Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 395 - Chapter 395 Chapter 382 Greetings from Parents (First Update)

Chapter 395: Chapter 382: Greetings from Parents (First Update) Chapter 395: Chapter 382: Greetings from Parents (First Update) The final battle rewards of Black Tide Island were announced on the official website, not only did it cause a major earthquake in the player community of Spirit, but other gaming media and even some mainstream media all followed up to confirm if the rewards from Spirit were real?

Because they were too shocking.

In this final battle reward pool of Black Tide Island, the top ten rewards were property certificates valued at three million.

The property corresponding to the certificates was located in South City… the home city of the Night Racers Club, which had relatively lenient rules regarding purchasing property.

Basically, once players won this reward, they could move in immediately, no matter where they were from.

Jiang Qiao had explained all these details in the final battle rewards, and besides these, Jiang Qiao had also prepared many real-world rewards.

After the pay-to-win system of Spirit was opened, Spirit’s prize pool skyrocketed from the initial 700,000 to 13,000,000, while yet underestimating the whales’ capacity to spend and the money-drawing power of Fureya’s Wardrobe and the Fantastical Beasts’ pool.

Currently, the daily income of Spirit Mall ranged from one to three million dollars, which was nothing compared to monster-sized online games like Rivalry with billions in daily earnings.

But Spirit required no maintenance costs, no operational expenses, not even electricity bills; all it needed was to cover Hai Lan’s feeding costs, so the maximum monthly operating expense was just around seventy or eighty thousand.

This profit margin was so high that Jiang Qiao didn’t even know what to say, but he still fulfilled his promise.

That is, all the money players spent on Spirit would eventually be returned to the players.

This final battle of Black Tide Island was the first phase of giving back, so Jiang Qiao divided the rewards of the final battle of Black Tide Island into two parts.

One part was in-game equipment and mount rewards, which was the most conventional. But what’s now receiving the most attention was the other part, the ‘real-world prize pool’.

The real-world prize pool not only contained ten property certificates but also included rewards like Charming Chicken’s Yearly Eat Pass, Tengu Mall’s Homebody Happiness Drink Yearly Pass, and White Goose Restaurant’s Yearly Treat Pass, rewards so appealing that even Zhao Mingwei couldn’t help but smile.

“Huh? A real-world house? I thought it was a manor in the game… is a real-world house really worth getting this excited over?”

Lu Wei was busy greeting her former rivals from global competitions, but as soon as the rewards of the final battle of Black Tide Island were released, all players in the base shut their mouths and began frantically checking the forums and official news.

The number of posts on the Spirit forum had completely exploded now. Jiang Qiao randomly refreshed the page and all posts in the section were new, all asking if the rewards provided by Black Tide Island were real.

‘Little Furball, do you not know how expensive houses in China are?’

‘Is it still possible to register a Spirit account now in China? Damn! I’m thinking of taking a break from school!’

‘Register a Spirit account in China +1, Motherland loves me!’

There was no need for any player at the base to respond to Lu Wei, as a multitude of comments in her live stream began reminding her just how valuable the final rewards of this event in Spirit were.

“What? You even have to buy houses?” For Lu Wei, as someone from Eagle Country, housing wasn’t that important.

‘Different values, just to remind you, the top prize of this Spirit event when converted to US dollars is approximately worth four hundred thirty thousand US dollars! Four hundred thirty thousand! This isn’t a prize from an esports match, it’s just what you might win from killing multiple bosses in Spirit.’

‘Are you sure this isn’t just a promotional stunt by the game operators?’

“Whether this reward is real or not, one of them is definitely mine.” Lu Wei still said, squatting in front of Feng Yi, who was pinned down on the ground by Zhao Mingwei.

“What are you, a level one newbie, talking about!” Just as Feng Yi was about to mock Lu Wei, a small window for a Heavenly Palace voice communication suddenly popped up in front of him.

Upon seeing the signature on the window, Zhao Mingwei immediately let go of Feng Yi.

“Is it your aunt again?” Zhao Mingwei asked after letting go of Feng Yi, who didn’t answer and dodged far away to answer the call.

Unlike the parents of most esports players, Zhao Mingwei rarely contacted his own parents, sending home only his monthly salary at most. His parents didn’t even know what job he was doing.

Feng Yi’s parents were different, however; they hardly ever missed any of his matches, so much so that all the team members and even the staff at the Supreme Club were familiar with them.

He was also teased by other team members as a “momma’s boy,” a nickname Feng Yi always found embarrassing, but he still had to answer when his mom called.

“Mom? Ah… how do you even know about the rewards for this game, Spirit? Ah, don’t think about that. The World Championship prize money alone is more than three million. What? I’ll definitely win this time… Ah? What about the school district house? What do you mean ‘take it if it’s free’? Okay, okay, I know.”

Although Feng Yi had dodged far away to take this voice call, all the players in the stronghold simultaneously stopped what they were doing and started using various eavesdropping skills to listen in on Feng Yi’s conversation.

Coke maniacs Mccoffee and Can even stopped pretending and used their advantages of giraffe and rainbow unicorn headgear to gather behind Feng Yi and eavesdrop.

“What are you doing?” Feng Yi noticed the crowd around him and covered the microphone to shout.

But just after he shouted, three or four players in the stronghold, including Qi Junzi, began receiving calls from their elders.

“These elders usually can’t even pronounce the names of the games we play, how come they’re so quick to ask about the final battle rewards of Black Tide Island now?” Black Pot Stewing Meat kept clicking his tongue in amazement beside them.

“Because it was on the news.”

Mo Shigui shared a news link to the group, which was from a major newspaper, titled, “VR Online Game Event Offers Real Estate as Top Prize.”

Though it was only spread online, the speed of its dissemination was still astonishingly fast.

“Isn’t this somewhat against mainstream values?” Black Pot Stewing Meat, being one of the oldest professional players among the debaters, felt not reassured by the news, but uneasy.

Video games had never been accepted by mainstream society from the start, and the government of Hua Country had always avoided discussing them, but if the rewards for this event in Spirit were real, they would definitely cause a major conflict with mainstream society’s values toward video games.

Black Pot Stewing Meat did not know if the outcome of this conflict would be good or bad.

“I don’t know.” Mo Shigui closed the news article and looked towards Qi Junzi on the other side, still taking the call, and Zhao Mingwei standing next to her.

“My dad asked if I could secure the rewards of the final battle on Black Tide Island during this period,” Qi Junzi said with a bitter smile, “even though he has no clue what Spirit is.”

“So do you feel pressured?” Zhao Mingwei asked.

“A lot of pressure.”

Qi Junzi glanced at the group of eager players in the stronghold. The rankings for the final battle of the Black Tide Island event were calculated based on a thing called ‘merits.’

The Merits system had also appeared in the Battle of Divinities before, a dynamic scoring system where every contribution players made on the battlefield was recorded as merits, while actions that sabotaged fellow faction members resulted in a deduction of merits.

But the beheading plan by Silver Overall was undoubtedly the most likely to rack up a large amount of merits in the final battle.

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