The cloud flew into the tower and to the shock of Krillin and Korin, carried a heavily wounded Goku!
"Goku what happened!" Korin yelled out in shock.
The boy was beaten black and blue, his stomach and shoulder had a major hole in them and he was dyeing the golden cloud red with his blood!
Krillin didn't wait a second longer than he needed to process the situation as a senzu was already in his hand! He opened gokus unconscious jaw up, placed the bean on his molar, and slammed his jaws shut crushing the senzu bean!
The healing process was instantaneous, his bleeding had stopped and the wound began to close.
"Argh what happened?" Goku sat up with a confused look on his face before suddenly become serious.
"Where is he! Where is mercenary Tao!" Goku jumped off his cloud and grabbed his ower pole.
"It was mercenary Tao who did this to you! That shouldn't be possible..." Krillin mutter that last part under his breath.
As if to dispute Krillins claims, he sensed a second more powerful ki enter his natural Ki sensing range which sent shivers down his spine.
'System show me the incoming Power level!'
[Tao Pai Pai: powerlevel is 237]
'What the fuck! This shouldn't be his power level, he should be much weaker not to mention things shouldn't be playing out this way!'
Krillin remembered Goku initially losing to Tao but being saved by the four star ball, he then went to Korins tower for the first time and was trained by Korin and eventually to beat Mercenary Tao! Something isn't right!
From the way Korin reacted these two had already met, meaning Goku already arrived here and got trained by Korin to defeat Tao but he still lost!
'Sytem show me Goku's powerlevel'
[Son Goku/Kakarot: Power Level is 185]
'Even Goku's powerlevel is much higher than it should be, although that Senzu beans definitely gave him a zeniai boost but still nothing is happening like normal!'
Taking a deep breath, the flustered Krillin regained his cool and a look of focus reclaimed his face.
"Goku just calm down and do as I say, we'll go down there to face off against Tao. As soon as I make my move, immediately charge up your Kamehameha full power and be prepared to shoot in the sky." Krillin voice radiated a soothing yet authoritative tone that Goku could only nod at.
'Mercenary Tao might be stronger than us, but I still have that secret weapon for opponents like this!' Krillin felt like he had a 50% at beat Tao alone because of his Ki control, that being said he'd never put his life to chance if he had the choice.
The tower shook slightly as a tree slammed into it, this tree carried mercenary Tao with it! Giving Goku a nod, the both went down to great him.
With Goku on his nimbus Krillin jumped down and used a tiny amount of Ki to slow his fall before landing gently.
Mercenary tao was just about to start climbing the tower when he sense Krillins arrive, Goku quickly flew down from the sky and got on the other side sandwiching Tao between the two. The assassin merely smiled at this.
"How did you recover so quickly kid, I know I turned your organ into soup just a few minutes ago." Tao speaked without a worry in the world, like Krillin and Goku were flies to be easily squashed.
"None of your business Tao, I'll make you pay for killing Bora!" Goku gave Krillin a look before placing his hands together.
"Kaaaaamereeeeee" Goku's angrily shouted out.
"Your doing that move again? I supposed this could be dangerous if I don't take you seriously" Mercenary Tao readyed into his pocket and pulled out a white pill that the man quickly swallowed.
As if he had drank the Divine water Tao's Ki skyrocketed to the point Krillin knew he alone couldn't stand up to him, thankfully Krillin wasn't alone. With a thought, suddenly a large fan appeared in Krillins hand and a smile grew in his face.
"Haaaaameeee" General Tao stretched his fingers out, milliseconds away from using his Dodon ray on Goku when he suddenly felt his instincts warn him.
Turning around to face Krillin, the mercenary was too late as the monk had already waved the fan once! The powerful gust of wind sent the Assassin back a Bit he managed to grab hold of a tree and stopped his movements. Before the first wind could dissipate Krillin had already swung it a second and third time!
The powerful gale cause by the Bansho Fan completely uprooted the entire forest along side the tree that Tao was using to stop himself! Now the assassin was mid air but there was a problem! Krillin watched as the assassin deptly jumped from tree to tree mid air, the Assassin was trying to retreat and kill them at a later date but Krillin could that!
Remembering the Ki training from Annin, Krillin focused his mind and launched a fast but weak attack towards Mercenary Tao. He knew this attack wouldn't do much damage but he didn't need to!
The Blast of Ki flew directly at Tao who attempted to dodge it when suddenly it broke apart into nine different parts! Tao expected them to all attack him but was stunned when instead of attacking him, they instead attacked the trees that surrounded him!
Mercenary Tao was confused for just a second before he heard Goku's scream and remembered...
"HAAAAAAA!" A bright blue beam of energy shot through the sky, Mercenary Tao looked for a nearby tree to land on but they had all been blown to smithereens!
The blue energy landed on his top half completely erasing it. Only the bottom half of Mercenary Tao's body remained to splatter to the floor along side the hundred of tree that Krillin had just sent flying.
Goku kneeled down out of breath, his previous attack only destroyed Tao's clothing and left the man unharmed, this time the fully replenished Goku used up every ounce of energy for just that one Kamehameha!
Krillin walked over to Taos corpse and began looting the man, he found a small sack tide to his waste that had 5 dragon balls in them! Krillin licked his lips at these magical orbs and continued searching until he found what he was looking for. It was a glass bottle that had four white pills in them.
'System what are these pill?'
[Is host willing to permanently sacrifice 5 powerlevels to learn this information? Y/N]
Looking at the prompt for a good few seconds, Krillin let out a begrudgingly sigh before tapping yes and immediately felt himself getting slightly weaker but information entered him mind.
[Power pills: A white pill created by Dr. Gero that doubles the users Ki output for 30 minutes. The ingredients are blood of a powerful being, egg shell from a rare lightning bird, Ki from a martial artist, ashes of a black.....] The ingredients for this pill was incredibly long and required a lot effort to create, only a true genius could have made it.
[Warning, after consuming a pill the user will face a long state of weakness where they're unable to use Ki. USE WITH CAUTION.]
Seeing what the side affects were, Krillin decided to keep the pills before quickly picking up the collapsed Goku.
"C'mon Goku, let's get back to the top of Korins tower before we talk about whats happening."