Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 275 - 273 The Meaning of the Inner World (1st

Chapter 275 -273: The Meaning of the Inner World (1st Update)

Chapter 275 -273: The Meaning of the Inner World (1st Update)

The summer competition between Masters of the Realm and Vibrant Nucleus continued, with Juan Canyun facing off against Feng Yi, also a proclaimed genius from Masters of the Realm, with only a quarter of his health remaining.

If Juan Canyun won this match, he would make history—a history called “one versus four.”

This was a record that had never been seen in the seven-year history of the Conflict League!

As the boss of Vibrant Nucleus, Silver didn’t go to the venue to watch the match; he was currently at the Cola Frenzy stronghold, watching the match through a Heavenly Palace streaming gadget. Besides watching the match, he was also negotiating with Bubble regarding the territorial dispute over New World Plaza.

“Don’t you think the gameplay in The Inner World is too boring?” Silver said to Bubble, who was sitting opposite him.

“Are you trying to make us quit the New World Plaza contest with this tactic, Mr. Silver?”

To mark the occasion of Silver’s visit, Bubble had arranged the meeting at the most luxurious building in the Cola Frenzy stronghold, which was actually just a wooden hut, and had even brought in Weiser, the rarest and most popular NPC Dragon Speaker, to personally serve them tea and water.

Yes! Bubble was bragging that he had the Dragon Speaker sisters.

Recently, the amount of work Weiser and Yomi could do was very limited, as Cola Frenzy had temporarily shifted its strategic focus to The Inner World.

Weiser carried two cups of hot tea and placed them in front of Bubble and Silver…

When handing Silver his tea, he muttered a soft “thank you.”

Weiser stood to the side with a platter, looking somewhat surprised.

Bubble glanced at Weiser’s expression and felt something was off, so he tapped the table lightly to bring Silver’s focus back to him.

“I’m just stating the facts. Have you seen the reviews for The Inner World DLC on the Heavenly Palace gaming platform?”

Silver’s gaze remained fixed on the showdown between Juan Canyun and Feng Yi, but his fingers flicked, tossing a screen to Bubble.

The game Holy Spirit had released two large DLC updates on the Heavenly Palace gaming platform, one of which was “The Expedition of Biland Island.”

The DLC of Biland Island was overwhelmingly well-received on the Heavenly Palace gaming platform.

Reviews like “Rich game narratives, diverse monsters and island ecosystem, and a diverse NPC recruitment and building system have greatly expanded the gameplay of Holy Spirit! Biland Island could be a bestseller even as a standalone game!” were common.

And “I feel I could play just the Biland Island DLC for another ten years!”

“Builders thank the game designers for this DLC. I built houses all night, and I’m nearly moved to tears by this game’s heart.”

“Holy Spirit: The Sims Expansion!”

The positive reviews for the Biland Island DLC even surpassed those of Holy Spirit itself, and only players who could play Holy Spirit were able to leave reviews.

Biland Island had been open for less than two months when Holy Spirit updated with another major DLC, The Inner World, but… the update for The Inner World did not please many players.

Because the gameplay in The Inner World was way too limited compared to Biland Island!

Bubble skimmed the reviews for The Inner World.

The reviews for The Inner World DLC were mixed, and Bubble only looked at the highest-rated ones.

This particular review was over a thousand words long.

Bubble glanced at the reviewer’s ID, “Someone with Fureya,” a solid ID, and his review was equally solid.

“Holy Spirit rushed The Inner World online to prepare for the era of holographic projection, although it opened two ultra-realistic maps: the Uptown Riverside District and the Riverside Walk Street District, again offering players stunning modeling details and visual effects.”

“But the gameplay in The Inner World is too rushed and hollow. The excellent game content of Holy Spirit, such as immersive NPC interactions, side missions and hidden quests with multiple choices and endings, and the various surprises that exploration could uncover are all missing in The Inner World. What remains are just monsters competing with players for treasure chests, and the boring territorial battles. PS: If it wasn’t for the 630,000 and the fact that Challenge Vouchers could be sold for money, I might spend a lifetime on Biland Island with my wife.”

Bubble looked through the reviews for The Inner World DLC and snapped his fingers, realizing how… he hadn’t thought of that?

The Inner World was indeed boring for someone as unskilled as him. After an initial astonishment of mistakenly entering the real world, what he faced was a vast, empty Inner World.

Perhaps elite players could find joy in challenging the Guardians of The Inner World, but Bubble would genuinely prefer squatting in the Cola Frenzy stronghold and chatting with the sisters, the Dragon Speakers.

“I hired some people to investigate the forums, and now players who go to The Inner World do so only to compete for ‘treasure chest creatures’ to make money, or to take photos of the scenery and play parkour with some players who have wall-climbing skills.”

Silver then threw another interface from the 4396 trading network to Bubble. On the 4396 trading network, the price of Challenge Vouchers had been driven down to between one to three Gold Coins each.

The price kept dropping, which Silver had anticipated early on, but the Challenge Vouchers he initially acquired from “Milk Adder-not Up-pricer” were not useless.

Active Nucleus had already taken over a park area in the upper city, and the remaining Challenge Vouchers were all spent on a showdown against Cola Fanatic at New World Square.

Now, every sanctified player across the server knew the Challenge Voucher was valuable, so many max-level players would go to the Inner World to “brick-move” when they had nothing better to do.

This kind of brick-moving is quite common in various online games, where ordinary players without money move bricks to earn money, while rich players just need to buy these resources from the brick-movers.

However, with the Biland Island DLC as a jewel ahead, brick-moving in Inner World was truly boring, boring to the extent that most players wouldn’t stay in the Inner World for too long after their daily brick-moving.

No matter how beautiful the scenery is, it can become sickening over time. Biland Island and the sanctified main world both have many interesting storylines and missions waiting for them, so there’s no need for them to spend all their time on such tedious brick-moving.

Of course… some ‘Hamster Party’, ‘Squirrel Party’, and ‘Worker Ant Party’ kind of players who take pleasure in brick-moving are the exceptions, but they are after all a minority.

The final conclusion is…

“These one or two weeks are okay, as everyone’s novelty hasn’t worn off, but what about a month later, a year later? The Inner World could possibly turn into a ‘ghost server’.” Silver announced his conclusion.

“This… can’t be possible, the game officials created such a realistic world, they should think of ways to improve! Don’t think about deceiving me, Hotpot Little Prince, I won’t let you have New World Square.” Bubble wouldn’t be deceived by Silver again.

“Subsequent update content?” Silver glanced at the black tea Weiser handed him, he could only smell the aroma of the tea but couldn’t taste it, but these were not the focus…

“Let me put it this way, the purpose of Inner World isn’t to enhance players’ ‘game experience,’ but rather to distribute ‘benefits’ to players?” Silver said.

“What do you mean?” Bubble frowned, starting to ponder what exactly Silver was getting at.

“How much has your family’s Blossom Square foot traffic increased after Inner World was open?” Silver then asked.

“Three times! The foot traffic increased threefold within fifteen days, and it would have been even more if Dominate the World hadn’t stabbed us in the back! The first day my dad even called me saying, ‘The foot traffic at Blossom Square has increased this much, do you have any clue?’ and my reply was ‘How the hell would I know.’, but I kind of regret that we didn’t charge an admission fee for Blossom Square then.”

Bubble sounded proud when mentioning this, as the foot traffic explosion at Blossom Square had three factors: its first was the appearance of the hologram of the sanctified, the second was the presence of professional players.

The most important factor was… the fight with Thorne was just too spectacular!

Now some seniors, having nothing better to do, would go to Blossom Square daily to watch real-life martial arts movies; they didn’t know what the sanctified were, or even what VR games were, they only knew that a peerless master at Blossom Square was beating up masters from all walks of life with a tree branch daily.

This incident was also reported multiple times, which kept the foot traffic at Blossom Square from decreasing; Bubble even considered charging those people who watched Thorne’s battles an admission fee.

“This is the benefit the Sanctified Inner World brings back to you, this is the advantage of you joining the Sanctified Fund, but at the same time, the game distributes benefits to other players in the same way, did you know that, Zhao player?”

“Who doesn’t know that, Old Laugh! I just remembered… that guy has been mooching pizza at our Blossom Square every day!”

Bubble suddenly remembered what Silver mentioned, that Blossom Square had three Guardians, among which Thorne was the one current players couldn’t defeat, so the other sixty-three thousand players could only watch.

But the difficulty of the other two Guardians were only hard and normal, and after defeating the hard-level Guardian, you could exchange a pizza coupon at the pizza store in Blossom Square.

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So, Zhao Mingwei started living at Blossom Square, both in the game and in reality.

He was the very image of a web-addicted youth who would sleep on the streets for the sake of internet accessibility.

If he wanted to have lunch, he would take a Challenge Voucher to beat up the hard-level Guardian, then exchange a pizza coupon for a pizza.

“How can you say mooching, didn’t he pay for it?” Silver said.

“True… paid for it, the Sanctified Fund paid for it, but wasn’t part of it my advertising fee?”

Bubble was also investigating the Sanctified Fund; he spent two hundred and fifty thousand in advertising fees just to have Thorne guard Blossom Square’s sixty-three thousand.

But that two hundred and fifty thousand wasn’t misallocated by the sanctified officials; rather, it was returned to the players in the form of pizza coupons, clothing coupons, and other items.

“This game is too conscientious, If I were broke, I’d probably cry upon encountering the Sanctified game, does this gaming company really not make money?”

Bubble probably couldn’t experience Zhao Mingwei’s kind of life… pennyless, barely managing to sustain life solely by playing games.

“The sanctified game doesn’t need to make money, and its ambitions might be larger than you and I imagine,” Silver suddenly said again.

“Ambition, to end the dispute?”

Bubble glanced at Silver’s livestream screen; Juan Canyun had pushed Feng Yi to a critical point with only a quarter of his health left, although he was also in a tight spot, a one-versus-four record was just before him.