Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 203 - 201 What to Do When Short-Staffed (3rd
Chapter 203 -201: What to Do When Short-Staffed? (3rd Update) Chapter 203 -201: What to Do When Short-Staffed? (3rd Update) ‘1. Stronghold NPC Affinity Collection Rewards: NPC affinity in strongholds has finally evolved beyond just a number—this update from the Holy Spirits has turned raising NPC affinity from a dating sim into a dating sim plus a collection game.’
‘Now, whenever NPCs participate in stronghold construction, play a game, enjoy some delicious food, or engage in a satisfying and cheerful conversation with a charm-exuding Holy Spirit among other things, they might secrete…this word sounds a bit malevolent, so let’s say “refresh” instead, “refreshing” a redeemable item called ‘Affection,’ which is this semi-transparent little red heart.’
The frontline reporter also included an illustration of the Affection item from Weiser.
‘According to the official website, as long as an NPC “refreshes” Affection, any player in the stronghold can pick up these small hearts from the ground. However, bystanders can only get one little heart, while the player who made the NPC happy can claim them all. The exact number and method of “refreshing” will hopefully be dissected in future expert guides.’
‘You can exchange Affection at Miss Cat’s for a whole bunch of awesome items, like a high-level bed for Fureya to sleep in, some rare construction blueprints, and even things that increase the stronghold’s level and land area.’
‘But the most, most, most important thing I spotted in the exchange menu is an item called ‘Fureya’s Guidestone.’ The specific function of this item is not known yet, but since it’s related to Fureya, brothers, you’d surely spend your last dime to get your hands on it.’
Under this paragraph, the frontline reporter even attached an emoticon that said, ‘I date other women only to love you better.’
‘2. Stronghold Construction Rankings Officially Online: This list includes various rankings, but the three most important ones are probably comprehensive stronghold score, stronghold defense level, and stronghold industry development level. Currently, the top of the first list is Dynamic Nucleus, the second is Abyss Temple, and the third is Cola Fanatic. Anyway, my Three-Flower Cat News Agency stronghold is nowhere on the list, so here’s a little ad: Holy Spirits who want to build a stronghold together, please reply with a 1 below.’
Queen Mei had an impression of these three guilds—they used to be her toughest enemies, but now they’ve turned into firm allies.
The feeling was still strange.
The guild rankings were not something Queen Mei used to care about, but one of the rewards for being in the first place mentioned, ‘Miss Cats might visit the top few strongholds for an event.’
What kind of event is this?
Queen Mei felt a sense of alertness for some reason when she read this line. She had been learning how to blend in with the Holy Spirits, but she had no defenses against Jiang Qiao’s various cunning ideas.
‘3. Addition of Monster Siege Events: Can Xin, the leader of the Abyss Temple, got his wish granted. Everyone should go to the official website to see the announcement; anyway, my little stronghold won’t be affected by monster attacks.’
Queen Mei briefly went through the update information, and the idea of monster sieges still made her very worried.
The scene where a group of Magic Thieves led four Molten Core Dragons to destroy Dynamic Nucleus’s stronghold was still fresh in her memory.
She glanced over the comments below, and Queen Mei realized that nobody really cared about the monster siege mechanism—they were more concerned about…
‘Why can’t NPCs of level N produce small hearts? Looking down on fodder characters?’ Commenter: Full Moon Bow.
‘Fodder characters are obviously tool users, haven’t you noticed that level N character dialogues are less than those of level R?’ Commenter: Pale Knees.
‘Here’s the question, now I’m furiously refreshing the talent market but no SR level or above characters ever appear, I suspect the dog planners haven’t finished the talent market system yet.’ Commenter: North Book Hasn’t Arrived.
Because you guys haven’t caught many Magic Thieves!
As the person who commissioned players to catch Magic Thieves, Queen Mei knew that all NPCs above level R in the talent market were captured by players. After Jiang Qiao’s “re-education,” they were thrown into the talent market.
As they discussed, all level N characters were indeed tool users.
Currently, there are very few NPCs capable of producing “Mind Intent” on Biland Island, including the Magic Thieves captured by players… there are only thirteen in total. Without the Mind Collection System, players felt that these thirteen NPCS were ‘sufficient’.
But once the Mind Collection System was introduced, the number of these thirteen NPCs seemed a bit too small.
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Issue more quests for the Saint Spirits to capture Magic Thieves?
Queen Mei, as a qualified BOSS, had already begun to learn how to plan for the game’s future development on behalf of the game planners.
In her capacity as Miss Cat, she had the power to customize and issue some quests to players.
However, the Magic Thieves were lurking deep within the Crystal Land at the center of Biland Island. For players to come across a Magic Thief was already cause for immense gratitude, let alone capture them in large quantities.
Now, the Magic Thieves were no longer elite monsters to the players but had become a kind of super rare sprite! The type that, if caught, could be sold for a pile of money.
The only ones who had successfully captured a Magic Thief in the Crystal Land were legendary individuals such as ‘Extra Milk at No Extra Charge’.
“Your Excellency, is this update… aimed at assimilating Biland Island?” The Knight Lion Heart also looked at the Celestial Palace web gadget behind Queen Mei.
“Sigel, didn’t you read the modern living manual Jiang Qiao gave you?”
Queen Mei did not continue to review the pet system introduction. She took out the ‘beginner tutorial’ that Jiang Qiao had given her from her bag.
It was this very beginner tutorial called “Self-Cultivation of the Instance Lord and the Modern Man’s Life Strategy Combined Edition” that taught Queen Mei how to surf the internet.
“I apologize for my negligence, Your Majesty. I didn’t pay much attention to this book.” The Knight Lion Heart still lived his elderly lifestyle, not much interested in the Internet. Only by engaging in battles with Saint Spirits and the powerful monsters on the island could he barely muster his interest.
The rest was about protecting Queen Mei’s safety under the command of Saint Spirits, keeping those bad boys far away from Queen Mei.
“This book has been constantly updating.” Queen Mei opened the beginner tutorial, and a projection of Biland Island emanated from the pages. “There are currently two Main Quests for the Saint Spirits. One is to eliminate the Crystal Plague on the island, and the second is to raise the synthesis value of the island to…I don’t know how much? The agent’s annotations are still so irresponsible.”
Queen Mei looked at a note Jiang Qiao had attached under the page. In the three towns that can be built on Biland Island, the synthesis value of the Saint Spirits’ abode in the Spiritual Vein Forest remained at 11.5, while the Magic Thieves’ had risen to 55.1.
But what caught Queen Mei’s attention was…
“How did the synthesis value of this area surge to thirteen? And it’s still climbing…now it has reached fifteen. It should have been zero when I first looked at it.”
Queen Mei gazed at the area of Black Soil Swamp in the projection of Biland Island. The Black Soil Swamp should have been an uninhabited no-man’s land, but now its synthesis value had suddenly risen to fifteen.
“Troy and Ulysses patrol this area. They should inform the agent of any related intelligence.”
At this stage, the Knight Lion Heart knew nothing about the Main Quests on Biland Island. He only knew that he was a bartender and would occasionally be called upon by Jiang Qiao to take down one or two tricky lord-level monsters.
“I always have a bad feeling, and I hope it’s just a feeling.” Queen Mei closed the beginner tutorial Jiang Qiao had given her.
Miss Cat’s work time had arrived. All she needed to do now was to hold her ground in the Spiritual Vein Forest. As for what was happening in the Black Soil Swamp…that was something Jiang Qiao had to figure out.
