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Looking at his own tool he saw that it wasn't that far away from his current location. Arkis had stayed here to keep a watch on the border of both their defacto territories.

"Arkis, let's move to Lite and the others. I got to talk to them first.", said Darc and placed a hand on her shoulder. With that action, he teleported her and himself to Lite. They were also on this planet and stationed at an outpost of the GP.

Lite and Maiz were currently playing a round of cards and both looked very concentrated.

"If I were you, I would play your utmost right card in your hand.", said Darc looking over Lite his shoulder.

Lite heard his words and looked back. He also needed to look up to him since he was sitting and Darc was standing behind him. "Oh, hey there Darc. You finally came.", answered Lite with a grin. Maiz also changed his focus from his cards and looked up to Darc.

On Darc his forehead a vain nearly burst by that carefree attitude of his. He was even sitting around playing cards. "Didn't I tell you to be careful not to end up here? How the hell did you end up in the northern quadrant and even being on the same planet as Frieza to add it up?", said Darc in annoyance with a twitching smile.

Lite chuckle lightly. "Well, it's not my fault that Turles ran back here when we gave him too much pressure. At some point, we ended up here while hunting him down. Don't worry so much. With Arkis around, there is no way something would happen to us, right?", said Lite and looked for support at Arkis. She only tilted her head sideways and remained silent.

Darc could strangle him right now. Arkis in this timeline may be around 2 billion in strength but that didn't guarantee that this fool would live to tell the tale. He is even shameless enough to mention her.

And here he gave them something easy and they still somewhat screwed it up. Darc also noticed now how he himself behaved. He got agitated for no apparent reason. Weird, why was he so worried about this fool again? No, it was not only him.

Darc looked at Arkis. "Are you not relying too much on Arkis? What if I didn't send her to you?", asked Darc once more.

"Hmm? Well, we would have just lost the trace of the tree. The idea to follow was actually Arkis her idea anyway. Don't think I would endanger her", he Lite in his defense and looked back at his cards. Picking up his utmost right car, he played it. Maiz saw that and got back to thinking as well. He didn't bother interrupting them right now.

Darc heard these words and changed his focus to Arkis once more. "Was it really your idea?", he asked her.

"Yes, since you gave me an order to even use lethal force I deemed it alright to follow...But then again, you also told me to stay put around Frieza. We had some battles but are now in a kind of stalemate with each other. Which order has a higher priority? So, in the end, we just waited until we got in touch with you again. In the time we waited, they actually planted the tree of might on this planet...", answered Arkis and looked to the direction of the tree.

"It's really vexing not to be able to do much while Frieza is here. But since it's your orders, I presume its better like that.", remarked Maiz now after having listened enough to their conversation.

Darc sighed and flicked Arkis her forehead. "Of course your lives have priority. Don't chase danger. So, Turles ran like a coward away from you and back into Frieza his arms? What an idiot. Is he still alive?", said Darc.

"We have seen him being under Frieza again.", noted Ocora after she joined them.

Darc looked at her and thought a little bit about something. Then he noticed her energy fluctuation.

"Hmm? You still are not able to suppress your energy? You know they can read it, right?", said Darc.

"Sorry, with all my improvements it really gets hard to control the energy properly.", she said sheepishly and scratched her head.

"...Now that you mention it. You did get stronger. But you are still far outclassed. Lite is still the strongest of your group it seems.", said Darc again.

"Hey, are you actually saying they will beat me? You know, I am also getting stronger since I started this job.", said Lite after he felt being attacked in his pride. Martial arts is something he will never concede to be bad at. Well, unless its Darc. This maniac is just way beyond his reach.

"I know and you still have room for improvement. Here, learn this and I will be way less worried that you die off somewhere. After all, your wife is pregnant and you better not die. And if you really die I will make your afterlife a living hell. Nevermind that actually. Just go back home for now. Take it as a vacation", scolded Darc him a little and also shoved a book about the first superstate against his forehead.

Lite took it and looked inside. His eyes gleamed after he mostly understood the basics to it. "Wow, is this something you came up with? That's amazing. I feel like I can somehow manage to do it. Not sure though.", commented Lite on the content while still looking into the book. From all the people that Darc taught, Lite and Arkis were probably the only ones that could understand this book. It was advanced material after all.

Being curious as well, Arkis also took a glimpse into the book but was a little bit puzzled after reading it.

"Arkis, you don't need to learn that. Your body is special. So techniques like that won't work unless they are tailored to you. It's already good enough that you can use the Kaioken.", said Darc to Arkis after he saw her getting curious.

"Why is that?", she asked back.

"We will talk about that later.", answered Darc and also send her a telepathic message. *Well, your body is mostly based on your godly prowess. It is in harmony of body and soul. The Kaioken enhances those attributes and sharpens your senses whereas that technique in the book only enhances one's power. It emphasizes the body and disharmonizes them. The body would become stronger than the soul. There are also techniques that only enhance one's soul like the power of destruction but even Beerus still trains his body to keep balance. My guess is, you cant use techniques that would enhance only one aspect of either your body or soul since you were born with divinity? That is at least my theory...Well, you could still try it out. Maybe it would help you unlock your godly form in some way. Here is the information about the technique.*

Yes, Darc counted the 1st superstate as a technique and not transformation to be exact. Now that Arkis came to ask him about it, he was wondering if she would ever learn it. The future Arkis also never seemed to have achieved that state for some reason and that is why he had his theories on why that was the case.

"Alright", she said back and pondered a little bit about it.

"Now, back to you, Lite. Get your arse moving back. I will handle this myself. Don't make me hear anything from Glew.", warned Darc him.

"Yeah, yeah. As if I would miss the time of my child's birth. Thanks for the book.", he answered with a bright grin at Darc.

"Maiz. You stay here and keep everyone safe for the time being. We are going to negotiate with Frieza. If something is up and you feel to retreat. Don't hesitate, do you understand? Ocora, you are with me since you saw Frieza. You will also be the one who later takes command and tells everyone about the negotiation result.", gave Darc as orders to everyone and moved out with Arkis and Ocora to the location of Frieza.

Lite grinned at Maiz. "Well, looks like you lost your position as strongest of your race."

Maiz only grumbled to those words. It was sadly the truth that Ocora became stronger and stronger. She was already the second strongest of their special force. "She mainly got lucky and got some good fighting experience.", said Maiz and tried to defend himself.

"If you say so, buddy. You know, you just could make her your wife if you ever stop being a warrior. Also, its your turn.", mentioned Lite and looked back at the table with the cards.

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At the same time, Darc was pondering while flying. Let's see in what mood that emperor was in. Darc still thought about what he would want to talk about. There had to be a catch somewhere.

That Turles actually would do something as going back was also unexpected. Would Frieza not normally kill traitors? There really is something up. Well, it was somewhat obvious with the Tree of Might already being planted like that...