Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 167 - 166 Black Wind Village (1st Update)

Chapter 167: Chapter 166 Black Wind Village (1st Update)

The current time is 7 a.m., and Chen Meng, the top anchor of Raccoon Streaming, hasn’t gone to sleep yet.

The new stronghold construction system recently released by Holy Spirit is truly addictive, so much so that Chen Meng played all night without feeling tired of it.

Now Chen Meng has led her fans to establish a base called Black Wind Village on the western side of the mountain range at the starting point on Biland Island.

The so-called Black Wind Village wasn’t just a gimmick in naming; Chen Meng is the kind of player who gets heavily immersed, and for the sake of a good livestream show, she role-plays her character with great dedication whatever online game she’s playing.

She had thought about playing a bandit when she was playing Infighting, but the guild system in Infighting was so basic, without any building gameplay, causing Chen Meng to end up just dragging people into instances for raids.

The Biland Island expansion pack from Holy Spirit had fulfilled her wishes. The stronghold system legitimized her as the mountain overlord of a place called Black Mountain on the western side of Biland Island.

“Damn, building houses all night really killed me.”

Standing at the center of the camp, Chen Meng looked very pleased with the construction results she and her fans had achieved; Black Wind Village was now perfectly completed, and the guild’s flag was a fearsome black one with crossed axes, instantly recognizable as a bandit’s insignia.

“Bro Meng… are we thinking about capturing a bandit bride to bring back?” Seeing Chen Meng showing signs of logging off, Swordsman Mo Dao quickly approached to remind her that the conquest of Black Wind Village was just beginning.

“Isn’t Fureya enough to be our bandit bride?” Chen Meng caught on that this kid wanted her to stream a bit longer, as Swordsman Mo Dao had recently been riding her popularity quite happily.

“One isn’t enough, right? Our Black Mountain overlord should have at least ten bandit brides,” said Swordsman Mo Dao.

“Ten? How’s that enough? Bro Meng’s harem must have twenty, okay?”

“Thirty!”

“Stop, stop stop, are you motherfuckers auctioning?” Chen Meng interrupted her fans’ excitement; wherever she played, she was treated like a celebrity surrounded by stars.

As long as she was live streaming, you’d see players who recognized her everywhere, so Black Wind Village was exceptionally crowded now… compared to the other eight guilds, her popularity had brought more players to the island to become bandits than adventurers.

The entry level restriction for Biland Island is level 45, and players don’t necessarily need to complete the prerequisite main storyline task to get there. However, if players want to elope with their own Fureya and retire with their wife in a treehouse, they must complete the main storyline task of the War of Divinity.

“Oh right! Before I log off, let me introduce a new NPC who just came to Black Wind Village! Bai Yu, come up here!”

Chen Meng was already looking for an excuse to end the stream, but before she did, she had some matters to take care of, one of which was the elf she had just “caught” from the talent market.

When Chen Meng called out Bai Yu’s name, all the players’ gazes were drawn to the slender figure at the very end of the crowd with a hood over his head.

The color of the NPC’s label was different from the players’, so there was no use in him hiding.

Therefore, under the watchful eyes of everyone in Black Wind Village, Bai Yu reluctantly ascended the wooden stairs.

“He’s the new character I just drafted! Come on, Bai Yu, show everyone your special skill!” Chen Meng gave him an encouraging pat on the shoulder, seeing great potential in him.

“What exactly is this place?”

Bai Yu removed the hood he wore and looked around, having just been summoned by Chen Meng. While he had been asleep, the great sphere of light had told him that he could live a ‘carefree, peaceful life.’

But the scene before him was so far from that peaceful, carefree life, wasn’t it?

“Black Wind Village, this is the place. Didn’t I tell you? I’m the overlord of the mountain here, and you will be our bandit bride number two!” Chen Meng said.

Black Wind Village, mountain overlord, bandit bride? These words in Bai Yu’s ears automatically translated into meanings like mountain bandits and robbers.

How did I, a straightforward elf, end up among mountain bandits and robbers?

At this moment, Bai Yu felt deceived by the great sphere of light, but having been deceived, he still had to abide by the contract and serve as Chen Meng’s guard for a full ten days.

With a level of 51 and the health of an elite monster, he was definitely up to the task of being a guard.

Bai Yu took out his longbow and began to demonstrate his archery as Chen Meng ordered. Meanwhile, Chen Meng took the opportunity to open her main menu and get ready to log off.

“Bro Meng! How about you check other streamers’ rooms before you end the stream?”

One of the fans suddenly shouted from below, totally uninterested in Bai Yu’s archery skills.

“Yeah! Checking other rooms would be great!”

“Alright, alright, I’ll check the rooms, and after that, I’m really logging off!”

One of the things most popular broadcasters like Chen Meng did before ending their streams was… to check on other broadcasters’ rooms.

This was also seen as a way to support fellow streamers on the same platform. As one of Raccoon Streaming’s most popular broadcasters, room checking had become an essential part of her routine before logging off every day.

Lately, Chen Meng had been wandering around Holy Spirit’s section on Raccoon Streaming, so naturally her room checking this time was also in Holy Spirit’s section.

It has been several months since the Holy Spirit server opened… There are a whopping three hundred plus livestreaming rooms. Shen Meng browsed through the Holy Spirit section and noticed a livestream room starting with ‘Holy Spirit Official Livestream’ as a prefix.

Holy Spirit Official Livestream? A gimmick?

Shen Meng glanced at the popularity of this livestream; it had only a pitiful twelve thousand points and was ranked beyond one hundred.

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This livestream room seemed to have just started yesterday… but the three-colored cat headgear in the preview caught Shen Meng’s attention, prompting her to click in.

The moment Shen Meng entered, the popularity of the livestream tripled instantly, and the barrage of messages filled with ‘Shen Meng’s marriage proposal squad is here to inspect!’ appeared.

Shen Meng had grown used to such behaviors from her fans, but what caught her interest was that this livestream wasn’t from a player, she could only see an NPC with the ID ‘Alu’ washing her weapon by a river in the video.

“Isn’t that Miss Cat who assigns us new tasks at the starting base?” someone among the fans reminded Shen Meng who this character was.

Of course Shen Meng remembered Miss Cat, but where was the player who should be livestreaming? At first, she thought the player had switched to a first-person view and was following Miss Cat, but it now seemed that this was a third-person view livestream of Miss Cat herself.

‘Did Miss Cat just kill a pig? Why is she covered in blood?’

A few messages appeared in the barrage, concerned about Miss Cat, whose body was now covered in various bloodstains, even the three-colored cat headgear was stained red with fresh blood.

‘What pig, haven’t you seen the Abyss Temple livestream? Miss Cat dismembered a level fifty lord monster with a single slash an hour ago! Her fighting style was exactly like Queen Mei, you know?’

‘How does Miss Alu have anything to do with Queen Mei?’

‘She’s about to take off the headgear!’

A message suddenly popped up, and everyone, Shen Meng included, became incredibly excited because Miss Cat had just placed her hand under the headgear, preparing to take it off.

But she seemed to remember something at the last moment. The eyes on the headgear turned to look at the camera, and her expression became (*ﾟﾛﾟ).

It was then that she recalled she was in a livestream, hastily grabbing the camera with both hands and moving it aside so it couldn’t capture her.

The current livestream screen displayed a tree encrusted with crystals, and the pitter-patter of water nearby set off a wave of wild speculations among the viewers.

‘Damn it! This host is unreasonable!’

‘It’s just taking off a headgear, not stripping to bathe! Why so secretive?’

‘I recognize this place! It’s the Spiritual Vein Forest on Biland Island, deep by the creek, but I forgot the coordinates! You can find it on the big map.’

‘Front row to catch a glimpse of Miss Cat’s true face! Charge!’

‘Do you big shots all have Holy Spirit accounts? I haven’t even created one.’

“Calm down, guys,” Shen Meng didn’t understand why these young people were being so excited, but her words no longer mattered as her fans who were previously urging her on had collectively stormed out of Black Wind Village.

They seemed determined to capture Miss Cat and take her back as the village chief’s wife.

“What should we do, Brother Meng?” Swordsman Mo Dao looked on as his own fans also ran out in droves and expressed his speechlessness.

“What does it have to do with me?” Shen Meng no longer had the energy to explore the matter. The Spiritual Vein Forest was the area players were currently conquering, and it would take at least five or six minutes to get from here to the depths of the forest.

“What if it’s really Queen Mei?” Swordsman Mo Dao suggested as he shared a picture in the group, taken from a member of the Abyss Temple and featured in the forum. The picture’s background showed Miss Cat standing on top of a Molten Core Dragon’s head with twin swords in hand.

This photo perfectly captured the essence of a ‘mighty Hunter’.

“No way? How come these skills look so much like my own pet’s?” Shen Meng was stunned upon seeing the figure in the photo, especially the blood blade in the other hand, which was an exact match for Queen Mei’s skill after entering her second phase.

“Replicated model?” Swordsman Mo Dao speculated a possibility.

“Son of a shrimp! Let’s go take a look!” Shen Meng couldn’t help but summon her mount on impulse.

So, under Bai Yu’s dumbfounded gaze, the bandits of Black Wind Village swarmed out in an instant.

Was this a call to business?

Bai Yu thought for a moment, still slinging his bow on his back and hurriedly following Shen Meng. Inside, Bai Yu felt incredibly nervous; despite his unmatched archery skills, this was his first time playing the role of a bandit.

“Second in command, no! Second madam! Catch!”

It wasn’t until she was halfway there that Shen Meng realized Bai Yu had been following her all along. Seeing Bai Yu hopping tiredly from tree to tree, she took out a Mount Summoning Flute from her bag and tossed it to him.

Bai Yu caught the Summoning Flute precisely while up in the tree, and the instructions popped up in a window before his eyes. After he blew it, a flightless bird appeared below.

Are these guys really bandits? As Bai Yu took his place atop the flightless bird, surrounded by a mighty ‘army’ of Cavalry, he couldn’t help but feel sure that no one at the base of the mountain could stop this band of raiders.