Sacred Souls: Genesis - Chapter 372

Chapter 372: Chapter 360 Where’s the Man? Where’s the Man? (1st update) Chapter 372: Chapter 360 Where’s the Man? Where’s the Man? (1st update) Mo Shigui beheaded a Magic Thief with a single sword strike, and the moment that Magic Thief fell marked another instance relic being cleared.

“Everyone worked hard today.”

Mo Shigui let out a long sigh of relief when he saw the “Deep City instance cleared” notification pop up.

The instance strategy team for this version on Black Tide Island was quite different from previous versions. An instance in the old versions could be farmed dozens of times, but once you cleared an instance on Black Tide Island, it was gone; each one was unique.

Not only were the mechanisms different, but even the monster setups varied, which rendered one of the players’ strongest tactics, “memorization,” useless. Therefore, tackling an instance on Black Tide Island always proved a supremely energy-draining pioneering effort.

This pioneering could last one to two days, fortunately, with the assistance of powerful plane pirates, the difficulty of the instances was extreme but not insurmountable.

“Your spirits’ prowess never disappoints me, no matter when.”

Lady Calamity excitedly stepped over the Magic Thief, now reduced to ash, and grabbed the gold and silver treasures from the relic’s vault.

Mo Shigui paid no attention to the post-clear CG animation of Lady Calamity, directing his guild’s members to start harvesting materials from the two lord-level dragons who were the final bosses.

Half of the treasure inside the relic’s vault also belonged to the spirits, but most of these treasures were unusable; they might as well hand them over to the plane pirates in exchange for plunder tokens.

This time, the gear output from tackling Black Tide Island had two ways to be obtained: firstly, killing a Magic Thief might drop basic equipment, ranging from white to orange gear; secondly, exchanging plunder tokens for faction equipment.

Thus, every time a Magic Thief was killed, it represented a chance at an orange gear lottery, which was also one of the significant motivators for major guilds to chase and haphazardly hack at the Magic Thieves.

While the members of Dancing Nuclear Guild were busy looting the bodies, Lady Calamity had already swiftly tallied up the treasures buried in the relic, and then she walked straight to Mo Shigui, who was still reviewing the team records.

“I have something to ask you, leader of the spirits!” said Lady Calamity.

“Hidden storyline? What’s the matter?”

Mo Shigui immediately shifted his gaze from the chat window to Lady Calamity’s dialogue options. Lately, the Dancing Nuclear Guild and the Abyss Temple Guild had mostly been following Lady Calamity’s pirate gang to tackle instances.

During these instance runs, they would occasionally trigger some extra side quests like ‘Rescue a Pirate Member,’ ‘Pirate Betrayal,’ or ‘Pursue the Thief.’
This time, when Lady Calamity suddenly spoke up, Mo Shigui felt that he must have triggered some kind of side quest again?

“Juan Canyun? I remember that’s what you call that spirit. Why didn’t I see him in today’s relic raid?”

Lady Calamity didn’t avoid asking directly about Juan Canyun’s whereabouts. Since that day she finished negotiating with Denghis Xisi, Dancing Nuclear indeed organized a team to rescue her afterwards.

But since then, she hadn’t seen Juan Canyun again, including in today’s relic raid.

After the relic raid ended, Lady Calamity’s impatience made it impossible for her to wait any longer, and she asked Mo Shigui upfront.

“Little question?”

“Chairman Ying, I know about this. Little question raised the lady’s affection to heart-throbbing yesterday, and that was before the NPC romance event even went online!” The in-the-know Furry Rabbit suddenly popped out from nowhere and said, “Isn’t the current situation similar to when your dear Fureya doesn’t see you for a long time and automatically runs out of the tree hole?”

Is that the same?

Mo Shigui looked somewhat conflicted as he stared at the preset options in the dialogue box. He was aware of the “NPC Conquest Battle” event and also knew that Denghis Xisi wanted to take first place. As an employee of Denghis Xisi, he certainly couldn’t cause any trouble for him.

Most importantly, the Disaster Lady was an SSR-rated character! Within the Plane Pirate faction, the Disaster Lady was the only one to receive this rating. If they wanted to take first place in the event, the Disaster Lady was a must-conquer character!

The event was scored based on guild units, and Juan Canyun had impressively raised the Disaster Lady’s affection to “Heartthrobbing”. Mo Shigui needed to make sure his choices wouldn’t decrease her affection.

“Juan Canyun is busy training and will soon participate in a very important match,” Mo Shigui glanced at the three options and chose to tell the truth, “I’m afraid you won’t be able to see him here on Black Tide Island for a while.”

The professional players of Dancing Nuclear had already started preparing for the world championship a month away. It wasn’t just Juan Canyun… Black Pot stew recently went to Thorne for coaching, and Juan Canyun wouldn’t likely participate in any instance raiding during this month.

“Training? A match? Holy Spirit! I don’t have time to wait! Where is he training?”

The Disaster Lady wasn’t fond of long-distance relationships–Plane Pirates always took whatever they wanted by storming directly into others’ homes!

“If you have any requests to give him, I can directly call him over,” Mo Shigui said.

“It’s not a request… it’s just…” The Disaster Lady had spoken quite coherently and vigorously before, but as she began this sentence, she felt as if something was choking her and her words became hesitant.

“Just what?” The nearby fluffy rabbit immediately started to stir things up.

“Stop babbling! Holy Spirit! Just tell me where he is training? In your world? Where in your world?” The Disaster Lady was not good at evasion and used an almost threatening tone as she spoke!

“First, return to Pirate City, and you call him over immediately.”

Mo Shigui felt that with the Disaster Lady’s current momentum, at any second she would hold a gun to his chin and shout, ‘Hand him over!’
This made Mo Shigui realize the seriousness of the matter, so he swiftly sent a private message to Juan Canyun, but after sending it, he realized something was off.

The friend list showed that Juan Canyun was not “challenging Thorne” but was “conquering Black Flame Volcano (Hero level) instance.”

‘How did you end up at Black Flame Volcano?’ Mo Shigui sent a message to ask.

‘My Challenge Voucher for today is used up… and then the boss had me lead a group of newbies for the branch guild,’ Juan Canyun replied immediately.

‘???’
Now Mo Shigui could only send three question marks to express his confusion. A Dancing Nuclear pro-level player was dispatched to lead a group of newbies? And right before the world championship? In any other club, the decision-maker might have been cursed to death by the boss and then fired!

But it was the boss of Dancing Nuclear who made this decision…
‘How much longer until you complete it?’ Mo Shigui asked.

‘It might take four hours. The group of newbies is a bit chaotic, and it’s not me commanding. Is there something going on with Coach Song?’
‘…’
Mo Shigui glanced again at the impatient Disaster Lady tapping her fingers. If he relayed Juan Canyun’s words to the Disaster Lady, she might just pull the trigger of the gun in her hand.

“Juan Canyun’s situation is a bit complicated, let’s go to our world first and wait there,” Mo Shigui was ultimately forced to make a relatively compromised decision, which was to make the Disaster Lady wait at the Dancing Nuclear Guild’s base.