Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 337 - Chapter 337 Chapter 326 Taking a Newbie and... Taking a Girl

Chapter 337: Chapter 326: Taking a Newbie and… Taking a Girl (Third Update) Chapter 337: Chapter 326: Taking a Newbie and… Taking a Girl (Third Update) Jiang Qiao had now witnessed the terrifying ability of President Yin to push and sway others.

In the end, President Yin ran all over the other five major clubs in Huaguo, and with his financial capability and strong convincing power, he managed to persuade three of them. Aside from the Abyss Temple and Nan Feng’s two clubs’ bosses who disagreed, the other three–Gray Eyes Association, Supreme Overworld, and Night Sprint–agreed to participate in the post-competition activities of Saint Spirit.

“Are we still short of people?” President Yin had been visiting from eight in the morning until five in the afternoon, effectively negotiating the whole day without a break.

President Yin had settled for steamed buns and water for lunch, a level of dedication that made Jiang Qiao feel embarrassed.

“We still need one healing mother and an accurate bombardier. Updating guild leader, will the healers from your guild join?”

Mo Shigui glanced over the number of external helpers, totaling thirty-four people. Each of the four guilds provided three to four professional players, plus two ‘talented’ players recruited in Saint Spirit, and President Yin also specially visited those top-ranked wild players on the Saint Spirit ladder.

“They’ll join, the type that don’t want money.” Jiang Qiao felt that such activities would definitely attract nurses who wanted to join without charging extra. She was someone who had a keen sense for opportunities in the game, as she had already privately messaged Jiang Qiao, “Guild leader, I also want to play with you guys.”

“The only one left is an accurate bombardier.” Mo Shigui said, “When the Black Ash Knight is summoning the shadow, something like a core will appear from his body. I had people from the guild try to hit that core once, and it can deal a lot of critical and burst damage. Hence, we need a sniper-specialized bombardier or a bombardier that has changed class to Eagle Eye.”

In Jiang Qiao’s impression, Eagle Eye was a very rare class change, specializing in sniping and abandoning all other bombardier skills like grenades, mines, and summoning the legion–focusing all skills on sniping.

“Do you have a suitable candidate?” President Yin remembered that there were quite a few ‘accurate’ players among professional players, but none of them had undergone the change to become Eagle Eye.

“Abyss Temple seems to have a player who’s made this class change, I could ask them.” Mo Shigui knew about this class change opportunity because Can Xin had come to show off in front of him.

While they were discussing this, Jiang Qiao opened a database that only GMs could access, which recorded all the detailed activities of players.

One of the data recorded was the shooting accuracy rate, a common statistical measure found in FPS games. Jiang Qiao checked the few players with the highest ranking in this data.

The professional players that Jiang Qiao knew of ranked very low in this data because most professional players were gunmen. In online games, bullets cost nothing, so it didn’t matter how they were fired.

In the entire Saint Spirit server, there were currently seven Eagle Eye players, and their shooting accuracy rates were all in the top twenty of this data. One of them was named Wan Xiang, an ID that seemed completely unrelated to snipers.

That player was a girl.

Her shooting accuracy rate had reached an astonishing 93%, placing her second among the Eagle Eye players, with an accuracy rate of only 60%.

A 93% accuracy rate meant… from the moment she started playing as a gunman in the game, her normal attacks had almost never missed!

What kind of monster was this?

Did she have some sort of auto-aiming, head-lock plus bullet-tracking cheat enabled?

But Jiang Qiao could swear there were absolutely no cheats in Saint Spirit, aside from the official ones.

“Are you coming along for the next visit, Updating guild leader?” President Yin planned to visit the Abyss Temple base once more. Jiang Qiao had been following along just for the excitement, but then realized he had been with them for so long that President Yin felt a bit guilty.

“I’ll go talk to our guild’s ‘healer without extra charge.’ You guys go ahead.”

Jiang Qiao found an excuse to temporarily leave this brave little squad that was gathering companions from everywhere, and President Yin didn’t insist on keeping him… he directly led his negotiation team straight towards the Abyss Temple base.

As for Jiang Qiao, he started to look into the detailed data of this player named Wan Xiang. She was currently level forty-nine, had logged one hundred seventy hours of game time, and had just started playing the game a month ago.

Wan Xiang’s equipment was at the level of an average player… like Feng Yi, mostly blue gear with a few purple ones, and she had only one orange equipment necklace, with no special equipment at all.

She wasn’t affiliated with any guild and had always been a solo player.

Jiang Qiao still had time to scope out the situation and see if he could recruit a new member for the Nameless Guild.

The method for scouting was… to manipulate instance dungeon matching.

Wan Xiang was currently matching for the ten-player normal difficulty of Black Dragon Nest, and since there were very few Spirit players, even a ten-person team required some time to match, so most players would form a team first and then match when they were short one or two players.

Jiang Qiao had now become the one or two players they were short of.

Matching for Black Dragon Nest didn’t require being at the instance entrance, one could simply open the instance guide feature in Spirit to match online, but the entrance to Black Dragon Nest still saw high traffic, with most players preferring to form teams by shouting at the entrance rather than using the matching system.

Under Jiang Qiao’s discreet operation, he quickly matched into the team Wan Xiang was in… When a prompt named ‘Do you want to join the instance now?’ popped up, Jiang Qiao directly chose yes.

The next second, the scenery before Jiang Qiao changed, shifting from the cool hues of Biland Island’s forests to the warm tones dyed red by the lava inside Black Dragon Nest.

“Matched so quickly? Hey, brother, what’s your magic damage?”

The captain of this ten-person squad was called Li Xianghua, a Shield Warrior, and Jiang Qiao didn’t know if that was his real ID.

“Uh… My highest output on a dummy is 130,000.” Jiang Qiao, although he had always been careful to ensure Spirit didn’t turn into a ‘damage dictates everything’ game and tried to ensure every class could perform well in its own domain,

However, most of the time when running an instance, players prioritized damage output, and they probably were looking to match with a magic-damage dealer, but instead they got Jiang Qiao, the slacking Elemental Summoner.

“An Elemental Summoner can deal that much damage? Holy shit? Blessing of the Elf King… Elemental Temple set, could it be… is it a big shot coming down to our level?”

The other players in the squad crowded around to see the newcomer, only to find they weren’t looking at a new player, but a super big shot.

Jiang Qiao’s gear might not count for much in front of the eccentric bunch at Core Dynamics, but to these newcomers who hadn’t been playing for long, a full set of purple epic gear plus two pieces of Special Equipment was already the stuff of big shots among big shots.

The squad leader Li Xianghua obviously had a good eye, and team members could inspect each other’s equipment panels, so once the members took a round of inspecting Jiang Qiao’s panel with the purple so intense it verged on red, as well as the Legendary Staff crafted in various ways, and the stats they could only look up to, they’d entered the phase of frantic adulation.

“Big shot, haven’t you graduated from Black Dragon Nest? Oh! I know, you’re the type that likes to show off in front of newbies, right? But big shot, as long as you’re willing to lead us through the instance, it doesn’t matter how you want to flaunt!” Li Xianghua’s words made Jiang Qiao feel… something was seriously off.

Do I, the almighty Spirit GM, need to show off in front of you guys?

Jiang Qiao glanced helplessly at the only silent figure in the team, the girl who carried the ID Wan Xiang.

She sat alone in the corner of the instance, hugging her firearm, lost in thought about something. Jiang Qiao noticed that the rifle in her hands appeared to be modeled after the Mosin-Nagant.

There were a vast variety of equipment in Spirit, and there was no strict limitation to the weapons a class could equip. For instance, gunman players could use pistols, submachine guns, or even heavy artillery, as long as the skills could be executed with the weapon choice.

The Swordsman’s Iaido cut could be performed with a folding stool, but the Wandering Gunman’s rapid fire couldn’t be unleashed with a stool, of course.

The Sniper class’s skills were best suited to a rifle, and this girl was a military enthusiast with a taste for nostalgia?

Jiang Qiao didn’t immediately approach her rashly; whether she was a real girl was still up for debate…

“Let’s start the instance, don’t just think about coasting through. After all, it’s Black Dragon Nest, let’s all give it our best!” Jiang Qiao uttered some inconsequential words of encouragement and then signaled the team’s captain to start the conquest of Black Dragon Nest.

Jiang Qiao needed to confirm whether this girl could really… hit her mark as precisely as rumored.