Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 640 Monster
However, not all battles are one-sided massacres. The Karel Space Pirates also have some skilled fighters with combat strength of over a thousand, especially Karel himself, the leader of the Space Pirates.

With a combat power of over 5,000, although his combat power is only a fraction of that of the truly top fighters in the Dragon Ball universe, he is still very strong in front of ordinary demon soldiers.

"You two must be high-ranking officers of the Wanpa Star Interstellar Thieves, right? You're quite strong, being able to kill so many of my men."

"Now, I'm giving you a chance. If you work for me, Karel, I'll forgive you for killing my men and guarantee you'll live the high life. How about it?"

Despite his men being easily dealt with, the pirate leader was not angry. Instead, he developed a fondness for the man who had killed his men. He floated in mid-air with his arms crossed and extended an olive branch to two demon soldiers wearing spacesuits.

In response, Demon Soldier A said, "What is this guy babbling about? When did we become officers of our Wanpa Star Legion?"

Demon Soldier B: "I don't know, but I do know this guy is slandering us. What interstellar theft gang? We all work hard to earn money, we don't steal or rob!"

The two demon soldiers exchanged a glance and came to a conclusion: the person opposite them was an idiot, an idiot who dared to slander their Wanpa Star Legion, and as soldiers of the Wanpa Star Legion, they had to kill that idiot!

"on!"

Two demon soldiers attacked from the left and right, one throwing punches and the other kicking. Their moves showed traces of Broly's third-rate martial arts, which Broly occasionally instructed demon soldiers who were curious to watch him practice.

Some demon soldiers may appear to have only 1,500 combat strength, but in actual combat, the martial arts taught by Broly often allow them to perform at a level higher than their apparent combat strength.

These two demon soldiers were clearly skilled in martial arts, with an actual combat strength of over two thousand. However, they were facing an opponent with a combat strength of over five thousand, and their punches and kicks were quickly blocked.

"Huh? You're ignoring my polite offer?"

Karel's face darkened. He punched one demon soldier away, then kicked another demon soldier's arm, which he had crossed in a defensive stance. Both demon soldiers were knocked to the ground in an instant.

"See that? That's the difference in strength between you and me. But I'm a forgiving person, and I'm willing to give you a second chance..."

Karel believed that since they were both space pirates, they should have the personality of wolf cubs. He thought that if he, as the leader of the space pirates, showed his strength as the Wolf King, the two opposite him would reconsider whether to join him. But the next moment, two energy blasts came from the pile of rubble.

"You are courting death!"

With a wave of his hand, Karel sent the energy blast flying.

Since we cannot subdue our opponent, we have no choice but to strike hard.

"This guy is quite strong. Don't try to fight him head-on. Let's inform Lord Dorodabo."

The two demon soldiers weren't stupid either. Seeing the pirate leader, who was clearly stronger than them, flying towards them, the two immediately flew towards the headquarters of the Wanpa Star Security Company, contacting the nearest officer as they flew.

Karel frowned in the sky behind him. He was indeed stronger than the two below, but the demon soldiers were taking advantage of the complex urban terrain to split up and run away. Moreover, when he was about to catch up with one of them, the other would launch a long-range energy blast attack from a distance. This made it difficult for him to deal with the two of them for the time being.

"Are you two just rats that scurry around everywhere?!"

After being interrupted several times, and seeing some of the space pirates' subordinates following in the distance, Karel knew he couldn't continue the chase. If he did, he would lose all his authority as the leader of the space pirates. So, now was not the time to conserve his energy.

He hovered in mid-air, gathering his energy in his hand to condense a powerful energy blast, which he then threw at the complex city below.

With a deafening roar, like a nuclear bomb of considerable yield being dropped to the ground, the intense energy created a mushroom cloud that instantly destroyed the city below.

In order to avoid being caught, the two demon soldiers decided to fly low over the city and use the city buildings as cover. Although they noticed the energy blasts coming, it was too late to fly away from the attack area.

Two demon soldiers were caught in the blast wave, their spacesuits torn. Although they did not die, they were blasted away by the shockwave and fell like two rag dolls onto the nearby ruins.

The space pirates who witnessed this from afar cheered. A smile gradually crept onto Karel's lips. He was certain of his power and authority, reaffirmed in the minds of his men by this energy blast. Just as he prepared to deliver the final blow to the two remaining survivors on the ground…

"Hey, what are you trying to do to the soldiers in charge of my area?"

The bulky Dorodabo, flapping its short yellow wings, arrived in the area.

"Torodapo...sir!"

The demon soldiers on the ground saw him as if he were their savior.

"You two don't practice the martial arts the King taught you often enough, how come you can't even handle someone of this level?"

Dorodabo was somewhat dissatisfied. How could he possibly repay King Broly's kindness when his two demon soldiers were so incompetent?
"Yes, I'm sorry..."

The wounded demon soldier felt somewhat ashamed.

"Heh, another one?"

Upon seeing yet another new person from Vampa, Karel sneered.

“I am Karel, a powerful warrior with a combat strength of 5,300. If you are here to join me, as long as you demonstrate sufficient strength, I may consider it.”

He couldn't hear the communication voice inside the spacesuit, but he simply pointed his thumb at himself and uttered an arrogant statement characteristic of Dragon Ball characters who consider themselves strong.

Dorodabo gave the man a strange look, then suddenly disappeared from the spot. When he reappeared, a bow-backed shrimp named Karel was hanging from his outstretched fist.

This punch failed to kill its opponent, but it made Karel, the leader of the space pirates, look like a boxer who had just been hit in the abdomen in a boxing ring, with stomach acid and saliva gushing out.

This punch made Karel realize the strength of the newcomer, a guy stronger than himself. At the same time, the voice of the bandit's first mate came through his earpiece.

"It's bad, Lord Karel. Many of our raiders who arrived on the surface of Lyca have lost contact. Some of them managed to get back in before losing contact, saying that one or more people in spacesuits are chasing them and requesting our support..."

Karel: "..."

At that moment, he suddenly realized that the strength of the Wanpa Star Security Team might not be the same as the space pirates he had previously thought he could easily manipulate.

"Lord Karel?"

The first mate, not receiving a response from the leader, asked cautiously.

"Fire beam cannons this way to provide support! Men, stop this guy..."

The first mate only heard this order, and then some noise came from the other side, like the sounds of a battle, as if their leader had also encountered some powerful enemies.

In reality, Karel endured the excruciating pain in his abdomen, used the force of Dorodabo's chest to propel himself backward, and then ordered his men in the distance to attack Dorodabo. While his men were stalling for time, Karel clutched his abdomen and flew into the sky.

He needs to escape; if he stays on this planet any longer, he'll probably die.

Just as he was thinking this, Dorodabo, who was being harassed by a group of space pirates and found them as annoying as flies, used his fingertip beam to precisely pierce the chest of each of them.

"Um?!"

When Karel turned around and saw this scene, he was terrified and immediately swooped down to the other side of the city area that was intact and had not been destroyed by his energy blast.

Flying in the air would make him too conspicuous. His opponent was stronger and knew fingertip beam attacks; escaping without landing would be suicide. "Where do you think you're going!"

When Dorodabo saw the man trying to escape, he quickly prepared to give chase. His earlier punch had failed to incapacitate the man, which was a misjudgment on his part.

But at that moment, a starship beam cannon fell toward them, and Dorodaporn could only parry back to block it.

Once the starship's beam cannons finished firing, Karel had already rushed into the city area. Dorodabo gave chase, but the situation suddenly reversed.

Just now, Karel was catching two demon soldiers like rats, and now it's his turn to be caught like a rat by Dorodabo.

What troubled Dorodabo was that since he had followed King Broly to clean up his name and come ashore, he couldn't really use the tactic of sweeping up the entire city.

For a while, they couldn't catch up with the guy who was running around everywhere.

"You bastard in front of me, are you just going to run around like a rat in the sewers?"

The boomerang struck Karel with precision, but the pirate leader had no time to worry about his embarrassing situation.

If he doesn't escape, is he supposed to stay and be killed?
"Sigh, this is a bit tricky..."

Dorodabo was a little troubled, but suddenly he had an idea.

Although he couldn't catch the person, he could drive them towards the direction of his own king.

Driven by Dorodabo, Karel gradually arrived at the headquarters of Nota's security company in the capital of Leica, Wampa.

"Angira, stop that space pirate rat!"

Upon seeing his fellow cadre from afar, Dolodabo excitedly called out to them.

Karel, who also saw Angela and noticed the protective suit worn by the planet Vampa, had a bad feeling.

The current situation is that we are surrounded by enemies, with wolves in front and tigers behind, and we are blocked from both sides.

Karel stopped, wondering what to do.
"You bastard, keep running! Humph, you made me go through all this trouble to chase you!"

Dorodabo also stopped, his former villainous demeanor clearly evident; he wanted to see the despair on the guy's face.

However, instead of despair, a resolute determination was seen. Dorodabo saw the other party suddenly rush towards Angela, and before making contact with Angela, he suddenly threw an energy blast on the ground, creating smoke and dust to obscure his vision, and then bypassed Angela from the side.

After the smoke cleared, Karel didn't run away. Instead, he took the person standing behind Angela hostage and shouted at them, "Don't make any rash moves, or I'll kill this brat."

Dorodabo and Angela stopped in their tracks as they saw their king being held hostage by the pirate leader. Because they were wearing helmets in their spacesuits, no one could see the expressions on their faces.

But where did this dark interstellar humor come from, that a guy with a combat power of just over 5,000 has taken their king hostage with a combat power of at least 100 million?

Seeing that neither of them was moving, Karel felt relieved. In the critical moment just now, he had recognized the boy behind Angela.

Although I didn't remember the other person's name, the fact that the other person could act as a representative of Wanpa Star Group and liaise with the person in charge of Leica Star Exchange proved that the other person's status within Wanpa Star Group was probably not low.

【The bet was right! 】

He thought to himself, exhaled, and said to the two people opposite him, "I don't have any deep hatred between me and your Wanpa Star Group, right?"

Although I accepted the commission to frame your Wanpa Star Group for the attack on Leica Star, didn't I fail?
On the contrary, my people suffered heavy losses. Now, if you promise to let me return safely, I guarantee I will leave this planet with my men and never oppose your Wanpa Star Group again.

Broly: "..."

What did he hear? Someone actually wanted to frame the people of Wampa, who were just trying to make a living on this planet, for the attack on Leica.

"Who told you to frame us?"

Broly asked directly.

"I will tell you everything if you promise to let me go back safely."

Karel said.

"I asked you to be honest, not to bargain with me."

The next moment, Broly's tail wrapped around the man's neck, turning the hostage situation into the one hanging upside down. He looked at the one-eyed man with some displeasure.

Karel: "..."

Only then did I notice the boy's familiar tail.

"You're a Saiyan?!"

He exclaimed in surprise and instinctively tried to pry the tail off his neck, but found that the tail was like a super alloy shackle, and it wouldn't budge no matter how hard he struggled.

"If I tell you, will I live?"

Karel asked quickly.

Broly didn't say anything, but simply took out a recorder and began to coil his tail around Broly.

The feeling of suffocation instilled fear in Karel.

"The Immigration Party, you're from the Leica Star Immigration Party. The Latoken family's Representative Latoken chose you as scapegoats. This really has nothing to do with me!"

Immediately afterwards, Karel poured out his heart, revealing the entire planetary attack plan and the mastermind behind it all.

He was afraid that if he spoke too late, he would be killed by the Saiyan boy in front of him.

After listening, Broly didn't say anything, but continued to tighten his tail little by little. Karel felt the pressure on his neck and realized that the other party probably wasn't going to let him go. The expression on the pirate leader's face also turned fierce.

He condensed an energy blast in his hand and fired it at Broly at close range, but before the energy blast could explode, a terrifying aura enveloped it and, in the blink of an eye, completely drained the energy from it.

The aura field allows Broly to completely ignore energy attacks that are far below his own aura level. All energy attacks below his aura level not only fail to harm him, but also charge him.

After frantically unleashing energy blasts, Karel's energy and stamina quickly dwindled, and even now, he couldn't hear the sound of the energy blasts exploding.

At this moment, he finally realized how terrifying the Saiyan boy in front of him was. He was not even in the same league as the lower-level Saiyan warriors he had encountered and defeated in his youth. This one in front of him was a real... monster!

(End of this chapter)