Dragon Ball: I Became Cell in a Doomed Future

Chapter 361 361: The Proud Saiyan Crown Prince

Frieza's triumphant laughter still echoed above the arena.

In the next instant, he had already returned to the viewing platform, standing beside Cooler.

Secretly comparing their heights, he had already begun imagining the future, when he would look down on his older brother and Son Goku from above.

"Hohoho…"

"Ohohohoho…"

Seeing Frieza's face brimming with joy, his lips almost impossible to suppress, Cooler snorted coldly.

"Naive. You only pulled off one comeback, and your tail is already pointing to the heavens?"

"Have you considered that your next opponent will only be even more terrifying?"

Though he did not want to admit it, his foolish little brother had indeed exceeded his expectations and won that match.

And he had won beautifully.

Especially his understanding and use of destruction power. That had far surpassed Cooler's knowledge.

That much, at least, deserved acknowledgment.

However, as the older brother, seeing Frieza act so smug still made him unable to resist offering a warning.

Ohohoho… How could my foolish brother possibly know the true reason I am so happy?

Frieza was secretly delighted.

On the other side, Emperor Vegeta's expression was gloomy.

The heavily injured and unconscious Kakarot was teleported back beside him.

"Useless."

Relying on the wishes for immortality and an enhanced Saiyan passive ability, then stacking it with greatly increased battle-growth efficiency, this path seemed unworthy before true masters.

At the same time, Frieza's method of precisely controlling the boundary of near death to suppress the Saiyan passive talent had indeed made him feel troubled.

He himself possessed the combined wishes of all his guards.

He had not expected that the perfect wish combination proven successful in his own timeline, the Saiyan passive ability and immortality, would be broken by the other side.

Every defeat suffered by one of his guards was an indirect dissection of his own strength.

Broly and Kakarot had both lost.

Next, he could only look to the Crown Prince and Mad Beast's performance to verify whether he was truly invincible across all timelines.

…

Hertz versus the Crown Prince.

The Crown Prince, eldest son of Emperor Vegeta, heir to the entire Saiyan Empire, had survived countless battles.

At this moment, he stood like an unsheathed blade, his entire body radiating absolute confidence.

The formidable aura forged through countless life-and-death battles was fully revealed.

"If you don't want to suffer, hand over your Universe Seed."

Hertz's expression remained calm.

"The power in your body is decent."

With his goggles on and his blond hair combed perfectly into place, he looked elegant and composed.

He continued with a smile, "But you do not seem to realize just how arrogant that demand is."

"Hmph. Then I'll beat you until you can't crawl back up and make you offer it obediently."

The Crown Prince's aura erupted. He instantly transformed into Beast form, silver-gray hair surging upward as a wild, violent presence swept across the arena.

"I'll show you that the power of the Saiyan royal family is far beyond your reach!"

Before his words faded, he vanished.

In the next second, a terrifying heavy punch shot straight toward Hertz's face.

Yet Hertz did not even lift his eyelids.

Just as the Crown Prince's fist was about to touch him…

Ding.

A crisp sound rang out.

A crystal-clear, glass-like cube appeared out of thin air, blocking Hertz's front.

The Crown Prince's fist slammed heavily into it.

There was no explosion.

No shockwave.

The force that should have destroyed everything seemed to sink into the sea, without stirring even the slightest ripple.

"What?"

The Crown Prince's pupils shrank.

He felt as if his attack had been swallowed by a bottomless black hole.

"Is that your attack? Too weak."

Hertz's voice sounded beside his ear.

At some point, those strange glass-like cubes had appeared on all sides of the Crown Prince, completely sealing him inside a narrow cubic space.

"What the hell is this?!"

The Crown Prince roared, throwing both fists forward and striking the cubes in a frenzy.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Every punch was thrown with full power, yet the cubes did not move at all.

"It's useless."

There was a trace of pity in Hertz's voice.

"Before the power of the Universe Seed, all your attacks are meaningless."

He slowly raised his hand and lightly clenched it toward the crystalline cube.

Creak.

The crystal cube began to contract rapidly.

"Ahhhhh!"

The Crown Prince let out a roar of pain.

He felt as if he had been caught between two mountains. Every bone in his body groaned under the unbearable pressure.

His powerful Beast-form body seemed impossibly fragile at this moment.

"Damn it!"

He madly drove his energy, trying to force open the shrinking space.

But no matter how he erupted, he could not stop the crystal from contracting.

His power had been completely isolated and suppressed by that space.

In the stands, everyone was stunned by the sight.

"The power of the Universe Seed…"

The Fifth Universe God of Destruction, Arak, looked grave. "It does not belong to the divine domain, nor is it pure energy… It is a force on the level of rules!"

"That man named Hertz is using the Universe Seed to create a rule domain that belongs to him." Vados also saw through the nature of it.

Emperor Vegeta's eyes were fixed tightly on the battlefield.

This power…

It was enough to rule all timelines!

"Bastard! Break… for me!"

Inside the crystal prison, the Crown Prince's eyes turned bloodshot, veins bulging as he pushed his strength to the limit.

Crack.

A tiny fracture finally appeared on the surface of the crystal.

"Oh? You can actually shake my Universe Cube. It seems your strength is indeed decent."

A trace of surprise flashed through Hertz's eyes, but he quickly returned to calm.

"However, this is where it ends."

He lightly tapped a finger.

Buzz.

More glass-like crystals formed out of thin air, instantly repairing the crack and making the prison even thicker.

Despair.

Complete despair.

The Crown Prince could feel that no matter how much stronger he became, the other party could still suppress him with ease.

This was not merely a difference in power level.

It was an overwhelming suppression on the level of rules.

"If you've got the guts… fight me fair and square!" the Crown Prince roared unwillingly. "What kind of skill is relying on a tricky power like this?"

He could not lose.

He was the Crown Prince. He carried the glory of the future Saiyan Empire, and he could not disappoint his father.

"Fair and square?"

Hertz seemed to have heard the greatest joke in the world and laughed softly.

"This so-called fair fight of yours is nothing more than the dull exchange of fists between barbarians."

"Power has no noble or lowly form. There is only strength and weakness."

"However…"

Hertz's tone shifted, and a playful look appeared in his eyes.

"To make you give up completely, I'll grant that small wish of yours."

He snapped his fingers.

Snap.

The crystal cube imprisoning the Crown Prince instantly dissolved into countless motes of light and vanished into the air.

The rule power binding him disappeared as well.

The Crown Prince regained his freedom, gasping heavily.

That round of suppression had left him with considerable injuries.

However, thanks to his immortal body, he had already fully recovered, and his power had risen slightly compared to before.

He stared at Hertz.

"Come on!"

He would use the battle style Saiyans were most proud of to tear this enemy apart completely!

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