"Get up! Get up! All of you, get up! Prepare for battle now! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!"
Boom, boom, boom!
"Charge!!"
Clang, clang, clang!!
"Enemy attack?" In his sleep, Li Xiaoya suddenly heard an overwhelming cacophony. He jolted awake and sat bolt upright, feeling inexplicably exhausted...
Of course!
The war had been raging for months. He had spent those months risking his life and had not slept properly in all that time. No wonder even getting up felt like a struggle...
If I'd known, I never would have enlisted...! Li Xiaoya thought without knowing why... He hurriedly grabbed the long saber beside him, its edge already somewhat curled... Just as he was about to get up... the others were noisily scrambling to their feet as well...
Suddenly!
An exceedingly shrill whoosh! tore through the air, and the tent over the entire barracks abruptly caved inward...
"What's happening?" Li Xiaoya had not even had time to react...
Crash!! A boulder weighing several thousand pounds smashed a huge hole through the tent and came crashing toward his head. In an instant, Li Xiaoya instinctively leaped aside... Though he was only a common soldier, he had spent months walking the line between life and death, accumulating considerable combat experience... and skill at escaping with his life...
However.
With a muffled thud!, Li Xiaoya's airborne body slammed heavily into the ground...
"Ah!! Ah!!" Li Xiaoya screamed in utter terror...
Although Li Xiaoya had reacted, he had still been too slow. Half his body had failed to escape the falling boulder, leaving that entire side a bloody mess, clearly crushed to pieces... An unbearably intense pain swept through him. He screamed and desperately tried to push the boulder away... Somehow, he was still alive...
But how could he possibly move it...? He only felt his