Dawn of a New Era - Chapter 53

Chapter 53: Shadow

Translator: Lordbluefire  Editor: Lordbluefire

Suddenly, arrows showered down like rain.

Within just a mere five seconds, Chen Shouyi had shot out eight arrows consecutively.

It was a pity that only five arrows hit the target.

A distance of 70 to 80 meters was still considered a little too far for him. In addition to the fact that his canoe was bumpy in the seas, his accuracy was even lower.

Thankfully, the numbers made up for it.

Seeing the two barbarians falling, he let out a long exhale and put the battle bow to the side.

He then continued to row and get close to the canoe slowly.

The shell girl, who had been so frightened earlier that she went to hide, saw that things were alright now. She flew out before Chen Shouyi tried to cajole her, taking the initiative to check out the targets on the canoe in the distance. She soon flew back in fright.

“This is bad, this is bad! One giant died! One giant is still alive!”

(Can you not be so flustered? I thought something serious happened!)

Chen Shouyi looked at the shell girl, who appeared anxious as she reminded him of the situation. He felt a little helpless.

Other than the one who had been shot in the head and died on the spot, the other barbarian had only been struck by two arrows in the chest. How could he die so quickly?

He rowed the canoe slowly, and after a minute, he finally got close to the other canoe.

The barbarian who was still alive kept on spurting blood from his mouth, his eyes filled with horror.

Chen Shouyi pulled the canoe’s rope with one hand and held onto his sword with the other. He then jumped over to the other canoe.

That barbarian put up an intense struggle for a while, but the two triangular prism arrowheads in his chest had already sapped all his strength.

“How many people are there in your tribe?” Chen Shouyi walked up, pointed his sword to the barbarian’s throat, and asked coldly.

The barbarian glared fiercely.

“Siklo, Hobigusaba, will kill you.”

After blurting this, he spurted out a mouthful of blood and stopped breathing altogether.

Chen Shouyi had focused his attention. However, he only managed to make sense of the last few words.

His countenance turned a little grim.

Although he didn’t understand what the words in front meant, he could tell from the last line that this barbarian tribe clearly had an existence they relied on, and they were certain that the existence would be able to kill him.

Chen Shouyi couldn’t be bothered to deal with this canoe and immediately jumped back to his own.

He took out that common language dictionary.

Rapidly checking for the terms, going down the list based on the pronunciation, he didn’t take long and found the first line.

It was a word that had a general meaning of deceased spirit, hell, and evil existence. Based on the scenario, this term was clearly used to address him. It should have been used as an evil existence.

Was this how he was viewed by the barbarian?

He fell silent.

He continued to search for the second line. This phrase sounded a little blurry when it was spoken, and he could only search through the dictionary based on the rough memory he had.

In the end, he only found two syllables, one of which had the meaning of tree, while the other was holy or divine. He couldn’t find anything else despite flipping through the dictionary.

“Divine tree?”

“Or is it holy tree?”

“This means that there’s a tree in the tribe that’ll kill me.” Chen Shouyi thought to himself.

If someone on Earth were to say that a tree would kill him, Chen Shouyi would definitely snort in contempt.

However, in this world, some powerful plants also had supernatural powers. Some of them could even roam around on land like animals.

At this moment, he couldn’t help but recall the mysterious object he had obtained from the barbarians’ tribe leader previously. It was like the pit of a fruit.

A layer of shadow shrouded his heart.

He looked toward the island that was still far away.

The island was covered in green, and it looked like a stretch of densely packed forest from the distance.

It might be that he had been looking at it for very long that for some reason, the forest suddenly appeared gloomy to him, as if it was covered in a layer of shadow.

He quickly squeezed his eyelids down, then took another careful look. Everything had returned to normal.

“Was it an illusion, or was it just something psychological?”

Chen Shouyi was a little uncertain.

However, he had come hurriedly today and didn’t have enough time.

He just wanted to check out the route and had no plans on disembarking onto the island.

Three hours should have passed, and he’d have to spend the same amount of time to head back. It’d already be dark on Earth by then.

He stared from the distance for a while and decided to head back first. Maybe he would make plans tomorrow or the day after.

He tied the barbarians’ canoe with his own using ropes and then rowed back.

With another canoe in tow, his speed was a lot slower. By the time he returned to the small island, five hours had already passed.

Before he left, he cleaned up by the pool nearby to wash off the filth on him. He then washed off the few blood stains that had gotten onto his clothes.

After coming out from the space channel…

Other than the few buildings that had an independent electricity supply, the other places were all completely pitch-black.

The electricity still hadn’t come back.

The streets were cold and empty. Other than a few cars that spewed out heavy smoke behind them, he was the only one walking on the entire street.

Of course, there were also a few policemen.

As his whereabouts was abnormal, Chen Shouyi had been stopped and questioned by the police a few times on his way back.

Thankfully, his slightly young-looking face was his best camouflage.

Who would have expected that he had just killed two barbarians and gotten rid of a human corpse while keeping a straight face not long ago?

“Don’t be roaming on the streets. Where is your home? Go back immediately!”

“Alright, alright! I’m rushing home right now!”

…

“Dad! Mom! I’m back, open the door.”

“Why did you still come back? What time is it now?” When the roller gates were pulled up, Mother Chen scolded him with a grim countenance.

“Mom, I really had something to attend to today and went a little further. I wasn’t able to make it back in time even though I rushed back.” Chen Shouyi’s head shrank back, and he quickly darted in.

“What is it that you had to do?”

“I can’t say. It’s something important!” Chen Shouyi tried to be vague about it.

Mother Chen’s thoughts seemed to have run off, and her attitude suddenly became a little better. “That’s still not a reason for you to come back so late. It’s so dangerous outside. Someone in the neighborhood died again.”

“Mom, what are you so worried about? If I can take the test, I’d already be a martial apprentice!”

Sensing his mother’s worry, Chen Shouyi suddenly felt that he should display his capabilities to her. Otherwise, his parents would be on tenterhooks every time he was to come back late.

He looked around and picked up a bowl from the restaurant’s square table. As if he was crushing a piece of biscuit, he easily broke off a piece from the bowl. He then pinched on it, as if wanting to use his fingers to crush it.

“Ai! You don’t want your hand anymore?” Mother Chen turned pale and couldn’t help but gasp.

Before she finished her words, Chen Shouyi’s fingers had pressed down hard and rubbed together. As a result, a horrifying sound rang out and some powder scattered down.

“Quickly let me see if you cut your hand!” Mother Chen said anxiously as she grabbed Chen Shouyi’s hand.

Chen Shouyi opened up his hand. Other than having exerted too much force with his pointer finger and thumb, resulting in them appearing a little red, his other fingers and palm were completely unscathed.

“See, I’m completely fine.” Chen Shouyi then rubbed his fingers together, looking a little proud.

Having an astonishing constitution of 13.8, his skin that looked as tender as baby’s ass was actually very tough. If an ordinary person were to take a normal dagger and pierce him, the blade probably wouldn’t be able to go through if the person didn’t use their full strength.

“Pa!” Chen Shouyi felt a sharp pain at the back of his head.

“See how proud you’re looking now. Do you think I can’t rein you in anymore? If you do something like this again, I’ll give you a beating!”