Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 302 - Chapter 302 Chapter 291 Is the Plan in Place (3rd Update)

Chapter 302: Chapter 291: Is the Plan in Place? (3rd Update) Chapter 302: Chapter 291: Is the Plan in Place? (3rd Update) Jiang Qiao was overwhelmed with busyness… The request for help from Black Tide Island came too fast, causing the players to switch battlefields from the main battleground of the Inner World to Black Tide Island too swiftly.

Although the characters and plots of the Inner World, Biland Island, and Black Tide Island were connected, when the Black Tide Island faction update prompted discussions on the Holy Spirit Forum about what kind of map Black Tide Island was, there were also players questioning if the Inner World was a half-finished product?

Jiang Qiao could respond confidently to them, yes, the Inner World was a half-finished product, the finished product was for them to create themselves.

But the introduction of NPCs like Thorne and Day God’s chosen into the Inner World led players to believe it had a main storyline, but now the Inner World hadn’t released any main quests and merely killed an Apocalypse Dragon before news of a new map emerged.

This started making a group of players feel like the storyline of the Inner World should be cut off, along with comments like “The dog planner updates too diligently, slow down a bit!”

Jiang Qiao wished he could slow down too… He too wanted the comfortable life of releasing one expansion pack a year!

But the pace of game updates and real-life developments still conflicted, and Jiang Qiao couldn’t expect the Annihilation Legion to just do nothing over a year.

Luckily, with such player analysis, Jiang Qiao directly turned the Inner World into a map for guild battlegrounds, initially constructed to fend off foreign invasions and… attract investments from the Holy Spirit Fund.

With the arrival of Black Tide Island, it was time for Jiang Qiao to push forward the game’s main storyline.

The main storyline of the Holy Spirit game was inseparable from Fureya; the major storyline was the overall background story of the game which evolved alongside the real world, while the minor storyline was Fureya, also the part players cared about most.

The future of Fureya.

The main quest of Fureya was simple: collect the Divine Fragments of the Devouring God and evolve from a puppet into a real person!

Jiang Qiao was contemplating how to connect Fureya’s main quest with… the faction conflicts happening on Black Tide Island.

The remaining main storyline design wasn’t difficult, the key was that players might need to make some insignificant choices regarding Fureya’s future.

The plot of Biland Island was… if you save Fureya, we are good friends, and everyone treasures Fureya like a gem.

For Black Tide Island, the storyline of the Annihilation Legion had been exposed online by the Star Scribes team; it was nothing more than a superficial plot of sacrificing Fureya for greater power, and another theory speculated that Fureya was imprisoned and needed to broker her freedom from the Annihilation Legion, etc.

All these were within Jiang Qiao’s range of consideration for the main storyline design, but ultimately, the main plot still involved players from various factions on Black Tide Island vying for the Divine Fragments, and then handing them over to Fureya to conclude the matter.

While Jiang Qiao was mulling this over, he received something quite interesting… a request to unban an account.

This message came from the Tian Gong game platform, and upon receiving it, Jiang Qiao felt he was too dedicated.

Being both the game planner and story writer, as well as the game modeler and customer service…

Since the launch of Holy Spirit, there had only been one player whose account was banned, which was “Add Milk Without Upping the Price.”

“Add Milk Without Upping the Price” must have gotten the phone Xia Shan bought for her, and Jiang Qiao opened the appeal letter to see.

This appeal letter was so long, Jiang Qiao guessed it might be about ten thousand words long.

“Add Milk Without Upping the Price,” in order to get her account unbanned ahead of time, wrote a whopping ten-thousand-word essay.

She used over ten thousand words to state that everything she did in the game was reasonable and legal gameplay.

Jiang Qiao didn’t read it in detail, but could tell from her words that she was anxious.

In the end, Jiang Qiao gave a small sigh and unbanned “Add Milk Without Upping the Price’s” account, also sending an official message to notify her.

After sending this message, Jiang Qiao received a ton of messages, not from Holy Spirit customer service but personal messages from Tian Gong chat tools.

“Add Milk Without Upping the Price” was frantically sending Jiang Qiao private messages.

‘Guild Leader, are you there?’

‘Yes, what is it?’

Jiang Qiao opened “Add Milk Without Upping the Price’s” private chat, feeling that if he didn’t reply, she might send enough messages to hit the 99+ mark.

‘Are you busy right now?’ “Add Milk Without Upping the Price” seemed to remember that Jiang Qiao had stepped away temporarily, so she assumed he must be occupied with something.

Busy, Jiang Qiao was still busy crafting the future destiny of the Fureyas, but what can he say… when a girl seeks you out for a private chat, any man, no matter how busy, has to keep the conversation going.

Jiang Qiao’s self-control was always strong, but writing the story line for Fureya didn’t necessarily have to be done right now; Jiang Qiao needed to first observe the players’ intentions.

‘Just say what it is.’ Jiang Qiao replied.

‘Can you get me out of the hospital? The doctors won’t let me play VR, or let me go! Chang Qing also thinks I should stay a few more days.’ “Add Milk Without Upping the Price” efficiently made her request.

“Add Milk Without Upping the Price’s” physique wasn’t very weak, the enhancements in Holy Spirit also had an effect on her.

It’s just that she hadn’t walked in reality for too long, which required some practice and adaptation, lest she should begin running on walls like in Holy Spirit again.

She should start transitioning from liquid to solid food gradually and staying in the hospital for a day or two would be best.

But now, with the Holy Spirit forum buzzing with posts about the new version, even if Jiang Qiao tried to stop her from sneaking out to surf the internet without raising the price, she’d probably escape through the window at night.

“I’ll give it a try, but have you figured out where you’re staying yet?” Jiang Qiao asked.

“I plan to stay at Chang Qing’s sister’s place for a couple of days; then I’ll look for a place to build a base. Thanks, guild leader. I’ll properly repay you when I log on.”

She wasn’t building a base; she was renting a house.

Jiang Qiao remembered there was a rental available next door, but after some thought, he didn’t mention it to her.

She could have just asked to be discharged early on her own, but for some unspeakable reasons, she temporarily couldn’t leave the hospital.

Jiang Qiao spent some time resolving her troubles, and in less than twenty minutes, he saw the girl appear at the starting base.

“I’m finally back!”

After making her return to the Holy Spirit World, her first act was to give the promised rewards to the players who helped her, restoring her health to full right away.

The second thing was…

“I want to join the League of Gods!” she ran up to War God Urd at the starting base and shouted.

War God Urd was busy persuading the Bubble and Cola Mania team to join the League of Gods, but Bubble replied, “Unless you tell me where Miss Shary is, I won’t join!”

At that moment, War God Urd truly felt bitterness in his heart, a shadow of gloom. Yesterday, the chosen shadow spirit was still diligently working for Jiang Qiao in Divine Grace Town, and today, he was hiding somewhere in this world, refusing to show his face.

Other players gathered around the caravan shop discussing the new faction system, but someone like her who immediately chose to join the League of Gods upon arriving was…really rare.

“Holy Spirit, I don’t think our faction suits you,” War God Urd instantly rejected her request without a second thought!

If Bubble was the kind of Holy Spirit that the League of Gods absolutely needed to recruit, then she was the kind the League would do everything possible to avoid!

“I want to join the League of Gods! Why won’t you let me? I remember my reputation in Divine Grace Town is almost worship level!” she chased after War God Urd, demanding to know.

Seeing her pressing questions, War God Urd resorted to a move…the cunning speech techniques of NPCs.

That is, pretending to be chatting with other players.

“Are you, Holy Spirit, interested in our great League of Gods?” War God Urd blatantly ignored her and started asking another passing player.

“What the heck is with this NPC, why can’t I click the join option? Isn’t the update function perfected yet?”

She frantically clicked the option to join the League of Gods, but no matter how much she clicked, it didn’t respond.

However, each time she clicked, another drop of cold sweat formed on War God Urd’s forehead.

Among all the Holy Spirits, she was the most qualified to join the League of Gods, in Divine Grace Town she was even called a saint.

But War God Urd was aware of her actions against the Magic Thieves; she was the main reason for the collapse of the Magic Thieves’ town.

This Holy Spirit was completely unreasonable; introducing her to his own constructed city would be as terrifying as having a self-operating excavator.

“Is our network lagging, Sister Xia?”

Xia Shan only hurriedly logged on then. Jiang Qiao, watching from the crowd, observed Xia Shan’s anxious and worried expression, thinking that these two…probably found an internet cafe next to the hospital and logged in straight away.

“The network is lagging? Isn’t everyone using 5G now?”

She recalled her memories from two years ago; in today’s world, network speed issues like delays and disconnections had become things of the past.

“Sister Xia, why do you…really want to join the League of Gods?” Xia Shan asked curiously.

The moment she got her phone, she crazily scoured the forum for new posts, and when the post about the faction system appeared, the first faction she wanted to join was the League of Gods.

“Because…” before she could finish her sentence, pirate Drake, who had yet to grasp the situation, suddenly came over.

“The cities those swindlers built are utterly joyless! If you want to win endless treasures, you should join our faction,” Drake told her.

Currently, looking at Drake’s fierce face made War God Urd feel…much more familiar, but he didn’t show any signs and continued pretending to recruit other Holy Spirits.

“Can you join the League of Gods? Why doesn’t the join faction option respond when I click it?”

She completely disregarded Drake’s recruitment, her fingers stubbornly clicking frantically on the League of Gods’ ‘join’ button.

Could it really be because the internet cafe’s network latency was too high?