Beerus's Planet
If you're wondering why Gohan came armed with a mountain of instant noodles, there's a reason. He wasn't about to show up empty-handed when he planned to pick Whis's brain. The quickest way to tame Whis and even Beerus is through their stomachs.
The day before, on Earth
"Mom, please don't run around these next couple days. Your belly's already so big." Gohan gently helped Chi-Chi into her seat.
She was six months along now, and showing.
"Mhm. And why is your hair so long? Go get it cut you look like some delinquent!" Pregnancy had Chi-Chi's moods swinging hard: clear sky one second, thunderstorm the next.
It scared Vegeta, Raditz, and Nappa so badly they'd stopped training anywhere near Goku's house. They even moved the gravity chamber over to Vegeta's place.
"If only your father were half as considerate as you! Don't worry, Gohan, I'm fine just feeling old. When I carried you I was a machine cooking, cleaning, nothing slowed me down. Hah, I'm getting old, I'm getting old. And listen, brat, when you marry Videl you do not get to pull a Goku, got it?" Chi-Chi's lecture hit full auto.
Gohan's head throbbed. "Okay, okay, Mom, I got it. I should check on Videl anyway it's been three months. She's probably ready to explode."
"What!? Three months? Go. Now." The moment her future daughter-in-law came up, Chi-Chi waved him off like a starting flag.
After that, Gohan found Goku and the others, reminded his dad to take good care of Mom, then proceeded to clean out several supermarkets before flashing to Beerus's world.
One more thing: after months of manic grinding, the Saiyans' power had spiked hard.
Raditz: base 100 million. Super Saiyan (Full Power) ×80 ⇒ 8 billion.
Nappa: base 150 million. Super Saiyan (Full Power) ×80 ⇒ 12 billion.
Vegeta's talk had finally cracked their mental knots. Add non-stop fights with Goku and Vegeta, and their numbers shot up in wild, almost cartoonish leaps. Goku also taught them how to reach Full Power; they've stayed transformed for three straight months, so hitting that plateau was only natural.
Vegeta: base 400 million. Super Saiyan (Full Power) ×80 ⇒ 32 billion. Super Saiyan 2 (initial) ×100 ⇒ 40 billion.
Yes his brawl with Cell rocketed his SSJ1 to 18 billion; he was only one cathartic fight shy of SSJ2. One month into the grind, a clash with Goku shattered the wall.
Goku: base 500 million. Super Saiyan (Full Power) ×80 ⇒ 40 billion. Super Saiyan 2 (initial) ×100 ⇒ 50 billion.
The biggest winners? Raditz and Nappa, hands down. Vegeta's jump to SSJ2 was huge but expected. Goku's gains were smallest he'd already broken through during the Cell fight when Krillin's death sent him raging. Lately he's stabilized SSJ2 rather than pushing it to Full Power.
Gohan's rule of thumb: SSJ2 also has a Full Power state. Those visible lightning arcs? That's just excess ki bleeding off because the output is too high to contain. When you master it and clamp down the leak, the form stops sparking, wastes less energy, and the effective multiplier rises another 30–50×.
So are Super Saiyan multipliers fixed or not? Both. Fresh SSJ1 is wild and leaky think big aura, big drain. At Full Power the aura tucks in, output refines, and your real, sustained combat power climbs. Same logic for SSJ2: rein in the jets, kill the lightning, save the stamina, and the form gets closer to its ceiling.
SSJ3 is different. By design it's a gas-guzzler: huge boost, huge drain. Grinding SSJ3 to "Full Power" in life is mostly a bad trade. You're better off aiming for Super Saiyan God or SSJ4.
The lengthened hair, the heavy brow ridge, the roaring aura, the denser lightning everything about SSJ3 screams "expensive." Goku built it in the afterlife, where stamina isn't a thing. Of course he could run it perfectly there. Could the living perfect it? Maybe but the juice just isn't worth the squeeze compared with going God (or 4).
And now… Gohan.
Gohan: base 9,000,000,000.
Yes thanks to relentless training and the Elder Kai's method for excavating latent power, his base hit 9 billion.
His SSJ1/2/3 ratios haven't changed: ×160, ×300, and ×800 (dark-gold variant).
But his Mystic/Unlocked Potential form the one he's been personally cultivating along the Elder Kai's track has hit the current cap: ×1,000.
When Gohan enters Mystic now, he stands at 9 trillion.
On top of that, the pressure-cooker regimen paid another dividend: even in base, his ki blasts can now carry a trace of rule-power. In percentages, call it 0.5%.
Don't scoff at 0.5%. At equal raw strength, Gohan's wave will eat an opponent's wave a grain at a time like acid. If you try to beam-struggle him without rule-power of your own, you lose.
By forms:
SSJ1/2/3 let him wield Destruction at roughly 1–3% (scaling with the form).
Mystic channels Death at about 5%.
He still doesn't know how to raise that percentage properly. Brute-forcing his body upward nudges it, but it's inefficient much pain, little gain.
Hence this trip: to ask Whis (1) how to step his lifeform up into the divine tier, and (2) how to control and deepen his rule-power.
As for "Will the Grand Minister notice?" not on Gohan's worry list.
First, the matter of the Time King: Gohan only told the Old Supreme Kai. The old man knows how deep that water runs; he won't babble. Second, even if Gohan shows a whiff of rule-power, he's still a small fry to beings at that level. The multiverse is vast; he's not the only one with a taste of it. Getting to a level where Grand Minister or Zeno actually pay attention? Almost no one makes it.
Sure, the Evil Three-Eyed Clan of the scrapped Thirteenth Universe managed it but they bought that notice with atrocities, and Zeno erased them for it. Gohan's not stupid; he's not walking that road. He's also not the kind of web-novel protagonist who treats the supreme gods like Saturday villains.
Walk your path. When it's time to be hard, be hard; when it's time to bow, bow. That's survival. Be bold, not brainless. Don't strut around like "Heaven is my dad and the Four Seas are my mom."
Back in his previous life in sales, Gohan learned a line that's crude but useful: "Speak human to humans; speak ghost to ghosts." Tailor your approach, read the room. As for the ones who nitpick for sport? Ignore them.
No one's perfect. Do your best and the clowns will still jeer. "Your thing is trash, your product is trash," blah blah.
If it's trash, build a better one yourself. Why are you using mine? If we've genuinely got a problem, by all means tell me, and I'll fix it. But if you're just picking fights, I won't indulge you.
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