Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 74: Chapter 73: Snatching the BOSS

The Yellow Jacket Knight was a knight serving under Queen Mei, tasked with assassination and intelligence-gathering missions.

She also mastered several powerful magics, and invisibility was just the basics of basics. Another ability of the Yellow Jacket Knight was to create clones.

She could switch her original body among these clones, allowing her to be exceptionally agile on the battlefield.

Thus, while engaging in combat with the Holy Spirits on the battlefield using her clones, the Yellow Jacket Knight was also responsible for gathering intelligence related to this group of Holy Spirits.

First and foremost, she needed to determine what these ‘Holy Spirits’ were.

Consequently, during the attack on the Dancing Nuclear Guild’s underground prison, the Yellow Jacket Knight did not exterminate the opposition entirely. After she and the Wolf Knight had slain most of the Holy Spirits, she calmed the Wolf Knight, who was in a Frenzy State, and instructed him to retreat deeper into the prison.

She herself stayed behind with three Holy Spirits for interrogation.

However, the interrogation process was anything but easy. No matter how she concealed her own presence, one of the Holy Spirits managed to locate her, and among them, one Holy Spirit reacted much faster than those she had killed.

The Yellow Jacket Knight swung her chained blade fiercely at the most troublesome of the three Holy Spirits, but he suddenly reached out and… caught the blade of the Yellow Jacket Knight.

“What are you creatures?”

With one hand on the end of her chained blade, the Yellow Jacket Knight had numerous clones on the battlefield. Though her clones might weaken her original body’s combat strength, her strength was still far beyond that of ordinary people under the divine protection of Queen Mei.

But what puzzled the Yellow Jacket Knight most was… these Holy Spirits did not bleed, and the lethal toxin she had coated her chained blade with seemed utterly ineffective against them.

“BOSS aggro is on me! You guys go back to the city first!”

The player confronting the Yellow Jacket Knight was Zhao Mingwei, who had no interest in answering the Knight’s questions.

Zhao Mingwei was pondering how to escape the Yellow Jacket Knight’s hunt.

Perhaps the Yellow Jacket Knight couldn’t see the numbers like -135, -234 constantly popping up above Zhao Mingwei’s head.

But Zhao Mingwei was well aware that this Lord-level BOSS had attacks with bleeding and poisonous attributes. If he held out for another five or six seconds against the Yellow Jacket Knight, he would lose his first life in the battle of the gods due to bleeding and poison!

Zhao Mingwei didn’t want to lose his first life in this dreadful place. Judging by the voice communications from the Dancing Nuclear Guild, Mo Shigui, who had already died three times in a row, had predictably entered frenzy mode.

“My portal is ready! Time to make a getaway!”

Jiang Qiao was the second of the three survivors, and the Summoner job class generally possessed one or two portal-like skills.

The other surviving player had already dashed into the portal opened by Jiang Qiao. Seeing this, Zhao Mingwei quickly released the Yellow Jacket Knight’s chained blade, applied a Telekinesis Energy Shield to himself, and rushed into the portal as well.

“See you next time,” said Jiang Qiao, waving at the Yellow Jacket Knight before taking a backward leap into the portal behind him.

The Yellow Jacket Knight did not pursue, as it would have been meaningless.

After the portal faded, all that remained in the dungeon were a multitude of bizarrely shaped tombstones: there were the ordinary cross shapes, square ones, and some tombstones were even statues of a bodybuilding coach, limited edition in pure gold.

The variety of odd tombstones was due to a customizable player tombstone feature Jiang Qiao had enabled. Players could design the appearance of their tombstones after death in an editor.

“No bodies, no blood, but the red-clothed individual was correct; killing these creatures grants a special strength,” the Yellow Jacket Knight mused.

She glanced at her arm clad in a vambrace; with each Holy Spirit she killed, she felt a surge of power flow into her, nourishing her depleted flesh.

If the Yellow Jacket Knight hunted enough Holy Spirits, she could break free from her undead state. Most importantly, this power also had the ability to soothe the Wolf Knight when in a Frenzy State.

With this in mind, the Yellow Jacket Knight approached the Wolf Knight, who was lurking in the shadows. Even the Yellow Jacket Knight’s small stature was like that of a little girl in the presence of the Wolf Knight.

“I will help you regain your senses,” the Yellow Jacket Knight said, placing her hand on the Wolf Knight’s helmet. The raging Wolf Knight seemed somewhat intimidated by her but eventually bowed down submissively, like a well-behaved Husky.

The Yellow Jacket Knight then transferred all the energy she had gained from hunting Holy Spirits to the Wolf Knight.

“Everything will return to how it was, just like it was hundreds of years ago.”

After completing this task, her figure vanished on the spot. The Yellow Jacket Knight swapped places with one of her clones on the front lines.

……

“Another clone! Does this BOSS even have a real body?”

The leader of the Abyss Temple Guild, Can Xin, threw Heavenly Thunder at a Yellow Jacket Knight, which accurately struck, tearing the Yellow Jacket Knight to shreds in a flash of lightning.

However, the system popped up two messages.

‘You have killed a clone of the Yellow Jacket Knight.’

‘You have obtained a Yellow Jacket Medal.’

Can Xin was about to lose his mind reading this message.

The Yellow Jacket Medal is an item used to exchange for instance rewards, and there are many types of medals. Players who want to exchange for Lion Heart Knight-related medals must deal enough damage to the Lion Heart Knight to obtain the Lion Heart Medal.

Apart from the six regular elite BOSS medals, there is also the Soldier Medal reward. @@novelbin@@

This medal only requires killing zombie soldiers to obtain two to three medals, and the rewards for exchanging this medal are also very generous.

The rewards for this battle of the gods were numerous, and Can Xin wanted many of them, including the ring of the Yellow Jacket Knight, as well as seven or eight pieces of equipment such as the Yellow Jacket Cloak and the Yellow Jacket Mask.

But Can Xin, after going through all the trouble to kill a clone of the Yellow Jacket Knight, only got one medal, and the piece of equipment he wanted the most in this battle of the gods was the Yellow Jacket Ring. Just for one ring, he needed a whole thousand medals.

The Abyss Temple had been brawling with the Yellow Jacket Knight for three whole hours, spending at least two hours of the frontline strategy team playing hide and seek with the clones of the Yellow Jacket Knight.

As one of the damage dealers in the strategy team, this was the thirty-fourth clone he had killed.

The rest of the strategy team members were also driven to despair by killing clones.

“I got one-shot by a clone again! Who still has Resurrection Technique, give me a hand!”

A somewhat frantic voice came through the voice chat. The Yellow Jacket Knight’s clones had low health but high damage! The damage was so high it was barely different from the real body, and with attacks that caused bleeding and poisoning, they were a nightmare for all the fragile classes.

“Guild Leader! Guild Leader! I’ve found the real body of the Yellow Jacket Knight! Coordinates 591, 1249, 2.”

“The real body? Finally found it? Hunters, throw a flare, Shield Warriors, lock it down with War Shackles!”

Can Xin, thrilled beyond measure, rushed towards the coordinates reported by his guild member. As he approached the location of the coordinates, a long health bar popped up in the center of his vision.

‘Yellow Jacket Knight, Health: 5923931/6013931.’

The real body! It has to be the real body!

The Abyss Temple had fought with the real body of the Yellow Jacket Knight a few times in the last hour, but had been dealing with clones for the past hour.

Can Xin fought until he was dizzy and nearly felt like vomiting, but now that he had finally found the real body, he certainly wasn’t going to let her go.

“Hand over your Yellow Jacket Ring to me now! And your mask, cloak, gloves, shirt, pants!” Can Xin yelled at the real body of the Yellow Jacket Knight, his hand sparking with flames and lightning, ready to throw another Heavenly Thunder at the Yellow Jacket Knight in the distance.

Heavenly Thunder again hit its mark precisely on the Yellow Jacket Knight, popping a -349 above its head.

‘You have obtained three Yellow Jacket Medals.’

Another prompt rang in Can Xin’s ears, and as he saw the number three, an indescribable sense of satisfaction surged from within him.

He had just spent ten minutes risking instant death to kill one clone for a single medal, but now that he was farming damage on the real body, Can Xin felt he could farm a ring in less than an hour!

Just as this thought emerged in Can Xin’s mind, a Shield Warrior, who seemed to come out of nowhere, charged with a shield bash and pushed the Yellow Jacket Knight out of Can Xin’s casting range.

“Guild Leader, someone is stealing the boss!” A shout from the other members of the Abyss Temple Guild erupted in the guild voice chat.

“Who? Who dares to steal from our Abyss Temple… Old Song? You… you’re breaking the rules!” Can Xin saw the ID of the Shield Warrior clearly—it was Mo Shigui, the Guild Leader of Dancing Nuclear Guild.