Dawn of a New Era

Chapter 39: After The Calamity

Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
Now, a drama-like scene unfolded.

The tribe leader’s death caused the morale of the barbarians to sink to the bottom. Panic started to spread.

This was a primitive tribe of a few hundred people, and they hadn’t developed to the point of having any agricultural civilization yet. Thus, they still depended on hunting and fishing to obtain food for their survival.

Who could hunt the most prey, who could allow the tribe members to fill their bellies, who could protect their tribe? The person who could do all this would naturally be the tribe leader.

Just like a monkey king in a group of monkeys, the competition to become the tribe leader was always intense and cruel. They would have to face countless challenges at any time. Back then, due to declining strength and old age, those old but smarter tribe leaders would take the initiative to ‘abdicate’ their position or they would have been killed in a challenge by a stronger competitor.

Precisely because of this, each tribe leader would be the most terrifying and strongest warrior of the tribe.

The death of such a character would have a tremendous impact on the barbarian tribe, an organization with a loose structure.

…

Just when Chen Shouyi was preparing to take the chance to flee back to the space channel, the remaining barbarians hurriedly clutched their paddles in a panic. They worked together and pushed off in tandem, slowly moving back toward the sea.

Chen Shouyi ran a few steps and upon hearing no commotion from his back, he involuntarily turned his head.

They actually fled?

Upon seeing this scene, his mind still couldn’t react. He turned his head back and ran a few more steps due to habit.

(“Wait a minute, since this is the case, why do I still need to run away?”)

It clearly indicated that he was diffident, lacking in confidence!

After he regained his senses, he turned around immediately and ran back via the original road.

Only after his feet touched water did he stop.

He aimed into the distant sky and fired some arrows while roaring to vent his emotions.

“Come back, let me kill you all!”

“I will cut away your…eh?!”

He suddenly stopped, not knowing what the word for ‘head’ was. He hadn’t learned the term yet.

However, this wouldn’t affect the actual result. The barbarians had a terrified look on their faces when they looked at the terrifying character wielding the fearsome weapon continuing to unleash attacks. They hurriedly rushed back to their canoes.

……

Initially, the information the tree god oracle had given was already ambiguous and unclear.

As a creature with divinity that had yet to ignite its godfire, its ability was somewhat limited. Its prediction of danger was also very indistinct. It only faintly sensed that there was danger from the west.

But as to the degree of danger, it wasn’t clear at all as the feeling was extremely blurry. Maybe, it was only a small danger where a few of its believers would die. Or maybe, it would be a danger large enough to even kill it.

But when the information was passed down by the oracle, the barbarians would undoubtedly overinterpret it.

This operation had gathered the majority of the young and strong of the barbarian’s tribe to deal with this tribe-extinction-level danger.

In the end, even before they had finished landing on the tiny island, over half of their numbers had died. Even their strongest tribe leader had perished in the enemy’s hands.

This only proved the oracle’s prophecy. At the same time, in the eyes of the barbarians, Chen Shouyi was already treated like a man-devouring devil.

…

Chen Shouyi vented for a while. Seeing the two canoes moving further and further away, he finally sat down on the ground.

His entire body was completely devoid of strength.

He actually survived?

He survived under the pursuit and hunt of twenty-three barbarians!

His body faced up as he lay flat on the sandy shore, closing his eyes, allowing the rainwater to fall over him completely. A smile couldn’t help but appear on his face. After that, the sound of his laughter became increasingly louder.

The feeling of living was so damn good!

…

The rain gradually grew smaller, not long later, it ceased completely.

As the dark clouds faded, the sunlight cascaded down to the ground.

After lying flat on his back for a total of half-an-hour, he finally stood and walked toward the corpses.

Chen Shouyi’s wet clothes stuck to his body and even his shoes were filled with water. Every step he took produced a squeaky noise, causing him to feel extremely uncomfortable.

He decided to remove his upper robe.

However, he didn’t remove his shoes. The beach here wasn’t an artificial beach that was filtered before. There were many sharp stones and shell fragments. Most probably, the soft soles of his shoes would soon be torn apart.

There were a total of two corpses lying on the beach. One was the first barbarian that got killed and the second one was the body of the tribe leader.

There was no need for him to dispose of the other bodies.

There were many small-scale aquatic lifeforms, which were the best ‘cleaners’. In no time at all, these bodies would end up becoming bones.

He first checked the corpse of the ordinary barbarian. After that, he discovered that other than the beast skin covering him, he had no other items at all. As for that filthy beast skin that was full of holes, Chen Shouyi couldn’t even be bothered to cast another glance on it.

He lifted the corpses, trod into the seawater, and tossed it down before leaving.

After that, he walked toward the tall and muscular tribe leader.

Compared to that ordinary barbarian, this barbarian leader was clearly much richer. The glossy water-resistant beast skin around him was clearly extraordinary. It even emitted a faint fluorescent light.

He couldn’t help but touch it. However, he only felt that this was a little warm and wet, with a slight force of rejection.

This beast skin wasn’t something from an ordinary wild beast.

But it was a pity. This didn’t seem to be too useful and only appeared rare. Maybe Chen Shouyi could use this beast skin around him or make it into a leather shirt.

Ignoring the feeling of disgust, he pulled the beast skin away from the barbarian leader’s corpse.

After all, this was a spoil of his victory. It wasn’t too bad if he considered it a souvenir.

“Eh! What is this?”

When he pulled the beast skin off the barbarian leader’s body, something that resembled a core of fruit rolled out. It was about the size of a longan with sharp tips on both ends.

Chen Shouyi’s attention was instantly attracted by this object.

There were mysterious patterns on its surface, yet it seemed to be something half-transparent like a crystal. Under the sunlight, it shone dazzlingly. It was extremely beautiful.

Moreover, it seemed to have some magical power within. Chen Shouyi grew increasingly fonder the more he looked at it. He felt a stirring in his heart and he stretched his hand over to pick it up.

But who knew that the moment his finger came in contact with this mysterious ‘fruit core’, a strange thing immediately happened.

Faintly, there was a weak and gentle voice ringing out in his mind. It sounded low and was like the twittering of birds, brimming with temptation that caused people to involuntarily wish to listen to it.

His consciousness started to become somewhat blurry like he was sinking inside a dreamscape.

Although he knew his consciousness was blurry, his subconscious instinct began to resist it.

Gradually, the voice that was filled with temptation became extremely threatening, changing from amicable to frightening. Countless tiny voices were questioning and cursing in the depths of his heart.

At this moment, the mysterious voice in his mind seemed to be extremely alarmed, as though it was badly frightened by something. It gave a shrill shout and rapidly fled far away.

He shivered violently before recovering from his dazed state.

He only felt extremely absent-minded. As to the voice he had heard earlier, he had completely forgotten it.

Right now, he lowered his head and glanced at the mysterious ‘fruit core’.

However, a shocked expression appeared on his face. The fruit core was now filled with cracks seemingly from wind erosion. That mysterious dazzling light had also faded away. It no longer had that sense of temptation like before.

“Eh? Why does my body feel so hot?”