Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 87 - 86: Methods to Increase Likability (Please Recommend!)

Chapter 87: Chapter 86: Methods to Increase Likability (Please Recommend!)

“The Annihilation Legion?”

Jiang Qiao pondered upon hearing the key phrase mentioned by the Red Knight; it seemed both the Lionheart Knight and the Wasp Knight had heard of the Annihilation Legion before.

“Betrayer, Troy… tell me, where exactly is this place!”

The instant the Lionheart Knight heard the Red Knight mention his intention to kill Queen Mei, his rage reached a boiling point.

“Here…” The Wasp Knight hesitated for a moment as she spoke, her pupils under the mask shifting towards Jiang Qiao.

While Jiang Qiao was watching the stars secretly, the Wasp Knight had tried several times to escape this cursed place, but without exception, all attempts had failed.

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Moreover, the Lionheart Knight’s current physical and mental states were in terrible shape; rashly returning to the battlefield would result in him falling into madness, just like the Wolf Knight.

“You’d only be a burden if you returned to Queen Mei’s side now. Do you even have the strength to pick up your weapon?” Jiang Qiao said as he gently patted the Lionheart Knight’s chest plate.

This remark successfully stung the Lionheart Knight’s pride, but as the Lionheart Knight attempted to struggle to his feet once more, Jiang Qiao placed a hand on his shoulder armor.

“Sit down,” Jiang Qiao said softly, then gently pressed downward with his hand.

Accompanied by the heavy sound of armor hitting the ground, the Lionheart Knight collapsed back onto the ground.

As a magic Summoner, Jiang Qiao’s strength was only thirty-seven points, roughly three times that of an average person, while Lionheart Knight’s strength, Jiang Qiao guessed, might be over five thousand points.

But the Lionheart Knight was not a game character, and even if he were, he was currently in a state known as ‘completely exhausted,’ which reduced all his stats by 99.9 percent, rendering him virtually useless.

“We will protect Queen Mei; you rest here,” Jiang Qiao said before vanishing from the Lionheart Knight’s side.

“Troy, who is he?” It was only at this moment that Lionheart Knight remembered to ask the Wasp Knight about Jiang Qiao’s background.

“He is…”

The Wasp Knight glanced at the live-streaming image floating in mid-air. When Jiang Qiao left, he generously kept two stream views available; one displayed the Dancing Nuclear Guild battling with Queen Mei, and the other followed the Red Knight as he picked up the scraps without adding milk.

“The enemy, the leader of those Holy Spirits,” the Wasp Knight said.

“The leader of the Holy Spirits? Why can you stand here so calmly!” Upon learning of Jiang Qiao’s identity, the Lionheart Knight’s rationale plummeted even further.

An enemy general says he’ll protect our queen? That’s likely only after the enemy has cleared out our army and imprisoned the queen in a basement.

“I don’t know either,” the Wasp Knight said while looking at the live stream. The Dancing Nuclear Guild had already commenced battle with Queen Mei.

Allowing the enemy to appear before Queen Mei was a dereliction of duty for them as Guardian Knights. However, the Wasp Knight had not felt any intent to kill from these Holy Spirits since the battle began.

They seemed more like they had come to play with Queen Mei, even though this ‘play’ involved a clash of various destructive spells, cannons, and swords.

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“Jiang Qiao!!”

Upon seeing Jiang Qiao’s probe appear above the Divine Battlefield, Hai Lan lunged towards Jiang Qiao with the ferocity of a tiger pouncing on prey.

Jiang Qiao extended a hand to Hai Lan’s probe’s face and gently pushed her away.

“A red dot suddenly appeared on the star chart!” Hai Lan opened the Book of Systems to show the projected image of the star chart to Jiang Qiao.

In the image projected from the star chart, right next to Hai Lan’s Divine Fragment plane, a tiny crimson invasion realm had appeared, with a level range of 40~68 and covering only two square kilometers.

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If measured by level, the combat power of this invasion realm was comparable to that of Queen Mei’s undead army, except… now three of Queen Mei’s five Knights had been killed by players, and one had defected.

The death of the Lion Heart Knight further weakened Queen Mei’s combat capabilities.

“This actually does us a favor,” Jiang Qiao estimated. The invasion realm would join the battle on the Divine Battlefield in about ten hours.

Ironically, after the red-clad Knight’s consecutive betrayals of the Hawkeye Knight and Lion Heart Knight, the difficulty of the Divine Battlefield instance had drastically decreased. Coupled with the red-clad Knight avoiding battle, now the players have targeted the Wolf Knight and Queen Mei, leaving the axe-wielding man rather neglected.

So, in ten hours’ time, given the current progress of the major guilds, Queen Mei’s nearly thirty million health points should be whittled down to about a million.

“Help? What help have we given now?”

Hai Lan was really trying to keep up with Jiang Qiao’s train of thought, but at critical moments like this, Jiang Qiao always made some strange decisions.

“Boosting Queen Mei’s affection levels,” said Jiang Qiao.

“I know what ‘affection levels’ means, but whose affection levels? Yours?” Hai Lan asked.

“Not mine, but all players… We joined this Divine War’s main quest to plunder your Divine Fragment, that’s true, but I have another side condition to fulfill, which is to recruit Queen Mei’s five Knights and the axe-wielding man into my camp. But now, it looks like we’ll have to kill the two-faced red-clad Knight,” Jiang Qiao said.

If players were playing an MMORPG, taking on the instance bosses, Jiang Qiao was playing a dating sim.

“With how the players have been treating Queen Mei, her affection levels must be in the negative. Is it really that easy to grind it back up?” Hai Lan gazed towards the distant royal city center, where Queen Mei seemed to be fighting madly against the players.

“Of course, it can be ground back up, and it’s pretty simple,” said Jiang Qiao.

“You sound so confident, how come?”

“Cheering up a sulky little girl is a basic skill for any reliable adult male,” Jiang Qiao said with a smile on his face.

Hai Lan opened her mouth, unsure of how to respond to Jiang Qiao’s words. She found that besides saying ‘impressive’, she couldn’t find any other way to respond. Normally, one might say, ‘keep dreaming,’ but Hai Lan believed that Jiang Qiao could really pull it off.

“What about the players, then? Queen Mei is, for many players… the cause of their virtual wife’s death.”

Hai Lan’s learning ability was truly surprising to Jiang Qiao; not only was she keeping up with his train of thought, but she was also picking up the skill of making sarcastic comments.

“Players are even easier to appease, but… I still need some help. Hai Lan, continue to surveil the Divine Battlefield and notify me of any movement in the invasion realm immediately,” Jiang Qiao said, preparing to exit the scouting state.

“What are you going to do now?”

“Write a letter, in the name of Queen Mei.”

Having said this, Jiang Qiao exited the scouting state and reopened his eyes inside the Tower of Astrology. But he quickly moved through a portal to the Tower of Trial plane.

There, Jiang Qiao quickly found the Starry Scribes who were translating Queen Mei’s diary.

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