Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 88 - 87 History Book

Chapter 88: Chapter 87 History Book

The book scribes team’s lifestyle profession of record keepers requires reading more to improve their skill points,

a task that other players find quite boring and of little use.

However, the Spirits have done an excellent job at balancing the professions, with each combat role having its own advantages, and the lifestyle professions having their own joys.

It all depends on whether or not the players can experience that joy.

Shi Qi was one who had experienced the joy of the record keeper lifestyle profession, and just the fact that other players had a low level of Spirit language and couldn’t even get through the first chapter of a book was enough to make him… feel a sense of superiority as a record keeper.

Not all books in Spirits are just props to explain the game background; some are magic books and books related to hidden quests.

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Shi Qi believed that within this prop book he held named ‘Queen Mei’s Private Diary’… there must be a major hidden quest.

As soon as he returned to the Tower of Trial’s realm, he began to translate Queen Mei’s diary.

Queen Mei’s diary had a total of one hundred twenty-seven pages. As Shi Qi opened the diary, a translation window popped up; he could understand the first thirty pages all at once, and then directly copy and paste the content to the forum.

From the following pages, Shi Qi had to use the unique ‘Study’ mini-game that was specific to the record keepers to start translating, which was a bit like a word game. Shi Qi could now play it very proficiently.

He didn’t translate quickly because he was live streaming, and he had to show every page of content to the viewers in his stream.

‘Is this the queen’s diary? Feels just like the ones my sister writes.’

‘The content of this diary isn’t interesting. Live streaming it is not as good as joining the pros to fight Queen Mei.’

‘If it’s uninteresting then don’t watch, but don’t you all want to know what Queen Mei’s character design and background story are like?’

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‘Can’t the character design be seen in the modeling and CG? These diary entries are trivial matters, without any background story in them.’

The comments flying past in the live stream were also being watched by Shi Qi, with most of the viewers having never played Spirits but were continuously following it through various means.

Most Spirits live streams nowadays were about the Divine Essence battles, so Queen Mei was actually more popular than the puppet sister in these viewers’ eyes.

But they were right, Queen Mei’s diary consisted mostly of trivial daily matters.

Shi Qi’s job, and what he enjoyed doing, was compiling the key content from these trivial daily events and posting them on the forums for other players to understand the crucial backstory of Queen Mei.

Most people in the stream preferred to switch to channels where they could watch Queen Mei’s fighting prowess up close, so the popularity of the stream gradually declined until Shi Qi turned the page, and an ancient-looking letter fell out of the book.

“A letter? Could it be a hidden quest?”

Shi Qi excitedly picked up the letter and began inspecting its properties using a detection spell.

‘An unsent letter of help, Description: This item contains a powerful Otherworld aura that needs to be purified before it can be read.’

The fact that the letter was imbued with an Otherworld aura did not surprise Shi Qi; just like the gear from the Divine Essence battles of the Tower of Trial needed to be purified by the fairy merchant.

After the opening of the Divine Essence instance, an NPC named the Time Merchant Trao appeared at its entrance. He could help players purify Otherworld auras, while players could exchange the medals and merit items they’d won in the Divine Essence battles with him.

Seeing the letter, Shi Qi closed his notebook and headed towards the distant Time Merchant Trao with the letter in hand.

There weren’t many players around Time Merchant Trao; to browse an NPC’s shop, a player didn’t need to stand in front of it all the time—just opening the shop interface within five meters of the NPC, players could browse the shop in any position they wanted.

So around Time Merchant Trao, there was a group of players sitting or lying down browsing the medal shop, but only a few stood directly in front of him.

Shi Qi ran up to Time Merchant Trao, the merchant’s gaze turned towards Shi Qi, and a series of windows also popped up in front of Shi Qi.

“I sense an ancient aura on you, like the sobs of someone in utter despair…”

Time Merchant Trao was shrouded in a piece of ragged cloth; his background was also very mysterious—according to the official introduction, the Knight gear players could exchange from him with enough medals all came from a distant past.

“I remember the first time I interacted with this NPC, the dialogue wasn’t this. Could it be because of this letter?” Shi Qi glanced at the dialogue options that had popped up in front of him.

1. Browse the medal shop.

2. Purify an item containing Otherworld aura.

3. Leave.

Beyond that, there were no other options. This NPC had no quests, serving purely as an exchange point for Divine Essence battle equipment.

Shi Qi chose the second option, and then another window popped up in front of him. He placed the ‘unsent letter of help’ into this window.

“Ah… a letter from the past, a key to this war, a turning point for a shattered world, I see a second possibility in the long flow of time.”

As the Time Merchant spoke these words, Shi Qi quickly took a screenshot to record them, for another player might not pay attention to such trivial NPC dialogue.

But Shi Qi knew that in the game Spirits, most dialogue had meaning and could potentially contain a hidden quest.

This letter was clearly a key item to trigger a hidden quest!

“I will need some time to decipher this letter, Spirit… Please wait patiently.”

The moment the Time Merchant’s voice faded, a timer appeared next to the item purification window, showing seven hours and twenty-one minutes.

“Seven hours to purify a letter?”

Shi Qi was now consumed with curiosity about the contents of the letter. He had previously had the Divine Essence artifacts of the Tower of Trial purified within ten seconds!

A letter taking seven hours to purify? Could it be that the letter’s properties were even more formidable than those of a level fifty epic gear?

But Shi Qi no longer had the ability to take back the letter; it was already in the process of purification, and the timer of seven hours and twenty-one minutes was ticking down second by second.

“Well, I can use this time to catch up on my writing.”

Shi Qi was not one to rush. He shifted his mood, sat down on the ground, and opened the document function in the Tian Gong gadget.

He entered a title directly into the post.

‘Chronicles of Spirits: The Legend of Queen Mei—What kind of story lies behind the most popular aloof queen boss in Spirits?’