Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 194: Chapter 193 Dumbass NPC (2nd Update)

Jiang Qiao, whose in-game name is “Not Updating Today,” is an Elemental Summoner by profession.

As an Elemental Summoner, Jiang Qiao had experienced today, since playing Holy Spirit… his most peculiar experience.

That was a lord-level monster dancing on his own grave. After finishing its dance, it started shooting out a destructive white light… actually, it was Dragon Breath.

After the Heavenly Frost Dragon’s frosty Dragon Breath had ended, Jiang Qiao guessed that the Snow Plain Master should choose a different location to start brawling with the players, right?

Well… it indeed chose a different location, it flapped its wings, wanting to take flight into the high skies.

Just when Jiang Qiao thought it was the perfect timing for Velveteen Rabbit to cast Resurrection Technique on him, the Heavenly Frost Dragon snatched up Jiang Qiao’s tombstone with one claw and flew into the sky with it.

“This BOSS’s quality is too low, right? Not only is it camping the corpse, but it even has to take away the big shot’s tombstone?” When Mama Has a Dog Saw Jiang Qiao’s tombstone being carried into the sky by the Heavenly Frost Dragon, he was dumbfounded for a short while.

“Maybe it’s because… the dragon likes killing seals?” someone in the guild guessed.

Jiang Qiao’s tombstone was a sculpture of a seal surfing, and it was a pure gold version, very popular among the player community.

“Wings… ranged professions, aim for its left wing membrane.” Mo Shigui shouted directly in the general channel, his words meant not only for his own guild members but also for players from seven other guilds.

This time, the strategy for the Snow Plain Master was like the battle for divinity… a joint effort by all the server’s players.

The Heavenly Frost Dragon suddenly flew high into the sky in a clear attempt to escape, but the players below were not going to let it get away that easily. Under Mo Shigui’s call, everyone focused their attacks on the dragon’s left wing membrane.

The continuous barrage of fire and Laser Cannons burst upon the Heavenly Frost Dragon’s left wing, and Jiang Qiao only heard a mournful cry from the dragon before it plummeted towards the ground.

After its fall killed three unlucky players from the Gray Eyes Association, it quickly scrambled up from the thick layer of snow on the Snow Plain.

The moment the Heavenly Frost Dragon got up, the ground once again erupted with a mass of ice spikes, but this time the full-screen ice spike AOE resulted in no casualties.

In his Spiritual Body state, Jiang Qiao’s eyes met with one of only two NPCs in the strategy team, the Shadow Divine Chosen.

The Shadow Divine Chosen stood atop the longest ice spike summoned by the Heavenly Frost Dragon, surveying the battlefield. Her face was hidden under the hood, so Jiang Qiao couldn’t see her appearance or expression.

But Jiang Qiao was certain… she was slacking off!

Slackers attract each other, and Jiang Qiao, as the most excellent slacker on the team, recognized at first sight that Shadow Divine Chosen was also playing hooky.

As a Divine Chosen, she couldn’t harm the monsters on this island, but looking at the Sunlit Divine Chosen by her side!

“Fear not! Dear Spirits, as long as I am here, you will not suffer!” The lofty shouts of the Sunlit Divine Chosen even drowned out player communication. His job was to help players blown away by the gales created by the Heavenly Frost Dragon return to the battlefield.

He also dug out players buried by avalanches, making the experience of challenging the Heavenly Frost Dragon so much better.

If the role of the Sunlit Divine Chosen was devised by the game designers to reduce the difficulty of the instance for players, then, in Jiang Qiao’s view, the Shadow Divine Chosen was there to increase the difficulty for players.

She… was recording something. During the time Jiang Qiao’s tombstone was tightly gripped by the Heavenly Frost Dragon, he kept observing the distant Shadow Divine Chosen. Her lips were moving continuously under the shadow of the hood, as if she was counting something.

Could it be that she was counting the BOSS’s health? Jiang Qiao looked up at the Heavenly Frost Dragon’s health bar… The ones currently besieging the Heavenly Frost Dragon are all elites from the top eight guilds, and the Heavenly Frost Dragon’s life was steadily decreasing under the holy spirits’ siege…

Until Jiang Qiao noticed the Heavenly Frost Dragon’s life drop below thirty percent… The figure of the Shadow Divine Chosen suddenly disappeared from the spot.

“The Abyss Temple got wiped? And the number one fighting guild holy spirits? That’s too weak, wait… Why did that NPC that’s been AFK run over here?”

“Could it be her attack judgement changed? Fuck! The Heavenly Frost Dragon is going berserk!”

A bunch of melee players who were close to the Heavenly Frost Dragon were madly ‘manicuring’ beneath the dragon’s limbs, only for the Heavenly Frost Dragon, in a fit of anger, to smack its forelimbs and send all these melee players flying, while at the same time opening its huge, gaping mouth to bite towards the Shadow Divine Chosen who was approaching it.

“Holy shit! The NPC is gonna get one-shot by the BOSS!”

“This NPC has a lot of health; there’s no way it’d be one-shot, right? Should be able to dodge it? But did she get scared stiff?”

The players stopped their attacking motions when they saw the scene of the Shadow Divine Chosen about to be swallowed by the dragon’s maw.

But the Shadow Divine Chosen made no intention to dodge at all; she faced the oncoming maw of the giant dragon without even the intention to flee.

The Shadow Divine Chosen wasn’t scared stiff; the hood she was wearing was blown up by the gale stirred up by the Heavenly Frost Dragon, and at this moment, Jiang Qiao could see the expression on the Shadow Divine Chosen’s face.

It wasn’t the fear of being eaten by a monster or the panic of impending death, but rather a look of relief.

Relief isn’t quite the right description; to Jiang Qiao’s eyes, it looked like the expression that would appear on the face of a fanatic who is about to sacrifice their life for their deity…

The mark on the Shadow Divine Chosen’s chest burst into a dazzling light the moment before she was about to be eaten by the Heavenly Frost Dragon.

At that moment, Jiang Qiao understood that she had come to the Heavenly Frost Dragon as a sacrifice, and she was already prepared to be devoured by it!

But just as the Shadow Divine Chosen closed her eyes, ready to face her fate, the figure of the president of the Cola Fanatic Guild, Bubble, suddenly appeared beside her and kicked her in the waist, sending her flying far away.

This kick made Jiang Qiao wonder if he had secretly put his points into strength to beat his own secretary.

The gaping maw of the Heavenly Frost Dragon arrived as expected after Bubble’s kick, swallowing Bubble up in one gulp, but the next second, smoke from a Substitute Grass Man billowed out of the dragon’s mouth, and Bubble’s figure reappeared in front of the Shadow Divine Chosen, who was lying on the ground.

“No… it’s not supposed to be like this.” The Shadow Divine Chosen got up from the snow and continued to run towards the Heavenly Frost Dragon without waiting for Bubble to stop her.

“Is this dumb NPC’s AI messed up or something? Why does it keep jumping into the BOSS’s face?” Bubble scratched his forehead, not understanding the meaning behind the Shadow Divine Chosen’s suicidal action.

“Aren’t NPCs that need protecting supposed to walk away from the monster’s face… She’s going to get eaten by the dragon again! Who will stop her?”

“I will!”

So, under Jiang Qiao’s watchful eyes, when the Heavenly Frost Dragon once again opened its gargantuan mouth to swallow Shadow Divine Chosen, who also showed a relieved expression as if to say ‘my fate is sealed’, a stray fighter player, who seemed to come out of nowhere, delivered a Martial God Strong Kick to the face of Shadow Divine Chosen, kicking her far away.

The instant Shadow Divine Chosen flew out, she could see the stray fighter player giving her a thumbs up in the last second before being swallowed by the giant dragon, his expression seemingly saying, “Survive!”