Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 170 - 169: Player’s Logic (4th update! 3500 monthly votes for more!)

Chapter 170: Chapter 169: Player’s Logic (4th update! 3500 monthly votes for more!)

The livestream offering free milk with no price increase made Jiang Qiao think it was clickbait at first glance.

Because the entire screen of the livestream was filled with… magma, all magma, and the bubbling sounds of free milk with no increase in price.

It wasn’t until Jiang Qiao took a second look that he realized this milkmaid was actually bathing in the magma!

She wasn’t just bathing in the magma! She was also surfing in it! And her surfboard was a Molten Core Dragon.

Free milk with no price increase was now clutching the tail of a Molten Core Dragon, moving at a high speed of 10,000 kilometers per hour! Well… she really was moving at high speed.

‘Is the host really swimming in magma? How high has her fire resistance stacked?’

‘Is it okay that the host’s health keeps dropping?’

‘No problem!’

Free milk with no price increase made an OK gesture towards the camera. Jiang Qiao had no idea how the Heavenly Palace livestream gadget operated smoothly while soaked in magma, but upon closer thought, the Heavenly Palace livestream gadget was something from another dimension and would not be affected by things of this world.

In contrast, the health of Free milk with no price increase was always in a dangerous red zone, yet she managed to barely keep her health up by self-sustaining through her own healing.

Truly a top-tier healer of the Holy Spirits.

The Molten Core Dragon was still advancing. Free milk with no price increase would need some more time to reach the lair of the Magic Thief, and during this time, Queen Mei had already run back to the starting base camp.

Seeing that she was being hard chased by a group of players from Black Wind Village, Jiang Qiao directly activated the CG performance domain on the largest wooden table at the original base.

This domain was essentially a wall of air; players three meters away from that wooden table couldn’t get close. If they attempted to do so, they would be frozen in place and forced to watch the CG.

After returning to the original camp, Queen Mei cooperatively walked slowly towards that wooden table, where Knight Lion Heart had been waiting for a long time.

The cartographer played by Jiang Qiao ran out from another side of the original base with a huge pile of maps.

“I have found a way to purify this island,” the cartographer played by Jiang Qiao declared, spreading the largest map out on the wooden table.

With the arrival of Chen Meng, the number of players at the original base had become very high, so much so that players crowded outside the air wall.

Anyone with a bit of online gaming experience knew they had successfully triggered a plot event and naturally gathered around to watch.

“This is the map of Biland Island I have drawn. The geographic environment of this island is very complex, encompassing almost all known terrains of the world, such as deserts like the Snow Plain, poison-filled swamps, caves covered with lava, the center of the island completely covered by massive crystals, and valleys surrounded by mists.”

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As Jiang Qiao spread out this map, those who had completed Main Mission Four, Building the Portal, essentially all popped up with a new main mission, that is, Main Mission Six: Conquer Biland Island.

Main Mission Five, The Choice of the Portal, was a long-standing main mission. When the players came to Biland Island and threw the portal pieces given by Fureya into the Energy Pool at that base, they could trigger Main Mission Six here.

Along with Main Mission Six, a rough map of Biland Island also popped up, marking the approximate locations of five other core crystals in different colored areas on the map.

“Each different terrain on this island is home to one or two powerful creatures, which I call the Island Masters. Each of the Island Masters is guarding a core crystal of the island,”

Jiang Qiao pointed to five different terrains on the island; the sixth terrain, Spiritual Vein Forest, had already been cleared by the Holy Spirits. Now, all the Holy Spirits had to do was move towards the Snow Plain, the swamp, the Molten Lava Cave, the Land of Crystals, and the Mist Rift Valley.

This was a clear main storyline and, indeed, the most straightforward one, going somewhere, killing a few monsters, Jiang Qiao had already made it crystal clear to the players.

“What about the Magic Thieves inhabiting the island? Have you found any traces of them?”

Queen Mei seemed unwilling to let the storyline of the spiritual beings be so simple and direct, she proactively asked how Jiang Qiao planned to handle those Magic Thieves.

“…” Jiang Qiao did not rush to express her opinion but was paying attention to the livestreamer who provided add-ons without raising the price. The livestream finally took a new turn.

The Molten Core Dragon had stopped and quickly surfaced. After soaking in the Magma Pool for over an hour like a hot spring, she finally came out to land.

But it seemed she got addicted to the Magma Pool. The Molten Core Dragon had crawled to shore and spat out the Magic Thieves from its belly, yet she still stayed in the Magma Pool, enduring the scorching heat and sulfur poisoning as she quietly peeked out to scout the enemy.

The livestream now showed where the Magic Thieves were hiding… It was a set of buildings underground.

It neither looked like an altar meant for live sacrifices, nor a prison for criminals, but rather an ordinary underground city. When the Magic Thieves emerged from the mouth of the Molten Core Dragon, she even saw a group of children circling around Denghis Xisi.

This was a city that housed the Crystal Disease Infected, or rather, a city where Crystal Disease Infected huddled together for warmth. On the mainland, they were like a plague, a virus that had to be eradicated!

Yet in this city, they were no different from ordinary people. Denghis Xisi seemed to be their leader, greatly respected by them, and this was the nation made up of Magic Thieves, as Denghis Xisi put it.

Interesting…

Jiang Qiao read a few comments floating across the chat in the livestream.

‘Is this the NPC’s main city?’

‘It’s an instance, didn’t you see their names are all red?’

‘But those little girls who look only seven or eight years old also have red names.’

‘Maybe they are… minor monsters?’

Jiang Qiao, seeing all this, felt she roughly understood how she should handle the organization of Magic Thieves.

“We are spiritual beings, and we must remain neutral toward all matters,” said Jiang Qiao, her words displayed in a text box that appeared before all players nearby.

“Neutral means…” Queen Mei didn’t quite understand how to remain neutral under the current circumstances, as the Magic Thieves had clearly categorized the spiritual beings as enemies.

“Everyone has different views, Alu… People are free. Spiritual beings may choose to cooperate with the Magic Thieves or to oppose them. We should not interfere with their decisions. However, I personally consider the Magic Thieves as mere Crystal Disease Infected. Among them are those who are not truly evil. Our stronghold’s construction needs manpower, and perhaps the spiritual beings could find a way to hire them,” Jiang Qiao said.

The only true part of what Jiang Qiao said was about finding a way to hire them. Well, Jiang Qiao actually wanted to… ahem.

In any case, Jiang Qiao’s answer for everything on Biland Island was that she wanted it all, including the Magic Thieves.

“There might be other forces coming to hunt those Magic Thieves, and if we get into a conflict with them then…” Queen Mei voiced her actual concern, not as a worry but as something she was awaiting approval for from Jiang Qiao.

“If one is bullied, it’s only natural to fight back, and this principle applies under any circumstance!” Jiang Qiao declared.

Jiang Qiao could foresee that once the news of spiritual beings harboring Crystal Disease Infected spread, it would likely draw many people. Jiang Qiao was quite happy to make them into tool people, and as for those looking to cause trouble, she would not mind marking them as hostile targets.