This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist-Chapter 1210: Divine Game, Divine Instruction 24

After Foolishness sat down, she muttered to herself, "The quality isn’t bad."

The next moment, the cushion, along with the chair, turned into petals and scattered. A flower whip struck.

Naturally, it didn’t hit Foolishness, who vanished from her seat, but the flower whip showed no intention of changing direction. It slithered through the air like a snake, heading straight for BS Rita, who was watching the scene unfold.

"..." Rita immediately turned and ran. "Teacher, Foolishness! She’s wasting everyone’s time!"

The more Rita called out, the faster the flower whip chased her. The sound of the wind being cut through erupted behind her as the whip struck her, sending her flying backward into the toy workshop. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Despite the negative effects wearing off, Rita adjusted quickly, flipping midair to mitigate the impact, but her long boots still hit a three-legged table.

Crash—!

The table and the tiles fell to the ground, along with the scattered mahjong tiles.

Rita sighed and squatted to clean up the mess. Foolishness’s workshop was full of oddities, and the three-legged table wasn’t even the strangest part. She couldn’t understand why it fell so easily with just a touch.

She first set the table upright, but as soon as it was standing, she noticed something odd—this wasn’t just any table; it had a strange label. [Dustfire’s Old Dining Table]

Dustfire? Wasn’t that the creator of "Delicious Funeral"?

[Dustfire’s Old Dining Table] (Toy): "May my enemies be born in Starsea in the next life... and may I be there too." When World Graveyard is placed on this table, it can change the game mode of World Graveyard freely; each time a game ends, the players will see the regret of SS.

Rita held the table steady with one hand and casually picked up one of the mahjong tiles. It was indeed a World Graveyard tile. Placing it on the table, she saw its information change: [World Graveyard·BS] (Third Epoch)

"What’s going on?"

Maple Syrup’s voice came from outside the workshop. Rita shook her head and said, "You’re not here to ask what word describes you again, are you?"

She continued gathering the tiles, attempting to balance the table with their weight. Maple Syrup entered and helped her collect the tiles, casually explaining, "Don’t flatter yourself. I was just looking for food."

"You could place the tiles on the table and see what happens. There might be a surprise," Rita said as she continued picking up tiles and checking the worlds they came from.

Maple Syrup followed suit, and soon Nivalis and B80, who had heard the noise, came over.

Once all the tiles were picked up, the four of them exchanged a glance and decided to play a round of mahjong.

When the first tile was played, Rita and Maple Syrup quickly realized what "something magical would happen" meant. As the tile marked [Hippie] was thrown, a broken music score appeared on the table.

The music score, unique to Hippie, displayed notes shaped like crab claws instead of the usual ovals. The score flashed for a moment before vanishing, and the others continued to play.

Next, a [Snowfield] tile from the Fourth Epoch flashed a unique clan rule, and a [Black Spring] tile from the First Epoch caused a method for brewing honey wine to appear. Finally, a [BS] tile from the Third Epoch showed many strange symbols.

Nivalis and Maple Syrup were entranced, while B80 tilted its head, realizing something.

Maple Syrup asked, "Is this some kind of BS magic rune?"

Rita looked away from the complex math puzzle that had appeared on the table and nodded mysteriously. "Yeah, advanced runes."

The players around them began buzzing with excitement, and Foolishness, interested in the new dishes, started eating. She was sitting on a toy chair, and the cushion that had previously been burned by Deceitful Bloom reappeared, now wedged into the back of her chair, flattened under her weight.

Deceitful Bloom: "...Where did that come from? Did she give it to you?"

Foolishness replied, "Stole it."

Seeing that Deceitful Bloom’s expression didn’t show much anger, Foolishness curiously asked, "What are you scheming now?"

Deceitful Bloom slightly shook her head, saying, "It’s just amusing."

"How so?"

"I should be the one she hates the most. She should never want to see me again."

As they conversed, the players around them remained silent, unable to hear their words.

"But," Deceitful Bloom continued, "she allowed Nivalis to make this pillow. If she truly hated me, she shouldn’t have allowed such a form of retaliation."

Childish or not, who would accept a hated person’s face appearing in their life, even in their space bag? They shouldn’t be able to tolerate it.

Foolishness suddenly spoke, "After writing so many World Sighs, she must have painfully forgiven many things, including you. So when she discovered you played tricks on her for the second time in Quiet Mountain, she was so angry."

Deceitful Bloom fell silent.

At that moment, both of them received a daily task notification from Uncharted Star Sea.

[Daily Task: What to Do When Your Workload is Insufficient?]

Task Content: 312 players have graduated and are applying for new instructors. Please accept 2-5 players as apprentices, or actively collaborate with other Starsea instructors for combined training.

Task Reward: Gratitude from Uncharted Star Sea

Deceitful Bloom & Foolishness: ...

Mocking them for being idle was one thing, but giving them such useless tasks was another. The two of them immediately rejected the task.

After finishing their meals and receiving various buffs, a fountain of clear spring water appeared at their location, and unbloomed frosted flowers began to sprout.

[March Winter Sleep]

Foolishness spoke: "Your accumulation has been enough. You can now start attempting to fuse two A-level skill runes, deconstructing them and merging them with a single stroke, just like you did during your first test."

Skill runes were incredibly complex. Most runes couldn’t be finished with a single stroke, no matter how smart the player. This was the challenge Foolishness had set to test whether her students had the mental flexibility to pull it off.

Just like BS Rita using Vine and Thunder to replace some of the components that couldn’t be drawn in one stroke, the other four players also had their "cheat" methods.

After all the gradual rune fusion over the past few days, Foolishness could see their talents and limits clearly. If she said they could do it, then they absolutely could.

This was Foolishness’s homework.

When Foolishness finished speaking, Deceitful Bloom calmly added her own assignment: "Use the method I taught you yesterday. While [March Winter Sleep] blooms, try to cause your skills to mutate.

[March Winter Sleep] is extremely difficult to make bloom. Even if I force it to bloom, it will force itself into a 7-minute rest every 7 minutes. You need to manage your time."

As class began, the murmurs of "I’m not wrong" from the flower field faded away.

The students worked on their respective tasks. Only Dawn Cicada spent a long time observing the blooming [March Winter Sleep] before she finally focused on her studies.

Rita took a while to decide and chose to fuse [Cured But Salivating] and [Mist Arrival]. The former was a passive skill, "Any target attempting to use a mental skill on you has a 35% chance of failing, and the target will enter a drooling state for the next 5 seconds." The latter transformed her into mist.

She thought it would be nice to surround the enemy with mist, making them have a chance to enter a drooling state.

The first 7 minutes passed, and amidst the constant explosions, the frosted flowers slowly closed.

Mistblade sighed, "Just like Smoke Tune, I suspect she wouldn’t have been able to bloom without Warfire and Lament."

Rita replied, "If she didn’t have Warfire and Lament, the words on her scroll might just be—’Beacon Cicada made me unable to bloom.’"

After saying this, Rita laughed loudly, as if she’d told a classic joke.

The nearby players laughed too, not because of the joke, but because they couldn’t help laughing seeing Rita so delighted.

Dawn Cicada: "......."

She sat there with a cold expression, but after a few seconds, she lowered her gaze and smiled, joining in the laughter.