Dawn of a New Era-Chapter 348 - 328: Crisis (Double-Length - )

A few seconds later, the war bow was assembled. He picked up a few arrows and stealthily approached.

It had entered hibernation, but its sleep was shallow. Seemingly sensing danger approaching, the giant beast’s breathing became heavy, its eyelids trembled, and it was about to awaken.

However, it hadn’t opened its eyes yet.

Then there was a "boom".

Its body shook violently, an arrow shot into its eye, even its eye socket exploded into a bowl-sized hole, blood and brain matter flowed out. It struggled to stand up, swayed, and its massive body crashed down, limbs twitching continuously.

Chen Shouyi spent all his strength to drag the giant beast out of the cave to an open space tens of meters away, gasping for breath. Then he drew his sword and sliced open its belly. Its fur was quite soft, feeling like silk, with a thick layer of fat underneath.

"Such a giant, it’s so big!" Shell Lady squatted to the side, a little scared yet curious and excited: "Are you going to eat it all?"

"No!" Chen Shouyi said.

This giant beast weighed several tons. Even if he ate for half a year, he wouldn’t be able to finish it. In total, he would only take tens of pounds of meat home.

Don’t be fooled by the fact it’s winter now, with many animals hibernating. If left out in the open, by the next day nothing would be left.

He was too lazy to bother hiding it in the cave.

He took out the giant beast’s heart and tossed it onto the ground.

It was a heart as big as an adult’s head, still thumping. He was planning to have it for breakfast today.

At this time, rustling sounds came from a distance. Shell Lady swiftly flew onto Chen Shouyi’s shoulder, nervously grabbing his ear. He didn’t mind and continued to tend to his prey.

As they say, a skilled person is bold. With his strength, there were now few creatures here that could pose a danger to him.

He skinned the entire hide, the sharp tip of his sword slicing along the spine, cutting open the back instantly. Then he quickly stripped away the strip of muscle inside the spine—this was the tenderloin, the most delicious part of all meat.

The quantity was small, but combined with the giant beast’s size, it was still tens of pounds.

Chen Shouyi took out a large plastic bag from his backpack, packed the meat inside, tied it and set it aside to take home later.

At this moment, the branches shook, and Chen Shouyi looked up.

A few seconds later, he saw a group of four young men and one woman, a total of five young martial artists carefully emerge from the woods.

His face showed a hint of surprise. Few martial artists came to this passageway, since he started training here, he hadn’t seen any. After all, for ordinary martial artists, this passageway was somewhat too dangerous.

Upon seeing the giant beast on the ground, the other party instinctively drew their bows in caution. Only when they saw Chen Shouyi, a human, did their expressions slightly relax.

"You gave me a scare, brother, you’re amazing, such a big giant beast..." A young martial artist greeted familiarly.

Before he finished speaking, a companion beside him pulled his arm forcefully, face changing drastically, whispering a warning: "Don’t talk nonsense, this is a Martial Artist, apologize quickly."

Then, with a respectful face, he said:

"Greetings, Chief Adviser!"

All of them were instantly scared silent, not daring to breathe heavily.

They were just ordinary martial artists. To them, a Martial Artist was a figure on the clouds.

Perhaps with just a raise of a hand, he could easily kill them all.

In this lawless land, no rules could confine him. Only personal morality restrained the strong, making the status and hierarchy brought by power extraordinarily pronounced.

Offending someone significantly stronger than themselves was undoubtedly dangerous and unwise.

"I-I’m sorry, Chief Adviser, I just have... a foul mouth." The young martial artist who spoke earlier stammered in apology.

"Don’t be nervous, what brings you here?" Chen Shouyi smiled and asked.

"Completing an exploration mission!" The opposing martial artist replied respectfully.

Was it the impact of the spatial passage problem in Pingzhou City last time?

Chen Shouyi thought, seeing them look restrained, he waved his hand: "You guys carry on!"

The group of martial artists were like receiving a pardon, hastily leaving as if escaping.

After they walked far away.

Chen Shouyi’s chest wriggled, Shell Lady grabbed his T-shirt collar, peeked her head out, her eyes warily scanning the surroundings before flying back onto Chen Shouyi’s shoulder, pulling on his ear, she coquettishly complained:

"Such a giant, can you not talk to bad giants for so long next time?"

"Okay, got it!" Chen Shouyi said.

"Mwah mwah mwah!"

Hearing this, Shell Lady happily kissed him several times.

Chen Shouyi scratched his face, stood up, planning to fetch some firewood to prepare for a barbecue.

Freshly slaughtered meat was undoubtedly the best tasting. Once it cooled down, the flavor would greatly diminish.

Just then, his steps suddenly paused.

A series of blurry images flashed through his mind, while a faint sense of joy arose in his heart.

His barbarian believers were holding a ceremony again.

"Great and merciful God of Calamity, bless us to stop the invading enemy." A priest lay prostrate on the ground, praying loudly. Behind him were hundreds of elderly and young barbarians.

"Being able to make these barbarians so focused, clearly they’ve encountered a strong enemy, but it’s a pity, how am I of any use!" Chen Shouyi thought sarcastically.

Ever since a series of slaughters a year ago, this tribe had been left with only the elderly and children, with few young and strong remaining.

Of course, even at their peak, this almost primitive tribe’s strength was insignificant.

"They won’t be annihilated, will they?" Chen Shouyi mused, his face becoming serious.

Although he didn’t care much about these believers, they were at least his worshippers, it felt somewhat regrettable if they were wiped out.

Watching the scene, perhaps his mind was too focused.

Suddenly, his spirit felt a jolt, and the scene in front of his eyes seemed to overlap, with many barbarians kneeling not far from his feet.

"What’s happening? Could my spirit have traversed to the island?"

Only a few barbarians had relatively clear facial features, most were blurry, shrouded lightly in mist, with some even just shadows.

...

At this time on Barbarian Island.

The Divine Statue suddenly emitted a faint glow.

Wherever the light reached, the fatigue on all the barbarians vanished, their bodies felt light, filled with strength. The young priest felt the changes in his body, looked up at the statue, first in shock, then ecstatically flushed with excitement, as if on stimulants, shouting hoarsely:

"The great and merciful God of Calamity has descended."

...

It’s unclear how much time passed before Chen Shouyi’s mind jolted, returning to his senses, the overlapping images in front of him slowly dissipating.

A lingering shock remained on his face.

The earlier scene was truly incredible, entirely beyond his comprehension.

"It seems something flowed out of my body!"

He pondered: "Could it be the Power of Faith!"

He immediately turned back to the cave, sealing the entrance with a rock.

After instructing Shell Lady to be careful, Chen Shouyi sat down, closed his eyes, and quickly entered the Book of Knowledge Space.

Now the entire Book of Knowledge Space had reached a radius of forty meters, extremely vast.

He looked up at the sky.

"Indeed..." Chen Shouyi thought to himself.

Over two hundred stars representing believers dotted the sky, glowing brightly or dimly, yet the power of faith that enveloped the sky was completely gone.

When the Power of Faith had filled this space, he never thought much of it. However, at this moment, with the power of faith gone, he felt as if his soul had lost a layer of protection, leaving a hidden sense of insecurity.

Since becoming a Divine Creature, Chen Shouyi never paid much attention to the power of faith, let alone tried exploiting its abilities. The accumulated power of faith to him was merely a decoration in the Book of Knowledge Space.

More didn’t cause joy, and less didn’t bother him.

Only now did he realize this power of faith wasn’t useless.

Suddenly, he became worried about those barbarians.

He wondered if they would survive this disaster.