Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 263 - 261 Lets Charge for 630000 (Second Update)

Chapter 263 -261: Let’s Charge for 630,000! (Second Update)

Chapter 263 -261: Let’s Charge for 630,000! (Second Update)

Ten minutes before the inner world opened, Jiang Qiao was making the final adjustments to the inner world.

Now, the streets of the entire inner world were empty, and the players of the inner world couldn’t see the people of the real world unless they were within the range of the holographic projection, where people from both worlds could meet each other.

Jiang Qiao also planned to develop an AR version of “Spiritual Being·Cloud Player,” which would allow people in the real world to see the spiritual players and monsters on the streets through AR glasses, even if they weren’t qualified to play the spiritual game.

But these plans would be unfolded after the first test of the inner world had finished.

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Meanwhile, players could only move within the streets, and Jiang Qiao hadn’t created the interiors for most buildings, so those houses were just hollow structures with only their exteriors modeled. Only for certain special buildings did Jiang Qiao restore their interiors.

For example, the interior modeling of Blossom Plaza was completely recreated by Jiang Qiao as it was in the real world, but there was a difference… Jiang Qiao had built an arena in the center of Blossom Plaza.

On the arena, Eternal·Thorne was looking around this entirely new world.

The scope of activity for these NPCs was only as far as the battlefields could reach. Once they strayed too far from the battlefields, the system would automatically warn Jiang Qiao, who would decide whether to kick them back to their own world.

“A world forged from colorful steel, I’ve seen many like it before.” Thorne found a place to sit, locking his gaze with Jiang Qiao’s “Devouring God, how long do you plan to stay in this world?”

“Stay for how long?” Jiang Qiao was setting some detailed options for challenging Thorne when he suddenly spoke as if he was delivering the opening line of a main quest.

“More and more of your old friends will find out about your awakening. They’ll try to kill you or devour you while you are still weak, and then destroy this world,” Thorne said.

“Would me leaving this world avoid it being destroyed by my ‘old friends’?”

“No.”

“Then that’s settled.”

Eternal·Thorne watched Jiang Qiao’s indifferent demeanor and, while contemplating, stroked his stubble and said…

“Aren’t you afraid that I and those Divine Chosen will turn your spiritual beings against you?” Thorne asked.

“Oh? You can try. It’s quite simple to turn spiritual beings. Want some tutorials? I could guide you step by step on how to draw spiritual beings into your ranks.”

If Jiang Qiao remembered correctly, since the game’s launch, players had betrayed each other countless times. If there were factions in an instance, players would usually claim rewards from both factions before deciding which instance to tackle.

The Divine Chosen… also known as Crystal Hunters, were indeed allies of the spiritual beings on Biland Island. Thorne was probably referring to those deities who wanted to completely pull the spiritual beings into their ranks.

The Divine Chosen Ones coming here to compete against the spiritual beings probably had their own ulterior motives, which was to select spiritually talented beings and recruit them into their world.

Jiang Qiao was quite supportive of their recruiting efforts, as long as they provided rewards.

From Thorne’s description… the divine status of the Devouring God was like the meat of Tang Sanzang on the star map, and thus the spiritual beings were naturally considered to be the mobile Tang Sanzang meat.

Not all deities had the ability to digest the divine status of the Devouring God, so it was entirely reasonable to recruit some owners of the Devouring God’s divinity.

The Earth Mother Goddess made the decision to recruit spiritual beings to Biland Island for this very reason.

“What if among those Divine Chosen there are people from my Annihilation Legion?” Thorne threw out another question that teetered on the edge of provocation.

Since arriving at the arena in the inner world, Thorne had been trying… to provoke Jiang Qiao, or rather to make Jiang Qiao aware that he was a ‘threat’ that ‘needed to be killed’, but the threat could not be so great as to compel the Devouring God to take action personally.

The reason Eternal·Thorne did this was simple: he wanted a ‘massacre’ with the spiritual beings, not a fair ‘duel’.

“As long as you don’t wreak havoc in this inner world, I don’t care if you’re from the Annihilation Legion, the Abyss, or the agents of Chaos. Any spiritual being who steps onto this arena is yours to kill,” Jiang Qiao said.

“You… are that confident in the loyalty of your spiritual beings?” Thorne asked again.

Loyal my ass! Jiang Qiao could actually understand Thorne’s current mindset. In his and all the Divine Chosen’s eyes, the spiritual beings were an army acting under the orders of the Devouring God, fanatical followers of the Devouring God.

In the game’s background story, that was the case, but when it came down to the players themselves… ‘Devouring God? Can we kill it? Does it drop gear, duck?’

These were things Jiang Qiao wouldn’t tell Thorne.

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“You’ll have to test these yourself.” Jiang Qiao timed it perfectly and pressed the button to open the server to other worlds; then, his figure vanished in front of Thorne.

Thorne sat down once again upon hearing Jiang Qiao’s words and fell into deep thought.

He really was from the Obliteration Legion, but he served as a kind of external support. His joining the Obliteration Legion was to search for the descendants of the Devouring God. As an Eternal, he could only experience the thrill of ‘danger’ and ‘pain’ through a battle to the death with a descendant of the Devouring God.

He had found them, over the centuries… He had used the power of the Obliteration Legion to locate several descendants of the Devouring God.

But the process of fighting them was not pleasant, either because these descendants were not skilled in combat

which failed to spark his interest, or because in the middle of the fight, the real Obliteration Legion would intervene, turning what should have been a one-on-one fight into a one-sided slaughter led by the Legion.

This eventually drove Thorne to distance himself from the Obliteration Legion, seeking refuge in a world where he lay hidden until today…

To Thorne, these spirits still seemed too weak to afford him the ‘exhilaration’ of a proper battle.

So, if he could turn these spirits and let them gain the power of obliteration, and perhaps the power of other gods… would he be able to enjoy a satisfying fight?

This thought lingered in Thorne’s mind as he pondered, when suddenly, a commotion arose from outside the bustling square.

“630,000! It’s 630,000 now! I’m coming!”

“Who’s riding a flying mount and can’t keep still, huh!”

“If you dismount from your flying mount in mid-air, you’ll land faster, you know!”

“Damn, damn, damn, damn! Who the hell said to dismount in mid-air! I’m dead from the fall!”

“Why doesn’t this game have parachutes.”

“I’ve landed! I’m going to win the chicken dinner! The 630,000 is mine!”

Thorne picked up the twig in his hand and stood up. Looking up, he saw a large crowd of spirits pouring into the bustling square, easily numbering over four hundred.

Wait a minute… wasn’t it supposed to be a one-on-one fight? Thorne watched as the four hundred-plus spirits surged towards him, his hand trembling slightly with the twig.

The scene was akin to a supermarket slashing prices in half, with hordes of aunties storming in the moment the doors opened, terrifying indeed.

“There’s really only 30,000 HP! I have a Challenge Voucher! I’m the first one up.”

“I have one too, dang it, I’ve reached the edge of the arena! Shit! Who has started the challenge already?”

“Who is it? Who’s stealing my 630,000? How is it a newbie who’s only at level 43?”

“But this NPC only has 30,000 HP.”

“Didn’t you see this NPC is level 65? Little newbie, why don’t you give up? You can’t get that 630,000.”

A flurry of spirits frantically waving their Challenge Vouchers crowded around Thorne’s platform, but a notification popped up, crushing their hopes: ‘This NPC is currently being challenged, please wait.’

Wait, my ass! Those present with maxed-out characters could kill him with a single awakening ability with just 30,000 HP.

However, upon seeing that the one on stage was an under-leveled newcomer, one who hadn’t even unleashed his awakening ability, they quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

But no sooner had they relaxed than the spirits started scheming against each other outside the arena. With a 100-meter radius around the arena designated a PK-free zone, they had to leave the bustling square to fight.

But they were left despondent when the popup window showed up just as they thought they could squeeze in with quick hands.

One despairing message read, ‘Sorry, your competitive arena ladder score has not reached 1,900 points, you are not eligible for this challenge.’

The other, upon clicking the ‘Challenge’ option, led to a queuing interface, clearly displaying the number of players waiting in line: a whopping forty-seven.