Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 140: Chapter 139 Construction Site (2nd Update! Vote for monthly ticket!)

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Jiang Qiao logged on and continued to mix with the Dancing Nuclear Guild…causing trouble.

With one day left before the end of the May Day holiday, Mo Shigui had calculated the time and gathered the main members of the guild to start searching for a feng shui treasure land on Biland Island.

Today, the Dancing Nuclear Guild must seize a piece of territory on Biland Island, or once the May Day holiday ended, Mo Shigui didn’t know if he could gather so many people again.

But conquering this island proved more difficult than Jiang Qiao had expected.

What criteria Mo Shigui used to choose a piece of land wasn’t clear to Jiang Qiao, but less than two kilometers out of the camp, they had entered the territory of a lord-level dragon.

“Flame Burst is starting! Qigong users, cast your Telekinesis Energy Shields!”

Mo Shigui shouted loudly at the Qigong players behind him. They were dealing with a level fifty-three lord, the Flame Roar Dragon, whose trait was that just by standing next to it, one would lose health.

Dealing with just one Flame Roar Dragon wasn’t too difficult since the members of the number one sacred guild could finish the raid without losing a single person, but the problem was that the Dancing Nuclear Guild was facing two Flame Roar Dragons at the same time.

“The second one has burst into flames as well, this monster is unreasonable!” a guild member yelled out.

“Fourth squad! Run to three o’clock!” Mo Shigui made a prompt decision.

The Flame Roar Dragon was indeed a qualified ‘BOSS’. It had most of the skills you’d expect from a heroic difficulty BOSS in the Sacred realm, like the current large-scale full-screen AOE that would instantly kill any ‘glass cannon’ upon touch.

Mo Shigui hadn’t really figured out how to dodge during the pioneering period, and only the Mind Energy Masters’ Telekinesis Energy Shields could barely defend against it. For the second Flame Burst, they had to run.

In Mo Shigui’s display, during the second Flame Burst, three health bars from the fourth squad turned grey.

“Damn it! The great MacCoffee died again!”

“Eh? Isn’t that from the Cola Fanatic Guild?”

“Have you no humanity!”

“So why does the Mage from the Cola Fanatic Guild keep mixing in with our team!”

Jiang Qiao didn’t know why the Cola Fanatic Guild’s Battle Mage… kept mixing with the Dancing Nucleus Guild, but the president of the Cola Fanatic Guild, Bubbles, successfully spent seven hundred thousand for a Stubborn Stone stronghold crystal.

Jiang Qiao guessed that this stronghold crystal must have been sold to him by some passerby, as for ‘add milk without extra charge’… During the raid, his system window popped up with several notifications in a row.

‘Congratulations to player Can Xin for establishing his own stronghold at coordinates 131, 234, 231—the Abyss Temple.’

‘World·Can Xin: Hahaha! Old Song, if you guys keep fighting at this slow pace, I’m going to bring my people over to PK you!’

‘Congratulations to the player who adds milk without extra charge for establishing his own stronghold at coordinates 1234, 131, 231—Please Give Me Money.’

‘Congratulations to player Chen Meng for establishing his own stronghold at coordinates 4231, 532, 412—Black Wind Village.’

Mom… Black Wind Village, what kind of rustic name is that, way too out of character, Jiang Qiao thought as he looked at the screen continually filling with various stronghold establishment notifications.

Players could choose whether to make the location of their stronghold public when building it, yet most chose to publicize their stronghold’s location. Seven of the eight big guilds had established their own strongholds, with stronghold announcements made by the Stubborn Stone contract being purple and very conspicuous.

Now the only one left was the Dancing Nuclear Guild that hadn’t planted their Stronghold Seed.

“President, should we change locations and build one first?” Guild members began to feel that dealing with two Flame Roar Dragons was somewhat challenging.

“If we can’t get the initial build, we’ll choose the best location,” Mo Shigui said. “I’ve asked Starsall, and different terrains might give different bonuses. The stronger the lord, the better the attribute.”

How did Starsall know that when he was just a historian? And a geologist too?

The battle continued amidst Jiang Qiao’s complaints and took three hours to finally take down the two Flame Roar Dragons.

The flames encircling them gradually extinguished, and finally, after a few feeble steps, they collapsed on the ground, and the Hunter players in the team began to strip materials from the Flame Roar Dragons’ bodies.

Jiang Qiao had also cut corners with this ‘stripping’ system. It wasn’t possible for players to really skin these otherworldly monsters, which were fifteen meters tall, clean as a whistle, even the most skilled butcher in reality couldn’t do that.

So players with the ‘stripping’ skill from the life professions would be rewarded with materials from the monsters’ bodies based on a certain probability, depending on which part the player skinned.

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The hunter Mo Shigui had dispatched to skin the beast was busy slicing away at the head of the Flame Roar Dragon, for there was a high chance of obtaining the Flame Roar Dragon Horns from this part.

The laziness of the skinning system meant that players only needed to swing their blades a few times over the monster to skin its materials, with a Lord-level monster taking about twenty slashes before turning into a skeleton.

What remained was gobbled up by Hai Lan into his belly.

“Guild Leader, these are all the materials we found.” The player named ‘Has the Kitty Eaten Today?’ handed over the materials they skinned from two Flame Roar Dragons to Mo Shigui.

For fairness, Mo Shigui took screenshots of all the materials in the trade window and posted them in the guild chat. These were guild resources, and he could not use them for his own purposes.

A large pile of items, such as the Flame Roar Dragon Horn, Flame Roar Dragon Scale, Flame Roar Wing Membrane, and the like, totalling sixty-seven pieces, came from the two Flame Roar Dragons.

At this stage, Mo Shigui was still unclear about the uses of these materials, but the most likely purpose was to craft equipment…

At this stage, the most useful of all the materials were the two Flame Roar Mother Crystals.

‘Flame Roar Mother Crystal (Epic)

Other· Construction Item

Description: A mother crystal containing a large amount of iron elements and a small quantity of Flame Roar Crystals, which are symbiotic crystals of the Flame Roar Dragon, infused with fierce flame power.

Effect: After being planted in the heartland soil for a while, it can generate a large amount of iron ore and Flame Roar Stones, both requiring players to mine them.’

“Iron ore, Flame Roar Crystals… Does anyone here have a background in civil engineering?” Mo Shigui pulled out the Stubborn Heartland Seed and asked his guild members.

Mo Shigui didn’t take the construction and location selection for the stronghold lightly.

“That’s me! I graduated from the civil engineering department of the city university,” shouted Mother Has a Dog at that moment, “But Guild Leader, do you really think we can build houses in reality here?”

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The members of the Dancing Nuclear Guild looked around; their current location was an open-air magma field on Biland Island, with a magma lake right next to where Mo Shigui was standing, occasionally ejecting a flame particle or two.

The place didn’t seem like it could support the construction of houses at all, unless one belonged to a demon-like race which would fit the environment perfectly.

Strangely, the area around the magma lake was surrounded by lush forests.

“Let’s build on the steep slope above the magma lake, it’s elevated, and the view is pretty good,” suggested another guild member.

Mo Shigui then turned his gaze towards Mother Has a Dog, the civil engineering prodigy.

“Don’t look at me! Guild Leader, my major does not cover places with crystallized magma soil where dragons might emerge from time to time,” Mother Has a Dog said with a helpless face, “At least, dragons weren’t part of our professional textbooks, and I didn’t take any dragon-slaying elective courses.”

“Then we’ll build above the magma lake,” Mo Shigui led his teammates to a spot above the magma lake where the view was indeed very good, allowing a glimpse of the initial stronghold on the edge of the island.

As the Dancing Nuclear Guild’s stronghold became grander, players at the initial stronghold could also see the Dancing Nuclear Guild’s fortress.

“Soon the major guilds might start competing for wonders,” Jiang Qiao observed, spotting the strongholds built by other guilds in the forest. Their goal was unanimous: to be visible from the initial stronghold.

Given how flamboyantly the players dressed, Jiang Qiao doubted the houses they built would follow the rules.

So in the future, NPCs or rookie players landing on the island might lift their heads as soon as they arrive and see all sorts of bizarre structures dotting the landscape.

Mo Shigui didn’t hear Jiang Qiao’s grumbling; he took a deep breath and solemnly buried the Stubborn Heartland Seed in the soil before him.

‘Activate the Stubborn Heartland Seed? — Yes/No.’

Of course, Mo Shigui chose yes, and the next moment another prompt popped up.

‘Stubborn Heartland Seed is loading, please retreat from the area.’

A beam of light spread from the center of where the Stubborn Heartland Seed was planted by Mo Shigui, reaching approximately three hundred fifty square meters, and the Stubborn Heartland Seed grew wildly. In just a few seconds, it turned into a nineteen-meter-tall ancient tree.