Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 63: Chapter 62 NPCs

Jiang Qiao had completed his reconnaissance of the Hai Lan’s divine Plane Fragment and began to work on writing the copy for the instance event.

Regarding the main storyline of Holy Spirit World, Jiang Qiao didn’t plan to make up stories out of thin air; instead, he decided to write everything based on the real-life story progression.

However, during the writing process, Jiang Qiao still made some minor adaptations. For example, it was true that Queen Mei was a Traitor, but on the official website, Jiang Qiao changed the players’ act of depleting her health to purifying the Corpse Curse. @@novelbin@@

Jiang Qiao also specifically mentioned on the official website that this was a battle of doom. If the players couldn’t defeat the army of corpses under Queen Mei’s command, the world of Holy Spirit might face a disastrous fate.

Jiang Qiao felt that most players would probably take this as a background story.

But if the players really couldn’t withstand Queen Mei’s forces, the Plane of the Tower of Trial would be the first to suffer, followed by the Plane of its native inhabitants.

By then, Queen Mei’s ambition would have been fulfilled, and she could use these two Planes to create an endless army to invade the various Planes on the star chart.

“Just for the sake of a wife, everyone should have a sense of urgency, right?” Jiang Qiao muttered as he uploaded three photos of Queen Mei sitting on her throne to the official website.

Jiang Qiao’s photography skills weren’t all that great, but Queen Mei’s foundation was so good that no matter how he took the picture, it came out looking like CG-level beautiful.

Especially when the Holy Light fell on Queen Mei, the photos were breathtakingly beautiful on their own.

“Hold on, hold on! Are you sure the players won’t… fall in love with her instead?” Hai Lan saw these three photos and tried to stop Jiang Qiao first. Queen Mei’s charm and Fureya’s charm were at two extremes.

One was like a dazzling sun, while the other was like a hearth fire illuminating the players in the dark. To Hai Lan’s aesthetic, Queen Mei’s charm seemed to firmly overshadow their own doll-like sister.

“Why would they fall in love with someone else?” Jiang Qiao asked, puzzled.

“Don’t you think this queen looks better than our Fureya?” Hai Lan used “our” to describe Fureya.

“Then won’t the players take Queen Mei as a concubine?”

Jiang Qiao’s next comment made Hai Lan tilt her head slightly in confusion, as if a big question mark appeared above her head at that moment.

Hai Lan seemed to ponder what the term “concubine” meant.

“Just as the name implies, it means a second wife.” Jiang Qiao still used a term that Hai Lan could understand. “There’s no monogamy in Holy Spirit World, and calling a doll sister ‘wife’ is just expressing affection. If the players can fall for the doll sisters, then there’s no difference in them liking Queen Mei as well.”

This phenomenon Jiang Qiao described had already appeared on the forum of Holy Spirit World.

There were quite a few beautiful NPCs in the game; their charm just wasn’t as high as Miss Fureya’s.

For instance, a flower-selling NPC girl named Dorola from Eagle Claw City had been unearthed by players because of her high attractiveness, and a small portion of players on the forum had unilaterally declared her their second wife.

Jiang Qiao felt it wouldn’t be a problem if the players took Queen Mei as their third wife or even fourth wife.

“This… this… isn’t this too disloyal?”

While speaking, Hai Lan logged into the Holy Spirit World forum, and after careful searching, she found that in just three days, due to the main mission released by Guardian Spirit·Furya, the players’ hearts had been touched. While declaring ‘I will always like Miss Fureya.jpg’, they also started searching Holy Spirit World for beautiful NPCs, both male and female…

Looking at the content of several posts found by Hai Lan, these Holy Spirit World players weren’t just talking about a second wife—third, fourth, fifth concubines, the whole series was lined up.

“But it seems like the fundamental problem hasn’t been solved.” Hai Lan felt that her values were a bit shaken after reading for a while, so she sensibly closed those posts on the forum and redirected the topic back to the issue of Queen Mei’s charm being too great, which could lead to players’ defection or going easy on her.

“So, in this god-tier plane war, the task I’m giving players isn’t to kill Queen Mei, but to purify her and free her from the Corpse Curse.”

Jiang Qiao, after conducting two investigations, could basically confirm that Queen Mei’s health pool was shared with the entire zombie army of the plane.

To put it bluntly, killing a single ordinary zombie soldier could also injure Queen Mei herself.

Jiang Qiao also informed all players about this on the official event description on the website.

If there really were players who liked Queen Mei, then they would fight even harder in this god-tier battle.

“Some rewards are also essential,” Jiang Qiao said as he brought out a reward he had prepared with great care, a piece of Special Equipment available only during the god-tier battle.

A figurine, or rather not just a figurine, it should be described as a chibi-sized sprite.

“Is this a mini version of Queen Mei?” Hai Lan recognized who the prototype of the sprite Jiang Qiao held was when he gently poked its light golden hair, and it shook its head impatiently.

This action told Hai Lan that this was not just an ordinary piece of equipment; it had at least some measure of self-awareness.

“This is a special totem equipment, called Miniature Queen Mei; its effect is an active skill that can help players remove a negative status.”

Jiang Qiao, while saying this, placed the mini Queen Mei onto his shoulder. This chibi sprite had a similar appearance and aura to Queen Mei herself.

“This Special Equipment will be one of the hardest rewards to obtain in the god-tier battle. To exchange for this equipment, one must achieve outstanding results in the god-tier battle,” Jiang Qiao said with a smile.

“You… are so wicked,” Hai Lan could only think of the word ‘wicked’ after a moment.

“How can you say wicked? I’m just increasing the players’ enthusiasm for raiding instances,” Jiang Qiao replied.

Jiang Qiao had finished editing the introduction page for the god-tier battle event while chatting with Hai Lan, but he didn’t plan to release it just yet.

The event would have to wait until the first batch of max-level players emerged before Jiang Qiao released the full details of the event on the official website.

As for what Jiang Qiao needed to do now, it was probably just leveling up.

Jiang Qiao opened his private chat messages, and his friend list had already grown quite a bit… including guild leaders, added while Jiang Qiao was playing as Zhao Mingwei.

Zhao Mingwei had also coincidentally sent a private message to Jiang Qiao at that moment.

‘Running an instance?’

‘At this time? Are you giving up professional play for your wife?’

Jiang Qiao glanced at the time. It was only twelve o’clock. Ever since Zhao Mingwei had found out about the main quest involving the doll girl, he had been running instances much more frequently than before.

‘It’s the weekend. I’m taking a day off… and besides, May Day is coming up soon.’

Zhao Mingwei’s message reminded Jiang Qiao that in nine days, Huaguo would be welcoming a seven-day mega holiday. Jiang Qiao was glad that May Day in this parallel world was still so lengthy.

That would also be the best time for Jiang Qiao to launch the god-tier battle event. He had already thought of the slogan for the promotion.

Where to go for the long May Day holiday? Join the seven-day tour of the god-tier battle plane! Not only can you spend the holidays with tens of thousands of zombies, but you can also have a close look at Queen Mei!