Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 217 - 214 Discordant Factors (2nd Update)

Chapter 217 -214 Discordant Factors (2nd Update)

Chapter 217 -214 Discordant Factors (2nd Update)

“Everyone’s having a great time, aren’t they?”

Jiang Qiao watched the players bustling around the carriage shop.

The players had turned the act of rushing into a fire to rescue Magic Thief civilians into a mini-game within the instance…

They were very satisfied with this mini-game. First, the rewards of the mini-game could be exchanged for the rarest cat-eared headgear; secondly, this mini-game allowed for the recruitment of a large number of new NPCs. Although these NPCs were just for use in daily life, to the players these were rewards even more exciting than god-tier equipment.

“Seeing them so happy, I should be happy too, but Jiang Qiao… I feel that it’s time to deal with the ‘main storyline’.”

Hai Lan floated next to Jiang Qiao as a Spiritual Body, puffing her cheeks. In the previous fight against the Magic Thief, Hai Lan had another fifty-three points of Creation Energy taken from her.

Those fifty-three points of Creation Energy were not considered a lot. Jiang Qiao could collect them again in less than a day, but the problem was… how did the Magic Thieves possess the ability to absorb Hai Lan’s power?

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The martial contest for marriage in the distance provided Jiang Qiao with the answer.

Aixin and the dreamlike challenge had continued for a total of twenty-seven times. The dreamlike challenge was a rich player, but she wasn’t a technical player, or it could be said that her skills were mediocre since she was already a ‘middle-aged’ person.

Her reaction time simply couldn’t compare to that of younger players.

This also resulted in the dreamlike challenge being quickly killed by Aixin, who was an elite of the Magic Thieves, within a few rounds the moment they fought.

But the dreamlike challenge hadn’t given up… After using up the one hundred Gold Coins she initially paid for challenge attempts, she then paid two hundred Gold Coins, three hundred Gold Coins.

This time the dreamlike challenge was truly determined to catch Aixin and take him back as the chief’s wife.

And as the most famous female streamer of Raccoon Livestream, her challenge naturally attracted many players’ attention, with a crowd of players surrounding the makeshift arena so tightly that not even water could seep through.

Players were focusing on how long the dreamlike challenge could last against Aixin and how many attempts she would need to defeat Aixin, this ‘PK super-strong technical boss’.

Jiang Qiao, however, was focused on… the bone dagger in Aixin’s hand.

“An Island Master level monster material made into a dagger? Even a weapon made from the remains can strip Hai Lan of her Creation Energy… This island is no ordinary existence.”

Jiang Qiao had realized the seriousness of the situation when he saw the dagger in Aixin’s hand, although Aixin could only strip away one to two points of Creation Energy each time he killed the dreamlike challenge.

But… What if such a weapon were mass-produced? There was no need for mass production if that Denghis Xisi acquired the power to control the island, then the trickiest problem would not be the gods of this world.

“I always feel like this place seems familiar, but I can’t remember… and I can’t bite through that wall.” Hai Lan floated above Jiang Qiao and pointed out to the wall leading to the second level.

“What? There are things in this world that you can’t remember, I know, but something you can’t bite through?”

Jiang Qiao’s gaze followed the direction Hai Lan was pointing and looked toward the wall at the end of the town.

The wall glowed faintly—it probably wasn’t the creation of the Magic Thieves… It was something extremely ancient. Jiang Qiao instinctively threw a detection spell towards that wall.

‘The Wall of No Return

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Description: The Devouring God seems to have been one of the creators of this wall, but besides the Devouring God, there are other existences that participated in the construction of this wall. It guards a secret… If a way to enter can be found, perhaps our main storyline could be further expanded.’

“Hey… That wall was created by you.” Jiang Qiao said, “Even if you can’t manage to eat through the wall, can’t you try to eat the dirt underneath it?”

“No… the wall’s protection is unified; even if I eat all the dirt below, I still can’t get in, and why should I eat dirt?” Hai Lan replied.

“Alright then.”

As Jiang Qiao pondered how to break through the wall, players had started bringing awakened Magic Thief civilians to Mechanical Craftsman Donna for registration.

The first to persuade these civilians was Black Pot Boiled Meat. He lived up to his reputation as the top-ranked in charismatic appeal among holy spirits, successfully convincing a middle-aged man and his only ten-year-old daughter to live at the base of the Vibrant Nucleus.

“Sir, if you were coerced, you can tell me.” Donna, played by the Lion Heart Knight, leaned on the counter of the carriage shop and addressed the middle-aged man.

“No… my daughter was saved by these spirits, and this is to repay them.” The middle-aged man appeared to be a mechanical craftsman, as he still wore a leather apron when he escaped.

While Jiang Qiao was staring at the middle-aged man, his daughter ran up to Jiang Qiao’s side… or more precisely, to the side of Jiang Qiao’s feathery companion.

“Big birdie!” She pulled at the feathers of the feathery creature, and Jiang Qiao’s round bird seemed very displeased with this nickname, glaring at the little girl with dangerous eyes.

“Little one… it has its own name.” Jiang Qiao squatted down in front of the little girl and said somewhat helplessly.

The little girl thought for a moment and then raised her hand and shouted out…

“Big Chick-pea~”

“…”

“Did I just hear a beep? People in spirit form shouldn’t have beeps when they curse, right?”

Momma Dog got up and followed the man who was cooking meat in the black pot, and then she turned her gaze toward the little girl beside Jiang Qiao.

“Big fucking chicken~” she yelled at the fatty again.

Her yell instantly attracted the attention of all the players nearby the carriage shop; it was their first time hearing forbidden words in Holy Spirit.

In Holy Spirit, there are harmonized vocabularies during chat, like some insulting words would turn into asterisks when typed, but to encounter forbidden words in voice chat was a first, and more crucially, these forbidden words were NPC dialogue?

“That’s cursing! Kid, don’t say it again.” Jiang Qiao now seemed somewhat flustered, being a game designer he could handle anything, the only exception being looking after children.

The little girl, as if in a rebellious phase, yelled a few more times, but all her words were censored into beeps.

“The first foul-mouthed NPC in Holy Spirit?”

“Fuck… even the system can’t stand it.”

“Arisa! Stop talking.” Her father hastily ran over to pick up the girl and quickly apologized to everyone around in Holy Spirit.

Jiang Qiao was relieved to see the little girl finally shut up, but soon a group chat notification popped up in his vision; he clicked on it… It was a message from the instance lord group, and Queen Mei had mentioned Jiang Qiao.

‘The middle-aged man’s appraisal revealed a very special attribute, and the Knight of Lion Heart thinks it should be confirmed through you, the agent, before letting the Holy Spirits hire him.’

A special attribute?

Jiang Qiao walked straight to the carriage shop… Here, Jiang Qiao could check the hire contract appraised by the Knight of Lion Heart earlier.

This contract detailed all the information about the middle-aged man, but under his potential for growth, there was a crimson entry titled ‘Blood Resonance S’.

To entice players into ‘whaling’, Jiang Qiao used quite a few deceptive tricks in the game, like the growth potential appraisal by NPCs, where the colors of different growth potential levels varied.

But for the most part, it was orange, purple, blue, in that order; Jiang Qiao had never seen a red growth entry before.

“Blood Resonance S…” Jiang Qiao clicked on the growth potential entry and only a simple line of description appeared.

‘This is an extremely uncontrollable direction for growth, characters with this growth direction may likely enter into a berserk state, and there are three hundred and eighty-four hours left before this growth entry disappears.’

“I’ve been had.”

The moment Jiang Qiao saw this entry… he understood what that guy Denghis Xisi was playing at.

“Should we discard this NPC?” Hai Lan quickly grasped the dilemma Jiang Qiao was facing.

Hai Lan couldn’t make too fine adjustments to the creations of other gods; if Hai Lan forcibly removed the ‘Blood Resonance S’ entry from the middle-aged man, there would only be one outcome… he would die a very miserable death, or… become a walking corpse.

“It might not just be this NPC.” Jiang Qiao shifted his gaze to behind him, where quite a few players had already persuaded those plebeian Magic Thieves and brought them before Old Man Donna for appraisal.

As Jiang Qiao expected… the appraisal revealed that all adult plebeians possessed the attribute ‘Blood Resonance S’.

These plebeians were not abandoned by Denghis Xisi; they were, in essence, gifts from Denghis Xisi to Jiang Qiao, only… they were all like ticking time bombs.

When they’d explode or how they’d do it, was something Jiang Qiao didn’t know.

“Should we discard all of them?” Hai Lan glanced at the open space next to the carriage shop, where the players had rescued close to fifty-four plebeians, which were essentially their spoils of war.

“Why discard them? Each one carries a massive amount of assimilation value, if we bring them to the players’ strongholds to cultivate, we could fully assimilate Biland Island in less than a month.”

Jiang Qiao felt that Denghis Xisi must have anticipated this… the battle for Biland Island was no longer a struggle of force.

Instead, it depended on farming!

Assimilation value was the most important indicator to completely swallow up Biland Island, and killing Magic Thieves or taking their plebeians was merely a means to increase assimilation value.

Denghis Xisi guessed that Jiang Qiao couldn’t possibly discard these… Crystal Disease Infected that could bring a vast amount of assimilation value.

“But what if they go berserk?” Hai Lan asked with some concern.

“If they go berserk, so what? This ploy of the enemy’s would be useful against Crystal Hunters, but for us players, we have one final cheat code,” Jiang Qiao said.

“Quick, what is it?”

“Save game,” Jiang Qiao said softly, “We spend some Creation Energy to record the players’ strongholds. If they’re destroyed due to reasons unacceptable to the players, we just roll back the strongholds to before the destruction.”

“But that roll-back only includes the buildings…” If Hai Lan remembered correctly, some player strongholds were inhabited by NPCs.

“NPCs recruited by us will be pulled back to the world of their true Holy Spirit bodies when near death, so there’s no chance of them being killed in action,” Jiang Qiao said. “But I still need to have the Knight warn the players that these NPCs are risky.”

“Alright…”

Hai Lan didn’t ask why not throw these NPCs with the blood curse into the true world of Holy Spirits.

They could only gain assimilation value on Biland Island, and moreover, Hai Lan didn’t believe players would give up their hard-earned rewards back to the conniving game designer; that was absolutely impossible!