Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 130: Chapter 129 A Different Fate with Fureya (2nd Update!)

Jiang Qiao watched as Lyla and her troops boarded a steam ferry to leave Biland Island.

The soldiers she had sent ahead had also left Biland Island at the same time.

This scene naturally attracted many players to come and watch, and they also tried to sneak onto the ship to leave the island.

A few players succeeded, managing to sneak onto the ship, but they were soon squeezed off by an air wall and had no choice but to swim back to Biland Island in agony.

After confirming that Lyla and her people had safely left, Jiang Qiao headed straight back to the initial base.

The initial base was even busier than before, as most of the players previously forced to “carry bricks” by Queen Mei with her ‘little whip’ had already completed the task of collecting mother crystals.

After exchanging their crystals with Queen Mei for a bed named “Dream of Tranquility,” they promptly carried the bed and rushed into a tree hollow.

“Big shots! Where did you get your beds from?”

“Front row buying a bed, three Gold Coins! Anyone selling?”

There were also some naive players in the camp who hadn’t read the guides and thought about buying a bed.

But who would sell… The only task with a bed reward at this stage was a one-time task, and once completed, it was gone.

Everyone had a bed, you cherished your wife, and I cherished mine, even if the price went up to ten Gold Coins, no one would sell.

“Twenty Gold Coins? Anyone selling?”

“I have one here, one hundred and fifty Gold Coins, anyone want it?”

Jiang Qiao heard this conversation and looked over, seeing Tan Suan holding a wooden bed and walking around with it.

This bed… looked familiar. If Jiang Qiao remembered correctly, this wooden bed should be the one that Tan Suan had moved out of the Mage Tower.

What surprised Jiang Qiao was… this was a rare-level bed, named “Red Knight’s Dreamcatcher,” and its description mentioned ‘a bedspread used by the Red Knight during rituals to communicate with the outside world.’

Nailed it! A lord-level Divine Artifact, but the problem was the Red Knight communicated with the Legion of Annihilation! Are you sure letting a doll girl sleep on this kind of bed won’t cause trouble?

“Fifty Gold Coins is too expensive.”

“Then I’ll take a loss, one hundred and fifty-five Gold Coins!” Tan Suan said.

“Why did it get five Gold Coins more expensive?” the player clearly wasn’t stupid.

“Forget it, I’ll sell it on 4396, probably can get a better price there.”

While Tan Suan was pitching his rare-level bed to the player in front of him, the leader of the Cola Fanatic Guild, Bubble, came over.

“One hundred and fifty-five Gold Coins?” Bubble asked directly.

“Really? Boss, you actually want to buy it?” Can and Tan Suan, who had returned to the camp to find Bubble, were shocked. First, Bubble’s offer of a thousand bucks for a piece of bacon had already been extravagant, and now spending one hundred and fifty Gold Coins on a bed.

With the current exchange rate for Gold Coins, one hundred and fifty Gold Coins amounted to fifty-four thousand six hundred bucks! That was equivalent to Xia Shan’s entire yearly salary!

“No loss, no loss, it’s still a ‘lord’ prefix item, and you recover from fatigue quicker with a good sleep,” Bubble said as he tossed over a trading interface. Tan Suan glanced at the one hundred and fifty-five Gold Coins in the trade bar, encountering such a spendthrift tycoon for the first time.

The properties of the Red Knight’s Dreamcatcher were three times better than those of the Dream of Tranquility; it directly added +15% to fatigue recovery and also included a 3% chance of learning a temporary blessing.

But such an item wasn’t useful for clearing levels, and in the eyes of most players, it was a superfluous skill.

Tan Suan did not rush into the trade, as at this moment, the members of the Dancing Nuclear Guild also completed their tasks and were carrying the Dream of Tranquility towards the tree hollow, including their leader, Mo Shigui.

Bubble also saw the members of the Dancing Nuclear Guild approaching, with Mo Shigui giving him a glance while carrying the beds.

“Old Song! Don’t even think about it, I saw this thing first,” Bubble said.

“…”

Mo Shigui didn’t speak, simply carried the bed past Bubble, his gaze on Bubble seeming to say ‘Is this guy an idiot?’

“Boss, I think what Mo Shigui wants to say is… we could probably get better beds later, right?” Tan Suan was still quite pained by those five thousand dollars.

“No worries, we’re not short on money. We’ll replace it when better ones come out.” Bubble said.

“Boss is awesome…” Knowing Bubble’s real identity in the real world, Tan Suan gave up persuading.

Unlike Mo Shigui, who was a coach in the Dancing Nuclear Guild, Bubble was the founder and an investor of the Cola Fanatic Guild… In simple terms, he was the boss of all members in the Cola Fanatic Guild.

Having seen no interest from Mo Shigui, ‘Add Milk Not Price’ could only trade the bed to Bubble.

After buying the bed, Bubble continued shouting by the tree hollow, “Buying Otherworld dried meats! Ten Gold Coins! Three thousand per transaction! Face-to-face deal!”

“Sigh…” Jiang Qiao sighed when he saw this scene.

“What are you sighing about?” Hai Lan asked as she floated next to Jiang Qiao with popcorn in her hand.

“Nothing much, just thinking how some Fureyas are born rich while others can only munch on plain steamed buns.”

Jiang Qiao felt that Bubble’s Fureya, once inside the Otherworld, was likely to lead a high-society lady’s life, having everything and only the best of everything.

On the other hand… Xia Shan, who had just hurried out of the tree hollow, had just spent over a hundred dollars on a bowl of Dragon Whistle Eight-Treasures Porridge for Fureya and hadn’t even begun the bed quest yet. Her Fureya only had two points of energy left.

“God… great god!” Xia Shan, seeing Jiang Qiao in the crowd and grasping him like a lifeline ran up to him. “Where do they get these beds from, do you know?”

“Take this.” Jiang Qiao threw a common-quality mother crystal to Xia Shan, a reward he had obtained while mingling in the Dancing Nuclear Guild and fighting Flash Wolves.

The effect of the Flash Wolf mother crystal was to produce a certain amount of Thunderstones and copper ore.

Jiang Qiao didn’t know what Thunderstone was, but copper ore was definitely useful… Though now, in players’ eyes, this mother crystal was just a bed.

Xia Shan’s reaction was sharp, and she caught the thrown mother crystal. Jiang Qiao spontaneously created a trading interface for Xia Shan; if she refused the trade, the mother crystal would still return to Jiang Qiao’s backpack.

“Great god, this is…”

“Just accept the trade, trust me, I don’t want anything from you.” Jiang Qiao said.

Hearing Jiang Qiao stress this, although still quite skeptical, Xia Shan chose to accept the trade. She surely didn’t want her own Fureya to die from overwork.

“Go to the wagon shop and accept this quest, then complete it.” Jiang Qiao shared the mother crystal collection quest with Xia Shan.

Xia Shan, upon seeing the reward “Dream of Sound Sleep” in the quest, nearly burst into tears excitedly, left a word of thanks, and then rushed off again to the wagon shop to accept the quest.

“Looks like it’s time to start the third phase.” Jiang Qiao noted as more and more players acquired the initial bed, Dream of Sound Sleep, ensuring the basic living conditions for Fureya.

But players would definitely not settle for just the basic needs of their Fureyas. Bubble was a prime example… He wanted the best for his Fureya; everything must be the best.

Food, clothes, and shelter were just one aspect, among which, the living conditions were the most important.

The initial headquarters in the tree hollow was hardly a decent living environment.

“The third phase? You mean pioneering?” Hai Lan asked.

“Cleanse, loot, collect, occupy, rule. Everything on this island should be ours.”

Jiang Qiao made a ‘I want it all’ gesture and then whispered a line that would sound terribly sinister to the ears of the natives of Biland Island, if there were any.

“Why do I feel like you’re turning into the villain?” Hai Lan stuffed a mouthful of popcorn into her mouth and said.

“How could that be? We are the great heroes saving the world.”

While speaking, Jiang Qiao had already begun compiling a new quest. This quest was not the main mission of the third phase, but a battlefield quest.

The battlefield quest was a compulsory quest for all players on Biland Island; players were not forced to complete it, but the rewards were certainly tempting enough for all players.