Chapter 31 (1/2)

Jiang Qiao was finally done with the character model of the Faerie Merchant NPC, with its use being to exchange magic stones with it to obtain new skins.

The siblings of this merchant would be accompanying the players for a long time in the future, because every time otherworldly dungeons appeared, they would appear and allow players to exchange items for skins or mounts.

After setting a Decomposition Machine by Miss Enhancer, Jiang Qiao added some small tweaks to the Player System itself. He set it so that when players broke any records, the data would not only be recorded on the stone slab but also be able to be seen through a player’s system interface.

After making several tweaks to enhance the players’ gaming experience, Jiang Qiao opened a Teleportation Gate back to the Astrology Tower in order to prepare for the unveiling of the new dungeon.

“Where should I place the entrance of the dungeon?” Jiang Qiao muttered to himself as he opened the main map of Sacred Souls.

As of now, Sacred Souls only had one continent and four cities, with an endless sea surrounding the mainland.

Lionheart City was at the heart of the four cities, with Level 1~20 monsters spawning around it as well as a Level 20 dungeon. To its north was Hawktalon City with Level 20~30 monsters spawning around it, as well as four dungeons of varying difficulty. Moving back south, there were Wolfheart City and Frostdeer City, with a total of eight dungeons.

Same with the level progression from above, the frost-and-snow styled maps were the last exploration points for players in this version of the game, with Level 50 monsters and four Level 50 dungeons.

There were also dozens of small towns and villages scattered around the map, but Jiang Qiao didn’t take them into consideration.

The exploration and discovery aspect of Sacred Souls was quite fleshed out. Just the class-changing system and secret missions were enough for players to spend almost half a year, Jiang Qiao however still needed to continue updating with new versions.

The update this time was on the new dungeon, the Tower of Trials.

“I’ll set the entrance at Lionheart Harbor.” Jiang Qiao chose this location as he scrolled around the main map, the harbor itself being a Level 15~20 training area while the Tower of Trials was a Level 25~50 dungeon.

As Jiang Qiao decided to place the entrance of the Tower Plane Fragment at the harbor, a miniature tower appeared in Jiang Qiao’s palm like a chess piece, and as if he were playing a game of chess he set it down on the shore nearby Lionheart Harbor.

After he did so, he shifted the position of the tower frivolously, and he even took out a ruler to check the angle between the tower and the lighthouse in Lionheart City before pointing at the tower with a finger.

As he did, the gray tower filled with color and Jiang Qiao felt a slight tremor from the Astrology Platform.

Jiang Qiao quickly made his way to the edge of the Astrology Platform and cast a gaze into the distance, and on the horizon a pure white tower appeared at the harbor, its spire reaching the clouds along with the tremors from the earth and splashing waves.

“Alright, now to set the dungeon challenging limit to infinite, and make the first level available for Level 25~35 players, the second level for Level 35~40 players, and so on and so forth…Now what’s left is to just let the players test this dungeon out.”

The first person that Jiang Qiao thought of was Zhao Mingwei, and because he only came online at night, Jiang Qiao decided to send some private messages to him after some thought.

He was going to ask whether he wanted to ‘challenge a dungeon later?’ but after some thought he deleted it and changed it to ‘I’m going to make a guild, wanna join?’

There were already three guilds in Sacred Souls, but there weren’t many members in them. While Jiang Qiao had wanted to create a guild, not to contest for the greatest guild but just for the sake of having a good time with a bunch of close-knit friends.

Jiang Qiao had created a guild back in War, but there weren’t much people that joined, and after Jiang Qiao stopped playing, the few people that he had been keeping in contact with also went AFK.

Jiang Qiao wasn’t a solo player. He was plenty clear about the importance of having fun with a group of friends—That was the point of a multiplayer online game, after all.

‘Alright, wait for me to get online.’ Zhao Mingwei quickly replied to Jiang Qiao.

This reply was given from the Sacred Souls App which enabled players to replay to their in-game friends through it.

After he saw the reply, he paced around the Astrology Platform looking at the harbor, seeing that several players have already discovered the dungeon entrance.