pressure could ultimate breakthroughs be achieved. Facing such an overwhelmingly powerful opponent, Raditz would summon his absolute strongest capabilities.
The dark energy approached relentlessly as space itself began collapsing. Only pure instinct struggled in the ocean of consciousness while every fighting cell surged with golden radiance—inspired, activated, and ready to shatter its limitations when mortal danger arrived, revealing the peerless edge within!
Raditz's black hair suddenly flickered with otherworldly energy as an inexplicable force within his body pulled at his very essence. The bottleneck that had trapped him for so long finally cracked and broke. His cells provided continuous energy as golden flames erupted with unprecedented intensity, the Super Saiyan state blazing to life!
Immediately afterward, another layer of silver lightning danced through the golden aura, swimming around his form like electric serpents. His massive, overwhelming power signature continued climbing without apparent limit!
The radiance grew ever more intense—blindingly brilliant and dazzling as layers of electrical energy flowed upward from his feet, the expanding aura whipping his hair into a wild dance.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Energized beyond all previous limits, Raditz roared like a thousand beasts in perfect unison.
Every inch of muscle accumulated tremendous power while every individual hair follicle channeled terrifying energy. The surging transformation made his long hair flourish dramatically, bangs growing forward while several locks from the back stretched around to drape over his shoulders. Additional length extended past his waist in flowing waves.
Invisible ripples spread outward as the entire dimensional space undulated and twisted like water disturbed by a massive stone.
A tremendous crack tore open in the space before his golden brilliance—the enormous interdimensional fissure was as large as a city gate, leading directly to the outside world. Steady streams of power rushed through the opening, completely shattering Towa's constructed battle domain.
Layer upon layer of overwhelming air pressure surged in all directions, as if infinite space had been filled with his presence alone. Trunks stood paralyzed—he had only recently achieved Super Saiyan 2, and Raditz's power shocked him beyond description. Compared to this transformation, Trunks felt like a tiny boat floating on a vast ocean, utterly insignificant.
For this moment, all other brilliance became meaningless—only Raditz's radiance illuminated the entire void.
"Such incredible power... absolutely terrifying..." Trunks whispered in awe, swallowing repeatedly as he tried to process what he was witnessing.
The purple-black storm of deadly projectiles all froze motionless half an inch from Raditz's transformed body. "Begone!" he whispered, and golden halos spread in expanding waves, returning everything to absolute nothingness...