[{"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-1246":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},1533035,1991,"Chapter 1246 Divine Game: Divine Instruction 60","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1246",1246,"\u003Cp>From the moment Undead Wildfire reappeared and introduced herself to her own student, Lightchaser had been holding back, waiting for them to finish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Wildfire started saying all that nonsense, Lightchaser had already been pushing her patience to the limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what did she get in return?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One burst and she’s done.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightchaser looked up at the sky and let out a long breath, silently warning herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From now on, whenever she saw that face, whether it was from Quiet Mountain, the Star Sea, or any other timeline, she would not go easy on her. Not even a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elf flicked her dagger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The glowing time pointer that had been hovering beside her ear suddenly expanded, flattening across the entire clock arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive clock hand began rotating slowly beneath their feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its glow was soft, almost gentle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet impossible to ignore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without waiting for her student to finish explaining the rules to Wildfire, Lightchaser moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She rushed in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita and Wildfire had just finished exchanging the key information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the moment the clock spread beneath them, their attention was pulled toward it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, at the same time, they realized something was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their sense of time had slowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They reacted instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both used instant movement skills to disappear from their original positions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, they were half a beat too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightchaser’s twin daggers crossed through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of them took a hit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another time ability?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And a large scale one at that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why didn’t Wildfire Reignite trigger?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While struggling to evade, Rita began breaking down everything about this ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightchaser had already used her divine talent on her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the start of the match until now, she had used time related abilities far more than ten times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Acceleration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stealing a second from a successful attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now this large scale time flow distortion affecting both her and Wildfire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So why had Rita not entered the second phase of Wildfire Reignite?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it because she had not said the activation line?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was not it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Quiet Mountain, the skill activated before she spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And right now, the skill was clearly not active.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightchaser did not know the activation conditions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skill had not been sealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eliminate everything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one possibility remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of time abilities used was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita glanced again at the massive clock beneath her feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thought flashed through her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if this was not a time ability at all?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who said anything related to clocks had to involve time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hypnosis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An old psychological method from BS civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why had she assumed Lightchaser’s clock could steal the second of a successful attack?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because she saw it happen in Lightchaser’s fight against Cinders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She asked about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Lightchaser confirmed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But thinking carefully now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time her attack failed, had she always seen the clock?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And each time, hadn’t she instinctively thought, not again, another second stolen?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when the clock rotated counterclockwise, the ideas that flashed through her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of them had been:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No way, she didn’t just seal all the skills I used in the past few minutes, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the five times speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That had also come from her own assumption after seeing the rapidly spinning clock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once she saw through one part, everything connected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most critical piece fell into place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this stage, time abilities should not even exist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the second bell, one message had been clear:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The time of the chaotic Star Sea has been further calibrated. The number of time abilities usable per Star Sea day cannot exceed one hundred.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was only after the second bell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What about the third?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fourth?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time they faced Quiet Mountain, would time abilities even still be usable?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that case, why would Lynx Duke teach Lightchaser time abilities?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During Divine Instruction, such a critical phase, no god had taught anything related to time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not from what she had observed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not from what she had heard in the battlefield chat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of these thoughts flashed through her mind in seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in those same seconds, something else annoyed her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightchaser had been targeting only her the entire time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While thinking through countermeasures, Rita scanned the battlefield for her teammate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where was she?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn’t it supposed to be a one burst finish?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had only been casually looking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after scanning the entire field and finding nothing, Lightchaser helpfully pointed upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>High above, a faint blue flame drifted slowly upward like a balloon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had already floated up to the level of the spectator stands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It flickered occasionally, as if it might be blown out by the high winds of the Star Sea at any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her teammate was still in the instance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bad news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her teammate had left all the boss aggro on her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita shot Undead Wildfire a glare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She already understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This match was not going to force out Wildfire’s true ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could Wildfire not handle this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But more likely, she simply chose not to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wildfire was another version of herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita immediately understood her thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been suddenly summoned into another timeline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until she fully understood the situation, she would not interfere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the request came from another version of herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would not trust anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita felt a bit regretful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Load ability sounded powerful, but it was extremely hard to use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew better than anyone how annoying she could be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a brief moment, just a tiny bit, she almost understood Deceitful Bloom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But beyond the regret, there was also excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sense of meeting an equal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita smiled and ended the Load.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The faint blue Wildfire dispersed into the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita stopped thinking about the other timeline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She focused fully on Lightchaser.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her health had dropped below 150.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightchaser still had over 200.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now that she had identified the ability as hypnosis rather than time manipulation, she had more options.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, she tried borrowing it with the SSS skill Repay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It failed immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That likely explained why Legendary Prologue had also failed before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As long as the flame of your will has not gone out, you cannot be controlled or deceived by any mental ability below SSS rank.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightchaser’s ability was a divine level skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita closed her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She emptied her thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Focused only on the fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even with her eyes closed, the glowing clock still appeared faintly in her vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she took it a step further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden lightning formed into a ribbon and wrapped around her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blinding gold completely cut off her sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And severed whatever subtle connection the hypnosis relied on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time since the fight began, Lightchaser’s calm expression shifted into a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not bad. My student indeed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita: \"......... Don’t talk.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightchaser: \"???\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1139,"2026-06-06T06:15:31.790Z",1,"novelbin.me","f0208fb53a7c75da47faac4d6e8641fd8391ae941e2d392dddbe2abbbafcf793","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1129","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1128",1404,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-cover.jpg"]