Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 260: Chapter 258 May the Holy Light Protect You (2nd Update) Chapter 260: Chapter 258 May the Holy Light Protect You (2nd Update) “The map above is of the Jiangbian District area,”
Mo Shigui constructed a wall for projecting and magnified his Celestial Palace web browser to project onto it, starting a discussion with the guild members about the strategy for the next version.

“Jiangbian is divided into fifteen areas, plus the ten areas of the Jiangcheng Pedestrian Street, making a total of twenty-five areas on the Inner World map that can be occupied by players on behalf of a guild,” Mo Shigui said.

“According to the game’s settings, each guild can occupy up to two areas, but since Holy Light’s server launch, we’ve established three new guilds, so with some effort, we could occupy up to eight areas,” Mo Shigui said before turning his gaze to General Manager Yin.

The three fledgling guilds under Nuclear Leap needed a long time to cultivate before they could talk about competitiveness. Initially, Mo Shigui just wanted to use them as a guild to select newbies, but after the launch of the Inner World system, competition between guilds would become increasingly fierce.

Constructing strongholds on Biland Island was a matter of each person building their own… it was impossible to include the entire area within a stronghold’s range, but the Inner World’s territorial battles were truly about ‘snatching’ to gain possession.

“What benefits do we get from occupying these areas? Can we move our stronghold over there?” a guild member known as Mom Has A Dog raised his hand and asked.

“Have you seen the transport portals from Cola Fanatic?”

“Of course, we’ve seen them… those portals are really huge, and… they can’t even be called transport portals anymore,” Little Feather analyzed on the side.

The range of Cola Fanatic’s transport portals was so exaggeratedly large that they could teleport an entire city wall without any problems.

“The exit of the transport portal is located high above the Inner World, which is the default destination for transport. From what is currently disclosed on the official website… once Cola Fanatic occupies any of the twenty-five areas, they could relocate the portal’s exit to that specific area,” Mo Shigui explained.

“How do we occupy an area?”

“Defeat the Guardian and complete the challenge missions. Each area has one to five Guardians, and they are NPCs designed as invaders who have taken over these areas,” Mo Shigui flipped through his Celestial Palace web page tool and brought up the character design of Eternal·Thorne.

Eternal·Thorne was indeed the strongest Guardian of the Prosperous Square area.

“So we have to defeat six hundred and thirty thousand.”

“Six hundred and thirty thousand has just thirty thousand health points. It’s speculated on the forums that it might take grinding fragments.”

“Are you all so unconfident in your fighting power against six hundred and thirty thousand? What if the game NPC uses technical skills to hang you up and beat you?”

Mo Shigui listened to the guild members’ discussion below; the players hadn’t even seen the NPC Eternal·Thorne yet, and they had already come up with a nickname for him… six hundred and thirty thousand.

Because defeating him would grant a reward worth six hundred and thirty thousand: a player’s Eye Game Suit. Currently, the forums were endlessly discussing the character Thorne.

Most players on the forum believed that Thorne was a character to grind fragments against, claiming that one would have to defeat him hundreds or even thousands of times to get the complete reward.

On the other hand, the view that Thorne was actually very strong only occupied a minority. After all, they were NPC challenges and no matter how difficult, there were always top players who could beat them in minutes.

“To challenge these characters, you need to use an item, that is, a Challenge Voucher… Last time during the Flame Ash Dragon subjugation battle, the system issued three Upper City Region Challenge Vouchers to you, and they should all be in your inventory now,” Mo Shigui shared the item named Challenge Voucher in the current channel.

“Definitely still there.”

“So this thing really is the entrance ticket to an instance.”

“Guild Leader… I… I sold it to someone else,” Little Feather suddenly said in a very low voice.

“When? Who did you sell it to?”

Mo Shigui was a bit surprised. The Challenge Voucher could be traded, but at the moment there wasn’t any large-scale buying up of them. Probably after this game conference, a bunch of people would emerge trying to buy up Challenge Vouchers.

“Right after the Flame Ash Dragon subjugation battle ended, a Milkmaid named ‘More Milk, No Extra Charge’ came to me to buy this thing,” Little Feather confessed, sounding very guilty.

“You can tell the Challenge Voucher is a very important instance entrance ticket at a glance, you fool, and you just sold it like that?” Lazy, who was also a stronghold builder and thus very close to Little Feather, said incredulously.

“I… I didn’t want to sell it, but the price they offered was simply too high,” Little Feather said, wiping away the nonexistent sweat from his forehead.

“How much?” the guild members asked.

“Ten gold coins,” Little Feather offered a price that would stupefy all the guild members present.

“You fool, only ten gold coins? Are you treating it like selling cabbage?” Without waiting for others to speak up, Lazy scolded him directly.

“Ten gold coins can now be sold for three thousand and seven on 4396. I’ve been a little short of cash lately,” Little Feather said, growing more uneasy as he spoke.

Not everyone in Jumping Nucleus’s elite strategy group was a professional player receiving salaries ranging from one million to tens of millions a year.

Little Feather’s monthly salary at Jumping Nucleus amounted to roughly twenty thousand, plus the various materials supplied by the guild to boost his life skills. The monthly cost to develop him was at least sixty thousand.

This salary was enviable to many working people. Some ordinary players, scrimping and saving to reach max level, could at most earn one hundred and fifty gold coins—and that’s without spending on equipment repairs or potions. It was debatable whether they’d even have one gold coin left in their backpacks upon reaching max level.

For instance, Xia Shan was a typical player who remained perennially poor, barely making ends meet with the support of Jumping Nucleus.

“How many of you have sold your challenge vouchers to ‘Milk Added Without Extras’?” Mo Shigui directly asked his guild members.

Thirteen guild members guiltily raised their hands.

“I also received a private chat from her on the night of the Flame Ash Dragon subjugation,” one admitted.

“Same here,” another echoed.

“She bought them for thirteen gold coins. At that time, I thought these challenge vouchers could be farmed again, so I sold them to her,” someone else mentioned.

“Exactly, instances always have some way to farm tickets, right? It can’t just be these three,” another one agreed.

Had they been tricked, or was that milkmaid just too persuasive? Those who sold must have reasoned that ‘remaining challenge vouchers would follow.’ It really didn’t matter for solo players because there would certainly be more than these three vouchers, expectedly provided daily. Solo players could just casually fight their way through, but for major guilds, it was different.

Whether it was guilds with professional club backgrounds or those formed by wealthy players, their goal was to occupy various regions of the other world. Regardless of what the rewards for capturing those regions were, the principle was to conquer first and figure out the rest later!

This would inevitably require a large number of challenge vouchers to tackle the guardians of those regions.

Simply put, this territorial contest was a battle for the reserve of challenge vouchers among the guilds!

Mo Shigui initially held off on purchasing these items to observe the situation; little did he expect someone to start buying them up in bulk right after the Flame Ash Dragon battle ended.

What kind of insane investment foresight was this?

“This milkmaid has been impressive since the server launched,” Silver, standing nearby, chuckled and said, “Coach Song, you have her on your friends list, don’t you? It’s perfect—now we don’t have to go through the hassle of collecting these ourselves. Go ask her how she sells the challenge vouchers.”

Although Mo Shigui was reluctant… he had no choice but to send a private message to ‘Milk Added Without Extras’ as per the boss’s order.

‘Come out, let’s make a deal.’
‘Boss, you came? I’m here. Are you looking to sell challenge vouchers? The business has been a bit slow recently, but I guarantee you’ll be satisfied with the price.’
The reply came instantly, accompanied by a chibi milkmaid ‘Holy Light protects you’ emoji from ‘Milk Added Without Extras’.

‘I’m here to buy challenge vouchers. How many do you have?’
‘Oh, you’re buying? These things are pretty scarce, and my store doesn’t have much stock. Only about a hundred or so,’ ‘Milk Added Without Extras’ replied.

Fake! Mo Shigui judged immediately.

If ‘Milk Added Without Extras’ had started to… memorize all the player IDs that participated in the Flame Ash Dragon subjugation and went on to privately chat with each of them afterwards, there’s no way she could have only a little over a hundred vouchers.

At that time, there were precisely one thousand seven hundred players who took part in the Flame Ash Dragon campaign. Had she committed all one thousand seven hundred of their IDs to memory?

Mo Shigui wasn’t entirely sure, but his intuition told him that this milkmaid had a large stash of challenge vouchers, and the other major guilds would soon be scrambling to get them as well.

The price was likely to surge again by then; he had to act quickly!