Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 23: Girls with Less Hair Have Better Luck

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Tiangong Game Platform Headquarters.

Xia Shan was sitting at her desk and checking on the new games uploaded onto the platform.

She was a normal employee at the company, and also a golden legendary existence within programmers… A female programmer.

Xia Shan’s job was normal, but her identity wasn’t at all. Her father was one of the people in charge of the reviewing department.

If she had her father’s help, she would be able to get into the reviewing and verification department which was a government-funded department, but she refused.

The reason was because she disliked her own father, and it was only because of a simple reason.

Even though he was in charge of reviewing and verifying games that were uploaded, but he didn’t play any games himself. He even retained the views of the older generation that video games weren’t good.

His pride made Xia Shan who loved video games dislike her father very much, to the point where she sneakily applied for programming courses in an act of defiance against her father. But in the end, she was still arranged to work at the official Tiangong Game Company.

“Sacred Souls? This game was uploaded three hours ago, by a game company called Number 13…Number 13…?” Xia Shan mumbled to herself thoughtfully.

Xia Shan noticed a game that was 5TB+ within the bunch of games that were newly uploaded, which could only be expected. Even though 3-4TB games were becoming increasingly normal within VR games, but any games that were 5TB and above were mostly extremely well-made games.

This type of game could only be made by large-scale game companies, and to her memory she didn’t know any large-scale game company by the name of Number 13.

Wait…

“Thirteen, did you make a new game?”

Xia Shan took out a small sphere with a digital display on it, and the pixels were arranged in a way that resembled two squinted eyes, and after Xia Shan shook it gently the digital eyes opened in response.

This was a popular digital pet in this world, with its main selling point that people could hold Tiangong-13 in their hands and treat it like a pet.

“Yes, yes, yes.” Three digital beeps sounded from this sphere.

The one that Xia Shan had was a little different from the ones on the market and it was still in testing. This version was connected directly to the system of Tiangong-13, and could be seen as Tiangong-13 itself.

“5TB…The game that you created while I was still in university was 6TB though?”

Xia Shan took out her VR helmet and wanted to download the game for a spin. She had experienced the game that Tiangong-13 had created three years ago too.

But that couldn’t really be called a game. The visuals were so beautiful and realistic that it could be used for virtual tourism, but the only ‘gameplay’ to speak of was just walking and walking and walking, so it could only be called a walking simulator.

“Let me download it.” Xia Shan was preparing to download, but a message popped out on the interface.

[You haven’t obtained beta testing qualification.]

“Activation qualification…” Xia Shan logged onto the official page of Sacred Souls, and on the minimalistic page was a drawing pool that she clicked into without much thought.

Perhaps it was because girls that had less hair had better luck, but the moment she clicked on the button a message popped out.

[Congratulations. You have obtained the qualification to play Sacred Souls. This qualification has been bound to your ID, and it won’t be able to be transferred to any third party.]

Xia Shan finished reading the message and immediately put on the helmet and downloaded the game, and with the connection speed at her company, the game finished downloading in around half an hour.

“Thirteen, what’s this game about?” Xia Shan asked the sphere on the desk before she logged into the game.

“It’s fun, very fun, super fun!”

“Alright, then I’ll believe you.”

Xia Shan remembered how Tiangong-13 had tricked her in the same way three years ago, and as she logged into the game, she closed her eyes.

The game that Tiangong-13 created three years ago had a flashing neon login page, and because she wasn’t prepared at that time it caused her sight to become somewhat worse, so she prepared herself well this time.

The first feeling that Xia Shan felt upon entering the game wasn’t flashing lights, but a gentle breeze on her face.

Breeze? Where was it coming from?

Xia Shan opened her eyes, and saw that she was in a pure white space with an interface unfurling in front of her.

[Please enter your game ID]

Sacred Souls was an online game? An online game made with artificial intelligence?

Xia Shan was immediately intrigued, and entered the ID that she had always used in games: EverlastingBlackHair, with the hope that she would suffer less hair loss while she was burning the midnight oil.

During the character creation part, Xia Shan seriously created a pretty appearance for her avatar, and she chose to be a gunslinger.

She saw that she could undergo class advancement into a Mechanic through this class, and Xia Shan had always been interested in toying with machines and the likes since she was little.

The next moment, she clicked on the submit button, before realizing that it was a game made with artificial intelligence.

Where did Tiangong-13 get these classes from?

As she was thinking about this problem, the next images that appeared in front of her made her lag like an old computer.

She was truly stunned in place as her eyes widened comically, her gaze fixed on the scenery that was in front of her.

The pure and holy white walls of Lionheart City stood in front of her with intricate golden patterns decorating the walls, giving Xia Shan the feeling that she was standing in the presence of one of the wonders of the world.

The thing that gave Xia Shan pause was the light breeze on her face, as well as the smell of fresh flowers.

She finally came to her senses and crouched down to grab a handful of dirt, the feeling of dirt and sand on her fingertips. The feeling was way too realistic, but three seconds later the dirt disappeared from her hand, as if reminding her that it was a game world.

“Thirteen, what have you done?” Xia Shan had several years of VR game design under her belt, so she knew how technically difficult it was the emulate the senses to such a degree, and how large of a scale the game company had to be to achieve such a feat.

No one replied her of course, and it was at this point that she realized that she was already in the main city, and that she was the female gunslinger called EverlastingBlackHair.

The scenery around her wasn’t the boring office, but the hustle and bustle of Lionheart City. Not far away, the newbie teacher was standing at the entrance of the Class Guild with a gentle expression.

Xia Shan looked around, and she could occasionally see a couple of players prancing through the streets.

She didn’t rush to go do the newbie missions, but instead slapping her cheeks with both her hands gently, feeling a slight sting and the same feeling on her palms.

What about the physics in this game? Xia Shan picked up a pebble from the ground, and a system message popped out.

[You have picked up a Pebble]

[Pebble]

[Projectile]

[Level Requirement: 0]

[Description: A regular pebble you can see everywhere.]

[Equipment stats: ATK 1~1]

Even this had a system message?

Xia Shan threw the pebble In front of her, and it curved perfectly before dropping onto the ground.

So the game engine was working well…What next?

At this moment, she took on the duties of a game reviewer, but different from all the others, Xia Shan thought of a strange way to go about it.

Could she find some weird ways to toy with the controls of the game?

When she realized that the physics in this world was extremely similar to the ones in the real world, she started treating the game like a simulation game and not an MMORPG.