Dawn of a New Era

Chapter 597 - 571: Cruelty

"Bomb?"

Chen Shouyi watched for a moment, suddenly his whole body shook, and his scalp tingled.

"No, this is a nuclear bomb!"

In its natural state, the critical mass of U-235 is 48 kilograms to cause an explosion, but an atomic bomb initiates with high explosives causing super-compression of the U (which can reduce the critical mass), and it only needs a minimum of 15 kilograms to trigger a nuclear explosion.

And 15 kilograms, an ordinary soldier can carry it easily.

The Land of Radiance has no planes or artillery for delivery vehicles, but clearly has its own method... a human nuclear bomb.

The sky was dark, and a "nuclear angel" with pure white wings emerged from the pitch-black curtain, diving towards him with an aura of destruction.

"Damn! Watch out for the nuclear bomb!"

Chen Shouyi roared loudly, and the next moment, he stomped heavily.

The ground exploded with a "boom," the surface undulating like waves.

His enormous body instantly reached supersonic speed, the originally intense artillery sounds of the battlefield suddenly became completely quiet.

Silence, soundlessness.

Only a gigantic figure, enveloped in dense air, was sprinting wildly, creating a thunderous roar all the way, with a terrifying shockwave lifting the ground, turning over to both sides, the grass and trees bending over.

His heart was pounding fiercely, hair standing on end, around him, time seemed to slow down.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

In the next moment, a blinding light illuminated the entire sky, turning night into day.

This light was indescribable.

The whole world became glaringly bright, while he felt a scorching heat on his back.

He abruptly closed his eyes, exerted force, and ran furiously.

A second later, the light gradually dimmed.

He slowly stopped, turned around to look.

Two kilometers away, a small mushroom cloud was slowly rising.

Where he once stood, a large hole dozens of meters in diameter appeared, a radius of two hundred meters around it was in ruins, grass and trees broken, smoke curling, fortunately, the soldiers behind him had long retreated far away, estimating there were no casualties.

Chen Shouyi looked at his arm exposed to radiation, finding it unscathed.

"Haha, it’s okay."

"Damn, scared the hell out of me!"

Chen Shouyi thought anxiously, still feeling lingering fears, his heart still pounding violently.

...

The thunderous roar of the nuclear bomb caused the gunfire and artillery of the battlefield to pause momentarily.

Then it became even more intense, before long, piercing alarms went off again.

Half a minute later, the rear’s nuclear artillery began to counterattack, several giant shells flew across the battlefield, emitting sharp whistles, finally exploding in mid-air over a dozen kilometers from the frontline.

It was as if multiple fiery suns appeared in the sky, their blinding light lingering.

As for the excessive nuclear radiation, on a battlefield like a meat grinder where death might come at any moment, no one cared.

The "Angel" legion also began their counterattack.

Occasionally on the battlefield, nuclear flashes erupted, making day and night alternate.

Terrifying!

The war began to exhibit its most terrifying state: mutual attrition.

However, compared to the nuclear bombs of the Great Xia Country, those of the Land of Radiance were much smaller, with only a yield of one to two kilotons.

Moreover, to counter nuclear warfare, soldiers were extremely dispersed, combined with fortified trenches, a battlefield stretching over a hundred kilometers, small yield nuclear bombs could not yet decide a war.

The brutal war lasted for four hours.

It finally ended before dawn.

The attacking Angel Legion was basically annihilated, the sporadic remaining angels swiftly retreated.

After all, the Great Xia Country does not have the strong religious beliefs of the European Union.

For the soldiers of the European Union, angels are sacred, holy, messengers of God.

Opposing such beings has an imaginable impact on morale.

But for most soldiers of the Great Xia Country, there was no such concept, aside from the initial mental shock, they quickly adapted, their fighting spirit and morale became stronger.

However, this victory was still a pyrrhic one!

The entire battlefield, smoke lingering, almost every ten kilometers there was a nuclear crater, sometimes an entire trench was full of charred corpses.

Chen Shouyi roughly estimated the exchange ratio of angel and soldier casualties, reaching a terrifying one to ten.

For every angel killed, ten soldiers died.

Fortunately, the number wasn’t large, otherwise, the outcome of this war might still be uncertain.

...

On the battlefield.

Chen Shouyi squatted wearily on a large rock.

Watching the soldiers move corpses past him in silence, he felt mentally and physically exhausted, this was the most brutal war he had ever experienced.

He had dodged three nuclear explosions.

His nine-meter-tall body and powerful combat ability undoubtedly made him the most prominent target on the battlefield.

Fortunately, the nuclear yield was relatively small, each time narrowly escaping danger.

At this time, a cigarette was tossed over.

Without looking, Chen Shouyi reached out to catch it, placed it in his mouth, and the cigarette tip automatically lit.

Ye Zong leaned against a huge rock, asked, "How did you do that?"

"What do you mean how did I do it?" Chen Shouyi raised an eyebrow, looked up with a puzzled expression.

"Lighting the cigarette!"

"Oh, if you want to do it, you can do it!" Chen Shouyi took a puff, exhaled a mouthful of white smoke, said wearily, the whole person seemed a bit listless.

Ye Zong: ...

"You don’t know how to smoke!"

"How did you tell?" Chen Shouyi was curious, he thought he smoked quite naturally.

"Just looking at you smoke, I know you’re not inhaling it into your lungs!" Ye Zong said.

"Ha, got caught!"

The two had an awkward chat.

The atmosphere fell silent, and they quietly smoked.

Occasionally the battlefield echoed with wails and faint sobs.

"Are you confident in dealing with the God of Light?" Ye Zong suddenly asked.

Chen Shouyi shook his head; weak divine power was naturally no problem for him.

The key is that this God of Light is definitely not an ordinary true god, he had never seen a Barbarian God who had such a heavy toll on human armies even before showing their true form.

Its terrifying extent even surpassed the God of Shadow and Fear.

"What if I assist with arrows?"

Chen Shouyi glanced at him, still shook his head.

Ye Zong felt stifled seeing this.

Shaking his head is one thing, but what does that look in your eyes mean?

Even though he was the first legendary strongman of the Great Xia Country, topping the charts for over a decade, he was being underestimated!

Admittedly, he had never killed a true god, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t... right?

He recalled the terrifying high-speed moving figure from the battlefield earlier, then threw away his cigarette, frustrastingly lit another.

Forget it.

Against this kind of freak, there’s nothing to care about.

At this time Chen Shouyi glanced at his attribute panel, suddenly startled.

He found his will had reached 19.7 points, an increase of 0.3 points.

Indeed, a battlefield of life and death is the fastest way to increase will.

He hadn’t endured those nuclear bombs in vain!

"I’m heading back first, you keep sitting!" Chen Shouyi said to Ye Zong.

"For what?" Ye Zong asked curiously.

"Training." Chen Shouyi said, patted his buttocks, and hurried off.

Ye Zong took a few more puffs, seeing Chen Shouyi getting further, quickly discarded his cigarette.

What am I sitting around for?

Damn!

The scariest thing in life isn’t that someone is more outstanding than you, but that those more outstanding than you are also working harder!

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