Sacred Souls: Genesis

“Raccoon Livestreaming, Room 123411.”

ModaoSwordsman told Jiang Qiao his livestreaming room number.

Jiang Qiao didn’t need to log out of the game as he logged on this time using his VR equipment, so he swiped his finger and opened the browser attachment of Tiangong Game Platform, where he had Raccoon Livestreaming bookmarked. He clicked in and entered the room number that Modao Swordsman told him.

His livestreaming name was Modao Swordsman too, and his room was under the VR game category. The title of his livestream was ‘This VR game will definitely blow your mind!’, with two hundred and fifty thousand popularity points, which meant that there were at least twenty-five thousand viewers watching.

“Your popularity is very high! You’re probably a big name here aren’t you?” Jiang Qiao looked at the livestream, and every second there were at least two or three danmaku comments.

“No, no. This room only has so much popularity because I’m livestreaming Sacred Souls, I normally only have around a hundred thousand popularity points normally. My bro is much more popular, his popularity points would reach around two million when he livestreams.” ModaoSwordsman was very modest about it.

“That’s still impressive.”

Jiang Qiao would watch some livestreams when he was eating, and there were only those few War livestreamers. Those livestreamers that had a couple million popularity points were definitely first grade, but those that had around a hundred thousand such as ModaoSwordsman could get enough money to earn a living.

“Your viewers are all telling you to grind for levels.” Jiang Qiao waved his hand and showed the livestreaming page to ModaoSwordsman, letting him see the danmaku comments scrolling through the interface.

‘I’ve already finished my lunch, why is Modao still shouting for activation codes on the road?’

‘Go beat up some monsters! We’re not here to see you stand on the street’

‘If you continue doing that I’ll stop subscribing to you.’

‘The little one following that mage is cuteee!’

“Don’t fret guys, don’t fret! I’m going to defeat monsters and level up!” ModaoSwordsman looked at the bunch of danmaku comments that they would stop subscribing to him if he continued shouting for activation codes, and he realized that Jiang Qiao was the one who started this wave of comments.

“Bro do you really not have any codes?” ModaoSwordsman asked without giving up.

“Nope, sorry.”

“Then where did this little one come from?” ModaoSwordsman moved his gaze towards the water spirit floating around Jiang Qiao.

It wasn’t summoned by Jiang Qiao, but came out on its own accord.

Summoned creatures had simple intelligence too, and the water spirit came out because it was curious about the livestreaming camera floating next to ModaoSwordsman. After she noticed ModaoSwordsman’s gaze, she hid behind Jiang Qiao’s head and peeked out at the camera.

Just these lively movements of the water spirit made it impossible to see it just as a bunch of data.

“I’m an Elemental Summoner, where do you think it came from?”

There hadn’t been a pet system in Sacred Souls yet, and it was something Jiang Qiao would implement in further updates.

“I forgot about that… Bros, I don’t play as a summoner so I can’t get one of these…” ModaoSwordsman explained to the camera.

‘Modao should delete his account and restart as a Summoner!’

‘+1’

‘Is that mage selling activation codes? Fifty thousand!’

‘Who is this??’

Jiang Qiao saw two of these comments, and as the viewers continued to mock the sender that person sent out five diamond treasure boxes to the livestream room.

This was the highest grade present that a viewer could send on Raccoon Livestreaming which was worth two thousand each, meaning that this person sent ten thousand to the room on a whim. This was more than ModaoSwordsman would be able to get in a week!

When the five diamond treasure boxes shone on the livestreaming interface, the originally mocking danmaku comments became a whole bunch of long-tongued dog emojis, along with several messages, saying stuff praising this person.

Jiang Qiao saw the ID of this person, which was SourLemon.

“Boss Lemon?” ModaoSwordsman knew this ID, and Jiang Qiao took this chance to take his leave.

After ModaoSwordsman returned his attention to the road, he realized that Jiang Qiao had left the road, and so he quickly went to defeat monsters after thanking SourLemon.

Jiang Qiao had already left Lionheart City along with Ocean Blue.

“This…Livestreaming. Is it like those colosseums where they showcase their fighting?” Ocean Blue asked, not knowing what this new method of entertainment was.

“More or less, but they don’t only showcase fighting.”

“Then why don’t you try? Maybe you can get famous?”

“I’ve tried, but no one watched. Maybe if I livestream Sacred Souls I would have an audience, but…There are already more than thirty livestreamers that are livestreaming Sacred Souls.”

Jiang Qiao had tried to livestream before, but the results were so pitifully low that he didn’t even try anymore.

But now on every livestreaming site, the game Sacred Souls had before the newest trend, and whoever livestreamed this would probably get several times more of the popularity than they normally would, bringing about the rise of several new livestreamers.

This was enough to explain the allure of Sacred Souls to players, and it was only the first day of the open beta test. After two or three days it would probably continue to explode in popularity.

When players excitedly went to the official page to download the game, they realized that they needed beta testing qualifications.

That feeling made them want to smash their keyboards.

In consideration of the many innocent keyboards, Jiang Qiao’s first thought was to turn that world called the Tower Plane into a dungeon.

“Ocean Blue, let’s go to the Astrology Tower,” Jiang Qiao told Ocean Blue and found a place with no one around. After making sure there were no gazes on them, Ocean Blue opened a gate for them both to enter.

The other side of the gate was Lionheart City’s Astrology Tower, and the three NPCs there nodded at them both respectfully.

Jiang Qiao ignored the three NPCs and came to the Astrology Platform, the bright light of the activated star map appearing in front of them again.

The Tower Plane Fragment wasn’t far away from Bluestar, so he only needed around 1200 points to open a portal to that place, and the rest was to make a few minute changes to the natural laws of the plane.

Jiang Qiao only changed a little bit, which was the bloodshed. He changed it so that bloody scenes wouldn’t appear in front of players and make them feel disgusted, and this small change in itself used around two hundred energy points.

Before he opened the entrance to this dungeon, Jiang Qiao needed to test it beforehand. Ocean Blue opened a transportation gate to the plane, and Jiang Qiao walked straight in.