Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 112: Chapter 111 Server Launch Warning (Seeking Recommendations!)

The Holy Spirit’s official account is now available on YouTube Video Website, and this CG featuring Mo Shigui can be viewed on the official website as well as on YouTube Video Website.

He chose YouTube Video Website because while watching the CG, he could also see comments from other players and some who were interested in joining the game.

There were two CGs released during the maintenance period, the first one titled “The Great Adventurers,” which is the kind of promotional CG often seen before a game’s release.

Although the screen was flooded with comments like…

‘I’m gonna play this to death.’, ‘The magic skill effects alone have already blown Rivalry out of the water’, ‘Blows Rivalry out of the water +1’, and so on.

But frankly speaking, Mo Shigui felt that this opening CG wasn’t as good as Rivalry, neither in terms of rhythm nor soundtrack; it was just mediocre.

If the first CG was a little gift for those who wanted to join the game, the second one was absolutely a pile of blades for the max-level players.

The title of the second CG was “What Makes a Home,” and it had been released for an hour already.

The Holy Spirit’s official account had already made a splash on YouTube Video Website, and the best replays from various guilds had become a daily must-watch program for players.

Thus, the comments on the video “What Makes a Home” skyrocketed to two thousand three hundred within just one hour.

When Mo Shigui clicked on the video, there were already more than ten comments at the top of the video, all with the same content but in different colors, arranged in a very eye-catching rainbow.

The content of these comments was ‘Holy Spirit game planners are devoid of conscience, I swear to stand with Fureya till death do us part.’

“How much resentment is that?” Mo Shigui glanced at the rest of the comments; they all had the same content, which seemed to be posted by more than one person.

The comments were so dense that Mo Shigui couldn’t see the screen clearly; only after he blocked the colorful ones did they thin out a little.

The first scene of the CG was Fureya sitting on the steps of the Resurrection Cathedral, an action players had a certain chance of seeing when they entered the cathedral.

Most of the time when players entered the church, Fureya would be waiting by the resurrection platform, so sitting on the steps was probably just the doll girl resting when she got tired of standing.

But even such a simple setup, players would take a screenshot, post it on the forums, and say, ‘So cute.”

Mo Shigui didn’t quite see the cuteness, but he paid more attention to what Fureya was holding in her hands… a Divine Fragment.

That Fureya had a Divine Fragment meant this part of the CG’s plot directly followed the segment where players defeated the Divine Battle and handed over the Divine Fragment to Fureya.

Logically, after completing the main quest of the Divine Battle, Fureya should have unlocked the second stage of affection.

But after Mo Shigui handed the Divine Fragment to Fureya, she only vaguely remembered the time spent with Mo Shigui.

A system message also popped up saying, ‘Fureya needs some time to assimilate the Divine Fragment.’

If it needs some time, so be it. Mo Shigui couldn’t handle it anymore at that point and didn’t think too much about it before logging off to sleep.

And now? The scene in the CG showed Fureya holding the Divine Fragment, with no sign of assimilation at all.

Just as Mo Shigui reached this point in the video, Fureya suddenly looked up towards the entrance of the Resurrection Cathedral, and at that moment, the screen switched to a group of figures in religious white robes entering the cathedral.

Is this the antagonist organization, the Cult?

Mo Shigui had always felt the mysterious organization known as the guild appeared rather abruptly, though it might be because he was too busy strategizing for the instance raids to pay much attention to the game’s storyline.

In contrast, the Stargazer Scholar Squad had nearly exposed everything about this guild on the forums, tracing from its founding history right up to what it had done during the era when players started appearing.

Mo Shigui wasn’t particularly interested in this guild organization; based on his years of online gaming experience, he believed it was only a matter of time before the guild would enter the instance, it just depended on which update it would be.

As a player who rarely invested emotionally in the storyline and NPCs, Mo Shigui found himself feeling a sudden, nameless anger boiling inside when he saw members of the guild approaching Fureya menacingly.

“Fureya, hand over the Divine Fragment!” The moment the leading member of the guild uttered this phrase, Mo Shigui truly felt a surge of rage engulf him.

This rage came from a sense of frustration; he had fought through three days and nights to clear the Battle of the Divines, finally bringing back a Divine Fragment for his doll-like sister, only for these NPCs to barge in and demand it from her?

Mo Shigui knew this was a plot set up by the planners, but plots came in good, bad, and… those that made you uneasy.

If Fureya were to hand over the Divine Fragment to the guild, or if it were stolen by them, Mo Shigui felt that the forums would explode with people trashing the game’s planners the next day – and he would be among them.

But that didn’t happen… Fureya cast a magic similar to a shockwave to repel the guild members and then vanished from the site in the Cathedral of the Resurrected.

Fureya chose to flee, and the guild members began to chase her.

Mo Shigui glanced at the barrage of comments over the video.

“F*ck! Let me into the server already! Would my doll-like sister have to suffer like this if I were there?”

“Hello? When can we play the instance where we wipe out the guild?”

“I was wondering why no players were helping out! Turns out this happened during server maintenance, please have a heart and open the server!”

The comments in the barrage also expressed what Mo Shigui was feeling, but he knew this was an inevitable main storyline event. Even if the server wasn’t under maintenance in the future, and players reached level fifty and completed the Battle of the Divines main quest, this plot would be triggered upon handing the Divine Fragment to Fureya.

However, as Mo Shigui watched Fureya being chased by the guild all the way to the port, he couldn’t help but feel the urge to log in immediately and rescue her.

The final frame of the CG showed Fureya cornered at the teleportation gate of Lionheart City’s port, pressured by the guild into falling through the gate, and then transitioned via a time warp into a strange forest.

From the imagery shown in the CG, it was evident that Fureya had sustained serious abrasions.

At this moment, the barrage of comments utterly exploded; the distress was palpable – one’s in-game wife was lost in an unfamiliar forest during maintenance, a forest teeming with all sorts of dragons, and most crucially, the wife was injured.

The CG imagery darkened starting from Fureya’s faint, eventually descending into complete darkness, and then Mo Shigui heard Fureya murmuring something; he turned up the volume on his phone and replayed it.

“Ah… Kind spirits, what is your world like?”

Mo Shigui felt a slight stirring in his heart at this line, unable to articulate precisely what it was, while the screen’s comments floated up with remarks like “Let’s form a group to save the doll-like sister,” and “Doll-like sister, come to my house! I’ve got lots of tasty things.”

Mo Shigui watched the CG again, pondered for a moment, and then decided to leave a comment too.

“Shame on the planner, flying mom has no conscience! I swear to share life and death with Sister Fureya!”

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PS: The chapter will be made available in two days, on the new first day! Please recommend!