Chapter 38: To Namek (2)

Two days passed since then and Gohan did not stop training increasing the gravity inside the ship progressively every day.

Right now he was training under a gravity for fifty. Every muscle in his body was in maximum tension.

"Six thousand and one… six thousand and two…" Gohan whispered carrying weights of fifty kilos each. That mean, now he was lifting five thousand kilos!

But that was not all, since there was a clone doing push-ups and another one doing sit-ups, all with the same difficulty due to gravity.

He had put his theory into practice, and it had worked. But he wanted to test it in a much more complicated gravity, the current one.

It's not like his body muscles have gotten bigger or his power has increased. No, it had a logical explanation!

When the Doppelgangers dissipated and the memories came back to his mind, his hippocampus would expand because of the new memories.

And this new information that the brain has stored is transmitted to the muscles through the neurons. This is how it was explained.

Gohan continued to load weights until he reached ten thousand lifts. So, he caused the Doppelgangers to dissipate and return to him.

His mind was filled with all the memories and experiences that the clones lived through. That cerebral sensation spread throughout his body giving him a feeling of having trained under this gravity for a longer time, and thus he adapted faster.

"It's fantastic, but my body hasn't fully adapted yet" Gohan said looking at his hands, "Well, I have to keep training!"

And then he began punching the air, of course at a slower pace since his muscles had grown fifty times heavier.

"Haaa!" Gohan yelled kicking but in the end he ended up falling to the ground completely exhausted, "I'm tired! I should eat something"

Arms outstretched he was gasping for air in his lungs, he had worked so hard.

'There are two days left to get to Namek, in addition to gravity I must perfect my combat techniques' Gohan thought quite seriously.

He jumped up and stared at nothing for a few seconds, he was thinking about what exercise he should do next.

"Let's see..." muttered the little boy beginning to concentrate his Ki in his palm until he created a white sphere with black rays.

That sphere began to condense, it was overflowing with energy. Gohan extended his arm as if he was going to launch the attack towards the ship.

"Yin-Yang Blast!" the minor launched his great attack towards the ship and the Ki sphere began to rotate around the ship quickly.

Gohan contemplated the trajectory of the Yin-Yang blast with maximum concentration and after a few seconds it appeared in front of him.

"Haaaa!" Gohan took the attack squarely and then there was an explosion in the room.

That place was flooded with smoke from the explosion, and when it disappeared the figure of Gohan was present, but lying on the ground.

This time, his gi had been destroyed. His body had multiple serious injuries from receiving the Yin-Yang blast at full power.

'I have overdone it too much' thought the boy crawling towards the bag of Senzu beans and could hardly reach one.

He didn't take long to eat the bean, and seconds later he felt his body renewed as well as his energy. And of course, he had received a Zenkai.

'Of course. The Yin-Yang blast contained all my power, so the Zenkai I received is not small' Gohan thought looking at his hands.

When a saiyan was left on the verge of death and recovered, his base power was greatly increased. This had an explanation...

Recovering from mortal wounds stimulated the production of S-cells. Therefore, it increased the Saiyan's base power. But, to what level?

The body produced enough S-cells for the Saiyan's power to overwhelm the closest threat in his environment.

For example, in the original series Vegeta increased his power to 30.000, to surpass the closest threat Zarbon with 28.000 units.

Goku increased his power to 3.000.000 because his body sensed that the closest threat was Frieza's third form, who had 2.120.000.

If the body produced enough S cells to trigger the Super Saiyan transformation, the Zenkai power disappeared.

That's what happened in the original series, but since there were no transformations yet, the Zenkai kept appearing in the saiyan.

'My number of S cells is insufficient to transform me, for that I must continue increasing my power' he said to himself expelling all the energy from him.

The rubble around him began to rise. Gohan smiled wide, he felt incredibly powerful. It was cool!

"KAIO-KEN!" Gohan yelled and then a crimson aura enveloped him. His muscles bulged like never before, "Kaio-ken times two!!"

His base power doubled in that instant and the energy charge in his body became heavier… But his limit was still far away!

"Times three!" Gohan exclaimed increasing his power, as if he had no ceiling, "Times four! Kaio-ken times five HAAAAA!!"

His body was overflowing with energy, it literally seemed to be about to explode. But that didn't seem to matter to the little boy.

'My energy is distributed around my body, but I must focus it to reduce the tension in my muscles' reasoned Gohan.

He extended his arm to create a Yin-Yang blast quickly, and wasting no time he fired it doing the same as he did before.

"Kame... Hame... Haaa!" Gohan yelled launching the attack with the aim of neutralizing the Yin-Yang blast. But that didn't go as he wanted.

Gravity distorted the trajectory of the two attacks, so they both ended up heading towards Gohan.

"NO! Damn!" Gohan crossed his arms to protect himself from the powerful attacks, and then again the ship exploded.

And after a few seconds Gohan appeared, except this time he had remained standing. He was able to withstand the attack, but just barely.

"Ugh…" he said before falling to the ground, arms outstretched, "Looks like my current limit is five times, that doesn't sound bad at all"

His current power should be around 30.000 units, so defeating Captain Ginyu with the Kaio-ken would be too easy.

But he was still a long way from Frieza's 530,000 units, let alone the rest of his transformations. The gap was abysmal.

'I'll have to resort to various Zenkai on Namek to bridge that gap' Gohan thought laughing out loud as he remembered what Vegeta did in the original series.

He felt a stabbing pain in his lungs from having laughed. So, he ate another Senzu bean in order to avoid that pain.

"Good! I've already practiced the Kaio-ken, I should train the Spirit Bomb" Gohan said looking around, "But there are no living beings"

He couldn't gather Genki, or spiritual energy... unless he gathered his own. So he raised his left arm to concentrate his Genki.

'I'm already able to gather the Genki of nature, this shouldn't be difficult for me' Gohan inquired and his hand was engulfed in a whitish light.

"This is my Genki?" he inquired in astonishment and clenched his fist surrounded by spiritual energy. He looked at it and a brilliant idea occurred to him. A pretty good one!

Coat his fist with Genki and hit the enemy with his spiritual energy. The advantage is that it wouldn't take too long to gather the Genki.

"Spiritual Fist... that will be my new technique"