195 The System (1/2)

”Hm. It seems like your body is…” Broly paused slightly as he looked into the open rip-cage in front of him with squinted eyes.

”…just a normal Saiyan's body. No anomalies about the organs, veins or any other part of your physical self, so it has to come from your soul.

Of course, your lifeforce is qualitatively on a higher level than normal Saiyans which strengthens your body as a whole but you don't have any mutations to speak of.

It seems the sole reason your strength rivals a peak emperor's is because of the absorbed lifeforce.”

Broly then proceeded to take out some organs to have a better look at the navel area.

”The quality of your ki is subpar compared to your lifeforce, which is the reason you couldn't turn Super Saiyan naturally. Obviously, now that you are crippled, you won't ever turn Super Saiyan, which you probably already knew when you activated those cards.”

Broly then looked at Pehr's face. The tears on his face had already dried up, his eyes were dim like a man who already lost hope and just wished for the salvation called death.

”Not that you not being able to turn Super Saiyan matters anymore. You will die soon anyway.” Broly paused before pointing his sword at Pehr's head. The sword started glowing slightly before Broly began moving towards Pehr's scalp. ”This is going to hurt much more than what you have experienced until now.”

For the first time since Broly spoke, Pehr's eyes flickered, listening to what he was saying. Despair, fear and regret had already filled his mind, he just wanted to die, but he couldn't even say that with his damaged body.

The screams that had already died down after the initial start of the examination, once again returned to fill the surroundings, this time as a mumble.

The barrier that had been put over his soul was easily cut by the First Sword. As soon as a small slit appeared on the barrier, something seemed to squirm inside.

It looks like if he just opened it, his soul would directly try to flee, so instead he put a barrier of his own into the opened spot and slowly fused it with the already existing barrier, to make the soul think that its barrier was still standing. He cut away more of the barrier and replaced it with his own.

After a while, when he replaced the barrier of the soul, Broly didn't see the soul in its usual form as a ball of light or the rare cases of strong souls that mimic the physical appearance.

No, it was a ball of light indeed but attached to the top of the soul was a red-black clump of meat which had something like blood veins extending out of it and wriggling through the ball of light.

Impulses of light were moving from the soul through the veins towards the meat clump. Broly could feel the flow of energy and immediately recognized it for what it was, ”A parasite.”.

This, this thing was absorbing the energy that the soul was producing and had access to, like his ki and lifeforce. It wasn't taking a lot, just enough to condition the soul to be in a constantly weakened state and the changes in his body to be unnoticeable.

The disgusted feeling that he had from Pehr was now intensified after this thing was revealed. Now he knew that it was just a natural reaction from his soul towards such a parasite. His soul was clearly trying to stay away from it.

Of course, this feeling wouldn't make him turn away, not after he was done with his experiments, at least. Broly skillfully wielded his sword as he stabbed and cut at his subject. He was quickly able to identify its nature.

Without a host this parasite would immediately wither away and die. At least the parts he had cut out of Pehr's soul. It was really difficult to not damage Pehr's soul too much, but he couldn't help it as the parasite was deeply intertwined with it.

The source of Pehr's power was also discerned after a few tests. It was using a part of Pehr's soul, lifeforce and ki to create powerful and strange effects.

Broly knew that it was barely wasting any energy but the effect it was creating through this tiny amount of energy was unproportionally great. He didn't know how it was doing it as it was processed inside the parasite.

'If I know how it is using it then my powers would get even more powerful and since I am not sharing it with another creature, I would have a lot of energy to work with. I need to dissect it!'

Unfortunately, he couldn't penetrate the membrane of this parasite with his vision of truth and he couldn't just replace the membrane of this living being like he did with that barrier.