Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 132: Chapter 131 New Mission (4th update! Extra update for 1500 monthly tickets!)

Jiang Qiao issued an extermination task, the so-called extermination meaning no creature was allowed to survive within a seven-hundred-meter radius of the initial stronghold.

This task was published only after Jiang Qiao confirmed that all the soldiers under Lyla had left Biland Island.

As for why it was a seven-hundred-meter radius, it was because the maximum effective distance of the Holy Spirit system was one and a half kilometers.

This was a setting Jiang Qiao had only recently learned about; for instance, a player firing an anti-tank gun might have a range exceeding one and a half kilometers, but beyond that distance, effects like levitation and back attacks would not manifest.

Similarly, the farthest distance players could see monster health bars was also just one and a half kilometers.

This distance could be extended through the collection of Divine Fragments by Hai Lan; currently, Hai Lan was at a +1 status, upgrading the system’s effective range from one kilometer to one and a half kilometers.

After announcing this battlefield task, centered around the character Miss Cat played by Queen Mei, a pale yellow hunting zone spread out instantly.

This was a unique skill of the Hunter profession, the Tracking Technique, whose effect was to mark specific enemies on the map for a certain period of time.

The version Jiang Qiao used was an enhanced version of Tracking Technique… centered around Queen Mei within a seven-hundred-meter radius, marking all living creatures except for players, Queen Mei, and the Lion Heart Knights, but it excluded non-threatening plants.

The moment the pale yellow hunting orb spread out, a plethora of health bars appeared before the players at the initial stronghold who were busy browsing tasks, dancing, or chatting with each other…

The reward mechanism Jiang Qiao set up for this battlefield task was based on the amount of monster health depleted and the killing blow to calculate Contribution Values, such as a monster worth ten points of Contribution Value.

If a player killed it with one strike, they would receive all ten points of the Contribution Value reward, plus an extra kill Contribution Value of three points based on thirty percent of the health, totaling thirteen points.

This design ensured that while the players focused on hunting a monster, it also stimulated their competitiveness, and could be said to allow them to be keen on snatching monsters while preventing a player who worked hard at killing a monster from getting nothing.

As for healers and support players, Jiang Qiao could only say sorry.

These multitude of health bars appeared in the players’ sight for a few seconds and then disappeared.

The display of these monster health bars was pulsating; every five minutes, it showed the health bars of all monsters within a seven-hundred-meter radius of the stronghold to the players.

The total number of monsters in the entire area was twenty-three thousand, with an average level between ten and forty-five, over a thousand elite monsters, and only three lord-level monsters.

There were over six hundred players inside the initial stronghold, either idling, chatting, and bonding with Fureya in a tree hollow, or secretly taking pictures of Fureya sleeping.

Currently, there were only seventeen hundred max-level players on the Holy Spirit server, and the server’s capacity had finally surpassed the five thousand mark, reaching five thousand one hundred.

Six hundred top players were enough to kill everything alive within the seven-hundred-meter radius.

Jiang Qiao watched one player after another come out of the tree hollow, still led by the eight major guilds, starting to organize this hunting event.

Every guild leader intent on competing for the title of number one guild in Holy Spirit understood what this meant within the stronghold.

“Old Song, twenty rare stronghold seeds, let’s divide them between our eight guilds,” Can Xin proposed to Mo Shigui as he walked out of the tree hollow.

“It’s six guilds, the leaders of Dominate the Heavens and the Gray Eyes Association aren’t online,” Yue Lun, president of Night Sprint, said.

Mo Shigui completely ignored Can Xin’s chatter and directly gathered his guild members to head towards the forest.

“Old Song, are you planning to rob?” Can Xin saw that Mo Shigui didn’t even pause in his step and realized that Mo Shigui had no intention of discussing how to divide the spoils.

“Twenty rare stronghold seeds are not owned by the eight major guilds; who are you to say how they should be distributed? You were often killed by passersby in the game in the past, weren’t you?” Mo Shigui dropped this comment and then led his team charging into the forest.

“That was all so many years ago.” Can Xin, confronted with his dark gaming past directly by Mo Shigui, appeared rather embarrassed.

Can Xin was an active professional player of the Abyss Temple, but like Zhao Mingwei, he was nearing retirement, an old player being nursed for retirement. In his youth, Can Xin also used to roam the online worlds seizing monsters, and was often brutally dominated by Zhao Mingwei. Mo Shigui had known Zhao Mingwei back then, so the three of them had formed an enmity years ago.

“Brother Laugh! Shall we form a team to rob Old Song’s monsters?” While Can Xin was contemplating his plan, he happened to meet Zhao Mingwei, who was carrying a bed towards Fureya’s tree hollow.

He had logged in just an hour ago after completing the task of delivering a bed to Fureya.

“I have a guild now.” Zhao Mingwei politely smiled and then carried the bed into the tree hollow.

“President, the other guilds have left,” a player named Ghost Cry from Abyss Temple reminded Can Xin.

“Gather up! Gather up! Grab as many of the twenty stronghold seeds as we can! Get the strongest members of the guild!” While Can Xin was being provocative, the Dancing Nuclear Guild seemed determined to claim all the stronghold seeds.

Jiang Qiao watched them once again take up arms and charge into the forest, feeling no stir in his heart. Zhao Mingwei soon set down the bed and came out of the tree hollow.

“President,” Zhao Mingwei raised his hand and waved at Jiang Qiao.

“President? Oh…if you hadn’t reminded me, I’d have forgotten.”

Jiang Qiao almost forgot that he too had a guild called Nameless; currently, the guild only had five members, including Zhao Mingwei and Lin Xi, as well as Xia Shan, whom Jiang Qiao had recently recruited.

Speaking of which, it’s somewhat strange… Add Dairy Without Raising the Price was also in Jiang Qiao’s guild.

“Shall we gather and raid for some stronghold seeds?” Zhao Mingwei asked.

“Wouldn’t it be better for you to go with Mo Shigui for the stronghold seeds?”

Jiang Qiao still felt somewhat uncertain upon hearing this. Even though he was the mastermind behind everything, as a player, Jiang Qiao was just a rather formidable Elemental Summoner.

If Zhao Mingwei really wanted the rare stronghold seeds, he should stick with the Dancing Nuclear Guild.

The Rock Stronghold Seed was tradable, and all stronghold seeds were tradable. The drop rate for ordinary stronghold seeds was extremely low, nearly as rare as epic equipment.

Rare-level stronghold seeds were even more scarce; even if Zhao Mingwei got them, if he didn’t use them to construct strongholds, selling them would likely fetch at least five to six hundred Gold Coins, and a price of one to two thousand Gold Coins wouldn’t be excessive.

“The battle of divine fragments gave me a bit of a headache; I want to relax a bit with this new map,” Zhao Mingwei said.

“Relax? Let me think, why don’t we go raid some rare monsters?”

After thinking it over, Jiang Qiao still decided to first pay a visit to the Magic Thieves around the initial stronghold.