The next day, the sun had just risen, and Raditz was already suspended in the air, blending with the world's first morning light, exuding a faint golden glow all over his body. The sea surface in the distance was tinged with warm colors, shimmering like crystal fish scales and filled with thin mist.
He'd stayed up all night, absorbed in meditation.
Pybara, who got up early, walked out of his room, was surprised when he saw Raditz, then smiled and said to himself: "This kid actually practiced for a whole night." He didn't bother Raditz and walked around to his meditation room for morning exercises.
After listening to the introduction yesterday, he felt that if Raditz couldn't succeed after fumbling for so long, the only explanation was that his mental power wasn't strong enough to establish a connection between two places.
Kibito had been a divine servant for so long and had a clear grasp of the universe's star map. In addition, teleportation was the unique power of divine servants, so it was naturally very easy for him. But Raditz was different. If he wanted to use this technique, he could only rely on his mental power to forcibly break through spatial barriers.
This was on the premise that Raditz was an apprentice Supreme Kai and could see the seventh universe's star map.
So Raditz used meditation to continue strengthening his mental power. Once he got absorbed, he passed the night in a state of silence. When he woke up, he couldn't believe it.
But this was just the beginning, and he continued meditating like this for the following days.
Until ten days later...
Raditz felt that he'd reached another level! So after bidding farewell to Master Pybara, Raditz returned to the Sacred World of the Kai, observed nearby planets in the heavenly star map, and prepared to teleport!
Sure enough, he found the distance was getting closer. The planet he couldn't reach before now felt close at hand - he was only a short distance away from it!
Raditz couldn't help shouting: "Great! It works!"
"What works?" Suddenly, the Supreme Kai and Kibito appeared behind him, startling Raditz.
"Why are you so sneaky?"
"Maybe because you're too focused?" the Supreme Kai said with a smile. "Why are you back again? Did you gain nothing from observing the lower realm?"
"It's only been a few days, so I can't really talk about results. I'm training reliable fighters to deal with Babidi and the others," Raditz said half-truthfully.
The fighters he was training were indeed very reliable in terms of combat effectiveness. In the future, whether it was Babidi, Dabura, or even the appearance of Majin Buu, they could all become very powerful allies.
The Supreme Kai nodded, seeming very satisfied with Raditz's actions: "We need some help. Maybe we know where Babidi is hiding, and it's time to go to war."
"During this period, I'll stay in the Sacred World of the Kai first. Anyway, it'll take at least a year for them to learn the secret techniques."
"As you wish."
Raditz didn't expect the Supreme Kai to be so agreeable, so he quickly thanked him.
Suddenly, Raditz was stunned, feeling something was wrong... Where? Oh right, one year!
The timing wasn't right!
It wasn't the length of time they needed to learn secret techniques, but a big event should happen this year! Trunks!
The original Dragon Ball world timeline was that Goku died of illness, then the androids killed the resisting fighters one by one, creating a hopeless future. However, because Bulma in the future world created a time machine and allowed Trunks to return to the past, history was revised. But the so-called revised history was nothing more than a new timeline.
Rather than saving the past, when Trunks crossed over, he actively created a peaceful parallel time and space. Under that peaceful blue sky, his and Bulma's wishes might be fulfilled.
The world that existed as the main timeline was in this created timeline.
The process should be: defeating Frieza, then one year later Trunks came to Earth and brought special medicine to change the history of Goku's death. Cell followed, opening the Cell era, and finally everyone defeated Cell, changing the future again.
This was the familiar plot... but now there was no Trunks!
Because in this timeline, Raditz's appearance had changed history. Frieza was killed, Broly was sealed, and the entire universe's pattern had also changed. Raditz, who knew about the androids' existence, was more likely to take initiative and strangle them in Dr. Gero's lab.
Even if the androids appeared, with Goku and Vegeta's current strength, it would be easy to eliminate androids below Perfect Cell's level. Besides, Cell in this era was still an embryo, and data collection hadn't been completed yet.
So, wouldn't Trunks show up? Would there even be a "him" in the future? What would happen to the androids...
Raditz had a lot of questions he wanted answered.
More importantly, he wanted to know whether his appearance had any impact on time and space!
"Master Supreme Kai!" Raditz stopped the Supreme Kai who was about to leave.
"Is there something else? If you want to learn knowledge, come to the archives to find me."
"No, not that. I want to see the Time Ring!"
As soon as this sentence came out, the Supreme Kai was stunned for a moment. "You want to see the Time Ring? You should know that you can't use it yet."
The Time Ring wasn't something everyone could touch - even Supreme Kais had to be incumbent to be eligible to use it. Raditz had asked questions about time and space after becoming an apprentice Supreme Kai, and the Supreme Kai had already answered him in detail then.
But Raditz took a deep breath and insisted:
"I want to confirm whether there are parallel timelines."
"Parallel timelines?" The Supreme Kai frowned in thought. "No, we check every once in a while, right?" He looked at Kibito with a questioning expression.
Kibito nodded seriously: "It seems there was no problem during the last inspection."
"Hahaha, Raditz, you're worrying too much. Except for gods, almost no life has the ability to travel through time, and manipulating time is a felony forbidden throughout the entire universe," the Supreme Kai said with certainty.
Raditz shook his head, his tone very firm: "I still want to confirm."
"Did you observe something?"
"Let's put it that way." Raditz thought that his own existence might have affected history's trajectory, so the timeline formed by Trunks's time travel had disappeared.
The Supreme Kai and Kibito looked at each other, feeling that Raditz really had something on his mind - that he might have discovered something - so they agreed to his request.
They came to an exquisite pavilion. On the stone platform was placed a carved wooden box bound by divine power, and what lay inside was the Time Ring. The Supreme Kai held the wooden box with one hand and slowly opened it with the other...
Raditz clearly saw a silver Time Ring, and a green ring shining brightly above it!