Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 218 - 215 Inevitable Risk

Chapter 218: Chapter 215: Inevitable Risk

Chapter 218 -215: Inevitable Risk

Lion Heart Knight glanced at the group message and once again confirmed Jiang Qiao’s instructions with Queen Mei… Just as Black Pot Stewing Meat leaned against the bar and removed his hat.

“Holy Spirit, before you hire him, there is something I must remind you of. He bears a dangerous curse.”

Lion Heart Knight placed the employment contract of the middle-aged man on the bar and pushed it to Black Pot Stewing Meat, who took the contract and looked it over.

This NPC named Craftsman Kevin was an R-grade NPC, and his daily hiring wage was twenty silver coins. This was a very cheap price, compared to the hiring price of the Dragon Speaker sisters…

“A curse, too? But that’s just standard practice in playing online games. Since ‘Holy Spirit’ doesn’t have a cash shop, I suppose the items to lift the curse will require some grinding?”

Black Pot Stewing Meat seemed to have been mentally prepared for this because this time, Jumping Nucleus took seven NPCs home at once, and according to his gaming experience, neither single-player games nor online games’ designers and systems would… give rewards to players that easily.

It was like those equipments imbued with the breath of the Otherworld—you get them in your hands… but to truly use them, you need a cash item or to complete certain specific tasks to equip them.

This had become a common money-making tactic in online games.

“We currently have no means to purify the curse on him… Holy Spirit, but his curse will dissipate after an estimated sixteen days,” Lion Heart Knight informed Black Pot Stewing Meat of the bad news.

‘Holy Spirit’ was just such a bewitching and uncontrived game; you need purification for your items, that’s true… but there’s no shortcut through cash spending that would work.

To make players realize the seriousness of the situation, Jiang Qiao even edited a hidden task and released it to all players attempting to recruit those NPCs.

‘Sub-quest: Cursed Refugees.

Task explanation: The civilians rescued from the fire seem to carry a terribly horrendous curse, which could potentially damage the sanctuary. However, the curse will be lifted after sixteen days. What will you, kind Holy Spirit, decide to do?

Task Objective: Either abandon the saved refugees or harbor them within your sanctuary and maintain it for sixteen days.

Task Reward: Cat’s Gratitude Coupon X3.’

At this moment, all the Holy Spirits by the carriage shop received this side quest, and Mo Shigui directly walked over to Black Pot Stewing Meat.

“Did you trigger this?” Mo Shigui asked.

“Did you also receive this side quest, guild leader? What should we do… The game’s designers are really cunning.”

Black Pot Stewing Meat handed the employment contract of Craftsman Kevin to Mo Shigui, pointing to the ‘Blood Resonance S’ entry on Craftsman Kevin’s contract.

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To Black Pot Stewing Meat, this term seemed no different from those ‘imbued with a strong Otherworldly breath’ equipments.

“No way to purify it directly?” Mo Shigui frowned and looked up at Lion Heart Knight to ask.

Lion Heart Knight shook his head regretfully, and repeated the answer he gave to Black Pot Stewing Meat.

“A curse that will damage the sanctuary, with a certain probability of an outbreak within sixteen days.”

Mo Shigui read the reminder on the ‘Blood Resonance S’ entry, then turned his gaze towards the other guilds…

Abyss Temple was the most straightforward; Can Xin didn’t even bother with whatever that ‘Blood Resonance S’ curse term was, directly signing employment contracts with the ten NPCs they had brought back from the fire.

“Guild leader, I can construct separate living quarters for them in a more secluded area of the sanctuary, and also set up some defensive measures—it’ll be like a quarantine zone,” Little Feather Feather suggested at this time.

Mo Shigui did not respond but instead turned his gaze back to Craftsman Kevin. Holding his daughter, Kevin listened quietly to the discussion of the spirits, his expression incredibly complicated.

It went from initial surprise when the spirits had saved him and were willing to employ him to fear after his Crystal Disease was discovered, and then to a sense of loss and sighs upon hearing about the quarantine zone.

“…”

Mo Shigui did not inquire about the opinions of those NPCs; in his conversation options with the Lion Heart Knight, there was one that grabbed his attention… one that he cared so much about that he simply had to ask.

“Dad, will this curse endanger our base’s Divine Tree… and the people living in it?” Mo Shigui asked outright.

He did not specify who he was concerned about, but the guild members listening knew what their leader was worried about… A base could be rebuilt if destroyed, but if something happened to his wife, it would be a real disaster.

“The probability is very small,” the Lion Heart Knight said, according to the response given by Jiang Qiao. “The base Divine Tree is a protected tree. Perhaps the creatures on this island could destroy it, but absolutely no curse could penetrate its interior.”

“…” Mo Shigui continued to look at the mission reward and the description of the S-rank Resonance of Flesh and Blood, lost in thought. If possible, he really wanted to drag over the all-knowing Fanyin to explain just what the hell Resonance of Flesh and Blood S was.

But the answer was already clear.

“During these sixteen days, it seems we won’t be able to log in at all on the last day,” Mo Shigui delivered the bad news to his elite planning team.

“The spirits are performing maintenance on the last day?” Fluffy Bunny asked, somewhat puzzled.

“Are you stupid? Fifteen days from now is the summer final of the Conflict tournament, plus the commencement ceremony for the international competition. By the sixteenth day, Heiguo ZhuRou and the others are probably already on their flight to Bangguo,” Mom Has a Dog said.

This year’s Conflict summer tournament was surprisingly short, and Jiang Qiao didn’t really understand why… The schedule was only twenty days long, followed by the international competition.

The international competition is a small treat immediately after the Conflict summer tournament, but it is also a major international event. China’s gaming region will send the four best teams from the previous season to participate in the international competition.

If Jiang Qiao remembered correctly, the teams participating in this year’s international competition should be Vibrant Nucleus, Abyss Temple, Kings of Heaven, and Coke Frenzy.

“Mmmhmm, the flight to Bangguo is just a few hours, but once we land… we should be able to play, right?” Fluffy Bunny asked, still not quite convinced.

“No, I’ve heard from friends abroad that you can only play Spirit’s Blessing within China… Foreign friends are now furiously spamming negative reviews on the Tiangong gaming platform saying, ‘I·need·English,’ Whenever I’m feeling down, I go and read through Spirit’s Blessing reviews, and these international comments truly are the joy of my day,” Lazy responded.

The Tiangong gaming platform is aimed at a global audience.

Spirit’s Blessing is a free game on the Tiangong gaming platform—it can be downloaded without paying, but what frustrates players the most is that they can download it but can’t play it.

Jiang Qiao was helpless in this matter; without granting gameplay access to international friends, Spirit’s Blessing currently requires a Chinese IP to play, leading to the game’s review section being full of foreign languages all pleading ‘Let me in’.

“There’s more troubling news: there’s a high chance that on the 15th, our team will be up against Kings of Heaven in the finals,” Mom Has a Dog warned, “Xiao has been getting back in form; in the end, Xiao is still Xiao, and Zong is probably feeling a lot of pressure right now.”

“If you’re really worried about your wife, or rather… our base, why not put them on hold for sixteen days? We can officially employ them after the curse is purified,” Little Feather suggested, seeing Mo Shigui’s hesitation.

These days, members of Vibrant Nucleus’ elite planning team really couldn’t spend a lot of time online…

“They’ll have been hired by other guilds by sixteen days; Little Feather, when you go back, set up a temporary quarantine zone. I’ll find people to watch over them in shifts around the clock,” Mo Shigui finally decided, “This curse will definitely break out, so everyone prepare for the possibility of fighting within the base.”

He just hoped that the outbreak wouldn’t come at the worst possible time… Mo Shigui prayed inwardly.