Pressure …
The Goddess of Holy Light felt like she was under much more pressure than when she was tested before she joined the Sanctum!
This pressure undoubtedly came from the scrutinizing gazes of two of the six Holy Spirits.
"Tell me, what abilities do you have to help us?"
Sprite was the first to speak. She was the most eloquent out of everyone, and could be considered half a strategist here.
"With the help of your Holy Spirits, I obtained the position of supervisor in the Sanctum of Order. This gave me a quota to use the teleportation beacon. I can teleport a Holy Spirit who has signed a God's Chosen Contract with me to the Sanctum of Order," the Goddess of Holy Light introduced.
But hearing the words God's Chosen Contract, Gentleman Qi, who had been silent all this while, suddenly couldn't maintain his composure.
"Absolutely not!" Gentleman Qi said, interrupting their conversation.
"Why?" Sprite calmly asked Gentleman Qi for the reason.
"God's Chosen Contract … It might affect the mind of the signer. I know it's inconceivable, but in game terms, after signing it, both parties will have a huge increase in Affinity."
Gentleman Qi still remembered the feeling when he shook hands with Wen Enna the Spell Stealer. That illusion of liking Wen Enna made Gentleman Qi very wary of God's Chosen Contract.
"This … It's not possible for things in the game to affect a person's mind, right?" Nancy didn't believe Gentleman Qi's words.
When she released her Awakened Original Sin Incarnation, she gathered the Seven Deadly Sins in her body. But at that time, Nancy didn't feel any negative emotions. She just felt a little tired after using it for a long time.
"I've tried it. This effect does exist. The most direct way to describe it is that the person who signs the contract with the Goddess of Holy Light will fall in love with her." Gentleman Qi's words left the five people at a loss for words.
"Pighead God!
This Goddess is so beautiful, there should be many players willing to sign some God's Chosen Contract with her. Can't she just use those players as keys or springboards to open a portal?
Isn't it just a condition to activate the portal? "
Coffee didn't think it was that complicated. In her eyes, the Goddess of Holy Light was just a portal. If it needed a player to activate it, then it didn't matter who the player was.
"Holy Spirit, it's a pity that I can only recognize one God's Chosen Contractor. This is related to the life and death of my world's people … so I'm sorry."
The Goddess of Holy Light's voice sounded rather conflicted as well. "The other Gods who have interacted with Holy Spirits will probably make the same choice."
Qi Junzi gritted his teeth and revealed a horrified expression. However, he quickly controlled his emotions and regained his composure.
She knew that if she failed this Area Event Mission, she would only lose some game levels and experience, but for Nancy and Sprite, they would lose their unborn child in the game.
A gentleman would never treat these babies as useless ornamental pets.
"Let's put aside the matter of finding reinforcements. Madam Rose, let's first discuss the situation of the Perpetual Sanctuary and how we can complete this mission."
Compared to the arrival of reinforcements, Sprite was more concerned about how to complete this mission.
The mission they were involved in was called "Invade the Perpetual Sanctuary". This mission was a Area Event Mission.
The difference between a main mission and an Area Event Mission was that every Holy Spirit player had to participate in a world event. The completion of a main mission would inevitably be the end of a major world event, and all the players in the server would receive a unified reward.
Area Event Missions were more like side missions, but some players would be involved in unexpected events.
Now, Sprite and the others were one of the players involved in the mission, and the parents of the 360 babies were also players who were forced to be involved in the mission.
Other Holy Spirit players would have no problem even if they didn't do this mission, but now Air Bubble was madly sending private messages to her, planning to bring all the members of Cola Fanatic to cause trouble. All they needed was a portal.
But the problem was … was this a mission that could be completed by a Holy Spirit gathering an army to cause trouble?
Not in Sprite's opinion.
"Miss Rose, we were forced to be transported here mostly because of your mentor's negligence, but your mentor seems to be hiding something. Do you know what her goal is?"
Sprite was currently communicating with Rose in the Perpetual Sanctuary, Bubbles in the Breeders' Base, and Mr. Yin in a voice conference. He was also listening to Alma's conversation.
After a series of communication, Sprite felt that there were other ways to complete this mission.
"My mentor?
I haven't been in contact with my mentor for a long time. I'm only helping you this time purely to repay a debt of gratitude, "Rose said.
Sprite stared at Rose for a long time, and after feeling that she wasn't lying, she told Rose Alma's goal.
"Alma wants to rebuild the Perpetual Sanctuary in the Breeders' Base. She released a list to the Holy Spirits, a list of a large number of talents in the Perpetual Sanctuary. The Holy Spirits will 'transfer' the people on the list to the Breeders' Base when they meet them on the Path of Ascension. Her next step seems to be some equipment in the Perpetual Sanctuary."
"Breeders, Extermination Units?
Why does Mentor want to rebuild the Perpetual Sanctuary in the base of the Extermination Units … Although most of the Hunters in the Sanctuary are managed by the Gray Pupils, there are also many civilians, and doing this will make those civilians … "
Although Rose had experienced many things in this period of time, including learning some of the truth about her mother, she was still that 'Hunter' who was unwilling to harm civilians no matter what.
"Void Erosion. Your mentor believes that the old Perpetual Sanctuary has been eroded by the Void Zergs from the inside out, so she needs to gather manpower and equipment to rebuild it."
"That's impossible."
As soon as Rose finished speaking, what Sprite mentioned was confirmed. Dark purple lines suddenly appeared on the back of Rose's hand, followed by scales.
"I didn't equip my living armor today?
Why? "
In order to keep everything a secret, Rosh did not bring any technological equipment that could connect to the Perpetual Sanctum, but Rosh quickly realized that it was her own power. However, the power that came from the void only lasted for a second before disappearing.
Rose wanted to wake up again, but there was no trace of her at all, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.
"Looks like this kind of erosion has a stress reaction. If the civilians of the Perpetual Sanctuary know about this on a large scale, I'm afraid the mutation will be brought forward, but it's only a matter of time before the entire Sanctuary becomes a hotbed for the Zergs," Sprite analyzed calmly.
"Does this count as triggering a hidden mission?"
Nancy asked softly. Mab's eyes were already dizzy from listening, but Nancy still understood the cause and effect of the conversation between Sprite and Rose.
"It counts as a type of hidden mission. There are many ways to complete missions in the Holy Spirit game, and this mission has an additional condition, which is to completely empty the Perpetual Sanctuary, right?
This Sanctuary should have more than just high-tech equipment … and those outstanding talents and experimenters … There must be … "
…
"Civilians." Silver was in the breeders' base, staring at the smiling Alma.
"Most of the people on your list are supervisors. Perhaps in your opinion, civilians have no meaning to the Perpetual Sanctuary's reconstruction, and most of the hunters are pawns that can be discarded."
Silver had been negotiating with Alma for a long time. From the start of this mission, he had been asking Alma a series of questions.
Because it was too coincidental.
The sudden invasion of the Perpetual Sanctuary did not concern the players at all about what was lost in the breeders' base, but the ones that were robbed were the babies that the players valued the most.
Silver could not help but wonder if Alma had purposely let the Perpetual Sanctuary's invasion succeed, using this opportunity to intensify the conflict between the players and the Perpetual Sanctuary.
Originally, the players' attitude towards the Perpetual Sanctuary was very lazy. They played Path of Ascension, flirted with the ladies in the Sanctuary, and showed off in front of those beautiful goddesses and handsome Gods.
This was the state of the players in the current version. The introduction of the parenting system allowed the players to enter the pace of retirement. As for attacking the Perpetual Sanctuary?
How could it be as interesting as raising children and flirting with girls? No way!
"But I don't think so. Since you want us to empty the Perpetual Sanctum, these supervisors who have mastered all kinds of core technology are only a small part of the Sanctum. The civilians, the civilians that you treat as reserves, also live in the Perpetual Sanctum. They are also a part of the Sanctum!" Director Yin said.
"But Holy Spirit, there's no meaning in doing this. I've already said that beings below supervisor level cannot be teleported away by the space-time device. They don't have the right to so-called 'freedom'." Alma appeared very calm.
"We will make them supervisors!
We will ensure that everyone living in the Sanctum of Perpetual Renewal will be qualified as a Regulator. "
Director Yin placed his hand on the table in front of Alma and stared at him without moving his eyes, "With the existence of the Holy Spirit, no one will be bound by the social class of the path of ascension!"
"Is there any meaning in doing this?
Your workload will increase exponentially. "Alma finally showed a confused expression.
She had originally entrusted Jiang Qiao with just bringing the supervisors on the list back to the Breeders' Base. In the end, these Holy Spirits took the initiative to expand the mission conditions?
But this was actually a very normal situation. This was equivalent to a Boss's HP shared by the entire server. In the end, some players were dying before they could kill enough of the Boss. They would definitely beg the GM to give the Boss some HP.
But that was clearly not what Silver was doing.
"I'm not very suitable to talk about this, Air Bubble." Silver said to Air Bubble, who had been listening at the side with a confused expression.
"Ah?"
Air Bubble was dumbfounded. He had no idea what Silver was saying, but Silver took a teleprompter and wrote down the lines that Air Bubble needed to say.
"The meaning … The meaning is to keep those damned hunters away from my wife!" Air Bubble shouted this line with some vigor.
But Air Bubble still did not understand what was going on.
"You … want to overthrow the entire Perpetual Sanctum?"
Alma, however, used a simple sentence to expose Boss Yin's intentions.
"You want to build an old Perpetual Sanctum in the Breeders' Base. Civilians, Hunters, Supervisors, and Rulers are four distinct classes. But if everyone becomes a Supervisor …"
"The order of the Perpetual Sanctum will collapse. I've heard it from someone else."
Alma was pointing at Jiang Qiao. After that, Alma could only sigh helplessly.
She knew that if she did not cooperate with the Holy Spirit in front of her, her reconstruction plan might not be able to continue.
"What can I do?"
"A video, an encouragement, or a speech. There are still many civilians in the Perpetual Sanctum who don't trust us. The same goes for the Hunters and Supervisors. We need someone that the entire Sanctum can trust. More accurately, an image spokesperson. Ms. Alma, as the guardian of the Sanctum, I'm afraid you're the best candidate. Simply put, you need to help us advertise a lot."
Silver had already heard from Sprite that adding milk without increasing the price was the source of this large number of leveling missions. Although this was somewhat beyond the scope of what a player could do, Holy Spirits … Silver felt that Holy Spirits could be played as a game, but definitely not as a real game.
But from the complaints of adding milk without increasing the price, the Holy Spirit leveling mission was still … just an underground operation of the Perpetual Sanctum. It was a bad behavior that the Hunters would definitely punish if they caught it.
But if Alma, as the Ruler, allowed or even encouraged it, the situation would be completely different.
What Silver needed to do now was to move this leveling mission into the open. This regional incident had sent a lot of 'salesmen' to add milk without increasing the price.
It was just nice for them to help increase milk without increasing the price to advertise.
"What should I say?"
Alma, the Divine Spear, was thoroughly convinced by these Holy Spirits.
"Do you want me to think of an advertisement?" Air Bubble finally heard a part that he could understand.
"We'll think about it slowly. Anyway, we'll definitely advertise more than this," Silver said.
"Alright. Speaking of which, can we really complete this mission like this?"
Air Bubble was still a little uncertain. The completion condition of this regional incident mission was a question mark, but one of the additional conditions was to empty the Perpetual Sanctum.
This made Air Bubble feel that … it was indeed more practical to lead the Holy Spirit army to the Perpetual Sanctum for a stroll.
"There should be many ways and conditions to complete a mission in a good game. Holy Spirits is such a game." Silver's tone was very certain.
…
Inside the Viking Nucleus stronghold.
Zhao Mingwei was having a voice chat with Gentleman Qi.
"Can't teleport back for now?" Zhao Mingwei glanced at the Viking Nucleus Clearers who were ready to go.
However, the Clearers were still unsure of which dungeon they would be going to next.
"Yeah, I want to teleport back after completing this regional incident mission." Gentleman Qi could not help but chuckle.
"What's wrong?"
Zhao Mingwei's body was tense. He did not forget that Gentleman Qi was currently in the hinterland of the enemy camp.
"I feel like we were in the same situation a few months ago. We were all in the same city, but we could only use our phones to communicate with the game. Now, we're all playing the same game … but we can only use voice chat." Gentleman Qi's voice sounded nostalgic.
"Your situation in The Sovereign Descends was much better than your current situation."
Zhao Mingwei replied seriously. At least in The Sovereign Descends and the Perpetual Sanctum, his life would not be in danger in The Sovereign Descends.
"No matter where I am, I can handle it. Rose has started issuing regional missions. See you at lunch, leader." Gentleman Qi hung up the voice chat.
Zhao Mingwei's lips quivered, but he could not express the concern that was stuck in his throat.
There's nothing to worry about … In reality, Gentleman Qi was lying less than two meters away from him, but in the Holy Spirit, they were on opposite ends of the map that were billions of light years apart.
"Mingwei, Miss Cat has issued a new Path of Ascension Quest. The official website seems to have a new event as well." Mo Shigui walked up to Zhao Mingwei and said.
"Your … fiancée, is she alright?" Zhao Mingwei did not know if he should ask this question, but he still asked anyway.
"She's fine. Xiao Lian is now fully equipped with perfect Orange equipment. Normal Hunters are no match for her. It's a pity that her weapon is for a healer."
Mo Shigui tried his best to maintain his composure. "They're all working hard. We can't just rest, right?"
"Yeah."
Zhao Mingwei and the Clearers once again set out for the Path of Ascension.