Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 230 - 227 New CG

Chapter 230: Chapter 227: New CG

Chapter 230 -227: New CG

“What did you win?” Mo Shigui probably guessed what Silver Boss had won. In this day and age, the only thing that could make a thirty-year-old man so happy was probably just one thing.

“The lottery,” Silver Boss said.

“…”

“You really don’t give off any vibe of joking, forget it, it’s the Sacred Spirit game qualifications! Do we have champagne in the company? Quickly, bring over a bottle of champagne, the most expensive one!”

Silver Boss shouted at his secretary behind him while he was trying hard to contain his excitement and calm himself down. Both Silver Boss and Mo Shigui were people with great self-control, but when it was time to celebrate, they would celebrate properly.

While Silver Boss’s secretary was getting the champagne, Mo Shigui received a phone call from ‘Mom Has a Dog’.

“Iron Buddy, pah… President! Sacred Spirit released a new CG!” ‘Mom Has a Dog’ shouted through the phone.

“Got it.” Mo Shigui hung up the phone. From a distance, Silver Boss was gesturing for him to stay in the meeting room a while longer.

Mo Shigui had no choice but to walk back into the meeting room, holding a stack of reports. Inside, Silver Boss had already projected the screen of his laptop onto the whiteboard behind him.

On the whiteboard was a window from the official Sacred Spirit website— a plain window with no decorations, with a line of text written within it.

‘Congratulations, you’ve obtained the Sacred Spirit game qualifications.’

Silver Boss didn’t speak. He sat on the chief chair of the meeting room, took out a pair of sunglasses from underneath, and placed them on his head. Casually, he reached into his suit pocket and pulled out a cigar.

“It’s prohibited to smoke inside the company,” Mo Shigui said.

“I haven’t lit it up, have I?”

After a brief celebration, Silver Boss threw both the cigar and the sunglasses into a trash can nearby. He had planned to close the window after opening the champagne brought by his secretary.

But Silver Boss was also very interested in the new CG from the Sacred Spirit. As a cloud player of the Sacred Spirit, he was definitely one of the most esteemed cloud players, the kind that could talk eloquently about Sacred Spirit on forums and Weibo without ever having played it.

Today, he had officially shed his identity as a cloud player of Sacred Spirit and was promoted to a rookie player. He was also concerned about what the future development direction of this game created by artificial intelligence would look like.

CG advertisement is undoubtedly the best way to display the future development of a game and a fraction of the developers’ thoughts.

Silver Boss opened the newly uploaded CG from Sacred Spirit. The name of the CG was “Crossing.”

“Coach Song, you don’t seem very happy?” Silver Boss noticed that Mo Shigui’s first reaction upon seeing the CG’s screen was to click his tongue with a look of disgust.

“No problem, keep it playing,” Mo Shigui said.

Mo Shigui ‘clicked’ because… it seemed like the protagonist of this CG was Fureya again.

Fureya was kneeling alone next to a structure covered in moss that was a ruin, and Mo Shigui could vaguely recognize this ruin… it was a portal built by players to the real world.

From the background behind Fureya, it was clear she was still on Biland Island, but not in the bustling Spiritual Vein Forest. Instead, she was located in the distant Black Soil Swamp area.

Fureya reached out to wipe the moss off of the ruin’s portal, with the CG giving a slight close-up of her face. It was an expression none of the Fureyas could make, one of complexity.

After hesitation and indecision, the expression gradually turned into one of fear and terror.

“You wanted to see your Holy Spirit, didn’t you? Quickly activate this portal! He… is right behind the portal, in that world.”

A threatening voice came from behind Fureya, the camera turned, and a group of soldiers wearing pitch-black armor was standing behind her.

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Wait… Mo Shigui had seen these soldiers before, they were the monsters that spawned during the first divine war, during the Abyss Hunt!

The Annihilation Legion!

But why would his Fureya be captured by the Annihilation Legion… No, this wasn’t his Fureya.

Mo Shigui quickly realized that the Fureya in the CG wasn’t his. Ever since the item ‘Fureya’s Guide Stone’ was introduced, it was completely confirmed that every Fureya in Sacred Spirit was a separate entity and would have different personalities depending on the Holy Spirit they followed.

So whose Fureya was this? Whose Holy Spirit let their Fureya run around outside and got captured by someone else? Mo Shigui had many questions in his mind.

Perhaps none of them? Mo Shigui speculated that this Fureya must want to go through the portal… to the real world to find her Holy Spirit, meaning her Holy Spirit hadn’t logged on for a long time, or had she completely abandoned the game?

Impossible, right? Who would abandon a game like Sacred Spirit?

But that’s how the CG drama unfolds.

“I can’t do this.”

In the end, Fureya, faced with the threat of the Annihilation Legion, withdrew her hand from the portal.

“Then you have no value to us.”

The leading soldier of the Annihilation Legion came up behind Fureya, raising the longsword in his hand and fiercely swinging it down.

Even though Mo Shigui knew this Fureya wasn’t his, he still felt a tightness in his heart at the sight.

Especially when the next second, the CG screen suddenly turned black, replaced by the chilling sound of flesh being torn and blood gushing out.

Less than two seconds after the sound ended, the darkness was gradually replaced by the effect of a pupil slightly opening. The CG shifted the perspective to the first person view of Fureya.

When she opened her eyes after closing them, she found that the Annihilation Legion soldier who tried to kill her with his sword had fallen to the ground behind her, replaced by a calico cat lady standing in front of her.

The calico cat lady glanced back at her, didn’t say anything, and directly wielded her twin swords, killing the other three Annihilation Legion soldiers with her exquisite swordsmanship.

“Who are you?” Fureya asked the blood-stained calico cat lady with some unease.

“A friend of the Holy Spirits,” the calico cat lady replied, just as Fureya shouted, “Be careful!”

An Annihilation Legion soldier was not completely dead yet. He took advantage of the calico cat lady’s distraction and swung his longsword upwards. The camera angle shifted, and the cat’s headgear flew into the sky.

But two seconds later… the calico cat lady had already impaled the chest of that Annihilation Legion soldier with her twin swords.

From Fureya’s perspective, all she could see was the figure’s back… and her scattered pale golden hair floating down. When the Annihilation Legion soldier finally died, the headgear that had flown into the sky was once again worn by the calico cat lady.

“Where is your Holy Spirit?” the calico cat lady walked up to Fureya and asked, as Fureya remained silent, her head bowed.

At that moment, the CG scene gave a close-up of the old teleportation portal.

“In the Holy Spirits’ real world?” The calico cat lady seemed to guess something.

But in the next moment… Fureya suddenly reached out and grabbed the hem of the calico cat lady’s clothes.

“Please… ask the other Holy Spirits to stop building the teleportation portals, the Annihilation Legion… the Annihilation Legion has already set its sights on their real world,” Fureya said in an almost pleading tone.

“Do you think… those Holy Spirits will agree?” the cat lady said, taking Fureya’s hand and pulling her up from the muddy ground, as the CG footage gradually zoomed out and rose.

A title screen also emerged, “Holy Spirit·Bland Island Expedition,” with a sub-title underneath, “The Wish to Return Home.”

The information contained in this CG was enormous, but Mo Shigui basically understood the meaning conveyed by the CG… As for the cat lady’s final question, the comments floating across the CG had utterly clarified everything.

‘I oppose this matchmaking!’

‘Whoever blocks me from bringing my wife to the real world, I will kill them.’

‘Stop watching CG, log in and work on building that portal!’

“Holy Spirit… is also going to release an AR version?” Silver mentioned after watching the CG, understanding what the teaser implied.

“I’m not optimistic about the AR version’s prospects. AR games have matured, but the gameplay is too limited at the moment,” Mo Shigui said.

“Well, I’m quite optimistic, and as for the reasons why, let’s delve into the game first. I’ve always had an idea about this game, Holy Spirit,” Silver mentioned as he closed the notebook computer on the conference table, seemingly ready to head straight for the club’s VR equipment.

“An idea?”

“Don’t you think that Zhao from ‘King of the World’ has become quite formidable lately?” Silver steered the conversation in a strange direction.

“Zhao Mingwei? I just feel like he’s in great shape,” Mo Shigui replied, as a coach, he had only felt that Zhao Mingwei had returned to his peak form watching his recent matches.

“No, our players have become powerful too,” Silver said as he walked toward the meeting room door.

“Really?”

“You haven’t noticed because… you’ve been playing Holy Spirit as well. From the perspective of a cloud player like me, the physical fitness improvement among you seems… abnormal.”

Silver pushed open the meeting room door, with the secretary outside already waiting for quite a while with champagne. Silver took the champagne and threw it directly to Mo Shigui.

Mo Shigui was still pondering Silver’s statement when the champagne bottle was tossed to him; he almost instinctively wanted to draw a sword to slash the champagne, but he realized he had no sword in his hand, and the champagne bottle shattered on the floor.

Just as Mo Shigui was about to squat down to clean up the glass shards on the floor, Silver’s voice called out from elsewhere.

“Let’s consider it a champagne toast celebration! Let’s go, Coach Song! Log on and lead me to level up!” Silver said.

He had no choice but to follow Silver, taking the elevator down to the player training area. As an eSports club, they were, of course, equipped with the best VR equipment.

“I believe VR equipment can assist with fitness, but what do you mean by abnormally quick improvement in physical fitness?” Mo Shigui asked while watching Silver put on the simulation suit.

“Do you remember the term ‘couch potato’?” Silver asked.

“Yes, it was the self-deprecating term used by gamers and some ACG (Anime, Comic, and Games) enthusiasts about a decade ago,” Mo Shigui said, finding the term very ancient, since ‘couch potato’ had become a rare specimen in society.

“I used to be… the true definition of a fat and lazy otaku twenty years ago.” Silver warmed up before logging into the game, now boasting a physique that could make countless women scream.

But the physiques of the other eSports players were also explosively good. Since the popularization of VR games, a strong physical condition was necessary for long-term play, and the concept of fitness for the whole population was essentially advanced by VR games.

“After I started playing VR games, that concept was gone, and many VR equipment manufacturers claim their products have health-enhancing effects,” Silver said.

“I think that’s bogus,” Mo Shigui knew his players’ physical fitness was developed through specialized training, and the club had dedicated gym facilities.

“Who knows? Maybe those games couldn’t fully exploit these devices’… health and fitness effects. At least in my opinion, the game ‘Holy Spirit’ might have accomplished that, but to what extent it has… requires actual experience.”

Silver then threw another helmet to Mo Shigui.

“It’s time to take the boss leveling up, Coach Song,” Silver said.