Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 110: Chapter 109: The Next Step in the Construction Plan

Jiang Qiao was building a wooden house for Fureya, a house made of towering ancient trees.

The environment of Biland Island was too dangerous, so Jiang Qiao didn’t plan to really leave Fureya on Biland Island.

The wooden house was merely a medium. After players went through the teleportation door at the entrance of the wooden house, they would enter the space where Fureya was, which was essentially still located in the real world of the Spirit.

“Don’t you plan to build anything else?”

Hai Lan had moved a small stool to watch Jiang Qiao construct the wooden house the entire time. Jiang Qiao used Creation Energy to make this giant ancient tree, spending about a hundred points or so.

The crystallization disease that was eroding the island seemed incompatible with Hai Lan’s Divine Energy, hence the crystallization could not affect the wooden house made of ancient trees.

“The theme of the new version is construction, building manors in the inner world, and establishing bases on this island.”

Jiang Qiao threw a seed to Hai Lan. Hai Lan examined the seed and was about to pop it into his mouth to taste it when Jiang Qiao quickly stepped forward and grabbed Hai Lan’s arm.

“This is a game item! And it’s a prototype version!” Jiang Qiao couldn’t shake the feeling that Hai Lan was becoming sillier by the day.

“I know.” Hai Lan put down the seed, and the data of the seed quickly displayed in front of him.

‘Seed of the Base

Construction Item

Description: A seed that, when buried in the soil and infused with a certain amount of Magic Power, can grow into an ancient tree that is immune to the crystallization erosion of Biland Island.

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Effect: An essential item for constructing the initial hunting base, which can provide certain attribute enhancements within. Spirits can rest in the base, construct forges to craft weapons, strengthen equipment, concoct potions, and turn materials gained from hunting into equipment. It can also be used to build various defensive structures like walls and arrow towers.’

The map size of Biland Island was nothing like Hai Lan’s divine realm. Jiang Qiao estimated that the island could be about a third as large as the Spirit’s real world map.

If the players wanted to clear out all the monsters on the map, Jiang Qiao believed that it would be somewhat difficult to rely solely on players sweeping through, and the fun of the players’ gameplay was also an issue.

So how could the players be maximally engaged in the conquest of Biland Island?

Of course, the land on the island belonged to whoever conquered it!

However, construction of a base could not be completely regarded as a single player’s dictatorship. Any base built by players welcomed other players to enter. If a player maliciously destroyed a base, they would suffer severe punishment.

This punishment was even more terrifying than the red name status from PvP in the wild.

Another advantage of building a base was to provide shelter, quite literally.

Because of the storyline, the doll girl Fureya had ended up stranded on Biland Island, and the players who came to Biland Island and rescued her definitely wouldn’t let her return to Lionheart City to be aggrieved.

Hence, during this period, Fureya would stay on Biland Island, first at the initial base that Jiang Qiao had just completed.

Once players obtained the Seed of the Base and constructed their own base, they could move the doll girl into their own base.

Combining the above…

“The punishment mechanism for the new map is here,” Jiang Qiao said, tapping the treehouse beside him.

“Don’t tell me our stronghold can be destroyed by those monsters,” Hai Lan spoke while nibbling on an Energy Crystal, having become a loyal listener to Jiang Qiao’s diabolical plans.

“Oh, you’re getting smarter.”

Jiang Qiao showed Hai Lan the health points of the treehouse, featuring the line of data ‘Initial Stronghold, Level: 1, Health Points: 50000/50000.’

Merely fifty thousand health points was something any slightly powerful Shield Warrior player in the Holy Spirit could achieve.

“So next, you’re going to tell me that if it’s destroyed, Doll Sister is going to die, right?” Hai Lan, having learned from her last experience, sensed that Jiang Qiao might very well do the same thing a second time.

“Dying twice in two consecutive main quests… Miss Fureya would be too pitiful. At most, she’ll get injured, whether it’s a serious or minor injury depends on the level of protection players provide after the stronghold is damaged. This map also has other punishments for players, like if a player dies more than five times hunting the same monster, some of the materials collected from Biland Island in their backpack will be eaten by the monsters, um… actually, just confiscated,” Jiang Qiao explained.

“After the stronghold is built, players should build a teleportation portal, right?” Hai Lan knew that Jiang Qiao’s ultimate goal in coming to this island was to transfer all of the island’s resources to the Inner World.

All the building resources for the players in the Inner World came from this island, and it was also Fureya’s wish in the main quest to visit the players’ world.

“Right, players’ ultimate goal on this map is to establish a portal to the Inner World and then bring Doll Sister back home to take care of her.”

Jiang Qiao was editing the quest chain related to Biland, where building a teleportation portal was a much later mission. Players first needed to collect enough resources not only to establish a stronghold on Biland Island capable of holding a portal.

They needed to continue building in their manor in the Inner World as well… It would be quite embarrassing to have a wife but no house.

“…” After listening to all of Jiang Qiao’s plans, Hai Lan truly had no other thoughts except for thinking ‘you really are a genius.’

The quests of Biland Island were undoubtedly pivotal. If the players successfully built a portal and brought Doll Sister back to the Inner World, the construction process there certainly wouldn’t lag. Moreover, it was the players’ own world. With the ‘wives’ present, when the time came for invasion from another realm into the Inner World, Jiang Qiao predicted that the players would spontaneously resist.

After all, the Inner World was the players’ ‘home.’

“Jiang Qiao, aren’t you going to explore other parts of this world?” Hai Lan asked, pointing towards the sea horizon at the end of the island. It was a complete world, and beyond the horizon lay new continents.

“Did you smell something delicious?” Jiang Qiao figured Hai Lan wouldn’t suggest exploring other places without a good reason.

“I’ve caught some scents that are familiar to me in this world… since the moment we arrived. Some are very distant, but some are near… It’s very likely they are my former children, or something else,” Hai Lan said, her eyes once again filled with a maternal kind of concern.

“I will send the axe-wielding men during their rest time to explore other parts of this world. And surely the natives of this world won’t miss out on such a goldmine. It’s also fine to ask the Earth Mother Goddess directly. It would be great if we could find another Divine Fragment,” Jiang Qiao said, gently touching Hai Lan’s hair.

This complete world still remained elusive on the star map, indicating that Hai Lan’s level had not yet reached that high.

Since there was no way to cheat and learn about this world, Jiang Qiao would just go talk to the native gods or send people to explore.

For instance, the Knights under Queen Mei and the axe-wielding men were perfect for this task. Anyway, they were free outside of weekends. Why not roam around this world from Monday to Thursday, and then come back on Friday to serve as punching bags for the players? Wouldn’t that be wonderful?