Dawn of a New Era

Unfortunately, no matter how worried, Chen Shouyi had nothing to do.

I don't know how many kilometers away from the island!

Even if they wanted to save those believers, they were completely powerless.

He looked at the brightest star in the sky, and in a trance, he saw a figure kneeling on the ground praying devoutly,

She is not a priest or patriarch in the tribe, but an inconspicuous and aging female barbarian, her dry face is full of wrinkles left by the years.

As a woman who is old and frail and can no longer reproduce, she is almost at the bottom of the tribe.

However, he is the most devout of all his followers.

...

As soon as the sacrifice was over, preparations for battle began soon.

The young and strong in the tribe picked up their spears and quickly hid in the cellar, preparing to rely on the cellar for defense.

It's a pity that the invading barbarians who came this time were not a single canoe, but a total of thirty or so. The barbarians who came over were not just a few, but eight or nine hundred people, and each canoe was full of people. people.

Children, women, young and old, except for the absence of old people, these barbarians are completely dragging their families and migrating.

In fact, it is true.

This tribe came from another small island hundreds of kilometers away, and they drifted all the way in search of a new habitat.

It stands to reason that the sea is not like the land, and the whole tribe can carry out a migration at any time.

Sea monsters, storms, and huge waves may engulf this tribe in the sea at any time. Even if you are lucky, finding a small island where you can migrate in the vast sea is a matter of little luck.

Not to mention in this bleak winter.

If the whole tribe is not in a desperate situation, it will not migrate at all.

Since more than ten years ago, the totem provided by the tribe tried to provoke a stranded sea monster, but was bitten to death by the opponent's counterattack.

The situation of the tribe is going from bad to worse.

The natural spirits on the island began to flood and become more and more rampant.

The entire island has become gloomy, and often a small illness can take the life of a clansman.

Of course, if it was only this level, it wouldn't be risking the entire tribe being wiped out, fleeing to the sea, and fighting for that chance of survival.

As long as life is barely passable, it's fine to endure and suffer.

However, a year ago, after devouring countless souls, a certain powerful natural spirit finally broke through a certain boundary and became a terrifying existence. It even directly began to devour life.

First the insects died out, and then the lesser animals.

Small islands are small and fragile ecosystems, interlocking and indispensable.

The so-called big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat dried shrimps. With the extinction of the shrimp layer, the entire ecological chain will completely collapse.

Soon the tribe couldn't find much food anymore and had to survive on a limited catch of fish, but it wasn't enough.

In just one year, only more than 900 young adults and children remained in the entire tribe of more than 1,300 people.

There is no old man left!

Why he died is self-evident.

Seeing that the harsh winter was coming, but there were still not many food reserves, the tribe's patriarch finally broke the boat and began to escape from the island, looking for the ray of life.

...

Canoes ran aground on the beach, and a large number of barbarians boarded the island excitedly.

It didn't take long for this group of people to discover traces of barbarian activities on the island, and quickly found the hiding place. Seeing that a fight to seize the sovereignty of the island was coming, they found a statue of a god.

All the invading barbarians suddenly became hesitant.

The reason why the god statue is considered a god statue is because it has its own field of belief, otherwise it is just an ordinary statue.

The power of the field of belief is quite weak, so it drives away some weak natural spirits, and makes believers in it become more devout subtly, and it is difficult for ordinary people to even feel its existence.

But for unbelievers, especially pagans, they can feel the majesty and exclusion faintly emanating from the field of belief.

In this different world with mysterious power, respecting and fearing God has been imprinted in the bones of the barbarians.

Gods and tribes, to a certain extent, are interdependent. Gods (including divine creatures or powerful supernatural creatures) protect tribes to develop and multiply, drive away natural spirits and powerful enemies, and tribes support gods.

Invading a tribe protected by gods or powerful beings is simply asking for death.

What follows is a dramatic development.

After some testing, threats, and negotiations.

The two tribes merged quickly, and re-elected the patriarch according to the size of the fist.

The former patriarch of the small island tribe lost the election without any suspense, and even faced the opponent's strong physique that was a head taller, he flinched and did not dare to compete at all.

Back then, the entire tribe had been killed by Chen Shouyi and there were no decent strongmen, and the new patriarch was only selected from the tallest of the short ones, just an ordinary barbarian.

The barbarians have long been accustomed to the strong being respected, and have no concept of racial honor or disgrace. Under this situation, the regime has changed extremely smoothly without causing the slightest disturbance.

For ordinary barbarians in the original tribe, life is still how to live. Even the newly elected powerful patriarch made them more or less happy.

In this regime change, the only thing that has not changed is the priests.

Because priests communicate with the gods and are the spokespersons of theocracy, not everyone can replace them.

...

Chen Shouyi watched blankly, a more grand sacrifice than before was held in full swing.

The power of faith, which was not left at all, gradually became stronger again.

The stars representing believers in the sky quickly changed from more than 200 to more than 300, to more than 400...

He couldn't turn his mind around for a while.

Didn't you encounter a strong enemy?

Isn't the tribe about to be destroyed?

Why did it take only half a day, and the number of believers not only did not decrease, but doubled.

Even this is because of the beginning.

As the faith develops, believers will grow rapidly.

Chen Shouyi looked at it for a while, then looked away speechlessly.

He found that it was too easy to spread the belief in another world. It seemed that there was no need to spend any thought at all, just stock it, and it would grow wildly by itself.

After a while, he exited the book of knowledge space.

What a giant, are you finally awake? Shell Girl jumped off his shoulder and said loudly.

There was a bug that wanted to eat you just now, but luckily I beat you to death bravely. She said softly with an expression on her face that she was about to praise me.

Where? Chen Shouyi asked.

Here! Shell Girl snapped her little finger.

After identifying it for a long time, he saw that there was a small ant-sized bug pinched by Shell Girl under his feet.

Thank you so much! Chen Shouyi said with a raised eyebrow.

When Shell Girl heard this, she smiled happily and said softly, Because you are such a giant, I want to protect you.

Chen Shouyi was speechless.

Did you not understand the tone of my words?

How did this stupid creature survive? He suspected that if she hadn't been born on a deserted island with no natural enemies, she would definitely have died within a day.

He ignored her, patted his butt, got up and stood up.

Push away the rock blocking the hole.

Picked up some dry firewood and started preparing the delayed breakfast.

However, today is not destined to be peaceful, the heart of the giant beast is only half-cooked, a female warrior who passed by here before, ran towards this side in a panic, her clothes have been torn by the thorns on the road, bloodstains are all over her body, and her face is full of panic .

As soon as she saw Chen Shouyi, she relaxed her mind. She fell and didn't know it. She stood up quickly, out of breath, and shouted excitedly: President... Chief Counselor, please...you, help me The...companion!