Dawn of a New Era-Chapter 569 - 543: Special Mission

Not only paratroopers were dropped, but also several steam excavators and steam trucks.

The airborne troops began to assemble upon landing.

Paratroopers have always been the branch with the highest casualty rate. They often delve deep into enemy territory to carry out special operations, surrounded by enemies with no support, encountering various accidents during descent like being blown away by strong winds, accidentally falling to death, or touching high-voltage wires...

Those who become paratroopers are almost always the elite of the elite.

However, this time their mission was somewhat... special.

It wasn’t to behead the enemy leader or capture a city, but to pass through the spatial passage and travel to another world to excavate important strategic resources.

An entire regiment was deployed in this airborne operation, including over sixty martial artists.

Along the way, their advance was unstoppable.

There was essentially no resistance to speak of.

The military’s martial artists seldom used war bows, almost exclusively using guns, and this unit employed specially-made large-caliber rifle cannons, with bullets interchangeable with machine cannon shells. The martial artists carried 30mm machine cannons, their bodies laden with ammunition.

With the martial artists’ reactive capabilities, even a demigod would hesitate to face six or seven such martial artists.

The troops protected the steam excavators and trucks, marching forward, leaving behind a trail of barbarian and fierce beast corpses.

"This must have been left during a battle, right?" A martial artist stared at the ground, shattered as if by an eight or nine magnitude earthquake, and the dilapidated buildings on both sides, thinking in shock.

"Yes, it should be!" Another martial artist nodded solemnly while keeping a watchful eye on the surroundings.

To contend with a True God and slay one, such a person could truly be described as terrifying.

One man can be a threat to a nation, invincible in the world.

A thought suddenly crossed his mind.

Fortunately, it’s wartime now; otherwise, those in higher positions would probably have a headache.

The houses on both sides were tightly shut, while many Luoyue people secretly watched through cracks in the doors, their expressions complex. To say they were devout to the God of Blood would be an exaggeration.

It’s just that seeing a foreign army advancing so effortlessly stirred a mix of excitement and inexplicable hostility.

Since the God of Blood took control, ordinary humans, apart from a few strong martial artists, have largely been reduced to the lowest class.

It wasn’t that the God of Blood particularly discriminated against humans; it was simply that His divine position represented bloodlines and evolution, adhering to the survival of the fittest, where the strong are revered.

Ordinary humans without power were even inferior to the lowest barbarians, naturally having no status whatsoever.

They were even wholly deprived of reproductive rights.

Weaklings have no right to leave behind offspring because it contradicts His path of evolution.

Perhaps with the gradual increase in human faith and the passage of time, the divine position might shift, but this is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

Throughout this year, countless families in Luoyue Country were forcibly torn apart, women redistributed to human and barbarian strongmen, and those who resisted sacrificially displayed with brutality.

Under such a barbaric regime, it was simply impossible to speak of devout faith.

The Barbarian God hails from the primitive Tam World, where acquired divine positions are closely linked with barbarian existence, starkly clashing with human civilization, even entirely at odds with human nature and values.

Like the God of Hunting.

In a primitive civilization, hunting was naturally a powerful divine position.

Within His domain of faith, barbarian hunting seemed divinely aided, often securing more prey, strengthening the tribe, yet it held little meaning for humanity.

As early as hundreds of thousands of years ago, even as ’upright apes,’ humans were Earth’s dominators, having hunted threatening animals into extinction or protected status.

Even atop the food chain, when humans go mad, they even kill each other.

Moreover, the list of protected wildlife grows each year.

You still want to hunt?

Sorry, free prison meals await you.

...

This unit advanced without any casualties to speak of.

Some wise barbarians had already fled through the spatial passage; zealots were few, with most being mere nominal believers.

The location of the spatial passage was surprisingly easy to find.

Just follow the battle-induced trail of destruction and soon, the airborne troops located the temple where the spatial passage resided.

"Second and Third companies, stand guard outside."

"First company, follow me inside." The airborne regiment commander, a peak martial artist, commanded loudly.

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Subsequently, hundreds of soldiers escorted steam excavators and trucks, entering the spatial passage one after another.

As a wave of spatial distortion ensued,

everyone suddenly found themselves dumbfounded, frozen like statues.

"Hiss!"

The entire scene revealed a land of broken vegetation and upheaved turf, with deep, bottomless cracks occasionally appearing on the ground, each extending a radius of a hundred meters.

Not far away, there were also two massive footprints.

Over six meters long and three meters deep.

The ground was pressed as solid as rock, with the position of five toes clearly distinguishable.

And further ahead,

there was a vast chasm over a hundred meters long and five to six meters deep, the magma at its base thoroughly solidified, faintly flashing with a golden glow.

"Damn, this is what General Manager Chen did!" a soldier suddenly awoke from his stupor, exclaiming, "This looks like a nuclear blast!"

...

The next day at noon.

Chen Shouyi found that his treatment had been upgraded by more than one level.

Meals were served in a private box. To cater to Chen Shouyi’s taste, the command center had specially called in a Jiangnan cuisine chef from the rear.

But... why were there two pretty female orderlies standing by during the meal?

This made Chen Shouyi feel rather uncomfortable.

If they just stood there, that’d be one thing.

He wasn’t bothered by it, being someone who had faced big scenes, but what did it mean for them to keep staring at his face nonstop?

Despite such gazes being discreet, they were entirely apparent to someone with nearly demigod acuity like him.

"General Manager Chen, is the food not to your taste?" A female orderly leaned over, her gaze soft as water, asking gently.

"Uh, no, it’s quite good!" Chen Shouyi smiled and said, better than Father Chen’s cooking.

"This dish was specially prepared for a legendary warrior like you by the chef. Do give it a try!" another female orderly leaned in too, pointing to a pot of soup.

Chen Shouyi became interested, picked up the ladle, and stirred the pot, finding it rather thick with some chunks of meat inside—he couldn’t tell what kind of meat it was.

He scooped a spoonful, tasted it.

The first impression was fresh, yet oddly familiar.

Chewing the meat inside, he found it quite chewy, not unlike divine flesh, save for a hint of sulfur and apparently some uncleaned grit.

No idea what kind of meat it was.

"Wait! This is..."

Suddenly Chen Shouyi’s face went rigid.

Damn, could this actually be the divine flesh he smashed?