Chapter 36: Chapter 36 – Evolution of *****

 

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Yamcha felt skittish, and he didn't know why. But with such a high Perception, he would damn trust those instincts. Not knowing why he feelt like this didn’t help the situation at all. But he was still on guard against any unseen threats.

 

"So, as I was saying, the gravity can go up to ten times. But after that, the whole thing crashes on itself. There needs to be stronger material to handle the pressure." Bulma explained as she showed Yamcha her new Gravity Machine.

 

It was coffin-shaped and a little too small to be called a room. The first thought Yamcha had about it was, he wouldn't be able to train in there. “You know I was going to use this for training, right?”

 

“Higher gravity as training?” She asked, confused. “Wouldn’t that just turn your organs into mush?”

 

“Are you trying to use logic in this?” Yamcha responded with a playful smirk. He then flickered her forehead lightly. “I can shoot nuclear-level beams, where math or anything else doesn't make sense. So don’t try looking too deep into these things.”

 

 “Obviously, I’m going to use logic.” She pouted, rubbing her forehead. “I’m a scientist.”

 

Yamcha looked at her and tried not to crack a smile. This was the first time Bulma had refuted his words or gone against him in any way. She usually was a yes-woman that went along with whatever he did and never offered better solutions. 

 

Maybe she assumed he would always be right? Sometimes that can happen with authority figures, and she was at an age where she could look at him in that way.

 

“You know how it is. The strongest fighters in the universe aren’t always the smartest.” Yamcha reasoned with her. Once Goku becomes the strongest, that will ring out true more than ever, he thought.

 

“I need to find a material strong enough to handle the increase in gravity. It would take others years or decades to figure out. Can you guess how long it will take me?” Bulma beamed with confidence.  “In around two or three months, I will figure something out.” 

 

If it was anyone else, that would have been undeserved, and Yamcha might have called them arrogant.

But this was Bulma, the woman with enough brains to make even the Gods baffled at what she could create.

 

“By the way, those robots you brought me were ancient. But they were pretty strong. Whoever made them must have been pretty good for their time. I’ve made some stronger prototypes as a side project, but I have in mind something even cooler,” she chuckled with a devilish glint in her eyes. 

 

"Those robots would be good to use as sparring partners in my new Martial Arts School," Yamcha agreed, staring at the prototype gravity machine. He would have used a wish if Bulma wasn't sure she could build something like this. 

 

There are many things he was uncertain about in this world. Omega Shenron could exist, from what Yamcha remembered, Omega Shenron was born during the wish made to bring back the Namekians during the Frieza Saga, and its strength came from the scale of the wish.

 

Dragon Ball was a confusing show at times, where unprecedented threats could appear at any time if one wasn’t careful. If, by some dumb miracle, a Frieza Soldier with a Power Level of one thousand came through, he would be able to annihilate every living human on earth in a month. 

 

Though he knew a lot, Yamcha also understood there were things in this world he didn't know. Like why are the Namekians not the strongest race around and ruling the universe? With their Dragon Balls, they should be able to do something like that easily. 

 

Or maybe they didn't use the Dragon Balls because they knew about their darkness if used too much? 

 

Well, that wasn’t going to stop him from using the dragon balls a couple more times, at least, as he knew from the original show that nothing like the Omega Shenron would appear during the Saiyan Saga. Unless he over-used the dragon balls every year. 

 

Still, he will keep an eye on these things, he wanted to know before causing some catastrophic change or danger. 

 

“By the way, when you’re finished with the Gravity Machine, can you create a fake one-star dragon ball? One that feels somewhat similar to the real one?”

 

“Sure, that’s easy,” Bulma answered. By how nonchalant she was, Yamcha assumed this must be an easy side-project for her.

 

Yamcha hoped he wouldn’t need to use the fake dragon ball. But that’s how life was sometimes, and only when opportunity meets preparation can somebody get something out of it. Like someone trying to rob you with a knife, but you have a gun. People will always say that it’s unnecesary, or you’re being paranoid, until you aren’t.

 

After some small talk with Bulma, Yamcha set off from Capsule Corp. He had a schedule to keep up with.

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Days passed by quickly, and Nam’s tribe moved to the island. They had accommodated to the living place and built their own small village at the foot of the biggest mountain on the island, just under where the school would be. Anyone who wanted to join his marial arts school would have to climb up the mountain. 

 

In the newly made village, Nam was training some of the Youngsters while Yamcha flew above and used Observe on every single one of them. 

 

Though the Observe skill had leveled up to 49, it only discreetly shows talents with phrases like ‘this kid could be a future baseball star’ or some other vague line. 

 

Yamcha wasn’t here to find baseball stars but to fight hundreds of them who would protect the earth from being destroyed by some mook while he was away in space. But while observing one of the kids, a sudden notification came up.

 

[Observe Leveled up to 50!]

 

[Kam (Power Level: 7/130)]

 

Huh?

 

Yamcha stared like an owl as a smile slowly made its way onto his face. This was what he had been waiting for months now! Something to tell which people were worth training and which weren’t.

 

There were times when people could break through their limits, but not everyone was like Goku. 

 

Looking around, most of the kids from Nam’s tribe could reach a power level of 50, which was quite impressive when one took into consideration the power level of the average human. 

 

Only three could surpass amongst the kids surpassed a limit of a power level of one-hundred. That wasn’t a lot, but this world’s population was similar to those in his past life, and with Observe, Yamcha understood he would have to find those geniuses. 

 

He flew down, and the kids looked at him with stars in their eyes. Kids were always easy to impress, thought Yamcha. 

 

“Nam, take those three and train them hard, they will become my first students.”

 

Nam nodded and didn’t ask questions. Yamcha liked that; he needed more people like Nam, he was a genuine guy, and those were a very rare breed of people in both his worlds. As long as he didn’t cross Nam’s moral line, he would go along with whatever he said. 

 

[You have gained a New Quest: Be recognized as the strongest Martial Arts School on Earth]

 

A new Quest, Yamcha read it carefully and labored out the details. He speculated this Quest would have some good rewards, but it didn’t have any direct specifics of what he should do. So in these situations, he just lets the Quest sit there and do what he usually does and checks in on it every now and then. 

 

While rewards were very enticing, Yamcha didn’t want his Gamer Interface interrupting his plans. He wasn’t some monk who had just deleted his attachments to the world. Yamcha was greedy too. But the key was to control that greed and not let his life become just doing what the Gamer Interface says, like those System Stories he used to read in his last life. 

 

Yamcha decided to go for a swim around the island while thinking of the future. This served as a method to relax and see if these waters were dangerous. 

 

Ki Sensing could only help so much with these things, for example, a fish could have a power level of 2, but another fish with the same power level could be even more dangerous just because he was poisonous. 

 

Everything was coming along so well, but Yamcha didn’t know why he felt an anxiousness in the back of his mind. Every time he tried to think about it, his heart beat faster and felt like it had an anchor.

 

[Swimming leveled up to 50.]

 

The notification woke him from his thoughts. 

 

[Swimming Skill has reached Max Level.]

 

[Swimming Skill ready for Evolution.]

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A/N: Sorry for the delay, a stabb*ng happened at the place I used to work at and it got closed down due to a related reason, so I had to find a new job. Now I’m a bouncer at a club, and was getting used to the work place and couldn’t write much. 

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