Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 340: Chapter 320 I Think You Still Have Room for Improvement (3rd Update) Chapter 340: Chapter 320 I Think You Still Have Room for Improvement (3rd Update) With the elite strategists of the Abyss Temple joining in, the difficult-level Black Dragon Nest was no longer a mere pushover; it was a massacre.

Black Ash was very active in this newbie-introduction instance, firing wildly, pulling off aerial headshots, using fancy gunplay, back-jumping to more aerial headshots, and continuously delivering flashy moves.

Jiang Qiao could understand, after all, the Abyss Temple guild was like a monk’s temple; currently, in the Abyss Temple players Jiang Qiao knew, only Lazy was a real girl.

Although part of this was due to the Abyss Temple’s strict recruitment standards, Black Ash truly hoped that there would be a few more real girls in the guild on a usual day, rather than the likes of Fluffy Rabbits…sigh!

“How does it feel?”

During the interval to prepare for the final BOSS battle, Jiang Qiao had opened another voice channel and invited the Abyss Temple members to join.

“Wan Xiang and the girl with the math scores both have really nice voices,” Black Ash commented.

“Every girl sounds nice, but I’m asking about Wan Xiang’s performance in the instance.”

Jiang Qiao was already somewhat speechless with these top tier strategy group members.

“She shot very accurately.”

As he said this, Black Ash stealthily glanced at the not-too-distant Wan Xiang, and at the rifle in her hands that was emitting a faint glow.

“That rifle must be the Magic Marksman; I tried it out a couple of times when I first played Holy Spirit. Although it felt a bit weird, it’s nowhere near as accurate as some legendary rifles, but she hit the Dragon Lord’s weak spot under its scales with every shot. Although the damage wasn’t high, there wasn’t a single missed shot throughout the entire thing, which is incredible, especially considering she did it without a sniper scope.”

The Dragon Lord was the BOSS that Jiang Qiao mentioned earlier, whose scales had a tiny, critical weak spot, and it moved faster than the average player.

Black Ash managed to hit the Dragon Lord’s weak spot with a revolver only within a twenty-meter range, whereas Wan Xiang, from a distance of three hundred meters away with that rifle, hit a high-speed moving target with every shot.

“What’s the story with that girl? As far as I know, those who are good with guns in VR games…often belong to certain professions, you know?” Black Ash said, lowering his voice.

There are gun-based weapons in other games, but MMORPGs, unlike shooting games, do not demand such precise aim. Players could recklessly shoot and still hit their targets. Only professional players like Black Ash demand every bullet hit the intended spot.

The game Holy Spirit also exceeded Black Ash’s expectations–the shooting feel of the game found a perfect balance between realism and gameplay.

Take for example the level 50 legendary revolver “Death Bearer” Black Ash was currently using; although such a weapon didn’t exist in a world of magic and technology, its shooting feel was very solid and the recoil made Black Ash feel like he was firing a modern revolver.

However, the cumbersome operation of reloading didn’t need to be performed by Black Ash personally; otherwise, the time needed for a Wandering Gunman to reload would probably be longer than the skill cooldown time.

So for Wan Xiang to shoot so accurately, it wasn’t just about gaming skill; she must have used the Mosin-Nagant rifle, the real-life prototype of the Magic Marksman, and was very proficient with it.

“Just an ordinary high school student? But her father’s identity seems extraordinary; I couldn’t really ask,”
Jiang Qiao had figured out which university Wan Xiang wanted to attend–it seemed this girl wasn’t content with just a desk job fate.

“I feel she shoots way more accurately than the Death Bearer Knight at Abyss Temple; it’s just that her equipment is poor. Her game sense is completely novice, and poor equipment is easy to fix, but to fight alongside the Black Ash Knight, she would need someone to protect her,” Black Ash said without pointing out any more flaws.

“But the Death Bearer class itself is a melee-disabled class. Let’s finish this quickly and take her to see Old Song; maybe we can get her into a training camp.”

“She’s contemplating top-tier universities; don’t even think about it,” Jiang Qiao reminded Black Ash.

“What does a top-tier university matter? If she becomes an official player for Abyss Temple, she’ll earn more than a top university graduate, and female players have more fans too–it’s a career many envy,” Black Ash remarked while boasting to Jiang Qiao.

“Her mom won’t let her, you get it?”

As a result, Jiang Qiao’s next words left Black Pot Stewed Meat speechless. Black Pot Stewed Meat opened his mouth to say something, but he could only heave a long sigh in the end.

“Ah, these older generations of parents… if she actually made a career out of gaming, forget it, forget it! Time to fight the final boss!”

Black Pot Stewed Meat was also nearly twenty-five this year… He and Zhao Mingwei entered the scene in the same era, so he clearly understood that most parents still saw gaming as a wild beast.

It wasn’t without reason, and Jiang Qiao had nothing to criticize, but he didn’t want Wan Xiang’s talent to be buried. Even if it couldn’t be utilized in reality, shining for a moment in the game was still worthwhile.

The final boss of Black Dragon Nest succumbed in less than five minutes under the assault of the Nucleus Elites Strategy Group.

In the end, with various sycophantic voices in the team, Jiang Qiao used the excuse of running out of instance tries for the day to call it quits and proactively added these players as friends.

Fuzzy Bunny also took the initiative to invite these players to join a subguild of Nucleus Elites.

The greatest contribution of Nucleus Elites guild was not the strength of their elite strategic team but that Nucleus Elites was willing to open subguilds to nurture newcomers…

Now, Jiang Qiao’s task was to cultivate Wan Xiang, this talented newcomer!

“Can we… really go?” Self-Hanging Expert’s attitude now was completely different, Jiang Qiao could see her eyes sparkling like stars.

Unfortunately… her character in the game was a muscular uncle.

“Of course, you can! I’ll open a portal in a bit.”

Fuzzy Bunny took out a Base Transfer Stone from the ground, a great item exchanged from the Heart Shop.

When the portal’s loading bar completed, Fuzzy Bunny waved a little flag like a tour guide, indicating that the two sisters could enter.

Self-Hanging Expert hesitated at the portal for a long time. This moment for her was no less significant than meeting her idol in person, the kind where you could shake hands and get an autograph.

Wan Xiang didn’t have so many reservations; she just knew that entering this portal would let her play for a little longer.

“Wait! Little Wan! Hey!”

Self-Hanging Expert watched as Wan Xiang walked into the portal, and she could only follow her sister in.

On the other side of the portal was the base of Nucleus Elites.

After a long time of construction, the base of Nucleus Elites had the scale of a small town; the area where the portal was located resembled a town square.

Following her sister into the portal, Self-Hanging Expert saw various IDs floating above the square and felt her heart tightening.

What place is this? All-Star Brawl?

“You’re here?” Mo Shigui had been waiting at the portal for a long time. He glanced at Self-Hanging Expert and Wan Xiang, then finally rested his gaze on Jiang Qiao.

“Everyone’s here? Perfect, let’s talk business,” Jiang Qiao saw that Director Yin had already gathered the members of this session’s strongest strategy team.

Jiang Qiao wanted to ease Wan Xiang into this environment first and talk about the Spirit Cup competition in a few days, but now he had to bring it up.

“Business?” Self-Hanging Expert also snapped back to reality and suddenly realized… Jiang Qiao did have a purpose in approaching them, and indeed he was the kind of suspicious man she had imagined!

“Actually, I think your sister is very talented. Interested in trying… to be among the top Spirit players?” Jiang Qiao said directly.