The Hyperbolic Time Chamber was an endless world of silent white.
There was no day.
No night.
Only crushing gravity, one hundred times stronger than Earth's.
For ordinary people, this place was hell.
For Krillin, it was the perfect forge.
Seated cross-legged in the void, he radiated no overwhelming aura.
No storms of ki.
No earth-shaking pressure.
He sat there like an ancient stone that had weathered tens of thousands of years.
[Ding! System core upgrade complete.]
[Energy Conversion Module reconstructing...]
[System Update:]
[From this point forward, all external energy gained through defeating enemies, eating, or training will no longer accumulate solely within the body.]
[Priority allocation: Martial God Core refinement.]
[Saitama Template (Growth Path) and Martial God Core (Realm Path) are now undergoing deep integration.]
Krillin slowly opened his eyes.
Golden ripples spread through the depths of his pupils.
He immediately understood what the system meant.
If his body were a race car, then the Saitama Template had always been an infinitely powerful engine.
As long as he kept running and training, its horsepower would continue growing without limit.
The problem was that his body and spiritual realm couldn't always keep up.
Too much power could lead to instability.
Or worse, complete collapse.
The Martial God Core was different.
It was the ultimate chassis.
The ultimate transmission system.
A framework capable of controlling limitless power.
"Interesting."
Krillin rose to his feet.
Crack.
Crack.
His joints popped sharply as he stretched.
"The Saitama Template raises my ceiling infinitely."
"The Martial God Core compresses and refines that power into something I can truly master."
A path toward invincibility.
And absolute control.
"Let's test this new form."
A thought crossed his mind.
No roar.
No transformation sequence.
Not even a flutter of his clothes.
Bzzzzz...
A deep vibration echoed from within his body.
It sounded like an ancient bronze bell ringing through the ages.
At that moment, faint golden patterns appeared beneath his skin.
They weren't tattoos.
They were manifestations of the Martial God Core pulsing inside his dantian.
Liquid golden energy flowed through his body like blood.
Every vein.
Every muscle.
Every bone.
Unlike Super Saiyan, there was no dazzling golden aura.
Unlike Super Saiyan Blue, there was no radiant divine glow.
Every trace of power remained sealed within him.
Only when he clenched his fist did a thin layer of golden light appear around his skin.
It was no thicker than a cicada's wing.
A flowing golden film wrapped tightly around his knuckles.
Crackle...
Crackle...
The surrounding space began to fracture.
Tiny black cracks spread outward like shattered porcelain.
The compressed power was simply too dense.
[Status: Martial True God Form (Initial Stage)]
"So this..."
"This is the fist of a Martial True God."
Krillin stared at his right hand.
The sense of completeness was unlike anything he had ever experienced.
Before, every punch launched his ki outward like artillery shells.
The waste had been enormous.
Now things were different.
His energy no longer leaked.
The energy of heaven and earth seemed drawn toward him naturally.
As his Martial God Core consumed power, the universe itself replenished it.
"Hah!"
Krillin casually punched the empty space before him.
There was no sonic boom.
No hurricane.
Nothing dramatic.
Yet a golden fist shadow instantly solidified along the path of his strike.
It wasn't an energy wave.
It wasn't ki.
It was pure martial intent.
Around the golden fist, strands of golden thread materialized from nowhere.
They wrapped themselves around the strike.
Divine laws.
The laws of a higher realm had been stirred.
CRACK!
The white void ahead shattered instantly.
A massive tear opened in space.
Behind it lay endless black chaos.
The wound lingered for a long time before reality slowly began repairing itself.
"Pure physical destruction combined with damage on the level of laws themselves..."
Krillin lowered his fist and smiled.
"If that punch landed on Cell..."
"I'd probably shatter his nucleus completely."
"KRILLIN!!"
A golden meteor streaked across the chamber.
Goku.
He arrived in an instant, still transformed into a Super Saiyan.
Golden hair stood upright.
His face was filled with excitement.
"What was that just now?!"
He landed heavily.
His eyes were wide as saucers.
"I couldn't sense your ki at all!"
"But every hair on my body stood up!"
"It felt like some ancient monster was staring right at me!"
"Want to try it yourself?"
Krillin dispersed the golden light around his hand and grinned.
"Asking me that?"
Goku immediately dropped into a fighting stance.
"I'd love to!"
BOOM!
His aura exploded outward.
The hundred-times gravity floor cracked beneath his feet.
"Don't underestimate me, Krillin!"
"I'm way stronger than when we first came in here!"
The next second, Goku vanished.
A golden fist wrapped in Super Saiyan power appeared directly before Krillin's face.
Fast.
Heavy.
Devastating.
Krillin calmly raised a single finger.
A faint golden glimmer flashed at its tip.
Ding.
A crisp metallic sound rang through the chamber.
Goku's punch, powerful enough to pulverize mountains, stopped completely.
One finger.
That was all it took.
His golden aura couldn't advance even a few inches further.
"W-What?!"
Goku's eyes nearly popped out of his head.
Krillin flicked his finger.
BANG!
An indescribable force surged through Goku's arm.
It spread throughout his entire body.
For a moment, he felt like a fly colliding with a speeding train.
His body shot backward instantly.
He tore a trench several kilometers long through the white ground before finally crashing into a pile of rubble.
"Cough... cough..."
Goku climbed out, clutching his numb arm.
Instead of frustration, excitement burned even brighter in his eyes.
"That's amazing!"
"Is this the new form you gained after drinking the Ultra Divine Water?"
"More or less."
Krillin folded his hands behind his back and gazed across the endless white world.
"Eleven months left."
"Make every second count."
Time passed swiftly.
Inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, time was both the cheapest thing in existence and the most precious treasure imaginable.
Far away, Vegeta continued pushing himself to insanity.
Three months later, accompanied by a roar that shook the chamber, he finally achieved the transformation he had been chasing.
Super Saiyan.
On that day, his triumphant laughter echoed across the chamber for three straight hours.
Eventually, Krillin got tired of hearing it and punched him into silence.
Meanwhile, under Goku's guidance, Gohan successfully learned how to transform as well.
His gentle personality remained unchanged.
But his power had reached an entirely different level.
As for Tien, Yamcha, and Chiaotzu, they could never access the Saiyans' transformations.
Even so, under Krillin's hellish training regime, they pushed Earth's martial arts to new heights.
At last...
One day passed in the outside world.
One full year passed inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
And then...
The massive door slowly opened.
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