Kryptonians: Man of Steel

Chapter 1648 The battle between martial artists is a battle of air pressure!

The smoke and dust were slowly parted as if by an invisible giant hand, revealing a figure suspended in mid-air.

The adult Son Gohan stood quietly between heaven and earth, the boiling golden flames around him not weakening because of the previous explosion, but becoming even more intense as if fueled.

The dazzling golden light was so bright that it seemed as if the sun had descended to earth, illuminating the entire battlefield as if it were daytime.

There was not a trace of human emotion in his molten gold eyes, only the purest, absolute will to completely destroy his target.

That icy gaze seemed to freeze one's soul, making any creature that met its eyes tremble with fear.

A powerful energy radiated outward from him, causing the surrounding space to distort slightly. Light around him was strangely bent, forming visible energy ripples.

"monster…"

Raditz forced out the two words through clenched teeth, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

His clenched fists trembled slightly, not from fear, but from anger and disbelief.

As a battle-hardened Saiyan warrior, he had never encountered such a powerful opponent on a lowly planet like Earth.

What he found even more unacceptable was that his opponent was his nephew, a half-human, half-Saiyan hybrid.

Raditz's keen combat instincts told him that he could no longer continue to defend passively.

The energy fluctuations emanating from Son Gohan are increasing at an alarming rate, and if left unchecked, they could truly endanger his life.

"Don't be so arrogant, you wild monkey!"

Raditz roared, trying to turn the tide with words and momentum.

At the same time, his hands moved rapidly, and the energy within his body poured out like a flood.

"Whoosh whoosh-!"

A barrage of energy projectiles erupted from his hands like a torrential downpour, forming a dense network of fire that rained down on Son Gohan.

Each of these energy blasts contains enough power to destroy a building, and when launched together, they could raze an entire city to the ground.

This is a common tactic used by Saiyans: using continuous energy attacks to suppress the opponent and force them to reveal weaknesses.

However, faced with this devastating attack, Gohan's reaction was so simple it was almost despairing.

He didn't even make any defensive or dodge movements, but simply hovered quietly in place, letting the energy blasts hit him.

When those incredibly powerful energy projectiles entered the range of his boiling golden aura, they were like hailstones thrown into a furnace, only causing tiny ripples of energy before silently annihilating and dissipating, without even producing an explosion!

It was as if what was burning around him was not just simple air, but a domain of absolute energy, a forbidden zone that rejected the intrusion of all low-level energy!
The energy density in this field is so high that it has exceeded Raditz's understanding.

"How can it be?!"

Raditz's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. His attack had been completely ineffective? This completely defied the Saiyan's common sense about combat!

"Your air pressure is too low."

Son Gohan spoke coldly, his voice eerily calm, as if stating a perfectly simple fact.

"A battle between martial artists is a battle of qi. Your qi pressure is less than twice that of mine, so you can't destroy my qi at all." Qi pressure refers to the density of qi, a type of energy.

After his outburst, Son Gohan used a spiral pressurization technique to compress the ki within his body to more than five times its previous level and steadily maintained this state.

A five-fold difference in air pressure translates to a difference in combat effectiveness far exceeding fivefold.
This is why Gohan's fighting power only increased from 408 points to 2040 points, yet he was able to suppress Raditz, an opponent with a fighting power of 3000 points.

Although the difference appears to be 960 points, the quality of the ki has actually narrowed the gap, even allowing Gohan's ki to surpass Raditz in quality.

Just as Raditz froze in shock, Gohan moved.

He slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers slightly spread.

The highly concentrated golden energy gathered and compressed in his palm at an astonishing speed, emitting a sharp, teeth-grinding buzzing sound.

The light was so dazzling that it was impossible to look directly at it, as if one were holding a miniature star, containing world-destroying energy.

The energy compression process produced a peculiar gravitational effect, and the surrounding space seemed to be concave into Gohan's palm.

The gravel and dust on the ground floated upwards uncontrollably, then vaporized instantly as they approached his palm, disappearing without a trace.

Raditz felt the terrifying energy fluctuations, and the hairs on his body stood on end.

A fatal sense of crisis compelled him to unleash his full potential as he desperately dodged to one side.

His fighting instincts told him that he absolutely could not take this attack head-on!
However, the moment he moved, the energy in Son Gohan's hand had already reached its maximum.

The next moment, a golden beam of light, condensed to its extreme and less than an arm's length in diameter, suddenly burst forth!
It is not a scattered qi wave, but more like an indestructible judgment gun made of pure energy!

Wherever the beam of light passed, the air was ionized, producing crackling sounds and creating a brief vacuum channel.

The beam's speed surpassed that of any energy attack Raditz had ever seen!

Even though he had already made a dodge move in advance, the terrifying energy beam still grazed his right side and abdomen.

"laugh--!"

The mere brush against him, the extreme heat and energy erosion, instantly vaporized his skin and muscles, leaving a horrific charred wound.

The edges of the wound were molten, and the bone inside was even faintly visible!
The intense burning pain caused Raditz to let out a piercing scream.

The peak of a distant mountain range behind him vanished silently in the instant the beam of light swept across it!
Its cross-section is as smooth as a mirror, exhibiting a glassy state of melting and then instantly cooling, reflecting an eerie light under the sunlight.

This was not a battle at all, but a one-sided, brutal crushing defeat!

Raditz staggered backward, clutching the wound on his side with one hand, his face contorted with pain and disbelief.

He could feel his life force rapidly draining from the wound, and the energy contained in the beam of light seemed to be continuously eroding his body, preventing the wound from healing naturally.

"It's impossible; how could someone of mixed Earth heritage possess such power?"

Raditz muttered to himself, a genuine fear appearing in his eyes for the first time.

Son Gohan slowly landed on the ground, his golden aura still surging. His molten gold eyes stared emotionlessly at the injured Raditz, as if looking at a dead man.

(End of this chapter)