Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 228 - 225 Now and the Future

Chapter 228: Chapter 225: Now and the Future

Chapter 228 -225: Now and the Future

Jiang Qiao washed his face with the clear water from the garden fountain in the instance lord’s residence.

“Agent, are you all right?”

Queen Mei stood beside Jiang Qiao, watching as he repeatedly took deep breaths with his hands resting on the edge of the fountain.

“I’m fine.” Jiang Qiao took the towel Queen Mei handed him and wiped the water off his face.

“I can’t believe, Agent, you actually couldn’t handle the sight of a beheading,” the Hornet Knight said with a helpless shrug. Jiang Qiao’s pale face was a result of the axe-wielding man and Wolf Knight executing their task too cleanly.

Even though it was Jiang Qiao’s command, seeing a man beheaded right in front of him without any mosaic… Jiang Qiao overestimated his psychological endurance.

“Without Hai Lan’s divine status, I’m just an ordinary person,” Jiang Qiao said after wiping his face, looking at the four knights and Queen Mei standing in front of him.

“Ordinary person? Agent, that joke isn’t funny at all,” the axe-wielding man said.

“Joke? I’m curious what exactly am I in your minds?” Jiang Qiao asked.

“Cunning… a conspirator?” the axe-wielding man thought for a while and made this assessment.

“A cautious schemer,” the Wolf Knight also added.

“Dangerous fellow.”

The Hornet Knight was frank in his expression.

“Thank you indeed for the praise.”

Jiang Qiao had no idea where the Four Knights’ impression of him came from, it was probably because all the actions of the players were masterminded by Jiang Qiao behind the scenes… but this might be something even the players themselves hadn’t realized.

However, these bad impressions about Jiang Qiao could wait, there were many issues that needed his attention, one of them being the intelligence deduced from Denghis Xisi’s memories, after a part of his brain was consumed by the Book of System.

“Now it’s time for a meeting, first about the true identity of Biland Island.”

Jiang Qiao moved a wooden table then opened the Book of System to the page that contained the character card of Denghis Xisi.

「Denghis Shuzelis

Gender: Male

Title: Eternal Follower

Age: 51 (429)

Level: 57 (Body level 57)

Race: Human · Perfect Crystal Kind · Chaotic Lineage

Occupation: None

Proficient in: Research, Education, Enchantment, Management…

Personality Tendency: No fixed personality tendency

Occupational Skill: Research lv52, Management lv32, Record lv51, Cultivation lv52, Combat lv41, Magic lv72…

Occupational Orientation: NPC Management, Ancient Research, Combat…

Growth Potential: Elemental Resonance B, Divine Resonance B, Undead Resonance B, Psychic Resonance B…

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Character Description: The Denghis Xisi killed by the Four Knights was only fifty-one years old physically, but his soul age had reached four hundred twenty-nine years, having reincarnated at least three times… From the key information extracted from his memory, the race of Biland Island was once allies with the Devouring God.」

“What race? Chaotic Lineage? What’s with the Cthulhu element, it’s kind of too cliché and boring, isn’t it?”

Jiang Qiao looked at his creator persona’s comments on Denghis Xisi and couldn’t help but criticize… Chaotic was a term used to describe the race of Biland Island in language that Jiang Qiao could understand.

After devouring the memory of Denghis Xisi, Jiang Qiao initially understood what exactly Biland Island was all about.

To describe it in the simplest way… Biland Island was everything and yet nothing, still in its juvenile phase, it possessed a strong mimetic nature, essentially transforming into whatever it wished, but this race had one common trait… laziness.

Extremely lazy… Biland Island had many followers, with Denghis Xisi being one of the most prominent, yet the island itself had no malice towards anything, it needed no offerings, no food, and had no ambitions, just wanting to silently lie there like a salted fish.

But Biland Island was too powerful for this world, its very existence was a threat to the gods of this world.

The gods wanted to steal Biland Island’s power, Denghis Xisi probably harbored the same idea, wanting to steal Biland Island’s power to do something.

“But all these old background stories, I really… am not that interested.”

Jiang Qiao was educating the Four Knights about it halfway when he became bored and closed the Book of System, tossing it back onto the table.

“But this might involve the truth about… the destruction of our world,” Queen Mei stepped forward, hoping Jiang Qiao would continue to reveal the key information from Denghis Xisi’s memory.

Queen Mei was very concerned about what had happened to Hai Lan at the time of his death.

“If you are so interested, have a look for yourselves,” said Jiang Qiao, pulling out a USB drive from the book of the system and handing it to Queen Mei. “This contains the memory copy of Denghis Xisi, year 429. You can binge-watch it like a TV series when you have the time.”

“Thank you,” said Queen Mei, taking the USB drive from Jiang Qiao with both hands, as if she was holding some sacred object handed down by the gods.

Jiang Qiao actually didn’t really want to delve into the reasons why Hai Lan’s level was reset to zero. Jiang Qiao had to focus only on the present and the future, which currently was to completely engulf Biland Island within Hai Lan’s body, and in the future, to fend off attacks from invaders marked on the starmap.

“Is this… what is called a USB drive?”

In recent times, Queen Mei had been diligently studying how to be a modern person, but she had very little experience with actual computers, usually using the various built-in gadgets of the Heavenly Palace game.

“The television set that the axe-wielding man bought a few days ago should be able to play the USB drive.”

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Jiang Qiao shifted his gaze to the axe-wielding man nearby. Before Queen Mei could give an order, the axe-wielding man had already bent slightly and performed an ancient courtesy, which clearly meant to please come in.

Thus, Queen Mei and her knights majestically headed to the axe-wielding man’s residence to binge-watch the series.

“Jiang Qiao, the rampage in the Spiritual Vein Forest has ended, and I’ve fixed all the guild strongholds,” said Hai Lan, who quietly appeared beside Jiang Qiao in his semi-transparent ghost form, after seeing Queen Mei and her party leave.

In Hai Lan’s voice, Jiang Qiao could detect that ‘please praise me’ kind of smugness.

“Aren’t you going to say hello to them?” Jiang Qiao asked about something else. Every time Hai Lan appeared, it was when Queen Mei and her party were absent, even though Hai Lan was currently in an invisible state.

“We’ll talk about that when the right opportunity comes,” Hai Lan said.

Jiang Qiao didn’t continue the inquiry, but immediately started focusing on the post-war losses of the players and the number of casualties.

“How many of those NPCs turned into monsters survived in the end?” Jiang Qiao asked.

“Thirty-seven people. That’s the wild NPC survival count; all other NPCs living in player strongholds survived,” Hai Lan said.

The term ‘wild NPCs’ referred to those three hundred NPCs that Denghis Xisi had turned into monsters to attack the player strongholds. Out of three hundred, only thirty-seven survived… It seems this tactic, though effective, was an extremely suicidal strategy.

“Also, after this battle, I have completely mastered the Spiritual Vein Forest, like eating one seventh of a whole pizza,” Hai Lan said.

“That is quite the analogy indeed, and then? Any gains?” Jiang Qiao asked.

“The server cap was raised by fifty thousand in one go. Half a month ago, you said to save half of the cap, so I didn’t issue them right away.”

A system book also appeared in Hai Lan’s hand, who flipped it to the title page of the first chapter, where the volume of registered users on the server was marked as 60000/120000.

It’s been almost two and a half months since the public beta of Holy Spirit. In these two months, the reviews of Holy Spirit on the Heavenly Palace game platform have shifted from an initial wave of rave reviews to now being mixed.

The reason is that players who left positive reviews are typically those who received test qualifications. Those who left negative reviews are naturally the ones who camp daily on the official website to draw play qualifications but have failed to win any for two whole months, plus some foreign friends who don’t even have the chance to participate in the draw.

For those players who didn’t get a chance to play Holy Spirit, the only response Jiang Qiao could offer was his own despair!

Luckily, Biland Island had provided Hai Lan with a large amount of Creation Energy and spirit quota. Now, Jiang Qiao had sixty thousand play qualifications at his disposal. This number might not be sufficient for a whole province in China, considering the current VR gaming craze, which was unparalleled compared to the decline of PC MMORPGs in the past.

Compared to the daily few dozens or hundreds of qualifications issued by Holy Spirit, sixty thousand was a number exciting enough to thrill the players.

“Have the critics arrived yet? It’s about time to start the next phase of the plan,”

Jiang Qiao glanced at Weibo and forums, where people were already starting to pace the upcoming continental tournament, questioning why the four major professional battle teams were playing other games during the deployment ceremony.

This wave wasn’t specifically targeting Holy Spirit, but it indisputably made Holy Spirit famous in one go.

If the initial craze of Holy Spirit was only among those veteran players and those cloud gamers who closely follow gaming news on game zones and Weibo forums,

this time Holy Spirit had officially come to the attention of all players and even garnered some exposure to the general public.

“The next step in the plan? The opening of the Inner World?” Hai Lan knew that Jiang Qiao had been laying the groundwork for the Inner World in the recent half month, and society was also heavily promoting holographic projections and AR equipment.

Some holographic projection-style traffic lights and billboards had gradually started being installed in the streets of Jiang City, and AR gear had also begun trending in recent years.

“It’s just promotion. The official launch still needs a little more time, starting with a welcome video for the newcomers. This time, I plan to have Queen Mei star in it.”

Jiang Qiao did some simple stretching exercises. Over the past two months, Jiang Qiao had been very cautious in promoting Holy Spirit, even constantly thinking that Holy Spirit should not enter the public eye.

After all, Holy Spirit is an ‘illegal’ game, but this was not something under Jiang Qiao’s control. As a groundbreaking game, Holy Spirit was bound to attract worldwide attention.

Since that’s the case, Jiang Qiao was determined to make it the most popular game in the world, without any peer…

Although Jiang Qiao currently could not claim it was the most popular in terms of player numbers, perhaps it could be the most followed game.

But these were all efforts to lay the groundwork for the opening of the Inner World.