Sacred Souls: Genesis

“You want to do business on this plane?”

Ocean Blue floated around as she looked at Jiang Qiao open editing mode, and Jiang Qiao didn’t build any fancy shops, but a simple roadside stall instead.

“Why not? Players would always need a place to fix their equipment or get rid of loot that they don’t need.”

Jiang Qiao swiped a finger in midair and made a transportation gate behind the stall, and from it came a tomboyish female gunslinger. This female gunslinger was a Level 50 NPC called Enhancer Ellie.

Her battle class was the class advancement of gunslingers that had the highest speed, the Roaming Rangers class that had extravagant shooting skills.

This NPC wasn’t one that Jiang Qiao created on the spot, but an NPC that Jiang Qiao created in Maker Mode twelve days ago that hadn’t made her official appearance in the game yet.

To create a Level 50 NPC and equip her with multiple strong epic equipment cost Jiang Qiao a large amount of energy.

“Your equipment is pretty mediocre, boy~” Miss Enhancer said as soon as she laid eyes on Jiang Qiao after coming out of the gate.

“Of course, these are just Level 25 equipment that haven’t been enhanced yet…”

Jiang Qiao said half-jokingly, but she didn’t reply Jiang Qiao. Most NPCs in Sacred Souls didn’t have the intelligence to comprehend and process the words of the players yet.

Most NPCs were like robots with simple artificial intelligence, and they would only reply in preset ways to a few sets of questions. The amount of such question-and-answer sets that Jiang Qiao set for them was exceedingly high, so it gave players the illusion that they could hold conversations with NPCs.

Jiang Qiao pulled out four more machines that looked like stoves and placed them next to Miss Enhancer.

These machines were where her true use lay, which were the Equipment Enhancing Machines!

Each Equipment Enhancing Machine operated individually, and players wouldn’t have to throw their equipment into the machines themselves. They would only have to drag their equipment into the enhancing interface that was set to appear in front of them.

These physical Equipment Enhancing Machines….Were built for the natives of the Tower of Trials.

“How about we get the players to pay with coins and magic stones?”

Jiang Qiao took out the magic stone that the old mage gave him and inspected it thoroughly. It looked like a simple pale blue gemstone outside, but it was filled with great magical energy and some impurities.

With Ocean Blue’s strong digestive tract, these impurities would also be able to be turned into energy too.

In theory, these magic stones could be seen as rations for Ocean Blue that would be able to provide one to ten points of energy for her, not disregarding the possibility of higher grade magical stones.

Thinking of this, he cast an inspection spell on the magical stone, showing its properties in detail.

[Magical Stone (Small)]

[Consumable]

[Details: An item that holds great power, needs to be purified before use.]

[Effects: Recovers user’s MP by 200 after crushing it.]

This effect in itself was quite useless to players, so they probably wouldn’t collect them deliberately.

Jiang Qiao needed to change this item a bit to make them less useless.

Before he did, he needed to summon another NPC here. As soon as he thought of this, a teleportation gate appeared in front of Jiang Qiao, and an NPC that looked like a five-year-old child emerged from it.

This NPC was carrying a large backpack that looked as if it could hold ten of the NPC himself.

Faerie Merchant Lorenzo.

“You’re going to be the merchant they’re going to trade magical stones with, alright?” Jiang Qiao asked, crouching in front of him.

In the setting of Sacred Souls, faeries all looked like young children and had an extremely high affinity for magic.

In future updates, players would be able to choose their race, but now there were only faerie NPCs.

First of all, was the magical stone exchanging system. With Jiang Qiao’s expectations, players would be able to throw the equipment that they did not need into a decomposition machine, and it would give them magical stones in return.

In order to scam… No, encourage players to throw the equipment that they did not need into the decomposition machine, he would have to make it so that they would be able to exchange some worthwhile things using magical stones.

“Let’s start from skins, let’s see…” Jiang Qiao took out the System Tome and waved his hand, and the System Tome flipped itself to the category of skins.

Skins were a setting that most online games had, and could also be called appearance equipment. Most skins in online games were only superficial and didn’t have any practical use, but Jiang Qiao decided that he should add some stats to it. After all, these items weren’t bought using money, but earned through the hard work of the players.

“Unicorn Headmask, Rainbow Unicorn Headmask, Boxing Bear Set, Snowman Pixel Set…” Jiang Qiao muttered to himself as he added a bunch of skins into the catalog of the Faerie Merchant’s shop.

He named this shop the Faerie’s Closet.

“Will players really exchange magical stones for these things?”

Ocean Blue quickly reached out and intercepted the items that Jiang Qiao was throwing into the Faerie Merchant’s bag, catching an item called the Rainbow Unicorn Headgear.

Ocean Blue took the headmask and created a mirror, wearing the headmask in front of the mirror and shaking her head back and front.

This headmask had a long neck, so it would shake back and fro with a larger degree than the movements of the player themself…It was hard to explain, but it was definitely an extremely funny sight. If a player wore this during PK, their opponent would probably laugh so much they would surrender out of the inability to fight.

Of course, there was also the setting to hide head equipment in the game, so players had to choose according to their own likes.

“Your actions already prove that players would be curious about it alright?” Jiang Qiao sighed, and added a few more skins into the shop like tank tops, flip flops, and beach shorts.

“But…Wouldn’t this equipment be too detrimental to the dignity of the adventurers…No, sacred souls?” Ocean Blue seemed to have taken a liking to this Rainbow Unicorn Headmask, and as the unicorn’s dead, soulless eyes seemed to stare into Jiang Qiao’s soul, he felt an immense pressure.

“The player’s background setting are sacred souls, but we’re all just people who are in this world to have fun!” Jiang Qiao closed the System Tome and turned over to Ocean Blue. “To us, this world isn’t a warzone but an amusement park. Wouldn’t it be nice to wear stupid…I mean, festive clothes at an amusement park?”

Ocean Blue’s thoughts actually echoed those of the majority of NPCs, which was ‘Please wear regular looking clothes at least when going through storyline CG.jpg’.

“An amusement park, huh…” Ocean Blue muttered to herself, then looked at the Tower of Trials far away.

This was probably another strength of these players. Challenging the Tower of Trials was something that could decide the fate of a country, and a fight that many natives bet their lives on…

But to a player, challenging the tower would probably be like going out on a picnic—They would be able to face every battle calmly and happily…They could revive after all, what was there to be afraid of?

“I like this one, do you have any more?” Ocean Blue had already proved the future popularity of the Rainbow Unicorn Headmask in the future.

“There’s still a lot, but I don’t think you should wear these while you eat,” Jiang Qiao advised as he took out the Owl Headmask, Grizzly Bear Headmask, along with a whole bunch of funny equipment.