Dawn of a New Era-Chapter 455 - 429: Legend (Part 2)

His body grew increasingly hot, sweat pouring from every pore and evaporating rapidly.

The intense heat radiating from him warmed the cold room considerably.

His body began to dehydrate.

His lips became parched and cracked.

However, his expression grew more excited, and a bright light shone from his eyes.

The next moment, a tremendous boom echoed in his mind, his thoughts momentarily blank, and his vision bursting with brilliance.

An indescribable power began to germinate from within.

The air around his body began to shimmer slightly. Everywhere, including his muscles, internal organs, skin, even his bones and marrow, tingled with an itchy numbness like ants crawling, while strands of warm energy sprouted from every part of his body.

The intense heat within him seemed to find an outlet, receding rapidly, and correspondingly, the energy swelled swiftly, each cell of his body seemingly soaked in it.

The hair that had grown out without being shaved, moved without wind, and the fine dust in the air vibrated violently.

A few minutes later, Chen Shouyi stopped:

"I’m dying of thirst!"

Without checking the results of this transformation, he grabbed a teacup and downed the cooled cold water in one gulp.

But still unsatisfied, he picked up the thermos, poured a steaming cup of hot water, and drank it in quick gulps, not minding the heat.

After drinking three cups in a row, Chen Shouyi finally felt a bit relieved and let out a long breath.

At this moment, he looked at everything before him with a slightly dazed expression. Upon stepping into the legendary realm, the whole world seemed to unveil a veil of mystery before him, presenting an unprecedented reality.

He could vaguely see Earth’s magnetic field, the luminous life energy emitted by the Shell Lady not far away, the thin resentment permeating the air, and even faintly hear the wailing before death.

In a moment of distraction, all these illusory visions shattered like soap bubbles, vanishing instantly.

But as soon as he concentrated his mind, these anomalies reappeared.

"So this is what it means to be legendary, the peak of human, the strongest beneath the deity!" Chen Shouyi pondered within.

He decided to cease thinking about these matters and opened the attribute panel.

Strength: 18.1

Agility: 18.1

Constitution: 18.1

Intelligence: 17.9

Perception: 15.8

Will: 16.9

This time’s breakthrough to legend did not cause an exponential change in attributes. The previously stagnant strength, agility, and constitution started growing again, each rising by 0.1 points.

However, for him, this was more than sufficient.

Especially since intelligence also increased by 0.1, which was an unexpected joy.

It remains to be seen if there will be further growth in the future.

"Seems like I’ve broken through the shackles of the human body." Chen Shouyi mused, "Perhaps now even my genes are quite different from ordinary humans, reaching another level of life."

He was elated, briefly glancing over the skills section, before continuing.

"Innate Abilities:

Natural Healing;

Atmospheric Control (Advanced): 2.64%;

Giant Battle Body (Intermediate): 80.53%."

"Level: Divine Creature, Legendary Being;"

Chen Shouyi sharply noticed that after reaching legendary status, the progress in atmospheric control increased by 0.5 percentage points, while the progress in Giant Battle Body grew by 4.22 percentage points.

Unexpectedly, the greatest surprise was here.

Though the numerical increase seemed small, the improvement in power was quite significant, especially the innate ability of the Giant Battle Body. Previously, spending 10 Faith Value points increased it by 1 percentage point, enhancing the power by twenty percent after a giant transformation.

This time, with an increase of 4.22 percentage points, no doubt, the power boost in transformation will be even greater.

He moved his body slightly, feeling as if every part was soaking in a hot spring, everything at ease, body light as a feather with not a hint of sluggishness!

Walking to the window, gazing at the patrolling soldiers outside, he dismissed the idea of testing the giant transformation outside.

...

"Bang bang bang!"

Chen Shouyi, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly awoken by the urgent knocking on the door.

He quickly dressed in his clothes and pants, opened the door.

Two officers stood outside.

"What’s the matter?"

"Emergency situation, the Barbarians are launching a large-scale breakout, the frontline soldiers can’t hold on any longer..."

"I’ll get my weapons!" Chen Shouyi’s heart sank, immediately returning to his room.

By the time he reached the hotel entrance.

Two other Martial Artists were already waiting, looking exhausted with bloodshot eyes.

...

Hundreds of trucks formed a long dragon, carrying a large number of soldiers, speeding forward.

In the foremost vehicle, three Martial Artists sat together.

"Is this situation frequent?" Chen Shouyi asked.

"Every one or two days, perhaps!" Xu Zhangtian yawned, forcibly perking up, "Sometimes, more than ten thousand, at times several thousand. The Barbarians aren’t fools, they know continuing this way leads only to death, often attempting a breakout."

"I wonder how many will die this time!" Lu Lingbo said heavily from the side.

Of course, she wasn’t referring to the Barbarians, but the human soldiers!

Listening to the distant rumble like thunderous artillery fire, Chen Shouyi remained silent.

This war between humans and the otherworld, humans had sacrificed way too much.

The convoy advanced at full speed, reaching the front line within a few minutes.

Under the moonlight, the city was filled with thick smoke, and a large number of wounded were being carried and withdrawn from the frontline.

On the battlefield, soldiers and Barbarians intermingled, completely lacking any specific frontlines or defensible positions.

A building here, a parking lot there, a residential area elsewhere, could all serve as a battleground.

The unpredictable Barbarians, the rain of bullets.

The ruthlessness of urban warfare was vividly apparent.

The role of Martial Artists here, similar to Hedong, was to clear out the stubborn Barbarian elements breaking through.

Although freshly ascended to legendary status, Chen Shouyi was eager to try but still adhered to military command.

Killing one Barbarian strongman was more beneficial than taking out a hundred regular ones. Regular Barbarian soldiers could be handled by Martial Artist Level soldiers, but a Barbarian strongman could cause massive casualties among them.

Most of the losses were caused by those Barbarian strongmen.

...

The relentless warfare continued until three in the morning when the Barbarians’ frantic breakout finally receded like the tide.

Chen Shouyi had killed a total of three Martial Master Level Barbarians and, in passing, more than fifty regular Barbarians.

On the way back in the vehicle.

Lu Lingbo suddenly remarked, "Feng Hansong is dead!"

"Dead, when?" Chen Shouyi hurriedly asked, incredulous.

Just the day before yesterday, the two were having tea together, chatting and laughing, and now he was gone.

"While on a mission, I saw his body on a rooftop terrace of a building!" Lu Lingbo murmured, her head slightly lowered, as she gently caressed her sword.

Beside her, Xu Zhangtian was silent for a long while before suddenly sighing, "Wang Qiang is dead, Li Huaming too, who knows whose turn it’ll be next time!"

Chen Shouyi felt a faint pang of sorrow in his heart but remained silent, it was evident that these were all military Martial Artists.

The number of military Martial Artists had always been considerable, possibly greatly outnumbering the civilian Martial Artists if all military regions were combined, but losing three in just a few days of attrition at this rate, even the military wouldn’t hold for long!

...

By the following evening, reinforcements from another division arrived in Pingzhou, along with two more military Martial Artists.

Chen Shouyi still didn’t recognize any of them!

He considered this a positive thing,

when another Martial Artist fell on the battlefield,

it felt like the loss of a stranger without any connection to him.

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