"Your name's Nok, right? You're really something else. Not only did you resist Babidi's control, you actually killed him. Thanks to you, I've been freed from his grip, too!" A burly figure suddenly appeared behind Nok. He looked mostly human, but his ears were long and pointed, and two small antennae sprouted from his head. His whole demeanor radiated pure evil.
"Who are you?" Nok fixed the stranger with an indifferent stare, utterly disregarding him.
"The Demon Realm King, Dabura!" Dabura announced, brimming with pride.
"A piece of trash like you is the king of a realm? Guess your Demon Realm isn't all that impressive!" Nok looked Dabura up and down with nothing but disdain.
"It sounds like you're pretty proud of your own strength. Let's find out just how tough you really are!" Dabura let out a cold snort and launched a punch straight at Nok.
"Picking a fight with me isn't a smart move." Nok smirked faintly, and then an absolutely violent power erupted from his body. He flickered forward and met Dabura's punch head-on with his own!
With a thunderous bang!, the collision of their fists instantly kicked up a massive gale, laying waste to everything around them. But neither of them cared in the slightest. They continued clashing wildly, blow after blow, until the underground base began to quake and crumble around them!
"Heh—didn't think you'd actually have some skill! How about it? Become my subordinate and rule the entire universe at my side!" Dabura traded another punch with Nok, both of them leaping back to steady themselves as he laughed.
"Hmph! You talk too much!"
Nok let out a roar, and his aura shot even higher. Lightning danced wildly through his battle aura, and the earth beneath him shattered! Feeling Nok's skyrocketing power, Dabura's expression couldn't help but shift. "S-Such... such incredible energy..."
"Heh heh—it's way too late for regrets now!"
Nok flashed a bloodthirsty grin, his body transforming into a streak of golden light as he launched a devastating punch straight at Dabura!
"So fast!" Dabura was secretly alarmed. No longer holding anything back, he threw every ounce of his strength into a counter-punch against Nok!
Another explosive bang! echoed through the base as Dabura was sent rocketing backward by the force of the punch. He crashed straight through the walls, smashing a massive crater into the dirt wall just outside the underground base! The entire base shuddered violently, and rubble poured down like rain, finally triggering a total collapse!
"Ahhh—!" Dabura howled, his figure bursting forth from the mud and debris. He shattered the falling boulders in his path with his fists, and without losing an ounce of momentum, drove a punch squarely toward Nok's face!
"Heh heh—now it's getting interesting! Fine, you can keep me entertained a little longer!" Nok laughed wickedly, his form flickering as he threw another punch.
Boom!
The sheer force of their clash reduced all the cascading mud and stone to dust. Their silhouettes darted and flickered, fists flying like phantoms, and the very earth fractured beneath them. In the span of their battle, the ground within a radius of several miles sank dozens of meters. The earth quaked as though struck by a magnitude-ten earthquake! It was both shocking and absolutely terrifying!
Bang! Boom!
Heaven and earth roared, and the ground gave way. A golden figure shot straight up from the earth, piercing into the sky! An instant later, another figure burst through the ground, slicing through the air as he threw a punch directly at the golden form...
In a ruined corner of the collapsed underground base, there lay a giant, bizarre-looking "egg." Its surface was crisscrossed with strange patterns that flickered intermittently with an eerie, pulsing light. A gauge was attached to it, and the needle inside was slowly, steadily climbing upward...
Bang!
Dabura was sent flying again by one of Nok's punches, crashing down and blasting another enormous crater into the ground! Yet, he stubbornly shot back up at once, rapidly gathering a ki blast in his hand and firing it straight at Nok!
Nok swiftly dodged. The devastating ki blast slammed into the ground not far away, carving out a crater dozens of meters deep! But the moment he evaded, another ki blast was already hurtling directly at him! He had no choice but to dodge again. Then came another—and another—until countless ki blasts were screaming toward Nok in rapid succession!
"Don't you ever quit?!" Nok roared. His body flickered at blinding speed, weaving through the relentless barrage. His hands came together, quickly forming a ki blast of his own, and he launched it at Dabura in an instant!
Dabura's figure flashed aside, narrowly avoiding it, but the ground where he'd been standing was blasted into a colossal crater hundreds of meters across!
"Now die, Dabura!" Seizing that split-second opening, Nok instantly appeared right beside Dabura, driving a punch straight into his chest!
In his desperation, Dabura barely managed to guard his chest with both arms before he was sent hurtling backward. But a strange smirk curled at the corner of his mouth. He opened his mouth and spat out a wad of saliva, shooting it directly at Nok's chest!
At such close range, Nok couldn't possibly dodge. In that critical moment, all he could do was use his right hand to block. The saliva splattered onto his right wrist, sticking fast.
Staring at the disgusting spit now coating his wrist, Nok was instantly consumed with fury. "You bastard! You actually dared to spit on me! I'll tear you limb from limb!"
"Heh heh—do you really think I'd do something that pointless? Look at your wrist! This duel is already mine!" Dabura gazed triumphantly at Nok.
"What?! This... this is..." Nok watched in shock as his right hand gradually began to petrify!
"They call it Stone Spit—one of my special abilities. Anything that makes contact with my Stone Spit is completely petrified. You can just stand there, frozen in terror as it slowly turns you to stone! This battle is my victory! Hahaha—" Dabura laughed in smug delight.
"Hmph! You think you can beat me with some cheap parlor trick like that? You're painfully naive!" Nok scoffed with contempt. Using his left hand like a blade, he instantly severed his own petrified right arm at the shoulder! The stone limb crashed to the ground and shattered into pieces.
"Oh! You're surprisingly ruthless! You actually crippled your own hand! But in that case, with nothing but a left hand left, how could you possibly be a match for me now?" Dabura looked on indifferently. In his eyes, Nok no longer posed the slightest threat.
"Heh heh—you really think so?" Nok let out a dark chuckle. Then, with a thunderous bellow, veins bulged all across his body. At the bloody stump of his shoulder, the flesh began to writhe and squirm. With a sharp shlick sound, a completely new arm regenerated! Nok clenched his fist, flexed his new right hand, and a look of satisfaction spread across his face.
"You actually have regenerative abilities as well... Ah! I forgot—you're a Bio-Android. It's hardly surprising you'd possess such a skill!" Dabura frowned as he studied Nok, his expression growing serious.
"Hmph! I'm done messing around with these boring tricks! Let me show you my true power!"
"True power...?"
"Haaaah!" Nok clenched his fists tightly at his sides. His battle aura detonated, and lightning crackled everywhere. His energy began to skyrocket, climbing rapidly, while his golden hair grew longer right before Dabura's eyes...
"HAAAAAH!" Along with Nok's earth-shattering roar, a cataclysmic wave of energy swept across the land, carving out a crater hundreds of meters wide with him at its epicenter!
The dust cleared, revealing Nok's new form. His gaze was now savagely sharp, and a mighty golden battle aura blazed around his entire body, with streaks of lightning coiling through it. His flowing golden hair now reached all the way down to his thighs! He had transformed into a Super Saiyan 3! Paired with his appearance, he looked exactly like a perfect, evil duplicate of Son Goku himself!
[CHAPTER END]