Seeing the scene before him clearly, Goku felt as if he had just walked through the gates of hell. His face was pale, and dense beads of sweat had soaked through his martial arts uniform.
That sensation of death just now had been so real.
If it hadn't been for Raditz arriving in time and using Instant Transmission to take him away, he might have already been blown to pieces with nothing left.
"Talot, I'm counting on you to protect Kakarot. That Frieza has really pissed me off!!!"
From Raditz's furious expression, it was obvious he truly wanted to hack Frieza to pieces.
Because Frieza didn't attack him directly, instead he toyed with him and went after Kakarot.
"Go. I'll be watching Kakarot," Talot said, narrowing his eyes slightly. He didn't stop Raditz from continuing his fight but nodded in assurance.
With Talot's response, Raditz turned around, his enraged eyes glaring viciously at Frieza in the sky. The fury inside him swelled like a rising tide.
"Hohohoho~! That furious look on your face is delightful. But what can you do? I'm right here, and all you can do is stand there and rage helplessly." Frieza let out a sinister, cold laugh, not taking Raditz's anger seriously at all. In fact, he found it all the more amusing.
Toying with people's hearts; nothing was more entertaining than that.
"Fri! E! Za!" Raditz roared each syllable in anger. His aura erupted out completely in a massive surge, the powerful golden aura sweeping out like a world-engulfing tornado, shaking the land violently.
As his aura reached its peak, Raditz shot forward in fury, like the first light of dawn breaking through, charging straight at Frieza.
But Frieza now was no longer the same as before. Raditz's reckless, full-speed assault looked as slow as a crawling snail to Frieza, not worth a mention.
With a single sidestep, Frieza perfectly evaded Raditz's charge.
After dashing in front of Frieza, Raditz launched a relentless attack without holding anything back.
His powerful and reckless offensive created sonic booms in the air, each blow carrying immense power.
If this had been Frieza's first form, he might well have been beaten into doubting his life by Raditz's combo strikes.
But Frieza now, with a power level surpassing ten billion, could toy with Raditz effortlessly.
That small, compact body moved at incredible speed, easily dodging all of Raditz's attacks.
Blow after blow landing on empty air, Raditz's heart grew heavier. In his final form, Frieza's strength was far beyond what he could contend with now.
He had previously thought that after becoming a Super Saiyan, the enormous power gap would allow him to toy with Frieza.
Now, even below Super Saiyan 2, he falls short, which has shaken his original confidence.
But even if the gap in power was as vast as a chasm, he would not back down. As a fighting race, the only path for Saiyans was to fight to the death!
"Haah!!!" With a roar, the golden aura around Raditz surged even higher. The Saiyan trait of growing stronger against stronger foes burst forth, and his power level instantly shot up to 3.8 billion.
Under Frieza's overwhelming pressure and his own intense unwillingness to yield, Raditz was growing. His speed and strength were rising sharply.
But even this degree of growth was nothing to the powerful Frieza.
Frieza stood with arms crossed, completely at ease. He was using only his tail to toy with Raditz, treating him like a monkey.
"I just love you Saiyans' unyielding spirit. It's so much fun. The harder you resist now, the deeper your despair will be later. Hohohoho~~!!" Frieza laughed wildly, mocking Raditz mercilessly.
"Shut up, B*stard!!" Raditz, anger surging to the extreme, swung his fierce fist straight toward Frieza's face.
Seeing this, Frieza sneered contemptuously. His nimble tail shot out from behind once again, locking Raditz's wrist so his punch couldn't advance even an inch.
Restrained, Raditz's face showed unwillingness. He struggled with all his might but couldn't move at all.
'Bang!!!' Frieza casually struck Raditz in the stomach.
The terrifying impact instantly shattered the battle armor covering Raditz's abdomen.
The destructive force of that blow spread throughout Raditz's entire body. His internal organs were violently shaken, his blood churned, his eyes turned bloodshot, and his face twisted in pain.
A sweetness surged up his throat, but just as he was about to spit it out, Raditz forcibly swallowed it back down.
"Quite tenacious. Let me see just how long you can last." Frieza sneered, his hands moving swiftly as he unleashed merciless and brutal strikes, hammering down upon Raditz's body.
'Bang! Bam! Bang! Bam! …' A string of dull, explosive impacts echoed without pause.
Struck again and again, Raditz's aura rapidly weakened. Blood spilled uncontrollably from the corner of his mouth, his face contorted in agony, and veins bulged across his body.
By all logic, under such a ferocious assault from Frieza, even a warrior with a power level of 3.8 billion would already have been torn to pieces.
But after years of training in high-gravity environments, Raditz had long forged a body of steel, its toughness far beyond that of ordinary fighters at his level.
Even so, faced with Frieza's relentless onslaught, Raditz's body was suffering irreversible, devastating damage.
If he continued to take blows passively, he truly would be torn apart.
He had to find a way to break free; otherwise, defeat was only a matter of time.
"Monkey, I didn't expect your body to be this tough. Perfect, you'll make a fine punching bag for my warm-up." Frieza grew more excited the more he attacked, relishing the feeling of torturing Raditz.
At last, Raditz could bear it no longer. Enduring the bone-shattering pain, he suddenly pulled Frieza's tail toward himself and bit down hard.
"Aaahhh!!!" Frieza cried out, his rhythm thrown off by the searing pain. The grip of his tail weakened.
Seizing the chance, Raditz launched a counterattack. With unstoppable momentum, his supercharged fist smashed straight into Frieza's face, blasting him away.
But he didn't stop there. While Frieza was still reeling, Raditz gathered all the energy in his body, preparing his ultimate technique.
"Super—Begone!!!" he screamed loudly, swinging both hands as a powerful crimson-gold energy beam tore through the air, roaring toward Frieza.
Just then, regaining control of his body, Frieza looked at the rapidly approaching crimson-gold energy beam with a flash of impatience in his eyes.
"A monkey is still a monkey. Biting people is one thing, but even your techniques are so crude." Fixing his gaze on the incoming Begone, Frieza casually swatted out a palm.
'Boom!!!' With a deafening crash, Raditz's Begone was slapped away by Frieza's hand, sent hurtling toward the second battlefield.
Nappa, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, Yamcha, Chiaotzu, and the others, upon witnessing this, immediately sensed disaster. They broke off from their battles at once and retreated at full speed.
Captain Ginyu, realizing the danger, also quickly led his subordinates to withdraw.
But the remaining Frieza Force soldiers weren't so lucky.
'Rumble~~!!!!' The energy detonated, and an enormous mushroom cloud rose into the sky.
An unparalleled shockwave of destruction spread in all directions, its power so overwhelming that it annihilated every Frieza Force soldier except Ginyu, Recoome, Burter, and Jeice.
The others who narrowly escaped death felt their hearts tremble violently, as though they had just walked through the gates of hell.
That massive explosion just now, if they had been caught in it, death was certain.
With a single slap, Frieza had doomed his own troops.
But to Frieza, whether these useless subordinates lived or died meant nothing at all.
As long as he remained, countless warriors would continue to follow in his footsteps and serve him.
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