Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 179 - 178: A Quest Even the NPCs Think is Too Much (3rd Update)
Chapter 179 -178: A Quest Even the NPCs Think is Too Much (3rd Update)
What are they talking about? What am I saying? What do these people want to do? Where am I? Who am I?
Weiser was conversing with Bubbles and the Starry Scribes on stage, which had already been going on for about five minutes.
Bubbles even brought over four chairs and a table, so Weiser and Yomi could sit down.
During the conversation, Yomi obediently refrained from interrupting the dialogue between the three, while Weiser remained in a daze throughout the whole time.
If it was someone else speaking and Weiser couldn’t understand, that would be one thing, but now she couldn’t even comprehend her own words.
“Do you mean that this entire island is a living creature?”
The Starry Scribes continued to converse with Weiser, flipping through the book in his hand, and during the conversation, he improvised a lot of stories in his mind.
“I can’t confirm whether or not your conclusion is correct, holy spirit, but I can hear the voices of the creatures on this island, their anger, their pleas… Holy spirit, I won’t stop you from killing those rampaging crystal beasts, but their offspring could still be saved.”
As mysterious characters appeared before her eyes, Weiser tried to understand what she was saying or what role she was playing.
Her ability to learn, summarize, and deduce was quick, but when she uttered these words, the unease in Weiser’s heart grew even stronger.
What am I doing?! Asking these holy spirits to go deep into Biland Island to capture the offspring of those monsters!
To Weiser, this seemed like a one-way mission, no different than telling these holy spirits, “For my sake, please go die!”
What right did she have to make these holy spirits give their lives for her?
Strong feelings of inferiority and anxiety made Weiser’s words weaker and weaker, to the point that when the Starry Scribes asked questions, she wanted to scream out, “It’s not like that, you don’t have to go through hell and high water for me, and especially not to swim freely in a pot of boiling oil.”
Weiser choked up, already planning to tell this to the Starry Scribes and Bubbles.
That’s because the Starry Scribes had fallen silent for a short while upon hearing about rescuing the offspring of the crystal beasts.
But before she could get her explanation out, the Starry Scribes excitedly slapped the table.
The excitement startled Yomi next to him, who was now glaring fiercely at the Starry Scribes.
“So this NPC is on the side of protecting the island!” the Starry Scribes shouted.
“What protecting the island?” Bubbles was almost falling asleep beside him, he wanted to urge the Starry Scribes to hurry up and trigger some hidden quest about taming dragons or getting dragon eggs.
But hidden quests related to holy spirits have an annoying game mechanic… the more you talk to an NPC, the higher the difficulty of the hidden quest becomes, and the higher the difficulty, the better the reward.
This also highlighted the importance of the two attributes, Charisma and Eloquence.
Players with high levels in these attributes can dig deeper into an NPC’s backstory, and the NPC would spill everything about the content of the hidden quest.
This kind of ‘complete’ hidden quest is something many holy spirit players on the forums were keen to excavate.
“This starts from the events after our arrival on Biland Island, we came onto the island because Fureya got stranded here, but then we met Miss Cat, that NPC Alu, who taught us how to build a base, giving Miss Fureya a place to live.”
“But Miss Cat’s real goal is to completely destroy the island! But if there was only that one main questline from Miss Cat, the main story of Biland Island would be too thin, so I thought the Magic Thieves must also have some related quests that can be undertaken, and indeed the Magic Thieves’ faction is the one that wants to protect the island, and we can join them as well!” the Starry Scribes explained.
“It’s really interesting, it adds quite a bit of conflict to Biland Island’s storyline, and then considering the recent appearance of the Crystal Hunter organization on the forums…”
Sorry, I didn’t think that much.
Jiang Qiao was listening to the Starry Scribes’ summary below and was almost unable to continue listening, and Bubbles was even less able to, patting the Starry Scribes on the shoulder lightly.
“Old pal Starry Scribes, which option’s next?” Bubbles asked, pointing to the five options that popped up after Weiser finished speaking her last sentence.
Bubbles felt like he was doing an extremely difficult exam; one wrong choice, and the reward of the dragon egg would be gone.
“Let me see, the Dragon Speaker obviously wants us to save the offspring of the monsters on this island, so let’s just pick option 3, we’ve dug up enough of the hidden backstory, going straight to the point now should get us the perfect storyline’s hidden quest,” the Starry Scribes said.
“We can finally take on the quest, so what help can we offer you?” Bubbles asked, full of expectation.
What help can you offer? Just a bed, some food, and a few seeds for plants would do!
Weiser really wanted to answer Bubbles that way, but the options that emerged from the mysterious text read, “Go hunt for the Snow Plain Master to the west, gather as many powerful creatures’ offspring as possible, I might be able to communicate with them!”
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Isn’t this too much? Weiser felt the option was excessive; she had seen the master of Biland Island’s Snow Plain map before she arrived on the island.
That dragon was a moving blizzard; a disaster-level creature that in any country in this world could freeze a city into icy rubble.
Weiser had met these holy spirits for less than ten minutes and was already entrusting them with hunting a cataclysmic creature?
Her mouth opened and closed over ten times, but she just couldn’t muster the courage to give out that mission…
“She stopped talking, huh? Starry, did you pick the wrong option?” Bubble panicked when he saw Weiser fall silent.
If you chose the wrong option, it was common in ‘Sacred Spirit’ to miss out on hidden quests.
“There’s no way it’s wrong. Usually, out of five options, at least two can perfectly trigger a hidden quest. Could it be option 4? Should we start the dialogue over?” Starry also became anxious upon witnessing Weiser’s silence.
He didn’t understand what the Dragon Speaker was thinking—this felt just like choosing a wrong option and heading straight into a BADEND.
At that moment, a voice from the crowd caught Starry’s attention.
“Let me tell you what she wants, ‘Sacred Spirits.'”
The voice belonged to a middle-aged man. Upon hearing it, Weiser turned her head to look at the onlookers below, and when she clearly saw who it was, she immediately stood up and shielded Yomi behind her.
“She’s just a simple seamstress who lived in an ordinary village before she came to this island. After contracting the crystal disease, she killed the entire village’s guards and joined the dangerous Magic Thieves, right, Miss Weiser?”
It was a middle-aged man wearing a top hat, which was incongruent with his knight armor embellished with golden patterns… The players surrounding them turned to look at the ID hovering above the head of this middle-aged man.
‘Crystal Hunter Finn, Level LV53.’
“Those… those guards’ deaths have nothing to do with me, they were just…” Weiser became somewhat emotional upon seeing the middle-aged man, but she quickly composed herself. She knew panicking now would put Yomi in danger.
She had to remain calm as the elder sister.
“Sacred Spirits, please don’t be deceived by her. She was a dangerous Magic Thief in the past, and she still is. If she continues to stay here, she may cause the demise of your loved ones.” This unexpected Crystal Hunter Finn seemed very confident—he was the ‘War God Chosen’ previously mentioned by War God Wuerde.
Jiang Qiao didn’t even notice how they had arrived on the island. They were either teleported here directly by the War God or had landed from another part of the island.
“Aren’t you going to have someone take them out?” Hai Lan emerged at this point, seemingly wanting Jiang Qiao to issue a mission to eliminate this group of Crystal Hunters.
“Why? They’re against the Magic Thieves, not us, and there are troublesome opponents among the Magic Thieves too. Isn’t it good to let them fight each other?”
Jiang Qiao was actually quite interested in the knight called Finn, because he seemed to know how to use the ‘Sacred Spirits’… and his next comment successfully triggered a hidden quest for the Crystal Hunter faction.
‘Faction Hidden Quest·Magic Thief Wanted. Mission description: The Crystal Hunters who have just arrived on the island want you to eliminate the world’s menace, the Magic Thieves. Mission objective: Kill any Magic Thief. Mission reward: A chance to receive either five thousand Brin or seven thousand four hundred Dishill.’
Jiang Qiao hadn’t designated the Crystal Hunters as hostile targets; their names were yellow for neutral, so when the ‘Sacred Spirits’ talked to them, they could receive hidden quests.
But… it seems they didn’t understand what kind of reward would really tempt the players.
“Sacred Spirits, we greatly admire your heroic deeds on the island. Your bravery deserves robust rewards, including for killing that dangerous Magic Thief. There will be a reward of five thousand Brin and seven thousand four hundred Dishill.”
As Crystal Hunter Finn spoke these words, Weiser’s face instantly lost all color and turned deathly pale.
Dishill was the currency of the Flowing Water Country. Weiser was born in a small village on the border between the Flowing Water Country and the Daylight Country; to her, both five thousand Brin and seven thousand four hundred Dishill were enormous sums—enough to support her for a whole decade.
Such a price was also enough to drive mercenaries mad, as they only needed to slay an unarmed village girl to claim these rewards.
The ‘Sacred Spirits’ below were indeed tempted.
“What is five thousand Brin?”
“Currency from Otherworld, I heard it can buy Otherworld cured meat.”
“Woah? Is that the item selling for over two thousand on 4396?”
“Rich man’s cured meat, the price has gone up to two thousand seven hundred now.”
“Eh, why is it Crystal Hunter’s hidden quest? I thought it was Miss Weiser’s hidden quest.”
What now? Weiser felt as though she was standing at the gallows, each ‘Sacred Spirit’ below a potential executioner.
“Elder sister?” Yomi looked at Weiser, her face filled with confusion.
Flee? Impossible to escape, and… how long could Weiser run with her sister? She might relent, but she would not allow Yomi to grow up in such a war-torn environment.
“I… I hope you can help me hunt down the Snow Plain Master to the west!” Weiser took a deep breath and continued, using the indifferent tone she addressed to Bubble and the bewildered Starry, making a request that was tantamount to sending the ‘Sacred Spirits’ to their deaths. She then adjusted her tone and added, “And try to collect the young of powerful monsters if possible. I might be able to try and communicate with them!”
After finishing her statement… As Weiser finished delivering her message, the ‘Sacred Spirits’ who had been discussing incessantly below suddenly fell silent, including Bubble and Starry next to her.
This was like hastening her own death sentence…
Weiser’s gaze shifted to Bubble, who looked completely stunned, and then to Crystal Hunter Finn among the crowd.
Could she, like a decree from the gods, embark on a new life?
