Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 317 - Chapter 317 Chapter 306 The Competition Begins (Third Update)

Chapter 317: Chapter 306: The Competition Begins! (Third Update) Chapter 317: Chapter 306: The Competition Begins! (Third Update) Lady Calamity stood on Hanging Square, at the edge of the Pirate City…

The planar pirates didn’t fully trust the spirits, so they placed the portal for the spirits’ arrival here.

In the wooden houses surrounding Hanging Square, dozens of pirate gunners were on standby. Should the spirits make any excessive moves, Lady Calamity would immediately sever the portal and end this cooperation.

But now, although the group of spirits had entered Pirate City… they were like country folks on their first visit to a big city, fascinated by everything.

However, they hadn’t made any attacking moves, possibly due to the “friendly faction protection” the agent had mentioned.

As long as the pirates didn’t initiate an attack on the spirits or act with hostility towards them, the spirits’ attacks would never affect the pirates.

“Everyone!”

After preliminarily concluding that these spirits indeed had no intention of attacking, Lady Calamity directly started to gather them.

Initially, Lady Calamity had planned to open the spirits’ portal in Land City, but Land City had already fallen to the Magic Thieves! And now, the Magic Thieves’ massive army was aggressively advancing towards Pirate City.

Lady Calamity needed to brief the spirits about the situation in the shortest time possible and then send them to eliminate those blasted Magic Thieves.

But…

“The architectural style of this city is really different from the world of the spirits’ origin.”

“Can someone take a screenshot for us? The artistic style of Pirate City is kind of awesome! Let’s take a photo for keepsake first!”

“Do you have any side quests? How about you, big brother?”

As soon as most spirits exited the portal… they vanished, and Lady Calamity watched in dismay as the spirits disappeared into the streets and alleys of Pirate City in the blink of an eye.

They all seemed to be here for a city tour! What was even more frustrating for Lady Calamity was… a portion of the spirits were running after her subordinates asking for any “side quests.”

This portion of players belonged to the type who wouldn’t touch the main quests until they had completed every side quest.

Lady Calamity was completely ignored! Thoroughly ignored!

The spirits acted as if they couldn’t see Lady Calamity at all, well… actually, they could see her.

Lady Calamity had been standing on Hanging Square for less than five minutes when spirits continuously approached her, admired Lady Calamity’s impressive figure momentarily, and then turned and walked away.

“Spirits!”

“Wait a moment!”

“Hey!”

Lady Calamity continuously tried to communicate with the spirits who approached the scaffold, but their response was… they stood in front of the scaffold, continuously tapping into the air with their fingertips, and after finishing tapping, they turned and bolted away.

The speed of their departure was so fast it seemed as if a little slower and Lady Calamity might actually devour them!

Those spirits disappeared from Lady Calamity’s sight at the speed of a hundred-meter dash! Lady Calamity had no clue where these spirits had gone or what they wanted to do!

“Fureya, aren’t you going outside the city to farm monsters?”

“What’s so fun about farming monsters? Don’t you think the artistic style and atmosphere of Pirate City are great? Plus, these NPCs definitely have some interesting stories behind them.”

“I think you are attracted by the pirate faction leader?”

“Shut up! I belong to Fureya.”

“Does Fureya have such wonderful bosoms? She does not!”

“Shut up, shut up, you’re interrupting my research into Lady Calamity’s backstory.”

The Fureya Scholars’ Squad was the minority… They ran to the scaffold and didn’t leave; one of them even climbed onto the scaffold to closely observe Lady Calamity.

After training by Jiang Qiao, Lady Calamity understood that this close proximity beside her was a special way the spirits expressed their affection.

But the problem was…Lady Calamity didn’t need the spirits to express their affection for her right now!

She needed an army! An army of spirits capable of resisting the Magic Thieves’ invasion.

But Lady Calamity couldn’t talk about recruiting spirits to form an army when those spirits disappeared in the blink of an eye!

Now, the only spirits gathered around her were seven or eight people, merely seven or eight willing to follow her commands?

How was she to defend the city with that?

“Holy Spirits! Hear me!”

Lady Catastrophe hadn’t given up; she fired a shot into the sky, and the loud noise finally attracted the attention of the spirits running amok in the streets.

They finally all focused their gaze on Lady Catastrophe, but just as she was about to say something… the spirits vanished within the pirate city as if nothing had happened.

“Those damned Magic Thieves are attempting to attack our city, Holy Spirits… they are your most suitable prey!”

Lady Catastrophe had given up on the idea of gathering the group of spirits in front of her and yelled out with a voice loud enough to be heard across the entire square.

“These sigils can’t be found in the history of the spirits, are the Planar Pirates a faction that has never appeared in the history of the spirits, huh? Can it be touched…”

The Starry Scribe Team didn’t bother with Lady Catastrophe’s rants at all. He circled around Lady Catastrophe over and over again, studying her attire and the various emblems on her clothes.

Eventually, the Starry Scribe Team instinctively reached out and touched the corner of the small cape behind Lady Catastrophe.

“Sea beast skin… material…”

Before the Starry could finish speaking, Lady Catastrophe had grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up.

The expression on Lady Catastrophe’s face was so terrifying that it made the members of her pirate crew tremble with fear.

“I’ve tolerated you for a long time now! Holy Spirit.” Holding onto the Starry Scribe Team’s collar, the Starry’s behavior could be considered sexual harassment anywhere, and the fact that Lady Catastrophe hadn’t shot him was a testament to her restraint.

Now, the anger spurred by being ignored by the spirits, and the rage and urgency from the impending attack of the Magic Thief army, were all directed at the Starry, who was acting recklessly by her side.

“Starry, did you trigger a hidden interaction right off the bat?”

“In your native plane, you’d get beaten for harassing female NPCs like this.”

“I want to be grabbed by the collar by Lady Catastrophe too.”

Lady Catastrophe listened to the surrounding spirits’ comments, and she felt her nerves and thoughts nearing the brink of collapse.

Unfortunately, at that moment… one of her pirate crew scouts hurriedly arrived on the execution platform.

“Lady! The Magic Thief army has arrived! And… there’s more…”

The scout knelt on the ground panting continuously, the fear in his voice alerting Lady Catastrophe to just how bad the situation was.

“What else is there?”

Lady Catastrophe threw Starry to the side; she no longer had the patience to search the pirate city for the wandering spirits.

“The Magic Thief army was… blocked, the Holy Spirits… are already fighting the Magic Thief army outside the city,” the scout reported after catching his breath.

“They’ve already started fighting?” Lady Catastrophe gazed far off towards the edge of the pirate city’s walls.

She could indeed faintly hear the sounds of explosions and something breaking from the edge of the city walls.

These spirits… how come they are so proactive?

In Lady Catastrophe’s experience, to get others to risk their lives for one, hefty rewards must first be promised.

However, these spirits wanted no rewards; it was as if they came to pirate city… not to prospect for gold or accept rewards from Lady Catastrophe, but… just to hunt the Magic Thieves!

Suddenly, Lady Catastrophe recalled how the spirits… upon entering the portal, dashed towards the direction of the city walls as if in a race.

They weren’t being fearful of the pirates or anything else… but were competing or racing with each other!

From the moment the portal opened, the hunt for the Magic Thieves had begun!

The Magic Thieves were few, but the spirits were many…

From the beginning, these spirits didn’t consider the Magic Thieves, the Planar Pirates, the Alliance of Gods, or even the Breeders as rivals or enemies.

Their rivals had always been the other spirits!

“What a terrifying bunch,” Lady Catastrophe realized, and she fired two more shots into the sky.

Those two shots were the signal for her crew members to follow her into battle.

“This is our home turf, and we’ve been underestimated by those spirits from the start.”

Ignoring the spirits who were hopping around the streets looking for side quests and hidden tasks, she led her pirate crew members swiftly towards the battlefield outside the city walls.

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