Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 139: Chapter 138: Omen of Disaster (Please subscribe! Please vote monthly!)

Mo Shigui emerged from the tree hollow just in time to encounter the Constellation Scribes team harassing Queen Mei, who was dressed as Miss Cat.

Other players merely verbally harassed Queen Mei, mostly asking where her calico cat mask came from.

The harassment from the Constellation Scribes had escalated to a point where one might consider calling the police.

“The totem style on this cape should be from the nomadic tribes of Snow Country, but why would a nomadic tribe from Snow Country appear here?”

Clutching a small notebook, Constellation stood behind Queen Mei, continuously jotting down notes on the latest two NPCs; as a professional, he naturally wanted to dig out all he could about them.

But these two NPCs were off-limits to touch; in the sanctuary, most NPCs were untouchable, handling at most a handshake.

Therefore, Constellation simply circled around Queen Mei, ceaselessly analyzing the origins of her attire.

Constellation’s behavior, which made people want to call the police, naturally earned him a murderous look from Knight Lion Heart, and Queen Mei also recognized Constellation as the one who had stolen her diary.

However, Queen Mei was good-natured, and with Jiang Qiao absent, she was currently asking other knights in a group chat named ‘Divine Battle BOSS Group Chat’ on how to handle this situation.

Queen Mei’s skills in surfing the internet had increased, and she had now successfully mastered the use of group chats.

“The holy spirit who previously stole my diary is constantly circling me, and his handler doesn’t seem to be around; do you have any suggestions?”

Queen Mei awkwardly typed out this message and sent it to the group chat.

“According to the handler’s method, this player should be given a mission to drive him away, but Miss Mei, since you’ve posted in this chat, I doubt your knights would agree,” commented the axe-wielding man objectively.

As expected, Knight Hornet simply bubbled up with a straightforward two-word answer, “Kill him.”

Knight Wolf popped up at this time and added a +1, it was uncertain whether he was coerced by Knight Hornet; meanwhile, Knight Lion Heart just copied and pasted Knight Hornet’s suggestion.

“Stop! I’m also in this chat! If you want to kill holy spirits, do it in the instance; you can’t just act out here in the stronghold!”

Jiang Qiao timely popped up to curb the knights, who were edging towards a riotous mood.

“…Handler, I also wish to serve as an… NPC on Biland Island,” Knight Hornet chose a roundabout approach after a moment of silence.

She was still fixated on the incident where the holy spirits had seized Queen Mei’s diary and was determined to retrieve it.

“I will help you get back the diary, but you still have the mission of exploring the new world, don’t you?” Jiang Qiao tried to placate the group of knights, joking that if Hornet Knight went to the initial stronghold, several mysterious murders occurred daily!

Knight Hornet didn’t press further, knowing that Jiang Qiao wouldn’t easily agree to her proposal; however, she indeed had an important matter to report to Jiang Qiao.

Thus, Knight Hornet also learned to use a function called tagging, which is described as summoning someone from the group chat.

“Handler, I was summoned to another world by a red crystal at 3:14 PM today and protected a woman named Lyla that you mentioned.”

Having tagged him, Knight Hornet directly reported the afternoon’s events to Jiang Qiao.

“Did she use the Summoning Crystal I gave her so soon?”

Jiang Qiao’s reply came at half-past ten in the evening, five hours after he had given the Summoning Crystal to Lyla, allowing her to return to her own ship.

If Biland Island was not far from the coastal cities of the Solar Empire, relying on their magic-powered steamboats, five hours would be enough for them to return to the nearest port city.

Did Lyla just land in her city only to be attacked? Has the Empire of Day turned against us all?

‘The status of the enemy that attacked the protector is a bit strange, I used a screenshot tool to capture the bodies.’

After sending that message, Knight of the Wasp sent several pictures. Queen Mei and her knights were also equipped with the Holy Spirit operating systems given by Jiang Qiao, BOSS-limited versions.

These operating systems naturally include little tools for taking screenshots and recording videos, and Knight of the Wasp learned these tools all too quickly.

When Jiang Qiao saw the pictures sent by Knight of the Wasp, he almost spat out the instant noodles he was eating.

Jiang Qiao was eating dinner while the players had just acquired the seeds of their stronghold; the dinner was braised beef noodles.

The pictures sent by Knight of the Wasp were of the kind that would be censored immediately if they were posted in public spaces; they were extremely gory.

Merely looking at them made Jiang Qiao feel nauseous, reaffirming his decision that censoring the game was the right choice.

‘Crystals? Are those crystals growing on their bodies?’ Despite feeling nauseous, Jiang Qiao could still make out some special features on the corpses in the pictures.

Knight of the Wasp was especially brutal, uncharacteristic of an assassin’s way of killing, but Jiang Qiao could faintly recognize that parts of these bodies had crystallized.

‘These humans were extremely aggressive, possessing a power that doesn’t belong to this world. To protect the target, I was rather direct, and crystals mainly grew around their necks and abdomens. Their strength, speed, and Magic Power were several times those of humans in this world,’ Knight of the Wasp said.

‘Agent, may I investigate this matter?’ the axe-wielding man volunteered at this moment.

‘Approved.’

Jiang Qiao knew the axe-wielding man was an elite and veteran suited for these special events. He possessed the Divinity of Hai Lan, which made him immune to all poisons; anything that could corrupt a person was mere food to Hai Lan.

The players were also affected by this, which was why the Earth Mother Goddess had requested Jiang Qiao to cleanse Biland Island.

But it seemed the crystal disease on Biland Island had already spread?

‘Knight of the Wasp, keep that target protected. Although the War of Divinities is about to open in a while, work hard during this time.’

Jiang Qiao spoke the usual boss-exploiting-employee script. Knight of the Wasp did not reply to Jiang Qiao, who then quickly finished his braised beef instant noodles and logged into the game, appearing directly at the campsite on Biland Island.

‘Has the crystallization of Biland Island spread to the outside world?’ Hai Lan appeared in ghost form next to Jiang Qiao.

‘I don’t know, but it’s possible, given humanity’s limitless capacity for folly,’ Jiang Qiao said.

‘What should we do?’ Hai Lan asked, already drooling, for to her, the cancerous crystallization of this world was as delectable as a chicken cutlet.

‘We? Build a stronghold.’

Jiang Qiao glanced at the distant cart shop. Mo Shigui had just stepped out from a tree hollow and directly dragged Xingxing away from Miss Cat, impersonated by Queen Mei, apparently having quite a few questions for Xingxing.

The major guilds were already in the stage of finding a geomantically auspicious site to build their strongholds and start their glorious mission of completely cleansing the island of its crystallization, or more precisely, completely looting it.

During this time, Jiang Qiao simply had no energy to attend to the outside world, but it would be ironic if the players ended up completely eliminating Biland Island’s crystallization, while the crystal disease spread in the outside world.

‘I hope that Biland Island won’t become the last sanctuary of this world.’ Jiang Qiao had already envisioned a plethora of apocalyptic scenarios; the players would definitely cleanse Biland Island thoroughly, but it might take a month or two, or even longer.

By then, several majestic ‘cities’ might have already been established on Biland Island.