Dawn of a New Era - Chapter 21

Chapter 21: Shedding

Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
The entire modification process lasted for ten minutes, and the high temperature finally receded.

Right now, his attributes were…

Strength: 12.6 (10)

Agility: 12.8 (10)

Constitution: 13.5 (10)

Intelligence: 12.3 (10)

Perception: 10.8 (10)

Willpower: 11.4 (10)

Excluding his perception and willpower, all the other attributes had greatly increased. Some attributes had even increased by 2 points.

He clenched his fists with force, and a powerful energy manifested in his body.

Not only so, but his five senses also became sharper. Even those questions that he couldn’t do due to their difficulty yesterday all felt so easy when he thought about them now.

In fact, even time seemed to flow slower in his eyes.

….

After his strength had increased, he felt that he could protect himself to a certain degree, even three times gravity didn’t feel that heavy now compared to Earth.

Therefore, he stood up and prepared to explore this region.

Holding the wooden rod, he advanced cautiously on the mountain waist.

Alas, the newly increased strength wasn’t so easy to control.

In the past, he was too used to his way of exerting force. Now, his past habit had a grave disconnection with his powerful body. Either he used too much force or too little. There were quite a few times that he almost fell.

Luckily, after cautiously walking for several minutes, he slowly began to adapt and observe the entire region.

Other than the mountain in the center, the ocean was everywhere. And based on his observation, there were no animals or some sort of powerful lifeforms on this island, except for the tiny insects like ants and small-size bugs. This was a deserted island roughly about one square kilometer in size!

This indicated that this place was pretty safe. Chen Shouyi felt extremely relaxed now.

He walked around the mountain waist and did a rough observation. He estimated that the time on Earth would soon be 2 am.

He decided to return.

After he passed through the space channel and returned to Earth, he suddenly felt his body was so light that he was about to float. Even when he was walking, his steps weren’t steady and he felt extremely light.

At the start, he walked very slowly. After a while, he started running.

Every time he fell, he picked himself up and continued to run.

Chen Shouyi excitedly galloped through the empty streets, smiling as he ran. His speed grew increasingly faster like a gust of wind blowing through the empty streets.

After he arrived, he opened the gate and silently returned to his bedroom.

Even after lying down on his bed, he continued to turn and toss a few times. Today’s miraculous encounter made him extremely excited!

He laughed silently and couldn’t help but open up his attributes panel again.

His increased attributes stayed the same, and his innate ability was there as well. However, ‘natural recovery’ was now replaced by something called ‘elementary recovery’.

He clenched his fist, and the skin of his palm emitted creaking sounds under the friction.

Everything felt so surreal.

He had truly become strong, strong beyond his imagination. At this moment, he suddenly thought of a question and his excitement rapidly faded.

“Should I report this space channel to the authorities?”

Chen Shouyi felt some hesitation in his heart. From his true feelings, he wasn’t willing to do so. No one would be willing.

It was said that martial apprentices of martial academies would often enter concealed space channels to train themselves. This indicated that the unique environment of the Otherworld was extremely beneficial to nurture martial apprentices.

Right now, his attributes had already surpassed the standard for martial apprentices.

For the Martial Apprentice Test, one had to bench press 200 kg. As for him currently, calculating based on his attributes, he could already bench press 290 kg, only a step away from the 300 kg that was the standard for martial practitioners.

And his agility was even 0.2 points higher than his strength, already on the standard of a martial practitioner.

However, the strongest among all his attributes was his constitution, reaching a shocking 13.5.

But ultimately, he had not passed the Martial Apprentice Test yet. And even if he did, he still needed to wait five months more before he could enter a martial academy.

Thus, this private space channel to the Otherworld posed a fatal attraction to him. He could sense that if he could train in it, his strength would surely be able to improve rapidly.

It was a pity that an unguarded space channel in the city was ultimately still quite dangerous.

Tonight, he tossed and turned, struggling in his heart. Only until dawn almost arrived could he fall asleep. And before he slept for too long, his biological clock had already awakened him.

Although he merely snoozed for a while, Chen Shouyi felt extremely refreshed, not feeling the drowsiness side effect of staying up all night.

He took his phone and wanted to see the time, only to discover that the screen was black. He quickly pressed the buttons and luckily, the screen lit up soon after. It seemed like the environment in the Otherworld didn’t damage his phone.

“Mhm, only late by over ten minutes.”

He hurriedly dressed up and went to the bathroom to wash his face and mouth.

Chen Xingyue was inside the bathroom. She was clad in adorable pajamas with the pictures of mashimaro on them. Brushing up her teeth, she had a drowsy-eyed look on her face.

“Morning!” greeted Chen Shouyi. He took his toothbrush and began brushing his teeth.

Chen Xingyue gurgled her mouth and spat the toothpaste foam out. From the mirror, she glanced at him and suddenly spoke, “Big bro, you are shedding skin.”

“Oh, is that so?” Chen Shouyi looked closely and discovered it was really the case.

It was unknown what happened to his face, but patches of dead skin could be seen on it. He also didn’t bother with brushing his teeth anymore. He gritted his teeth and used his fingers to tear off a large patch of dead skin with the mirror as a reference.

He was startled, discovering that the new skin was as fair as jade and extremely tender, like a baby.

After he recovered, he noticed the look of shock and astonishment on his sister’s face. He calmly spoke, “Maybe because I was under the sun for too long yesterday.”

“Were you not having examinations yesterday?” Chen Xingyue had some suspicion in her voice.

“During the afternoon, when I used the water faucet in the toilet, the flow of water was too great and it wetted my pants. Hence, I went under the sun to dry it.” Chen Shouyi lied with a straight face. He discovered that his thinking now was extremely quick. He didn’t even need to think too much to weave a lie.

“Elder brother, you are so disgusting.”

Chen Xingyue had a look of disdain on her face.

“Who asked you to have such a strong curiosity. In any case, I didn’t pee my pants, it is just water. Wait, what do you mean by disgusting? When you were in elementary school, there was a time when you needed to pee so badly that you…” Chen Shouyi instantly countered.

Seeing that Chen Shouyi was prepared to mention her ugly stories when they were younger, Chen Xingyue instantly blushed. She spoke with shame and fury, “Brother if you mention this again, I won’t care about you in the future.”

As for her suspicion earlier, it had been tossed to the back of her mind.

Seeing Chen Xingyue’s miserable expression, Chen Shouyi felt extremely satisfied. This was the first time he won a verbal war against his sharp-tongued sister.

After she left, he hurriedly closed the bathroom door. He used the mirror and checked his face thoroughly, and all the patches of dead skin were torn down forcefully by him.

Now when he stared at his reflection, he felt like he was looking at a stranger.

He seemed more handsome now, with red lips and white teeth. His skin was so soft that it seemed it would break at the slightest touch. Moreover, it was extremely glossy like a layer of fat was slithered over it. Under his thick eyebrows, a pair of burning black eyes could be seen.

Compared to his slightly dark and ordinary appearance before, he was like a completely different person now!

Staring at the mirror, Chen Shouyi didn’t feel joy. He was shocked.

How should he go out?

Later when his parents saw this, he didn’t know if his explanation of being under the sun for too long would sound too far-fetched or not.

He glanced at his arm. With a gentle rub, another extremely large patch of dead skin fell off. Most probably, his entire skin had completely changed.

He quickly undressed and went to take a bath, washing all the dead skin away.

After returning to his room, a vexed expression appeared on his face.

How should he explain this?

It was impossible for him to keep staying in the bedroom. Even if he did, he couldn’t avoid his family forever.

At this moment, he glanced at the bedroom window. An idea struck him, and he hurriedly opened the window and glanced below.

Below, there was a little alley there, and his room was about four to five meters away from the ground. Chen Shouyi felt that with his current strength and physique, there shouldn’t be a problem for him to jump down. As for the explanation, he would wait until nightfall before he gave one.

Who knows, perhaps if he basked in the sun for another day, his slightly dark skin might return?

Seeing the lone pedestrian gradually walking away, he took a few breaths and pushed open the window as he leaped down.

“Bang!” Chen Shouyi’s legs bent slightly before he stood up straight. It felt so effortless as though he had jumped down from a height of half a meter.

The pedestrian who had walked away turned his head back in puzzlement upon hearing the commotion, thinking that something had fallen from the sky. In the end, other than one more person behind him, there was nothing else.

Chen Shouyi smiled at him. After that, he walked near to his family restaurant and called out from afar.

“Mother, I will be going out with my classmates. I will only return at night.”

“Alright, be careful on the road.” Mother Chen who was currently sweeping the floor called out subconsciously upon hearing Chen Shouyi’s voice.

But something felt wrong. When did this child head out?

When she walked to the door, Chen Shouyi had long since vanished without a trace.