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>>5293274

IMMINENT

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>>5293274
Previously on Saiyan Conqueror Quest:

Karn telepathically called King Vegeta to see how the ruler of New Salda wanted to handle Vox's machines, only to discover he knew of the incoming attack as part of Vox's promotion for the Tanya/Chaya fight. Karn then took Leyas, Sarada, Broly and Nappa on a sparring trip with King Vegeta. After the match, where King Vegeta was the last one standing, Mechikabura gave Karn a dire warning before he went on to battle the Mindslayers wearing the suit Daiko and the scientists had developed. As we rejoin Karn, you've just swept aside hundreds, if not thousands of the frog-like creatures you've only recently begun seeing.

“Impressive.” come the thoughts of the Rak'kari's strongest directly into your mind via telepathy, you glancing back and seeing him leading the hundreds of his own kind. “It is good my people have no ambitions for the land, and yours no ambition for our seas.”
“Agreed.” you reply. And while you have no doubts that you could fight even this force by yourself, having seen how quickly their magic could shred a Mindslayer, you aren't interested in trying that out for yourself. “Let's keep going.”
“A moment.” the crab-like warrior swims forward, seeming serious about something. “You just fought that horde, allow us to take the vanguard and give you time to recuperate. That attack had to have taken quite a bit out of you.”

Well?
>Tell him you're fine, and you'll take a break when you have to go back to the surface and swap out the air tanks on your suit
>Thank him and let his people take the lead for a bit, don't reveal the true extent of your power and let him think that attack was your limit
>Say that you're not ready to back off, but if he wants to fight in the vanguard beside you he can
>Other(write in)

>>5293284
>Say that you're not ready to back off, but if he wants to fight in the vanguard beside you he can
The real Chad move is demonstrating EXACTLY what we can do.

Leaving vote open another ten minutes

>>5293284
>>Say that you're not ready to back off, but if he wants to fight in the vanguard beside you he can
having him watch our back will be nice, I just hope it doesn't interfere with him leading his troops

>>5293288
>>5293336
Say that you're not ready to back off, but if he wants to fight in the vanguard beside you he can wins it. Roll me a 3d100.
First DC: 40
Second DC: 60
Third DC: ??

Rolled 69, 94, 98 = 261 (3d100)

>>5293343
Fucking work

>>5293357
That’s some nice rolls you got there

Rolled 53, 56, 37 = 146 (3d100)

>>5293343
Here

Anyone want the third roll, or shall we just proceed with these?

Rolled 96, 65, 76 = 237 (3d100)

>>5293380
Redemption

>>5293381
Redemption indeed.

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>>5293357
>>5293367
>>5293381
96/100, 94/100, 98/100. Looks like these Mindslayers are about to have a bad time, writing.

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>>5293284
"I'm not ready to back off, not yet." you reply to the crab-like being. "But if you want to fight up here at the front, you're more than welcome to join me."
"Very well." the Rak'kari champion says, turning back to his soldiers and ending the mental link with you for a few seconds. No doubt to issue orders to his soldiers and establish a chain of command while he's with you at the front. Then after a couple moments the mental link is reestablished. “Let's keep moving forward. The Abyssal Trench is this way.”

The Rak'kari champion swims off, slightly changing the direction you'd been heading towards. You swim alongside him, the two of you leading the way. Not towards the nearest group of Mindslayers, surprisingly, but instead directly towards the largest gathering of ki signatures you can sense.

“Is there a reason we're not going for them?” you ask, pointing towards the three Mindslayers off towards your right.
“They're of no consequence.” the champion replies. “We're after the deepest depths, and the source of these creatures. If a few survive for now it's fine, we can always take care of them later after destroying the one making them.”
“I see.” you reply, understanding. This force is gathered here and now, best to strike at your enemy with your full strength instead of wearing them out on weaker, and ultimately inconsequential targets. Then you sense something, stopping in place as your ki sense detects something from the ground directly beneath you both. “Hold on. There's something here, beneath us.”

“What do you mean?” the champion asks, curiously. “You can detect life?”
“Yes, to an extent.” you reply, closing your eyes to help you focus. You can sense it, just a singular ki source so small it may only register three digits, but it's still there. “There's something there in the ground. I think we should-”

But before you can finish your telepathic sentence, the ki signature suddenly explodes! It's power increases by several magnitude as the creature expands, turning into a massive, malformed tentacle. It immediately lunges towards you, and without hesitation thrust your ancient sword directly into it. Your magical blade pierces it's rubbery flesh, which begins to seemingly crisp and burn away from the point of impact.

“KREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!” the tentacle somehow shrieks, immediately recoiling from your weapon. Inky black blood spreads through the water around the tip of your sword, but quickly vanishes as well.
“A trap?” the champion asks, shocked by the tentacle's appearance. “Here? But we're nowhere near their territory yet.”

cont

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>>5293445
“Whose territory, those frog-things?” you ask, surprised as you surge forward. Without hesitation you dive down towards the sea floor, heading towards the base to deal the most damage possible. You see the champion doing the same, his claws glowing with azure power. The tentacle seems to know where you both are, and more, smaller tentacles burst from it's sides towards both of you. “HAAA!”

You swing your blade at the smaller tentacles, cutting through them with ease. At the same time, you see the Rak'kari catch two of them in it's foreclaws, chopping both in half. The tentacle shrieks in agony again, lashing out and swinging itself towards you. So you drop the hammer, and holding your blade in both hands bring it down in a Djem So overhead strike. Between the tentacle's own power, and your own might, you cut straight through the massive appendage, reducing it's length by half.

“KEEEEEEEEE!!” it howls again, as you see the champion thrusting both claws directly into its side and tearing open a wound as wide as his wingspan. Then after a few seconds of thrashing the monster goes completely limp. The severed stump flops over, and you feel it's ki signature completely vanish. Then the oddest thing happens. The tentacle turns into that black blood, and after a moment dissipates to reveal a dead froggy being holding an empty shell where the tentacle originated from.
“The hell?” you mutter, voice muffled by the suit. Why is the ocean so weird?
“These Hydae, or 'froggy creatures' as you call them are Abyss worshippers.” the champion explains to you. “As for what we just fought, they can imbue the Krakens with their Dark power and their own life force to turn them into monsters like the one we just fought.”

“So what you're saying is, there will be a lot more of these between us and the Abyss, right?” you ask, the champion nodding once solemnly as you pick up your hammer. “Guess it's a good thing we were out front then, huh?”
“Indeed.” he replies. “But knowing there could be more, we should remain out front. If one were to emerge mid-formation, it could cause serious damage to my people.

How do you proceed?
>Keep yourself and the champion out front, have him watch for other threats while you focus your ki sense exclusively on hunting these things down
>Using ki sense and Instant Transmission, try and take each of these things out before the Hydae can transform any more of the captured creatures
>Use your Scattershots to clear a swathe forward, and make absolutely sure nothing else is waiting to ambush you or the Rak'kari forces
>Focus on your connection to New Salda, and with your Champion form's awareness quickly dispatch any others with Death or Scatter Beams
>Other(write in)

>>5293446
>Focus on your connection to New Salda, and with your Champion form's awareness quickly dispatch any others with Death or Scatter Beams
Bet she wants the abyss gone too.

Again leaving vote open for another ten minutes, hopefully everyone will show up soon.

>>5293446
>Focus on your connection to New Salda, and with your Champion form's awareness quickly dispatch any others with Death or Scatter Beams

>>5293446
>Focus on your connection to New Salda, and with your Champion form's awareness quickly dispatch any others with Death or Scatter Beams

>>5293474
>>5293493
>>5293503
Focus on your connection to New Salda, and with your Champion form's awareness quickly dispatch any others with Death or Scatter Beams wins it. Let's see how well you can control this. Roll me a 4d100.
First DC: 65
Second DC: 40
Third DC: 55
Fourth DC: 6̴̢̥͙̆̉̇͘6̶̧̦̜̗̒͒͝

Rolled 80, 10, 77, 51 = 218 (4d100)

>>5293506

Rolled 6, 80, 65, 28 = 179 (4d100)

>>5293506
ez af broseidon

Rolled 8, 45, 82, 79 = 214 (4d100)

>>5293506
Here

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>>5293508
>>5293510
>>5293511
80/100, 80/100, 82/100, 79/100. Three successes and a mystery, very nice. Writing.

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>>5293446
"Allow me to handle this." you say, closing your eyes. Focusing, you end the mental link with the Rak'kari and reach out to New Salda itself. You feel the presence of your planet it your mind, its titanic voice booming in your head.
"HELLO, MY CHAMPION." it says. "DO YOU REQUIRE MY ASSISTANCE HUNTING THE MALFORMED?"
“Yes, I need your power to enhance my senses.” you reply, and immediately feel power surging into you from all around. Instead of like when you're standing on the surface, being in the water you can feel New Salda's might pouring in from all sides. At the same time, you feel your senses expanding exponentially. You can sense each and every one of the Rak'kari, the Mindslayers who haven't turned around towards your group, the Hydae clutching their captured Krakens, everything. But you also sense something else. Further ahead, you sense something wrong. It takes you a few seconds to realize that it's not something wrong, but what you're NOT sensing. Ahead of you a good dozen miles or so, your senses suddenly stop. You can't sense anything there, at all. There's an area several miles across that New Salda cannot perceive. So you decide to ask. “What is this?”

“THE SEA-DWELLERS CALL IT THE ABYSSAL TRENCH.” New Salda answers. “BEINGS NOT OF ME EMERGE FROM THAT SCAR.”
“How come I've never sensed it before?” you ask, and New Salda is quiet for a few moments.
“THE STORY IS LONG. I SHALL TELL YOU AFTER IT IS DONE.” New Salda's booming voice rings out in your mind. “BUT KNOW THIS; THAT WEAPON IS THE KEY. TO FIXING THE DAMAGE DONE.”
“I'll keep that in mind, thanks.” you answer, then focus on the Rak'kari champion. Who, you notice, has backed away from you considerably. No doubt sensing the power of New Salda itself channeling through you. “Would you watch these for me? I'll take these bastards down quick.”

Leaving your weapons on the sandy sea floor, you take a deep breath as you swim up a decent ways. Enough to look down on a large swathe of the sea floor where the Hydae are lurking. Focusing your ki, you hold both hands out, fingers spread, as you lock onto the closest ten ki signatures. Then with a shout into your rebreather, unleash your ki.

“HAAAA!” you roar, voice muffled by the suit as you fire Scatter Beams from both hands simultaneously. Your ten beams each cut through the water, piercing directly into the first ten of the frog-like Hydae. Your beams kill them instantly, and drifting forward towards them you single out the next ten. Over and over you repeat this process, and after the first fifty perish the rest of the Hydae begin panicking. Some activate their dark magic early, dozens of tentacles springing up out of the seafloor hundreds of feet out of their limited attacking ranges.

cont

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>>5293596
Those that do are quickly dispatched by volleys of magic from the Rak'kari, which, while not AS effective as they were against the Mindslayers, still are clearly too much for the dark appendages to handle. Meanwhile, you keep hunting down those with steelier resolves, and put them down with ease. More than a dozen simply abandon their posts, swimming away from you all and back towards the Abyss. But five of them don't run, and don't activate their traps early. Curiously, they all gather together, almost as if making themselves an easier target for you. But then you sense it. A surge of wrongness hits you through your link to New Salda, as you feel the ten ki signatures all begin melding together in a dark, shadowy cloud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2gElxBGwjc

“GYOOOOOOOOOOOO!!” a deep, brassy roar bellows out, as a MASSIVE monster emerges from the ten beings' sacrifice. It's easily three times as large as a Mindslayer, and magnitudes stronger. The sense of wrongness that surges through your link to New Salda is greater than anything you've ever sensed before, this is something that Should Not Be. It's brownish body looks surprisingly tough, tentacles sprouting out along its body as the beast moves. Without hesitation the creature surges directly at you, far faster than you'd expected, and it immediately tries to devour you! But you're just fast enough, dropping down as the beast's head turns sideways and narrowly slipping out before it's mouth closes shut. But it's not done yet, as the tentacles along its head all try grabbing onto you.

“Death Slash!” you roar, slinging a blade of sharpened ki as the suit muffles you. Your ki slices out, and cuts into the beast's grappling appendages. But to your shock, as your attack hits the tentacles stop grabbing for you, and actually stop your attack by wrapping around and around it! You feel your Death Slash's ki begin vanishing, and as it breaks apart you realize that, somehow, this beast is able to absorb your ki through its tentacles! How are you supposed to fight something like this?

Well? What do you do? What CAN you do?
>Swim back down to the champion, and reclaim your sword. It seems that it indeed is the key to defeating such monsters
>Swim directly inside it's mouth, telepathically tell the Rak'kari to get clear, then Super Explosive Wave this massive beast from the inside until it pops.
>Final Flash directly to the face, let's see how much it really likes your ki
>Channel New Salda's and your own energy into your spiraling, piercing Dawn Breaker and punch a hole straight through this abomination
>Summon forth Divine Dragon Force, try and end this monster with a single strike
>Other(write in)

>>5293597
>Instant transmission down to the Rak'kari champion and get your sword. It seems that it indeed is the key to defeating such monsters

Does no one want to vote today? Leaving vote open for a final 10 minutes

>>5293597
>Swim back down to the champion, and reclaim your sword. It seems that it indeed is the key to defeating such monsters
>>5293658
Sorry, work is heavy today.

>>5293597
>>Swim back down to the champion, and reclaim your sword. It seems that it indeed is the key to defeating such monsters

>>5293606
>>5293669
>>5293673
Swim back down to the champion, and reclaim your sword. It seems that it indeed is the key to defeating such monsters wins it. Roll me a 3d100.
First DC: 5̶̤̈0̴̛̱
Second DC: 6̶̳̘̺̩͙͓̰̞͙̊͊̈́̂͠ͅ5̶̟̩͈͔̓̉̉̆͐̐̂͝
Third DC: 40

Rolled 68, 58, 94 = 220 (3d100)

>>5293683
First.

Rolled 53, 52, 1 = 106 (3d100)

>>5293683

Anyone want the third roll?

Rolled 30, 92, 15 = 137 (3d100)

>>5293710
sure

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>>5293688
>>5293695
>>5293712
68/100, 92/100, 94/100. Most impressive. Writing.

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>>5293597
“Dammit!” you exhale, turning from the beast and swimming back down towards the champion and your dropped weapons as fast as you can. Your sword seemed capable of dispatching other Abyssal monstrosities like the tentacles, so surely it'll be effective against this beast too?
“CATCH!” the champion thinks, launching your sword at you like a javelin as you descend. He hurls it harder than you expected, forcing you to dodge with the Su Ma to avoid being impaled by your own tool. But as you dodge, you reach out and grab it firmly in your right hand, halting the blade as you turn back to face the creature. “GET DOWN!”

Not hesitating or questioning him, you drop down immediately at the champion's instruction. As you do, not even a full second later a dozen magical shots of varying colors split the sea where you'd been, all aimed directly at the monstrous abomination before you. Their attacks strike the beast's face, but unlike with the tentacles and Mindslayers their shots don't pierce through. Instead they burst against it's hide, the creature again roaring at you all.

“GYOOOOOOOOOOOO!!” it bellows, having forgotten you entirely as it turns towards the Rak'kari. You have to act quickly, else this monster will wreak havoc on them. As powerful as it is, even their champion would have difficulty fighting this abomination. Raising your sword once more overhead, and grasping it with both hands, you begin channeling your ki into the blade itself with several deep breaths. The ancient, enchanted blade begins glowing with azure light, with immediate effects. “GYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”
“What?” you mutter as the titanic beast turns around, completely ignoring the still-attacking Rak'kari as it whirls back around towards you. It makes a beeline directly for you, perhaps sensing that the magical energy radiating from your weapon is dangerous to it. But it's too late now, you've already channeled enough energy. “HAAAAA!!”

With a muffled roar you swing, the azure energy leaping forth from the sword's tip like a crescent blade. The beast radiates with that wrong-feeling energy, but whatever defenses it were trying to erect aren't enough to save it. The massive blue projectile blade slashes directly through the darkness, and cleaves the beast concealed within in two! Well, mostly in two, as it wasn't perfectly straight it isn't cut into two identical halves. But the beast is dead, you sensing it's ki quickly vanish as its body turns back into that dark, blood-like substance. Then as it clears, you see the lifeless bodies of the tiny Kraken as well as the Hydae all drifting back down towards the seafloor. You take a deep breath, the Rak'kari champion swimming up to you hesitantly.

cont

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>>5293790
“Are...Are you alright?” he asks as you take several deep breaths, trying to even out your breathing. Don't want to burn through your tank too quickly, and have to return to the surface early.
“Just fine.” you reply, reaching out with your telekinesis and grabbing your hammer off the sandy ground. It flies up into your palm, you catching it with ease. “Let's keep moving.”

He nods, turns to his people to issue orders, then the two of you lead the way deeper into the ocean. With you at the champion's right, the two of you easily cross a third of the distance from the Rak'kari city to the Abyssal Trench's nearest side easily and with no further issues. You sense beings moving out to the sides, and a few Mindslayers passing by above, but the Rak'kari champion ignores them in his continual push directly towards the Abyssal Trench. While you don't much like the idea of getting surrounded, you can at least save yourself if the situation turns sideways. But just as you sense another group of two dozen Mindslayers rapidly approaching you all, suddenly you hear a beep. Confused, you look around until you see that a small red light has lit up next to what you think is the air tank. Which can only mean one thing: you're out of air. And what unbelievable timing, there's no way it's even been half an hour!

How do you handle this?
>Tell him you'll be right back, replace the air as quickly as possible and rejoin the fight
>You don't need it, you can probably hold your breath long enough to take them out with your sword and hammer. Especially fighting side-by-side with the champion
>Channel your ki into the sword once more, and cut them down as quickly and efficiently as possible first before teleporting away
>Try and Guided Eye Beam lobotomize them all before they can get too close
>Other(write in)

>>5293793
>Tell him you'll be right back, replace the air as quickly as possible and rejoin the fight
I'm now regretting not teaching B7 instant transmission.

>>5293793
>>Tell him you'll be right back, replace the air as quickly as possible and rejoin the fight
if it was any other kind of enemy I'd say tough it out, but I don't want us to get rattled without oxygen

>>5293793
>Tell him you'll be right back, replace the air as quickly as possible and rejoin the fight

Rolled 63, 99, 38, 39 = 239 (4d100)

>>5293800
>>5293805
>>5293833
Tell him you'll be right back, replace the air as quickly as possible and rejoin the fight wins it. Roll me another 3d100.
First DC: 40
Second DC: 60
Third DC: 40

Rolled 63, 54, 59 = 176 (3d100)

>>5293846

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>5293846

>>5293858
Uhh, you missed a couple dice there

Rolled 41, 96, 25 = 162 (3d100)

>>5293846

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>>5293852
>>5293858
>>5293907
88/100, 96/100, 59/100. Guess we're going with 2 1/3 rolls on this one, but it's enough to pass this time. Writing.

Rolled 58, 2 = 60 (2d100)

>>5293927
:^)

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>>5293793
"I have to leave." you think to the Rak'kari champion, gesturing to his suit as he turns to face you. "This light means I'm out of air and have to get more, now."
"Very well. We will hold them off." he replies, ending the mental link abruptly as his azure glow more than doubles. You have to shield your eyes from the sudden brightness, the right hand going to your forehead instead covering you from the light. The warrior then charges forward, glowing brighter and brighter as he closes towards the twelve Mindslayers. Meanwhile you change your telepathy's target to B7 while you focus on only his ki.

“Air's out, headed up now.” you tell him, the first two fingertips of your sword hand on your forehead. Then, before the Saldaman can reply, you teleport directly to his side. One second you're in the ocean, the next find yourself standing beside B7, Daiko, the box of air tanks, and a soaking-wet Caulifla of all people waiting as well with her too-big golden spear. Ending the mental link, you hold your arms out and away from the suit, while addressing your daughter telepathically. “Hey kiddo, what's going on?”
“I wanna help!” she says, her forcefulness surprising you. “Let me fight the Dark too!”
“Let's see.” you say, turning to a haggard-looking Daiko as B7 removes the empty tank from your chest, and already know the answer. But it's for your daughter, so you ask anyways and open a three-way mental link. “Do you all have a suit her size?”

“Sorry. But as I have been telling her, we do not.” he answers, shaking his head. “Unless she were to grow to your size to use the first prototype, or even grow to a normal adult size, we could set her up with one. But, unfortunately, we didn't anticipate making a child-sized fight suit.”
“Damn.” you say, then look over at your daughter. Stabbing your sword into the dirt, you reach out and ruffle her hair with your right hand. “Sorry kiddo, but he doesn't have one your size.”
“I don't need one of those!” she argues, temper flaring as she, holds up something unfamiliar. It looks almost like one of the Kraken, once imbued with the Dark magics of the Hydae. “I have this!”
“What the hell is that?” you ask, hearing a sudden hiss from your chest. Looking down, you see B7 tightening a knob of some sort, then with a click the hissing stops.
“All set.” he says, giving you a thumbs up. You return the gesture, and taking a deep breath breathe in the slightly off-tasting air before turning back to your daughter.

“I got it from some people who were all eaten by the Dark, long long ago.” she explains, holding it up to her own head. “If I wear it, I can breathe underwater! And even better, it'll absorb any Dark magic instead of me! So can I? Can I come help? Please?”

cont

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>>5293993
Well? What do you say?
>Sure, just stay behind me and don't get in the Rak'kari's way
>Ask Meloka if she can come along, she's the one who didn't want the kids anywhere near the Mindslayers after all
>Tell her not yet, but once you've gotten to the Abyssal Trench then she can join in
>Say yes, but you want her to focus on healing and protecting the Rak'kari more than battling the Dark monsters
>Absolutely not, this battlefield is far too dangerous this time.
>Other(write in)

>>5293995
>Sure, just stay behind me and don't get in the Rak'kari's way

>>5293995
>>Sure, just stay behind me and don't get in the Rak'kari's way

Fingers crossed this doesn't backfire.

>>5293995
>>Ask Meloka if she can come along, she's the one who didn't want the kids anywhere near the Mindslayers after all

>>5293995
>Sure, just stay behind me and don't get in the Rak'kari's way
Honestly, the safest place she could be IS right by our side.
This will be a good lesson for her anyways.

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Rolled 42, 38, 18 = 98 (3d100)

>>5294006
>>5294008
>>5294024
>>5294027
Interesting choice, not the one I foresaw winning. No roll this time, as you've already rolled for this particular fight last time. These are Caulifla's rolls. Writing.
The thick plottens

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>>5294054
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJfpW7TAlfE

>>5294054
I'm surprised no one has jumped in with porn title shenanigans about huge eels, broken minds and a girl and her daddy to reflect these rolls.

oof

>>5294149
She isn't even 10.

>>5294149
She doesn't, or well didn't have to worry about her opening rolls. As she had you watching over her. But, well.... Let's just say I'm finishing the THIRD full post shortly. This battle's heating up.

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>>5293995
"You know what, why not Cauli?" you say with a smirk. "Just stay behind me, and don't get in the Rak'kari's way. Their magic is dangerous.”
“Will do!” she replies enthusiastically, smiling from ear to ear and flashing up into an Ascended Saiyan before donning the monstrous-seeming helm. Once she puts it on, she lays a hand on your side, voice muffled by the strange helm. “Ready!”

You nod, raising your right hand to your forehead and again focus. With New Salda's boosted awareness you can find him easily, even among the battlefield's chaos. Despite being surrounded, that's the best place for you to drop in. And with a second's focus, once more use your Instant Transmission to get back into the fight. One moment you are all standing on the surface, the next you're back in the sea behind the Rak'kari's champion. He's claws-deep into the eyes of one of the Mindslayers, and with a vicious jerking motion tears its eye out completely. Another two are being barraged by the Rak'kari magical onslaught, quickly being torn to shreds as the remaining six all circle the champion. And now you and Caulifla too.

“Stay close.” you think to her, then dash towards one lunging at the distracted warrior. As it opens its mouth to unleash that devastating psychic scream, you're quicker, and stab it through the eye with your sword. The beast howls in unfocused pain, you jerk the blade free while swinging down with the gravity hammer simultaneously. The heavy club hits, unleashing that devastating shock wave that de-materializes the beast's head in a single blow.
“HAAAAA!!” you hear Caulifla's muffled roar as she goes on the attack, glancing over your shoulder see her dive into one's mouth. She thrusts the spear that's too big for her up into the roof of its mouth, all the way to the cross-guard; the armor-piercing point protruding out from the creature's skull in a spray of blood. Killing it instantly. You then rush past the one you killed, surging at the one above you all as it also opens its mouth. Shit, you won't make it in time!

“HAAAA!” you roar, voice muffled as you draw your right arm back quickly and pitch the sword directly at its head like a javelin. Right as the beast tries to unleash that attack, your blade pierces straight into its skull! Just like how Caulifla's spear pierced up through its head, your sword does the same. However, without the heavy cross-guard, your sword actually pierces straight THROUGH its head. “Shit!”

You then reach out with telekinesis, grabbing onto your blade and stopping it from flying further away. Then with a thought draw it back towards your open hand as you fly towards a third beast, the hilt slamming into your palm with force just as you get within striking range.

cont

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>>5294189
“HRRAAAAA!!” you roar, swinging your blade directly into the back of the third's neck. Your sword cleaves the beast's spine clean in two, its head hanging onto its body by only a sliver of meat. The Rak'kari champion turns as he hears your blade cleave the monster. The champion gives you a salute, then the two of you turn back to face the final monster.
“HYAAAAAA!!” Caulifla roars, firing a bolt of lightning from her spear directly at the beast. As she does, you see the lightning arc around her as well. Perhaps that'll teach her that lightning isn't the best element to use while submerged.
“GRRROOOOAAAAAA!!” the Mindslayer roars as its body writhes in pain, then after a half-dozen seconds the beast's ki fully vanishes. Sparks dance along its body as the lifeless Mindslayer drops towards the ground, your daughter turning to you and saluting you enthusiastically with her spear. Seeing this, however, the Rak'kari champion turns towards her. The monster lowers itself, covering its exposed underside with claws forward menacingly. It looks like he's about to attack your daughter!

“Hold!” you order telepathically, dashing between the Rak'kari champion and Caulifla. “That's my daughter. She just found that head wear, and is using it to breathe underwater as well. Like my suit protects me.”
“She's tainted by the Darkness.” the champion replies, not relaxing his stance. “It must not be allowed to spread.”
“She killed the beast who's head that was, and is only wearing its head to protect her from the Dark.” you say, not lowering your arms. “If you doubt me, ask her yourself.”

The champion glares at you, and not changing his stance abruptly ends the connection. Caulifla swims out between yourself and the crab-like warrior, not taking a fighting stance or even appearing concerned by his apparent aggression. They speak telepathically for nearly half a minute before his mind re-connects to your own, his stance immediately relaxing.

“I will trust your vouch for her.” he says. “But if she turns, I will not hesitate.”
“Fair enough.” you reply, giving him a shallow nod before turning back towards the Abyssal Trench. “Let's keep goi-Wait, more?”
“I do not see any more.” he replies, you adding Caulifla to this mental chat as you continue.
“No, just now. From the Trench.” you say, eyes widening as you sense them. Tens, no, hundreds of thousands of the frog-like Hydae are all swarming out from it. But they aren't alone, as two dozen Mindslayers have also just emerged from that darkness. And they're all heading right towards you all! “Hundreds of thousands of the Hydae, all headed right for us!”

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>>5294194
“Hydae?” Caulifla asks, confused. “What's that?”
“Little frog-like creatures that can use magic.” you tell her. “Each one by itself isn't that dangerous, but there's at least half a million of them all headed for us.”
“How long?” the champion asks simply. No doubt wanting to plan a defense against such numbers. “How quickly will they be here?”
“At the speed they're currently moving...” you say, closing your eyes and focusing exclusively on your ki sense to get a better feel for what's happening. They're still dozens and dozens of miles away, but closing in quickly. Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, they're faster swimmers than the accompanying Mindslayers and will arrive far sooner. “They'll be here in two minutes, tops. The Mindslayers with them will be right behind them too.”

“How do you want to handle this?” he asks you, seeming disquieted by the numbers. “We can dig ourselves down into the sand here, and defend ourselves with magic from the worst of the Hydae onslaught. But you surface dwellers don't possess hardened armor like us, and aren't suited to such fighting. Or we could spread out, and attempt to suppress their numbers by slowing their advance like a net. Unless you have more shots like that one left in you?”

Well? How do you handle this?
>Have Caulifla hold your hammer while your tail holds your sword, swim out before the Rak'kari and unleash more of those ultra-powerful Scattershot attacks into their approaching forces to thin their ranks
>Have the Rak'kari dig in, and as the horde approaches have Caulifla and yourself use wide-area attacks from behind their buried, defended formation. Forcing them to swim over the defended Rak'kari, who can attack up at them to get at you and your daughter
>Have Caulifla and the Rak'kari champion hold onto your weapons, Instant Transmission into the center of their forces and unleash a massive Red Dawn. Then have your allies charge in and mop up as soon as your attack's finished
>Other(write in)

>>5294197
>Have the Rak'kari dig in, and as the horde approaches have Caulifla and yourself use wide-area attacks from behind their buried, defended formation. Forcing them to swim over the defended Rak'kari, who can attack up at them to get at you and your daughter
we will need our strength when we push at the abyss.

>>5294197
>>Have the Rak'kari dig in, and as the horde approaches have Caulifla and yourself use wide-area attacks from behind their buried, defended formation. Forcing them to swim over the defended Rak'kari, who can attack up at them to get at you and your daughter
very tempted to vote for the Red Dawn, but >>5294200 is right

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>>5294200
>>5294202
Have the Rak'kari dig in, and as the horde approaches have Caulifla and yourself use wide-area attacks from behind their buried, defended formation. Forcing them to swim over the defended Rak'kari, who can attack up at them to get at you and your daughter wins it. Writing.

Yeah, Red Dawn is the fun vote. This one was the smarter play.

>>5294262
The Red Dawn also might have caught the Rak'kari up in it due to both it's own AOE as well as the shockwave effect underwater.

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>>5294197
"Have your people dig in here.” you say telepathically to the Rak'kari champion. “We'll take up positions behind your forces, and set up a crossfire. That way to get at me and my daughter, they'll have to get over you all. And we'll cover your forces as well, firing horizontally into their forces and slowing them down.”
“Understood.” he replies, ending the mental link and swimming down to his forces on the sea floor. As he does, Caulifla turns towards you. And despite not being able to see her face, just by judging your daughter's body language, she's terrified.
“Half a million.” she thinks, the shock evident. “How are we supposed to fight that?”
“Not alone.” you reply, swimming over and putting your left arm over her shoulders while guiding her over the swiftly-burying Rak'kari. “We fight together, using our allies as they use us so we all can get through this.”

“Is that why we're hiding behind them?” she asks, turning her head up to look at you. At least, you think she's looking at you. With all the red eyes all over that dark creature's head, you aren't entirely certain where she's looking. “So they go after them first?”
“Partially.” you reply, drifting down to land on the sandy ground and turn her to face the crab people's defenses. Which settle in surprisingly quickly, the hundreds of Rak'kari all but invisible as they've settled down into the sand. Only by looking closely do you occasionally see a small area of exposed shell. Without your ability to sense ki, you would never suspect that hundreds of warriors are lying in wait for an ambush, forming a thick crescent moon shape beneath the sands. “But see? They're also using us as bait, to lure the Hydae directly into their trap. And once the enemy are above them, they'll attack as one and kill hundreds at once. But you know what this means, right?”

“Don't shoot the ones right above them?” she asks, creepy Dark head tilting to the side curiously.
“Exactly.” you reply, setting your hammer and sword down before lacing your fingers together and stretching them before you. “We have to funnel them in, and try to draw as many over the trap as possible. It'll only work at full effectiveness once, but after that first attack they'll start drawing the Hydae's attention as well. Then we'll have to cover them, as they cover us. Hopefully, we'll be able to grind these numbers down without the Rak'kari taking too many casualties.”
“Uhh, Dad?” Caulifla asks, voice nervous through the mental link. “Is it just me, or is the water over there getting...Darker?”
“They're coming.” you say, clenching your fists. There are so many Hydae approaching that they've darkened the ocean itself, blocking the faint sunlight drifting down to this level as they all surge forward as one. This is going to be a battle.

-Saiyan Conqueror Quest 176 paused-

>>5294271
And that's it for tonight, did you enjoy this episode so far? Ready for the ultraviolence to kick in, and this battle to turn bloody? Curious what else the Abyss has to throw at you, and how Caulifla will fare? Find out when this episode continues, 11 hours from now at noon EST!

>>5294276
I am ready for the violence, yes.
Also hopefully work is light tomorrow so I can be there for more posts.
I'm usually better about that, so my apologies.

>>5294299
All good my guy, glad you enjoyed. Yes, it will be violence beyond anything seen since the end of the Great War.

Yeah, you've done a good job of building the suspense for tomorrow's session.

How long can Meloka hold her breath? Reckon it's worth telepathically calling her done for a quick bit of blasting? She'd shred these little fuckers. And I'm sure she can get here quickly enough.

>>5294152
It didn't stop people from being weird about it with the other kids.

>>5294276
>Ready for the ultraviolence to kick in, and this battle to turn bloody?
It's always fun when an ocean starts to look more like a bowl of fruit punch than water.

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>>5294327
>Yeah, you've done a good job of building the suspense for tomorrow's session.
Tomorrow's what we like to call, The Payoff.
And a minute or two, if needed. She's keeping a close eye on your fight.
>>5294349
>It's always fun when an ocean starts to look more like a bowl of fruit punch than water.
Then you're REALLY not going to want to miss this. But that's all for me tonight, as we're at only around ten hours to go until this episode continues.

SOON

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>>5294271
“Tha-That's a lot.” Caulifla says with a gulp, while you only smirk under your mask. This is going to be fun. “That's a whole lotta lot.”
“Don't tell me you're wanting to go back?” you ask, Caulifla shaking her head after a moment of what you think is serious thought.
“No. I'mma fight.” she replies, golden aura blazing up around her.
“Atta girl. Now, how about we give them a proper hello?” you ask, drawing your right arm back and gathering ki for a Scattershot.
“Right!” she says, switching her spear to her left hand and mirroring you. But then she stops, drawing her little bell into her hand. “Hold on, let me do this first. It'll make us both stronger!”

“Go ahead.” you reply, focusing on your ki, you draw more and more into your Scattershot until the orb is as large as your transformed torso. But then suddenly you feel it, magic surging into you. But as it does, you can feel your body growing stronger! The orb in your hand suddenly grows about ten percent larger, you looking over to your daughter as she lowers her hand. You notice golden magic glowing around her, and your own body as well.
“There!” she shouts, then after passing it to her tail mirrors you and begins focusing her own ki. She makes an orb a full third the size of your own, then shouts, “Ready!”

“FIRE!” you shout, launching your massive emerald orb forward. Caulifla pitches her smaller golden orb as well, your attacks touching over the hidden Rak'kari. Your larger orb absorbs hers, and almost immediately your attack doubles in size. Then as it passes over the Rak'kari lying in wait, your orb breaks apart. The one giant orb splits into maybe two hundred orbs, each one more than thrice as fast as the giant one. The Scattershot orbs live up to their name and scatter, covering the rest of the distance in a blink. Then the orbs start striking their targets, and detonating with tremendous prejudice. Each blast consumes dozens of Hydae, a few even taking down a score or more at once each. A couple seconds later the shock waves from the blasts strike, Caulifla pushed back about two feet through the loose sand before sliding to a stop. “Alright kiddo, now that we've said hello; let's really show them what we're made of!”

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>>5294751
“Yeah!” she replies, thrusting her spear point-down into the sand as she again kneels, ringing her bell softly while she mutters the words for another of her magical attacks.

But what about you? How will you go about the slaughter?
>Keep firing Scattershots, and thinning out their ranks if not completely stopping their advance
>Take your sword back up, channel your ki into it and begin cutting them down with magical slashes
>Gather your ki into both hands, and use that super version of your Scattershot again directly into the horde's mass
>Try your Super Energy Javelins again, fire them off into the thickest masses of the Hydae horde
>Multiform, split yourself into four and continue your Scattershot barrage to grind their numbers down
>Other(write in)

>>5294752
>Keep firing Scattershots, and thinning out their ranks if not completely stopping their advance
If it ain't broke...
Sidenote, I wonder if it's possible to make the super scattershot fire at a different trajectory than the initial orb of energy.
For example, pitching it directly foward and detonating it after some distance, with the actual projectiles shooting off to the side or even back towards where the first ball came.

>>5294752
>Multiform, split yourself into four and continue your Scattershot barrage to grind their numbers down

>>5294752
>>Multiform, split yourself into four and continue your Scattershot barrage to grind their numbers down
...will this result in the copies having full O2 tanks too? anyways, if it doesn't I guess it's fine, we just need more volume of fire to take out all the weaklings, it's not like we need it for a super long period of time

>>5294766
>will this result in the copies having full O2 tanks too?
>implying they’d be full

>>5294768
oof, running down our air supply quicker is what I was afraid of
I had to go back and check how many tanks we had total... I guess 12 is plenty, r-right?

>>5294770
You have 10 full tanks, and this one you’ve been breathing on

>>5294768
To be fair it also copies clothes and they don't get more threadbare or shorter as they form. So assuming they'd have the same amount of air in the tanks isn't too wild of an assumption.

>>5294752
>multiform

>>5294756
>>5294758
>>5294766
Multiform, split yourself into four and continue your Scattershot barrage to grind their numbers down wins it. Roll me a 6d100.
First two DCs: 35
Second two DCs: 50
Final two DCs: 65

Rolled 43, 39, 39, 41, 13, 78 = 253 (6d100)

>>5294785

Rolled 52, 6, 11, 88, 51, 76 = 284 (6d100)

>>5294785

Rolled 5, 88, 69, 63, 12, 57 = 294 (6d100)

>>5294785

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>>5294792
>>5294795
52/100, 88/100, 69/100, 88/100, 51/100, 78/100. Five successes and one failure, not a bad set of rolls. Writing.

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>>5294752
"How about I break this one out again?" you mutter, crossing your arms before you as you focus. You haven't used this technique in a while, better to play it safe and make sure you do everything right.
"Daddy?" Caulifla asks, as your aura starts blazing up around you, enshrouding your form. "Are you-?"
"HAAA!" you shout through the mask and begin splitting your body. Your one body becomes two, then as you keep the technique going the two bodies split into four. All four of you take a deep breath simultaneously, ending the splitting technique. “Alright. Let's do this.”
“Woah! I forgot you could do that!” Caulifla says excitedly to you via telepathy. “This is gonna be so cool!”

“Hit them hard kiddo.” you reply, all four of you drawing your right arms back simultaneously and quickly gather ki for a volley of Scattershots. “Show these monsters what Saiyans can do! HAAAAAA!!”

Then all four of you launch your attacks simultaneously, four emerald orbs the size of your torsos all fly out directly towards the incoming horde. Your attacks split once past your hidden allies, the four orbs becoming several hundred far faster projectiles. The emerald explosives' speed triple, closing the rest of the distance in less than a blink. There are so many Hydae swimming towards you all so tightly-packed together that they can't even dodge, forced by those behind them to keep pressing onward directly into your attacks. The hundreds of explosive orbs all crash into the horde simultaneously, detonating together and consuming more than a thousand Hydae all at once. And in almost any other battle, that would have made a dent in the enemy forces. But they keep charging through the smoke, swimming past and through the bloody remains of their fellows as they keep swimming forward. So you don't let up, again gathering your ki and unleashing another volley.

“HYAA!” Caulifla shouts, surging upright and thrusting her chime towards the onrushing enemy. You see a golden orb of light appear in the sea just before them, and then something incredible happens. Dozens of bolts of lightning begin firing out from the orb! You watch, jaws dropping as her magical bolts begin electrocuting hundreds of the beasts at a time. The lightning spreads from each of the bolts themselves, electrocuting those even dozens of yards from each point of impact. Her attack ends after a few seconds, that one orb as effective as any of your Scattershots. But the horde just keep pressing forward relentlessly.

cont

>>5294844
You continue unleashing volley after volley of Scattershots, killing the approaching Hydae by the thousand, but their numbers seem endless. Each time you fire you push their forces back, but before you have gathered enough ki to fire again they've gotten closer. After two minutes of continuous suppressive fire, the enemy have almost reached the hidden Rak'kari.

“They're almost here!” Caulifla calls out to you, her worry bleeding through the mental link. “What do we do?”

Well?
>Keep up the pressure, don't give them any indication that there's a trap imminent
>Switch your fire from the mass towards the edges, and 'funnel' them directly over the trap
>Quit firing, merge your bodies back together and prepare to resume fire once the trap's activated
>Merge your bodies back together and take up your sword, then cut them down with magical slashes once the trap's activated
>Other(write in)

>>5294848
>Merge your bodies back together and take up your sword, then cut them down with magical slashes once the trap's activated

>>5294848
>Switch your fire from the mass towards the edges, and 'funnel' them directly over the trap
Might as well set it up right.

>>5294866
Leaving this tied vote open another ten minutes

>>5294848
>Switch your fire from the mass towards the edges, and 'funnel' them directly over the trap

>>5294852
>>5294866
>>5294868
Switch your fire from the mass towards the edges, and 'funnel' them directly over the trap wins it. Roll me a 2d100.
First DC: 40
Second DC: 5̶̨͚̃͠4̷̝̱͋̀̍͆̔͠

Rolled 39, 78 = 117 (2d100)

>>5294871

Rolled 64, 35 = 99 (2d100)

>>5294871

Rolled 50, 66 = 116 (2d100)

>>5294871

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>>5294873
>>5294876
64/100, 78/100. Success, but then a mystery. Impressive, writing.

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>>5294848
“Focus your fire more towards the edges!” you think back to her, all four of you drawing your arms back and preparing to fire once more. “We have to draw them onto the trap.”
“Okay!” she replies, drawing both hands back as she gathers her ki.
“HAAA!” you roar, all four pitching your Scattershots once more. But this time, instead of aiming for the thickest mass of the enemies, you fire your attacks two each out towards the sides. You fire one, two, three barrages, leaving the center path wide open while suppressing the ones not approaching directly. So naturally the frog-like Hydae surge towards the five of you, thinking this is their chance. But they never even knew what hit them.

“NOW!” you think to the Rak'kari champion the moment the first Hydae crosses over the last of his people, closing in on you and your daughter. Then the Rak'kari unleash a powerful, combined blast of magic. The initial magical flare's blast consumes thousands of Hydae all at once, then as it explodes even more perish. You quit attacking the moment their attack goes off, instead shielding yourselves and Caulifla within four of your Barriers. Their magical blast is so potent it actually destroys the first two quarter-strength Barriers outright, the third and fourth holding on until their attack ends.

Ending the shields you look over, and can sense that their ambush attack killed more of the Hydae than all of your stalling efforts so far. It was tremendous, and to your enhanced ki senses can tell that more than twenty thousand of the Hydae perished in that one attack. And were it any other foe, this would have probably at least stalled their attack. But these Abyss-worshipping frogs don't even slow down, continuing to charge directly for both all of you and your daughter, but now begin swimming down towards the now-exposed Rak'kari as well.

“HAAA!!” you roar, firing four more Scattershots, this time splitting the blasts directly over your Rak'kari allies. The orbs split into hundreds of smaller explosive shots, clearing out those that got close to the crab soldiers and giving them enough time to recover from their own blast. First to recover is of course the Champion, his azure-glowing claw pointing up and firing a piercing lance of magical energy. His attack pierces through dozens of Hydae bodies effortlessly, acting almost as a starting gun for his troops, who all open fire as well. Hundreds of Rak'kari firing magical lances at full speed together, directly into the onrushing frogs' formation is quite devastating. With each lance able to pierce straight through more than a dozen bodies before running out of power and dissipating is impressive. And for now, covering you and your daughter from the front.

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>>5294950
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqk7x_w1H98

“Protect the Rak'kari!” you order Caulifla, keeping your Scattershot fire focused to the sides, and the Hydae who try circumventing the Rak'kari's position. “HRRAAAA!!”

You continue firing off Scattershot volleys into the aproaching Hydae as the crab-like Rak'kari fire thousands of magical lances a second up into the frog-filled sea above them. They can't get close to your crabby allies, as those that somehow do manage to swim down inbetween the insane amout of magical mayhem rising from them meet a swift end at your daughter's hands.
“HAAAAA!!” she shouts, throwing a spinning, golden magical disc from her little bell as wide across as your shoulders. The circular blade cuts through their bodies without resistance, passing all the way through to the far side of the Rak'kari formation. But as she keeps throwing them, you notice something odd. After a few seconds of hovering and spinning, slicing through any Hydae that get too close, the discs begin flying back towards your daughter! Cutting through even more of the frog-like creatures as they return back to your daughter's bell.

“Huh. Now that's pretty efficient.” you think to yourselves as you continue the barrage, destroying Hydae by the hundreds yourself. Sure her attack doesn't have the sheer power that each of yours do. But if the energy is actually returning to her, to be used again? That would mean that this attack is self-replenishing, and allowing her to use it potentially infinitely. A good strategy against a vastly-numerically superior force like this.
“KREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!” comes a familiar roar, and to your horror another of the massive, malformed tentacles spring to life from within the Hydae's ranks! Then another, and another, within a few seconds more than twenty of the Abyssal abominations have suddenly appeared above the Rak'kari. Their magic isn't as effective against them, this could be trouble!

But what do you do?
>Have one of your bodies take up the ancient Wolf Knight sword, and have it focus on slashing the tentacles from range while your other three bodies continue firing Scattershots
>Have two of your bodies merge back together, and fire your Dawn Breaker up and through those monsters
>Merge all of your bodies back together, then take up the sword to use your full power for massive slashing waves through the Hydae and abomination forces
>Other(write in)

>>5294953
>>Have one of your bodies take up the ancient Wolf Knight sword, and have it focus on slashing the tentacles from range while your other three bodies continue firing Scattershots

>>5294953
>Merge all of your bodies back together, then take up the sword to use your full power for massive slashing waves through the Hydae and abomination forces
Alright, once we clear these fuckers, we gotta head down into the abyss. They'll just keep coming otherwise.

>>5294953
>>Have one of your bodies take up the ancient Wolf Knight sword, and have it focus on slashing the tentacles from range while your other three bodies continue firing Scattershots
tough choice

>>5294953
>Merge all of your bodies back together, then take up the sword to use your full power for massive slashing waves through the Hydae and abomination forces

>>5294963
>>5294953
>Have one of your bodies take up the ancient Wolf Knight sword, and have it focus on slashing the tentacles from range while your other three bodies continue firing Scattershots
Switching to this

>>5294960
>>5294963
>>5294967
>>5294976
>>5294987
Have one of your bodies take up the ancient Wolf Knight sword, and have it focus on slashing the tentacles from range while your other three bodies continue firing Scattershots wins it at the buzzer. Roll me a 4d100.
First DC: 30
Second DC: 30
Third DC: 60
Fourth DC: 6̸̳͎͈̳̏̾̆̏́̂8̷̺

Rolled 49, 89, 72, 46 = 256 (4d100)

>>5294993
watch THIS

Rolled 43, 50, 14, 22 = 129 (4d100)

>>5294993
BANZAAAAAAIIIIIIIIII!!!

Rolled 4, 17, 95, 63 = 179 (4d100)

>>5294993

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>>5295015
49/100, 89/100, 95/100, 63/100. Three successes, but how do you handle the Dark? Writing.

>>5295006
Forgot to link you as well. Whoops.

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>>5294953
"Dammit!" you mutter, realizing the gravity of the situation you're in. If those tentacles are allowed to remain, they'll snatch the Rak'kari right out of the ground and tear them to shreds. You have to do something about this! But what? Suddenly you see it, your sword still standing point-down in the sand behind one of you. And idea comes to mind, and with your four sets of eye appraise the battlefield. The tentacles haven't stopped spawning, now there are more than thirty of them above the Rak'kari. Meanwhile they keep up the pressure, attacking all of you from the sides still as well. But the forces to your left seem to be rushing more compared to your right. So your center-right body quits firing, turning around and grabbing onto the great sword in both hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMg9ryeWOw

“Alright, you Abyssal bastards.” you mutter, holding the sword overhead in both hands and channeling your ki into it while your other three bodies continue firing Scattershots at the Hydae. “Take THIS!!”

You swing your sword, firing a vertical slashing blade of magical azure energy up into the mass of descending tentacles. Your first slash cuts straight through four of them, the tentacles screeching in pain as ghostly azure fire burns both sides of the injuries. Drawing the sword back to your left side, you again channel your ki into it as your other three bodies continue suppressive Scattershot fire towards the flanks. But you notice the side with only one you is quickly losing ground, the Hydae realizing the weakness of that side and rushing it.

“Cauli, help defend the right side!” all of you call out at once, as your sword-wielding self again fires a devastating magical slash upwards. Your left-to-right horizontal slash dismembers a dozen stretching, reaching tentacles, all of them screeching in pain as their flesh is torn and burned. But you immediately follow up with a reverse, slashing a second blade directly behind the first, just at a bit higher angle.
“KREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!” the tentacles all cry out in pain, you grinning as you pull your sword up over you for another overhead swing. Spacing your hands as far apart on the hilt as possible, your right choking up on the cross guard while your left goes down to the pommel. You pour even more ki into the blade for this one, it radiating with azure light as you plant your feet. You can sense something gathering up somewhere in the masses above your Rak'kari allies. Whatever it is, you have a bad feeling about it. So you're going to cut it down before it can become a problem.

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>>5295092
“HRYAAAAAAAAAA!!” you roar, swinging the ancient blade with all your might. You fire a massive slashing blade up, more than double the size of the first three. But just as it begins cutting through what's left of the tentacles, you hear an unfamiliar bellowing, croaking roar. Then, almost too fast to process, you see what look like some sort of tongues all snap out from the mass of Hydae, snapping down onto the Rak'kari's hardened shells. The clearly-sticky tongues grab onto more than a dozen of your allies' hardened shells each, snapping them up and into the mass of frog-filled sea. Your blade's slash cuts through over a hundred of the Hydae before crashing into something harder, still cutting into whatever that huge powerlevel is. But your slash was weakened by cutting through so many lesser beings, and wasn't fully able to slash through it. Then, you see a mass moving, and after a moment the lerrer Hydae part, a massive creature swimming through.

“What is THAT?!” you hear Caulifla cry out, no doubt seeing the same thing. It looks like an amalgamation of Hydae and some sort of serpent creatures, more than a dozen frog-like heads on a singular body with a painful-looking slash across its chest. The hydra-like frog creature then roars with all of its voices at one, every head looking directly at you.
“KEEEEEEROOOOROOOOROOOO!!” it roars, the beast's undulating voice sounding both haunting and oddly not-terrifying to you for some reason. But then each head fixates on a separate target, one for each of your 'unarmed' bodies, one for Caulifla, two for the you wielding the sword, and the rest turning back to the Rak'kari. And as one, they fire their tongues at you all.

“HAAAAAA!!” you roar, swinging the blade horizontally and cutting three of the tongues heading towards both of you on the right with a single slash. The other two Karn fire Death Slashes at the lightspeed tongues, severing them mere feet from your bodies, but the others find their marks. Dozens of the Rak'kari are suddenly hoisted up towards the monster's mouths, your daughter screaming in terror. “CAULI!!”

But before you can react with anything more than a shout, she's gone. The beast's jaws snap shut, swallowing your daughter whole. Which is a mistake it won't live to regret. You see that one's neck quickly changing colors from green to red, then its neck suddenly explodes! Revealing your daughter standing there on the stump of it's neck, her Stand Triumph unfurling its blazing wings from around her. You grin, it widening as she directs her Stand to incinerate the massive beast. As it cries out in pain, body rapidly disintegrating from the heat, you can't help but feel proud of your little girl. Go on, Caulifla, and show these monstrosities what you can really do!

-Saiyan Conqueror Quest 176 Paused-

>>5295096
And that's it for this weekend, everyone enjoy the run so far? Ready to see how this battle plays out, and what other abominations await you as you get closer to the Abyssal Trench? All this and more, when Saiyan Conqueror Quest 176 continues!

>>5295096
lel, I was worried about Caulifla there for a second, I had forgotten about Triumph

>>5295109
Triumph hasn't been the most useful so far, due to the impracticality of using fire underwater across these distances. But once she was up close, her Stand was able to do its thing.

>>5295109

Yeah, I was thinking, "Meloka is going to fucking murder us"

>>5295146
Bah, we never had anything to worry about.
Saiyans have a natural advantage against fish.

>>5295146
If something actually killed her, yes. But Caulifla’s tough, and this isn’t even her largest-scale battle she’s fought in.
>>5295150
Ha. But she’s very motivated to strike down this Dark

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Here’s a small taste of what the patrons will be getting later this week, in the Patron-exclusive Extra story. Won’t interfere with our regularly-scheduled intermission here in-thread, just a special bonus for those helping me pay for comms

>>5296071
Man. Kid Buu got absolutely fucked up in Amaya's timelines didn't he.

>>5296087
I’ll say this much, that one will show just how BROKEN Majin Buu is

As for this week's intermission, not sure which I should do. Should we follow up on the Kazuma/Freeza storyline, and getting us closer to the Remnants? Chaya's unexpected battle? Or maybe Chilli's invitation to the royal capitol of Belzerg? So many plotlines outside of Karn to cover, but which one this week?

>>5296477
I say we stick with Kazuma and Frieza.

>>5296480
The Kazuma story does most directly involve in the Remnants main plot. Especially as he gets to show off his sneaky side.

>>5296477
>I say the Kazuma/Freeza or Chilli's invitation

QM UPDATE

Okay, so I’ve got kinda big news on my end to share, as this will affect the quest. My sister and her soon-to-be baby daddy just closed on a house. Which of course means that they’ll need help moving, since my 7 to 8 months (can’t remember which) pregnant sister won’t be lifting much. All this to say that 176 will not continue this weekend, as I’ll be spending a whole lot of time helping them out with that.

>>5297249
Take your time man, and tell the happy couple congrats.

>>5297286
Will do. Would RATHER be running the quest than moving furniture, but as the man said:
"Family"- Din Viesel

With my internet still down, I’m not going to be able to post this intermission tonight. Hopefully it’ll be back up by tomorrow evening, and I’ll be able to post the thing then. In the meantime, who are some characters’ pov you’re hoping to see before this arc’s through? Allies? Enemies? Unexplored alternative timelines or time patrol shennanigans? And as for Chaya, are you wanting to observe her greatest challenge from a spectating Karn’s perspective, or have more interactivity by playing the gauntlet as Champion Chaya?

>>5299671
I want to know what that NEET Zoldyck asshole is up to. We haven't seen much of him. Of course there's the Ginyu Force, King Cold, Kommand'r seething about child support, and our dear friend Ubo. What's he up to these days?

As for Chaya, I'd rather be an observer. This is supposed to be HER moment, and Mechi did say she was bound to lose the match in the end.

>>5299697
>I want to know what that NEET Zoldyck asshole is up to
Spoilers. You’ll see, later.
>Ginyu Force
They’re on Freeza’s ship, and actually play a role in this upcoming intermission.
>King Cold
Soon. Freeza has to land back on King Cold’s planet to get his chance at a Stand before going to Namek. Komand’r’s out of the story for a while, but she’ll have her return. And Ubo’s busy, pursuing something rather important to him.

Just a reminder this episode won’t be continuing this weekend, as I’ll be a mover instead.

INTERMISSION SOON

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-Saiyan Conqueror Quest 176 Intermission-

AGE 750, FREEZA'S SPACESHIP

“Welcome back to the world of the living, Kazuma.” comes the voice of Lord Freeza himself as you feel consciousness returning to your body. Opening your eyes, the first thing you see is Aqua looking down on you, which explains the soft sensation under your head. But as you look towards your feet, you see the emperor of the universe standing beside his private terminal. “We've been ezpecting you.”
“Good to be back.” you lie, wishing immediately that you were back with the beautiful and awe-inspiring Goddess Eris. Taking a deep breath, you then sigh out to get the blood flowing through your recently-deceased body.

You are Satou Kazuma: adventurer, isekai'd 'hero' turned advisor to the strongest being in the universe, and once again recently un-deceased. After giving Lord Freeza early knowledge of the Dragonballs, you'd gotten the opportunity to leave that good-for-nothing world behind. You'd thought being on board Freeza's ship as an advisor would be a far safer position, but here you are, recently undead again.

“Now, what was I saying before...This?” you ask him, gesturing down at yourself while still laying on the ground. You know, from unfortunate experience, that dying is extremely traumatic on your body. So instead of trying to stand back up immediately, you instead continue to lay there on the ground and lap pillow.
“You had been trying to give me a warning.” he says casually, hands clasped behind his back. “You had said something along the lines of he wasn't alone. But the room was empty besides the two of you, once I kicked the door you'd frozen in.”
“I did?” you ask, trying to think back. Your short-term memory of the events just before your death are always fuzzy. But then, over his shoulder you see the word you'd frozen into the wall, and memories flood back in. “Cerula.”
“Ceru-How do you know that name?” Freeza asks, suddenly far more intense than he had been moments ago. “Where did you hear about it?”
“He said it. Wait, where did he....go?” you ask, looking around for the traitor.
“He's being....Interrogated by the Ginyu Force.” Freeza replies, grinning maliciously a moment before his expression returns to being serious. “Are you saying he told you about it?”
“I heard him saying something about sending everyone back there, as Cooler is heading towards them.” you reply, rembering everything. “That's what he was talking about before he got a message through his scouter. The voice warned him that you were headed his way, right now.”

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>>5300689
“What you're saying is he has an accomplice? Here, aboard MY ship?” Freeza asks, clearly getting mad. But he's also contemplative, raising a hand to his chin, thinking aloud. “This would explain how he would have been able to avoid detection for so long, having someone else play guardian angel for our little rat. But there are only two techs who have access to the cameras, it shouldn't take long to figure out which one of them it was.”
“But what if someone's just standing around, watching you while they're invisible or something?” Aqua asks idly, the emperor freezing at her question a moment before slowly turning towards her. Which is a, well, honestly surprisingly good point actually. You learned of the Great War with the Covenat, who're also a thing in this universe for some reason. Or, at least they WERE.

“A surprisingly astute observation. I hadn't even considered such a thing.” Freeza says, closing his eyes. Everything's quiet for a second or two, then suddenly Guldo of the Ginyu Force just appears between you and Lord Freeza. No warning, nothing, he wasn't there one moment and there the next. You blink a couple times, shocked at how terrifying Time Freeze is as an ability. “Status report, Guldo.”
“No one is currently invisible, or holding onto any obvious stealth technology here aboard the ship, Lord Freeza.” Guldo says, kneeling before the emperor. “Not even any of the newcomers.”
“Excellent work, as always. Thank you Guldo.” he says, giving his elite a nod of appreciation. “Too bad our traitor isn't so easily caught.”
“Wait! I just had an idea!” you declare, Freeza and Guldo both turning to look your way. “His scouter! The message came through on his scouter. So his conversations should be recorded on it, right? He wouldn't have had any time to delete anything from it before you showed up. So if we grab his scouter and play back the audio, you'll have the accomplice's voice as well!”

Guldo and Freeza exchange a look, then Guldo simply vanishes once more. You're feeling proud of yourself, but then another thought comes to mind. Your hand goes to your chin as you think aloud, contemplating.

“But it can't be this easy. The accomplice would have known the gig's up the moment he heard what's happening.” you say confused. He would know that death is the best-case scenario for being found a traitor. Or agonizing, painful torture if you're unlucky. As a sneaky bastard yourself, you would have had a contingency plan in place should your partner get caught. And what's one thing every sci-fi spaceship has? “Lord Freeza, your ship doesn't happen to have a-?”

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>>5300691
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_9KR3mYkUo

“Self-destruct sequence initiated.” an automated female voice calls out over the ship's comms. “Sixty seconds until detonation. All personnel, please evacuate immediately.”
“..... Destruct. Dammit.” you say, Freeza and Aqua both looking around confused.
“Eh? EHHH??” Aqua shouts, her panic clearly rising. S-S-Self destruct? Don't tell me this whole ship is going to blow up?!”
“How did you.... Nevermind. Do not worry, I have the override.” Freeza says calmly, lifting just off the ground and floating towards the newly-doorless entryway. “I'll handle this, and take care of our little rat. Thankfully, he's just revealed his position.”

With that Freeza begins floating out of the room, disappearing around the corner as Aqua gets up, and rushes over to your feet and begins dragging you. Ignoring her for a moment, you telepathically reach out to Yunyun and Darkness, letting them know not to worry and that the ship isn't about to blow up. Then, ending the mental link, you see Aqua's already dragged you to the doorway.

“Come on Kazuma, we gotta go! Before the whole ship blows up!” she shouts, panicked. “Let's find the escape pods and get out of here!”

Suddenly all of the pieces fit together. A mere ship explosion wouldn't kill Freeza, even in his weaker 'canon' of DBZ, he survived a PLANET exploding directly in his face when he was only half a man left. This wouldn't be enough to harm him. But it WOULD provide excellent cover to sneak out of the ship, grabbing an escape pod and launching them all before they could be filled. If you were a traitor, you wouldn't die for the cause. You'd want to live, and reap the rewards! So your traitor's accomplice is no-doubt headed that way. But what can you do about it?

“Don't worry, Freeza's got that.” you reply to her, then close your eyes and focus once more on your telepathy. You haven't actually gotten a chance to speak with 'the fastest man in the universe' yet, but now's when his talent is needed! “Burter! Listen close: a traitor set off that alarm. Don't let anyone leave through the escape pods!”
“Who're you?” comes the immediate reply. “How are you on this channel?”
“Oi, you'd better git to explainin', real quick.” Jeice follows up, even when speaking mentally he keeps his accent.
“Lord Freeza just caught a traitor, and his partner set off the self-destruct sequence!” you tell them both. “But the traitor isn't going to stick around, they'll be looking for a way out! You're the fastest in the universe, right Burter? Don't let them get away!”
“I'm on it!” the Blue Hurricane declares, ending the mental link with you as he no-doubt goes to secure that escape path. And with Jeice, and shortly the entire Ginyu Force on high alert, the likelihood of escaping unnoticed just went down to zero.

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>>5300694
“Why are you still dragging me?” you ask Aqua, opening your eyes to find yourself laying in the hallway as she tries to drag you. “The self-destruct isn't going to go off. Freeza's got this.”
“Are you sure?” she asks, worried.
“He wouldn't want to replace a whole spaceship now, would he?” you reply, holding a finger up and anticipating the alarm going off with your declaration. A second of awkward silence goes by, then a second, and then a third as well. You begin feeling a bit nervous yourself, and right as you're about to say something, everything goes quiet. “There, see?”

“False alarm, everyone.” Freeza then declares over the same system, voice calm and smooth while addressing his entire crew. “Someone thought it would be a good idea to betray us, and go rogue. But Burter has just informed me that he's caught the criminal responsible, and Captain Ginyu has their co-conspirator locked away. The situation has been resolved, you may all return to your posts.”
“Oh. That's good.” Aqua says idly, dropping your feet as she turns around with a big yawn. “Phew, I'm beat! Next time you wanna go run off and die, could you not do it while I'm asleep? I'd appreciate it.”

You just now notice she's not in her usual divine attire, instead wearing her pajamas. She then walks past you, still laying on the floor as she heads back towards your rooms aboard the ship.

“Not like I wanted to.” you reply, and slowly you push yourself upright as well. Your body feels sluggish and unresponsive, but you unfortunately know from experience that that's only temporary. Once you've gotten a few good nights' rest, and eaten well to replenish all that blood lost, you'll be right as rain. It just sucks in the short term.

As you shamble back towards the room you all share, suddenly you hear a door slide open to your left. You turn, curious, but before you realize what's happening a shadowed figure has clasped one hand over your mouth, the other holding what's probably a knife to your throat, and pulls you into the room they'd been lurking in. You don't resist, since your body isn't responding well anyways, and as they pull you in the door slides shut with a hiss behind you.

“Don't talk yet, okay?” a familiar-sounding voice whispers, then as the person deactivated their Lurk Thief-class ability, you recognize them immediately. Darkness's friend and the one who'd taught you her Thief skills, the flat woman Chris. Her silver hair seems to almost glow in the dim light of what seems to be a janitorial closet of some sort, and as you recognize her you nod, once. Slowly.

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>>5300695
“Thank goodness I found you. I was so worried, when I first got here an alarm just started blaring!” she explains, letting go of you and wrapping her arms around herself. As she does, you realize just how close you two are standing in this enclosed space, and can't help but feel your heart skip a beat. “Then I heard the alarm was a self-destruct, and thought I got sent here just to die. But then it stopped, and I saw you and Aqua walking this way.”
“Better you found me before any of Freeza's men.” you agree. “They just had two traitors get exposed. But how in the hell did you get here? We're in the middle of space, God knows how far away from your planet. And, more importantly, WHY ARE YOU HERE?”

The last bit you ask in a seething whisper, all this stress isn't good for your recently-deceased heart. If you have a heart attack, can Aqua even revive you from that? Or is her ability like the Dragonballs you're after, and can't resurrect someone who died of 'natural causes'? Something you should make a point of asking her later.

“The goddess Eris came to me in a vision, and told me she had a special mission that only I could complete.” she replies proudly, puffing out her board of a chest. “She told me that you will be visiting another world where a stolen divine relic resides, and she wants me to get it back for her.”
“The Namekians stole a divine relic from a god?” you ask, genuinely surprised. They all seemed like pacifists, except for the warriors Piccolo and Nail. You never would have thought them capable of doing such a thing.
“No no, I'm leaving before you ever get to that planet.” she replies, and you feel your heart sink into your toes as she continues. “Before you all go to Namek, Freeza is visiting another planet first. Where his-”

“ABSOLU-!!” you'd started shouting, Chris slapping her hand over your mouth to silence your sudden outburst. But there's no way in hell you're going along with that, not even enough to hear out that sentence.
“SHHH! Keep it down!” she scolds in a whisper, but you're not having it. And instead of trying to talk, you instead use your recently-acquired telepathy to continue 'talking' to her without opening your mouth.
“No way. Absolutely not. There is no way in hell I'm going to steal something from King Cold!” you inform her, calmly and rationally and totally not freaking out at the thought. “I will NOT do anything to antagonize him, under any circumstances! I want to live a long, happy life, not one of absolute suffering and torture. Count me out, you'll have to find someone else.”
“But Eris told me that you had already agreed to help out.” Chris pouts, grabbing you by the upper arms and pulling herself close to you. “C'mon, you're the only one out here I can rely on. Don't tell me you're not going to help a damsel in distress?”

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>>5300696
“As an advocate of true gender equality, I don't believe in helping anyone out because of their gender.” you declare to her. “I have no patience for one who talks about female privilege when it suits them, and then complains about someone “not being a man” when it's convenient! I'm not going to put my life on the line just because you're a woman and ask me to.”

However, despite your declaration, your heart tries rebelling against your rational judgment, trying to throw you into danger once more. But you hold strong, and don't give in to her puppy dog eyes.

“I'm not asking you to fight him, just help me recover the divine artifict and send it up to the heavenly realm.” she pleads, clinging to you by the front of your cloak. “I need your help Kazuma, I can't do it alone!”
“Eris can come down and talk with King Cold herself, if it's that important.” you say, Chris's face taking on a pained expression. No doubt from you speaking ill of the goddess she worships. But as she clings to you, you sigh out, and concede a small amount. You're not cruel enough to abandon her to Freeza's “mercy”, after all. “Look, you can stay with us. But I'm not getting involved. I'm sure Darkness wouldn't mind sharing her bed here wi-”

“Thank you!” Eris shouts, leaping up and wrapping her arms around your shoulders to give you a big hug. “Thank you so much Kazuma! I knew I could rely on you!”
“Hey now, I'm not agreeing to help you.” you tell Chris seriously, trying to pry her arms off you despite her hug feeling very welcome. “I'm just agreeing to help you get there, and not get thrown out of the airlock or Death Beam'd or anything. Now c'mon, let's get out of here. Hide in my shadow with Lurk, so no one notices you and we don't have to answer any awkward questions. Got it?”

She doesn't say anything, and quickly fades away into your shadow. You then open the door, stepping out into the hallway. And as you do, you freeze: Emperor Freeza's right there!

“Interesting.” Freeza says, grinning maliciously at you. “Now, how about you tell me where that fifth member of your group you were just speaking with went?”

Well, shit. You're going to have a hell of a time talking your way out of this one.

-Saiyan Conqueror Quest 176 Intermission End-

>>5300699
>they think they can steal from THE King Cold
GD, where did you learn to write something this funny?

>>5300717
Kazuma does NOT think they can, nor does he want to do that. But Chris thinks that she can do it

>>5300721
I think Kazuma needs to explain very clearly exactly who King Cold and Frieza are and what they can do.
He should also probably mention that they rival the Gods themselves in terms of pure might.

>>5300721
Why has no one considered just asking him to give it back? That at least has a measurable chance of success.

>>5300727
>"King Cold, please relinquish one of the most powerful artifacts in the mortal realm to the incompetent Gods so they can lose it again."

>>5300726
Oh, Chris knows. More than you'd think someone from that planet has any right to.
>>5300727
A good question. But would it be something he'd give up?

>>5300760
>Oh, Chris knows. More than you'd think someone from that planet has any right to.
So she's retarded then, got it.

>>5300753
Right? Even if he knew it was a divine artifact, would he really give it up?
>>5300764
Ha! Well, according to her she has her goddess’s blessing for this mission. So she wouldn’t just get sent to die by the Goddess of Luck, would she?

>>5300782
>Ha! Well, according to her she has her goddess’s blessing for this mission
I...is she fucking stupid? Jokes aside, that means NOTHING. Please tell me she's not this dumb.
>So she wouldn’t just get sent to die by the Goddess of Luck, would she?
I hope she realizes that it wouldn't much matter to a God if a mortal lived or died.

>>5300783
Let’s just say she has a reason to be confident. Eris has long entrusted her to recover divine artifacts on her own world, and hasn’t failed once. But Chris’s death would matter a LOT to Eris. She’s invested a lot in her, including that dagger she wields

>>5300753
>>5300760
The chance might be 0.00000000001% but at least it's a chance.

>>5300871
A better chance than trying to fight him, that's for sure.

>>5300819
I hope Eris has another lackey ready to go, because I really can't see her or Kazuma getting a leg up on King Cold of all people.
Doubly so when Frieza is around as well.

Spoilers from the new movie are out.

Gohan Blanco is unironically real
Piccolo gets like two new forms that turn him orange and big
Cell is back only not really because it’s a retarded red clone of his Semi-Perfect Form.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jb5TaFCcxJI

>>5301342
Not touching this. Guess it finally premired in Japan?

>>5301377
Yep. There's no full camrip yet but what I'm hearing sounds hilarious.

>>5301342
I'm going to reserve judgement, but I will say good on Gohan and Piccolo getting new forms.
Maybe they'll get to be relevant again.

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>>5301481
>Maybe they'll get to be relevant again.

>>5301342
I wasn’t planning on seeing this because it looked like shit and the story sounded boring, but Gohan Blanco becoming canon is so stupidly funny i might actually check it out now.

>>5301401
Neat.
>>5301481
Well Gohan getting a form is a spoiler, thanks.
>>5301522
We all KNOW better, but can still dream

>>5301701
I apologize profusely, but think about it this way, now you have another form to hash out in your head before you add it to the transformation pastebin.

>>5301738
Ehh not that big a spoiler I guess, they gotta sell new figures somehow.

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>>5301401
There's actually is a full cam rip now if you want to check it out You'll just have to look for it on /a/ or Desuarchives.

ps: pic spoiler of the two new forms.

>>5302862
I’ll have to check it out, if someone’s got a subbed version.

>>5302862
That is fucking goofy. What the hell. Who the fuck signed off on either of those? I guess being a "Super Namkeian" wasn't on the nose enough for these hack job fucks. And that hair. It has more mass than his fucking torso. If he wasn't a fucking alien who could bench press planets I'd wonder how his bobble-ass head stays upright. And don't get me started on the curly q just plain getting fat. The fuck can he even see in front of his face with it? Not like hair is floppy enough to get out the way when they do that super pooper scooper shit. Their hair gets harder than my dick after three of the little blue pills. That shit ain't the look.

Damn.

>>5303016
imagine if a universe 6 Saiyan got that transformation. the hair could reach the moon.

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>>5303016
Finally opened that pic so I could join in the critique. Honestly, I like the form for Piccolo. Remembering that Warrior-clan Namekians can control their size, having him go swole like Roshi makes a bit of sense. But that Gohan. Hoo boy, that looks like some edgy, deviantart-tier fanfic right there. But where have I seen that before? Hmm?
>>5303037
Ha! Nice

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>>5302862
i kinda dig Piccolo’s form, but Gohans is just…

Just read the epilogue on Patreon, loved the choreography.
Also good to see Amaya was smart enough to learn that technique and apply it as needed.

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>>5303016
Orange Piccolo looks mostly fine. The Cgi makes it look goofier than it actually is. Most 2d animations will probably have him be Nappa or Broly sized in both height and muscular and then opt for a slim and sleek version for his True Orange Piccolo form. Final Gohan share's a similar problem due to the CGI but honestly, I feel its very existence goes against what the Ultimate Form is supposed to do.

How can you be able to surpass the form that lets out ALL of your latent ability and pushed your full potential and prowess beyond your natural limits? It's like they took the concept from GT of Ultimate Super Saiyan and cranked it up to 1000 for the Teen Gohan SS2 nostalgia.

Either way, they're now on Super Saiyan Blue Kaioken/Blue Evolution tier at least.

>>5303059
>>5303100
The size and shape don't bug me, the color does. Frieza was bad enough, but at least he made a point of saying it was a conscious decision because he's a pretty egocentric bitch. The fuck's the green bean doing turning into a pumpkin?

I'd have rather seen that albino namekian meme bullshit become canon than another nigga going gold.

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>>5303147
For me its how they turned the Gohan Blanco shitpost into a real thing. I refuse to believe they didn't start taking notes when that spic meme blew up.

>>5303062
Classic.
>>5303066
Glad you enjoyed it. And yes, Amaya’s a clever fighter.
>>5303100
Cgi loses to traditional animation in most screenshots/images, but the tradeoff is it looks smoother in motion and we don’t get any Toyotaro impossible anatomies.
>I feel its very existence goes against what the Ultimate Form is supposed to do.
Yes. Unless they explain it as an evolution of Potential Unleashed, going beyond one’s potential thanks to the divine energy imbued with Elder Kai’s technique of something, then it makes no sense.
>>5303147
Totally fair. And Freeza memeing on Super Saiyan was at least fun.
>>5303207
At least we know what the NEXT movie’ll be

>>5303147
I think the yellow form was supposed to be based on photosynthesis where all that solar energy somehow turns a plant yellow cause they're brimming with it. And the Orange shading is just overloading on it since they're practically bursting with it. Course I'm bullshitting an explanation since the likelihood of them explaining it is on the same bus as Super Saiyan Rage.

Still think Gohan's is the worst since >>5303207 and the fact he looks like a school shooter on crack sums up everything wrong with modern dragon ball.

>>5303252
At worst it'll be treated as the same mutation nonsense as super saiyan rage where somehow raging hard enough lets you warp previously established forms into this new monstrosity. Now that I think about it, Ikari also fits that description.

>>5303207
It all started with UI Shaggy. Now that the retards in executive positions know they can ride hypetrains from memes they'll hawk that shit like nobody's business.

>>5303369
I'm pretty sure everything that photosynthesizes is green. Why didn't they just make him fluorescent green glowing like a fed at a gayop? It's an alright headcanon, they just replaced Piccolo's water bowl with some bottles of Sunny-D.

>>5303369
>Course I'm bullshitting an explanation since the likelihood of them explaining it is on the same bus as Super Saiyan Rage.
Sadly probably this. That was the best, and worst arc of Super. Started soo good but devolved into bullshit halfway through.
Trunks’ form had such potential though, it was so simple to save. Trunks absorbed a bit of divine ki, and have Goku/Vegeta recognize it as a precursor, half-baked form they both had while trying to achieve SS Blue. Such an easy layup missed.
>>5303718
>executive positions know they can ride hypetrains from memes they'll hawk that shit like nobody's business.
>laughs in Morbius re-rerelease flop
As for Piccolo, it’s simple. He did the SunnyD/Dark Souls Estus flask drinking challenge and turned orange

>>5303741
>Has passive regen
>still takes habitual sips of Sunny D
No wonder he stopped kicking ass, he's got bitch tendencies.

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>>5303741
>>laughs in Morbius re-rerelease flop
>mfw
Holy shit I couldn't believe that. They could have asked an actual child if it was a good idea and the kid would have told them it was just a funny meme. PEAK disconnect right there. Never be topped. Damn.

>As for Piccolo, it’s simple. He did the SunnyD/Dark Souls Estus flask drinking challenge and turned orange
>"Gohan what's this orange crap in this bottle?"
>"Oh it's like orange juice but more vegan. You should try it, it's good for you."
And then he drank all the Sunny-D and Gohan had to resort to drinking energy drinks. That's how Piccolo got orange and Gohan returned to edge. Just call him Kylehan

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>>5303788
STAND BACK CHILLI
I'M BEGINNING TO MORB

>>5303745
More like he absorbed the NOT-warrior Kami.
>>5303788
Was an excellent dunk, I have to admit.
>Kylehan
I’m missing the joke

>>5303813
>And THIS! Is to Morb, even further beyond!

>>5303814
The joke is another one of those goofy name things. Imagine the average teen dweeb who thinks crossfit is good exercise, chugs monster energy drinks, and punches walls because that makes him look "tough". A stereotype given name, really. Like a Karen. He's a Kyle.

He angy as the toddlers say.

>>5303821
Fun fact, Adult Gohan's North American VA is actually named Kyle.

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>>5303824
That is a pretty fun fact.

>>5303821
Okeh
>>5303824
Neat.

>>5303741
Honestly, if they gave a shit they could solve both SS Rage and Final Gohan as forms brought upon by divine ki mixing with their respective transformations+their hybrid rage. Both of them are practically supreme kai apprentices so it's not out of the left field. Just look at Rose. That's an alteration on blue or mutation of ss depending on the medium based on circumstance. Hell, you can also justify orange piccolo with the same lore. He has Kami who has definitely in him and got boosted by Shenron. This series is so frustrating at how much they don't give a shit.

>>5303975
>This series is so frustrating at how much they don't give a shit.
Because they know the average fan will eat up whatever shit they’ll throw at them. No need to try too hard when you’ll make bank no matter what.

>>5304438
Could say that again for a lot of IPs. Disheartening, isn't it?

>>5304521
Even worse how there is a worrying amount of works with people attached who say they actively dislike the thing they're working with or that they have literally no knowledge of it. And the amount of "subverting expectations" they do when in reality they actually just plain fucked it up and want to seem like they aren't plain stupid.

Modern media is a fucking meme.

>>5303975
SSB was a mortal obtaining god ki and combining it with Super Saiyan. SSR was a divine being obtaining a mortal
body, and combining their power with Super Saiyan.
>>5304438
>>5304521
>>5304536
Laughs then cries in Diablo, SW, Halo, LotR, etc etc.

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Second intermission is underway, who’s ready for Chilli to meet the princess, Belzerg Stylish Sword Iris and the potential such a meeting has?

>>5305109
I have no idea who that is.

>>5305201
May be a spoiler, if you plan on reading Konosuba, so beware spoiler:
Belzerg Stylish Sword Iris is the only princess of Belzerg. And in one of the later volumes, she kills a golden dragon. In ONE hit. She is POWERFUL, her Level is 60 at age 12. For comparison, Megumin has the highest level of the party yet is only in the mid 40s by the END of Konosuba.

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>>5305308
>if you plan on reading Konosuba
I do not. Much as I like this quest, Konosuba REALLY doesn't seem like my thing.

New mission/goal; sneak into the Time Nest and eat Tokitoki.

>>5305697
m8 if we can get that deep into the time nest we might as well burn the whole damn place down.

>>5305323
It’s great if you enjoy parody works, especially if you’re like me and were raised on Mel Brooks comedy.
>>5305697
Would be an exceptionally difficult mission, because the only way you’re getting in is by being captured. And the prison’s a LOT more secure than when you were last there.
>>5305707
A fair point. Getting past/through Conton City and directly into the Time Nest itself would be a massive advantage.

Not sure if I’m going to get the intermission done in time, it might have to be the epilogue. Finished the fifth post last night, yet we haven’t even arrived in Axel. I’ll try and grind out as many pages as I can this evening, but we’ll have to wait and see

>>5306705
riparonistan

>>5305697
Mmm...Temporal Chicken Dinner...

>>5307143
Good news, it’s almost done! I think I’ll start posting it within the next half hour!
>>5307150
HA!

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-Saiyan Conqueror Quest 176 Intermission II-

AGE 750, CRIMSON DEMON VILLAGE

“Excuse me, miss. Do you know where I can find the golden warrior? The one rumored to be from another world, and said to live amongst your clan?” you hear from behind, stopping in your tracks. Glancing over your shoulder, you see one of Megumin's former classmates talking with a small entourage, or rather, the leader of the small group. Dressed in expensive-looking formal wear, the blonde haired blue eyed man gives off the air of nobility. And judging by the seven people in his group, he most likely is some sort of leader from a nearby city. He has two knights, their plate armor and swords at their hips clear indicators of their profession, but more surprisingly you recognize someone with him. The owner of the magic shop Vanir works at, the archwizard and necromancer Wiz. What is she doing here?

You are Chilli: Reaper, archwizard, husband, Super Saiyan, and protector of the Crimson Demon Village. You're back in town, looking to buy as many of the spell containers you can, having spent the better part of the evening yesterday filling those you had with your crystal magic. The defensive crystal spells are a huge hit at Wiz's shop, located in the town of beginner adventurers, Axel. So you'd come to town with your wife, here to buy as many as you could to sell to the masked demon. You'd seen the foreigners when walking into town, having chosen to walk with your wife and enjoy a leisurely stroll instead of simply flying down, but hadn't given them much thought. But upon overhearing yourself mentioned, you're suddenly far more curious in them.

“You heard that too?” Megumin asks, you turning to see her expression is mixed. Clearly she wants to go show you off, and brag a bit to her still-single classmate, but is also a bit nervous. She can tell he's someone of import on this world, and potentially going to war with a major world power would ruin the rest of your day. Or even a whole week, depending on their influence. “Want to go say hi, or just keep going?”
“I suppose we should introduce ourselves.” you say, and with your right hand holding Megumin's left raise it over her head and twirl her around, your wife giggling a bit before you both face the group and start walking over. As you draw close, Nerimaki glances your way before trailing off, the man turning and looking towards you both curiously.

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>>5307191
“Excuse me, would either of you happen to know where the otherworldly warrior happens to be?” the man asks, clearly not recognizing you in your Crimson Demon robes instead of your Saiyan armor.
“My name is Megumin!” your wife declares, striking her pose. Even from the side, you can see her eyes glowing crimson as she introduces herself in the traditional way of her people. “Wielder of Explosion magic, wife to the great Chilli, and greatest archwizard among the Crimson Demons!”
“My name is Chilli!” you declare, striking your pose alongside her. “Super Saiyan, husband to Megumin, greatest archwizard among the Saiyan race, and he who will one day supplant the goddess of time herself! I am the warrior from another world you seek.”

“You're the warrior who defeated not only a Demon King's general, but also destroyed the monstrous Destroyer?” he asks, seeming a bit incredulous. “I had heard that you were on the younger side, but I hadn't expected you to be younger than my own daughter.”
“Age isn't that relevant in our species, except for the amount of time you've had to fight and grow stronger.” you answer his surprised remark, Wiz suddenly stepping forward.
“Oh, hello there Chillli. How're the Crystal Barriers coming along?” she asks you, oblivious to the nobleman's jaw dropping beside her. “I don't want Vanir to be upset, and lock me back in that closet again.”
“That's why we came to town today, I ran out of spelled jars.” you say, Wiz nodding along as the nobleman regains his composure. “What about you?”
“Oh, mister Ignis here asked me to bring him here, in search of an otherworldly warrior.” she says, giggling to herself a bit before continuing. “But I guess that was you, huh?”

“Chilli, was it?” Ignis asks, you turning your focus back to him and nodding. “My name is Ignis Dustiness Ford, Lord of Axel. And you, Chilli, have been s-invited to meet with her highness. Princess of the Kingdom of Belzerg, Iris. She wishes to make your acquaintance, and hear the tales of your exploits directly. You and your wife, of course, are both invited to dinner at my manor this evening.”
“I wouldn't mind.” you answer, turning to your wife. “Want to go?”
“I've never dined with royalty.” she replies, which is your answer. Then she asks you a question of her own. “Want to finish your spells for the jars before we go, or....?”
“That would depend on our host?” you ask, turning back to the nobleman. “How long from now until the dinner begins?”

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>>5307196
"Oh, we still have several hours.” he says, looking up at the sun and gauging it. “At least three hours from now.”
“Excellent, I can get this next batch done before then, and deliver them before meeting you all at your place.” you reply, then turn to Wiz. “If you wouldn't mind taking me along when you teleport them back, so I can see where I'm going?”
“Of course, that's no problem at all.” the ditzy shopkeep says, a violet magical circle appearing on the ground beneath her, and spreading out to encompass you all. “Let's go.”
“I'll wait here for you to get back.” Megumin says, giving you a quick kiss before stepping back. “Meet you at the shop?”
“See you there.” you reply, waving as the lich's teleport spell whisks you all away. One moment you're standing in the Crimson Demon Village, the next you find yourself before a familiar shop.

“And here we are.” Wiz says, her magical circle disappearing. “Thank you for your patronage.”
“The pleasure was all mine.” Ignis says, giving her a small bow. “Give my regards to Vanir.”
“I will, thank you again.” she says, waving to you before turning to the door and walking in. Ignis turns to you, and you give a slight nod. He returns the gesture and leads his entourage, you walking along in silence for a few minutes before he stops before a wall taller than your old man. You see the brick wall is topped with an iron fence, poles topped with spikes.
“This is the Dustiness manor.” he says, stopping before the gate. “Do you think you can find your way back here this evening?”

“Give me a minute.” you reply, crouching then leaping up into the air. You fly up over the manor, looking down at the manor and studying where it rests in regards to the rest of the city's major landmarks. And once you're sure you can find it again, you drop back down out of the air, landing beside the startled nobleman and his retainers. “I'll be able to find your place again later this evening.”
“I see. Very well, we shall await your arrival.” the man Ignis says, nodding once more before turning to the gate. You kick back off into the sky, and focusing on your wife's ki blast away from the town of Axel. It takes you maybe a minute to return to the Crimson Demon village, dropping out of the sky to land gently before your father in law's magic item shop. Rising back up to your full height you reach for the door, but before you can touch it the door opens. Hyoizaburoo is holding it open for Megumin, your wife holding three cases of the spelled bottles.

“Oh, Chilli!” she says excitedly, eyes widening as she smiles at your sudden appearance. “You're back sooner than I thought! I was gonna surprise you by having them already at the house for you, but you got here too soon. Ruined my whole plan. Mleeh!”

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>>5307198
She sticks her tongue out at you teasingly with a sparkle in her eye.

“Haha, thanks hun.” you say, kissing her on the forehead while gently taking the cases from her hands. “I'll carry them home.”
“I heard you two are going to be visiting with the princess herself.” her father says, you looking to him as Megumin steps outside with you. “Be careful, and mind your manners Megumin.”
“I will.” she says, you shifting the containers to hold them in one arm, and take your wife's hand in the other as you both begin the walk back home. You enjoy the peaceful walk, the two of you going in companionable silence before getting back to your home. Pressing her crystal wedding ring to the door, your crystal home opens up and allows the both of you inside.

“Thanks hun.” you say, Megumin closing the double doors and portcullis behind you. “I'm gonna get to work right away, need anything?”
“Nope, I'm gonna go get ready.” she says, humming her 'Explosion' song to herself as she heads to the stairs before you. “Speaking of, are you gonna wear your robes? Or your armor?”
“I think I should wear my armor for this one.” you say after a moment's thought. “They're expecting to meet an off-worlder, so I suppose I should look the part.”
“I agree.” she replies, smirking a bit as you can tell she's planning something. But despite being together for as long as you have, you have no idea what she's planning. “Go on, go and finish your spells for Vanir while I start getting ready.”

She then almost skips up the stairs, you following behind her with your boxes of glass bottles to fill. You head up past the bedroom into your workshop, placing the boxes on the desk then taking your robe off. With a thought you grow a crystal hook out of the wall, hanging it there beside the desk then cracking your fingers.

“Alright, time to get to work.” you say to yourself, and reaching into the top box draw out the first glass jar of dozens. With another thought, you grow a small pillar up out of the floor, and rest the jar atop it. You then pull the cork out with your left hand, placing your left atop the container while focusing your magic power. “Crystal Magic: Crystal Barrier!”

You feel the magical energy surge out through your open hand, But instead of forming the dome of crystal magic around you, the energy surges down into the container. You see the magical energy swirling around inside the glass like a small snowstorm, you capping it with the enchanted cork seal and sealing the magic away inside it. Picking up the freshly-made Crystal Barrier Bottle, you take it back over to the box and replace it. Setting the sealed spell jar back inside, you then take the next one and turn back to your small pedestal, and repeat the process.

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>>5307203
Your magic fills up bottle after bottle, and by the third you've gotten completely lost in the work. You lose yourself in the mindless spellcraft, wondering what sort of person the princess will be. Then before you've realized it, your work is done. You set the final bottle into place, then reaching for the next one realize that you've already filled every single one. The mindless work is finished, now you can go get ready for the dinner. Taking up the now-filled boxes, you turn to the stairs and carry them back down to the first floor. Stepping down into the room, you see your wife already in the bath and decide to join her. Setting the bottles down by the door, you begin stripping down and walking over to the tub. Your wife sees you coming and blushes, eyes glowing crimson as she watches you undress.

“Come on in, the water's still warm.” she says with a grin, making room for you to get in as well. You climb in, your wife turning around and offering you the bar she'd been cleaning with. “Mind scrubbing my back for me?”
“Of course Megu.” you reply, taking it from her and begin gently washing her back. You're extremely careful with your wife, scrubbing her back then reaching around to wash her front as well.
“Mmmm.” she mummers as you caress her, leaning back and pressing herself against you while reaching up and wrapping her arms around your neck. You wash her all over, then once you're done washing her she takes over, and starts washing you as well. She scrubs every inch of you, then once she's done you wash yourselves off, and get out of the tub. Your wife wraps her towel around herself, but since you hadn't brought one down you just flare your aura, blasting the water off of you, and her as well. “Ah-! H-Hey! Don't get my towel wet!”

You chuckle at your wife's playful teasing, then give her a quick kiss before sweeping her off of her feet. Then you carry her upstairs to your bedroom, only to see a surprise waiting for you. Your armor has been dusted off and even seemingly shined, set out and ready for you to wear. Turning to her, you see Megumin smiling at your reaction to her surprise.

“You're a foreign ambassador, right? That means you gotta look good.” she says with a smile. “Now get dressed, and don't look over here until I'm dressed, okay? I got a surprise.”
“Sure thing.” you reply, and begin dressing. It's been months since you've regularly worn your armor, and it actually feels a little strange. You've grown quite used to how the Crimson Demon-style robes flow and breathe, but something about donning your armor once more makes you feel ready.
“Okay, turn around.” she says as you finish putting on your last gauntlet, turning around and feeling your heart skip a beat at the sight. “Well, what do you think?”

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>>5307207
Your wife is wearing a black dress with a white trim you've never seen before, it showing off her beautiful pale skin and complementing her figure nicely. She twirls around once, watching it flow around her, then she looks up at you and asks something. But you don't hear her, enraptured by her.

“Hey, you awake up there?” she asks, snapping you out of your daze as your eyes rise up and meet her gaze. Only to see an odd smile on her face. “Do you like it that much?”
“It looks amazing on you.” you say, walking over and giving your wife a hug. Which she gladly reciprocates, wrapping her arms around your neck and giving you a deep, passionate kiss before pulling back. When she does you can see that her eyes are blazing crimson, and her cheeks are flushed just from that. “You make it look great.”
“Flatterer.” she teases, the two of you separating so you can continue getting ready. Megumin takes up her staff, and you grab your own before sweeping her up off her feet, and carrying your wife down the stairs to the front door where you'd left the jars before setting her back down. To which she pouts a bit, teasing you a bit more. “Oh I see. You'd rather carry some jars than your beautiful wife.”

“Once we sell these to Vanir, I can carry you all the way to that guy's manor if you want.” you retort, Megumin blushing even more as you tease her back. And you can see on her face as she considers taking you up on the offer. “You ready to go?”
“Whenever you are.” she replies, laying her left hand atop your right as you focus. You'd made a crystal in the back of Wiz's shop a while back to teleport to, and focusing your magic create a crystal shell around both you and Megumin while linking to that 'gate' you'd made. Then in a flash, the crystal shatters, and you find yourself standing before a rather surprised-seeming demon.

“Well well, if it isn't the Crimson Demon woman who wishes for more physical affection, and the alien powerhouse who's only recently begun awakening to his carnal desires. Welcome, welcome!” Vanir greets you both, trying to tease out your emotions with his digs. Because as an archdevil, Vanir feeds off of specific emotions of mortals. So you don't give him the satisfaction of a reaction, and instead present the cases of Crystal Barrier bottles.
“Have another batch ready, you said you were running low.” you say, the devil picking one out and examining it. And after a moment he returns the jar to the container, a smile on his face.

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>>5307209
“As usual, exceptional work.” Vanir says, taking the cases in one hand and setting them all down on a table before handing over two pouches, as per your arrangement. In one is the payment in gold coins, this world's currency. And in the other are Manatite: ores which contain magical power and can be used in place of one's own energy supply. You'd found great utility in using the stones, allowing you to practice spells for far longer in a day than you could with only your own magic. “Your payment.”
“Thanks. Let me know when you need another batch.” you tell him, walking towards the door leading out to the front of the shop. “I'll be able to make them within a day of your next order.”

Leaving the shop, you turn to Megumin, who only blushes a bit and shakes her head. Guess she doesn't want carried to the manor after all. So the two of you walk down the streets, hand in hand until coming to the main gate of that man Ignis's home. You see two guards, armed and armored similarly to the two who were with him before, and the one seemingly recognizes you. But then as he calls out, you see he recognizes your wife instead.

“Absolutely not. You're not letting off a blast here, 'Crazy Explosion Girl'!” he declares, lowering his halberd at your wife. So you let go of her hand, walk up to the guard, and grab his weapon by the bladed tip. Then, without breaking eye contact with the man, you start bending the weapon's point back towards him. You can see the panic on his face as you don't say anything, just bending his halberd's point until it's pointed back at him before letting go of the weapon. Then, as he pulls it back, you finally speak.
“We're here to have an audience with the Princess, and Lord Ignis.” you declare, still glaring at him unblinkingly. “Now open the door. Or will your lord have to replace you?”
“R-R-Right away s-sir!” he stammers, tripping over his words as he turns back to the gate. His partner chuckles, and you recognize him as one of the ones who were with Ignis when he'd arrived at the Crimson Demon Village. Seems he hadn't told his partner on purpose, just to see what happened. As the gate opens, you see the attendants who were with the local lord are already waiting on you all, each one bowing shallowly to you both.

“Master Ignis is already with Princess Iris. This way, if you would.” one says, the woman only a few years older than you says, leading the way into the manor proper. And to your surprise, it's not what you were expecting. The interior seems rather utilitarian, not many flashy paintings or expensive decorations, in fact everything you pass seems to have been placed there for a purpose, or at least are small things out of the way. Seems this Ignis fellow doesn't like to spend his money on frivolities, which makes you like him even more.

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>>5307210
“Here we are. The master and the princess are in the dining hall, through here.” the woman declares, and grabbing both door handles starts pushing them open. The doors swing inwards, revealing a dining room twice the size of your own, and with a table to match as well. To the head of the table's right you see the man Ignis, a small plate of food in front of him as he speaks with the one sitting in what would undoubtedly be his seat otherwise. A young girl, probably within a year or two of your own age wearing a white dress is seated, delicately holding her utensils to her plate while listening to the man's story, speaking of his daughter's physical prowess. To the left and right of whom you assume to be the princess are her attendants, a short-haired woman in a white suit with a sword on her hip, and a woman wearing long white robes wearing several magic-resonating rings on her fingers. The sword woman's physical power is impressive for this world, a scouter would read her as at least four digits. And from the no-doubt mage to her right, you can sense a surprisingly deep well of magical power. But most surprising of all, the young-seeming princess outclasses both of them in BOTH categories!

“Princess Iris, Lord Ignis. Chilli, son of Karn and Megumin of the Crimson Demons have arrived.” the attendant declares with a full bow, their conversation having stopped as the three of you entered the room. And to your surprise, the young princess rises up to her feet, and gestures to the seats to her left.
“Thank you both for honoring my request.” she says, voice more gentle and soft than you'd expected. Almost as if she's afraid raising her voice could destroy the whole room. Then, to her attendants' and Ignis's surprise, she grabs onto her dress and gives you a proper noble curtsy. As she rises you bring your left hand up to your chest in a proper Saiyan salute, then bow to her in response. Just like you've seen other Saiyans bowing to King Vegeta. She's no Saiyan, but she is royalty. As you rise she smiles, and gestures to the seats beside her. “Please, if you would join us.”

“Of course, thank you.” Megumin says, the two of you walking over and taking your seats to the princess's left. Both the warrior and mage don't take their eyes off of you, no doubt sensing that you're dangerous, but it almost puts a smile to your face. Not like there's anything they could do against you anyways. “And thanks for the meal. We'll have to have you up to our place sometime, to return the favor. Explosion-fried dragon meat is delicious.”
“E-Explosion-fried?!” both the princess's aids and Ignis all shout in surprised shock, while you see the princess's eyes sparkling.

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>>5307211
“It's great. We have a whole freezer full, since the dragons have started attacking the Crimson Demon Village.” you explain, the warrior's eyes narrowing at you. “They've been attacking more and more lately, ever since our wedding.”
“Ever since your dad got that first one, yeah.” Megumin agrees, nodding along. “I don't know why they've become so much more aggressive lately, dragons usually stay away from our village.”
“You fight dragons?” Iris asks, you nodding to her. “That's so cool! I want to fight a dragon as well, but my bodyguard Claire here won't let me. She says it's too dangerous to engage such powerful creatures directly, but my older brother Jatis has gotten to fight one.”

“I told you, your highness, that dragons are dangerous foes not to be underestimated.” Claire says, looking exasperated. “Even one such as you, with the divine sword Calibur at your side, would still be in danger.”
“If you want, your highness, I could escort you on such a mission.” you reply, the woman glaring daggers at you as you speak. “A single dragon's not a threat for me.”
“You think rather highly of yourself, don't you?” the suited woman says, right hand going to her sword's hilt.
“Claire, stop.” Princess Iris says, a hard edge to her quiet, gentle voice as she turns and glares at the woman. Who seemingly melts under the glare, looking away from the young princess. “Sorry about her, she's very protective.”

“That's alright, she kinda reminds me of my mother.” you say, Claire blushing at this and looking away even harder. You notice the mage beside her stifling a giggle, the knightess's ears turning red as well. “But I am curious why you invited me here. I'm sure there is a reason you wished to speak with me.”
“Right to business, then? Very well.” the princess says, nodding shallowly to you. “I have heard many tales of your exploits, half of which seem too fantastical to be true. But if you truly destroy dragons regularly, they might all be real. So I was hoping to hear tales of your adventures firsthand.”
“Very well. I can tell you all sorts of stories.” you say, then an idea comes to mind. “How about we do it like this? Why don't you say a rumor you've heard, and we can tell you the truth of it?”
“That sounds like fun!” the princess says with a beaming smile, leaning forward a bit. “What happened to the Destroyer? I heard you both were the ones who destroyed it, is that true?”

“Yes, we took it apart.” you say, nudging Megumin to present her staff you'd made her. “And my wife now has the power from it's core here into the staff I made her.”
“Woah!” she says, looking at you both like your younger siblings sometimes do. And as you recall the tale, sharing your experiences with the princess, you begin to appreciate just how far you've come. And how much further you still have to go.

-Saiyan Conqueror Quest 176 Intermission II End-

And here we are, 24 hours before the war under the waves continues! Are you ready to gaze into the Abyss? And see what gazes back?

>>5307751
Sooon

>>5307980
Soon indeed.

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>>5307751
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

>>5308059
>Bobobo
Nice

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Also just got a delivery for the patrons first, then everyone else Soon.

>>5308078
Did you ever end up getting a refund from the first artist on this one?

>>5308110
They haven’t given up, just life’s been kicking their shit. And I get it, I’ve been there. Lord knows I’ve been thetr

SOON

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>>5295096
Previously on Saiyan Conqueror Quest:

After joining up with the Rak'kari forces, Karn and their champion led the charge side-by-side against the Abyssal creatures. Fighting several dark monstrosities, and Caulifla joining Karn after he refilled his suit's air, the Abyss then sent a force of several hundred thousand of the frog-like Hydae at them. Karn and Caulifla stood against the horde, drawing them into an ambush by the Rak'kari that obliterated over twenty thousand before they summoned another Abyssal abomination by sacrificing several of their own. But as we rejoin Karn, their abomination isn't faring too well. Having tried swallowing Caulifla whole, her Stand Triumph's flames began disintegrating the unholy abomination.

“Cauli!” you think to her, and having split your body into four with the Multiform technique, use your left-most body to Instant Transmission to her, grabbing your daughter and teleporting her back by your sides as the Rak'kari magic passes through where she'd just been to pummel the monstrous, burning beast. “You okay?”
“I'm fine.” she replies, dousing herself in her Stand's flames to 'wash' the slime off of herself. The water boils around her, but with her Stand's powers remains completely unphased by fire or heat. “That was gross though.”

You then feel another surge of something dark and ominous within the swarm of Hydae, except this time not from above. No, this time the mass of energy is gathering directly opposite your sword-wielding Multiform body. And this time it's power is even more massive than the hydra your daughter just incinerated from within.

What do you do?
>Use your Wolf Knight Sword's power and cut it down from a distance before it can even finish forming
>Instead of a slash, focus your ancient blade's power into an almighty thrust to punch through the horde and whatever monstrosity they're creating
>Keep slashing the regular Hydae with the sword's magic, but fire a Final Flash into the massive powerlevel with one body while the other two keep up the Scattershots
>Recombine your bodies back into one, and focus your full power into the sword for wide, devastating slashes into the Hydae horde
>Have Caulifla transform her Stand, and focus on protecting her while it's powerful beam obliterates as many Hydae as she can
>Other(write in)

>>5308541
>>Use your Wolf Knight Sword's power and cut it down from a distance before it can even finish forming
almost voted for joining our multiform back together, but I think we should keep it up to thin the horde a bit more

>>5308541
>Instead of a slash, focus your ancient blade's power into an almighty thrust to punch through the horde and whatever monstrosity they're creating

>>5308541
>>Use your Wolf Knight Sword's power and cut it down from a distance before it can even finish forming

>>5308554
>>5308553
>>5308550
Use your Wolf Knight Sword's power and cut it down from a distance before it can even finish forming wins it. Roll me a 3d100.
First DC: 70
Second DC: 50
Third DC: 4̷̖͌0̵̣̏

Rolled 14, 62, 25 = 101 (3d100)

>>5308566

Rolled 55, 8, 42 = 105 (3d100)

>>5308566
Here

Rolled 71, 38, 4 = 113 (3d100)

>>5308566

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>>5308573
>>5308576
>>5308580
71/100, 62/100, 42/100. Success, success, and a mystery. Impressive, writing

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>>5308541
“Uhh, Daddy? What's that?” she asks, no doubt sensing the monster forming.
“Focus back on keeping the swarm back!” you tell her, drawing your sword back and again focusing your ki into the enchanted blade. “I'll handle the big ones with this. HAAAAAAA!!”

With a roar you swing, firing a slashing blade of magical energy towards the rapidly-swelling ki signature. Your attack cuts through several of the Rak'kari attacks, their magic not able to even slow your slash as it flies towards the forming creature. But one slash probably isn't enough to kill a creature of that level, you drawing it back parallel to the ground on your right side as you focus ki into the sword and firing another magical blade. You slash again and again, unleashing a half dozen magical attacks total before your first has even cleared the Rak'kari position. Your first attack then slams into the Hydae swarm, cutting through dozens of Hydae before slashing into that massive ki. But before it can move out of the way, or do anything to protect itself, the rest of the magical attacks slice through the monstrosity. It never even screams, your attacks carving it into pieces. The monster's ki vanishes, your attacks having erased it.

Meanwhile, your other three bodies continue firing Scattershots into the Hydae horde, keeping them from overwhelming your sword body and allowing it to keep targeting the merging abominations. You sense more and more beasts being formed inside the horde, this time three separate beings being forged. One is being made above and to your left, a second one directly above the Rak'kari, and a third to the right, far back inside the horde. With all three being made simultaneously, you have to pick your target. So focusing on your ki sense, the leftmost one's ki is rising the fastest. So you turn towards it, blade in hand, and unleash a pair of slashes forming an 'X' at the forming abomination. Your attacks fly true, ending the abomination before it can be fully formed. However, both of the others have more than quadrupled their powerlevels, no doubt each is almost fully formed now. If not already complete.

“GWROOOOOOOAAAAA!!” comes a mighty bellow, then from the Hydae directly across the Rak'kari emerges a monstrous wurm! The colossal beast surges directly towards you through the horde, swimming directly at you over the magical barrage from below. In fact this particular beast doesn't even seem to notice the magical attacks, charging directly at you. Which is the last mistake it'll ever make.

cont

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>>5308642
“HRAAAAAAA!!” you roar, and swinging your sword down in a powerful overhead slash to unleash another magical Death Slash from your blade. The azure edge slashes through the monster's body cleanly, and with it's serpentine swimming motion your attack cuts it not into two distinct halves, but several pieces. Eash slashed edge burnes with azure fire for a moment, the remains of the Abyssal horror disintegrating as it falls towards your hard-shelled allies below. But then you hear it, a sound unlike anything you've ever heard before.

“KREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”

Turning towards the furthest ki, you sense it has grown incredibly powerful. Far more so than anything you've sensed beneath the waves yet, radiating with a sickly wrongness that reverberates through New Salda's awareness. Then several large, green bladed appendages lunge out from the mass of Hydae, stabbing down into the Rak'kari formation and killing more than a dozen of them immediately. Then the beast pulls itself out of the mass of lesser beings, and you can't quite understand what you're looking at. It's a writing mass of tentacles, it's gaping maw large enough to devour your ship sideways. But what you do know is this monstrosity has to die.

But how?
>Keep up the magical slashes, and cut this monster to bits
>Focus even more energy than usual into the blade, and unleash a powerful magical thrust directly at it's....Center?
>Merge two of your bodies back together to double the power of your attacks, then cut down the monster with a single, powerful slash
>Merge all of your bodies back together for full power, then cut down this abomination with everything you've got
>Other(write in)

>>5308643
>Switch to Energy Javelins and pelt it to death

Guess I'm leaving this vote open another twenty minutes.

>>5308643
>>Merge all of your bodies back together for full power, then cut down this abomination with everything you've got

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>5308666
Done waiting, so I'm rolling for a tiebreaker and we can get this battle moving.
>1
Switch to Energy Javelins and pelt it to death
>2
Merge all of your bodies back together for full power, then cut down this abomination with everything you've got

>>5308666
>>5308677
>>5308682
Switch to Energy Javelins and pelt it to death wins it. Roll me a 5d100.
First DC: 60
Second DC: 6̵͈̞̚͝6̶̱̩͌̒
Third DC: 50
Fourth DC: 70
Fifth DC: 8̸̟̠̫̂͂͝4̴̖

Rolled 66, 42, 97, 45, 16 = 266 (5d100)

>>5308685

Rolled 29, 52, 76, 15, 82 = 254 (5d100)

>>5308685

Rolled 86, 5, 33, 49, 41 = 214 (5d100)

>>5308685

>>5308643
>Merge all of your bodies back together for full power, then cut down this abomination with everything you've got

>>5308699
A little late there, anon.

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>>5308689
>>5308694
>>5308698
86/100, 52/100, 97/100, 49/100, 82/100. Success, mystery, success, failure, and another mystery. This could go well, or it could fail spectacularly. Let's see how this goes, writing.

FUCK I THOUGHT IT WAS LAST WEEK AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

>>5308714
IT came out like forty years ago dude where have you been?

>>5308759
No I mean I didn't realize that there was a session this week. I'm usually on the ball about this sorta thing.