Sacred Souls: Genesis

The Tower Plane Fragment was as described earlier, a simple dungeon plane.

Entering this plane, Jiang Qiao saw a pure white tower reaching into the heavens, and this tower itself was floating in the sky, and there was only a small space in front of the tower reserved for people that came here to prepare themselves.

As Jiang Qiao stared at the tower thinking about which NPCs to place under it, an unfamiliar voice called him from behind.

“Young one, which country’s mage are you?”

Jiang Qiao turned over to see an old man in mage’s robes, with a team of mages dressed similarly behind him. The ones that were younger looked at Jiang Qiao warily, as if he was a potential enemy.

The system of Sacred Souls brought with itself a translation system, so it could translate every language of every plane on the star map.

After playing this game for a while, Jiang Qiao developed the habit of using an inspection spell on whoever he met.

The inspection spell was much more useful than an introduction, and Jiang Qiao naturally threw an inspection spell at the old man as soon as he saw him.

[Name: Purie]

[Level: 45]

[Class: Mage]

[Description: A native of this plane.]

“An NPC?” Jiang Qiao saw this short description, and he quickly knew where these people were from.

These people were described to be natives of the Tower Plane Fragment, but actually this plane fragment in itself was an extension of a complete plane. To the natives of that plane, this was something like a place to put themselves to the test.

These people were the natives of the complete plane, or NPCs in the eyes of Jiang Qiao.

“I’m just a wild mage.” Jiang Qiao made up an identity on the spot. If it was possible, he would want to get some news from these natives.

“Wild mage? From the way you dress, are you a mage from Darkflame Country?” The old mage ran his fingers through his beard as if he had already guessed it. “But the staff you have in your hand doesn’t look like something a wild mage would have…”

Sorry, his epic staff was looted from a monster, so it would be more accurate to call him…A barbarian?

Meaning he was a solo player with no party or guild.

“If you say so.” Jiang Qiao didn’t want to continue explaining to this old mage that seemed to be a know-it-all.

“Are you going to challenge the Tower of Trials by yourself?” The old mage asked again.

“Yep.”

Jiang Qiao had truly wanted to test out the contents of this dungeon, but when Jiang Qiao nodded, the younger mages behind the old mage laughed.

“Young one, the Tower of Trials isn’t as easy as you think it is. Even though you won’t truly die in this dungeon, you will suffer a heavy blow to your psyche!”

Ah…Sorry, the most that would happen was that he’d lose some EXP.

“I see.” Jiang Qiao nodded as if he were learning a lesson humbly. He needed this old mage to give him exposition on the tower, after all.

“With your ability, you would probably only be able to challenge the first level, but it would be exceedingly difficult to clear by yourself,” the mage continued advising Jiang Qiao.

“Then what if I cleared the first level?” Jiang Qiao asked innocently, acting like a newbie mage that didn’t know a bit about this place, and at this point the younger mages behind the old mage laughed even louder.

“Give up your way of thinking, child… I’ve seen a lot of geniuses who had tried to challenge the tower by themselves when they were young, only to get defeated horribly!”

“Mentor Purie, I don’t think we should waste any more time on this ignorant mage, no?” A young mage asked from behind the old mage.

Jiang Qiao threw another inspection spell at him.

[Name: Segman]

[Level: 32]

[Class: Mage]

[Description: A native of this plane.]

“I see unbelievable potential in this young one, I believe he would be able to act as the last member of your team.” The old mage started to refer him to the group out of the blue.

What potential? Would being able to get loot from the monsters inside count?

Jiang Qiao didn’t say anything because he didn’t know the context, but he continued listening silently. He felt he needed to give some attention to the old mage after he said so much information about the tower.

“A stranger? Mentor! We haven’t trained for a whole year just to clear the first level, but to get the legendary rewards from it too!”

“I”ll just look, I won’t be a bother.” Jiang Qiao spread out his arms nonchalantly in a show that he really didn’t have any interest in joining their team either.

“Hm, Segman is going to be thirty years old next week so he has no more time to practice. Alright, alright, get in there after getting prepared, children.”

After the old mage finished saying this, the five young mages entered the Tower of Trials under both their gazes.

The old mage himself came in front of the six large stone slabs in front of the Tower of Trials.

Jiang Qiao looked at the large stone slabs too, and the first five stone slabs had been completely covered with scribbles, while there was only a single line of words on the last stone slab.

According to the translation of the system, these words were all names. For example, the first line on the first stone slab had the names Purie Fionis, Elaine Fionis, Sez Relzet…Along with three other names.

There were a bunch of numbers behind the six names that recorded time, and according to the translation of the system, it was forty-two minutes and fifty-three seconds.

After seeing the numbers, he finally understood what the so-called legendary prize was.

It was the leaderboard for the clearing speed!

How did he not expect that there were even leaderboards in other worlds?

But wouldn’t it be more interesting?

Jiang Qiao looked at the old mage next to him, noticing that the first name on the stone slab was the name of this old mage.

“Why aren’t you entering the first level with them?” Jiang Qiao asked curiously.

“Young one, is this the first time you’ve been at the Tower of Trials? The first level is only for children that are under thirty years old; I’m already a hundred!” The old mage shook his head, but he couldn’t control the pride on his face upon seeing his name on the top of the leaderboard.

Suddenly, he thought of something and turned over to Jiang Qiao. “Young one, what’s your name? How old are you?” The old mage asked, thinking that Jiang Qiao’s appearance was extremely young yet the magical energy he could feel from him wasn’t that much weaker than those of his best students.

“Me? My name is NoUpdatesToday, and I’m around twelve days old.” Jiang Qiao replied seriously.

“What?”

The old mage was a little speechless upon hearing his introduction, as if he thought he had heard wrong.

“NoUpdatesToday, twelve days old. Zero years and twelve days old, not even a full month, can you understand?”

Jiang Qiao honestly told him the age of this account, and it was the truth; It had only been twelve days since the server opened.

“Your name is…NoUpdates…What?” The old mage was completely confused, and he thought it was just a slip of the tongue.

“Today,” Jiang Qiao completed the name for him.

“How old are you, again?”

“Twelve days old.”

“That’s…Your age?”

“Are we doing a comedy skit?” Jiang Qiao didn’t know whether he should laugh or cry.

“Youngsters nowadays love joking, I see…If you aren’t willing to tell me, I won’t ask any longer. Darkfire and Aquaflow are enemies, after all.” The old mage said, not wanting to continue the topic any longer.

He was telling the truth old man! In a few days, he would probably see a bunch of even stranger names, and an even larger bunch of players that weren’t even a month old.