Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 196: Chapter 195 Plot Interlude (2nd Update)

“Why did you save me!”

The Divine Chosen One of the Shadow Goddess collapsed in the snow, shouting uncontrollably. This was the first time she had failed to complete a mission given by the Shadow Goddess herself since becoming the Divine Chosen One.

For her, it was the greatest disgrace of her life… The Divine Chosen One loudly questioned the group of spirits standing before her.

The spirits who had saved the Divine Chosen One watched as she knelt in the snow, sobbing uncontrollably, their faces also showing an expression of ‘sorrow’.

“Your life should belong to you, not to the gods,” said the man from the Dancing Nuclear Guild, who approached the Divine Chosen One and removed his hat; he, a character possessing all the charm an old man should have, was indeed well-suited to comfort the Divine Chosen One at this time.

“It was the Shadow Goddess who granted me everything; I am merely returning these to her now,” she said.

The Divine Chosen One hadn’t expected the spirits to stay and comfort her, now immersed in self-torment… The fear of being devoured by the Heavenly Frost Dragon still lingered in her heart, yet her profound faith in the goddess prevented her from betraying the will of the Shadow Goddess.

Initially, the Divine Chosen One had resolved to maximize her loyalty to the Shadow Goddess and offer herself as a sacrifice to the Heavenly Frost Dragon.

But these spirits were risking their lives to prevent the Divine Chosen One from making this… meaningless act.

What disgusted the Divine Chosen One the most was that while her heart was filled with guilt for not completing the Shadow Goddess’s mission and hatred for her own incompetence, she also felt a hint of luck and gratitude, as well as the fear of what might come after death.

“Everything you have, you fought for with your own hands,” said the man from the Dancing Nuclear Guild, kneeling before the Divine Chosen One, speaking in a charismatic, magnetic voice, “And we cannot stand by and watch such a beautiful young lady perish in the dragon’s maw.”

“…” The Divine Chosen One looked up in a daze, gazing at the man from the Dancing Nuclear Guild kneeling before her, and at the smiling spirits behind him.

At that moment, she faintly heard a distant and peaceful song, as if it were soothing the painful struggle and conflict within her.

“I…”

“Every life has its value,” the man from the Dancing Nuclear Guild said once again.

The Divine Chosen One looked into the deep blue pupils of the man from the Dancing Nuclear Guild, feeling a surge of emotion in her heart, but this sentiment was abruptly cut off as the background music stopped.

For another spirit appeared behind the man from the Dancing Nuclear Guild; he placed his hand on the man’s shoulder and slowly began to speak.

“Damn it! Stop with the drama here, Black Pot! We have a chance to harvest materials from the neighboring Heavenly Frost Dragon!”

“Ah? I thought only the Guild Leader could gather materials?”

“Who knows! Might be the Snow Plain Master… Hurry up! The guy known as Fluffy Bunny has already found a Heavenly Frost Dragon core!”

“Right away, right away!”

The man from the Dancing Nuclear Guild quickly put on his cowboy hat and, without looking back, followed the one known as “Tonight Your Mom Must Die.”

The Divine Chosen One knelt in the Snow Plain, watching the group of spirits dash towards the body of the Heavenly Frost Dragon in the distance… then once again, lively music began to play, and they started to sing and dance.

“Does Shary need my handkerchief?” asked the Solar Divine Chosen One, standing behind the Divine Chosen One at this moment.

“No need!”

The Divine Chosen One wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes with her hand and sniffed. She admitted that her mood had indeed hit rock bottom earlier, nearly persuaded by these spirits, but their eloquence and charm were still far from comforting her.

“Shary, I’m really curious about your god… why did she sacrifice you to the Snow Plain Master?” asked the Divine Chosen One of the Sun, causing the Divine Chosen One of the Shadow to tense up completely.

The figure of the Shadow Divine Chosen One suddenly disappeared from her spot, without a holy spirit attached to her, she could use this ability called Shadow Blend.

“Shary?” the Sun Divine Chosen One looked around, eventually locating the Shadow Divine Chosen One’s figure next to a spirit named Bubble.

Bubble was busy stripping materials from the body of a Snow Plain Dragon, a feature of the Biland Island map where monsters do not drop equipment or other items, but players can directly peel off scales, claws, dragon eyes, and wing membranes from the monster’s body.

At the current stage, these materials could only be used for the construction of players’ strongholds, but as speculated on forums, a system where these materials could be used to craft equipment has not yet been practiced by players.

Even players with jobs as blacksmiths, using materials from monsters on Biland Island, could only produce equipment ranging from level thirty to forty, and the strength of this equipment couldn’t keep up with the gear produced in the war of the divine.

More updates to follow.

Bubble read on the forum that the functions of this Biland Island expansion pack had not been fully unlocked yet, just like the pet system, which needed to wait for further updates to be completely released.

So, before the official launch of the system for crafting equipment from monster materials, it never hurt to save up some materials.

The materials produced on the body of the Heavenly Frost Dragon were plentiful. There was so much that a hundred players could strip it three times each and there would still be leftovers, and occasionally they could even unearth a Heavenly Frost Dragon’s core crystal.

Just as Bubble had stripped a piece of material from the body of the Heavenly Frost Dragon… the figure of the Shadow Divine Chosen One suddenly appeared in front of Bubble.

In that instant, the cold frost condensing on Xue Bi, who stood next to Bubble, had already prepared for an attack, suspecting that Bubble might have previously kicked the Shadow Divine Chosen One in the back, turning her favorability towards hostility.

But… that wasn’t the case…

“Can you employ me?” suddenly said the Shadow Divine Chosen One.

“Employ you?”

Bubble hadn’t even had time to put away the dagger in his hand when he saw a window pop up in front of him.

‘The Divine Chosen One of the Shadow Goddess is seeking your protection for some reason, would you like to hire her?’

Bubble’s first instinct was to click on hire, he didn’t even think before instinctively reaching for the hire option, but Xue Bi quickly grabbed Bubble’s guilty left hand.

“President, first check her food consumption.” Xue Bi had previously heard rumors on the forum about the big eater Sheral, knowing not all hired NPCs’ food consumption was measured in single units.

The Dragon Speakers, two sisters, consumed very little each day; the elder sister only needed 0.5 per day, and the younger sister a bit more at 0.7, making them very economical NPCs to sustain.

“Her daily food consumption is twenty, which we should… be able to afford,” said Bubble, feeling as though his secret pocket money had just been discovered by his wife. Xue Bi weighed the pros and cons and finally released Bubble’s hand.

She didn’t know why this Divine Chosen One NPC suddenly turned up asking to be employed by Bubble, but previously, it was precisely this mission that triggered the event making their Fureya leave the tree-hole due to the Dancing Nuclear Guild.

“Congratulations, Miss Shary, you have been hired by our Coca-Cola Frenzy Breeding Limited Company!” Bubble exclaimed excitedly, reaching out to shake the arm of the Shadow Divine Chosen One.

From the moment Bubble successfully hired the Dragon Speaker sisters, the game Saint Spirit had become more than just a regular monster-fighting, leveling game for Bubble… a dream of becoming a breeding magnate quietly took root in his heart, especially in dragon breeding.