Chapter 51: Countermeasure

Jiang Qiao could feel a strong hatred coming from this woman in front of her towards Ocean Blue, and even though she seemed expressionless from the outside, her sword was quite honest.

Jiang Qiao had been split into fifths in another moment.

“I just wanted to ask one question!” After being insta-killed for the fifth time, he completely gave up any chance to resolve things with her peacefully. “You…Do you have a second mode?”

“Second…Mode…?” Queen Maya pondered for a bit, before splitting Jiang Qiao further into fifteen fractions in confusion.

“Fine, let’s meet in battle then…Wait, I mean, you wait here for me to call reinforcements!”

After throwing down a declaration like a dog that had been beaten up, he disappeared in a flash of light.

As Jiang Qiao opened his eyes again, Ocean Blue was leaning close to him with a worried expression.

The moment he saw Ocean Blue, Jiang Qiao retreated reflexively before comparing the goddess in front of him with the queen that completely won in terms of beauty and aura, and sighed aloud.

“What are you sighing for this time?” Ocean Blue had noticed Jiang Qiao sigh as he looked at her time and time again, and she was quite perplexed what it was about her that caused it.

“Nothing, I just think that the final boss this time is a little hard to deal with.”

“Hard to deal with? What was their name, perhaps I can think of their weaknesses?”

Ocean Blue wanted to help Jiang Qiao in her normal state and not in Maker Mode, and normally she could only help Jiang Qiao… clear out the food that was almost going to expire in the fridge.

“Her name was Maya Steyn, do you have any recollection of her?” Jiang Qiao wanted to know her weaknesses, and if she had any trump cards hidden up her sleeve.

“I don’t think I know her…” Ocean Blue sighed. “I don’t remember a lot from my original world, and I only remember some useless stuff.”

“That’s alright.” Jiang Qiao didn’t expect Ocean Blue to be able to do anything in the first place.

“How is she hard to deal with?” Ocean Blue continued to ask.

“She’s pretty and quite dignified, too pretty, in fact.” Jiang Qiao thought that was the greatest edge the queen had over players, far scarier than any instant death skills she might have.

“What’s hard to deal about that?” Ocean Blue couldn’t understand Jiang Qiao anymore.

“If the final boss is too good looking, the players might rebel.”

“What?”

“They would make an order of knights in her name to protect her, for example.”

Jiang Qiao seriously told her the bad news, but Ocean Blue was still confused on what he was talking about.

“Let me put it this way. I’ve said that Sacred Souls is an amusement park for the players, and the monsters, elite monsters, and bosses are considered as playthings for them. With that being said, the players might take a liking to these playthings. When a boss that’s strong, beautiful and has a special charm, there will definitely be doujin… Bah, there’s going to be trouble, basically.”

“Is it not enough for those players to have me?” Ocean Blue finally understood what Jiang Qiao was getting at, and so she crossed her arms over her chest indignantly and said, “As a goddess, aren’t I stronger and more beautiful than any female enemy?”

“Uhm…”

Jiang Qiao removed his gaze discreetly from Ocean Blue, and opened the System Tome to plan further.

“Don’t try and avoid the subject! Do you really think that I would lose to that whats-her-name queen? If I make my debut, the players would probably…”

“Ocean Blue, the black pepper steak that I ordered is here. Can you help me fetch it?”

“So quick?! Ah….Alright, I understand.” Ocean Blue was going to continue on the topic of whether she was prettier or the queen was, but she relented due to the black pepper steak.

Jiang Qiao used this time to open the System Tome and check on the amount of Maker Energy he had left.

He had 17400 points left, and every few seconds or so it would be increased by several dozen.

These were the points that the players helped him earn through the Tower of Trials.

According to the multiple times Jiang Qiao and Queen Maya had clashed…More like a massacre on one end, Queen Maya could absorb the Maker Energy from Ocean Blue’s creations.

This was quite a piece of bad news.

“You tricked me, it was just fried chicken chop!” Ocean Blue suddenly went online and shouted.

“Leaving that aside, this dungeon with your divinity fragment is going to be quite hard.” Jiang Qiao closed the System Tome, knowing that they couldn’t let the players revive endlessly and clear the dungeon with their lives like they always do.

“Is that human really that beautiful?”

“Not that! She has the ability to absorb your Maker Energy,” Jiang Qiao explained.

“No, that’s not possible! But if she had my divinity fragment, she would probably be able to do it…”

Ocean Blue started thinking of ways to deal with it, but with her current ability she had no way to restrict the queen from absorbing her Maker Energy.

“In the world of Sacred Souls, the players don’t use up any energy from dying and reviving because it’s basically just transporting them from one point to another, but in that plane, the players would probably be absorbed by the beings of that plane. In conclusion, we would have to use more energy to revive them,” Jiang Qiao concluded promptly.

“How much?” Ocean Blue asked curiously.

“Not much, only a few dozen. But seeing as we have so many players it might be quite a large number. Not only that, the more times they revive, the more energy we have to expend.” Jiang Qiao told Ocean Blue some news that gave her pause. “But I have a theory that the players would be able to retrieve their energy if they defeat the monster that killed them in the first place.”

“Where did you get that theory from?”

“A game.” Jiang Qiao started to think about how to design this large-scale dungeon. “We just have to increase the death penalty from dying in the Divinity Fragment Plane, starting from the NPC that players come into contact with the most.”