Sacred Souls: Genesis - Chapter 38: Drat! It’s the Feeling of Falling in Love!

Benefits?

Segman heard FluffyRabbit’s question, and cast his gaze to the party of adventurers again.

Personally, Segman would prefer to call them mercenaries, and he didn’t know where they came from, but since they cleared the level with Schuzel it meant that they were up for hire.

“I can definitely reward you handsomely! I can give you money or strong magical items, just tell me whatever you wish!”

When he said this, Segman was absolutely confident in his ability to reward them. He was the prince of Aquaflow, after all, and was one of the richest people in the four empires. He had never had a shortage of money or riches, and he had mountains of magic equipment that the regular mercenary would positively drool over.

As he finished his sentence, a new dialogue box appeared in front of FluffyRabbit, showing him the details of the quest.

[Foreign World Quest: Break Sacred Record]

[Description: The eldest prince of Aquaflow wants your help to clear the first level of the Tower of Trials, and create a whole new record with him in tow.]

[Quest Objective: Be the fastest to clear the first level of the Tower of Trials]

[Rewards: You will obtain a massive sum of Aquaflow currency and multiple pieces of equipment as a reward, and more rewards shall be unlocked upon further negotiation.]

In the rewards category, the words ‘Aquaflow currency’ and ‘multiple pieces of equipment’ were in blue font, meaning that he could click on them and check on the details of the two items.

FluffyRabbit chose to do so, pressing a lithe and pale finger to the two words, and the stats of the two items appeared in a window in front of him.

……

[Aquaflow Currency]

[Other Item]

[Description: Currency from a certain country in another world with low gold content and almost nonexistent magical power. It holds no value in the world of Sacred Souls, but can be smelted for a meagre amount of meagre amount material.

[Effects: None]

[Value: 0]

All these descriptions all pointed to one irrefutable fact, that these gold coins were just a bunch of scrap metal that couldn’t even be sold in shops. The most it could do is to be given to subclass Blacksmiths to increase their proficiency.

As for the bunch of equipment behind it, FluffyBunny almost yawned out loud as he looked at them.

The equipment that Segman could offer was all magical equipment, which was equivalent to Blue equipment in the eyes of Sacred Souls players.

FluffyRabbit had almost finished collecting a whole set of Purple equipment, and he even had an Orange equipment called the Amulet of Prayer. This was a set of equipment suited for players around Level 30, and he would have to change another set in the future.

“Segman, the reward that we wish for is this…” FluffyRabbit reached inside his bag, and pulled out a magical stone that the prince of Darkfire commissioned them.

Because FluffyRabbit was the type of player to get really into character when he played, so his voice was getting more and more affectionate and feminine too.

“Magical stones? How many would you want?” Segman recognized the stone that FluffyRabbit was holding.

These luminescent stones were used as materials to craft magical staves in their world, and they were sometimes used as magical elixirs to replenish their magic. That being said, the impurities in the magical stones weren’t so easily absorbed.

“I…I need to think about it.”

Perhaps it was because of his Eloquence and Charm, but FluffyBunny had never seen such a compliant NPC.

“Rabbit my alarm is ringing, it’s already nine!”

MomADogIsBarking who was spectating at the side spoke suddenly, telling the team news that was worse than their party being wiped out.

“The f*ck you mean it’s nine?! Why didn’t my f*cking alarm go off?!” FluffyRabbit was the first to scream, his wails so piercing that the voice changer almost glitched, his gentle and holy aura shattering like glass immediately.

“It’s nine, go offline.” SingingInTheRain glanced at InkFlashback who disappeared in a flash, a system notification saying that the latter had gone offline popping out.

“What is Coach in such a rush for?!”

“The boss is going to check on us today, why else?”

As they said so, they both disappeared in a flash in front of Segman. Before the clueless prince could react, FluffyRabbit stepped forward and grabbed Segman’s hands with his own, leaning in and looking up at him with puppy-dog eyes.

At this moment, Segman could only smell a fragrant aroma that was…hard to explain. The feeling was like being held in a lover’s embrace, and was so comfortable that Segman didn’t want to leave.

The reason why FluffyRabbit did so was because of a strange option that popped out suddenly in the dialogue box.

Try and become closer with him (Raises affection with Segman by 50. Chance of becoming friends with him, minuscule probability of him becoming enamored with you. Difficulty of future quests accepted from this NPC decreases substantially. Required movement: Hold his hands, Affection requirement: 20)

As a professional player, FluffyRabbit wouldn’t let go of the chance to raise the affection of any NPC regardless of gender, not to mention an NPC that looked so important, so he chose to follow the instructions of the option.

As it turns out, it was definitely super effective.

Holding FluffyRabbit’s cool and lithe hands, Segman felt as if his heart was grabbed tightly.

“Tomorrow! Make sure to wait for us here, okay? At this time! We’ll accept your request, so talk about it later…” FluffyRabbit paused for a bit, tucking a strand of his silver hair behind his ear, looking up at Segman with his red eyes as he said in a tone that made people want to hold him, “I-Is that okay…?”

This…This…His upbringing as a noble told him that he should honor the wishes of a lady.

At this moment, Segman felt like a young boy who had just started etiquette classes, and after stuttering around to no avail, he only nodded slightly.

As Segman nodded, a notification that his affection towards FluffyRabbit increased popped out in his field of view.

As soon as he saw this notification, FluffyRabbit immediately let go of Segman’s hands.

“Fifty affection just like that? Wow, what would happen if my Charm increased by another five points? F*ck, I’m gonna be the most attractive one in our party, who needs BlackPot?” FluffyRabbit muttered to himself, before disappearing in a flash of light.

This left Segman all by himself with his rapidly beating heart…Drat! It’s the feeling of falling in love!

[Name: Segman]

[Level: Level 32]

[Class: Mage]

[Description: A native of this world]

[Status: Charmed (by FluffyRabbit)]

After seeing this status of Segman’s from his inspection spell, Jiang Qiao couldn’t help laughing out loud.

“Hahahahaha!”

‘This is the method of controlling players that you mentioned?” Ocean Blue watched as Jiang Qiao spectated on the conversation, watching as he composed and made the sixth choice appear on the spot.

“Now now, I’m just enriching their gaming experience! Wasn’t that girl happy?” Jiang Qiao stifled another laugh as he appeared in the plane and walked over to Segman who was still immersed in the FluffyRabbit’s aroma.

“It’s…you?”

Segman quickly noticed Jiang Qiao walking over to him and quickly hid his hands behind his back, but his cheeks were still burning with embarrassment.

“Yes, but it’s not you that I’m here for. I’m here for your mentor over there…Ah, but he’s not really your mentor now, is he?”

Jiang Qiao cast his gaze to the old mage who had gone mute behind Segman whose gray pupils had become a golden shade of amber.

As Jiang Qiao cast another inspection spell on that old mage, a whole new status box appeared.

[Name: Ancient Tower Protector]

[Level: Level 60]

[Class: Omnipotent]

[Race: Half-Deity]

[Description: The will of the master of the tower has possessed this mortal]