Kryptonians: Man of Steel

Chapter 1693 The Sun Family's Kindness Comes Online
The color of its shell subtly synchronizes with the environment, almost becoming an invisible shadow.

The distance quickly closed.

Fifty meters, thirty meters, ten meters...

It's now!

Cell tensed his muscles and suddenly exerted force!
The green figure shot out of the shadows like a ghost, moving with incredible speed, its arm covered in a hard shell aimed straight for Gohan's back!
This strike was the culmination of his full power, intended to kill!

However, just before he launched his attack—

Son Gohan, who had been standing quietly watching the battle, twitched his brow almost imperceptibly.

His ability to sense auras had already been honed to a level far exceeding that of ordinary people through rigorous training and harsh discipline under twenty times the gravity of Earth.

Cella's ultimate, yet not flawless, concealment still left an extremely subtle ripple in his vast, ocean-like field of perception.

"Ok?"

A soft eh.

Without any earth-shattering prelude, just a fraction of a second before Cell's claws were about to touch the back of his clothes, Gohan's body reacted as if by instinct.

A dazzling golden aura exploded out!

It was not a simple Super Saiyan transformation; the aura was stable, solid, and boundless, enveloping the entire body like liquid gold—it was the Super Saiyan at full power, surpassing all limits!
At the same time, his aura was as solid as a rock, stabilizing the space around him.

Cell's seemingly inevitable strike seemed to have hit an invisible yet indestructible wall, causing his speed to suddenly halt.

Son Gohan calmly turned around, his emerald green eyes, calm to the point of being unsettling, instantly locked onto the attacker's ferocious insect face and terrifying physique.

"What is this?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Son Gohan's eyes.

A large, green, humanoid insect?
Covered in spotted carapace, and trailing a tail with sharp suckers?
But the next moment, all the memories of Mr. Luther and Uncle Trunks' descriptions flooded back.

It's Cell!
The ultimate android from the future!

All the thoughts were formed in the blink of an eye.

Without any hesitation, almost at the same time he recognized his target, Son Gohan's actions were even faster than his thoughts—a highly compressed energy blast radiating destructive energy waves had already condensed in his right palm!

Without needing to charge up at all, the light from the energy blast instantly reached its peak intensity!
"call out--!!!"

A beam of energy, condensed to its extreme, left his palm. It was not a huge pillar of light with great momentum, but rather a beam of light that contained all its terrifying power and shot straight at Cell's face!

quick! allow! ruthless!
Cell, who was still charging forward, had his compound eyes filled with endless golden light the moment the energy beam lit up.

A sense of impending doom, unlike anything he had ever experienced before, a feeling that could freeze his soul, pierced the core of his brain like an ice pick!
"Nani?!!"

Cell's pupils (the visual focus in the compound eye structure) contracted wildly in horror!

This energy intensity... this destructive aura... how is this possible?!
This is by no means some weak and worthless piece of trash!

This is clearly a slumbering, primordial behemoth!

Cell, as a composite being combining the genes of Saiyans, Namekians, and Frieza's race, should have possessed unlimited potential.

But at this moment, he clearly felt the insurmountable gap between himself and Son Gohan.

According to the power level system, Gohan's strength at this point has reached the level of a cosmic overlord, enough to easily destroy a planet.

You can't dodge it! You can't stop it!

I'll die! I'll definitely die!
In this distorted and abnormal spacetime, Cell realized his impending doom for the first time with such clarity and despair. He tried to mobilize all his energy for defense, but the golden beam had already pierced through the hastily constructed air barrier and was heading straight for his core.

However, just as the energy beam was about to engulf Cell, Luther moved.

The whole world seemed to have been put on pause.

The flying pebbles froze in mid-air, Gohan's golden aura remained still as a sculpture, and Cell's terrified expression was also frozen in time.

In this deathly silence, only Luther was free to move about.

Luther's gaze pierced through Sharu's body structure, pinpointing the tiny core.

That was a regeneration device designed by Dr. Gero. Even if the body was completely destroyed, Cell could be reborn as long as the core remained intact.

Cell's regenerative abilities actually stem from a combination of factors: the regenerative capacity provided by Bick's cells, and the core within Cell's brain.

In the original story, Cell was able to regenerate and evolve into Lightning Cell after his self-destruction because the core of his brain was not damaged.

With a flick of his finger, Luther sent the core flying out of Cell's body.

This core not only contains Dr. Gero's highest technology, but also incorporates the characteristics of Saiyan, Frieza, and Piccolo cells.

Cell himself may not fully understand the true value of this core.

Luther recalled Cell's unfamiliarity with his own regenerative abilities during previous battles—when he first faced Piccolo, he didn't even know he possessed regenerative abilities.

After Sharu's core was moved to a safe location several kilometers away, time began to flow again.

A massive explosion rang out, and Cell's body was shattered into pieces by Gohan's energy blast.

Son Gohan frowned slightly, sensing something was amiss—the evil aura didn't seem to have completely disappeared, but had simply shifted to a distant place.

"What's wrong, Gohan?"

Sun Wukong noticed his son's unusual behavior and went up to ask him.

Gohan shook his head: "I don't know, but it feels like Cell's ki hasn't completely disappeared."

Sun Wukong frowned. He trusted his son's intuition, but he couldn't sense Cell's presence at all.

Meanwhile, the battles between Androids 17 and 18 and Goku and Future Trunks have also come to a conclusion.

Just as Future Trunks raised his sword to finish off Android 17, Goku instantly teleported in front of him and blocked the attack.

"Calm down, Trunks."

Sun Wukong said, his eyes showing no wavering.

"Mr. Sun Wukong?"

Future Trunks glared angrily at Goku, utterly bewildered as to why he was being stopped.

"These are evil androids. They must be killed, or humanity will be killed by them!"

Future Trunks's argument was tinged with a slight tremor.

In his future, Android 17 and 18 are demons who slaughter humanity and destroy civilization. He has witnessed the deaths of countless comrades, including Gohan's heroic sacrifice.

Sun Wukong shook his head, his tone firm: "They in this time and space haven't done what you said yet. We can't kill them just because of our subjective will."

(End of this chapter)