[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist":3,"chapter-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1030":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1532841,1991,"Chapter 1030 Divine Game: Player Relic 33","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1030",1030,"\u003Cp>[Gods-and-Demons Group Chat]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ashveil]: Never thought it would turn out like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ironclaw]: Same. I figured Deceitful Bloom had long stopped caring about Beacon’s fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Boiling Orange]: Deceitful Bloom, I hate you. If you don’t give me ten sets of BS-Rita merch, I’m never talking to you again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ashveil]: Buying BS-Rita merch at a high price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Foolishness]: And someone still dares say BS-Rita has no backing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Hearthsmoke]: Don’t you count?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Foolishness]: I already told you I don’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Boiling Orange]: If I’d known, I would’ve voted against her in the Council.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Crispfang]: Her reasoning was airtight. Everything she said followed the general trend. Even if we voted again now, the result would be the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Drummer]: She hasn’t lied in so long I nearly forgot the flowers on her Vine represent deceit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Bitter Chalice]: When I told her about how the captain accelerated Forest Sea’s collapse, she even acted along with me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Old Incense]: She does look genuinely happy every time she visits BS-Rita. Hard to see any agenda.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Thorn]: Is BS-Rita really worth scheming over like this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Card]: Why wouldn’t she be? Little Painter, Kart Racer, Diamond Miner, Chaotic Restaurant, Chaotic Blocks, Card Swap... just six games and she’s already a tier 12 Nightmare. No other player grows fast enough to deserve this level of planning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Spring Morning]: If I’d known she would become this strong, I’d have schemed for my race too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[OneCup]: What’s the captain of the radical faction saying?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tailsea]: He said compared to Deceitful Bloom, he’s still too conservative.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Captain]: And which one of you wasn’t fooled by her before? You’re still dancing in her palm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Captain]: I even said privately she would never act this passionate for no reason. Drummer and Bitter Chalice said I was being paranoid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Drummer]: Well, you can be pretty paranoid sometimes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Captain]: Get lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Winter Wandering]: When did the plan even start?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Spring Morning]: There is no clear point. It just happened naturally. You never know which step she nudged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Scallion Carp]: Maybe Divine Game caught on, otherwise it wouldn’t suddenly change the reward for killing a Hunter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tailsea]: Too late now. Forced kills won’t work. Verdant-Windrush only succeeded thanks to luck skills. Lania Kaia’s last real shot was Wither Monarch... what a shame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ashveil]: Where the hell did all of you crawl out from? I thought you muted this group already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Scallion Carp]: We usually just don’t feel like talking to you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Honey Jar]: Turns out we were right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Spring Deity]: I knew demons were all black-hearted!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Winter Wandering]: Spring Deity, please shut up. You’re painful to look at.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[OneCup]: Wait, didn’t Deceitful Bloom call BS-Rita a golden apple before?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Deceitful Bloom]: Apples are meant to be eaten.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Rita spoke, the entire hall stayed silent for several minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every player was digesting the mountain of information they had just witnessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Across races, across worlds, what unites everyone isn’t love. It’s gossip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seven other gods on their thrones didn’t react. They simply sat still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Deceitful Bloom, she returned to her seat, back into the shadows, as though stepping out earlier was solely to let everyone see her true form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She removed herself from the eye of the storm and broke the silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have answered your question. Next.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dawn-Cicada looked lost and shaken. She pressed her lips together and didn’t speak again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What no one expected was that the next person to speak... was BS-Rita.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice was remarkably calm, as if none of this had anything to do with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t even look at Deceitful Bloom. Her gaze drifted somewhere in the distance as she asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What crisis forced you to push world after world into merging?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t waste her question on anything about favoritism.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t hide what she had deduced either. There was nothing worth hiding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The urgency behind the updated invasion sequences was unmistakable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone paying attention would have guessed something similar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, Deceitful Bloom had schemed with her as a piece on the board—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Rita had risen from tier 2 to tier 12 in under a year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That alone was reason enough for a god to maneuver for their kin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she could be schemed for, then the plan must have aligned with the greater trend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise Deceitful Bloom would never have been unable to save Beacon back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The actions of gods are watched by Divine Game, and no player can gain from a god’s favoritism.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That line was very likely true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Teaching and observing might be permitted, but when it came to worlds and races, no single god held that much power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita would not forget the public votes initiated by Foolishness and the captain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze shifted across the hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few players looked shaken, a few enlightened; most had little reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These veterans had far more years of gameplay behind them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This deduction wasn’t rare among them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the fifth throne on the right came a voice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"An unavoidable crisis.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every player froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That answer was useless—yet it was technically still an answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The game had only said the players could ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It never said the gods had to answer constructively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a stretch of tense silence, players began firing questions one after another, each sharper than the last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita truly was exceptional.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with her mere twelve tiers, no one questioned why a god would want her for their race.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, no one even thought it unreasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it raised another question:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dawn was already an eight-star world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why did Deceitful Bloom still push plans for them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted Dawn-Cicada to obtain BS-Rita.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she would certainly want Lania Kaia as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dawn is already an eight-star world. Why are you still planning for it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The stronger a world’s overall power, the higher its chance to survive the crisis.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What benefit does the surviving world get?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[It may build its own Isolated Isle, ascend as a god, or restart its world. Whatever it desires may be attainable.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the tightened breathing of players remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is Arisentna a world that survived the previous crisis?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Yes.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s why it never appeared in the previous invasion sequences?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Partially.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why can Arisentna’s students awaken divine talents before it even enters the invasion sequence?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Because the world is special, but its magic reserves are insufficient.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are the Hunters’ victory conditions in this game?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You are clever. They must kill all Mechanoids within three hours.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What happens if they fail?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[They enter the invasion sequence and enter the war.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How many worlds survive after the crisis?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[There is no fixed number.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can Arisentna’s teachers... no. I mean, the Hunters—be revived if they die in this game?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every gaze in the hall snapped to Rita.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shock rippled through the players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one had ever thought to ask that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Divine Game, death was always just a penalty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This question shattered a foundational belief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The answer dropped like a stone:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[When a Hunter dies in this Divine Game, they die permanently.]\u003C\u002Fp>",1165,"2026-06-06T06:15:28.155Z",1,"novelbin.me","25cda5df551fb59dbd580064f6cdfae216d70d3a38b2d72d7e23c9a95c0d4f8b","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1031","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1029",1404,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-cover.jpg"]