Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 61: Chapter 60 Taking Memorial Photos for the Bosses

The second time Jiang Qiao visited Hai Lan’s divine Plane Fragment, the atmosphere within the realm had changed somewhat.

Outside the city walls were still a large number of soldiers turned into mummified corpses, but inside the city, Jiang Qiao could sense six powerful presences, holding positions in the city’s six most important locations.

The city gate, the armory, the Mage Tower, the underground prison, the execution ground in the center of the city streets, and the entrance to the King’s palace.

“Have the five mini-bosses awakened? And there seem to be more than a dozen other presences, probably elite monsters.”

Jiang Qiao floated above this city of the living dead as a sphere of light. This exploration was a specially optimized energy-saving version by Jiang Qiao, possessing all the functionalities of the previous exploration device, and each resurrection only required five points of Creation Energy.

Just as Jiang Qiao had activated the camera feature, a hurricane attacked him directly.

It was a long crossbow bolt… or perhaps an arrow, long enough to smash an adult into pieces.

This arrow directly smashed the reconnaissance state Jiang Qiao into debris.

“So inhospitable, huh?”

After resurrecting, Jiang Qiao quickly lowered his height and floated toward the city wall, where a Knight, nearly two and a half meters tall and clad in heavy armor, was fitting a two-meter-long arrow onto his massive bow.

“The scent of an intruder,” a muffled voice leaked from beneath the Knight’s helmet.

Before he could be targeted by the massive bow in his hand, Jiang Qiao threw a Reconnaissance Technique onto him.

‘Name: Hawkeye Skorn, Level: 60, Class: Warrior Ranger, Description: One of Queen Mei’s top five Knights, “Hawkeye” is a common nickname. In fact, this giant race archer does not have good eyesight and suffers from severe myopia. The reason why his archery is so accurate is his excellent hearing, a super sixth sense unique to his race, and from the memories of Hai Lan that I have accessed, this Hawkeye Knight hates spicy food. Perhaps spices like Reaper Peppers could have surprising effects on him. He also fears Yellow Jacket Chloe’s scolding. Moreover, he enjoys taking care of flowers and has quite a green thumb, but unfortunately, every flower in this Plane Fragment has withered.’

Why does Jiang Qiao always see his own quips when punched in creator mode.

Jiang Qiao thought about it and modified some of the information provided by the Reconnaissance Technique on this Hawkeye Knight. The data accessible to players would be…

‘Guardian·Hawkeye Skorn, Level: 60, Elite Lord, Health Points: 3934350/3934350.’

“You shouldn’t be here!”

The Knight seemed very annoyed at Jiang Qiao’s appearance in front of him; he directly lifted the long arrow in his hand, capable of being used as a lance, and smashed it toward Jiang Qiao.

“Alright, I’ll just take a photo of you and leave. This pose is perfect.”

Jiang Qiao took an exceptionally handsome photo of the Hawkeye Knight, one hand holding the bow, the other smashing down with the crossbow.

This photo, once photoshopped by Jiang Qiao, could directly be posted on the official website as the promotion for this boss.

The cost of taking this candid photo was… being smashed into pieces by the Hawkeye Knight once again.

After resurrecting into fragments again, Jiang Qiao floated toward the execution platform located in the city center.

Hawkeye stood by the city gate without chasing after Jiang Qiao any longer. He seemed restricted by some command, annoyingly slapped his helmet, and ultimately could only sit frustratedly on the city wall waiting for the next invader to appear outside the walls.

Jiang Qiao floated to the vicinity of the execution platform in the city center without incident. The area around the platform was still very lively, with the living dead civilians continuing their day-to-day life.

While searching for a small BOSS near the execution platform in Jiang Qiao, Jiang Qiao discovered that his “chest” had been penetrated by some kind of whip-like weapon. @@novelbin@@

“Is the invader referred to by Queen Mei you?”

A somewhat dry voice came from behind Jiang Qiao. Revived once again, he turned to look behind him where on the rooftop of a building stood a petite figure wearing a white mask and draped in a dark yellow robe.

The woman was holding a type of chain blade, which could be swung like a whip but was much more lethal.

Without any self-introduction, Jiang Qiao immediately threw another Reconnaissance Technique.

‘Name: Yellow Jacket Chloe, Level: 64, Profession: Assassin’s range · Long-range, Description: One of the five strongest knights under Queen Mei, Yellow Jacket Knight is the only female among these knights. Responsible for assassination tasks, she is a cold-blooded, ruthless, yet somewhat haughty assassin. She is also one of the two knights who are not single; the other is the Wolf Knight, who is her partner. They were deeply in love before the apocalypse, even discussing marriage and children. Unfortunately, the wedding never started, and the world turned into fragments. Then the Wolf Knight lost his sanity and became a monster, imprisoned in a dungeon. She still deeply loves the Wolf Knight.’

Where did he know these small bits of news from about himself in creator mode…

“What ability did you use to look into my past?”

The Yellow Jacket Knight had noticed that Jiang Qiao had used the Reconnaissance Technique on her and, in her angered state, swung the chain blade again, piercing Jiang Qiao right through.

“Don’t get so worked up, I’m not some kind of bad guy.”

While Jiang Qiao said this, he kept clicking the shutter against the Yellow Jacket Knight, snapping over a dozen photos of her in action.

These included pictures of her standing still, swinging her weapon, and swinging her weapon to finish him off. Jiang Qiao captured them all.

“What are you?” Yellow Jacket Knight realized her chain blade was somehow unable to kill Jiang Qiao, but she could feel that she was draining some kind of energy from him.

Having noticed this, she swung her chain blade again, killing Jiang Qiao multiple times. She knew that perhaps one time would not kill Jiang Qiao, but trying several times might…

“Chloe! Stop!”

A voice suddenly made the Yellow Jacket Knight stop her weapon-wielding motion.

“Give me a reason to stop,” she said coldly to a figure standing in the square below.

“Give me a minute to communicate with this invader. He is merely a reconnaissance Spiritual Body; killing him repeatedly is useless. Perhaps we can ask something from him!” said the man known as Lama.

“…Only one minute.” The Yellow Jacket Knight thought for a moment and decided to spare Jiang Qiao for now.

Jiang Qiao, as he had hoped, drifted to the man named Lama, who was the BOSS guarding the execution ground.

Jiang Qiao threw another Reconnaissance Technique onto him.

‘Name: Lama the axe-wielding man, Level: 68, Profession: Priest’s range · Warrior’s range, Description: An axe-wielding man from a foreign land, who came to this city to hunt a kind of evil creature. However, the apocalypse froze his time forever within this city. He is a very talkative and kind man, almost to a fault. He would unhesitatingly raise his axe against undead, skeletons, vampires, and werewolves, yet now he has become a living corpse, and he swears loyalty to Queen Mei. I can’t find the reason behind it.’

“Invader, I believe we don’t have much time to talk.”

As Jiang Qiao landed in front of him, he squeezed out a brilliant smile, but being in a living corpse state, his smile was enough to make babies cry.