Dawn of a New Era - Chapter 19

Chapter 19: Powerful Barbarians

Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
During the night, when he opened up his attributes panel, Chen Shouyi discovered that this incident wasn’t without its benefits. He discovered that his Willpower had surged by 0.2 and was now at 11.2.

It was just that with regards to Willpower, he hoped his body would be even stronger.

He absolutely didn’t wish to be as helpless as a headless fly, escaping frantically if he ever encountered a barbarian again. He didn’t want to entrust his life to something so ethereal like luck and the emotions of his enemy.

Tonight, he worked even harder compared to usual.

Sword techniques, Thirty-six Stances of Body Training, entering meditation to train the body… After he finished practicing them, all his physical and mental strength were thoroughly exhausted.

After his mental strength recovered somewhat, he lay down on his bed and entered the grey mist space.

Although he still felt surreal, he already had some sense of realism. At the same time, the tiny tree here was also transforming. It grew taller by a few inches and the space here also seemed to be much more stable than before.

However, these were just insignificant details of little to no importance. These changes wouldn’t be able to provide any increment to his strength.

He glanced at the memory leaf today and his consciousness soon entered it.

He then chose the segment of memory regarding the barbarian and his consciousness entered the barbarian’s body. When he was in, he felt an indescribable feeling rising in his heart.

Powerful! Incomparably powerful!

Explosive strength filled his body. By walking on the ground, there was so much strength in his legs, and he felt like he was almost floating.

Not only so, but like the intense heat after a thunderstorm, everything before his eyes seemed to grow more vivid. Different noises of various volumes entered his ears. His nose could smell increasingly subtle smells and his vision also grew brighter. Even his skin felt more sensitive.

After sensing this for a few seconds, the large quantity of information caused Chen Shouyi to feel extremely dizzy. His consciousness uncontrollably exited the barbarian’s body.

This type of feeling gave him a sense of novelty and shock. So, this was a barbarian?

Naturally, a barbarian that could kill Zhou Shaofeng under the encirclement of special force members couldn’t be ordinary.

…

Time in the memory space slowly flowed. Very soon, the scene of the middle-aged man confronting the barbarian appeared.

His sense of dizziness had already disappeared. He was hesitating whether to enter the body of the barbarian again or not.

He wished to experience how the muscles of the barbarian exerted strength during combat.

But that was ultimately killing someone. An extremely cruel and bloody kill.

This middle-aged man’s head was blasted into pieces. His brain fluids flew in all directions.

If this was a movie, he could sit at one side and enjoy his popcorn as his gaze stared at the screen fixedly. There wouldn’t be any waves in his heart.

But this was a true memory. Just this afternoon, this middle-aged man had died before his eyes in an incomparably miserable manner.

And now, he still wanted to enter the barbarian’s body to personally sense how ‘he’ killed the middle-aged man by using a fist to punch his head.

He struggled for a while in his heart. The scene from his memory regarding this combat was soon about to be over.

He finally made a decision.

At the next instant, his consciousness entered the middle-aged man’s body.

The middle-aged man’s body was even stronger than Chen Shouyi’s. At the very least, the man must be a martial apprentice. But after he had sensed the barbarian’s body, this body actually made him feel a strange sensation; it was extremely ‘weak’.

Before the tragedy occurred, he was holding a broom tightly, and the muscles of his entire body linked together, as though he was about to execute a powerful sword strike.

However, the barbarian’s speed was too fast. So fast that it exceeded the man’s reaction speed. In an instant, a gust of ferocious wind brushed by the man. After that, a fist arrived from the distance, instantly smashing into his head.

Chen Shouyi only felt an explosive bang. Pitch darkness was before his eyes, and his consciousness was soon ejected.

If he could sense his heartbeat, it would undoubtedly be beating furiously.

The experience of death wasn’t good at all. Although it was only the weakened version of the sensation and couldn’t be compared to true death, he still felt a coldness from the depths of his entire being.

He restarted the memory and went back to that moment.

This time, he chose to enter the barbarian again. Because he had died once in the place of the middle-aged man, the guilt in his heart also lessened to nothing. There were no more psychological barriers.

…

Staring at the corpse on the ground, Chen Shouyi exited the barbarian’s body. He collected his complicated feelings and felt some disappointment in his heart.

The force exertion method of the barbarian was somewhat crude and still belonged to the beginner level. Compared to ordinary humans, he might be considered extremely advanced in force exertions, but there was still no way to compare the barbarian’s skill to the martial dao of humans.

But when he thought about it, this was right. After all, barbarians existed in a primeval era in the Other World. Their techniques were borne from their experiences of hunting prey through the generations while humanity’s martial dao was a result of collective wisdom in the information era.

The most crucial thing was that supernatural abilities existed in the Other World but not on Earth. The environments between the two worlds were different. This caused the races of the Other World to neglect the pursuit of elevating their skills and techniques.

The barbarian’s terrifying physical ability could mitigate the weakness in his technique, using pure strength to subdue everything. In the past when Chen Shouyi had heard about this sentence, he hadn’t really understood. But now, he truly sensed for himself how fearsome pure strength was.

That was something that could truly suppress and dominate everything.

…

The day after, Dongning City was very peaceful. His family restaurant also started to operate again.

And now, the first monthly examination after he got into the senior year had also arrived.

Right now, his mental state was calm. When the language test paper was passed down, he simply answered the questions one by one. Other than a few blanks on the ‘verse section’, he finished all the other questions in the test paper.

He didn’t know if he would get a good score or not, but at the very least, Chen Shouyi was pretty satisfied with his performance.

As for the second test, Mathematics, it was much more difficult from Chen Shouyi’s perspective. He first finished all the multiple-choice questions before working on difficult problems. When the test ended, he still had two major questions left unanswered as he was clueless about how to solve them.

For English and Science, he also had a headache trying to do them.

However, after the tests ended, Chen Shouyi felt a sense of liberation.

“Chen Shouyi, did you do well?” After walking out of the classroom, Zhang Shaoyue suddenly walked faster and caught up to Chen Shouyi.

Seeing Zhang Shaoyue who had a gentle smile on her face, Chen Shouyi involuntarily thought of yesterday where he had held her soft and tender hand. Chen Shouyi’s heart involuntarily quickened by a bit.

However, there was no expression on his face. After this month of ‘cultivation’, it had allowed him to have a calm expression on his face when facing women.

“I’m afraid there’s no hope for my results.”

He missed out on too many lessons, and it wasn’t something a month of hard work could mitigate.

“But, you should be registering for a martial academy, right?” Zhang Shaoyue inclined her head, smiling as she looked at Chen Shouyi. Her gaze seemed to contain emotions that had some meaning.

“Mhm, if there are no accidents, what about you?”

“I’m not sure yet, but I will register myself for a university in Zhonghai.”

The two of them conversed, connecting deeply. This caused Sun Xin who was at the side to be completely stupefied. Sadly, no one could be bothered about him.

In the forest ahead, many people were crowding together. There appeared to be a fight going on.

Chen Shouyi didn’t really care too much. In an ordinary senior high school like Dongning No. 5, the administration here was very lax. It was common for fights to occur, and he was long since used to it.

So many youths with raging hormones were gathered in the school. Sparks would fly the moment a conflict occurred.

“The one getting beaten up seemed to be Zhao Yifeng,” Sun Xin said in a low voice.

Chen Shouyi instantly halted.

The moment Zhang Shaoyue saw that the ones beating Zhao Yifeng were students, she hurriedly called out in a loud voice, “Stop. Don’t fight anymore. Which class are you all from? I will report this to the teachers!”

“Aiyaaa, beautiful babe, just tell it to the teachers then. I’m so afraid!” The three assailants stopped. The one in the lead was a man with a tall figure. He shook his head, causing his long hair to flick as he spoke with an unruly look on his face.

Chen Shouyi silently shook his head when he saw the indignant look on Zhang Shaoyue’s face. To such people, it was useless to speak logic to them. The softer you were, the more you would be bullied. Only a hard fist could convince them.

He already knew this logic in the past, but he didn’t have a hard fist then. However… he had a hard fist now.

He immediately rushed over.

His speed was shocking and he entered the crowd with a single step.

The leader stood at his original location. Before he could even react, he was pushed aside. The leader stumbled and ended up falling onto the ground.

Only now did the other two youths react. They instantly rushed over, preparing to join forces to control Chen Shouyi.

Sadly, with a martial apprentice as their opponent, their struggle was as meaningless as how a little kid would struggle against an adult.

Chen Shouyi stretched out his hands and grabbed their arms. He followed their exerted force and pulled in the same direction, causing them to fall onto the ground head-first.

“YOU WAIT HERE IF YOU DARE!”

“Don’t leave if you have guts!”

…

“Thank you.” Zhao Yifeng had a swollen face as he stood up, staring at Chen Shouyi and the beautiful Zhang Shaoyue as he mumbled.

“Are we not friends?” Chen Shouyi asked.

“Zhao Yifeng, why did they beat you up?” Zhang Shaoyue asked.

“Noth..nothing!” His countenance and ears turned red as he spoke.

…

In the end, Zhao Yifeng didn’t say the reason. He then swiftly limped away.

Chen Shouyi silently watched as he departed. It was like he could see his past self in Zhao Yifeng.