Chapter 64: Terrifying Increase
Turles's condition exceeded everyone's expectations. Nail and Deru watched the Grand Elder anxiously. Even injured by Turles's overwhelming presence, they continued trying to push forward.
Inside Turles's mental world, a golden giant ape roared toward the sky. The ape's howls created black cracks across his mental landscape, threatening total collapse!
"What's happening?"
Turles stared in horror at the ape before him, unable to understand why this was occurring.
However, he quickly realized this wasn't the time for analysis. He needed a solution fast—if his mental world collapsed, he'd be utterly destroyed.
Ideas flashed through Turles's mind, only to be immediately dismissed. His anxiety grew with each passing moment.
As time passed, more cracks appeared across his mental world, black lightning crackling intermittently.
Suddenly, inspiration struck. Turles thought of one more approach. Watching his mental world on the verge of shattering, he couldn't afford hesitation and immediately acted.
Enduring intense mental agony, Turles extracted a thread of mental power. Then he carefully guided this thread to the connection point between his spine and tail.
"ROAR!"
The moment his mental power entered the spine-tail junction, the golden ape in his mind shattered like glass. A tremendous force surged from his tail, rapidly flowing through his spine and spreading throughout his entire body.
"ROAAAAR!"
Turles couldn't help but roar. Fur began sprouting across his face, and his body started expanding.
Seeing this, Raditz seemed to realize something. His face went pale as he shrieked, "Quick! Everyone retreat! RUN!"
With that, Raditz grabbed Bulma and shot away at maximum speed!
Though unsure of Raditz's reasoning, seeing his terrified reaction and Turles's physical transformation, Nappa immediately scooped up Vegeta and followed.
Nail and Deru finally reached the Grand Elder. Looking at his weakened state, both glared angrily at Turles before carefully supporting the Grand Elder and quickly departing.
"Raditz, what's happening to Turles?"
During their flight, Bulma finally couldn't contain herself and asked urgently.
Suppressing his fear, Raditz answered while flying, "Turles is transforming into a Great Ape!"
Raditz's voice trembled as if he'd already witnessed something horrific.
"Great Ape?" Bulma froze before quickly responding. "But don't Saiyans need to see the full moon to transform?"
Bulma was well aware of the conditions for Saiyan transformation.
"No. Turles has a secret technique that lets him transform by directly stimulating his tail, without needing the moon. Only he knows this method right now. The first time he used it, Turles lost his mind and became a beast with nearly one million in battle power!"
Feeling they'd fled far enough, Raditz slowed down and explained to Bulma.
"What? Nearly one million?" Nappa couldn't believe it and exclaimed in shock.
Nearly one million battle power—what kind of existence was that? Especially for a Saiyan!
Glancing at Nappa, Raditz continued, "After that, Turles completely mastered the Great Ape transformation technique. He could maintain his sanity in ape form. But this time, I don't know why—he's spontaneously transforming again, and it looks like he's struggling to stay rational."
By the end, Raditz sounded puzzled, unable to understand what had happened to Turles.
Suddenly, Nappa thought of a serious problem. He asked Raditz, "Raditz, what's Turles's battle power now?"
Hearing this question, Raditz seemed to realize something too. His expression grew even grimmer as he said through gritted teeth, "On Planet Mokka it was over 200,000. Add the Grand Elder's potential unlock, and I don't know his exact power now. It could already be... over ten million!"
By the end, Raditz's voice had grown very quiet, yet that number still thundered in Nappa and Bulma's ears like an explosion.
"Over... ten million?" Nappa was completely terrified, his voice distorting. He looked back in horror, eyes locked on the distance behind them as if he could see that monstrous ape!
Regardless of how shocked Raditz and the others were about Turles's battle power, Turles himself currently felt incredibly powerful!
Indeed, at first when Turles had guided his mental power to stimulate his tail and unleash the Great Ape force, his body's cells had rapidly mutated under its influence. Combined with his mental world's fracture, he'd nearly lost his sanity.
Fortunately, after the golden ape in his mental world shattered, his mental landscape was repaired. This let him maintain a thread of consciousness at the critical moment, allowing Deru and Nail to break through his oppressive aura and evacuate the Grand Elder.
Through his research on Great Ape transformation, Turles successfully regained full control. Moreover, he'd advanced further—achieving the Great Ape Power transformation he'd previously tested on Raditz.
In other words, aside from fur color, Turles's current form was identical to Goku's Super Saiyan 4 transformation from GT. And his battle power had indeed reached what Raditz predicted—breaking past ten million. Though not just ten million, but fifteen million!
That's right. Under the Grand Elder's potential unlock, Turles's normal battle power had jumped from 200,000+ directly to 1.5 million—an increase of over a million.
The Great Ape Power transformation multiplied normal battle power by ten. That's why Turles now possessed fifteen million in battle power.
At this level, Turles could be considered a genuine powerhouse. Even against Frieza's final form—if Frieza hadn't yet adapted to his body—Turles could dominate him.
Turles contentedly struck several poses, unable to resist flexing the muscles on his arms. He nodded with satisfaction.
Though the deep brown, nearly black fur wasn't as attractive as Goku's red fur, Turles didn't mind at all. In this world, power was everything.
After admiring himself for a while, Turles finally relented and released the Great Ape Power transformation. The moment he reverted to normal, his legs went weak and nearly buckled beneath him.
The Great Ape Power form consumed substantial stamina. Unless absolutely necessary, he shouldn't rely too heavily on transformation.
"As expected, only increasing normal battle power is the true path. Whether Great Ape Power transformation or Super Saiyan transformation—they're all shortcuts!"
Remembering Old Kai's disdain for Goku's Super Saiyan 3 and Whis's training guidance for both Goku and Vegeta, Turles couldn't help but sigh with this realization!