Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 134 - 133 Worth 1500 Yuan (2nd Update)
Chapter 134: Chapter 133 Worth 1500 Yuan (2nd Update)
The pursuit of the Magic Thieves was much easier than Jiang Qiao had imagined.
Or rather, Jiang Qiao’s team composition was chosen very well… In Jiang Qiao’s team, Lin Xi and Xia Shan were both from technological professions, and the Magic Thieves couldn’t mimic Lin Xi’s variety of guns or Xia Shan’s various little robots.
So when Jiang Qiao noticed the Magic Thieves lurking in a tree, they too noticed the approach of Jiang Qiao’s party.
It seemed that the Magic Thieves themselves had no power and had to absorb the powers of others to fight.
Therefore, the four health bars in the tree, no… the four Magic Thieves had no choice but to copy the abilities of either Jiang Qiao or Zhao Mingwei.
Of course, they copied Jiang Qiao’s ability to summon elemental spirits, but elemental spirits are a summoning ability and can’t strengthen their physical bodies.
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So the group of Magic Thieves copied Zhao Mingwei’s qi energy as well.
Uh oh.
Jiang Qiao watched as the Magic Thieves, surrounded by the electric light of qi energy, leaped down from the tree, seemingly already feeling the power of the qi energy.
But there was a problem… qi energy also had side effects.
Don’t think that the qi energy used by Zhao Mingwei, which was of the light attribute, had no side effects; giving Zhao Mingwei a couple of healing abilities felt totally natural.
This seemingly noble and righteous qi energy, appearing as if only used by the good guys, actually cost many lives on their journey to obtain it in the backstory.
It was a powerful force from the Extreme East Country, with qi energy itself originating in the human body, where forebears with the power of qi energy transformed into Telekinesis Beasts and passed it down through generations upon their deaths.
The background setting indicated that not everyone’s body could withstand qi energy, nor could they all gain the approval of the Telekinesis Beasts.
Zhao Mingwei had currently collected two Telekinesis Beast Tattoos, Dragon-Tiger and Golden Thunder Tiger, neither of which had… very agreeable temperaments.
Those four Magic Thieves assigned to reconnaissance clearly couldn’t control the qi energy born of the furious Dragon-Tiger and Golden Thunder Tiger.
So, as they leaped from the tree with Longswords in hand, trying to ambush Jiang Qiao, the flashing thunder and lightning eroded them completely, and they fell to the ground, unable to move.
At this moment, Jiang Qiao wondered if he’d overestimated the Magic Thieves by treating them like elite monsters on the island?
“What kind of random event is this?” Lin Xi propped his Laser Cannon on his shoulder and casually removed his tactical goggles, looking down at the four NPC heaps on the ground.
At first, Lin Xi thought they were humanoid monsters, with red enemy health bars above their heads, but before their first ambush could begin, they all lay on the ground, done for?
“Ah! I…I recognize them!” Xia Shan exclaimed as soon as she saw the names above the Magic Thieves’ health bars, pointing at them.
“Chang Qing, you’ve seen these NPCs before?” Lin Xi still hoped to interact with Xia Shan; as long as there was a girl in the team, he wanted to interact with her, of course, fluffy rabbits were not included.
“A thousand bucks!” Xia Shan blurted out.
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“What about a thousand bucks?” Neither Zhao Mingwei nor Lin Xi quite understood.
“When I went to Lionheart City to buy steamed buns, I picked up a commission on the fly, saying capturing a Magic Thief could be exchanged for a piece of Otherworld dried meat, someone in the initial stronghold was offering one thousand… one thousand five hundred for them!”
Xia Shan’s tone was very excited; she had been coveting these group of Magic Thieves for a long time, and now that she had found these four, in Xia Shan’s eyes they were no longer NPCs or monsters, but four moving one thousand five hundred dollar bills!
“Hmm…” Jiang Qiao’s reaction to Xia Shan always reminded him of ‘add milk at no extra charge’.
But ‘add milk at no extra charge’ was a successful Holy Spirit merchant, who had already made hundreds of thousands with the Holy Spirit, whereas Xia Shan was just plain poor.
To feed her doll sister and herself, Xia Shan must figure out every possible way to make money. Now, with $1,500 worth of wild creatures lying in front of her, there’s no way she can stay calm.
“Chang Qing girl, your quest seems to require live capture, but they’re losing health automatically,” Lin Xi said, witnessing for the first time monsters lying on the ground and bleeding out, with the numbers -500 to -600 dropping.
The constitution of these Magic Thieves was at best somewhere between ordinary monsters and elite ones, with health points ranging from 20,000 to 40,000. At this rate of health loss, Lin Xi didn’t need to make a move; they would probably die on their own in a minute or two.
“Yes, we need them alive!” Xia Shan quickly started rummaging through her fifty-slot bag.
This month, whether she could feed her doll sister Longming Eight-Treasure Porridge every day or just plain white buns depended on these four wild Magic Thieves.
“Healing potion! Found it!” Xia Shan took out an HP potion intending to force-feed the four Magic Thieves, but Zhao Mingwei stretched out his hand to block her as she prepared to approach the four.
“Let me do it,” Zhao Mingwei said.
Jiang Qiao did not stop Zhao Mingwei; two of the four Magic Thieves were not fully unconscious and were waiting to ambush Zhao Mingwei as he approached.
But this kind of disguise was obvious just from looking at the status bars below their health bars.
Zhao Mingwei walked toward one male Magic Thief who was still semi-conscious. Just as Zhao Mingwei got near, the Magic Thief drew a dagger attempting to stab Zhao Mingwei.
Prepared for this, Zhao Mingwei stomped directly on his wrist. Accompanied by the Magic Thief’s screams of pain, his arm was firmly pinned to the ground by Zhao Mingwei.
They had no chance to resist anymore. After Zhao Mingwei let out a close-range Lion Roar, the four Magic Thieves were completely knocked out.
Being unconscious did not alleviate the process of their energy backlash. The backlash from Telekinesis Beast Tattoo is different from the Power of Ghost God; one affects the body’s meridians, the other the soul.
Zhao Mingwei watched the white flashes of lightning jumping intermittently over their bodies thoughtfully. He grabbed the arm of one Magic Thief and made a gesture as if taking his pulse.
“Old Zhao, you know how to read pulses now?” Lin Xi came over, having never before seen anyone take an NPC’s pulse.
“Shh…” Zhao Mingwei signaled Lin Xi to be quiet with a hushing gesture, then closed his eyes to begin sensing something.
He could feel the power of Telekinesis, as well as a special force within these Magic Thieves that mimicked the power of Telekinesis.
This Telekinesis Beast Tattoo had completely slipped from their control, rampaging through their body’s meridians. Zhao Mingwei made a simple attempt and actually managed to disperse the uncontrollable energy within the thief’s body.
The bleeding of the Magic Thief gradually halted.
Impressive.
Jiang Qiao almost couldn’t resist applauding the sight.
At the current stage, in Jiang Qiao’s view, Holy Spirit players’ control over their power was divided into three stages.
The first stage was where most players were, relying on combat assistance to cast their skills. When they used skills, they just thought about it in their heads and then pressed a shortcut key or something.
The second stage was attainable by most professional players who didn’t need combat assistance and relied on their own movements to cast skills.
The third stage… Jiang Qiao only knew that Zhao Mingwei had barely touched a threshold, which was his apparent understanding of what the energy of Telekinesis Beast Tattoo really was.
Jiang Qiao was actually looking forward to seeing this group of players, once they reached higher levels, no longer needing her to design and lead the creation of custom skills and the like.
“Let’s tie them up and exchange them for $1,500!” Xia Shan had a rope emanating sparks of electricity already in her hands.
