Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 96: Chapter 95 Charge Charge Charge!

The Diminishing Legion, Jiang Qiao only remembered them as one of the final boss candidates.

On the star map, Jiang Qiao wasn’t the only one collecting Sea Blue Goddess’s Divine Fragments; the Diminishing Legion was also gathering pieces of Sea Blue’s Divinity.

Their invasion this time was precisely for the Sea Blue Divine Fragments.

So…

“Surprised?” Jiang Qiao, in the form of a probe, emerged beside Queen Mei’s ear.

Queen Mei turned her head and saw Jiang Qiao in his orb state. She recognized his true identity, bit her lower lip lightly, and turned her gaze back to the Holy Spirits hopping in front of her.

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The space-time rift had completely opened, and dark mists billowed from the depths of the rift, a crimson pupil suddenly opening within it.

A troop of soldiers clad in dark armor marched out of the rift in an orderly sequence.

Among the players, some were already impatiently rushing towards the soldiers of the Diminishing Legion.

Because from the players’ perspective, a line of prompt had already popped up before their eyes. @@novelbin@@

‘Welcome to the Abyss Hunt! Oh mighty ones, let me witness your power.’

The Abyss Hunt!

A mode mentioned by veterans of the first beta test, which challenged players to combat powerful beings from Otherworlds.

All these background settings were unimportant; the crucial aspect was Special Equipment!

There was a strategy guide in the Holy Spirit section titled ‘”Dancing Nuclear Guild Exclusive”—Special Equipment Production Strategy.’

This guide, authored by Rain Song, explicitly informed all players that there were currently only two ways for Holy Spirits to acquire Special Equipment; the first was to participate in battles for divine favor and exchange medals for specific Special Equipment.

But as the saying goes, scarcity is what makes something valuable; those specified Special Equipment, such as the Mini Queen Mei, were practically worthless since everyone had one.

Whereas items like Light Elf’s Memory, Grona’s Piggy Bank, or the Gale Totem — which could only “drop” randomly — were… extremely extremely rare.

Thus, the second method of acquiring Special Equipment through Abyss Hunt was mentioned in Rain Song’s strategy guide!

This was indeed the first experience of the Abyss Hunt for the second beta players!

“I can finally experience the thrill of looting!”

“Loot one, buy a car! Loot two, buy a house! Brothers, phase charge!”

The Holy Spirits, chanting slogans that Queen Mei couldn’t understand at all, charged at the Diminishing Legion.

With the current virtual economy prices for Special Equipment, truly, looting one with good attributes could be traded for a car.

For some players, this was far more attractive than admiring the beauty of Queen Mei.

At this moment, the warriors of the Diminishing Legion adorned in black armor had become walking gold mines in the eyes of the players, who only needed to crack them open to see what good items they could find.

“Hmm… they are actually fighting for you, truly, believe me,” Jiang Qiao tried to curry favor with Queen Mei at this moment.

“I know.”

Queen Mei clenched her hands tightly, watching those players clad in the armor of Lion Heart Knights and Wolf Knights, one by one charging into the phalanx formed by the Obliteration Legion, only to be turned into particles of light by the legion soldiers’ longswords, disappearing like tombstones.

In the shouts of the charging spirits, there were also cries of “For Queen Mei!”

Queen Mei had already been moved once by the actions of the players, when that battle Mage wearing Lion Heart Knight armor stood in front of her, she really was a bit touched.

It was no longer a matter of whether or not she believed in the Sea Blue Goddess.

The current issue was whether she wanted to continue to die alone, or to make new friends and live on with the obsession of recovering her own country.

But the real knot in Queen Mei’s heart now was… these people had killed her family-like four Knights; the Lion Heart Knight and Hawkeye Knight were killed by the Red Knight, what about the Wasp Knight and Wolf Knight?

“Oh! Right, the four Knights under your command are still alive, it’s just that they are somewhat weak,” Jiang Qiao said as the light orb extended a small tendril, touching Queen Mei’s shoulder.

At this moment, Queen Mei felt the lifeforce of her four Knights and several ministers, she was stunned for a moment, then covered her eyes with her hands.

“I said, all I want is to talk, the mistakes of the past made by the Sea Blue Goddess, can she be given a chance to make amends?” Jiang Qiao asked again.

“Before that, there’s one more thing I must do.” Queen Mei released her hand from her eyes, her eyes sockets were red, and then blood congealed into a blade in her hand, “That is to stop these invaders, and to aid the warriors fighting for me!”

By invaders, Queen Mei meant the Obliteration Legion, and by warriors, she meant the players. The fight between the players and the Obliteration Legion looked quite dire.

Because there was a ten-level gap, even though the Obliteration Legion only had a little over three hundred men, their soldiers could still kill a fragile player with just two or three blows.

Every time Queen Mei saw a player clad in the armor of the five Knights turn into particles of light and disappear, feelings of heartache welled up within her; under the intertwining of these emotions of heartache and anger, she planned to join the battle herself.

“You are the Plane Core; if you are captured by the soldiers of the Obliteration Legion, then the spirits will have truly failed,” Jiang Qiao put a small tendril on Queen Mei, saying, “A king should not be at the very front of the line.”

“How would the soldiers follow if the king doesn’t charge?”

This sentence wasn’t said by Mei, but by Hai Lan who was on a call with Jiang Qiao.

“The players aren’t soldiers under Queen Mei’s command! And Hai Lan, focus, don’t distribute the Special Equipment too much or too little, do it according to the players’ level of contribution,” Jiang Qiao shouted at Hai Lan in the air, cosplaying as Santa Claus.

“The Devouring God is right,” Mei overheard Jiang Qiao and Hai Lan bantering.

“Right my ass! Cough… The spirits are indeed looking forward to your assistance, as well as your recognition, but there’s another way, and I won’t strip you of your Divine Fragment so quickly, but right now I need it to carry out this method.”

“I am ready,” Queen Mei closed her eyes resignedly, without any argument or question, because she knew that at this point, it was Jiang Qiao… or rather, the Devouring God who had won.

She was now just a puppet for Jiang Qiao to manipulate at will, and the fact that Jiang Qiao asked for her consent before using the Divine Fragment within her surprised her greatly.

“Then let’s start.”

Jiang Qiao, in his light orb form, stretched a tendril into Queen Mei’s chest, directly touching the Sea Blue Divine Fragment in her heart.

A vast energy surged into Jiang Qiao’s body, which he did not absorb, but immediately converted into a buff that the players on the battlefield could absorb, consuming nearly fifteen thousand points of energy for a total of five buffs.