Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 77 - 76: A Letter Filled with Love

Chapter 77: Chapter 76: A Letter Filled with Love

Jiang Qiao returned from the plane of the Godlike battle, and the comatose Wasp Knight he had captured was still in a deep coma, possibly needing one to two days to awaken.

However, Jiang Qiao didn’t bother with the Wasp Knight, who had been farmed by thousands of players in turns, and simply threw her into the ‘cage space’ created by Hai Lan before heading straight to the Reviver’s Cathedral.

It was now the twelfth hour since the opening of the Godlike battle, and Jiang Qiao had arranged a main plot and a hidden plot for this battle.

The hidden plot was that after the Doll Sister died three times in the Godlike battle, if a player went back and successfully revived the Doll Sister, it would trigger the hidden plot.

Jiang Qiao’s Reviver’s Cathedral was slightly different from the players’ as it had an additional desk, next to which there was a mailbox.

And Jiang Qiao’s Fureya, which is to say the legendary Fureya Mark I, was sitting in front of a bookshelf, writing something with a pen.

“What is she writing?”

Hai Lan followed Jiang Qiao to the Reviver’s Cathedral, and she leaned in to see Jiang Qiao’s Fureya writing something on a piece of letter paper with a pencil… in Chinese.

“Love letters.”

Jiang Qiao approached his Fureya, and the Fureya Mark I continued writing letter after letter at the desk without lifting her head.

After finishing a letter, a little fairy would pop out, fold the letter paper properly and put it into the mailbox.

“What love letters? To whom?” Hai Lan watched for a while and noticed there was another piece of letter paper on Fureya’s desk as a template, which was also in Chinese with very beautiful handwriting, which must have been Jiang Qiao’s doing.

“To the players, as letters to advance the plot. Of course, my Fureya couldn’t possibly write one for each player, so I intend to write about fifty or sixty templates and then copy them to distribute randomly to all players,” Jiang Qiao said.

“Hmm, but your Fureya is still not very proficient in writing Chinese. Why don’t you just write the templates directly?”

Hai Lan stood behind Fureya for a while, observing that the Doll Sister’s Chinese writing was quite crooked and truly… very ugly, even worse than the few dish names written by Hai Lan. In comparison, Jiang Qiao’s handwriting was very beautiful.

“That would be immediately recognized by players as written by a behind-the-scenes programmer, wouldn’t it? Love letters, you see, need to feel authentic,” Jiang Qiao said.

“What’s the purpose of these love letters?” Hai Lan asked again.

“Players will only receive this love letter after reviving Fureya, it serves to push forward the narrative,” Jiang Qiao said.

“Is it to thank the players?” Hai Lan always felt that the game plot written by Jiang Qiao couldn’t possibly be so simple…

“There’s a part that thanks them, but essentially this letter is to urge players to hurry up and level up by fighting monsters.”

Jiang Qiao handed over the template of the letter he had written to Hai Lan, who had long since learned Chinese, otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to understand so many dish names…

“Jiang Qiao, doing this will really send the players into the instance,” Hai Lan concluded after roughly reading the content of the letter.

……

‘The soul of Guardian Spirit·Fureya has been restored.’

Mo Shigui, after killing the Wasp Knight, did not even wait to check the reward settlement and immediately cast a Town Recall.

The destination of the Town Recall was the center of Lionheart City. Mo Shigui sprinted along the streets of Lionheart City toward the Reviver’s Cathedral and pushed open the doors to enter.

The moment Mo Shigui stepped into the Reviver’s Cathedral, he saw Fureya standing by the staircase.

It was a common position for Fureya, who only sat on the steps waiting for players to return under very few circumstances.

Resurrected!

When Mo Shigui saw Fureya again, he felt a kind of emotion similar to reuniting with a long-lost dear friend, but this feeling lasted for less than a second.

Fureya then saw Mo Shigui standing at the door, and the first sentence she said left Mo Shigui stupefied.

“Nice to meet you, kind Holy Spirit… I am Fureya, your Guardian Spirit,” she said.

“…”

Mo Shigui heard this line and felt bewildered; he remembered having heard it before. Every player would hear Fureya introduce herself like this when they first created their account.

But the problem was Mo Shigui had been playing as the Holy Spirit for almost half a month now. Although he hadn’t interacted with Fureya more than twenty times, Mo Shigui had definitely met her before.

What did she mean by meeting for the first time?

Mo Shigui thought of a terrifying possibility—could his Fureya… possibly… have amnesia?

“Do you not remember me?” To verify this possibility, Mo Shigui stepped forward only to notice Fureya tilt her head slightly.

“What are you talking about, Holy Spirit?” Fureya asked.

Mo Shigui also knew this line—it was what Fureya would say in response when a player said something outside her preset script.

“…”

This time, Mo Shigui truly froze in place, taking several deep breaths to try to calm himself down.

He was again suppressing his anger. Now he felt the urge to look up the Holy Spirit company’s address on the official website and send a bunch of razor blades to the Holy Spirit production team.

Who wrote this heart-wrenching plotline? Mo Shigui had been gaming for so many years, and it was the first time he wanted to physically fight the game’s production team.

Not long after the idea of a real-life fight popped up, Mo Shigui suddenly received a new system notification.

‘Congratulations on completing the quest: Fureya’s Intentions.’

Completed the quest? Mo Shigui remembered this quest… it was one of three related quests that followed the main quest ‘Preparations for the War of Divine Plunder’ at level fifty, the other two being ‘The War of Divine Plunder’ and ‘The Real Shield Wall!’

The main quest ‘The War of Divine Plunder’ was related to the instance ‘The Battle against the Divine,’ and to complete it, the player had to reach ninety percent progress in that instance, which would also reward an item called ‘Queen Mei’s Divinity,’ exchangeable for many things.

‘The Real Shield Wall!’ was a Shield Warrior’s awakening quest that required killing fifty undead soldiers and blocking ten thousand points of damage with a shield for the first phase.

And then there was the third main quest, ‘Fureya’s Intentions,’ with the completion condition being: ?, and the reward was unlocking the second stage of Fureya’s affection meter.

At that time, Mo Shigui didn’t care much about the NPC Fureya, so he hadn’t paid much attention to the third quest.

But now that Fureya had amnesia, he had completed her affection meter quest?

How ironic… No, wait!

Mo Shigui hadn’t received a notification for unlocking the second stage of Fureya’s affection meter, but instead, he received a letter.

A paper letter appeared in Mo Shigui’s hands.