Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 246 - 244 Its Your Flame Ash Dragon Big Bro (Two
Chapter 246: Chapter 244: It’s Your Flame Ash Dragon Big Bro! (Two in One! Vote for Monthly Tickets!)
Chapter 246: Chapter 244: It’s Your Flame Ash Dragon Big Bro! (Two in One! Vote for Monthly Tickets!)
The next day.
Bubbles knelt before the portal at his own base, and all the cola-crazed players behind him had already logged on en masse. The NPCs inside the base had also run over to witness this historic moment.
‘Portal Energy 99.9%’
This line of numbers appeared before all the players. Bubbles just needed to throw in one more mother crystal into the Energy Pool, and the construction of the portal would be utterly complete!
“Should we do some kind of purification and incense-burning ceremony?” Bubbles, standing in front of the bubble-emitting portal Energy Pool, appeared very anxious.
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“Stop dawdling, Guild Leader! Hurry up and throw it!”
“It says we can go through now!”
The crowd of onlookers was already impatient to return to the Holy Spirit World with Fureya or to show Fureya around their own homes.
The official website had already previewed the AR version that would become available after the portal opened. Though there was a small reminder afterwards that it was still in the testing phase, it was enough to make many Holy Spirit players restless.
“He threw it, he threw it!”
Bubbles didn’t keep them hanging any longer; he made a pitching gesture like that of a baseball throw and violently hurled a deep purple mother crystal into the portal’s Energy Pool.
Electric arcs burst from the Energy Pool, like a giant python suddenly lunging out, biting the mother crystal in midair and completely devouring it.
Less than two seconds after the swallow, the stone portal, composed of several base stations, burst into a blinding light that spread throughout the base and shrouded the coastal area.
“Holy shit? What sort of magnificent structure is this?”
“It’s kind of cool!”
The cola-crazed players surrounding them had thought this portal…that is, a flat surface for transportation constructed in the center of the four stone bases, was all there was, as all the current portals in the Holy Spirit World were like that; players would walk in and enter a loading screen, and after it completed, they would be in a new instance or a new map.
But this portal built at the base clearly wasn’t just about constructing a transport surface; it…completely changed the views of the cola-crazed skies and the distant ocean.
The distant horizon had completely vanished, replaced by something akin to… a waterfall.
‘The portal at Cola Craze’s base has been completed in the distance. The Holy Spirits of the base receive the title “Biland Island Pioneers”.’
‘Main Quest Four – Portal Construction Completed! You have obtained the Pioneer Gryphon Ring.’
In that instant, a number of quest completion alerts popped up before Bubbles, along with the system world channel broadcast about the portal’s completion!
This time, Cola Craze truly led the way in front of all the guilds! They also showed off in front of sixty thousand newbies.
What’s it to you if Dancing Nuclear pays your salary? In the future, if you want to enter a new map, you’ll have to pay us!
Without a second thought, Bubbles selected a journey to a peaceful world in the ‘Main Quest Five – Portal Decision’. His wife’s safety was paramount, after all.
Although Bubbles’ Fureya lived quite comfortably within the base, Biland Island was a place that occasionally spawned a variety of strange siege monsters. The last siege by the Magic Thieves had made Bubbles resolute in finding a new home for his Fureya.
‘New Map – Inner World Unlocked! New Event – Prelude to the Inner World Begins! Rejoice, Holy Spirits!’
Another new prompt suddenly popped up just then. Before Bubbles could figure out what the Inner World was, he turned around to address the hundreds of players behind him.
“Who wants to be the first to the new map?” Bubbles wasn’t quite sure what world lay beyond the portal, but he still had to show off!
Having invested so much effort, time, and money on the portal’s construction, Bubbles had become the most conspicuous player across the server, and he had to put on a good show.
But Bubbles’ show-off journey hadn’t even begun… a roar that should not have appeared near the starting base startled the players, who were in the midst of their festive mood.
“Guild… Guild Leader!” Mocha rolled all the way back from outside the base, tumbling to the ground halfway through her run.
“What’s going on?” Bubble also heard that strange roar, and he always felt this roar was somewhat… familiar?
“That pig-headed NPC… he… he stole the Flame Ash Dragon’s egg!” Mccoffee seemed a bit incoherent.
The Flame Ash Dragon’s egg!
Fuck! That’s even more valuable than the Flame Ash Dragon Mother Crystal. Bubble had always been eyeing the dragon eggs, but if it weren’t for the Flame Ash Dragon’s terrifying wife, he would have definitely gotten his hands on those three eggs.
An egg could easily fetch around five hundred thousand.
Bubble knew that NPCs with thieving skills from other guilds would steal monster eggs for them, but those were eggs of monsters without much breeding value.
Who was it? Who the hell from his own guild had stolen the Flame Ash Dragon’s egg, wait a minute… if the Flame Ash Dragon’s egg had been stolen, that meant…
“Was that roar just now the Flame Ash Dragon’s?” Bubble’s mind went blank, and he no longer needed Mccoffee to answer that question. Outside the stronghold’s wall, a flame-engulfed monster landed atop the wall, and then the beast directly targeted Bubble for a fierce pounce.
“Another monster attack on the city, damn it! Does this happen every time the portal is built? All members, protect the Adamant Ancient Tree! And the NPCs too!”
Bubble saw the Flame Ash Dragon standing on top of the city wall like a god of fire descending to earth, and his head felt like it was going to explode!
He pegged his guild as a tourism guild, and with the initial stronghold located next to it, the stronghold’s defensive power could not compare to powerhouses like Abyss Temple that were blocking the door to monster lairs.
While Bubble called on his players to resist the Flame Ash Dragon’s attack… the dragon’s fierce pounce wasn’t aimed at him.
It was aimed at someone who brushed past him.
Bubble couldn’t see the person’s face clearly, but he did see the ID overhead… Crystal Hunter Shary.
She brushed past Bubble and headed straight for the portal behind him. Her figure disappeared into the portal, and the next moment, the Flame Ash Dragon’s massive body also plunged into the portal and vanished.
Bubble collapsed to the ground… dumbfounded. NPCs could go through portals, but now monsters too?
“Boss… did the Flame Ash Dragon take the first kill on our portal?”
“The Flame Ash Dragon is so domineering, it’s not a loss, right?”
“Quick, check where the portal leads to!” Xue Bi grabbed Bubble by the collar and threw him towards the portal.
Bubble fell to the ground… and stuck his head into the portal’s circle of light. On the other side of the portal… was an endless sky.
A corner of Biland Island was floating ten thousand meters high in the sky! And underneath was a place Bubble was quite familiar with… the uptown of the real world.
……
One hour earlier.
The holographic exhibition in uptown.
Zhao Mingwei didn’t particularly like the feeling of being crowded, especially when the crowd was composed of acquaintances.
“Boss, did you just step on my foot?”
“Coach Song, I saw Bubble boasting that their portal has been completed. Shouldn’t we log on to check it out?”
“Whoever can break through this crowd can go back and log in.”
“Damn! If I were in the game, I’d just fly straight out.”
“Flying out is too embarrassing, better to just fight your way out, this instance shouldn’t be too difficult.”
Compared to the cola-crazy members who spent this important day in the game, nearly half of the Dancing Nuclear members had gathered outside uptown Jiang to appreciate the first holographic projection performance in human history.
But to be honest, the start of this holographic exhibition was somewhat boring; the whole projection was cast onto the surface of the river.
The first hour was simply the holographic version of an old-age song and dance show, but maybe that’s just what people from all over the world like. Mo Shigui didn’t quite understand it, but the scene along the external river was still packed with people.
As the artistic performance came to a sudden end, a pitch-black dragon appeared on the surface of the river, and only then did the crowd surrounding the river burst into cheers.
“Oh! Dispute CG! Seeing a heroic-level BOSS in real life for the first time is indeed very impressive.”
“Is that the demonic dragon Oli?”
“Dispute rocks, wow.”
The members of the Dancing Nuclear Guild also recognized this as the Level 90 final BOSS in Dispute. As this demonic dragon appeared above the river’s surface, the surrounding spectators and passersby started taking out their phones to snap pictures and record videos like crazy.
The popularity of Dispute was unquestionable! And the fact that Dispute, a game company, actually participated in this world-class holographic exhibition was enough for Dispute players to brag wildly on Weibo and forums.
“Isn’t the modeling a bit too low in detail?” But Mo Shigui still spotted some flaws. The CG from Dispute displayed was obviously a holographic projection replica of the “War of the Demonic Dragon,” but the level of detail in this CG made Mo Shigui frown.
“It’s already very extreme, it’s just that you’ve been playing too much Holy Spirit World recently.” Zhao Mingwei pinpointed the reason why Mo Shigui thought the Dispute modeling lacked detail.
Zhao Mingwei didn’t dislike any game, including Dispute, but the visual gap between Holy Spirit World and Dispute could be seen with the naked eye. Mo Shigui thought the graphics of Dispute were lacking not because the game’s graphics were actually poor, but because the graphics of Holy Spirit World were simply too outrageously good.
“It’s pretty good as well. It’s pretty awesome to see a game CG at an exhibition that decides the future of humanity,” said Black Pot Cooking Meat nearby.
This holographic exhibition was advertised as a technology determining the future of humanity and was also a top exhibition that the whole world focused on.
“Hmm.” Mo Shigui nodded lightly. The War of the Demonic Dragon CG was still continuing in the distance, simply simulating a battle between several digital players and the demonic dragon Oli.
However, the experience of watching holographic projections wasn’t as good as screens and VR, Mo Shigui thought, probably because the sun hadn’t completely set yet.
The time was now six in the evening, and the sky in the distance had completely darkened, but a small sliver of sunset could still be seen on the horizon.
He couldn’t complain too much, because the spectators around him were completely enraptured, watching the slaying of the dragon was far more exciting than the old-age song and dance show from the previous hour.
Just as Mo Shigui and Zhao Mingwei took out their phones to record this moment, Mo Shigui suddenly heard the voice of a little girl by his ear.
“Mommy! Look, a shooting star!” The voice of the little girl caught Mo Shigui’s attention, and he looked up in the direction the little girl was pointing to see indeed a flaming meteor falling vertically… descending from the sky.
What’s the situation with it descending?
Mo Shigui’s eyes widened. The meteor, shrouded in intense flames, trailed a long tail as it plummeted towards them!
At that moment, the last vestiges of sunlight on the other side of the horizon suddenly disappeared completely, indicating that the sun had fully set. But the very next second, after the sunlight vanished, the meteor struck the television tower across the river with a destructive force.
This landmark building on the external river was instantly severed and collapsed…
But in the next moment, the intense fire and magma erupted from the center of the meteor, sending waves of flames dozens of meters high sweeping in all directions. The burst of flame was so scorching that Mo Shigui found it almost blinding.
And as the fiery and brilliant wave of flames subsided… a new sun rose in the center of the river!
Flame Ash Dragon!
Why would a monster from Holy Spirit World appear… here?
Mo Shigui stared blankly at the television tower opposite him, which still stood tall in the real world. So… what was the deal with the collapsed tower? Holographic projection?
The immersion felt too real, right?
Mo Shigui could truly feel no heat, even though the Flame Ash Dragon stood above the river’s surface. In the game, merely approaching this Flame Ash Dragon without a cold drink would cause continuous health depletion.
This also indirectly confirmed… this was but a holographic projection performance.
“What monster from the conflict is that? How come I’ve never seen it before?” Black Pot Stewing Meat asked.
“Stewing Meat, you must be getting forgetful these days! It’s the Flame Ash Dragon! That’s the Flame Ash Dragon from Holy Spirit World… Damn! Is Holy Spirit World crashing the conflict’s CG performance now? But looking at the detail of the model and the effects, the word ‘amazing’ doesn’t even cover it,” Mama Has a Dog said in awe as he looked at the Flame Ash Dragon standing in the distance, able to make out every single hair on its body and every scale.
“Didn’t we have all the effects turned on just now?”
“Are we sure we’re looking at a holographic projection made by the same machine? My goodness, is that dragon also part of the conflict?”
The onlookers around them were simultaneously confused and excited by the effects of the Flame Ash Dragon—which were on an entirely different level than the earlier holographic performances.
Regal, noble, and savage, the island’s mightiest overlord’s presence was made real before everyone, and just by standing there, the neon lights of the city instantly seemed dull in comparison.
The flames erupting from its body were so luminous they lit up the entire night sky like a miniature sun.
However, this particular sun had quite the temper. It let out another furious roar as it stepped on the scorching lava and charged wildly towards the crowd.
“Mingwei!” Mo Shigui yelled out instinctively as the Flame Ash Dragon made a mad dash towards them.
But when he turned his head, he found that Zhao Mingwei had disappeared!
Sure enough… Even if it was just a holographic projection, seeing such a massive beast charging furiously towards oneself—while an incredibly thrilling experience for some players and passersby—
Still, the majority were those who were timid or afraid; if the Flame Ash Dragon really pounced into the crowd, panic would have already spread.
“This is just something official to scare people, right?”
“Can we turn down the brightness of that dragon? It’s uncomfortable to look at when I’m close!”
“It’s really coming over!”
Mo Shigui looked at the Flame Ash Dragon not far away, a creature nearly fifteen meters in length that could cross the river in a split second, and indeed it did—arriving right in front of the spectators before letting out another roar as it swung its massive claws downward.
Screams filled the air around Mo Shigui as he instinctively reached to raise a shield and draw his longsword, but realized he held nothing but his phone!
With his eyes wide open, Mo Shigui watched as the Flame Ash Dragon’s claw came slashing down, but in that instant, he heard another roar.
It was one Mo Shigui knew all too well: Zhao Mingwei’s Golden Thunder Tiger!
The figure of a monk in a robe emerged before the spectating crowd, the light of his energy circulating around him as the massive Golden Thunder Tiger burst forth, its claws meeting the Flame Ash Dragon’s in mid-air.
For a moment… in their struggle, it seemed the Golden Thunder Tiger had the upper hand!
“Is that Smile?” Guild members recognized the figure’s silhouette upon witnessing the scene.
“No… He’s the Mad Tiger Emperor!” Mo Shigui whispered.
As Mo Shigui’s words fell…
“Down!” Zhao Mingwei’s voice echoed in everyone’s ears. The Golden Thunder Tiger let out an earth-shattering roar and quickly reversed its claws, using the minimal force to hurl the previously indomitable Flame Ash Dragon out of the outer river area, its immense body crashing heavily onto the river’s surface.
The Flame Ash Dragon was unharmed, but the Golden Thunder Tiger’s time was up—the mighty apparition gradually faded away, and the Flame Ash Dragon roared angrily at Zhao Mingwei once more.
“Let’s go…” Mo Shigui exclaimed upon seeing this.
“Where to?” Black Pot Stewing Meat was still a bit dazed.
“To find somewhere to log in! Assemble! Team battle! Do you want to leave your comrade to fight a lord-level monster alone?” Mo Shigui shouted, “Everyone! It’s time to hit the instance!”
The players of Dancing Nuclear Guild instantly realized… that Flame Ash Dragon didn’t appear to be just a real-time CGI, but a monster that could be conquered—in the real world!
