Setting Off

Reke walked through the forest as if he were one with nature; if one were to close their eyes and sense him, they would never discover that a person was walking there.

"Hmm! Should I just fly out of here?" Reke looked at the unchanging scenery around him, tilting his head and rubbing his chin as he muttered to himself.

Then he shook his head, dismissing his own idea. "Forget it, I'm not in a hurry, and besides, I should be out of this forest before long."

In truth, with his current combat power, he didn't think anyone on this planet could be his match; he could easily fly around the planet without a care in the world.

Yet, he specifically chose not to do so. He had even retracted his sensory range to a radius of a hundred miles, fearing that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

By walking step by step, he would eventually circle the globe, and it wouldn't even take that long.

Don't let the fact that this planet had a circumference of two hundred thousand kilometers fool you; to someone with his combat power, it was still too small—a single energy blast could destroy it.

Though it looked like he was just walking, he was actually maintaining a steady speed of ten miles per minute.

Stopping and starting along the way, this was his second day since setting out, and he had already crossed the ten thousand miles he was familiar with.

With the edge of the forest not far ahead, he narrowed his sensory range even further, keeping it to about a hundred meters around him to ensure he could react to any sudden situations.

Thinking of this, he felt a bit envious of Kakarot; what a great environment Earth had, not only possessing the most delicious food in the universe and the miraculous healing Senzu Bean, but also the greatest cheat item, the Dragon Ball.

"Can't compare, absolutely no comparison." The more Reke thought about it, the more dejected he became.

"As expected, sometimes the gap between people is even greater than the gap between a man and a dog." He gave a self-deprecating laugh, then cast the thought to the back of his mind.

He had been mentally prepared for this ever since he arrived in this world.

He wasn't doing too badly now; having escaped from Frieza, he was already quite satisfied. At the very least, he hadn't died before achieving his goal.

"Snap!"

Reke finally stepped out of the forest.

What met his eyes were mountain ranges of varying sizes.

Reke saw the problem at a single glance.

These weren't mountain ranges at all; they were individual monsters, all of the same species as the one with 3,000 combat power he had wiped out.

Reke's mouth twitched, and he covered his face with a small hand.

"I'm truly impressed. After all this, the first boss I fought was just a mob!"

Reke rapidly expanded his sensory range, discovering that the area for ten thousand miles was filled with these creatures, with the highest combat power reaching one hundred thousand—roughly the same level as him.

"You've got to be kidding me. Do you really want me to grind through these monsters one by one? You son of a bitch inspector, don't let me run into you in the future, or I'll scatter your ashes to the wind." After sensing the area, Reke cursed in a rage, dragging the planet's inspector out for another round of verbal abuse.

"You bastard, we have a serious score to settle now. It's either you or me."

"Just you wait, I'll definitely get you one day. If I can't find you, I'll use the Dragon Balls to make a wish."

Reke's eyes were practically spitting fire as he spoke bitterly.

This was clearly a high-level planet, yet those idiots had classified it as a low-level one.

If he hadn't been the one to transmigrate here—knowing how to play it safe and stay alive—and if a native Saiyan had come instead, they would have been dead long ago.

In reality, Reke didn't know that this wasn't entirely the inspector's fault.

The creatures before him spent half the year in hibernation, which was why they appeared as mountain ranges.

During their hibernation, detectors couldn't pick them up, and they wouldn't proactively attack other living beings.

It was only because Reke could sense ki that these creatures had nowhere to hide from him.

Unfortunately, Reke was unaware of this.

He really didn't want to fight his way through, as he had spent these five years learning to control the warlike Saiyan bloodline within him.

He wouldn't just rush into a fight every time he saw an opponent.

Looking at the endless mountain ranges and the countless Rock Monsters, he didn't even want to count them.

Choosing a direction where the combat power seemed relatively lower, white ki erupted from Reke's body, enveloping him completely.

"Boom!"

"Whoosh!"

Reke didn't want to stay for even a second; he exploded into motion, crossing ten thousand miles in no time and landing on a vast grassland.

The ki around Reke slowly dissipated.

He lifted his foot and began to walk.

Reke hadn't gone far before he was greeted by the grassland's first welcoming committee.

A pack of Lion-headed Horse-bodied Beasts, their eyes glowing red, charged toward him.

"Heh! Just in time, I'm hungry."

Reke looked at the pack of beasts, his eyes lighting up, his mouth stretching into a wide, happy grin.

He charged straight at them.

Before long, he left a field of corpses behind, and the rest fled for their lives.

Reke didn't bother chasing them, nor did he pay any mind to the scent of blood in the air.

He fired a blast of ki at a corpse, and the scent of roasted meat began to waft from the body.

Reke could no longer hold back; he tore off a horse leg and began to devour it.

"Mmm! Who would've thought this freakish thing would actually taste so good?"

After polishing off the leg in two or three bites, Reke's taste buds were fully awakened, and he let out a sigh of satisfaction.

He buried his head back into his meal.

The corpses on the ground vanished one by one until, an hour later, every body within a ten-meter radius of Reke had ended up in his stomach. He lay on the grass with a bloated belly, letting out a contented belch.

"Can't do it anymore, I'm too full!"

After lying there for another half hour, Reke stood up, ready to begin his daily basic training.

He stood on his head, supporting his entire body with a single right finger while keeping his left hand behind his back, and began to perform push-ups.

"1... 999... 5000... 10000."

Once he finished training all ten fingers, he went to find a ten-ton boulder in the distance, strapped it to his back, and began to frog-jump forward.

Despite Reke carrying a ten-ton weight, the ground didn't vibrate in the slightest when he landed; his body absorbed the entire force of the impact.

Along the way, he encountered various groups of wild beasts, but they caught sight of the small mountain on Reke's back from afar.

They steered clear of him early on, and not a single one dared to be foolish enough to stand in his path.

At night, Reke lay on the rock, gazing up at the night sky of Udrapa Planet. The sky was filled with twinkling stars, and Reke became immersed in the natural, beautiful scene.

Come to think of it, this was the first time in five years he had looked at the night sky; he had always slept inside a cave before.

What Reke didn't notice was this.

Tonight was the full moon on Udrapa Planet, and the moon hung in the sky just ten meters to his left.

If he had only tilted his head slightly to the left, he would have seen the round moon perfectly.

Reke hadn't moved at all, but unfortunately, while he remained still, the moon was moving.

Slowly, the moon drifted into his line of sight.

"What is this?" That was Reke's first reaction.

"Damn, this is bad." That was Reke's second reaction.

There was no third reaction; his heart began to beat faster and faster.