An aerodynamic spaceship only fit for one person appeared in front of me, I entered the ship and began tapping some buttons, it was programmed to go to the designated coordinates by itself — these coordinates being those of planet Magma.
Planet Magma was a lifeless planet in my current galaxy, in other words, one of Frieza's galaxies. This planet wasn't sold out to anybody due to nobody wanting to buy it, its gravity was 50 times the Earth's — its size was obviously much bigger than Earth's too — it's temperature was in between 60 °C and up to 120 °C, and its surface was full of active volcanos making lava rivers. I decided to go to this planet, as these properties allowed me to train with great results. Right now the planet is on its cold season, it's "winter", so the temperature oscillated in between 60 °C and 80 °C, making it habitable for me — I wasn't gonna get any missions for a long while either, besides, it wouldn't take me long to get to the planet due to how close it is.
This spaceship was different from the saiyan ones, with a speed so high it could reach Planet Magma — located on the other side of the galaxy — in less than 10 days. The reason I didn't use this ship for my missions was simple, the missions assigned to me were usually located tens of galaxies away from my location and the saiyan spaceships were designed to resist problems like crashing with asteroids, they also use less fuel. While this ship is faster, it's also much more fragile and a crash at max speed would break it whole, and it's speed also had a price... It eats up insane amounts of fuel, and its deposit couldn't be expanded as you'd need a space many times the ship's size to store it, something that'd highly increase its fabric price, making them unprofitable — You'd also need some kind of fuel about 50 times better than the one we use right now for it to actually be profitable.
The ship began to take off, it directed itself into the sky and began to move at a speed many times faster than light, something I found particularly intriguing, in my past life it was said that nothing can go faster than light, and if it happened you'd travel to the past... After a brief analysis I reached two conclusions, the first and most likely one, we were not advanced enough to reach this knowledge; and the second one is that this universe's laws don't abide my original universe's ones.
My eyes began to close, making my thought abruptly end...
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I felt the uncomfortable sensation of metal being crushed against me, waking me up instantly. If that wasn't enough, an unbearable heat filled my surroundings — Then the ship's door opened and showed my location, Planet Magma.
I got out of the ship only to see a desolate and desert landscape with a red sky on top of it, making the whole planet look reddish. Everything was dark due to an ash accumulation floating in the atmosphere, letting almost no light shine through. The atmosphere's ash slowly fell to the ground and slightly burnt the ground, enormous and imposing volcanoes stood before me, and everywhere I looked, and the sound of their explosions roared constantly across long-spanning lava rivers. No vegetation or, in general, life form was present whatsoever — Tough I couldn't see very well thanks not also to the ashes but also to the distorting heat that made everything seem blurry. And in case having my vision highly decreased wasn't enough, this heat also burnt my skin, but my HP regeneration allowed me to survive in this hostile environment.
I gazed once again at the landscape before stepping out of the ship, and in that precise instant my whole body collapsed into the hot ground, I was stuck like a mere insect, not even being able to stand up without great difficulty. I saw as my stats began to slowly increase — I got up from the ground and did a light jog in order to adapt myself to this planet's gravity. Getting used to this is by no means an easy feat even for a saiyan like me, nevertheless, the system allowed me to increase my stats and overcome this planet's circumstances.
[Congratulations Host, you've acquired the passive skill "Fire Resistance"]
[Fire Resistance Lvl. 1: This skill reduces the damage taken by fire or high temperatures by 1%]
I smiled while the system spoke and then began to level up the skill until it reached the first breaking point, level 10 — which granted me a reduction of 10% to all fire damage taken.
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Thirty days went by since I got here, I haven't gotten comfortable with the gravity, and according to my calculations I'd need to have a power level of 10,000 along with a strong constitution to be able to freely move here without having my movement being negatively affected.
My power level increased rapidly, under normal circumstances it'd increase by 1 with a single day of training, but thanks to this gravity I can level it up by 7 per day, in other words, since I got here I've gained 210 power level — in contrast, normally I would've gotten 30 instead. In addition, I was being constantly hurt and healed, making my [Zenkai] activate ever-so-slightly. After some investigations with the help of the system, I got to the conclusion that I was spending approximately the same amount of S cells I was gaining, so I didn't need to worry about running out of them — With this small [Zenkai] I got 70 additional power level units, which means... I gained 280 power level units in a single month! This speed was simply monstrous!
I was doing push-ups by the river for a few hours, then I got up with agitated breathing and decided to rest for a while.
I was just going to get up and continue training, but a great tremor stopped me on my tracks, an earthquake had apparently made cracks that were kilometers deep into the ground — They formed everywhere on the ground, but this planet was about 10 times bigger than the Earth, so they wouldn't reach the core — In any case, magma poured violently from inside the cracks
However, there was something that disturbed me much more than anything else happening at this moment, better said, it terrified me. I began to detect Ki, lots of Ki, I saw tens of creatures inside the lava that was coming out of the cracks, each one of them with more than 2,000 power level.
I felt one of those creatures coming out next to me, I looked to the side and to the lava river that was close to me, after a few seconds the lava from the river started to rise, a column that formed started to take shape, two limbs resembling arms separated from the column, some kind of head formed at the very top and had some basic facial features, the creature's eyes and mouth were completely hollow, although the lava in those areas glowed violently in a yellowish color. That creature had no legs and its power level was above 2,000.
I was horrified at the sight of that beast, the worst part wasn't that that abomination had seen me, but that there were thousands of such things.
The beast turned towards me and roared with all its might, its high-pitched roar could be heard from miles away. I was in shock, shaking for a brief instant before snapping back to reality and regaining control of my body, by then the creature was already standing right in front of me.
The creature extended its arm, the sight of a gigantic lava hand capable of grabbing my whole body at the same time appeared before me, I hit the creature's arm with all my strength and I barely managed to push the arm back a few centimeters, the sensation of my skin being burned appeared, and I looked at my arm. The skin was blackened from hitting that creature, I looked back at the lava beast only to see how it grabbed me with its hand.
I felt how the hand began to burn my whole body, I drowned in desperation instantly and began to give hopeless blows it's the hand, but it didn't help in the slightest. I tried to claw the hand from inside to escape while my face reflected my feelings, the greatest panic and horror I had ever felt in my life, I felt that I was going to die, I felt that this was going to be the absolutely agonizing end of me, I felt how my body was burning because of the lava and how my life was going down, I screamed in desperation before my imminent death, the memory of my first one in a plane crash popped up in my mind, I don't want to end up like that twice! I can't just die like now and here! Was I going to die in a completely helpless way again?!
A voice rang across my mind.
[The Host's mental instability has exceeded the established limit, initiating B-2 process.]
Suddenly all emotion disappeared from my mind, only a cold mind remained, I looked around and stood still for a few seconds, the next moment my whole body glowed, the glow was so strong that it even started to overshadow the glow of the lava. I struck its hand with a big kick, and it exploded into pieces, after that happened I didn't hesitate even for a second to get out of there.
I looked at the beast roaring, however it didn't look like it was screaming in pain, instead it looked like it was furious.
Apparently, I had too strong feelings to the point where they didn't let me think properly, they made me forget all my skills and even my [Gamer Mind], good thing I had plan B-2. This plan is something I asked the system to do, I told it that if my emotions got out of control to forcefully activate [Gamer Mind], I created this plan because of my S cells, these made me extremely emotional, and I had planned that at some point I would get out of control because of my emotions.... But I didn't think it would be this fast, honestly.... Without that ability... I'm afraid I would've died a long time ago as was almost the case now....
I stopped thinking about it and looked at the lava beast, its stats appeared before me.
[Name: ???
Race: Igneous Elemental Body
Alignment: ???
Battle Power: 2,200
Alternate status: (None)
Hp: ???
Vit: ??? Str: 2,000
Dex: ??? Cha: ???
Luc: ??? Int: ???
Wis: ???
Traits:
Pain Immunity
Elemental Body
???]
So "Igneous elemental body" huh? It seems like this race is very powerful....
My body glowed violently, and my muscles suddenly increased in size, I rushed in a straight charge towards the beast. Contrary to what you'd think, the muscles becoming about 50% larger than usual didn't slow me down, actually, they made me even faster.
I started flying around the beast at high speed, it tried to hit me, but its speed was nothing short of mediocre when matched against my [Physical buff]. I dodged its attacks and counterattacked by piercing its body from side to side, lava from its body spread all around, and yet this did not stop it.
I continued to fly around it as I struck and pierced its body, my punches and kicks were destroying more and more of the beast's body and the shockwaves were spreading the lava everywhere, making the ground it fell on start to melt.
The body of the beast was completely pierced and lava came out of its holes without an end, its arms were shattered, but something made me very uneasy, its wounds, holes and shattered limbs were healing at such a speed that it could be seen with the naked eye.
I decided to finish it by charging my [Bloody demolition]. A dark red Ki with black exterior appeared between my hands, I took it to the left side of my body and charged it for a few seconds, I threw it forward and a large stream of Ki was shot out of my hands, a seemingly endless torrent, this one headed towards the beast, and it managed to pierce its chest along with its head.
The lava that formed the body of the beast began to fall on the ground, however, this did not make me put my guard down, I looked around me and lots of these Igneous Elemental Bodies were approaching me, each one with a different power level. I could notice that the size of these beasts was correlated to the strength they had, the bigger they are, the stronger they were — the weakest ones were 2 meters tall and had a power level of 1.500, the others were about 3 meters tall and had a power level of 2,000.
I felt more of those beasts coming this way, there were hundreds of them, however there were some that didn't seem interested in me and just wandered around the planet.
The voice of the system appeared in my mind.
[Ding! The Host has activated a quest!]
[Planet Magma: Igneous Elemental Bodies
You're on Planet Magma surrounded by thousands of Igneous Elemental Bodies you must survive by either fighting for your life or escaping the planet.
Success requirements: Survive.
Reward: Rewards will depend on the rating of the mission, the more Igneous Elemental Bodies you finish and the more havoc you make on their race, the higher the rating].
I checked the situation one last time, currently I was surrounded by dozens if not hundreds of beasts and thousands more of these were on their way, plus there were still other thousands left who were not interested. After checking the situation in just a few seconds, the beasts pounced on me.
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