Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 334 - Chapter 334 Chapter 323 Black Ash Knight (Second Update)

Chapter 334: Chapter 323 Black Ash Knight (Second Update) Chapter 334: Chapter 323 Black Ash Knight (Second Update) “This island that you call Black Tide Island… is slowly moving towards the next world; you must be from the world that Black Tide Island has set its eyes on.”

The Matriarch directly initiated a conversation with Jiang Qiao on the battlefield, and Jiang Qiao had temporarily set her as a friendly target.

“I have not fully taken control of Black Tide Island yet, so I cannot stop it, but if you hand over the third Island Master to me… I can guarantee that your world will be absolutely safe.”

You must be dreaming.

Jiang Qiao didn’t even bother to respond to this line from the Matriarch, and directly got to the point of why he had sought her out.

“I accept your challenge,” Jiang Qiao uttered, confusing the Matriarch.

Challenge? What challenge? But the Matriarch quickly caught up with Jiang Qiao’s thoughts–if it was about that challenge letter… shouldn’t it be you, the Holy Spirits challenging me?

Just when the Matriarch was about to ask Jiang Qiao, he continued the topic first.

“But I’m more curious about what you… are willing to put up as a stake?” Jiang Qiao asked.

The Matriarch didn’t give Jiang Qiao any trouble, knowing that to get what she wanted from this conversation, she had to follow Jiang Qiao’s lead.

“A stake?” Suddenly, the Matriarch thrust her hand into her own chest, tearing out a deep blue fragment, “Is this enough?”

What she held in her hand was a fragment of the Hai Lan Divine Fragment… specifically, one-fifth of that Divine Fragment.

The energy of the Divine Fragment had been completely absorbed by Black Tide Island, dispersed among every Magic Thief on the island, with the Power of Devouring God being most concentrated in the Matriarch herself.

If Jiang Qiao could get what she held in her hand, it would allow all players to increase their level cap by one, to level 56.

“It’s enough.”

Jiang Qiao sent a scouting spell from the player’s perspective, which also showed that the Divine Fragment in her hand was a legendary item.

“Then… what about you?” the Matriarch asked again.

Us? You give a one-fifth fragment, should I cut that Island Master into five equal parts for you?

“What do you want?” Jiang Qiao was now speaking with the Matriarch as a player, with Xia Shan, Extra Care Without Extra Cost, Mingwei, and others listening behind him, and one more person… Yin Hui, who had narrowly escaped Black Ash Knight’s pursuit, clumsily crawled over.

“You, more precisely… you,” the Matriarch slightly opened her eyes, revealing silver-gray pupils, and pointed directly at Jiang Qiao.

The moment the Matriarch expressed her view, Xia Shan and Extra Care Without Extra Cost, along with Mingwei, instinctively moved in front of Jiang Qiao to protect him.

It delights me that Xia Shan and Extra Care are willing to shield me, but… Mingwei…

No, that’s not the point.

“In six days, I will select five beings whom you call Lords to challenge you. As for you… it doesn’t matter how many people you want to involve. If I win… would you also accept a few commissions from me?” the Matriarch proposed.

It’s not about you winning! Even if you don’t, other players are probably very interested in the missions for the Magic Thief faction.

“I’ll entrust this fragment to your kin for safekeeping.” The extremely small fragment in the Matriarch’s hand flew into the body of Black Ash Knight who was still battling on the field.

After emitting a roar, Black Ash Knight knelt on the ground. Players were getting ready to attack, thinking he had weakened, when suddenly a giant mouth emerged from the ground and swallowed him whole.

“Next time he wakes up… he’ll probably try to kill all of you, so you had better be mentally prepared in the meantime,” the Matriarch said before leaving.

As she spoke, the ground beneath her also shattered, and a massive Earth-digging Dragon emerged from the earth, swallowing the Matriarch and the Magic Thieves near her.

“Is this how the Magic Thief exits the stage?” Jiang Qiao had just updated the hidden task he received.

The hidden task was updated again to… “Hidden Share Task – The Island Master’s Challenge!”

The content of the task was nothing more than a free-for-all battle in six days, where the Magic Thief’s side would only bring five people, but there was no limit to the number of participants on the Holy Spirit’s side.

To professional players, this was essentially an instance with five BOSSes.

“President, how is the task going?” Yin Hui stood up from the ground, brushed off the nonexistent dust on his clothes, and quickly asked Jiang Qiao.

“Our guild can’t handle this hidden task, when the time comes… we’ll need to ask Leaping Nucleus for help.”

Jiang Qiao wanted to share this task with Yin Hui, but after thinking for a moment, he added a restriction, that only players with the title ‘Conqueror of the Holy Spirit’ could receive this task.

The title of Conqueror of the Holy Spirit was only achievable by heroes who had cleared all the main plane instances of the Holy Spirit on heroic difficulty!

Among these players, some were true top-tier raid players, while others, like Yin Hui, were bosses who were carried by a team of forty-nine.

As the boss of Leaping Nucleus, Yin Hui naturally had the title of Conqueror of the Holy Spirit.

After reading the task description, his eyes lit up immediately when he read that ‘the instance battlefield is located in the uptown gymnasium of the inner world.’

“This must be a prerequisite task prepared by the game planners for the participation in the holographic projection exhibition event!”

The moment Yin Hui received this task, he understood… The Holy Spirit officials had clearly decided to participate in this round of the full-system projection game show!

And like the Flame Ash Dragon before, the participating works were not some CG creations but live game footage, and what’s more important, the performers were all ordinary players!

“Coach Song!” Yin Hui immediately sought out Mo Shigui. After reading the task description, and specifically the part that named the Black Ash Knight as one of the BOSSes, Mo Shigui made a judgment.

“Tough to beat,” he said.

“Coach Song, looking at the task description, this time there’s no limit on the number of players in the instance, we can totally overwhelm the BOSS with numbers,” Yin Hui said.

“If it weren’t for this BOSS, it would be manageable, but with him, it’s different,” Mo Shigui, pointing at the term ‘Black Ash Knight’, explained, “We just clashed with this BOSS, and he’s the type whose power grows with the number of strategists facing him. His abilities can summon a kind of shadowy summoned being, and the more players fighting him, the more summons there are. The shadowy summoned beings increase his vitality significantly when they kill players.”

The sensation Mo Shigui had from fighting the Black Ash Knight was just tough, as hard as when they fought Thorne earlier, making him want to grab the game planner by the collar and ask “Why would you do this?”

If the Magic Thief of Black Tide Island was disgustingly cunning, then the Black Ash Knight was simply cruelly difficult, his battle skills so outstanding they could rival professional players, and his controlled abilities could wipe out the best of the raiding teams around the world.

“Then if it’s just Coach Song against this BOSS, how many times would our raid team need to fight to take him down?” Yin Hui didn’t ask about the chances of winning, but rather how many team wipes it would take.

“I don’t know, with our current lineup we can’t win,” Mo Shigui instantly delivered that discouraging news, “If I were to rank the difficulty level of Holy Spirit’s BOSSes, the Lion Heart Knight from the battle of divine integrity that just started would be the toughest, technically speaking, but at the time there were five or six raid teams attacking him, so we barely managed it. Next would also be the Yellow Hornet Knight from the battle of divine integrity… but now they have been weakened so they are much easier.”

What a nerf! They were basically making it easy on purpose!

Jiang Qiao knew that subsequent players wouldn’t be as strong as the first-time raid teams from the battle of divine integrity, so he intentionally suggested that the five knights go easy in the opening of the subsequent battles of divine integrity.

“Then there’s Thorne, but that’s a single-player BOSS, not too tough on a group raiding scale, but for a raid like this one with the Black Ash Knight… if the skill isn’t there, no number of people can beat him without wiping,” Mo Shigui explained.

“Could we pass it if we assembled a raid team where everyone was skilled enough?” Yin Hui, listening to Mo Shigui’s assessment, had just this idea.

“Skill is relative, our raid team members are already among the top, but there are some… who just aren’t up to par in front of this Black Ash Knight, boss, you aren’t thinking…” Mo Shigui had heard Yin Hui mention it before.

“I’ll go ask other clubs, you give me a list of the best raid team members, I’ll see if we can bring them together,” Yin Hui said with a smile.