Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 394 - Chapter 394 Chapter 381 The Rewards of Kuroshio Island

Chapter 394: Chapter 381: The Rewards of Kuroshio Island (Updates 2, 3 Combined, Chapter 2 in 1! Vote for Monthly Tickets~~) Chapter 394: Chapter 381: The Rewards of Kuroshio Island (Updates 2, 3 Combined, Chapter 2 in 1! Vote for Monthly Tickets~~) Within the stronghold of Leaping Nucleus.

“Hotpot Prince, I fully support you in building a city; it doesn’t affect any of us. But as for the battle on Black Tide Island this time, I really can’t agree with your proposal.”

Bubble listened to Yin Hui’s plans for the final battle on Black Tide Island at the stronghold of Leaping Nucleus, nodding in agreement with the first part of the plan.

In Bubble’s eyes, the battle on Black Tide Island was just like the Battle for Divinity… both were new large-scale instances updated by the game’s official for players.

It’s just that the map of Black Tide Island was revealed quite early, and the invasion event on Black Tide Island might still be due to Abyss Temple’s previous complaints… ‘Game designers, I’ve built the city walls, but where are the monsters attacking the city?’

Players’ strongholds on Biland Island kept growing bigger, but the fact was that less and less monsters came to siege them.

So it made sense for the game designers to pull the monsters from Black Tide Island for a siege battle.

Therefore, in Bubble’s view, this meeting was just like the previous Battle for Divinity, where Mo Shigui got everyone together to plan out the distribution of benefits, with no problems whatsoever.

The eight major guilds each had their own areas of responsibility, and other guilds and casual players could also happily participate in the ‘final battle instance’ under the command of the eight major guilds.

All was fine until Yin Hui mentioned the contents about the Beheading Squad, which made both Bubble and Qi Junzi’s expressions turn particularly subtle.

“The Magic Thieves from Black Tide Island are described in their background stories as having the Abyss’s blessing which allows them to respawn continuously, so we need to send an elite squad to completely destroy the lair of the Magic Thieves on Black Tide Island to secure our victory in this battle,” Yin Hui said.

There was a full map of Black Tide Island laid out on the wooden table in front of Yin Hui. This map had been published during the event preview of the battle at Black Tide Island earlier this morning.

Jiang Qiao, with intelligence provided by the main brain, had drawn up this important map, which outlined the locations of some important facilities of the Magic Thieves and their methods of entry. Combined with the pirates’ Tracking Technique… players could easily find the core facilities of the Magic Thieves, provided they could break through their defenses.

“Yin Hui, Boss Yin, Lv Yinling… listen to me,” Bubble interrupted Yin Hui, slamming his hands on the wooden table, while Qi Junzi, who was sitting beside, tried to interject several times but held back, leaving Bubble to speak for Qi Junzi.

“All members of our guild can cooperate with you in this Black Tide Island battle, but Caramel, Pudding, Can, Caffeine, Yuan Fan… the active players from Cola Frenzy won’t be able to participate in this beheading operation.”

Bubble took out a pen directly from his backpack and crossed out the names that Yin Hui had written on a piece of paper. This list could be considered the dream team of China.

If the battle with Black Ash Knight was a gathering of the strongest victorious players on the server, then this list for the Beheading Squad included all of China’s well-known professional players.

After the second large-scale release of accounts in Holy Spirit World, those professional players who hadn’t qualified before had mostly secured their qualifications now, including some names that Bubble wasn’t even familiar with.

But that wasn’t Bubble’s concern. What Bubble cared about was…

“The World Championship is coming up soon, and you should know that, Yin Hui,” Bubble became very serious once again, so much so that he didn’t seem like his usual self. “Right now, our club’s players are preparing for the World Championship, and in a few days, they’ll be heading to the airport to fly to California. Holy Spirit World is indeed a lot of fun, but for Caramel and the others, the World Championship is what they value most, the champion title of the World Championship is the most important thing in their lives! This should apply to your team members as well, right?”

Bubble’s words made Qi Junzi bite her lip lightly. She knew that the game ‘Conflict’ was already behind compared to Holy Spirit World, but she still aspired to win the World Championship of ‘Conflict.’ She was willing to do anything for that championship title.

This kind of obsession could only be found in players like her… who had won championships. Players from Cola Frenzy and Leaping Nucleus, who hadn’t won a single title, must have an even greater desire. They trained hard for a whole year, two years, three years… all to prove themselves on that World Championship stage.

And now, for the sake of an instance in another game, Yin Hui was asking the players to give up the upcoming championship trophy of the World Championship match? That was simply unreasonable.

“I’ve calculated the time; the battle at Black Tide Island will start in five days, and if everything goes well… it should end within seven days, but that’s really just the best-case scenario.”

Yin Hui also doesn’t know how many tricks Denghis Xisi has up his sleeve; no matter how much he strengthens the forces of his Holy Spirit, he still can’t say he’s certain of victory.

“Boss Yin, you must be obsessed with Holy Spirit World?” At this point, Feng Yi, who was next to Qi Junzi, suddenly spoke up, “I heard at a club meeting that the Dispute Alliance is going to investigate you now… I admit that Holy Spirit World is fun, but it’s just an instance event in a game.”

“Feng Yi, stop talking,” Qi Junzi said coldly, shutting Feng Yi up.

“Why shouldn’t I speak? Boss Yin, you should really cut down the players’ Holy Spirit World time. Now that public opinion has started to lean to one side again, and the World Championship is approaching, shouldn’t we concentrate on training…” When Feng Yi got to this point, he felt someone tap on his shoulder.

“Caramel? I’m already level fifty now; I’m not afraid… What kind of a wrestling move is this! Stop!”

In the blink of an eye, Feng Yi found himself pinned to the ground by Zhao Mingwei, who had come up beside him and pressed him down with just one hand.

“Don’t you guys understand? Do you want to get swept by the Titan team and the Secret team again at the World Championship and then all of us join hands and stop at the top eight?” Although he was pinned down by Zhao Mingwei, Feng Yi’s chatter didn’t stop.

Feng Yi’s words made the atmosphere in the stronghold turn incredibly somber, and it was Pop Bubble who couldn’t help but break the silence.

“Boss Yin, taking this instance event so seriously wasn’t really necessary…” Pop Bubble said.

“If you think the battle at Black Tide Island is interfering with the players’ practice time, you can quit… I’ve also found a few substitute players who should be able to fill the spots,” Yin Hui said after taking a deep breath, directing this remark specifically at Qi Junzi, whose players were all motivated by passion.

Qi Junzi and Feng Yi returned to secretly logging in every day, after all, the impact of the World Championship was just too big.

“Substitute players, Mr. Lv… are you sure the substitutes you found can reach our level?” Qi Junzi asked, still somewhat dubious.

“Aren’t there people from the training camp at Dynamic Nucleus?” Feng Yi suddenly butted in at this moment.

But the next second, Zhao Mingwei pressed his head straight to the ground.

“Come on! Fight fair without using that cheating move! Let’s do one-on-one! Caramel… why do I feel like you’re particularly irritable today?” Feng Yi turned his head and suddenly backed down after catching a glimpse of Zhao Mingwei’s expression; the old captain’s presence was still there, as hardly anyone dared to speak when Zhao Mingwei wore a cold face.

But Zhao Mingwei rarely put on a cold face in the past; even if they lost a match miserably, Zhao Mingwei would just encourage everyone.

“Boss Yin, if this Beheading Squad really needs a team of professional first-line players to get through, I’m afraid the training camp players won’t be up to it, right?”

Other clubs didn’t need to participate in the World Championship, so they were quite willing to let their professional players join Yin Hui on this beheading mission.

However, if Yin Hui brought in a few duds, they wouldn’t be so pleased.

“No, the person’s here,” Yin Hui said, pointing toward the entrance of the stronghold.

All the eyes in the stronghold turned toward the entrance, everyone guessing which big-time player from an unknown background Yin Hui had recruited this time.

A girl with silver hair dressed in beginner’s gear stood at the entrance, and the LV1 label next to her looked particularly glaring, not to mention the sprout title of ‘Newbie’ that stood out the most.

“Eh, eh, eh? So many familiar IDs? Are you all the underlings I’ve defeated before?” the girl looked at everyone in the stronghold and made a comment that, once translated, was incredibly sarcastic.

“Who is this newbie?”

“Why does the red tangle look somewhat familiar?”

The players in the stronghold saw the girl’s ID was in Chinese, so for a moment they couldn’t remember who it was… until…

“Tangle, we meet again.” After Zhao Mingwei called out the girl’s ID in English, a whole bunch of players who had fought her shuddered.

“Are you Caramel? Oh! I remember now, the one lying down there is Black Ash?” Lu Wei squatted down in front of Feng Yi and said.

“Damn! Didn’t we beat you the year before last?” Feng Yi shouted in dissatisfaction.

Everyone instantly recognized who the girl was, the world’s top team’s strongest Bomber, who had been defeated in the semi-finals in last year’s world championship due to a minor weakness exploited by the rival team.

But the victory against her had been a hard-fought one, to call it a narrow victory would be an overstatement, it was more about luck.

“This year is different, but I think I’ll beat you in this game first,” Lu Wei said, poking Feng Yi’s nose with her finger.

Feng Yi, held down by Zhao Mingwei, couldn’t fight back and could only keep biting at Lu Wei, but Zhao Mingwei pressed Feng Yi’s cheek back onto the ground again.

“Where are the others?” Zhao Mingwei looked up at Lu Wei and asked.

His network in the esports circle was quite extensive, known by people both domestically and internationally, or those who wanted to get to know him, aiming to defeat him as their professional goal.

“Hall and Lightery are here too. They were saying how boring the world championship would be if you retired,” Lu Wei was casually chatting with Zhao Mingwei.

On the side, all the guild presidents had fallen into a weird silence as if they had been hit by a silencing spell.

“You brought the Titan team over for scrimmages? Aren’t you afraid that the domestic public opinion will spill over internationally!” Bubble was nervously whispering to Yin Hui, “We were already having a negative impact by playing Holy Spirit, now by roping in international players, this could blow up big time!”

“What’s there to fear? We used to rely on esports fan benefits, competition bonuses, and various other things to make money, all of which needed a fan base. But the money we make from the Holy Spirit fund now is much more than fan earnings,” Yin Hui replied.

“That’s not the point! We could have had it all, damn damn damn! The agenda is already being set!”

As Bubble thought of this, he immediately opened Weibo, where a trending search titled ‘Vibrant Nucleus brings Titan player Lu Wei to try Holy Spirit World?’ ‘When will Holy Spirit’s parasitic marketing on esports end?’ caused him a headache.

The public outcry wasn’t just domestic; it was also making waves on some international social media platforms due to Lu Wei streaming her Holy Spirit World gameplay.

Most Titan fans were worried, ‘Will playing other games before the important world championship affect the players’ condition?’

“What to do? With this mess, the esports league will definitely start putting on the pressure,” Bubble said with a headache.

The reason for Bubble’s headache was that the domestic public sentiment had been relatively stable, although there were people setting the agenda, it wasn’t enough to make headlines.

But Titan’s popular player Lu Wei livestreaming Holy Spirit World and having an altercation with Vibrant Nucleus players at the Holy Spirit stronghold?

For the media, this was huge news! All the world’s attention focused on Lu Wei in an instant.

At that moment, the nonexistent conflict between Holy Spirit players and esports players suddenly emerged and escalated rapidly.

“I don’t know what to do. Isn’t it common for clubs to get slandered?” Yin Hui said, shrugging helplessly.

“It’s not just slander now… wait, what’s this?” As Bubble furiously refreshed the Weibo trending searches, he spotted a new headline at the top.

It was ‘Holy Spirit Black Tide Island Ultimate Battle Rewards.’

“Did Holy Spirit buy the trending search?” Bubble asked incredulously to Yin Hui, the major shareholder of Holy Spirit.

“Holy Spirit doesn’t need to buy trending searches with its current status, and besides, Weibo is just for laughs,” Yin Hui said, but he still clicked into the suddenly appearing keyword ranked thirty-seven.

Although ranked only thirty-seven, it was an official announcement from Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit Black Tide Island Ultimate Battle Rewards.

Such rewards should have been announced on the official website. An online game’s rewards are usually top-tier equipment, the rarest mounts, and costumes, limited to in-game rewards.

While these rewards are attractive to the game’s players, they mean nothing, nor are they known to those who don’t play the game.

But the best reward for the final battle of Holy Spirit Black Tide Island is…

A property deed for a fully furnished 120 square meter apartment.

What the hell?

Bubble scratched his head, baffled, wondering if he had mistook it for some strange real estate advertisement.

But he wasn’t mistaken. Amid the fanciful background image and narrative, there were several prizes described that felt thoroughly out of place.

The description of the reward went like this…

“The Holy Spirit fund is dedicated to all the Holy Spirits who bravely fight for the world we treasure. Whether it’s in the world of Holy Spirit or in the real world as warriors, you deserve unparalleled rewards! In the Holy Spirit world you get powerful equipment and rare mounts, but what about the real world? Here, the Holy Spirit fund presents to you, the defenders against the Black Tide on our homeland! You will receive something you’ve dreamed of in the real world–a property deed for a fully-furnished apartment valued at three million.”

The initial description of the rewards was very game-like and fantastical, full of zeal. But the latter part of the reward was so grounded, it felt like it had dug deep into reality.

“Very blunt,” Bubble commented after a silence.

“But many will like it,” Yin Hui said, also somewhat at a loss for words.

“Will this reward really be honored?” Three million wasn’t a big deal to Bubble, but to the vast majority, even to the esports players, it was a very tempting offer.

“It will, because it’s provided by one of the shareholders,” Yin Hui answered.

“Ah? Who?”

“The owner of Night Rush, he exchanged a few apartments for a spot in the Holy Spirit fund,” Yin Hui said.

“Damn real estate developers,” Bubble spat vehemently.

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