Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 331 - Chapter 331 Chapter 321 Tsk Man (2-in-1 Chapter)

Chapter 331: Chapter 321: Tsk, Man (2-in-1 Chapter) Chapter 331: Chapter 321: Tsk, Man (2-in-1 Chapter) Jiang Qiao sat in the spectator seats of the Upper City World Sports Stadium, with Hai Lan by his side, munching popcorn and drinking cola.

In the center of the stadium stood a pitch-black castle, which at that moment had been damaged by the players’ captured Magic Thieves.

But the Magic Thieves paid a heavy price to break out of that castle. As the Magic Thief named Medes burst forth from the fortress, he fell to the ground while gazing at the azure sky and was just short of shouting ‘Free~~dom!’

After overcoming numerous obstacles, the Magic Thieves faced the instance’s ultimate BOSS–members of the elite strategy team from Dancing Nuclear Guild, along with some members of another top team, accompanied by a large array of fortress-defense machinery.

“Jiang Qiao, have you considered what event you might showcase in the… holographic projection exchange meeting in nine days?”

Hai Lan stuffed another handful of popcorn into her mouth. The confrontation between Dancing Nuclear and the four Magic Thieves was not that unusual for her.

What astonished Jiang Qiao was the exceptionally high combat prowess displayed by the four Magic Thieves; they were each much like the final BOSS Denghis Xisi from Biland Island.

Knowing to kill the healer first, if there’s no healer, then target the fragile ones!

Dancing Nuclear had also long prepared their countermeasures, turning the battle into one where the strategy team of Dancing Nuclear fought as the ultimate BOSS in an arena that resembled a colosseum.

The healers and ranged damage dealers were all very safely positioned atop the walls built by Little Feather.

“I’m still thinking about it.”

Jiang Qiao had already gotten agreement from officials to make an appearance with Tiangong 13 during the holographic projection meeting nine days hence.

However, this holographic meeting was also somewhat like a showcase festival for major game developers… similar to the famous expos like E3 and the Cologne Game Show, but with no game trials, only various CG trailers on display.

Yet the most high-profile and most-watched event at the exhibition remained the finals of the Seasonal Dispute, so online it was jokingly called the Seasonal Dispute Finals and other programs.

Jiang Qiao had no intention of vying for the spotlight of the dispute; however, Dancing Nuclear did… specifically Yin Hui from Dancing Nuclear.

Yin Hui… Jiang Qiao had been keeping an eye on him since he started playing the game. His ambitions might not be limited to just being a prominent player; he also wanted to be a stakeholder in the Divine Power.

In fact, Yin Hui was indeed a stakeholder in Divine Power, just the kind without voting rights.

As one of the major investors in the Divine Power Fund, Yin Hui had keenly sniffed out the immense commercial value of Divine Power, and what he was doing and wanted to do was to enhance the commercial value of Divine Power.

This holographic game exhibition was undoubtedly an excellent opportunity!

“How about we also organize a competition for the Divine Power Cup?”

Having lived so long in modern society, Hai Lan did more daily than just eat, drink, and sleep. Like Queen Mei, besides eating, drinking, and sleeping, she also watched TV dramas, followed esports competitions, and kept up with news from major game developers.

Thus, Hai Lan knew… if they were really going to perform something, what the audience most wanted to see was a duel between PvP gods.

“Everyone is busy developing Black Tide Island, and right now the situation on Black Tide Island is unfavorable to us. Planning a PvP event at this time, which would have those god-tier players focus on infighting? Hai Lan, aren’t you afraid that Biland Island will end up being overtaken by Black Tide Island?”

Jiang Qiao had considered hosting a PvP event, but the current situation on Black Tide Island didn’t allow him to indulge in such trivial matters.

“Then killing Magic Thieves? But would those Magic Thieves really obediently come here to be killed by the players?”

Hai Lan paused in her popcorn eating, having spectated from the seats ever since Medes entered the real world. Everything happening inside the castle was projected onto the big screen of the stadium.

The traps designed by Little Feather really were… spine-tingling to watch, and those four Magic Thieves perfectly triggered each one.

The screams and moans were so clear, they could even be heard outside the castle.

If not for their robust health, they might have already died dozens of times over.

Although they didn’t die, the psychological shadow was definitely there… Hai Lan suspected that next time these Magic Thieves would rather kill themselves than be caught by the Spirit.

“That’s exactly the point.”

Jiang Qiao and Yin Hui thought the same, the performances at the exhibition were about players against the monsters in the game, not player versus player.

The reason the audience found PVE competitions boring in the past was that the game’s bosses all had fixed attack patterns. Aside from watching strategy teams get wiped out, there wasn’t much else to see.

But the monsters in the Spirit had their own thoughts. Jiang Qiao, looking at the somewhat chaotic battlefield below, saw that just four Magic Thieves were giving the Dancing Nuclear Guild’s strategy team quite a bit of trouble.

Although Mo Shigui managed to control the situation through his commands, most of the players in the strategy team were mainly PVE players, and they were really at a loss facing a boss who moved swiftly and knew to prioritize killing the healers.

Yet, on their home ground, the Dancing Nuclear Guild still managed to one-shot four lord-level bosses, albeit quite barely. Three hours later, only two of the Magic Thieves survived with a sliver of health.

“Anyway… let’s try to communicate with the Magic Thieves on Biland Island first.”

The relationships with enemies and allies are not eternal; enemies can become friends if interests align. Jiang Qiao didn’t think players could be buddy-buddy with the Magic Thieves of Biland Island, especially since stealing Fureya’s memory was unforgivable.

But there’s nothing wrong with backstabbing each other while being buddy-buddy, right?

You want to kill me, and I want to kill you. So why not stop skulking around and find a place to have a good, hearty fight?

This was the near end of the Dancing Nuclear Guild’s campaign against the Magic Thieves. A Magic Thief named Wenna was pushed into a corner by Zhao Mingwei, the ultimate boss of the instance, a foreign aid to the Dancing Nuclear Guild.

Her health was down to the last two thousand points, and worst of all, she was suffering from a multitude of negative statuses like bleeding, poisoning, and cursing.

These negative statuses were rapidly depleting her health… In less than a half-minute, her life would end under these harmful conditions.

“Why… won’t you kill me?”

Wenna clutched her stomach wound and knelt on the ground, struggling even to stand, but the attacks from Zhao Mingwei and the Dancing Nuclear Guild members stopped at that moment.

Zhao Mingwei didn’t respond to Wenna. He half-knelt in front of the lying Wenna and took out a bottle of Fureya’s Heartfelt Healing Potion and a bottle of Fureya’s Care Potion from his backpack.

Both were special-effect medicines exchanged from the Heart Shop, one to restore HP and the other to dispel negative effects.

Zhao Mingwei poured the Fureya’s Heartfelt Healing Potion onto Wenna’s wound.

Containing a small amount of the Devouring God’s Divine Power within her, Wenna saw the healing potion take effect as her wound began to slowly heal.

“I don’t need your pity! Descendant of the Devouring God!”

Wenna reached out to swat away the other bottle in Zhao Mingwei’s hand, but he grabbed her arm first.

Zhao Mingwei, without a word, poured the other bottle, Fureya’s Care Potion, over Wenna’s face.

Zhao Mingwei’s expression and gaze conveyed a feeling of neither joy nor sorrow, looking at Wenna not as a pretty NPC, but more like a moss-covered stone sculpture.

His job was to wash the moss off the sculpture.

All this was because Zhao Mingwei’s focus was not on Wenna at all; he was looking at a hidden quest that had just popped up.

[Hidden Quest*Island Master’s Clue

Quest Description: Someone in your guild seems to possess something the Magic Thieves want to take back. This thing has no value to your guild, but perhaps it can be used to bargain with these Magic Thieves for more useful rewards.

Quest Requirement: Ensure “Magic Thief*Wenna” safely returns to the Melted Black Ruins.

Quest Reward: ?

The thing the Magic Thief wanted to take back? Our guild member? Zhao Mingwei didn’t have this task reward marked as a question, so he gave up on getting the reward because, as a player, triggering a hidden task and not doing it is simply… as uncomfortable as not being able to sneeze.

On the other hand, Zhao Mingwei initially had some sympathy for these Magic Thieves, but once he knew that they could resurrect after being killed, his sympathy was gone… He became a ruthless monster grinding machine.

But now, he was a ruthless task completing machine.

“Old Laugh! Stop emitting your charm, will you? She is a lord monster! This hidden task clearly has traps, right?”

As a member of the Nameless Guild, Lin Xi, of course, also received this hidden task notification.

“What hidden task?”

At this moment, Mo Shigui had executed Medes, and under his threat of “Next time, you won’t be so lucky! Holy Spirit!” he recovered a part of the memories Fureya had taken.

The only remaining boss on the battlefield was now Wenna, but let’s say… Zhao Mingwei’s character’s charm was only thirty-two points, so how could he make all female NPCs become friendly? How!

Wenna’s status had indeed become that of an ally, which was why the entire Dancing Nuclear Guild held their fire. If Wenna had been judged as an enemy, a red-named monster, she would have been bombarded by countless skills while lying there.

“It’s a bit like the main campaign task for the Magic Thief faction, I’ve already sent it in the team channel,” Zhao Mingwei said, and the detailed information of the task had already appeared in the team channel.

After reading, Mo Shigui’s reaction was that he should let Zhao Mingwei finish this hidden task.

Because he owed Zhao Mingwei a lot of favors, including that time with the Flame Ash Dragon, and as a friend, he ought to help Zhao Mingwei.

But the ones fighting this boss weren’t just him and Zhao Mingwei but the entire Dancing Nuclear Guild, and most importantly…

“Mingwei… you should know about the death penalty for being killed by a Magic Thief on Black Tide Island. Many in our guild now want this NPC’s head,” Mo Shigui said somewhat helplessly, “Who knows when we’ll catch her next time…”

“So… should we let you guys have it?”

Zhao Mingwei, too, had been killed by Wenna twice. Perhaps Zhao Mingwei could spare this Magic Thief, but the other players of the Dancing Nuclear Guild wouldn’t forgive her.

Zhao Mingwei knew he had no right to help others forgive this Magic Thief.

“Wait! Wait!” Yin Hui suddenly popped out from somewhere at this time.

“…” This scene almost made Mo Shigui’s eyebrows twist into a cloth.

But while speaking, a pure white light suddenly burst from Wenna’s chest, accompanied by her painful voice… The Divine Power she had drawn from the Holy Spirit, taken by Devouring God, turned into a sphere of light and returned to the original Holy Spirit.

‘The memory taken by Magic Thief*Wenna has been retrieved.’

‘Abyssal Plague has been cured.’

These two notifications suddenly popped up in front of Mo Shigui.

“So, uh… Coach Song… can we do this task now?” Yin Hui rubbed his little hands together, asking Mo Shigui with a humble tone.

You’re the boss of the Dancing Nuclear Guild! Who are you asking?

The reason Mo Shigui was feeling a headache was, if Yin Hui had just said earlier not to kill this Magic Thief, he really couldn’t have made the decision, but now that the memory taken by Wenna had been retrieved.

Mo Shigui could only nod, and the whole Dancing Nuclear Guild also expressed no objection.

“Open the portal to the Melted Black Ruins,” Mo Shigui told a Summoner in the guild.

“Get up, you can go now,” Zhao Mingwei said, helping Wenna up from the ground.

She didn’t even have the strength to walk now.

“…Why save me?” Wenna’s eardrums had burst, and she couldn’t hear clearly what Zhao Mingwei was saying.

All she could do was see through her somewhat blurry vision that Zhao Mingwei and Mo Shigui, the president of the Dancing Nuclear Guild, were confronting each other.

In Wenna’s view, it looked like Zhao Mingwei was single-handedly stopping the entire Dancing Nuclear Guild from killing her!

For what reason? Could it be true, as Denghis Xisi had said, that there were some people in the Divine Power so kind as to be beyond help?

Zhao Mingwei did not answer Wenna’s question; his gaze was fixed firmly ahead.

Actually, Zhao Mingwei was asking Jiang Qiao about someone in the guild who had gotten hold of something terrible…

“Answer me! This kind of pity is an insult to me,” Wenna seemed to think Zhao Mingwei was deliberately avoiding the question.

Finally, Zhao Mingwei helped Wenna to a portal opened by a Summoner.

“Even if you save me, I will never submit to you!” Wenna warned Zhao Mingwei with a cold voice.

She might be among the most hateful of the Magic Thieves towards the descendants of the Devouring God; her parents had been killed by a descendant of the Devouring God, so pity from a descendant of the Devouring God was enough to… tighten the knots in her heart.

Now, she would rather be killed by Zhao Mingwei herself than be captured by these Divine Powers.

No… not captured.

Through the portal, Wenna could vaguely see the scenery of the Melted Black Ruins.

Wait… weren’t these Divine Powers saving her to try to persuade her to join their ranks?

Letting her go just like that?

“You’ll regret your foolish actions, and I will still kill you the next time we meet!” Wenna shouted somewhat uncontrollably at Zhao Mingwei.

“If you can, just try it,” Zhao Mingwei finally responded to Wenna, but as she was about to shout something else, Zhao Mingwei suddenly grabbed her collar and, with a neat back throw, threw her into the portal.

Wenna’s harsh words were cut short, and she already experienced the sensation of weightlessness, the last scene her vision captured was Zhao Mingwei waving at her.

“Smile… Brother Smile, was that throw a bit too harsh? Might it have killed her?” Lin Xi asked, looking at Wenna as she flew into the portal like a cannonball, somewhat worried.

“No, I threw her precisely,” Zhao Mingwei said.

“That’s not the point! Her health was only at six hundred points left! Your back throw plus the environmental damage, what if it dealt over six hundred points of damage!” Lin Xi said, thinking of running into the portal to check Wenna’s condition.

“Trust a professional’s skills,” Zhao Mingwei added.

“I’m a professional player, too! But you can’t always control the damage of your basic attacks, can you?”

“I can.”

“…”

Jiang Qiao, listening to the dialogue between Lin Xi and Zhao Mingwei, didn’t want to express any opinion but instead looked towards Yin Hui, who was planning something.

This was the first time the Divine Power had collaborated with the shareholders in an event, and all Jiang Qiao could do was hope that it would go smoothly.

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