Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 224 - 221 A Special Solution

Chapter 224: Chapter 221: A Special Solution

Chapter 224 -221: A Special Solution

“Focus on breaking the monsters’ legs first! Make them lose their balance! Dealing low health is the least important!”

Mo Shigui raised his shield high and blocked the charge of a lord-level monster that was a cross between a rhinoceros and a dragon.

‘Rhinoceros Dragon·Asuna.’

This Rhinoceros Dragon was seven meters long… which was already considered very small compared to the wild lord-level monsters on the island which were often more than ten meters in length.

What really troubled Mo Shigui was that he couldn’t kill these lord-level monsters, because this lord monster was an NPC that their guild had raised for more than half a month.

“Guild leader! Are you really not considering killing these monsters?” Momma’s Got a Sword slashed at the sturdy hind leg of the Rhinoceros Dragon, which actually caused his sword to rebound, “ding” went his main weapon, flung far from his hand.

“Fine, who of you can bring yourself to do it?”

Mo Shigui asked in the guild channel, and no one answered… Killing NPCs in the game had become a very common thing.

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Every veteran player in the Dancing Nuclear Guild had killed countless NPCs in various games, whether they were allies or enemies…

But everyone in the guild was clear that those NPCs were just a bunch of data, without any emotional foundation to speak of.

However, during this past half month… the guild members had developed some degree of attachment to the seven NPCs in their stronghold, the NPCs in the Holy Spirit World really looked too much like real people, whether in the real world of the Holy Spirit or in the exotic world planes.

So now, the players in the guild simply couldn’t bring themselves to kill this Rhinoceros Dragon.

“Asuna… she’s the chef sister from our guild, right?”

“Yeah, the food she makes can even increase Fureya’s favorability when eaten.”

“Damn! The game even includes these heart-wrenching plots.”

“Heart-wrenching my ass! The Blood Resonance curse seems to only last for three hours, follow the guild leader’s orders and push her down to the NPC residential area!”

This time, the members of the guild were not focused on killing the target during this boss battle, but on control…

Little Feather’s construction skills and planning were both superb; now the built area of Dancing Nuclear was eight hundred fifty square meters, and the expansion of the construction area could be claimed by players.

So, Little Feather expanded part of the built area over the magma lake located beneath the stronghold.

The magma lake had been completely sealed off by Little Feather with a large amount of stone, and then she established the NPCs’ residential area above the magma lake, which also served as a quarantine zone.

The NPCs who wanted to come to the player activity area of the stronghold to work had to climb stairs nearly as high as three or four stories.

This height difference became the key to this boss battle’s strategy.

“After breaking the legs, push her to the residential area! The other five lord-level monsters are also below, proceed as with past instance battles!”

Mo Shigui continued to direct the members of Dancing Nuclear, and now, in the player activity area, only this one Rhinoceros Dragon was rampaging; all the other monsters had been pushed into the quarantine zone.

So… hurry up and get down there too!

Mo Shigui defended against the impact of the Rhinoceros Dragon with his shield, peering through the slit of his helmet at the wild figure of the Rhinoceros Dragon…

“Guild leader! The parts of the Rhinoceros Dragon that crystallize are all on its legs… Direct slashes will cause swords to rebound, and magic is useless,” shouted one of the guild’s Swordsman players.

A rebounding blade? Mo Shigui had just heard the Swordsman player when the duration of the Shield Warrior’s Awakened Immovable Wall in his status bar ended.

This skill allowed him to have a long duration of super armor state, with counterattack and armor enhancement, but after the awakening ended, the Rhinoceros Dragon broke through Mo Shigui’s defense line and charged behind him.

It was too late for Mo Shigui to adjust his stance, the Rhinoceros Dragon, out of control, charged toward the ancient tree in Mo Shigui’s stronghold, which was behind him.

Little Feather had already set up barriers on the road to the ancient tree, but he still underestimated the destructive power of a lord-level monster; those barriers didn’t stop the Rhinoceros Dragon at all.

In full view of everyone in the guild, the Rhinoceros Dragon slammed viciously into the ancient stone tree at the center of the stronghold.

A damage number of -23156 popped above the tree.

The ancient stone tree of the Dancing Nuclear stronghold had been upgraded several times and had become a level three ancient tree, with close to three hundred thousand health… But this three hundred thousand health would be depleted in fifteen hits by the Rhinoceros Dragon!

That wasn’t the key point… The key was that if the tree was damaged, Fureya, who lived inside it, would also be injured to varying degrees.

“Guild leader!”

Some members of the Fureya Protection Society in the guild saw this and entered a somewhat out-of-control state.

Mo Shigui lost control too… He gritted his teeth, Mo Shigui swore he had never felt so conflicted in all his years of gaming.

It wasn’t anger… but conflict! At that moment, he felt his conscience being put to the test.

It’s just a game! NPCs are just a bunch of data! If they die, they die!

Mo Shigui kept reminding himself of this countless times in his mind, but the order to ‘kill that Rhinoceros Dragon’ was stuck in his throat and he simply couldn’t utter it.

But when the Rhinoceros Dragon roared and slammed into the ancient tree again, causing the whole tree to shake violently in an instant.

What a trash game!

“Everyone kill that rhino…” Mo Shigui’s command was only halfway through when a golden lightning tiger, made of mind energy, suddenly appeared in front of the ancient tree and pounced fiercely on the Rhinoceros Dragon.

Golden Lightning Tiger! The awakening of a Mind Energy Master.

The golden lightning tiger was somewhat smaller in stature compared to the Rhinoceros Dragon, but when it clawed onto the belly of the Rhinoceros Dragon, it actually caused it to stagger.

The weight of the Rhinoceros Dragon was not something that the awakening of a Mind Energy Master could shake… It roared again, lifting its front hooves to stomp towards the figure that had released the golden lightning tiger.

Was it Laughing King? When Mo Shigui saw Zhao Mingwei’s figure appear in front of the ancient tree, he felt an odd sense of being rescued.

Because Mo Shigui had grown accustomed to this unreasonable man always showing up as a savior.

But this time, what Zhao Mingwei released from his hands was not mind energy… he took out a spherical object from his backpack and threw it precisely into the… nose of the Rhinoceros Dragon.

The spherical object exploded completely inside the Rhinoceros Dragon’s nose, and a strange green-black sheen oozed out…

“Fuck? What’s that smell?”

“What did Laughing King throw?”

“RUA!”

The VR experience hall Mo Shigui had found on short notice was equipped with the latest VR devices, which not only included bodysuits but also olfactory simulation peripherals. Thus, at this moment, the elite squad beside Mo Shigui, upon sniffing the odor in the air… began to clutch their bellies and retch in unison.

It was an indescribably foul stench, just one whiff was enough to make one vomit out everything in their stomach.

“Goddammit, why… Even though Laughing King has already won the match, why is he still poisoning us in the game?”

“Isn’t this the fucking smell of that thing? The Holy Spirit game has been well moderated for censorship, so how come it suddenly became so vulgar!”

“Can’t you assholes turn off the smell plugin?”

“Everyone, turn off the olfactory plugins! Also, the Rhinoceros Dragon has lost its target and is going berserk! Push it down to the residential area below!”

Mo Shigui immediately turned off the olfactory plugin. At a distance, the Rhinoceros Dragon, under the baptism of the stench, had lost its intent to attack the stronghold’s ancient tree and was jumping madly like a kangaroo inside the stronghold, trying to shake out whatever was in its nose.

Mo Shigui hadn’t had much time to play Holy Spirit World in the past half month, so he hadn’t learned about some tricky strategies on the forum, but clearly, Zhao Mingwei had been browsing the forum sections during that time. Zhao Mingwei, who didn’t spam posts, could only satisfy his cravings by reading every forum post about Holy Spirit World when he couldn’t play the game.

That’s how Zhao Mingwei found an excellent solution for the current situation on the Holy Spirit World forum – throwing poo… no, an alchemical item known as a stink bomb.

It was a post made by a player whose life profession was an alchemist. The post was too disgusting and useless to garner much attention, so there weren’t many responses. Zhao Mingwei had noted both the post and the ID of the poster, and the first thing he did when he logged on was to trade for the alchemical item with that player.

“It’s the stink bomb, I forgot!”

Rain Song, who was also a forum expert, saw the Rhinoceros Dragon and the stench in the air and suddenly remembered the item.

Mo Shigui had now gotten control over the wildly jumping Rhinoceros Dragon, joining forces with other players in the guild to push the beast into a deep pit.

“I’ve heard you talk about that thing, but I really haven’t had time lately to think about strategies for Holy Spirit. What’s the way to get it now?” Mo Shigui glanced at the current state of the Rhinoceros Dragon.

Its status bar showed an entry for Berserk: Attack frequency increased by 50%, will choose random targets to attack.

Using this item in a subjugation battle indeed came with major side effects, but… it was extremely useful for the current bloody resonance S event.

“I don’t know, it’s a homemade formula, and I forgot the ID,” Rain Song said, standing alongside Mo Shigui above the NPC residential area.

The NPC residential area below had been completely engulfed in flames. Six lord-level monsters rampaged below, but for the moment, they posed no threat to the stronghold above.

“Next, we’ll have Little Feather reinforce the walls. Wait another three hours and it’ll be fine. We can log off now; there’s also the intercontinental match departure ceremony to attend,” Mo Shigui said.

He knew he had even more important matters to attend to off-game. Stopping the Rhinoceros Dragon had already taken fifteen minutes… they didn’t have much time left to waste in Holy Spirit World.

But just then, Zhao Mingwei suddenly jumped from beside Mo Shigui… plunging into the residential area engulfed by flames.

“Guild Master! Yelena and Arisa are down there,” Bunny Fluff said in a very soft voice.

“…Bunny Fluff, I’m transferring command to you. Choose some people to rescue those two NPCs. As for Black Pot Cooking, Barking Dog, Toothpaste…” Mo Shigui named a few of the professional players from his team in turn, saying, “Log off with me.”

It was just two NPCs… he didn’t have time to keep spending here. However, just then, his private messages suddenly started to light up frantically.

It was from Can Xin…

‘Old Song! Have you settled everything over there? Big trouble here! Come help me! Quick, quick, quick!’

“Guild Master, it seems like Abyss Temple is about to blow up? Should we…”

“Give priority to rescuing those two NPCs, everyone else follow me to the Abyss Temple’s stronghold, send me the coordinates,” Mo Shigui rubbed his temples before making that decision in the end.

After all, if Abyss Temple couldn’t attend the departure ceremony… then the ceremony simply couldn’t begin.