Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 335 - Chapter 335 Chapter 324 Embarrassed Together (1st Update)

Chapter 335: Chapter 324: Embarrassed Together! (1st Update) Chapter 335: Chapter 324: Embarrassed Together! (1st Update) Cola Fanatic Stronghold.

“Participate in the official Spirit event? Sure… no… no, that’s not right!”

Bubble was having a face-to-face conversation with President Silver. A few minutes ago, President Silver had come to ask Bubble if he wanted to participate in the upcoming holographic game exhibition. Bubble wanted to agree… but as he was about to nod, Xue Bi coughed lightly next to him.

Then… after Bubble glanced at Xue Bi, Xue Bi took over the conversation for Bubble.

“Mr. Lu.” Xue Bi addressed President Silver.

“Just call me Silver or President Silver, I’m more used to the nicknames from within the game,” President Silver said, raising his hand.

What kind of nickname is President Silver anyway! Bubble muttered to himself, but he didn’t speak up to contradict Xue Bi; when it came to business, Xue Bi was definitely more adept, and he was mostly just a figurehead in the company.

“From the list you’ve given us, you want our guild members Caramel, Sui Le, and Caffeine to participate in the holographic game exhibition under your guild’s name, correct?”

Xue Bi glanced at the list President Silver had provided. The named individuals were all top players from the Cola Fanatic Guild and also registered as professional players. Caramel was also world-class, and the other two had performed exceptionally in the most recent season.

“If it’s a matter of appearance fees, we can certainly talk. It would be beneficial for your company, to be precise… it would be beneficial for the return on the investment that Guild Leader Bubble has made in Spirit,” President Silver knew Xue Bi wouldn’t be easily swayed like Bubble.

“I’ve already made back the money I put into Spirit! Using that to try to tie me down is useless.”

Bubble interjected at this point… The advertising effect of Spirit had far exceeded his expectations; during peak times, the customer traffic of Prosperous Square was more than triple the usual amount. The rumor of the sixty-three thousand when Thorne had just come out had caused Prosperous Square to be swarming with people.

When Bubble’s dad called to ask about it… his dad changed strategy slightly, moving snack vendors from the first floor to the sixth, and coupled with the fact that the first floor of Prosperous Square was a large mall and so on… various promotional tactics drove profits up three to fourfold.

This wasn’t even counting the other store collaborative projects that followed Bubble joining the Spirit Foundation.

Money was made back, but it was just breaking even.

“It’s not about the appearance fee,” Xue Bi said after hearing Bubble’s somewhat disheartening remark, and though she wanted to sigh, she held it in. “Cola Fanatic already won the semi-final against Abyss Temple two days ago, and you won today’s semi-final against the Grey Eyes team, right?”

“Hmm.” President Silver seemed to anticipate what Xue Bi was about to say.

“So, for the upcoming Finals of Conflict, the holographic game exhibition where players will be participating, the majority of the audience will be fans of either Cola Fanatic or Jumping Nucleus. Even if they are not fans of these two, most of the people buying tickets and watching the livestream will be fans of the Conflict competition,” said Xue Bi.

“Playing some other games after the finals and participating in an exhibition match shouldn’t be a problem, right?” Bubble was quite keen on having his players join the ‘Spirit Exhibition Match’ after this event.

“What if… it’s not just an exhibition match?” Xue Bi looked over the list of players provided by President Silver once more. Aside from Cola Fanatic’s professional players, there were also some highly talented players unearthed by Cola Fanatic in Spirit. “With Jumping Nucleus’s strategy team, they can handle most of the instance challenges in Spirit, but this time even Jumping Nucleus has come to us asking for external assistance… Mr. Lu, I want to know if the difficulty of this Spirit event is on the same level as Thorne, right?”

If not for the NPC Thorne, perhaps Xue Bi, upon seeing it was a ‘PVE exhibition match’, might have agreed to let their own players join just like Bubble would have.

But the problem is… the bosses in the Holy Spirit are unreasonable! Unlike the Strife, where the difficulty lies in the high HP and attack power and the screen-clearing AOE, the boss Thorne in the Holy Spirit told all players that… game bosses can also totally outclass you in PK skills!

“This…” Yin Hui glanced at Mo Shigui and Jiang Qiao who came along with him, as Mo Shigui had more authority to speak on boss difficulty.

In the end, Mo Shigui could only nod in response to Xue Bi.

“So we must consider the possibility of being wiped out by the boss. What is the Holy Spirit’s official stance on making a performance battle so difficult?”

Xue Bi was really worried that their own players would suffer a beating from a group of NPCs just like Thorne did… Such a match wouldn’t look good as a spectacle, and beyond that, the players’ reputation would be damaged.

It would have been absolutely fine for players to participate in events for other games after the Strife finals… The problem is, fans want to see their favorite players shine in the arena with their excellent plays and godlike skills. Getting thrashed by pros from other teams is one thing, but… by AI in another game?

Jiang Qiao listened to Xue Bi’s complaints, and he also felt like voicing his own… It wasn’t that he didn’t want to lower the difficulty of the enemy; it was simply not possible to adjust.

However, when the real fight began, Jiang Qiao would still spend Creation Energy to add some attribute-enhancing BUFFs to the participating players.

Such BUFFs couldn’t be used for an extended period… because the players’ ability to handle them is limited, just as Jiang Qiao wouldn’t boost a player from level one to fifty all at once.

Game balance is one thing, but injecting the power of level fifty all at once could cause severe strain on a player’s body.

The same goes for these extra BUFFs, although a top-tier player like Zhao Mingwei could handle more BUFFs.

“But looking at you all… you’re still planning to approach other clubs, right?” Xue Bi put down the roster in her hand, guessing that Yin Hui must still have a list of other club members.

“Yes.”

“Other club players’ appearance fees aren’t cheap. I’m afraid the Holy Spirit officials… might not intend to pay, do you really value the commercial potential of the Holy Spirit so much?”

Xue Bi’s understanding of this offline event… Instead of being hosted by the Holy Spirit officials, it’s more like being led by Active Nucleus.

Xue Bi admitted that the commercial value of the Holy Spirit game was huge, but… a game’s commercial value is how much money the game publisher can make, and Active Nucleus isn’t the publisher of Holy Spirit, so could Yin Hui really recoup such a fearless investment?

“I’ve said before that Holy Spirit is a very ambitious game, and the establishment of the Holy Spirit Fund has destined this game… not to be used as a money-making tool like traditional game publishers but rather… a real virtual world. You guys might not get all this, but anyway, do you want to participate?” Yin Hui asked in the end.

Xue Bi glanced at the bubble next to her, which now looked like a Wang Xing Ren (loosely: ‘pooch’) staring at Xue Bi, expecting to be fed.

“Guild master… why don’t you and Mr. Lu go see the other clubs together, and then decide based on the other clubs’ responses.”

In the end, Xue Bi chose a very conservative approach, which was that if everyone lost face together, then it wasn’t really losing face. If Yin Hui could bring in players from more than three clubs, then the Cola Fanatic Guild would certainly be willing to participate in this online event.

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