Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 279 - Chapter 279 Chapter 271 Fully Immersive Players

Chapter 279: Chapter 271: Fully Immersive Players Chapter 279: Chapter 271: Fully Immersive Players The time was now seven o’clock in the morning, and the top players of the Holy Spirit’s first team were still diligently moving bricks in the Otherworld, ready to welcome the arrival of the new day’s Divine Chosen Ones.

Jiang Qiao still hadn’t the faintest idea about the design of the main quest on Heichao Island, as he had yet to explore the conditions on the island.

So, taking advantage of this time, Jiang Qiao joined ‘Add Milk Without Extra Charge’ in setting up a stall at the starting base…

“Step right up and have a look! Fresh Otherworld ingredients guaranteed to skyrocket the favorability of your Fureya once she tastes them.”

‘Add Milk Without Extra Charge’ held an Alchemy Horn in her hand and called out next to Miss Kitty, while Jiang Qiao took on the role of a bouncer, sitting cross-legged on the ground.

The starting base had become a hot spot for player trading, even more bustling than the four major cities in the Holy Spirit’s actual world.

Therefore, Jiang Qiao specifically expanded the starting base and allocated an area for players to set up their stalls, but there weren’t many players doing so.

This was because Holy Spirit had an auction house system, and there were websites like 4396 where players could use cash to purchase game items.

Most players who came to set up stalls did so to enjoy the atmosphere or to show off some impressive items they had.

But ‘Add Milk Without Extra Charge’ was still keen on this old and nostalgic method of stall trading… The reason being… both the auction house and 4396 charged a service fee!

“Why don’t you go farm for Challenge Vouchers?”

Jiang Qiao glanced at the goods ‘Add Milk Without Extra Charge’ had for sale at her stall, mostly consisting of Otherworld food obtained from Divine Grace Town, plus a small portion of furniture.

Otherworld food remained the most popular commodity among players, such that even for big guilds like Cola Madness and Dancing Nuclear, the food they produced was just enough for their own NPCs and a few Fureyas, let alone providing for hundreds of Fureyas within the guild.

The production of food was a major limitation for the recruitment of NPCs by large guilds, so a large crowd of players had gathered in front of ‘Add Milk Without Extra Charge’s’ stall, picking out Otherworld food to give to their Fureyas.

“Boss, don’t you know that the price of those has fallen to seventy silver coins each recently? Although I don’t mind battling monsters, I’d rather spend the time farming these foods than fighting for Challenge Vouchers.”

‘Add Milk Without Extra Charge’ stopped her hawking, the Otherworld food on her stall was all clearly priced, and the onlookers were free to buy or not.

“Five portions of Otherworld dried meat for twelve Gold Coins, that’s too expensive, could you…”

“No bargaining! This is already a 30% discount from my price!” ‘Add Milk Without Extra Charge’ knew well that Otherworld food was a solid currency among all the players.

At this stage, players either had to build their own bases to cultivate crops or try their luck with Miss Kitty to see if they could pick up a quest with Otherworld food as a reward. Beyond that… there were very few ways for players to acquire Otherworld food.

Jiang Qiao couldn’t do anything about it; recently, his food supplier Lyla had only come about five times, and although each time she brought a large shipload of food, it was nowhere near enough for the tens of thousands of players and Fureyas on Biland Island.

Jiang Qiao was glad that Otherworld food was used to increase Fureyas’ fondness and that hunger could be satisfied with food from the Holy Spirit’s actual world, otherwise players might have embarked on a great journey to plunder food from this world.

“The store will be closing in half an hour!” ‘Add Milk Without Extra Charge’ shouted once again to the still hesitant players around her.

“Speaking of which… what do you usually eat?” Jiang Qiao gazed at ‘Add Milk Without Extra Charge’s’ shouting figure and suddenly asked this question.

“Eating meals, what’s up with that, boss?” ‘Add Milk Without Extra Charge’ turned her head slightly to look at Jiang Qiao and said, “Do you want to buy too, boss? Should I recommend a couple of recipes that can quickly boost Fureya’s favorability? I have discounts.”

Sorry… My Fureya’s favorability can’t be increased by food at all.

The Fureya prototype at Jiang Qiao’s home revered him with a bit of awe, and even if Jiang Qiao personally cooked for her, she would probably treat it as some divine gift, totally unable to appreciate the flavor.

“No need for now, I’m really poor,” Jiang Qiao shook his head and decided not to continue the conversation.

‘Add Milk Without Extra Charge’ remained the player with the longest online time among all Holy Spirit players… and still unmatched!

Half a year since Holy Spirit’s server was up and ‘Add Milk Without Extra Charge’ had not logged off even once; she had been online as long as the server had been operational.

Zhao Mingwei found something rather abnormal, a VR player, no matter how dedicated, definitely needs sleep and food, but Caramel eats and sleeps all within the Spirit Sanctuary.

“Time’s up! Packing up! Oh, Chief, do you want to go see something cool with me?”

Caramel glanced at the time–it was already eight in the morning, when all Divine Chosen Ones in the Otherworld would be starting their day, and it seemed that Caramel planned to go help Thorne with a ‘fake match.’

“Cool? You mean some kind of match?”

“Matches, what’s fun about those? What I’m taking you to see is way more thrilling than any match,” Caramel said as she packed up her stall.

Her popularity in the game was impressive, or more accurately… her fame?

Mainly because every time she set up her stall at the starting base, she would sell some scarce goods.

But what puzzled Jiang Qiao was that… she rarely made friends with other players in the game, the kind who meet up for dungeon runs, form guilds, or even engage in online romances.

Yet Caramel was willing to spend her socializing time with the NPCs of Biland Island, where she now had good relationships with many of the island’s NPCs.

In Caramel’s words, “Friendship is like coupons!”

With his questions in mind, Jiang Qiao followed Caramel to the stronghold of the Cola-crazed, where players currently had to go through the Cola-crazed’s teleportation gate to get to the Otherworld.

The teleportation gate constructions of other guilds had yet to reach the max level.

“Potato!”

Yomi, the sister of Dragon Speaker, seemed to have been waiting at the gate for a long time, and when she saw Caramel, she looked like a little tiger ready to pounce… her face all set to jump at Caramel.

“Alright, alright, I’ll pay you back!” Caramel took out… a potato from the plane of Spirit and handed it to Yomi; if Jiang Qiao remembered correctly, Caramel had been in frequent contact with Dragon Speaker and her sister recently.

It was only after receiving the potato from Caramel that Yomi let her pass through the gate.

Following the wet nurse, Jiang Qiao reached the Blooming Square area… The area of Blooming Square went from a national rush for 630,000 when it first opened to now, where some high-scoring passersby who dared to challenge Thorne were mocked by passersby as “another great god about to be shut down by 630,000.”

This had led to Blooming Square becoming very quiet. When Jiang Qiao arrived, the only person he could see huddled in a corner of Blooming Square was Zhao Mingwei, who was simultaneously holding his stocks and waiting for his Challenge Voucher to refresh.

Zhao Mingwei pulled an all-nighter again last night, ransacking the world with the Dancing Nuclear Guild for Challenge Vouchers. He should now be sleeping in an internet cafe, still with his VR equipment on.

Seeing him like this, both Jiang Qiao and Zhao Mingwei’s many friends actually wanted to support him, at least to find him a temporary place to stay, but Zhao Mingwei would always choose to settle down in the internet cafe instead.

And now, defeating Thorne had become his obsession…

“He’s just gone to sleep; tread lightly, dear Spirit.” Thorne seemed to have been standing in the arena for a long time.

Looking at the empty arena next to him, and Thorne holding a stick while quietly waiting for his opponent to arrive, the thought “A master’s loneliness” inexplicably popped into Jiang Qiao’s head.

Caramel and Thorne’s plan didn’t seem to be working very well, as Juan Canyun’s four-in-one achievement yesterday didn’t bring many challengers for Thorne; at least… at eight-thirty in the morning, the only player who might want to challenge Thorne was probably Zhao Mingwei.

“Why is there still no one around?” Caramel looked puzzledly around Blooming Square; she had rarely paid attention to competitions in other games.

Juan Canyun had accomplished the feat of defeating four opponents and completely shattered the rumors and gossip about him, firmly slapping the faces of his detractors.

Logically, the professional players should understand that with Thorne as a gold-medal sparring partner, they could also achieve Juan Canyun’s feat.

“It’s not that there’s no one, just we’re too early.” Jiang Qiao could already hear the sound of flying mounts landing outside, and the main player of the Cola-crazed, Caramel, appeared ghostly in Blooming Square.

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