Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 356 - Chapter 356 Chapter 345 The Pay-to-Win System Launches (Third

Chapter 356: Chapter 345: The Pay-to-Win System Launches (Third Update) Chapter 356: Chapter 345: The Pay-to-Win System Launches (Third Update) Jiang Qiao and the Black Ash Knight temporarily finalized the second attack plan for the Black Tide Island before directly feeding the shard of the Divine Fragment to Hai Lan.

“How does it feel? Any changes?”

Hai Lan twirled in front of Jiang Qiao as if she had put on a new dress, but midway through her spin, she stubbed her little toe on the sofa and then tumbled onto it, letting out an incomprehensible cry of pain.

It didn’t seem like her IQ had improved much.

“There are some changes,” Jiang Qiao said.

“Where?” Hai Lan, holding back the pain, sat up on the sofa and looked at Jiang Qiao.

“Here…” Jiang Qiao reached out and gently pinched Hai Lan’s belly, where there was now a little pinchable flesh. “Have you put on quite a bit of weight recently? Shouldn’t a goddess be able to control her own weight? How come you even have a little belly now?”

“This… this is just one of the manifestations of my growth! It’s still very easy to make it disappear!”

While speaking, Hai Lan held her breath; she tried hard to suck in the excess flesh on her belly but failed… Jiang Qiao feared that if Hai Lan kept eating like this, she might actually become overweight.

However… speaking of which, Hai Lan’s attire at home had become increasingly casual, from the initial home sportswear to the current tank top and cotton shorts.

Yet, looking at Hai Lan’s rather pleasing attire, Jiang Qiao felt not the slightest ripple in his heart.

Perhaps it was because of his own strong self-control?

Jiang Qiao stopped dwelling on the issue. After Hai Lan had eaten the shard of the Divine Fragment, Jiang Qiao felt some subtle changes in his state as the creator.

Firstly, Jiang Qiao indeed acquired some of the Abyss’s characteristics, which might be manifesting as the invasion of others’ consciousness, but this invasion was limited to… making the planar pirates on Black Tide Island see the players’ IDs and health bars above their heads.

Secondly, the level cap for Holy Spirit players finally got another boost, from level 55 to 57.

Jiang Qiao had long since set up the in-game store system, although the merchandise was a bit mixed, essentially boiling down to twenty-one sets of new costumes, five special mounts, and five flying mounts.

Each set of costumes was priced at 328 a set, and the mounts were priced the same.

Jiang Qiao felt that compared to those mobile games where one could easily spend thousands to get an item, this price was very fair.

As for the part that wasn’t so fair… it was the Fureya limited edition costumes and Mei the Queen’s photo album. Uh, there was no photo album for Mei the Queen just yet, as Jiang Qiao actually wanted to include one, but under the threat of the five Knights, he decided to wait a while before approaching Mei the Queen for a photoshoot.

Also… the Fureya costume changes required draws.

Players could only give Fureya battle-use clothes at the Biland Island stronghold, and the players’ own costumes couldn’t be placed into Fureya’s wardrobe.

This led to daily complaints on the forums from players saying, ‘Come on, game designers, when are you going to release a legendary outfit with a maid’s appearance?’

‘Hello? I think a legendary swimsuit would be nice.’

Most battle-use clothes were designed to be cool, and the cute ones were covered by the costumes, leading players to choose the prettiest piece of clothing for Fureya, which turned out to be a nun’s outfit called Holy Light Prayer, and it was even a legendary item.

Jiang Qiao, as a planner with the people’s interest at heart, naturally took the opportunity of the store’s launch to open Fureya’s exclusive costume wardrobe, and although the variety wasn’t extensive, Jiang Qiao had still taken into account modern women’s clothing.

There were, of course, maid outfits among others… In any case, the game called ‘Shining Fureya’ officially began public testing from the moment the game store went online.

Each draw in the ‘Fureya Wardrobe’ lucky pool only cost ten bucks, and ten draws cost just ninety! Such a bargain it’s explosion-worthy!

As for the probability… Jiang Qiao thought it was quite fair.

Last were the props produced in the Heart’s Intention Store… like the Teleportation Breaking Stone, Fureya’s Guiding Stone*One Hour Version, these items were limited to one purchase per player within fifteen days, ensuring that the Heart’s Intention Store wouldn’t be too useless.

Others were common items such as server-wide megaphones, name change cards, a Fantasy Drug to re-customize characters, warehouse expansion tools, various holographic dance moves and emoticon actions, and all sorts of miscellaneous fireworks effects. The prices were also very fair, apart from the name change card and Fantasy Drug which sold for two hundred, the rest could be bought for five to thirty bucks.

Right! And pet eggs!

This was another important feature of the Holy Spirit Mall, aside from Fureya’s Wardrobe; Jiang Qiao decided that after this version update, he would officially open the pet system.

However, all the pets for sale in the mall were cute ornamental pets with basically zero combat attributes. There was also a pet prize pool where one could draw some rare ornamental pets, each coming with its own set of BUFF skills.

The price range for ornamental pets was between one hundred and fifty to two hundred, and the drawing price for the pet prize pool was the same as Fureya’s Wardrobe.

Players who wanted to obtain truly powerful combat pets would still need to personally catch them on Black Tidal Island or Biland Island.

“To sum up, it’s time to start swindling money!”

After checking the mall’s inventory one more time and deeming it more or less complete, Jiang Qiao took out the Book of Systems to check the current balance of the Holy Spirit Fund.

The balance of the Holy Spirit Fund had plummeted from an initial three million to just under five hundred and thirty thousand, all of which had been spent on rewards for players who defeated the Guardians of the inner world.

As investors, Bubble and Silver Head had made a fortune thanks to the Holy Spirit’s popularity and partnerships, but their contract with Jiang Qiao would not expire for another three days, so they had no intention of continuing to invest.

However, even with a growing number of Holy Spirit players in the future, relying on advertisements and investments from manufacturers would still be a drop in the bucket. In the end, Jiang Qiao would have to depend on the extent of the players’ willingness to spend money to sustain the Holy Spirit Fund.

Once the Holy Spirit Fund became affluent, Jiang Qiao’s more extensive ideas for the inner world could be realized.

“There are seven hours until the servers open… Let’s see.” Jiang Qiao flipped through the pages of the Book of Systems once again, and as he had anticipated, after Hai Lan devoured that fragment of the Divine Fragment, the server’s capacity for players had increased by another one hundred and fifty thousand!

From an original nearly one hundred and forty thousand players, the number had grown to two hundred and eighty thousand. With the opening of Black Tidal Island and Biland Island, where Jiang Qiao was originally able to allocate about one hundred and thirty slots per day, he could now grant fifteen thousand slots in one go after this maintenance.

The provision of Creation Energy should barely be able to withstand it.

Jiang Qiao began drafting the announcement for the distribution of official beta test qualifications, as well as explanations for the game mall functions and the NPC affinity guide system… After all the new content was updated, what Jiang Qiao had to do was to use Creation Energy to expand the actual world of the Holy Spirit.

As the actual world map of the beginner’s village was still too small, the fragment of the Divine Fragment gave Jiang Qiao the ability to slightly expand the beginner’s village.

“I hope the Magic Thieves on Black Tidal Island don’t cause any trouble during this time.” Jiang Qiao closed the Book of Systems and entered the creator mode, pulling Hai Lan along to start his work.

…

Black Tidal Island.

After fleeing back from the uptown stadium, Magic Thieves Medes and Wenna returned somewhat disheveled to the Magic Thieves’ main base located on Black Tidal Island.

The place where their tribe lived was the Underground Forest situated inside Black Tidal Island, where crystals emanating light in the sky took the place of the sun and brought vitality to this forest.

Different from the corruption of the Abyss, it looked like an incredibly cozy place.

Medes and Wenna, with apprehension in their hearts, came to a sacred tree… This tree was the dwelling place of the Mother, and they were there to report their defeat in battle. Yet, a strange man stood in front of the tree, pondering something.

“From Biland Island! That’s not where you belong!” Medes, gazing at the man’s silhouette, recognized that it was indeed the Magic Thief Denghis Xisi from Biland Island.

“This indeed isn’t where I belong, but it’s not where you belong either,” said Denghis Xisi, turning his head to look at the two disheveled Magic Thieves. Medes was about to teach this rude outsider a lesson when he discovered that his body couldn’t move at all!

“What… what have you done?” Wenna also realized something was wrong with her body.

“You’ve made a mistake. The Abyss and Chaos have allied, and with the fragment of the Devouring God consumed, Black Tidal Island developed its own desires. A Chaos with desires will not be content with self-preservation. It seems that, compared to your Mother, Black Tidal Island would rather choose me… as your leader,” said Denghis Xisi.

At that moment, Wenna felt something strangling her neck, rendering her unable to speak. However, as she saw a pool of blood seeping from the roots of the sacred tree behind Denghis Xisi, her rage turned into strength, emerging from within her as crimson chain blades appeared in her hands. Breaking free from Denghis Xisi’s control, she swung the chain blades at him.

The blades did not hit Denghis Xisi but broke his hold, scooping up the bloodied Mother lying behind him.

“I won’t forgive you,” said Wenna, holding the Mother. Leaving these words behind, she turned and ran towards the periphery of the forest.

“Are you testing me, Black Tidal Island?” Denghis Xisi murmured, watching Wenna’s retreating figure. “Rest assured, I will save your kind, and… feed you.”

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