This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist-Chapter 1177 Flower Crown Murder Cultivation Guide

Only a few minutes after the new game rules were announced, Rita had already received applications from hundreds of worlds.

Just as Mistblade said, because BS had BS Rita, even though these world leaders could already foresee BS’s predicament from the notice about the second pendulum strike, they were still willing to gamble. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Not only because the Adjudicator of BS was her, but also because no one would ever put all their chips on a single world. With quotas in place anyway, sending part of their population to BS and part to other worlds was the safest choice.

Rita informed Shadow.Q and the legion commanders to prepare. Back when she started writing World Sigh and deciding to take in wandering players, she had already mentioned this possibility to them and told them to be ready.

Honor points were indeed something Rita urgently needed right now. There were quite a few useful items she could buy from the honor shop.

She set several rules for BS accepting life forms, such as requiring a certain proportion of roaming players from defeated worlds, minimum percentages of children, and so on.

After finishing all this, she looked back at Mistblade.

"Do you want to stay and eat?"

Mistblade raised an eyebrow in displeasure. Was she already being shown the door?

She pretended not to understand and smiled.

"I’m hungry anyway. Then thank you, Adjudicator."

Seeing Nivalis and Y128 who had been waiting in the dining room for quite a while, Rita sighed, got up, and walked over, taking out all kinds of dishes she had made earlier while practicing cooking from her inventory.

Mistblade followed and helped set the table.

When the room fell quiet, Mistblade suddenly asked,

"When you saw us arrive outside the water curtain cage, were you happier, or were you more suspicious of our motives?"

Rita placed the last dessert on the table and looked up at Mistblade, smiling slightly. The oppressive sense of authority that had made Mistblade uncomfortable faded a little.

"Happy," Rita said.

"I didn’t doubt your motives, because there was no need to. Whether as my friends or as my enemies, only those with firm goals are qualified."

...

Deceitful Bloom was watering flowers. Recently, she had planted a batch of Flower Crown Murder.

In Beacon, this flower was notorious for being extremely difficult to cultivate.

Some Vineborne even liked to call it the bully of flowers.

Once Flower Crown Murder was planted in a flowerbed, the varieties of other flowers within at least a thousand meter radius had to be chosen very carefully.

If the nearby flowers happened to be compatible and were liked by Flower Crown Murder, then while Flower Crown Murder absorbed their nutrients and magic, it would also give more back, and both types of flowers would grow even better.

But if the nearby flowers were ones Flower Crown Murder disliked, or if their growth disturbed Flower Crown Murder, then Flower Crown Murder would live up to its name and murder them by draining their nutrients and magic.

If that were all, it would still be manageable. The real problem was that each patch of Flower Crown Murder that formed a domain had different preferences. There was no pattern at all.

For this patch of Flower Crown Murder, Deceitful Bloom had cleared out a huge empty area.

"Didn’t you say before that you absolutely refused to plant Flower Crown Murder?" Foolishness said, sitting by the flowerbed with her legs crossed, enjoying afternoon tea.

She had heard Deceitful Bloom complain more than once about how troublesome Flower Crown Murder was.

"...I was bored," Deceitful Bloom replied.

"Oh. I thought after coming back from Quiet Mountain you’d burn them all to the ground."

"I’ll burn them after I get them to survive."

As they were chatting, a patch of Starsea lit up in the sky, and the SS voice echoed through the garden.

"Deceitful Bloom, there’s something I need to remind you of."

Without lifting her head, Deceitful Bloom asked, "What is it?"

"In the next Divine Game, you need to be careful. She has a pretty big issue with you."

Deceitful Bloom finally stopped what she was doing. She let go, allowing the blocky fountain toy that was clutching its head and screaming that it was innocent to fly off, and asked, "How so?"

"She asked me about Quiet Mountain, asked whether you were sent by me. She is SS’s future, and you are SS’s past. To me, you are both important, so I explained a bit for you. I said that although I arranged for you, I cannot force gods to do anything."

"And her reaction?" Deceitful Bloom already guessed it, a smile appearing on her face.

"She said, ’You gave the task and she accepted it, but the way she carried it out was her own choice, so everything she did was intentional.’"

Deceitful Bloom couldn’t help but laugh softly.

"I see."

After the Starsea dimmed, Foolishness said,

"Looks like she’s really angry. So angry that even knowing you objectively helped her can’t calm it. After all, it’s not the first time."

"That does go against her usual principles and habits," Deceitful Bloom said. She took out a bottle of potion and a soft little brush, then carefully began brushing potion onto every single Flower Crown Murder petal. It was clearly a massive task. As she worked, she started explaining to Foolishness,

"Flower Crown Murder has another trait."

"What?"

"It will try to murder flowers it dislikes that are too close to it. But if it finds that it can’t kill a particular flower no matter what, it will stop paying attention to other flowers and focus entirely on that one flower it detests yet cannot successfully murder. It will even change its growth range and surround the flower it is trying to kill."

Vineborne really did have serious issues. Foolishness fell silent for quite a while before saying,

"...As long as you’re happy. Just don’t cry and scream for us to save you next time."

Deceitful Bloom frowned and complained,

"Can you stop adding artistic embellishment when you describe things?"

Foolishness replied,

"No. You said it yourself, it’s art."

Deceitful Bloom said,

"How’s the maintenance on Foolishness Game? After all, you’re still going to happily stuff it back into her hands."

Foolishness cleared her throat and mimicked someone’s tone.

"Foolishness, I’m very serious. I’m the one who needs help right now. Now. Immediately. At once. Let Uncharted Star Sea recall me."

Boiling Orange and Ashveil, who had just reached the garden entrance, smoothly and tacitly turned around and left together.

Better not go in. Too terrifying.