Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 321: Chapter 310: Mind Blown (2nd Update) Chapter 321: Chapter 310: Mind Blown (2nd Update) Chen Meng recently announced unilaterally to her fans, “In this lifetime, I’ll stream no other game but Holy Spirit!”

Of course, this message was met with ridicule from all of her streaming fans.

Chen Meng had been playing Conflict for nearly five years, and her popularity was mostly built on that game. When she first started playing Holy Spirit, she just dabbled in it, spending more time streaming Conflict.

But as she played Holy Spirit more, her streaming time for it increased while her time for Conflict decreased, until eventually, she streamed Holy Spirit almost every day, prompting her fans to cry out, ‘Brother Meng, don’t forget your roots!’
Then Chen Meng would roll back to stream Conflict now and then, but how should I put it… the longer she played Holy Spirit, the more boring Conflict felt to her.

This was her personal feeling. At first, she couldn’t abandon everything in Conflict due to sentimentality, but after she won the highest damage output in the Apocalypse Dragon crusade and became an acknowledged reserve Knight of Queen Mei, Chen Meng decided to devote all her streaming time to Holy Spirit.

This decision did affect her streaming popularity somewhat, but not significantly. Still, with its excellent game quality and endless stream of entertaining content, Holy Spirit proved to her that her decision was right.

Like right now… Chen Meng and her fans started to critique which leader was better between the Pantheon Alliance and the Planar Pirate factions.

Chen Meng also shamelessly started a bounty, declaring she would join the faction with the higher reward for Black Wind Village.

When the Black Tide Island version was first released, Chen Meng had intended to stick with Miss Cat’s faction to the end, but Queen Mei told her that the Holy Spirit Traveler faction… wouldn’t participate in the Black Tide Island storyline or competition and wouldn’t receive any faction equipment or aid as a reward.

Miss Cat’s faction was just a reserve for players, and after thinking it over, Chen Meng decided to take Queen Mei’s advice and look for another faction to join on Black Tide Island.

‘Happy Delivery sent a Super Rocket… with a note: Brother Meng, join the Pantheon Alliance! I want to see the hidden story of the Goddess of Beauty.’
‘+1 for the Goddess of Beauty’s hidden story’
It’s well known that all NPCs in Holy Spirit have hidden stories, like the heart-fluttering one where Queen Mei is lying on the bed in tears.

So, as cloud players of Holy Spirit, the onlooking fans really hoped Chen Meng could unearth some hidden stories about the Goddess of Beauty.

Even if they couldn’t play the game themselves, they would at least get an eyeful.

“Big Boss, which faction do you actually want to join?” Swordsman Mo Dao asked, standing beside Chen Meng.

“Pirate, I guess. I prefer Lady Calamity a bit more.”

Chen Meng was standing not far from Lady Calamity at the moment, where Lady Calamity was aggressively holding a gun to Drake’s forehead.

“Eh? Big Boss, I thought you were into the type like Queen Mei?” Swordsman Mo Dao had thought Chen Meng would say she didn’t like anyone.

“Nonsense! Haven’t I said before? I like most of the female NPCs who can fight in this game!” Chen Meng said.

Chen Meng’s words were true… Her reason for remaining unmarried for so many years was she preferred powerful women who could give her a sense of security over a mature man.

Both Queen Mei and Lady Calamity could give her that feeling, and even her Magic Thief companion Aixin from the camp did as well.

Therefore, Chen Meng naturally maxed out her fondness towards the wildly aggressive Lady Calamity, who had been blasting every monster on the map into oblivion.

But…

“I also prefer Lady Calamity a bit more, but Big Boss, in this vote the Goddess of Beauty has completely crushed her,” said Swordsman Mo Dao, who was also watching Chen Meng’s stream. In the bounties Chen Meng had initiated, the Goddess of Beauty had utterly defeated Lady Calamity.

The fans were just that shallow; it was clear that in this regard, the Goddess of Beauty was the decisive winner.

“Damn it, if I had known, I wouldn’t have started this bounty, but since everyone has thrown in so much money, I, Chen Meng, will even risk it all to dig out the Goddess of Beauty’s hidden story!”

Chen Meng really regretted putting up the bounty, but it had earned her an entire twenty-seven Super Rockets, and the wealthy fans, eager for more of the Goddess of Beauty’s backstory, had opened their wallets like floodgates, letting their donations pour out like a deluge.

At this moment, Shen Meng couldn’t help but lament… what in the world was the ultimate consuming power of humans.

Therefore, under the influence of financial might, Shen Meng had no choice but to walk towards the location of the Goddess of Beauty.

“Damn it! Stop right there, all you holy spirits, and watch closely!”

Suddenly, just as Shen Meng took a step forward, a deafening gunshot exploded in mid-air, causing all the holy spirits to shift their focus to the figure of the Lady of Calamity.

“This NPC wouldn’t happen to be saying that everyone who doesn’t join her faction must die, right?” Swordsman muttered softly from the side.

“Wouldn’t that be even more exciting?” shouted an unknown spectator nearby.

So, under the gaze of all the players, the Lady of Calamity somewhat stiffly raised her hands, gently forming a fist.

At this moment, she could feel not only the holy spirits’ gazes but also the astonished eyes of her pirate crew, who had followed her for decades, staring at their fearsome captain.

Her cheeks were filled with a scarlet hue, but what didn’t match this color were the clenched teeth and the angry veins bulging on her forehead.

She didn’t resemble a girl preparing to win others over with a cute meow, but more like a fierce tiger ready to devour someone.

“Good, you just need to meow once,” Drake urged in a very soft voice from the side.

In the end, the Lady of Calamity staked her honor on this, squeezing out a distorted ‘meow’ from her throat. This meow was incredibly hoarse, more like the mournful howl of an old cat than the cute mewing of a kitten.

At this moment, all the holy spirits watching her were dumbfounded…

“Is the Lady of Calamity trying to… be cute?”

“Have you ever seen a cute expression this terrifying?”

“That’s called a ‘gap moe’!”

Regrettably, the Lady of Calamity’s pitiful cat call had no effect whatsoever. Players who were going to join the Goddess of Beauty’s faction continued to do so, and those who were going on to hunt mutations kept on with their hunts.

“This is utterly useless!!!”

Seeing this reaction, the Lady of Calamity, enraged, threw a punch at Drake’s cheek. A figure of -5145 damage appeared above his head, and he was sent flying, even bouncing a bit on the ground.

“I knew I should’ve just blown up that damned woman!”

The Lady of Calamity, full of killing intent and holding a musket, wanted to charge at the Goddess of Beauty, but at this moment, Boss Silver approached the spot where the Lady had punched Drake, sending him flying.

“Can you track down the whereabouts of those Magic Thieves?” Boss Silver asked as he crouched down to look at Drake, whose cheek was completely bruised.

“Of course… I can… holy spirit.”

It seemed that Drake had been beaten up by the Lady of Calamity like this before, not for the first time. He applied a strange ointment to his cheek, and the wound quickly healed as good as new.

“I hope you can help us capture those Magic Thieves, not kill them, but capture them.”

Boss Silver took out the reward given after the battle, an item called ‘Raiding Net.’ This item’s function was simple… it turned any NPC caught by the net into an item belonging to the user within one second.

This effect seemed quite useless, but if it were combined with a spellcaster’s teleportation ability… it would be a very buggy item.

The prerequisite was finding the traces of those Magic Thieves, and… not letting them escape!