Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 584 - 563: Time to Stir Things Up (1st Update)

Chapter 584: Chapter 563: Time to Stir Things Up (1st Update)

Ultimately, with the assistance of tens of thousands of extermination units controlled by Yelena, Caramel, Zhao Mingwei, and three other Spirit players survived.

Caramel had leveraged the Void Lockdown to elevate his level to seventy-one.

When he was teleported back to the stronghold of Cola Frenzy, he found that Zhao Mingwei had disappeared from his side.

Now, Zhao Mingwei was inside Sustainable City at the Breeder’s base, unaware of how to enter the inner city of Sustainable City.

Zhao Mingwei could sense Yelena’s location, a connection arising from the mentor-apprentice system, but compared to the mentor-apprentice link,

he felt this bond was more akin to that between a deity and their believers.

He could sense where Yelena was, so without asking anyone, Zhao Mingwei directly infiltrated the inner city of the Sustainable Sanctuary.

At the core of the inner city, within the control center for the extermination units, Zhao Mingwei sensed his apprentice’s presence in a control capsule.

When Zhao Mingwei approached the capsule, a sudden presence behind him caused him to spin around and seize the intruder by the collar, slamming them hard against the wall.

So fast!

Rosh had clashed with Zhao Mingwei more than once, but this time she was certain that Zhao Mingwei had grown stronger since she last encountered him.

This Spirit was completely different from the others!

Rosh gazed into Zhao Mingwei’s pale blue pupils, unnerved as if she were the prey of a tiger-like creature.

"Sorry..."

Upon realizing the person behind him was Rosh, the terrifying expression on Zhao Mingwei’s face eased, and he gradually let Rosh down to the ground, releasing her collar.

"The one who should apologize is me, for involving your student in the extermination unit project without your consent," Rosh said as she rubbed her neck. She was grateful Zhao Mingwei had not gripped her neck directly, otherwise he could have easily broken it with a bit more force.

"I am not her parent; I cannot control what she wants to do," Zhao Mingwei said, his anger not stemming from the fact that Yelena had been enticed by Rosh to take part in the extermination unit project, but rather because... he failed to stop it, or he lacked the power to fully control the Qi within Yelena’s body.

"Master?"

At that moment, Yelena, who had heard the noise, emerged from the control capsule of the extermination units.

Perhaps aware of her mistake, Yelena approached Zhao Mingwei timidly, like a student caught snacking during class by a teacher.

Zhao Mingwei’s expression towards Yelena was very calm as he suddenly reached out to rub her cheeks...

"Master...?"

Yelena was flustered by the gesture, but soon realized Zhao Mingwei was checking her body; she couldn’t shake the feeling that it was akin to being examined by a vet.

Zhao Mingwei conducted a thorough examination, checking her complexion, her pulse, and the flow of the Qi within her body—details that could not be quantified in data, all meticulously inspected by Zhao Mingwei.

Only after confirming everything was fine did Zhao Mingwei finally let out a small sigh of relief.

"Let’s go back," Zhao Mingwei told Yelena.

"Just like that? Um... okay, let’s go back." Yelena had anticipated some form of punishment from Zhao Mingwei, but when it didn’t come, she wisely restrained from asking too many questions and obediently followed Zhao Mingwei, intending to leave the place.

"Wait a moment." Rosh stepped in front of Zhao Mingwei, blocking his way. The fusion between Yelena and the extermination unit legion was extremely successful; this was the only legion equipped with a core powered by the Divine Power of the Devouring God.

Yelena could be considered the hope for saving the entire star chart.

"Can you wait a little longer? I’ll think of something," Zhao Mingwei understood the urgency behind Rosh’s request.

The problem of the Void Swarm was one all races on the star chart had to face, and once again, the Spirits were the saviors—a recurring theme where players become heroes. Zhao Mingwei himself had played the role of savior multiple times.

But the problem was... this time it came at a cost.

Though Yelena’s body showed no signs of trouble and the Qi inside her was stable, the system data didn’t lie.

Zhao Mingwei noticed that Yelena’s maximum health points had been reduced by about two hundred thirty points, and her mana points had similarly been cut by two hundred, with other attributes dropping by one to five points as well.

Being a half-breed from Chaos Island, Yelena’s health pool had already reached seven hundred eighty thousand, but how long could it last? Nearly two hundred points of maximum health points gone in less than an hour and a half of battle?

This was no different than burning away one’s life span.

"I... understand," Rosh knew that under these circumstances, no matter how she communicated with Zhao Mingwei, it wouldn’t make a difference.

In the end, Rosh watched as Zhao Mingwei and Yelena left the place.

"Spirits... never will... choose... to forsake a few to save the many... such a decision," Queen Mei emerged from the dark corner, supported by a Knight.

The influence of the Void Erosion on Queen Mei hadn’t lessened much, resulting in the beloved cat mistress being absent from the recent events on Biland Island, and Queen Mei herself missing from recent welcome activities for new players.

With the Void Erosion at such a level, Queen Mei’s consciousness was bound to be dragged into the hive, harassed by the Void Swarm.

Although she trusted the protection offered by the Spirits, out of concern, the Knights had asked Jiang Qiao to allow them to inspect the central system of the extermination units.

The extermination units were absolutely the best means for the Sanctuary of Creation to deal with the Calamities, as they were mechanical disasters themselves.

In just a few minutes, they could self-replicate thousands of their kind, as long as the energy supply was sufficient, the speed of replication was comparable to the breeding speed of the Void Swarm.

In the past, the Sustainable Sanctuary had relied on extermination units to suppress other Void Swarms across the star charts.

But now Rosh’s mother, led by the transcendent body of the Void Swarm that bore the bloodline of the Eternals, was no match for ordinary extermination units.

Therefore, the Sustainable Sanctuary now needed a batch of extermination units that possessed the divine power of the Devouring God.

"The only contradiction now is... The power of the Devouring God is too strong," Jiang Qiao also emerged from another side, extending his hand to touch the sci-fi filled cockpit beside him.

This cockpit allowed the person sitting in it to instantly control tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of extermination units, feeling as though they were playing Total War or StarCraft.

However, the problem was that while extermination units could replicate all sorts of traits of the user inside the cockpit, replicating the overly powerful divine power of the Devouring God would cause damage to their core components.

Spiritual Bodies are pure energy constructs, so they cannot take the position of the pilot; therefore, apprentices who had inherited the divine power of the Devouring God were the most suitable choice.

"I can withstand it! Agent!" Rosh, upon seeing Jiang Qiao, immediately became somewhat anxious; she had failed to obtain a spiritual energy seed at the Lion Heart Association’s exchange meeting.

Caramel really couldn’t stand to watch Rosh endure the pain brought by the power seed and eliminated all the power from Rosh’s body.

"If you mean that... losing one point of life limit per second is considered bearable, then I don’t mind sharing the power of the Devouring God with you," Jiang Qiao helplessly spread his hands.

The most troublesome issue now was... The power of the Devouring God was toxic, extremely poisonous to other creatures.

Rosh wanted to risk her life to curb the expansion of the Void Swarm, but Caramel would not allow it.

"I have a method, Devouring God."

Alma, the divine sniper, had somehow already stood behind Rosh.

"Mentor..."

"I’ve been waiting for those words!" Although Jiang Qiao’s understanding of the races and pantheons across the star charts might not match that of the myriad stars, he definitely had some way to mitigate the ’toxicity’ of the Devouring God’s power.

"This one." Alma, the divine sniper, took out a bottle of liquid that resembled mercury and threw it to Jiang Qiao.

Jiang Qiao caught the bottle, and after a simple identification spell, the ancient memories of the Devouring God provided Jiang Qiao with the answer.

’Water from the River of Oblivion

Divine Artifact

Function: An extremely rare liquid that can wash away all the divinity of a creature.’

"Isn’t this just a potion for resetting abilities? Wait a minute... I think I understand."

Jiang Qiao pondered for a while and instantly understood what Alma, the divine sniper, meant.

The Devouring God, as the name suggests, is a ’god that devours gods,’ where ’god’ refers not only to divine creatures but also the divine aspect within everything.

Nearly all creatures from various dimensional planes across the star charts have divinity, and their extraordinary abilities are derived from gods, even Alma, the divine sniper as an Eternal, is a representation of a godly race.

All the Lords of Calamities themselves are gods, hence their progeny, their believers, and their followers all share this trait.

The reason why the power of the Devouring God becomes so toxic is that it corrodes this divine aspect within them.

That is why the primordial humans from Blue Star could withstand the power of the Devouring God.

The function of this potion is to turn the drinker into a ’primordial being.’

Simply put, it’s like resetting abilities, wiping away all of one’s extraordinary abilities.

"Is this stuff very rare?" Jiang Qiao asked a rather unnecessary question.

"Very rare. It is treasured by various forces across the star charts and stored in secure facilities. I only have this small bottle, enough to clear the divinity within a single creature," Alma said.

"Then... which force on the star charts stores the most of it?"

"The Filling Sanctuary."

Alma, the divine sniper, laughed as he said this.

"The Filling Sanctuary’s original mission was to contain the spread of the Annihilation Legion, but now they are known across the star charts as the safest vault and bank, with most creatures entrusting their valuables to the Filling Sanctuary."

"Perfect!"

Jiang Qiao had initially found the Void Swarm’s version quite boring, as the Void Swarm itself could simply be contained by the expeditionary extermination units sent by the system.

Now, the divine sniper Alma had finally brought a bit of fun for Jiang Qiao... and all the Spiritual Bodies.

"This thing’s name should be changed a bit." Jiang Qiao glanced at the Water from the River of Oblivion in his hand and renamed it ’The Antidote to the Void Virus.’

Although the purpose of the water was to create well-trained apprentices, as those apprentices were meant to annihilate the Void Swarm, after a few turns, the essence of its function was somewhat similar.

"Your Majesty, it’s time to perform in the new narrative," Jiang Qiao said.