Sacred Souls: Genesis - Chapter 391

Chapter 391: Chapter 378 Training Match (2nd Update) Chapter 391: Chapter 378 Training Match (2nd Update) Three days wasn’t considered a long time for the Holy Spirit World players.

Ordinary players still lived their daily lives logging in, playing cards, clearing dungeons, and teasing Fureya.

However, the elite raid groups of the eight major guilds and some of their sub-branches had already started preparing for the upcoming Black Tide Island battle version.

The preparation process was not going smoothly, primarily because most of the gods hired from the Gods’ Alliance had reached the end of their contracts, and although most had planned to stay due to the favorable work environment and salary conditions at various strongholds,
many deities at the strongholds had unfortunately contracted symptoms of the Abyss infection, causing those working on Biland Island to live in fear.

If it hadn’t been for the Mother’s masterstroke vaccine spell “Severing the Connection to Black Tide Island,” the Abyss infection might have tortured the gods to the point where they wished they could neither live nor die.

The infected gods couldn’t die, but the pain from the Abyss-induced mutations would continue to spread.

President Yin was already trying to find a solution, but it took him a long time talking to countless experts before he realized… the only way was to completely annihilate Black Tide Island.

The second issue was the rhythm set by the contentious fans.

Yes, the same situation had occurred again, the last time was during the playoffs against Supreme Domination, and now it was for the upcoming Conflict World Championship.

With about half a month left before the World Championship, Leaping Nucleus, as China’s top seed, was set to compete, followed by the second seed, Cola Frenzy, and the third seed, Supreme Domination.

And as the World Championship approached, Microblog was again filled with topics about “various club players playing Holy Spirit intensively before the World Championship.”

President Yin didn’t really want to pay attention to these Microblog rhythms, but what he genuinely cared about was the condition of the team members.

“Does playing Holy Spirit extensively really affect the competitive state in Conflict?” President Yin stood outside the training room, watching the players inside preparing for battle.

Today, Leaping Nucleus was facing an important training match, a practice session against the Titan team from California, Eagle Country.

President Yin had scheduled this training session a month ago with the California Titans, the Yinchuan White Sword Team, and the Euro League Secret Team–all top Conflict professional teams in the world.

Especially the California Titans, who were strong contenders for this season’s championship. Their only weakness last season was an average flanker, which led to their defeat by Supreme Domination in the semifinals, stopping them in the final four.

But this season, they’d spent a lot of money to buy the flanker from the White Sword team as a foreign aid player, creating an unprecedented super team.

“What do you think?”

Mo Shigui walked up to President Yin after arranging the tactics, not very confident about the outcome of this training match.

Because recently, his team members had been intensely grinding Holy Spirit, playing Conflict for less than two hours a day, and Mo Shigui, as a coach, knew this was not right. But recently, President Yin had shifted his focus entirely to Holy Spirit.

“I guess… with the current rate at which Holy Spirit playing qualifications are issued, the viewership for Conflict will decrease significantly in the future,” said President Yin bluntly.

Mo Shigui didn’t ask why, because the situation on the big screen in the training room had already told him why.

The members of the Dynamic Nucleus team, just as Mo Shigui had expected, fought without any discernible pattern, or rather, they used the combat style of the Holy Spirit World.

However, it was precisely this disorderly fighting, which would necessitate Mo Shigui holding a ten-hour meeting after the match to individually assign blame, that allowed the members of Dynamic Nucleus to leverage their own skills and reaction capabilities… The hardest maneuvers that truly demonstrated the players’ strength compensated for the shortcomings!

Mo Shigui’s English wasn’t very good, but he had repeatedly heard the coach next door exclaiming things like ‘OMG! Jesus! WTF!’ in astonishment.

The phrase “skill allows you to do as you please” should not have been applicable in a match that could be considered the strongest clash of teams in the world tournament.

But it happened, and a significant gap appeared between the two teams.

As Mo Shigui was focusing on trying to interpret what the neighboring coach was saying, Director Yin suddenly made a remark.

“What do you think about recruiting members from the Titan team into our guild, how much would that increase our guild’s combat power?” Director Yin asked.

“…Our guild’s strength is already quite formidable,” Mo Shigui whispered to Director Yin, “Currently, across the entire server, only Cola Frenzy can directly confront Dynamic Nucleus.”

“Our enemy isn’t Cola Frenzy, Coach Song, I told you long ago,” recalled Director Yin, reflecting deeply on a past battle against Black Ash Knight. He realized there was a significant gap between player and player.

The simplest example was Thorne, the player who could hold his ground under Thorne for ten minutes at this stage was only Juan Canyun, Caramel, Feng Yi, a Shield Warrior from Abyss Temple’s One Arm, a Demon Exorcist from Night Swift called Southern Cry, and a player known as Shadowless Sword, a random king.

Only these seven could manage to continuously spar with Thorne for ten minutes undefeated; other top professional players and powerful random kings, Thorne needed only five minutes to defeat them, and for ordinary experts, Thorne could handle them in one to two minutes.

Now, Thorne had become the sole benchmark to measure the skills of players in Holy Spirit World. The longer one could hold out under Thorne, the stronger they were… those lasting over five minutes could consider going professional.

This was the difference between T1 and T2 players. As for Zhao Mingwei, he had managed to hold up for twenty minutes under Thorne, and had he not been injured during the combat against the Black Ash Knight, Zhao Mingwei might likely have become the first player in the entire server to defeat Thorne.

There were many T2 players in Holy Spirit World, but T1 and even T0 players were rare to the point of being nearly impossible to find.

“We’ve also prepared quite a lot for the arrival of the Black Tide Island,” Mo Shigui, partly out of a coach’s selfishness, still didn’t want the Titan team’s members to get a playing qualification in Holy Spirit World.

Because the Dynamic Nucleus team desperately needed the world tournament’s championship to prove something. Judging by the state of this training match, once the Dynamic Nucleus members advanced into the world tournament, their only competitors would be Cola Frenzy and Supreme Heaven.

“Not enough. By using simple multiplication and division, it’s clear that with our current number of players, it’s too strenuous to tackle all the lord-level dragons on Black Tide Island,” Director Yin stated bluntly as he viewed the training match, “We still need to use all possible methods to improve our chances of winning.”

“The outcome on Black Tide Island matters more than the players’ burning desire for winning the World Tournament, right?” Mo Shigui conceded at this point. He held an excessive fixation with the title of World Finals Champion, a goal for which the team members had strived over many years.

Now the trophy was within reach, almost begging to be taken, yet Mo Shigui always felt something was unfairly biased, yet fair at the same time.

Training in Holy Spirit World was something the players achieved on their own, but in the end, it was still about Mo Shigui’s lack of confidence, fearing that after the entire Titan team had a chance to practice in Holy Spirit World, they might once again crush the members of Dynamic Nucleus.