Toro stared at the panel in silence, not knowing how to react. It seemed self expnatory, but nothing in this tower was ever as simple as it ever seeemed. Instead of over thinking, he decided to just go for it, as for the fight to the death, he didn't really care as he would be ressurected

  He'd just treat is as a dungeon run in a game. With this thought in mind, he brought up the panel and clicked on the lowest level of Ki control, assuming it was simir to this current level, he might even have a slight advantage

  Before that thought could finish, a smaller panel appeared before his face

  { Name : Toro } { Ki Control : 28% } { Combat experience : Fodder }

  After gncing over the panel, he nodded his head in satisfaction after seeing his hard work had paid off. Only for his brows to frown, his disbelief apparent as he looked at the rating for his combat power, he knew he didn't have much combat experience comapred to other saiyans, but those were saiyans, a warrior race. Surely, he should be much better than most races

  ' I don't believe this ' thought Toro as he closed this panel and looked at the other panel that appeared next to the one for Ki control

  [ Combat Experience : 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years ]

  A smaller panel was below this one but he ignored it for the time being. Toro assumed this was the combat experience for the dummy. His finger unconsciously hovered over the 5 year button, hesitating

  Common sense should say that he was in this category at the moment, but something felt off. Deciding to trust his instincts, he moved his finger away and clicked on the 1 year combat experience

  Immediately after, the panels disappeared as a red light appeared and slowly scanned Toro's body, from the top of his head, right down to his toes. After it had finished scanning, it appeared over the wooden dummy

  As the red light, slowly touched the top of the dummies head, it's wooden frame was repced by a head of hair, followed by a forehead, 2 eyes, a nose and finally a mouth. Toro watched in surprise as an entire figure was slowly created, he found it seemingly familiar before he gnced down at himself. Finding the dummies clothes were the same as his own

  " is this me? " muttered Toro increduously as he walked up the dummy, now seemingly a clone of himself. Now that you mentioned it, he had never seen what he currently looked like. For as long as he could remember, he was either trying not to be killed or killing, recently this turned into constant training. For 6 years he actually had no idea what he looked like nor had he paid it any prior attention

  He looked at the clone closely, it had waist length hair, with the all too common saiyan spikiness. Thank god, he didn't have that horrendous widows peak like raditz. While his hairline was far from pristine, it wasn't anything a line up couldn't fix. Speaking of, he found that his features were seemingly simirs to Raditzs, or since he was older, Raditz looked like him

  If he didn't know better, he'd think that Gine cheated on Bardock and had a child with himself in the original work. Only to shake away this thought as he found he had softer feautures like the z version of Broly

  Ignoring the cloth armor, he found that he was heavily muscled unlike most saiyans his age which made him nod, showing that all his hard work had paid off. Only to grimace as he continued to look at himself

  " I...I'm actutally too bulky? " excimed Toro as he found himself cringing, face palming as he looked at himself. If he was to give a comparison, his figure is simir to kid Goku in Gt while he was transforming into Golden Oozaru. With his current height, he looked completely disproportionate. Even his tail was bulkier than normal siayans as he usually trained it as well, treating it like a third hand

  No wonder Gine couldn't stop watching it, only to snap out his thoughts as the clone suddenly turned and looked at him which made him jump several feet back to distance himself

  { Loading complete. Clone has 100% of users strength, from physical strength up to will power }

  Toro gnced at the panel from the corner of his eyes only to suddenly duck as a kick swooped past his head. Seeing his dodge, the clone, twisted the foot still on the ground to straighen it's figure as it dropped it's foot that was still in the air as if it intended to cut Toro in half.

  Toro hurriedly rolled to the side, dodging the axe kick, only to collect a flying knee to the face lifting him off the ground, stunning him slightly as he stumbled back, barely catching his footing. Clenching his nose in pain as blood flowed through his fingers. He leaned back, barely dodging a left hook that brushed past his face, his eyes lingered on the fist, which made him miss the kick coming towards him

  The clone kicked Toro dead in the center of his chest, the sound of his ribs cracking echoed out in the empty room as his body flew out, without giving him the chance to react, the clone shot after him, easily catching up and surpassing his flying body as it kicked him in his back, an audible crack could be heard as his body folded backwards over the clones foot, the overwhelming force unching him into the air

  Before he could even process what was happening, the clone gathered a small ball of red ki in it's hand and shot it towards Toro who was still in the air, instantly piercing his chest, leaving a gaping hole. The blow instantly knocked him higher into the air at an even faster speed

  Toro could barely form a thought, his brain barely registering the pain as his body free falled from the air, he could only exhale sharply after his back hit the ground hard, futher aggravating his injuries, kicking up a cloud of dust. Toro stared bnkly at the distant ceiling, feeling his strength leave his body as the sound of his heartbeat was magnified in his ears.

  He watched helplessly as the clone walked up to him, looking down at him indifferently, as red ki gathered on it's index finger and was projected about 8 inches, it's gaze never leaving his as it pierced his skull with ki cd finger ignoring his pleading gaze....

  ***

  Toro suddenly shot up, his eyes wide as he looked around in horror, clutching his chest while grasping for breath, having not processed what had happened. As his breathing slowed, memories of what just happened fshed through his mind as if it was recorded and forcefully imported into his mind

  The feeling of helplessness and despair, seemingly burned into his mind as he repyed the fig....the beatdown in his mind

  " remember this feeling " a voice suddenly came from the side. Toro slowly turned to looked at the figure, his pupils still dited as he looked at them quietly

  " many races in this universe, experience this feeling. For the simple reason that they're too weak. Just like you currently are " the figure continued indifferently, not paying much mind to Toro's current state

  " the difference between you and them? " said the figure as they walked closer to Toro " you have the oppurtunity to grow above them all. So what now? "

  Toro didn't reply to the figure as he closed his eyes, his mind contantly repyed scenes of what happened, those indifferent eyes....his indifferent eyes, held no regard for life, treating him like he was some mangey mut that was to be put down. His emotions changing rapidly, from disblief to fear, to resignation followed by blinding anger......

  His emotions cause his Ki to go out of control as the red ki appeared around him, tightly surrounding his body, seemingly growing denser alongside his growing rage as his aura started rising, only to slowly disappate as he opened his blood shot eyes, his gaze no longer containing fear, seemingly much calmer

  He gnced around and found that the figure had disappeared

  " thank you " whispeared Toro as he stood up out of the healing pool. He walked back to the battle room, he had suspicions that he wanted to confirm

  Bringing up the panels, he turned to the one beside the combat experience he had previously ignored

  { Combat experience : 1 year - fighting endless battles with enemies of simir strength ,24/7 for 1 365 days straight }

  Seeing this, his pupiles shrunk as he understood why his combat rating was considered fodder level, exhaling deeply, he turned and gnced at the wooden dummy complicatedly before he turned and left the tower

  " will he give up? or will he continue? " muttered the figure

  ***

  Getting out of his bed, he opened his door and walked downstairs, walking straight outside. He looked up at the sky, feeling the cool breeze blowing over his face as he felt himself calming somewhat. While nowhere close to perfection, much better that before

  " are you okay? " Hearing this voice, Toro turned his head and gnced at Gine who had come behind him at some point, her face tinged with concern. Seeing his bloodshot eyes and current state, Gine grew even more worried as she walked up to him

  Feeling her concern, Toro managed to let out a smile as he grabbed her hand, surprising Gine, ignoring her reaction, he turned his attention back to the sky

  " do you want to get stronger Gine? " asked Toro as he turned to look at Gine who was staring at him, actually at their interlocked palms

  " huh? " asked Gine unconsciously as she looked at Toro bnkly, seeing her expression, Toro chuckled as he tried to enter the tower, tightening his grip on Gine

  After he entered the tower, he felt that his hand was empty and was slightly disappointed as he turned to leave

  " huh? where is this? " asked Gine as she walked around the first floor in confusion, gncing at each of the rooms before she asked Toro

  " welcome to the omni tower " said Toro as he started introducing the tower like the figure once did, pulling her and showing her each room