Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 319 - Chapter 319 Chapter 308 Peak Showdown (Two-in-One Chapter)

Chapter 319: Chapter 308: ‘Peak’ Showdown (Two-in-One Chapter) Chapter 319: Chapter 308: ‘Peak’ Showdown (Two-in-One Chapter) Zhao Mingwei and Mo Shigui, like on the battlefield, were also searching for traces of the Magic Thieves.

The guild members of Overlord of the World also took on the role of Zhao Mingwei’s bodyguards, protecting him throughout this chaotic open-field battlefield…

In fact… it was Zhao Mingwei who was protecting them. Though Zhao Mingwei wasn’t in the Overlord of the World guild’s voice channel, from Qi Junzi’s terrible expression, it was clear that quite a few players in the strategy group had been ‘stolen’ by the Magic Thieves.

“Be careful,” Zhao Mingwei, acting captain, couldn’t help but voice out his professional instinct when he saw Qi Junzi’s worried look.

“What’s there to be careful about with just a bunch of open-field monsters?”

Feng Yi, on the other hand, seemed very laid-back. Although his level was only thirty-three, his skills and reactions as a professional player were not something those… stupid Abyss Mutants could touch.

If it wasn’t for his low attack power that was unable to break through the defense of higher-level monsters, it would have been a simple matter for Feng Yi to leap ten levels and grind monsters.

“Then why don’t you try it yourself? The AI of the elite monsters over by the captain seems somewhat high.”

Before Zhao Mingwei could speak, Qi Junzi beside him was already agitated… and on edge.

As the commander of Overlord of the World, she was connected to the strategy team through the voice channel, and the current stream of messages from the strategy team was about who had just been insta-killed by the suddenly emerging Magic Thieves.

Then, when Qi Junzi went to ask ‘Where are the Magic Thieves that killed you?’ the strategy team’s answer was always ‘Gone!’

It was the first time in her many years of gaming that Qi Junzi encountered a situation where monsters that killed players would just run away.

Under normal circumstances, shouldn’t these Magic Thieves be killing every player they laid eyes on?

Feng Yi was about to say something to refute Qi Junzi when he sensed movement behind him. He instantly turned around and, on instinct, executed an Iron Mountain Lean, slamming his shoulder into his attacker.

Sanda had many distinctive features as a profession, but its biggest characteristic was… having a lot of super armor.

The Iron Mountain Lean also came with super armor, and Feng Yi’s shoulder collided with the attacker, but super armor wasn’t invincibility. A damage number of -7210 appeared above Feng Yi’s head, and at level thirty-three, he was instantly killed by the attacking Magic Thief.

The successful Magic Thief intended to swiftly blend into the shadows and escape, but what met him was a ferocious tiger that could devour a person.

Zhao Mingwei’s tiger, created from his spirit energy, successfully bit the assaulting Magic Thief and firmly pinned the thief on the ground.

This Magic Thief was just an elite monster, and Qi Junzi along with Overlord of the World’s strategy group quickly reacted, unleashing all their pent-up frustration on this unfortunate elite Magic Thief the moment Zhao Mingwei caught him.

As a result, the elite Magic Thief’s less than two hundred thousand health was swiftly taken down by Overlord of the World’s focused fire.

“You assisted in the killing of an elite Magic Thief.

You gained experience: 61245 points.

Plane Pirate Divine Fragment Contribution Value +2.

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Among the series of prompts, apart from the usual experience, Gold Coins, and equipment gain, what caught Zhao Mingwei’s attention was the Divine Fragment Contribution Value.

“So it really is about keeping to these three faction competition points?” Having played online games for years, Zhao Mingwei was familiar with the routines of player competition after faction division.

Now, when Zhao Mingwei opened the faction system… he could see his reputation and Contribution Value in the Plane Pirate faction, just not what rewards could be exchanged with this Contribution Value.

But now was not the time to worry about this.

“Elite monsters here are capable of professional player-level maneuvers, so… let’s not underestimate them,” Zhao Mingwei’s gaze fixed intently on everything around the battlefield.

“Professional player-level maneuvers, captain, are you serious?” Qi Junzi admitted that these elusive Magic Thieves… were indeed very agile.

But if the wild map’s elite monsters could match professional players, how could ordinary players fight?

“Just kidding, I’m just saying these Magic Thieves are quite impressive.” Zhao Mingwei couldn’t find a better adjective.

Now, as far as the eye could see on Pirate Plain were… Abyss Mutants, and various lord-level dragons, with those Magic Thieves appearing to deliberately play hide-and-seek with the players.

After killing a player, they wouldn’t linger in combat and would run as fast as they could.

This was within Jiang Qiao’s expectations; the Magic Thieves had a clear objective, which was to draw out the Creation Energy from the players.

Besides that, the Magic Thieves had another, more important goal – to take back the third Island Master from the pirates.

“What are you doing, chairman?” Xia Shan followed closely behind Jiang Qiao, looking around fearfully, feeling as though she was in a horror game.

Monsters of all kinds of aberrations surrounded them, and occasionally, a Magic Thief would pop out and startle everyone.

“Add Milk said she wanted to check out this instance as well,” Jiang Qiao was casting a teleportation spell, a skill that all summoning professions have… that is, opening a teleportation portal and teleporting allies to one’s side.

“But isn’t Add Milk’s character bugged?”

Xia Shan learned yesterday that Add Milk’s rash attempt to steal the treasure of the King of Pillage had backfired… her character was stuck in a pirate’s cage, unable to escape.

Even after the unveiling battle ended and Add Milk was teleported back to Biland Island, she was still locked in a cage.

Fortunately, the cage’s lock was timed… it would unlock tonight, and Xia Shan took the opportunity to explore Jiangcheng with her, looking for a possible residence.

“I can still teleport her even with a bug, doesn’t she still provide us with buffs and health in the cage?”

While speaking, Jiang Qiao directly summoned Add Milk from Biland Island.

Before summoning Add Milk, Jiang Qiao had made a small alteration to the metal egg in Add Milk’s backpack.

The space inside the backpack was initially stored within the Spirit itself, which is why Spirits have the concept of carrying capacity, but Jiang Qiao had directly stored that metal egg from Add Milk’s backpack into the world of the Spirit itself.

To prevent the metal egg from dropping if Add Milk were to die, Jiang Qiao now had Add Milk’s backpack in an open state and placed half of the metal egg into her backpack.

Magic Thieves… and indeed all of the island’s creatures could sense the metal egg’s presence; Jiang Qiao was absolutely certain of this.

Because as soon as Add Milk was teleported by Jiang Qiao with her cage to his side, the previously chaotic battlefield momentarily fell silent.

All the Magic Thieves and those lord-level dragons on the battlefield focused their attention on Add Milk.

At that moment, Add Milk became an ultimate aggro magnet, attracting the enmity of every elite monster and BOSS on the wild map!

In any other game, this would be scolded as a BUG, and it would be the same in Spirit World.

But for now, Jiang Qiao could only think of this method to get those Magic Thieves to come forward and face the players head-on.

The third Island Master was on Add Milk! Instantly, the Magic Thieves across the map knew this.

By the time Xia Shan came to her senses, the Magic Thieves had already surrounded her and everyone from Overlord.

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Xia Shan immediately summoned her interceptor fighter factory and… G-0 Warlord!

This was another awakening Xia Shan had learned as a mechanical engineer,

Her Warlord had been modified; other engineers’ Warlords would run out of firepower after one blast.

Xia Shan’s Warlord could last twenty seconds on the battlefield at the cost of reduced output, acting as a meat shield under normal conditions.

A gigantic mech appeared behind Xia Shan, but this fully armed Warlord, in the face of a group of drooling lord-level dragons, looked just like a delicious side dish.

Xia Shan didn’t summon the Warlord to confront those lord-level dragons. The Warlord grabbed Add Milk Without Price Increase, who was trapped in a cage, and Xia Shan also jumped onto the other hand of the Warlord.

“President, mine can fly, let’s get out of here first!” Xia Shan shouted to Jiang Qiao who was still on the ground.

The Warlord was used by Xia Shan as a flying mount in combat.

“Run for what?” Jiang Qiao jabbed his Magic Wand into the ground, and the immense figure of the Spirit King appeared behind him.

With the appearance of the Spirit King, Xia Shan noticed that her chat window was flooded with players spamming the local area horn.

[Area] Eggplant Dove: Magic Thief Medes is at coordinates 2134, 324, 21!

[Area] Rest Of Life Warning: He’s heading to 2134, 344, 21 now!

[Area] No Emotions: The little brother and a bunch of Magic Thieves are on the west side of the battlefield, now you can exchange a thousand Gold Coins for a whole three hundred thousand! Half the down payment for a house!

[Area] No Orchid Here: Charge, ducks!

Standing on the palm of the Warlord, Xia Shan could clearly see… the players who had been hunting the Magic Thieves all over Pirate Plain were now converging here in an instant.

………

Good! Very good!

The Lady of Calamity took out three Abyss Mutants with one shot.

She had been fighting on the battlefield for nearly twenty minutes… For this defense battle of Pirate City, the Lady of Calamity thought her three large pirate groups would lose tens of thousands of men.

She even thought the entire Pirate City would be forced to flee, but the arrival of the Holy Spirits turned the tricky Crystal Plague into… nothing.

The Lady of Calamity had worried that the Holy Spirits might accidentally harm the members of the pirate groups, but that situation didn’t arise.

The powers used by the Holy Spirits were diverse, but no matter the power, it did no harm to the pirates; instead, some pirates accidentally injured Holy Spirits, prompting the Lady of Calamity to angrily execute the offenders!

The Lady of Calamity knew very well that if she wanted to rule over Black Tide Island… the most important thing was to suppress the Crystal Plague and Abyss Plague on the island. As long as these two plagues weren’t a problem, looting all the treasures from Black Tide Island would be a piece of cake.

“You don’t need to stick by my side; those damn Magic Thieves are your prey! Find them, capture them, or kill them!”

With her musket in hand, the Lady of Calamity cleared away another Abyss Mutant rampaging in front of her, while speaking to the group of Holy Spirits following her.

“Have the president and the others gone insane? Shouldn’t we prioritize protecting faction NPCs on the new map?”

Mom Has a Dog didn’t follow the elite strategy group to hunt the Magic Thieves; he and Juan Canyun led a small team to ensure the Lady of Calamity’s safety.

The Lady of Calamity had a health bar above her head, and most frustratingly, this faction leader wasn’t content staying inside the main city like a vase, instead, she personally went to the front lines to fight the enemy.

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“She doesn’t need protection, does she?” Juan Canyun whispered to a senior in the team. The Lady of Calamity seemed to output more damage than players and also had a higher efficiency in killing monsters.

“Yeah, the Lady of Calamity is really strong, strong in every sense of the word. I feel like I could level up just by clinging to her coattails,” a passerby said.

Many players nearby were following the Lady of Calamity to leech experience, as the Abyss Mutants she killed turned into experience for the players to absorb.

Although the experience wasn’t much, but… what could be more pleasant than leveling up by lying down?

When the Lady of Calamity initially left the city for the battlefield, players thought she was one of those vase NPCs who needed player protection and would fail the mission if they died too often.

But the Lady of Calamity proved with her strength that she was an NPC who let players lie down to gain experience and possessed super combat abilities to carry players through the map!

“Why don’t I get experience when the lady kills monsters?”

“Aren’t you a part of the Planar Pirate faction?”

“Is it still possible for me to join the Planar Pirate faction now?”

The Lady of Calamity, listening to the players’ discussions around her, had originally wanted them to go to the front lines to fight, but… she realized more and more passerby players were gathering around her, all because of her strong combat power and efficiency in slaughtering those high-level Abyss Mutants.

She made a very risky decision…

“Spirit beings, since you’re unwilling to leave, then stick close to me… Let’s hunt those damn Magic Thieves together!”

The Lady of Calamity had initially intended to stay at the back of the lines, slaying the Abyss Mutants that approached the walls of Pirate City.

That would have been the safest for her! But also the least profitable.

She was, after all, a woman with the title of King of Pillage.

There were countless spirits on the battlefield who had not joined the Planar Pirate faction or were still hesitating between different factions, undecided about which one to join.

So what the Lady of Calamity now intended to do was to pillage these spirits! To conquer them with her powerful strength and charisma and have them join the Planar Pirate faction.

Just like those spirits who were attracted by the Lady of Calamity to leech experience right now.

She led her elite pirate squad with an imposing momentum towards the center of the battlefield, but as soon as the Lady of Calamity arrived at the center where the battle was most intense, she encountered a group of fellows who displeased her greatly.

“We meet again, Ms. Untidy.”

The reinforcements from the Alliance of Gods had already reached the battlefield, accompanied by players from the Alliance of Gods. The one greeting the Lady of Calamity was none other than the faction leader of the Alliance of Gods, the goddess Lao.

The Lady of Calamity had no intention of regarding these treacherous fellows as allies.

She ignored Lao’s greeting and charged with her musket towards the gathering spot of the Magic Thieves, but halfway there, she stopped because the players who had been following her to leech experience halted in front of the goddess.

“Kind spirits, I am lost in this dangerous place, could you protect me and help me leave?” Lao pleaded with those players.

“…”

“Boss, stay calm!”

“Magic Thieves! The enemies we need to take down now are the Magic Thieves!”

The Lady of Calamity, holding her musket, wanted to blast Lao with a shot, but there were some old and cunning pirates among them; they knew that the real enemy at the moment, more dangerous than the Alliance of Gods, was the Magic Thieves!