This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist-Chapter 1170: After She Left

It was like a song being cut off at its highest note.

Just a second ago, QM Mojie was still loudly warning the other Quiet Mountain players to be careful of SS Rita. Her skills were strange, because his SSS level anti theft skill had not taken effect.

"Could be an ultimate."

QM Cicada and QM Frenzied Shark were already preparing to open a teleport array and leave for now.

Then time seemed to freeze.

A massive Quiet Mountain phantom appeared behind SS Rita, and in the next instant, she vanished.

A hollow voice echoed through the air.

"Starsea player BS Rita has been expelled. The game will continue."

BS Crab screamed, "Quiet Mountain is shameless!"

Worried that the Quiet Mountain players might not understand, it deliberately cursed in Binast.

Since the Card Swap game, whenever large groups of players gathered, everyone would unconsciously use this language. Players from the Quiet Mountain world could understand it too. Without anyone noticing, it had become a common tongue.

QM JE said unhappily, "Watch your mouth."

As the two traded words, the remaining Starsea players on the field slowly gathered together. Even Starsea Cicada, who had rushed into the cage the moment the water curtain dispersed, was now moving closer to the Starsea group.

The Quiet Mountain players, on the other hand, remained scattered across the air and ground. Some stood, some crouched, some swam leisurely through the sky, all watching them with lazy, casual indifference.

Winter Sea Frenzied Shark complained, "The moment BS Rita left, they all got arrogant again."

TingoAutumn Deer stared at the once again elegant and upright QM Frost Deer and felt a strange sense of familiarity. This really was its mom. But that did not stop it from mocking the Quiet Mountain players.

"Yeah, like we all forgot who was crying after getting beaten by BS Rita just now."

QM Rita, who was removing her chainmail gloves and wiping her eyes with her knuckles, paused and glanced over.

TingoAutumn Deer said, "It was me."

Winter Sea Frenzied Shark silently took a step away, drawing a clear line.

The atmosphere on the field turned extremely strange.

The water curtain rose again, and everything seemed to return to the beginning.

Inside the cage, Quiet Mountain players and Starsea players faced off once more. Only this time, the Starsea side had gone from one person to seventy seven players of different races.

At this moment, Starsea alone had six tier eighteen players. Nuclear Flash NightFury, Dawn Cicada, Tiger Ear Kessa, TingoAutumn Deer, BS Crab, and Fury Prayer.

Yet the expressions of the Quiet Mountain players were far less tense than before.

QM Rita alone could stall all six of them.

Just as SS Rita could face six Quiet Mountain players by herself.

As for the rest of the Starsea players, they were no real threat. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Thinking back to how hard the fight had been earlier, even dying once, QM Mojie could not help but complain quietly to QM Rita, "How did you end up raising SS you as well..."

QM Rita snorted lightly. "Even without me, she would never pass up such a good chance in the demon game. She is Another Me. She would not be satisfied."

QM Maple Syrup said, "But why is she still tier fifteen? SS combat ratings are not based purely on combat power?"

QM JE rolled over in the water curtain. "Who knows. Starsea seems to have a lot of war going on. They would not count war abilities too, right."

They chatted so casually, like discussing the weather on a lazy afternoon, not as if they were facing an imminent war.

This contempt stabbed into the hearts of the Starsea players.

SS Mistblade stared at the QM Mistblade leaning against the cage in the distance. From start to finish, the other had only looked at her once, then seemed to completely lose interest.

She reached out and gripped the hilt of her blood mist longblade.

"I thought I would wait until the day we invaded Nuclear Flash before unsealing myself. But this is worth it too."

Nuclear Flash NightFury: ???

The chatting Quiet Mountain players all fell silent. Their gazes turned to a single spot on the field as SS Mistblade’s presence surged upward.

HP, mana, strength, constitution, agility, intelligence all skyrocketed.

The pressure around her formed a vortex. White fur black tipped fox ears and nine fox tails whipped wildly in the wind.

Blood mist burst from her chest, condensing into a second blood mist longblade in midair. Then a third.

Her combat tier jumped rapidly from sixteen to seventeen, eighteen, nineteen.

Three blade style, tier nineteen, ladder rank one, BS Mistblade.

With the third blade clenched in her mouth, BS Mistblade charged straight at QM Mistblade.

No one expected BS Mistblade to be the one to ignite the battlefield, but the moment she moved, every Starsea player moved as well.

All Starsea originals rushed toward their own copies.

Even Winter Sea Frenzied Shark, only tier seventeen, did not hesitate. Even knowing she would lose, she refused to shrink back.

Any player who made it this far in the Divine Game, any player chosen by Quiet Mountain to be copied, was anything but ordinary.

Pain did not discriminate. But how one chose to face pain separated mediocrity from excellence.

My Quiet Mountain self is stronger than me?

Then let us try.

Lightchaser, Ash Cinders, Nuclear Flash NightFury, Fury Prayer, TingoAutumn Deer and others charged toward QM Rita.

In this moment, each Starsea player found their own opponent. Without communication or coordination, they reached a different kind of tacit understanding.

Blades screeched against the ground as QM Rita used her knife to wake the Starsea players up.

She made them understand why SS Rita had been able to fight Quiet Mountain players back and forth.

Because she was a student personally trained by QM Rita.

Three minutes later, TingoAutumn Deer’s HP was down to a sliver.

Fury Prayer blocked a strike for it.

"Go. You cannot die by her hand."

Whale Fall in the Wind had already fallen into QM Rita’s hands. Delicious Funeral could not be lost as well.

TingoAutumn Deer did not act stubbornly at such a moment. Or rather, it had no time to be stubborn.

Lightchaser twisted her wrist. The hilt struck TingoAutumn Deer’s antlers, and a skill directly teleported it away.

As domineering as ever.

QM Rita’s gaze swept over Lightchaser and Ash Cinders. She curled her lips in a cold smile.

"You are her teachers? Then do you know she used acting immersion to hypnotize herself into feeling pain when killing you? Because only that way would the demon game not alter her nightmare, and her demon game task could forever stay at its simplest point."

In other words, she treated those feelings as stepping stones to grow stronger.

Lightchaser’s expression did not change at all. "She did very well. When she gets back, I will remember to praise her."

Ash Cinders laughed. "She always makes me glad, again and again, that I did not miss her back then."

In first year, she regretted that Rita was not her apprentice. In third year, she regretted not going to the bridge lake to pick her up. Fortunately, in fourth year, she did not miss her again.

Forced back by BS Mistblade’s assault, QM Mistblade lifted her gaze toward QM Rita.

To her surprise, the latter showed not the slightest ripple of emotion.

At this moment, she had seen with her own eyes what another version of herself possessed, yet it could not stir even a ripple in her heart.

QM Mistblade laughed soundlessly.

She thought that QM Rita’s nightmare was probably about to change again.

For her, what could be more terrifying, more painful, than losing to another version of herself?

Which one was inferior?

Whoever lost would be.

QM Mistblade fixed BS Mistblade with a cold stare.

"Three blade style? I can do that too."