Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 367 - Chapter 367 Chapter 355 The Ambition of a Swan (Second Update)

Chapter 367: Chapter 355: The Ambition of a Swan (Second Update) Chapter 367: Chapter 355: The Ambition of a Swan (Second Update) Magic, after the Holy Spirit server went live, spent his days living a salted fish life, because he was too noob… so noob that he still hadn’t farmed a complete set of graduation gear.

The difficulty of the instances on Dark Tide Island was high, and what was most frustrating was that after being killed by the Magic Thief, Fureya would lose a small part of her memory which really messed with her mentality.

Therefore, Magic very consciously stopped mixing with the top raid groups of Jumping Nucleus for gear farming since the Dark Tide Island patch, instead casually wandering around Dark Tide Island and occasionally teaming up with Jumping Nucleus’s Tier-2 teams to farm lord-level dragons or the like.

This kind of life was quite comfortable, but it lacked a sense of urgency, the kind where you think, ‘I’ve got my eyes on this item! If anyone dares to compete with me for it, we’re going to have a problem!’

“Actually, farming in Holy Spirit is… pretty fun?”

Magic was relentlessly swinging a hoe in the medicinal herb garden at the base.

“Fun my ass! Magic you big dummy! You dug up the mandragora I planted.” Lazy, who had just logged on, saw Magic ravaging her herbal garden with a hoe.

“I thought this field was empty?”

It was only when Magic struck with the hoe that he discovered a plant resembling a baby burrowed in the soil, which let out a wailing cry as it was exposed to the air.

Lazy’s approach was far more direct; she simply stomped on the mandragora, silencing its cries immediately, then she continued to swear under her breath as she covered it back up with soil.

“The herbal cultivation in Holy Spirit seems really hardcore?” Magic had spent nearly a whole month at the base.

Although he hadn’t participated from the beginning in the construction of the base, he had watched as Jumping Nucleus’s base grew from a tiny camp to a small village with about fifteen or sixteen NPCs residing in it.

Lazy’s herb garden and Xia Shan’s automated mining setup were the most crucial facilities at the base.

“So hardcore that I’m considering changing professions! These herbs aren’t just particular about the timing of daily watering, but even the location where they are planted is specific, not to mention pest control and fertilizing! It’s like a real-life farm simulator; I don’t know which idiot designed it. Constructing the system is so simple, why make the planting system so complicated.” Lazy kept on grumbling while she filled in the soil.

“But you seem to be enjoying it a lot.” Magic hadn’t been interacting with Lazy for long, but she was one of the few non-club logistics members who had entered the core circle of the Jumping Nucleus players.

“I like to grow potted plants in real life, so planting these weird and wonderful magical crops in the game is quite fun. There are even people on the Holy Spirit forums who share their planting methods and notes. It looks like they’re going to need to come up with some kind of Baidu Baike-like explanation.” Lazy spoke remarkably quickly when she talked about her area of expertise.

“Specialization, huh?”

Magic observed the herb garden filled with all kinds of magical creations, its hardcore nature requiring cultivators to have a certain level of planting knowledge to keep all the plants alive, and even understand their various special characteristics.

Of course, there were also plants that were easy to get started with… the growth difficulty of various plants in the Holy Spirit world itself was very low.

“How long do these magical herbs take to grow?” Magic asked further.

“The fast ones take a week, the slow ones a year or two. See that pile of Phoenix Fire over there? It can greatly increase fire attribute damage. I heard on the Holy Spirit forums that it matures once every half a year, and it needs its Magma Pool changed every day. If it weren’t for mature blossoms selling for seven hundred gold apiece on 4396, I would have already fed it to the warm-water dairy cows we keep at the base.” Lazy said.

“This shouldn’t be the growth speed of crops in the game.” Magic walked towards the cluster of blossoms Lazy referred to as Phoenix Fire, and merely by approaching this cluster of flowers, he was subjected to a burning damage effect.

This peculiar plant grows in magma, and it took Lazy a great deal of effort to find its seeds in the territory of the Flame Ash Dragon.

“God knows what the dumb designers were thinking, but I have my own methods to shorten the growth cycle, like feeding it fire attribute cores and stuff. Without these ripening techniques, it might take two or three years to mature! The game version cap would probably have been raised several times by then!” Lazy complained, but the feeling of watching his own bizarre plants and flowers grow was still pretty awesome.

Especially these magical plants that only exist in legends on Blue Star.

“I wonder if the warm-water dairy cows and Fire Beak Ducks we raise in the stronghold also grow this slowly?” Silver shifted his gaze towards the nearby livestock farm. The farm was managed by NPCs from the Vibrant Nucleus.

There was also lumber cutting and collecting food for the dairy cows and Fire Beak Ducks on Biland Island.

After the new version and Black Tide Island were released, food on Biland Island was still in short supply. The reason boiled down to… the livestock growing too slowly. Livestock in other games would grow up in a day and could be turned into a meal the next.

This damn game Sacred Spirit calculates growth rates by the month.

This point had also sparked numerous arguments on the forums. Some players who preferred fast-paced games said, ‘I’ve never seen livestock grow so slowly in a game, my Fureya’s about to starve to death and not a single duck has grown up.’ While other players thought, ‘This realistic experience is really great, keep it up dumb designers!’

“This stronghold… is just too small.” Silver’s gaze turned to the stronghold’s only remarkable structure, which was one of the three teleportation gates built in the entire server.

On the other side of the gate lay the New World Plaza area in the Upper World.

“Our stronghold is already the second largest on the server. It may not be as expansive as those expansion freaks at Coke Frenzy, but the quality of our buildings is definitely the best!” Lazy felt that the area of the stronghold was already quite large, a good four thousand two hundred square meters, already resembling the scale of a small village.

“Our guild now has more than eight thousand members. The stronghold alone can’t accommodate everyone,” Silver said.

The stronghold was designed initially to accommodate the members of a guild. Even though the NPC recruitment system and residential system were added in later updates, the stronghold system’s limit could accommodate at most two guilds’ members.

But after this server opened, Vibrant Nucleus established six more sub-guilds again. The total number of players from the nine guilds allied together had already exceeded eight thousand.

If some city assault event were to be launched later, and there was a need to gather all players for a call to arms, just relying on this stronghold would probably not be enough space.

“The chairman said there would definitely be a city-building system launched in the future? No wait… it’s launched now, damn it! Are the dumb designers updating the version again?” Lazy suddenly received two system prompts at this moment.

“Now? What’s the situation?” Silver was caught off guard by Lazy’s words and hurriedly shared the two system prompts with Silver.

Silver skipped right over the “Prepare for Black Tide Island” event, and the reward of a city-building stone from the second update immediately captured all of his attention!

“Where’s Coach Song right now?” Silver immediately inquired of Lazy.

“The chairman and the others are… doing an instance. They might not be able to come out for a while, I hear it’s a crucial instance and that it would take an entire day,” said Lazy, a member of the strategy team, who knew Mo Shigui’s movements better than Silver.

“Let’s not disturb them this time. What about the Starlight Scholar Squad? Nevermind, I’ll contact them myself!” After seeing the various rules and requirements of this event… the thing called fighting spirit once again ignited within him.

This city-building stone… even if it bankrupts him, he must get his hands on it!