This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist-Chapter 1068 Divine Game My World 13
Rita had already switched locations several times, but just like golden rain curtain could blanket the entire war cruise ship, Dawn Cicada’s floral scent could too.
During her escape, she even ran into Crab, who was being chased and hammered by Pine Bloom.
Crab was about the same size as Rita at the moment, and the two of them ran side by side for a stretch.
Behind them, Pine Bloom and Dawn Cicada chased in parallel, eyes locked on their targets. The game did not matter. Killing the person they wanted dead came first.
Rita shouted, "What did you do to piss her off?"
Crab sounded a little guilty as it explained, "It is the Four Seasons City thing. Sea Pony strengthened the curse this morning and extended the time Four Seasons City has to stay underwater..."
Even so, it could not stop itself from defending Sea Pony. "I told you not to doubt it. Sea Pony likes causing trouble, but it has a sense of limits."
Rita smiled for the first time today, genuinely. "HippieCrab, you are hilarious."
Pine Bloom was so furious her speech even picked up a hint of a southern Forest Sea accent. "I am hammering you at least twice. When I get back, I am killing that little seahorse."
"It is true!" Crab collapsed into despair. "Otherwise, with that personality, how would we have grown up safely? It must have dreamed something. In the dream, Four Seasons City needed to sink!"
As it blurted the last sentence, they reached a stairwell. Crab charged upward, while Rita dove down, splitting apart with their respective pursuers.
But Crab’s words stayed lodged in Rita’s mind.
What did it mean, needed Four Seasons City to sink?
Deep blue waves surged behind her and she vanished. When she reappeared in a corner, she put on the Isolated Antenna Baby.
Then she used her disguise skill and turned into a Tier 10 player with very distinctive features. She wandered the deck for a bit, successfully tricked an Abyss tier player into invading her, and filled her invasion slots.
Day Two passed in shaky peace, and everyone’s invasion progress slowed.
It was not only because invasion duels had become harder to initiate, but also because players now had more Honor Points. In an emergency, they could burn Honor Points in the shop to push invasion progress backward.
The invasion progress behaved like a bar advancing from both ends toward the center.
The total length was one hundred percent. If both sides pushed past forty percent at the same time, the conflict stalled. At that point, duels stopped mattering. The worlds had to compete on their own, forcing everyone to level up their worlds.
Rita was not stubborn enough to refuse help from Mistblade, Pine Bloom, and Crab forever, but not yet.
The later the game went, the harder it would become. Those three could occupy her invasion slots when necessary, shielding her from being invaded by stronger worlds.
And that night, starting at nine, players began dropping out.
[Player Balldrop Timely has exhausted all world change attempts and is exiting this Divine Game]
When Day Two ended, it became another full night of sitting in place.
But this night, on her twentieth use of Waste Guide, Rita felt danger.
The river of time grew violent.
During these two days of game time, she was not the only one using time techniques. Other players had been using various time skills as well.
[Time Turbulence: The river of time in this area has been repeatedly disturbed. It is angry. During this period, players who have used time based skills will be punished. Revere time as you revere fate.]
Her punishment was that until this Divine Game ended, she was forbidden from using Waste Guide.
Rita spread her arms and lay back on the balcony, her head resting against the railing, staring blankly at the star paths overhead.
She was sorting her thoughts, reviewing the patterns she had noticed over the past few days. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Why did Wrathful Moon only appear when they passed a ruined world dock?
If these ruined docks represented dead worlds, then what exactly was she cutting?
World fragments?
No. Based on what she currently understood, world fragments were one of the major reasons players went to war with another world. One of Forest Sea’s fragments was in BS itself. Why would a fragment be left in a public area?
Why were so many gods paying attention to Wrathful Moon’s behavior?
From the perspective of the river of time, every world had a dock. At the very start of the game she had even seen BS’s dock. So if you looked outward from a world, where was the exit?
Nivalis stayed quietly at her side, saying nothing.
It sensed many emotions in Rita. Confusion, hesitation, irritation, uncertainty, sadness.
But not despair. Not fear.
...
Day Three.
[No Light key player erupted before death and cursed Yet Orange key player who was invading No Light]
[Nuclear Flash key player formed an alliance with Snowfield key player]
[Emerald Crane key player...]
[Cup Word key player...]
[Hippie key player...]
The good news announcements on the war cruise ship kept increasing. Rita had no idea whether someone had adjusted the reward pool.
[Congratulations to player Fury Prayer for drawing a Demon King tier reward. One war skill randomly unlocked]
[Congratulations to player BS Mistblade for drawing an Overlord tier reward. One world skill randomly unlocked]
[Congratulations to player Lania Kaia Wither for drawing a Demon King tier reward. One war skill randomly unlocked]
[Congratulations to player Tiger EarQuex for drawing a Demon King tier reward. One war skill randomly unlocked]
Even Rita drew a reward when she completed an invasion.
[Congratulations to player BS Rita for drawing an Abyss tier reward]
[Abyss tier reward: You may appoint your key player as World Leader or World Lord]
Rita asked reflexively, "Is there no Adjudicator option?"
The system clearly lagged for a moment.
[No. Adjudicator is not a reward.]
"Then what is an Adjudicator?"
[It is a world’s trust.]
"Then... let her be World Leader."
Even if it was Beacon. Even if it was Vineborne.
She still did not want her to die with a world.
Perhaps the appointment truly motivated the little Vineborne. When the game ended this time, she took first place for the first time.
[Beacon world key player Divine Game ranking this round: 1]
[Key player score: 99 out of 100]
[Key player, due to cunning, did not want to shoulder the fate of countless beings]
[Key player feels cheated]
[Key player cursed at you for three hours inside the Divine Game]
[Beacon world became infamous once again]
So she had exploded after being pushed too far.
...
On Day Four, Rita could no longer avoid it. Or rather, after thinking all night, she decided she would not avoid it anymore.
A white planet struck the red flower shrouded cloud world.
[World "Snowfield" is invading world "Beacon"]
BS Rita met Dawn Cicada’s gaze.
Rita did not back down. Dawn Cicada did not immediately initiate an invasion duel either. Instead, she asked, "Want to see a war skill?"
Rita answered, "I have been waiting for it."
She did not bring out her two divine relics. Even though Nebula Bubble could help, it carried the risk of losing a divine relic.
The war cruise arena was like the amusement park ferris wheel. It was an official duel. If you lost, you would absolutely lose your divine relic.
When they stood face to face and the battle flag slammed down, enormous silhouettes appeared around the tiny bowl sized arena.
Mistblade, Pine Bloom, Crab, Fat Goose, Wither, Maple Syrup, and even Nivalis, whom Rita had left outside.
To the two about to duel, it felt like night had fallen.
Rita shouted, "What are you doing?"
Mistblade replied, "You two fight. We are just watching."
Crab added, "Yeah yeah."
Pine Bloom said, "Maple Syrup, Lania Kaia Pine Bloom misses home."
Maple Syrup snapped, "Go to hell."
Fat Goose asked, "Lania Kaia Crab, where are you planning to live later?"
Crab said, "Recommend me a place."
Rita: "..." When she got back, she was going to support the little seahorse and help it rise to power.
