Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 583 - 562 Battlefield

Chapter 583: Chapter 562 Battlefield

By the fourth hour of the Void Lockdown, the total number of players in this instance had drastically decreased, from the original three hundred to only about twenty players left.

"I guess the people from other guilds probably started cursing once they left this instance?"

Caramel gasped heavily and collapsed onto the ground, feeling worse than if he had run an ultra-long marathon.

In these three hours, he had released over ten awakenings. The awakenings of the Demon Emperor were already hugely draining, let alone the constant successive releases.

Caramel was truly out of ’Magic’.

"You know, Caramel, you could log out too."

Zhao Mingwei approached Caramel, who was now kneeling on the ground, unable to move. Caramel was the typical type who didn’t manage his Mana well and didn’t know how to recycle and reuse the skills he deployed.

However, recycling and energy-saving techniques were really too advanced—probably few in Holy Spirit City mastered them.

Overall, for a casual player, the fact that Caramel had managed to last until now was already quite impressive...

"I could log out, sure, but... I can’t just say I can’t in front of a lady, right?"

Caramel wiped the sweat from his chin, glancing towards Xue Bi, who was also panting heavily on the other side.

Xue Bi, feeling a bit furious from Caramel’s response, directly kicked him on the shin.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch... You’re hitting your teammate at such a critical moment!"

"Shut up."

Xue Bi was in a bad mood. She wasn’t a core player of Holy Spirit; she had never expected to encounter an instance that was this poor in gaming experience, which prohibited players from logging out.

This was a great test for Xue Bi’s stamina, but she had endured the four hours.

Although throughout this time, she mostly relied on Zhao Mingwei and Caramel’s protection to survive the attacks from the Void Insect Nest.

But after making that kick, Xue Bi herself felt faint and staggered back several steps, nearly collapsing to the ground.

However, Caramel was quick to catch her first.

"If you can’t hold on, just log out... The flavorless suicide Potion, drink it and you’ll be able to log out," Caramel took out a bottle of transparent potion, doing something he would never dare to do in reality.

That was to persuade his own wife to commit suicide by poisoning—if he said that in reality, he might be killed by Xue Bi the next second.

But in the game, Xue Bi would still have murderous intents towards Caramel. Due to her sheer exhaustion, she headbutted Caramel’s chin in anger.

"Damn it! Xiao Yu, hitting me like this, aren’t you afraid I’ll dock your salary?" Caramel covered his mouth, the headbutt having made him bite his tongue.

"I brought in so many contracts this month; if you dock my salary, I’ll resign!"

Xue Bi was not afraid of Caramel’s utterly useless threats. She was the true operator of the Cola Frenzy Club. Without Xue Bi, the club would fall into chaos.

"President... your public display of affection is an eyesore. If you want to continue, can you go show off in reality after you die?"

The voice of Caramel resonated from the other side; after four hours of intense battle, he was slightly less careful with his words, making no effort to cushion his statement.

"Sorry." Caramel honestly apologized.

Xue Bi then conjured frost with both hands and suddenly injected this force of frost into the ground, creating a tornado of ice around her and Caramel, which instantly shredded any of the Void Swarming insects that tried to approach into remnants.

However, after releasing this forty-five-level Ice Master skill, Xue Bi again entered a faint, sleepy state.

"Xiao Yu, drink this and log out. Who knows if overusing skills in Holy Spirit could harm your body?" Caramel looked at Xue Bi’s weary appearance, feeling a bit heartbroken.

"Keep it up, just another hour and a half," Xue Bi swatted Caramel’s hand away, pulling herself up ready to release her awakening that had just cooled down.

"Hey... is there really a need to go this hard?"

This time it was Caramel who was shocked; he had persisted so long in the Void Swarm instance simply because the instance offered a lot of experience; just one awakening was comparable to running three top-level instances.

Just six hours of persistence, and Caramel’s experience bar could increase to seventy percent.

But Caramel was certain... Xue Bi wasn’t really interested in the levels and gear of Holy Spirit or wasn’t too keen... To Xue Bi, managing the affairs of Holy Spirit City was more fun.

But today, Xue Bi was exceptionally obsessed with increasing her experience and level, no... perhaps since she and Caramel had a child, she had been like this.

Child... Mentor and Expedition System.

Only those with their power level reaching sixty percent could take disciples, but for NPC disciples... this was still far from enough!

Xue Bi’s mastery was at fifty-five percent, which was relatively low among players, but she didn’t trust other players and stubbornly decided to be the teacher to her child herself.

And now, as a new mother, Xue Bi was striving toward the goal of becoming a qualified teacher.

Mingwei somewhat annoyed, slapped his own head as he moved forward to continue conversing with Xue Bi when suddenly a Void Reaper burst from the ground.

"Damn it!" Caramel reacted instantly, but it was still too late... This top Swordsman of the Holy Spirit, after a prolonged intense battle, finally made a mistake.

By the time Caramel had slain the Void Reaper with his sword, the damage the Reaper had inflicted as it lunged at Mingwei had already pierced a huge hole through Mingwei’s chest.

In this condition, Mingwei’s body gradually began to become translucent.

"I can feel my strength draining away," Mingwei said, looking at his body turning into specks of light, "Although I’m reluctant, Caramel... can you hold out for another half hour?"

"Easier said than done..."

Caramel drew the Moonlight Sword across his wrist, shaking off the deep purple bug blood sticking to the sword. When Caramel came to his senses... around him, several more Void Reapers lunged at him and Xue Bi, who was now weakened and kneeling powerless on the ground.

Caramel clicked his tongue in irritation, but still, his Moonlight Sword unleashed thousands of dark Sword Qi, forcing back the Reapers that were attacking Xue Bi.

But what was worse, numerous vicious spikes also burst out from the ground beneath Xue Bi... The spikes and the Reapers targeting Xue Bi acted almost simultaneously.

They knew this was the weakest link here. If Caramel was to strike down the spikes, he wouldn’t be able to attend to the Reapers, but he made a choice in that instant.

Fierce Dragon Breaking Air Slash flashed by, and with the disappearance of the dragon’s head, the spikes surrounding Xue Bi were instantly slashed into hundreds of pieces, falling to the ground.

And the Void Reapers attacking Xue Bi from the sky were also torn down by a force of mental energy shaped like a dragon and a tiger, which finally pinned them to the ground on the other side.

"Can you still hold out?" Caramel, raising his Moonlight Sword, looked around at the increasing number of Void Swarm, the blade reflecting Zhao Mingwei, who stood back-to-back with him.

"Can’t hold out."

Zhao Mingwei, unapologetic, had somewhat lost his strength, like Xue Bi, and was half-kneeling on the ground.

"No way?" responded Caramel, genuinely panicking now.

"Sorry, I did my best." Zhao Mingwei felt all his limbs had gone numb.

If he had been fighting alone, he could have lasted over six hours, but this time, to save other guild members, Zhao Mingwei had expended more energy than he would have in solo combat.

"Am I... a burden?"

Compared to Zhao Mingwei, Xue Bi was now completely immobile.

"We came here without a specific mission objective, there’s no question of being a burden or not," Zhao Mingwei said.

"Next time... can we win?"

Xue Bi knew Zhao Mingwei was dodging the topic, but she truly was a burden now. For Caramel, Zhao Mingwei, and other top-tier experts of the Holy Spirits, more than half of these 300 players who had come to farm experience were indeed burdens.

"Don’t know," Zhao Mingwei responded uncertainly.

Xue Bi, biting her lip, took out a suicide Potion that Mingwei had given her earlier from her backpack, knowing that staying here meant certain death at the hands of the Void Swarm.

With reluctant eyes, she watched her experience bar which was now around eighty percent. To max out her level by grinding instances of the Holy Spirit’s embodiment, she estimated it would take two to three years.

Xue Bi chose not to stay and be a drag, humiliatingly drinking the Potion, emptying her life meter.

As her life meter emptied, her body gradually became translucent, and the experience points she had painstakingly collected scattered into specks of light from her body.

Just as Xue Bi awaited the moment she would turn into a tombstone... thousands of drop pods suddenly plummeted from the sky.

One of the pods landed right next to the now translucent Xue Bi, bursting open... a wild Extinction Unit emerged from it.

「Extinction Unit XB07

Mechanical Construct·Elite

Level: 85

Construct Source: Chaos Island·Yelena」

"Master! I’ve come to help!" Yelena’s voice came from the Extinction Unit, and the entire battlefield echoed with thousands of Yelena’s repetitions.

"Yelena?! You... are late." Zhao Mingwei’s gaze turned to the equally surprised and reluctant Xue Bi, but his own expression also grew very grave, "And you shouldn’t have come."

"Extinction Unit? What is this? Reinforcements?"

Caramel had not yet understood where these mechanical bodies had come from, but once they arrived on the battlefield, albeit somewhat clumsily, they quickly joined the fight.

As the number of these mechanical bodies grew, the area where Caramel was located saw the Void Swarm momentarily suppressed by these Extinction Units.

"Expedition system, we’ll talk when we get back," Zhao Mingwei’s mood seemed... not very positive.