Sacred Souls: Genesis - Chapter 370

Chapter 370: Chapter 358: Deeper Reasons (2nd Update) Chapter 370: Chapter 358: Deeper Reasons (2nd Update) “Director Yin, have you ever wondered… why was this event that rewards the city-building stone set up to strategize against NPCs?”

The Starry Scribe team, leading Director Yin, entered a corridor unknown to the Pantheon. As they headed deeper into the corridor, the Starry Scribe team suddenly spoke.

Mainly because the space in the corridor was too narrow and long enough to feel somewhat suffocating, Starry couldn’t stop talking about content related to Holy Spirit’s backstory.

“Why?”

Director Yin, while walking deeper into the corridor, was constantly watching messages from the Holy Spirit squabble group. The messages were frantically mentioning Director Yin…

‘Damn your mother! Why are you plane pirates pulling people to our Pantheon Alliance?’
‘Damn, damn, damn! Think you’re great because you have money? @Yin Hui! Come out! Come out now! Damn! The Harvest Goddess said she has an appointment with a silver-haired Holy Spirit–what does that mean? That silver-haired Holy Spirit is you, right? Come out and explain! @Yin Hui.’
Following this string of mentions was an angry emoji of someone furiously hitting the desk with a slipper.

The chat in the squabble group was already going crazy, and he was determined to be first in this NPC strategizing event as well.

Although the chat didn’t place as much importance on the city-building stone as Director Yin did, in a guild strength competition like this, he had no reason not to aim for first.

As a result, when the chat started ordering his guild members to make contact with the gods in the Pantheon Alliance, three gods the chat admired had already said, ‘Sorry, I’ve already pledged allegiance to someone new.’
And that was just three hours into the event!

Director Yin didn’t bubble up; bubbling up now would really be suicidal. Apart from the Coke Frenzy, other guilds were keeping a watchful eye on this event. If Director Yin truly admitted to it by bubbling up, the other guilds would probably step up their efforts to compete as well.

“Director Yin, do you remember what the main quest for Holy Spirit is?” the Starry Scribe team asked, sharing the backstory of Holy Spirit on their own accord.

“I don’t remember.”

Hearing Starry’s question, Director Yin was bewildered for a moment. He really couldn’t recall what the backstory of Holy Spirit was. Director Yin only knew that this game might not be simple, and his current enemies included the Magic Thief on Black Tide Island and the lurking Annihilation Legion.

If the Annihilation Legion and the Magic Thief wreaked too much havoc in the Inner World, terrible things would happen! Very terrible things!

This was the reason why Director Yin was now wholly devoted to the development of the Holy Spirit Guild. But the backstory of Holy Spirit… Director Yin hadn’t really paid much attention to it.

“Um, Holy Spirit actually tells a story about repairing the world.” The Starry Scribe team, seeing Director Yin like this, didn’t go on lecturing. “The original world of Holy Spirit is a world that was destroyed, and our main quest is to find divine fragments of the Sea Blue Goddess in various worlds and hand them over to Fureya to repair the world that was destroyed.”

“I see,” replied Director Yin, who, after being secretly glanced at by the Starry Scribe team, quickly added, “I really am listening attentively, continue speaking.”

“Cough, in short, divine fragments are pivotal in advancing the plot. Acquiring a divine fragment leads to the battle for divine status at Queen Mei’s Library. After winning the initial battle for divine status, our player’s level cap was raised from fifty to fifty-five,” explained the Starry Scribe team. “So, the old hands on the forum deduced that the level cap of Holy Spirit isn’t based on game version updates by the designers but rather on the speed of players acquiring divine fragments.”

“Like this time, the backstory of the Black Tide Island campaign concerns the final boss of Black Tide Island, who also possesses a divine fragment. If we defeat the final boss, the level cap can be raised from fifty-five to sixty,” continued the Starry Scribe team.

“This kind of setting, raising the player’s level cap, is pretty unique,” said Director Yin, but he was becoming more and more certain of some ideas brewing in his mind.

Adjusting the level cap based on the speed of players clearing instances is something no online game in the world dares to do!

Because the raise in level cap for players meant… current equipment became useless, necessitating grinding anew, which greatly increased the players’ burden and also significantly reduced the game’s lifespan.

However, Yin Hui believed that Holy Spirit would later introduce some means to upgrade equipment levels, and the increase in level cap was urgently needed by Holy Spirit players at this stage.

On Heichao Island, most Magic Thieves had already reached level sixty or even sixty-five, while the upper-tier gods in the League of Gods were even heading above level eighty, with the scouting spells showing nothing but question marks!

If this continued, the players’ combat abilities might not keep up with the versions.

“Then, bringing the topic back, regarding this city-building stone, don’t you think it looks a lot like a Divine Fragment?”

The Vanishing Star Scribes team sent a screenshot of the building stone in private chat to Yin Hui for him to see.

“It does resemble one; the emitted light is gray,” Yin Hui realized something after Vanishing Star’s reminder. He had also obtained a Divine Fragment after clearing the Divine Fragment War for the first time–its appearance resembled a rhombus-shaped crystal.

The one given by Queen Mei emitted a bright pale blue light, but the light from this city-building stone was very dim.

“The description of the city-building stone also includes… an item that has lost its Divine Power, returning to the starting point. So, I guess this city-building stone must be… a Divine Fragment that had completely lost its power.”

As a researcher of Holy Spirit’s background history, the Vanishing Star Scribes team might understand the background of Holy Spirit, or perhaps… the past stories of the Devouring God and the country once ruled by Queen Mei, better than Jiang Qiao, who was not in creator mode.

“Then… what does this have to do with enhancing the favorability rating of these gods this time?”

Yin Hui had already stopped walking, as his current task was to improve the favorability rating of these gods for the sake of the city-building stone, but Vanishing Star seemed to know some… deeper reasons.

“Rebuilding the world,” said Vanishing Star, revealing a power only a god could harness. He didn’t know yet that one god had to deal with the instance called “War of the Divine Fragments,” which contained the world within the Divine Fragment. But Queen Mei’s royal city remained desolate; the city’s inhabitants were all zombies, hardly befitting a… livable city.

“Continue,” said Yin Hui.

If it were Mo Shigui involved in the conversation, he would impatiently question the use of these elements needed for the NPCs in the game instance to survive?

But Yin Hui knew that NPCs within Biland Island needed to eat, drink, and sleep, and were in no way different from real people in that respect.

“So I speculate that if you really obtained this city-building stone, Mr. Yin, it’s likely not only about demarcating a territory to build a city as with a stronghold. This city-building stone might already include preset constructions, inhabitants, a complete city, but in this city, flames couldn’t burn, liquids couldn’t flow, time had stopped, and life was in an endless cycle of reincarnation,” explained the Vanishing Star Scribes team, savoring a moment of playing prophet before clearing his throat.

“This is what I read in a book called ‘End of the Century’ in Queen Mei’s Library, basically, a little world devoid of any laws,” said Vanishing Star.

“Now I roughly understand what the real purpose of this event is,” said Yin Hui, who had already stopped in his tracks because he was now standing at the doors of the Council of Gods.

“To restore the city-building stone… so the gods you’re strategizing to win favor with must be able to… light the fire, infuse the rivers, turn the wheel of time… Do you want me to share this book called ‘Genesis’ with you?” Vanishing Star took out another book he had gotten from Queen Mei’s Library.

“No need, I’ve already thought of who to involve; the rest is just to coax them,” said Yin Hui as he pushed open the long-sealed doors.