Broly felt his body being healed almost instantaneously. His soul, however, was hardly affected. Of course, a healthy body helped his soul to stabilize, since his body and soul are dependent on each other, but he still felt like his head was splitting apart. The Senzu bean was able to heal the cells in his body and bring his ki back to near 100 percent, but it didn't really affect his additional lifeforce, magic power or his soul. He would need some time to replenish his lifeforce and his magic power but that wasn't really a problem.
To heal his soul, he would need much time of rest and meditation as well. Maybe he could use the power of the Origins Spirit Crystals to accelerate the healing process.
In the meantime, he probably shouldn't use any soul-based techniques for a while, but he didn't really rely in fights on those anyway. The only soul technique that was useful in battles was Kakos' fighting style.
In fact, he had gained some insights in the fight just now. Before this fight he just relied on getting the feeling similar to when Kakos fought in his body, now he somewhat understood how it actually worked.
He just needed to use his soul to feel every strand, every sparkle of energy inside the body part he wanted to use the technique on. He then needed to actively control and infuse his soul with every bit of energy with every move he made. With this, his energy would be used up perfectly without any loss. Still he was a bit confused.
Although this could help him use everything he had to the maximum, it didn't explain why his strength rose so dramatically. He should have only be able to jump one or two levels, but this demon was far above him, he may have even reached the level of gods.
With his vision he could tell that space and time was pushed away from his fists, but he didn't know why it made such a big difference.
From what he knew, immense power could distort, push or even rip apart space and time but why was he so much more powerful with that technique? Had it something to do with his soul? Maybe he missed something. He would probably only be able to figure out why his strength increases that ridiculously if he mastered this technique.
There was also the question about why he was able to use his soul in that way at all. Normally when he uses soul-based techniques, he never really used his soul itself but mental energy, which comes from the soul. Basically, the soul was the core, the source, and he just uses the energy it produced.
It may be, because of the Origins Spirit Crystal that he was able to use his soul directly.
Broly couldn't help but frown. He wasn't sure if it was a good thing that he was using the source of his being, even if it was able to grant him that much power. He also realized how terrifying Kakos' soul actually was.
He was able to contend against gods of destruction with only his Legendary Super Saiyan form as the base and he almost took over his body. Broly felt lucky that Kakos used his ki core to place his soul in. If Kakos used his soul center in the middle of his head as the start point, Broly would have been easily taken over. Broly had no clue, why Kakos didn't do it, but he also wouldn't figure that out by merely pondering over it.
Now he only needed to focus on healing. Although the injury was annoying, it wasn't something too complex to recover from. He either took his time with the healing process or uses another crystal to accelerate the process. On the side note, he felt like his soul will come back stronger than ever.
Broly was thinking about his next move until his body was almost blown away from a gust of wind. In front of him stood a grinning figure, who opened his mouth to speak, before his whole body shined brightly. Two figures suddenly were pushed out to the sides out of the light. Gogeta had just defused. Goku and Vegeta were stumbling a few steps before regaining their balance.
Goku breathed out in relief and Vegeta crossed his arms while looking as grumpy as ever.
"Oh man, that Mechi-something was strong!" Goku said.
"Hmph. If you don't think you can handle him than just leave him to me." Vegeta snorted at Goku. They both looked pretty beat.
Broly frowned after hearing what Vegeta just said.
"What do you mean? Did you let him escape?" Broly's expression darkened.
"After we kicked him into a mountain, he disappeared, escaped to another timeline."
Broly was speechless.
'Why did they kick him into a mountain just kill him with a ki blast and be done with it… I can't really talk, I tend to play with my opponents as well.'
Broly took a deep breath in.
"Then what are you standing here? Search for him and end this farce!"
"You think you can order me around, the prince of all Saiyans?!" A vein on Vegeta's forehead bulged as he heard Broly order him as if he owned the place.
"You, the prince? I don't remember having such an incompetent son." Broly grinned as he looked at Vegeta exploding in anger while dashing towards him. Goku quickly held Vegeta back before he could throw a punch. Broly just looked at Vegeta amused as if he didn't see Vegeta trying to attack him.
"We should all come down, we are all on the same side, right? Eh… That reminds me. Broly didn't you hate me?" Goku said while holding Vegeta back. Vegeta was shouting at Goku to let him go, not because he wanted to attack Broly again, but because he was being awkwardly held by Goku from behind.
"I think you are talking about another version of me… Do you two want to get a room?"
"A room?" Goku was punched by Vegeta in the face. "Ow, Vegeta, what was that for?"
"You!"
"Alright, can we come down to business already? Shouldn't we chase after Mechikabura?"
"Well, we don't know how to travel through time. We need Chronoa to help us." As if she heard her name, she, Trunks, Goten and the red-haired demon flew towards them.
Chronoa quickly landed and directly shouted frantically at Goku and Vegeta, "Where is he? Where is Mechikabura, did you kill him?"
Goku quickly explained to her that he had escaped just a moment ago. Broly raised an eyebrow as he looked at Trunks and Goten.
'How long was I in thought?' Unbeknownst to Broly, Gotenks had tried to talk with him, only to be ignored. They were then attacked by some demons and Gotenks quickly engaged them, while Broly was just standing on the rock ignoring all that. Now they had regathered and looked for Gogeta and Mechikabura.
Broly suddenly sensed that he was being looked at. The red-haired demon was observing him.
"What are you looking at?" Broly asked annoyed.
"You are different, but I can't put my finger on it." The demon said expressionless. Broly frowned.
"Yeah don't touch me, I don't swing that way."
"Eh?" Goten and Trunks almost fell over, hearing that.
"Cough. We should think of a way to find Mechikabura. We have to stop whatever he is planning!" Trunks quickly brought everyone back on track.
"Just bring me where he disappeared, and I will be able to follow him." The demon said. Goku and Vegeta quickly led the way.
"So, Broly… you want to help?" Chronoa asked. She saw him follow, but she couldn't understand why he didn't directly attack Goku. Weren't they archenemies?
Broly only gave her a quick glance before answering.
"I just want to kill him for pissing me off. Besides I was brought here by Towa and now need someone to bring me back to my timeline."
Chronoa was surprised.
"Towa? Where is she?"
"I killed her."
"Oh, I see… Don't worry, after we stopped Mechikabura, I will send you back!"
Of course, Broly could have went back himself, but he wouldn't do so. He still wanted to kill Mechikabura and he didn't want to expose himself to Chronoa.
"By the way, where is Bardock?"
"He got injured and I sent him back to the time nest." Chronoa said casually. "Oh, right. The time nest is my home. It is safe there" She quickly added. Of course, she didn't mention that the time vault was located there.
If the time vault was destroyed all of history will be erased and the universe will cease to exist. She didn't trust Broly at all, but it would be good if she could borrow his strength against Mechikabura. Broly did know about it, but he didn't bother asking about it.
"Don't you have Senzu beans?"
"No, we already used them all up." Goten suddenly said while observing Broly. He realized that Broly had a Senzu bean with it and obviously knew about its properties. Additionally, Broly seemed sane. The others noticed that as well, but they didn't know what to think about it.
"I see." Broly grabbed into the bag at his waists and pulled some healing capsules out. Surprisingly, the bag survived the battle with Mechikabura. He still had plenty of healing capsules. He also had a Senzu bean in his secret pocket in his armor as well, but he wouldn't share that with anyone.
He threw one capsule to each one of them. He told them that it would be good for them before eating one himself.