Sacred Souls: Genesis - Chapter 22: Beta Testing Qualification

Chapter 22: Beta Testing Qualification

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In less than an hour, Jiang Qiao successfully pinned everything onto Tiangong-13.

“Done.”

Jiang Qiao exited Maker Mode, and the first thing he did was to go back to his bedroom and take out the laptop he used back when he wrote novels, placing it on the desk in the living room.

“You threw this onto that Tiangong-13?”

Ocean Blue held a pan that Jiang Qiao used to cook, and while Jiang Qiao was busy hacking into Tiangong-13, Ocean Blue was thinking about what Jiang Qiao meant by ‘pan’. (1)

“Not this sort of pan! I meant that players can download Sacred Souls from the official platform of Tiangong-13.”

Jiang Qiao logged onto the Tiangong Game Platform, which was the official game platform of Tiangong-13, as well as Hua Nation itself.

Every game made in Hua Nation was converged here, and it was a bit like Steam back on Earth. Of course, these games required verification and human testing before being put on the platform.

Of course, for a game that Tiangong-13 ‘created’, these verifications were completely unnecessary. In addition, the game Sacred Souls had the highest possible authority, meaning that it would be impossible to delete by human hands.

Jiang Qiao also set an information-lock system, basically locking down and deleting any news that was deemed unfavorable to the game online.

This was the convenience of the internet era.

Jiang Qiao typed in Sacred Souls in the search bar, and an upside-down icon appeared showing the only search result.

Sacred Souls

Genre: MMORPG

Price: Free to play

Storage required: 5.21 TB

All that data was stuffed in by Jiang Qiao willy nilly, and the Sacred Souls on the game platform was just a farce. Only players that had activation codes would be able to open the true opening to Sacred Souls.

“How can players obtain the privilege to enter the game?”

Ocean Blue put down the pan and walked in a circle around the table, before sitting down on the sofa and looking at the interface of the laptop.

“Three-quarters luck, and one-quarter ability.”

“I know about the luck part, but what do you mean by ability?” Ocean Blue waved a fist in the air. “Are you going to make them fight in the real world?”

“Not actual fighting! I meant this…”

Jiang Qiao opened his own game records on the platform, and as a former avid game player on this platform, he’d spent a lot of time playing the popular games on this platform.

The Tiangong Game Platform had its own achievements system for both online games and single-player games, and other than the achievement system, it had a stopwatch as well as a streaming and recording service as well.

There were several ways for players to prove themselves on this game platform.

Jiang Qiao used these functions of this platform and sent invitations to those players that performed exceptionally well in other games, while the remaining three quarters were drawn from a random prize pool so normal players could enjoy the game Sacred Souls.

“What if they can’t get the privilege?” Ocean Blue didn’t know about games in this world, so she didn’t know whether this game that Jiang Qiao created was actually fun or not.

“If they don’t achieve Level 15 in a month, the system will automatically relinquish them of their privilege. If they had the time to play until they reach Level 15, they would probably get too engrossed in the game to stop playing.”

Jiang Qiao used the word ‘probably’ in here because people had many different tastes and preferences so he couldn’t say for sure that everyone would like it, but a majority definitely would.

After all, Sacred Souls was an outstanding game by itself, and under Maker Mode, Jiang Qiao knew that the settings and gameplay of Sacred Souls would be interesting. The system and technology itself were already far more advanced than any game that had ever been created.

After all, there still hadn’t been a game that could precisely articulate and emulate real life and all human senses on the market.

“We barely have more than a hundred empty spaces…That isn’t enough however much you look at it, no?” Ocean Blue knew that there were 1.5 billion people in Hua Nation itself, and in front of such a large population, a quota of a hundred people wasn’t nearly enough.

“This would require the efforts of our beta players.” Jiang Qiao tore open the packaging of a piece of bread and started eating. “I’m going to open up a new world fragment as a dungeon in a few days, and every monster they defeat and every level they clear, they would be able to increase the limit of the server by a few members. Also, I think I should get a chance to build a guild…”

“Do you want to make one of those game clubs?”

“Hm…perhaps just for a small dream of mine.” Jiang Qiao muttered, nibbling on the piece of bread in his mouth.

“You’re half a Maker!” Ocean Blue reminded him duly.

“I have a Maker goddess in front of me right now, but isn’t she curling up on the sofa with a bucket of popcorn and watching comedies?” Jiang Qiao’s next sentence almost made her choke.

“It’s truly terrific to create a world, and I personally like this feeling too, but I have other hobbies too.” Jiang Qiao continued, “Being a Maker doesn’t come in the way of me being a player and an avid game player. You of all people should know that being a god is less interesting than it’s cut out to be.”

“Well…That’s true.” Ocean Blue bit at her lower lip lightly. The whole reason why she had sealed off her Maker Mode was because she was too much of a boring person in that state—Wanting nothing and having no needs, she was basically a saint!

“Let me put it this way. I have two identities, the first one being your contractor, the Maker Jiang Qiao. As this identity, I will protect the Sacred Souls world and guide the players to ensure its development, and that’s what I believe is interesting under this identity,” Jiang Qiao explained.

“But at the same time, I’m also a normal human. A normal student at Jiang Town University in his fourth year of studying finance, still unsure about whether he should apply to do his postgraduate studies, as well as an internet novel writer and a Sacred Souls player that’s interested in games, understood?”

“Then don’t I have two identities too?” Ocean Blue nodded thoughtfully and realized she was in the same situation.

“More or less, yeah.”

Jiang Qiao was a person with insane self-control and almost little to no habit of procrastination, and the most direct example of this was in how he always wrote his novels on the dot without any delay.

“What are you going to call your guild?” Ocean Blue didn’t continue to talk with Jiang Qiao about the philosophical topics, and judging from her expression she was about to suggest some bogus name like ‘The Church of Ocean Blue’ or something.

“I haven’t thought of one yet.”

Jiang Qiao was bad at naming, and he hadn’t thought of one in such a short time. He just thought that it was about time to create a guild now.

“Then what about…”

“Someone has already started drawing activation codes on the official page.”

Jiang Qiao opened up another pack of bread and stuffed it into Ocean Blue’s mouth, then opened up the official page of Sacred Souls.

The official page was designed to be simple and minimalistic, with no special designs other than an inverted triangle icon and the options to log onto the Tiangong game platform and to draw lots for activation codes.

Jiang Qiao didn’t program Tiangong-13 to promote Sacred Souls either, just setting it so that players could stumble upon on it when they were searching for games on the platform.

As Ocean Blue was still talking with Jiang Qiao, the thirty-seven out of seventy-five beta test qualifications had already been drawn.

As the thirty-eighth beta test qualification was drawn, a message popped out on Jiang Qiao’s desktop.

‘An official has obtained beta test qualification.’

This message was sent directly from Tiangong-13, reminding Jiang Qiao that one of the officials involved with Tiangong-13 had successfully drawn a gaming qualification.

[Game ID: EverlastingBlackHair.]

T/N:

To pin the blame on someone is expressed using the saying ‘to throw the pan/pot onto someone, which is why Ocean Blue was confused.