Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 244 - 241 Domineering CEO (Third Update)

Chapter 244: Chapter 241 Domineering CEO (Third Update)

Chapter 244: Chapter 241 Domineering CEO (Third Update)

Jiang Qiao stood on the obsidian ground watching the departure of the two guilds.

He had watched the entire dispute between the Cola Frenzy and the Leaping Nucleus, including Mo Shigui’s solo challenge and Zhao Mingwei’s one against ten.

“It’s still not good enough,” Jiang Qiao said, watching the retreating figures of the two guilds.

“Not good enough for what?”

Today, Hai Lan ate a cheeseburger, the kind with cheese spread all over the bun, which Jiang Qiao thought looked very greasy.

“The players’ reflexes, both mental and physical… are unable to perform to their current potential,” said Jiang Qiao.

Jiang Qiao hadn’t felt this way before, but after watching Zhao Mingwei’s one against ten performance, this feeling grew stronger.

The first-tier players are now at level fifty-five, the top level, but their physical responses do not match what is expected at level fifty-five.

They can deal damage as level fifty-fives, but their attack speed, movement speed, and combat reactions fall short of what their bodies should be capable of as Holy Spirits.

However, mental reactions and physical condition are aspects that can be trained in the Holy Spirit game. Zhao Mingwei is a prime example, and other professional players have also greatly enhanced their reflexes and physical condition through long hours of practicing PK.

But… those PVE players’ awareness progresses very slowly because monster fighting does not require them to focus on the monsters’ attack speeds.

Those large monsters may not require it, but future enemies like the Annihilation Legion and other invaders will all be humanoid monsters.

“Do we really need to find some sparring partners?” Jiang Qiao was already conceptualizing the gameplay of another world.

Jiang Qiao needed to find some NPCs with high combat skills and capabilities, like the previous Gun Knight, to serve as sparring partners for players.

“Let’s go, Hai Lan,” Jiang Qiao said.

“Where to now?” Hai Lan asked, her mouth all covered in cheese.

“To refine the gameplay in the other world. With the current progress of the players’ construction, the teleportation gate should be ready in two days, which is just perfect,” Jiang Qiao said.

Jiang Qiao opened the Book of Systems, which displayed a map of the other world.

In the current stage, Jiang Qiao had invested nearly two hundred thousand Creation Energy to build two areas of the other world.

The first area is located in the busiest pedestrian street area of Jiang City, the second is in the equally bustling Bund area of Upper City.

Both areas are interconnected within the other world, but as of now, there is still nothing inside.

But there was one more thing.

Jiang Qiao flipped through the pages of the Book of Systems, and a new page revealed a short line of text.

‘Holy Spirit Fund: 0’

“We should also start inviting some members to join our Holy Spirit Fund,” Jiang Qiao said, closing the Book of Systems.

“Who will you invite?”

“Of course, the first two guilds that paid our Holy Spirits their salaries,” Jiang Qiao replied.

……

A day later, inside the clubhouse of the Leaping Nucleus.

President Yin had been intensely immersed in the Holy Spirit game lately, but he still paid close attention to the operations of his companies.

The victory in the intercontinental competition had brought profits to the Leaping Nucleus club… more advertisers came seeking cooperation, and there was also an increase in professional league dividends by about three percent.

This three percent amounts to about two million in revenue, which is long-term.

Yet, the real major income for the club still came from advertisers, now hosting the hottest player Zhao Mingwei at their Club Conquer the World, they probably had their hands full accepting advertisements.

It truly made one envious!

President Yin’s cost of recruiting new talent in Holy Spirit was straining the club’s budget, but just a few more advertising deals would help them get through it.

The key was how to make money through Holy Spirit, and it wasn’t about making small change through gaming; it ultimately needed to be through guild management, turning losses into profits.

President Yin had already thought of some methods, but it needed time to implement them.

But as he pondered the future development of the Holy Spirit Guild of Leaping Nucleus… a sudden email alert popped up.

It was from an utterly unfamiliar sender, but the name at the beginning of the email caught his attention.

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‘Holy Spirit Fund Invitation.’

Holy Spirit Fund? What’s that?

Initially, President Yin thought it was a scam email, but upon opening it, he realized it was a very well-made scam, if it was one.

‘Leaping Group Co., Ltd., congratulations on being selected as a collaborator for the offline Holy Spirit event, please select the store and form of cooperation you wish…’

Scams riding on the Holy Spirit hype?

But President Yin clicked on the email link and realized it might not be simply a scam as the link led to the official Holy Spirit website, even with official certification.

He ran his antivirus software to scan his computer and used various anti-phishing tools to test it, yet it detected no problems.

Could it be true?

President Yin began to examine the content of this webpage…The webpage’s background was pitch black, displaying a map of the upper city within the darkness.

On the map of the upper city, three places in the Bund area were marked, places President Yin recognized—his own hotpot restaurants.

The Leap Group was not just involved with an esports club. To be precise, the esports club was something President Yin had set up for fun; their real fortune came from real estate and a major brand of hotpot restaurants.

The undignified title ‘Hotpot Little Prince’ was something President Yin had heard Bubble chase after him calling out a few years back, but in recent years, as President Yin no longer managed his family’s businesses and focused solely on operating the club, this embarrassing nickname had also faded into the past.

President Yin clicked on one of the hotpot restaurants on the Bund that did the best business, and several new options popped up.

‘Please select the product you want to promote offline.’

Seeing this prompt, President Yin instantly understood…wasn’t this just an advertisement for a game-linked offline promotion?

Dispute had also done this sort of thing, but getting Dispute to promote a certain product required paying Dispute’s parent company tens of millions in advertising fees, or else there was nothing to discuss.

How much were Holy Spirit’s advertising fees?

Zero.

‘Notice: The first offline collaboration with the Holy Spirit Fund is free, but the duration is only seven days.’

So it was just a trial? President Yin burst into laughter upon seeing this prompt…mainly because he knew that Holy Spirit’s offline collaborations weren’t very useful unless Holy Spirit used game qualifications as a reward. Otherwise, using in-game items as rewards was utterly pointless.

Considering Holy Spirit had only 120,000 players scattered across the country, who would specifically travel to this hotpot restaurant in the upper city for a game item?

No, it still had a little use; after all, it was free, so why not try it? Plus, President Yin just happened to need a mount.

President Yin casually chose a set meal from his own hotpot restaurant that was sufficient for five people, and then another new option popped up.

‘Please select the reward for offline promotion.’

The rewards could be chosen? However, there were only three.

All three options were mounts: a rainbow unicorn, a fat chicken named Fat Chiu, and another called the Battlefield Wheelchair.

Without a second thought, President Yin directly chose Fat Chiu, as he had already inquired and found out that Fat Chiu was the most powerful mount in Holy Spirit, and also the most rare!

There were only seven Fat Chius among the players on Holy Spirit’s server…

‘Offline event generation in progress, expected to launch in twelve hours.’

“Such a rare mount should attract quite a few Holy Spirit players, right? Has the investment paid off so soon?”

Seeing the words ‘Holy Spirit Fund,’ President Yin instantly felt reassured…it seemed that the Holy Spirit officials were not without desires or needs. Although President Yin wasn’t sure what Holy Spirit’s officials wanted right now, this offline event had indeed paid him back in full.

He was about to make a phone call to have the manager of the hotpot restaurant on the Bund coordinate the promotion for this offline event…when a pop-up window emerged on his computer.

President Yin had long been accustomed to such annoying pop-ups, so he prepared to close it as usual, but the two lines of text on the news pop-up made his hand jerk away as if electrocuted.

‘Shocking! Top player Zhao Mingwei from Sovereign chooses to breach contract and retire! Laughing Legend, a professional player of Dispute, is burdened with an entire 300 million in breach of contract fees!’

President Yin fell silent instantly upon seeing this title, and beneath it was another title that he found very…concerning.

‘In two days, the Bund in the upper city will host the first ever human history holographic show, which will be attended by delegations from several countries.’

President Yin rubbed his forehead…and then changed the phone number from that of the Bund hotpot restaurant’s manager to Mo Shigui.

“Coach Song, have you seen the news about Zhao’s retirement?” President Yin asked.

“I saw it; he told me about it yesterday,” Mo Shigui’s voice revealed no emotion.

“Can you contact him in reality?” President Yin asked again.

“Boss…I don’t think you can lure him over; he…doesn’t really like being a professional player,” Mo Shigui could only diplomatically tell President Yin, not because Zhao Mingwei had a disagreement with the management of Sovereign—he had been thinking about it for a long time.

“No, I just want to help him,” President Yin added.

“Help…him?” Mo Shigui guessed what President Yin might be trying to do, but surely President Yin couldn’t possibly be thinking of covering Zhao Mingwei’s 300 million breach of contract fees? That would be too extravagant, and Zhao Mingwei would definitely not accept it.

“I know the owner of Sovereign; he’s wealthy but a bit naive…so there must be some shady parts and loopholes in his contract with Zhao. I can get a lawyer to help him with a lawsuit,” President Yin said.

“…”

Mo Shigui didn’t know what to say; he opened his mouth but couldn’t find the words to respond.

“Zhao is a talent, isn’t he? We can’t let the financial issues in reality affect his gaming performance; the recent achievements in several instances of Leap Nucleus included his efforts, didn’t they?” President Yin said gravely.

“Yes.” Mo Shigui knew Zhao Mingwei was with the Jiang Qiao Guild, but Jiang Qiao now lived at the Leap Nucleus base, and Zhao Mingwei had settled down there, too.

“If you know him, invite him to meet at the Bund hotpot restaurant in two days to ask about his situation to see if he can withstand the public opinion from these past two days.”

As President Yin chatted with Mo Shigui, he was looking at the Dispute forum, which had now completely exploded; virtually the entire internet was blackening Zhao Mingwei, who had gone from National Guardian Saint to a battlefield deserter in just one night; only a tiny fraction of true fans were saying for Zhao Mingwei, ‘Maybe he was just tired?’

But no one could hear this small fraction of voices; once the black fans started…, no one could stop them.

“He won’t care about these; he’s probably lying down sleeping at home right now. I will talk to him,” Mo Shigui paused for a moment before saying, “Thank you.”