Dawn of a New Era

Chapter 650 624: Ruins

Attributes:

Strength: 22.3

Agility: 22.3

Constitution: 22.3

Intelligence: 22.2

Perception: 21.5

Will: 21.3

Energy Accumulation: 32.95

Faith Value: 450.34

In just fifteen days, his attributes had undergone a complete transformation, with all primary attributes, except for perception and will, increasing by 0.7 points on average. The effect was astonishing, and at the same time, the innate ability of the Super Giant Battle Body had increased from its original 12.01% to 28.1%.

Unfortunately, it was still not enough.

"There are only twenty-seven days left until the prophecy's deadline, which is just a month and a half on Earth days. Time is running out!" Chen Shouyi thought anxiously to himself.

Twenty-seven days meant he couldn't spend all his time on Forbidden Land exploration, as returning would also require time. Factoring in possible unexpected events, he decided to explore for ten more days and return regardless of the outcome.

He looked out into the dark world outside, where mysterious auroras danced like ribbons through the distant woods, carrying an eerie and enigmatic beauty.

Chen Shouyi checked the time; it was only three o'clock.

With a willful effort, he cleansed his body and lay down on the bed.

...

After sleeping for just two hours, before dawn, Chen Shouyi set out again with the two little ones.

This time, he unleashed complete carnage, mercilessly slaughtering any creature found with at least Weak Divine Power levels.

However, in reality, he only killed three after several days.

Creatures of this caliber weren't as common as cabbages; even in this mysterious and terrifying Forbidden Land, they weren't easily encountered. Moreover, with a limited exploration range, locating them was challenging.

As for harvests, his luck was nothing like last time.

As time ticked by, he grew increasingly anxious and even traveled at night, completely abandoning training.

At his level of power, progress through training had drastically slowed. Even if he dedicated most of his day to training, each attribute might only increase by 0.1 points, making it more worthwhile to take risks.

While taking risks might not alter the prophecy's outcome, not taking them certainly wouldn't.

...

Seven days later.

Chen Shouyi hid behind a rocky outcropping, gazing into the distance with a somber expression.

An immense, unseen force influenced the entire landscape, creating an oppressive and restless atmosphere.

Before him lay barren ground, an eerily barren terrain that resembled Hell, where a terrifying colossus lay feasting greedily.

This was a terrifying giant nearly thirty meters tall, with a ghastly, skull-like face that inspired dread. Mysterious blue patterns, like demonic markings, covered its whole body in dense arrays.

Inside the misty light that swirled around it, the surrounding air was chaotic, and occasionally thick arcs of lighting would flash in the air.

"What a terrifying creature!" Chen Shouyi silently mused, feeling a flurry of palpitations.

This was the most powerful creature he'd encountered here. To measure its threat, only the medium Divine Power-level God of Flames could likely compare.

Chen Shouyi had already instructed the two little ones to hide far away.

His gaze swept across the giant beast and landed on a nearby structure... or rather, a ruin.

The entirety of the ruin stretched imposingly up to a hundred meters high, sprawling over a million square meters. Withered vines like giant pythons crawled over it, with some parts collapsed and severely weathered, yet traces of patterns could still faintly be seen.

In this mostly primitive Forbidden Land, it was the first time Chen Shouyi had seen such a structure.

Some of the sinister creatures here were quite powerful and could compare to the Barbarian God.

However, their living habits remained primitive and indistinguishable from beasts. Perhaps due to their small numbers and lack of societal conditions, their material needs were limited to food, with no concept of construction.

Most sinister creatures simply found a random cave as a dwelling, while some even openly lay exposed on the ground.

In contrast, the Barbarian Gods outside the Forbidden Land could be deemed civilized.

This ruin, on the other hand, could be called enigmatic.

Chen Shouyi suspected the ruin existed longer than the Forbidden Land itself.

However, he wasn't an archaeology expert and had no interest in the history of foreign worlds.

Chen Shouyi looked again at the terrifying giant beast, which tore off a corpse's leg and crushed it with its sharp teeth, producing a crisp cracking sound.

He hesitated for a moment.

Then, taking a deep breath, he opened the attribute panel.

He allocated 7,000 faith points to the Giant Battle Body.

A dozen seconds later, as the tingling sensation faded.

The original 28.01% Giant Battle Body.

Had become 35.01%.

The beast seemed to sense something, halting its movement as its blood-red, murderous eyes fixed in Chen Shouyi's direction.

For a moment, the whole world seemed to darken.

Endless pressure poured down.

For caution's sake, Chen Shouyi had positioned himself over twenty kilometers away, but even so, it appeared to have had no effect. The moment he developed a murderous intent, the creature had already detected him.

If that were the case, he saw no need to hide anymore.

There was nothing to fear; if he couldn't eliminate it, in another month, he'd likely just be courting death.

He no longer had any retreat.

Reputation was a double-edged sword. As awareness grew, he now accumulated over six hundred faith points daily, an invisible pressure. While others could hide in peace, he couldn't.

To face life and death indifferently, refuse to yield!

The dead go upward, the living survive for a millennium!

Chen Shouyi took out his armor from the space and armed himself swiftly, and his body rapidly expanded.

In the blink of an eye, a giant over sixty meters tall stood towering on the ground,

From the initial 12.01% progress when he entered the Forbidden Land, to the current 35.01%, the progress had tripled, and his height had increased from over forty meters to over sixty meters, showing little change. In terms of size calculation, his strength seemed to have increased by about threefold.

But in fact, it was much more. With the energy within him growing multi-fold, his strength had not increased by threefold, but by at least fivefold.

In terms of attributes, his strength and constitution had reached 48.2 points.

Translated into specific data, his raw arm strength had reached ninety thousand tons, and each blow consumed energy equivalent to hundreds of tons of TNT, or one hundred thousand volts of electricity—a veritable humanoid nuclear weapon.

Lightning crackled across his body as the wind howled around him.

A large amount of rubble floated up from the ground.

The giant beast, seeing the massive creature in the distance larger than itself, abruptly dropped its food and stood up suddenly, on high alert. This colossal being made it feel a strong sense of crisis.

A vast and tiny, the two giants stared at each other across the distance.

The air became agitated, as clouds above moved rapidly, appearing and dissipating in an instant, rejuvenating from nothingness.

Within a hundred-kilometer radius, all was silent, not a sound could be heard.

Chen Shouyi clenched his fist, and the air gave out a bursting roar, before he strode forward in large steps.