10 Land
Penta took very little time getting to the shores of a beach that was surrounded by cliffs on the side.
Walking onto the sandy beach, he was in a joyous mood. He had almost wanted to kiss the floor of sand but restrained himself as sand was annoying to have in one's mouth. Spoken from the legitimate eating experience.
"Hahaha! To think after such a long period of time I would finally reach here!" He couldn't help but sit and admire the beauty that was the ocean and the new continent he arrived on. The scenery was beautiful to him.
"It seems I reaped a lot in this second life. My vision and body are practically close to what superman should be compared to life on Earth but I feel great. This power is mine and I have a chance at more than what that obnoxious bastard voice was hoping for at least. I shouldn't spend my days as I had in the past." Penta reflected seriously on his past life and his current situation.
Having thoroughly inspected his body he felt relieved that nothing had been strange when he reverted to his human form. He had even looked down and happily cheered. "Glad this little beast is also down here as should be. Hehe got to get me a cutie or two and clothes..."
He settled down a little after making a firm decision to live a more abundant life, he always wanted to travel and one of the first achievements he had done in this life was to traverse two continents through his own dirt-eating efforts.
More so than all the complicated things about his past life, his ex, his hard-drive, and that slimy bastard of a voice. He was simply happy to see green trees that weren't rotting, grass as abundant as the stars, and probably one of the most exciting things which were the sounds of animals and birds.
He knew this whole adventure so far could have gone wrong so many times had he made a mistake but he was glad he had persevered and arrived safely on this continent of life. He didn't know if what he was looking for was here but at least he could make a friend or two as he would settle for even a small bird at this point from prolonged loneliness.
The beauty was mesmerizing to him who felt like he had brand new eyes, his vision was so clear he could see close to 50 meters into the distance and with detail as well.
"Ah, nature, dear nature, how you thrive and shine under the rays of brilliance," Penta mumbled with a smile.
"Well, I can't loiter forever, let's make a clear set of goals for now," Penta mumbled and grabbed a branch he found on the floor before sitting again and drawing a little list.
His clear goals were a little hazy in all honesty, he had already lived and died a life of a human on Earth and was already on his second chance, with an impressive Agaran Roach Emperor title to boot.
He started writing in the sand as he decided, in order, to do the following:
1- MEAT
2-KNOWLEDGE
3-FRIENDS
4-POWER
5-REVENGE
"Looks to be right. Hehe," Penta laughed again while starting to walk towards the forest.
He had thought quite deeply about his course as he wanted to make sure he appreciated the best of this life while exacting his revenge. He didn't want to be some revenge-driven lunatic nor some antisocial lone wolf. He had experienced loneliness and a few mental breakdowns while digging a tunnel to the new continent.
Enough for him to not want to waste his second life. He still desired heavily to punish Nite who had condemned him here as a roach but as his luck had blossomed and let him be somewhat human, he wasn't in an immediate rush, especially considering he didn't who the voice was nor where it was located aside from the fact that it was called the "Frontier of Souls."
He was curious if he could understand the other natives of this world as he did understand the gift he had received which was "Nature's Evolution" but that may have been a spiritual thing.
"Whatever, a learning man will learn and a growing man will grow. Speaking of I might turn one year old soon. How exciting. Haha, the world's greatest infant." Penta went off into stupid little fantasies of a baby destroying mountains and leveling seas while traveling the cosmos.
He had walked into the luscious-looking forest that was near the beach. He did have some reservations against facing someone who was...well clothed whilst he was a bare emperor but the just the joy of light and life around him had made him much less reserved than his human self from Earth.
He was, after all, a roach emperor in this lifetime. Even if he looked humanoid, his rippling fibers of muscle with an ever so slightly glowing purple veins and ability to rip his legs into 4 only proved his species.
"Walking like this really makes this all feel real. Sigh." He really was astounded at everything that happened to him ever since his rebirth or more so his sentence to "filth" from that wannabe god peasant.
After walking roughly a kilometer or two. He finally encountered his first hmmm...meal he would say. He wasn't certain of the levels of things in the wild but considering the Hell, he had just come from. He was rather confident in at least surviving.
Ahead of him eating some type of root, was a meter high boar type creature. It was dark brown in color, had a crown of bone on its head, and two very threatening husks. The major difference between an Earth Boar and this one would be the bone growth in the form stripes that grew on its outer body.
"Shouldn't taste worse than dirt and rocks. Might as well." Penta gave a small prayer to the boar and dashed towards its head.
He was shocked at the speed he ran at and was even more surprised at what happened after he dashed. The boar was spooked and was about to react before Penta with his absurd strength cleaved its head off from simply running into it.
The boar body stood still while its head flew off and smashed into a few half a meter wide trees, decimating their trunks.
"Oh...Oh...OHHHH MY LIVING ROACHNESS!" Penta was shocked at his ability from this one maneuver. He had read much and seen much anime but this was just overpowered in his mind.
"Should really train to control that before I blow people up." He realized as he decided to eat as the poor boar was, honestly, not deserving of such overpowered moves. Another prayer was given to his first meal in the continent of Valor.
-Campfire in the Cloud Forest-
After having barely started a run and having killed this "Bone Boar", Penta had started a fire with some dried wood and surprisingly his fingers.
Penta had discovered that he could ignite a small flame if he focused on using the energies of the first astral sky towards producing heat. The flame was the equivalent to a lighter but it ran on his own energy reserves which were vastly superior to the consumption the tiny flame caused.
This was his first attempt at using a skill of any sort with the energies of a First-grade shaman and he was in ecstasy for hours. This was magic. Pure magic to him. The truest and probably one the coolest desired abilities any proud Otaku would want.
He simply lit his fingers on and off for those hours while giggling like a mad man.
Having devoured the entire bone boar out of respect for the gruesomely clean kill. Penta decided to lie down and look at the stars of the evening sky.
"This will be my life from now huh. I can't say I really miss Earth but this place really does test one's limit. Sigh. I guess this is the new life of I, Penta Nog, Agaran Emperor Roach, soon to be one year old." He laughed as he thought of his new life and what was to come from it.
