Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 144: Chapter 143: Special Mining Method (2nd Update)

Jiang Qiao directly contacted the strongest mechanical engineer in his guild, Xia Shan, using private chat.

While Jiang Qiao was chatting with her, Xia Shan was amusing her little sister, Fureya, at the starting camp… After Jiang Qiao sent a message saying, “Do you want your Fureya to live the life of a little rich lady?” Xia Shan rushed to the base of the Dancing Nuclear Guild.

It wasn’t exactly rushing… Jiang Qiao had a teleportation skill among his Summoner skills, and Xia Shan came through the teleportation gate summoned by Jiang Qiao. Otherwise, with Xia Shan’s equipment level, she might not have been able to cross the forest.

By Xia Shan’s side, Jiang Qiao saw an unexpected figure, that was “Add Milk without Adding the Price.”

At this moment, the five members of the nameless guild finally gathered at the base of another guild.

“Are you here to buy mining machines?”

“Add Milk without Adding the Price” had just stepped out of the teleportation gate when, before Xia Shan could speak, she directly started to inquire with the members of the Dancing Nuclear Guild.

“Mining machine?” Mo Shigui turned his gaze toward Jiang Qiao since these two were brought by Jiang Qiao. “Add Milk without Adding the Price” was somewhat familiar after all, and the title of the strongest healer in the common people was not earned for no reason.

The Dancing Nuclear Guild had been extorted several times by “Add Milk without Adding the Price.”

“Um… let them explain,” Jiang Qiao ceded the stage to the two ladies, playing merely the role of an intermediary.

Jiang Qiao highly valued the profession of alchemy engineer among all lifestyle professions, just as he valued that of architect.

Jiang Qiao endowed the professions in the creation system with infinite potential, and Xia Shan was someone who might realize that potential.

This was similar to the time Watt invented the steam engine and his friend gave him an investment; Jiang Qiao was doing the same thing.

In fact, this was also a way of being lazy. Players could use the creation system based on divine spirit to create various amazing and terrifying machines, saving Jiang Qiao a sizable amount of creation energy.

“Do you find mining iron ore too troublesome?” “Add Milk without Adding the Price” appeared very enthusiastic, as if she were the alchemy engineer on the verge of reaching master level.

Jiang Qiao did not interfere with “Add Milk without Adding the Price’s” agent-like behavior. Xia Shan was indeed too shy, and her whole mind was in a daze right now.

After all, the members of the Dancing Nuclear Guild were in front of her!

The number one guild of Divine Spirit! Moreover, they were members of the Upper City Nuclear Club! It included super experts who were pro players!

There was a big shot here, another there—Xia Shan saw nothing but top players all around, each with weapons perfectly forged to +13, the red light emanating from the weapons making her head spin.

After all, any one of those red-light weapons could fetch a price equal to Xia Shan’s salary for one to three years.

What should I do? Should I ask for autographs? Should I ask Mo Shigui or Rain Song? As Xia Shan pondered these questions… “Add Milk without Adding the Price” had already started to pitch the mining machine made by Xia Shan.

“Troublesome is not quite the word,” Mo Shigui wasn’t facing “Add Milk without Adding the Price” for the first time.

He knew “Add Milk without Adding the Price” could hold the title ‘Miserly Healer’—the kind of boss that wouldn’t drop a dime even when defeated.

So, while dealing with “Add Milk without Adding the Price”, Mo Shigui was very cautious, since their guild didn’t have much in the way of budget funds.

“And you’re still saying it’s not troublesome.” “Add Milk without Adding the Price” ran to the front of the minefield, tapped the ground lightly and said, “A minefield with 50,000 units of ore, how long will it take for all your members to mine it? By the time you’re mining, other guilds will have already taken over all the territory on Biland Island.”

“We could first go and develop the land then come back to collect resources,” Mo Shigui said.

“If you don’t build defenses, the base will be very fragile. A level fifty lord could easily tear down that ancient tree,” “Add Milk without Adding the Price” pointed at the ancient tree behind Mo Shigui.

“Guild leader, we have alchemy engineers in our guild too, it’s just that their level isn’t high,” Little Feather said quietly to Mo Shigui, “but we can work on leveling them.”

“Is there even a mining machine in the upgrade path for alchemy engineers? It could be an exclusive blueprint they invented themselves,” Mo Shigui asked quietly.

At this question, Little Feather shook his head. Although he was an architect in terms of lifestyle professions, he had done some research on other professions, and it seemed there really wasn’t anything designed by alchemy engineers for mining.

“Just tell me how much you want,” Mo Shigui said, with no interest in verbal sparring with “Add Milk without Adding the Price.” Negotiating business was still an area where the healer was less experienced; after all, they weren’t professional merchants.

If Xia Shan actually produced an automatic mining machine, there was no need to haggle here with the Dancing Nuclear Guild—she could just go to the wealthy enthusiast from Cola Mania.

“I haven’t thought about the price estimate yet, but you guys should first take a look at the whole system and then decide how much it’s worth,” “Add Milk without Adding the Price” said, elbowing Xia Shan.

Xia Shan finally came out of her dazed state, looking a bit confusedly at “Add Milk without Adding the Price.”

“Get to work!” said “Add Milk without Adding the Price.”

“Why do I feel like you’re our Chang Qing sister’s foreman?” Jiang Qiao couldn’t watch any longer and walked up to Xia Shan, saying, “Do what you want to do.”

“What I want to do?”

Xia Shan’s face was still a bit puzzled as she stood like a small salted fish sandwiched between the big shots, shivering nonstop, her few pieces of blue equipment making Xia Shan very nervous.

“Industrial Revolution, isn’t that what you’ve always wanted to start? Now, begin with the most basic resource collection. It’s time to show off the machinery you’ve built,” Jiang Qiao vaguely remembered that this girl, upon entering the game, first tried… to create the steam engine.

Xia Shan looked at the glowing iron ore on the ground, her eyes brightening a little.

“Guild leader, these aren’t from our guild, right?” Xia Shan said, pointing to the group of fierce-looking Dancing Nuclear Guild members beside her.

“If you can mine out all the ore here without players having to operate it, we’re more than happy to share this ore field with you,” Mo Shigui said.

The members of the Dancing Nuclear Guild weren’t strangers to meeting newbies who were frozen with nervousness.

Xia Shan took a deep breath and finally mustered up the courage. She swiped her fingertips through the air—this was her first time testing the various machines she had built!

At this moment, Xia Shan remembered the forum posts she had seen, where most of them complained about how useless the Alchemy Engineer class was.

And now, Xia Shan wanted to prove… well, it seemed like she couldn’t prove anything after all. After all, it’s normal for one version of an online game to bring a new meta, and it was finally the Alchemy Engineer’s turn to shine!

“I want to try this out,” Xia Shan said as she took out a mini machine from her backpack. She threw the machine onto the ground, and it rapidly expanded until it was two persons tall.

This was a skill that all Alchemy Engineers had—to miniaturize the machines they created.

‘Very Ordinary Mining Machine Model I

Durability 400/400

Magic Power 0/1000

Magic Power Consumption: 1/s

Description: None

Effect: Collects minerals of second grade and below within a twenty square meter range, collecting at a rate of 0.2/s

Creator: Dark-haired Chang Qing

+’

This mining machine looked somewhat like a two-person-tall electrical pylon. If such a mining machine were in real life, it absolutely wouldn’t be able to mine anything since it only had a drill bit at the bottom…

But this was the world of the Holy Spirit game.

Xia Shan infused the machine with magic power, and the mining machine began to operate, its drill bit piercing into the ground. After one second, small chunks of iron ore began accumulating at the outlet of the mining machine.

“Do we just need to place a box here?” Mama Has a Dog said, walking up to the outlet of the mining machine. The iron ore was only 0.2 units, but now the guild members could lay back and collect minerals.

This was much more convenient than manual labor by who knows how many times, but smelting was still a troublesome process, just like in real life where iron ore couldn’t be used directly after being mined and needed to go through smelting.

“Does anyone here have a furnace?” Xia Shan asked the big shots in the guild.

Although Alchemy Engineers could try to build a furnace, Xia Shan hadn’t focused her efforts on that aspect since blacksmiths and other lifestyle profession players naturally came equipped with furnaces.

“I have one,” Delicious White Snake said, taking out a huge furnace from his backpack, holding it in his hands, “Should I put it next to your mining machine?”

“Just put it there,” Xia Shan said as she watched White Snake place the furnace on the ground, which even caused a slight tremor. White Snake’s combat class was a Magic Guide Mage; God knows how he managed to move such a large furnace.

“Move the iron ore into the furnace?” Mama Has a Dog, holding a large amount of iron ore mined by the machine, was ready to toss the ore into the furnace.

“Let’s have the machinery do that too, my goal is to achieve fully automated production,” Xia Shan stated, revealing a mechanical item that looked like a sheet of paper in her hands.

‘Slow Transport Conveyor Belt

Durability 50/50

Magic Power 0/1000

Magic Power Consumption: 0.0001/s

Description: An Alchemy Engineer’s hidden branch creation, capable of short-distance transportation of materials, with many peculiar uses.

Effect: Transports objects weighing no more than 200kg in the specified direction, transport speed 0.5m/s

Creator: Master Craftsman Balk

+’

After Xia Shan laid the transport conveyor belt on the ground and took a sip of an MP potion, she poured magic power into the belt. The conveyor belt moved the minerals produced by the mining machine slightly. Then, she placed more than a dozen belts in front of the furnace.

A large pile of minerals, carried by the conveyor belts, accumulated beside the furnace.

“This… this is fully automated logistics.”

“Have we been playing the wrong game?”

“Ah… Did the prodigies from Shangcheng University really not think of this?”

Now it was the turn of the Dancing Nuclear Guild’s people to be dumbfounded. They all knew what this scene represented: a fully automated assembly line. Seriously impressive, Holy Spirit game.

“So how do we get these minerals into the furnace? Just stack them higher?” someone asked.

The minerals transported by the conveyor belt were all piled up underneath the furnace, making it impossible for them to enter the furnace. Everyone turned their gaze on Xia Shan A Dream.

Xia Shan once again took out an item from her backpack called the ‘Mechanical Hand Model I’.