Chapter 1326 1326: 1326: Divine Game: Graveyard of Bones 48

No matter whether Order Badges affected Quiet Mountain players' qualification for the final match or their eligibility for divine replacement, the system was clearly unbalanced.

Sure, Quiet Mountain was "paying a price" by accepting these Starsea players and their races.

But that wasn't how it should be calculated.

This setup effectively lowered the difficulty for Quiet Mountain players to obtain World Graveyards.

The difficulty for Starsea players to destroy Order Badges and the difficulty for Quiet Mountain players to reconstruct them were not on the same level.

In theory, that shouldn't be the case… Starsea should have some kind of advantage too.

Rita buried these doubts for now.

She ignored the mark above her head. After leaving Lynx Duke's timeline, she had already missed the King's time window. For the next 24 hours, she wouldn't enter any god's burial time again.

She planned to return to the clock at the center of the clock arena, continue researching it, and think about how to use her newly learned skill to offset Starsea's disadvantage.

One more thing worth noting.

Lynx Duke had interfered with her skill at the very end. She couldn't accept her name being attached to such an ordinary skill name, so she forcibly twisted Golden Scriptwriter into Fate Strings.

But interestingly, the line after it — "Fairy tale? What fairy tale? Just throw your brain away and write! Squeeze the capitalists dry!" — didn't change.

That probably touched on the core of the skill.

Rita suddenly stopped.

The white vine wrapped around her shattered into countless petals, gathering into a white flower sword in her hand.

A battle was approaching.

One of them was deliberately dragging the fight into her golden rain curtain. They were asking for help. And they knew her.

Perfect. A chance to test the gap between herself and Quiet Mountain players.

Rita kicked off the ground and rushed forward, leaving drifting petals behind.

After a few turns, she saw both sides.

Quiet Mountain: QM Maple Syrup, QM Mistblade, and Frost Deer.

Starsea: BS Mistblade and BS Cicada.

All five had their soul flames lit, but only the outlines remained. Their energy was nearly exhausted. This had already gone through multiple rounds.

Starsea Mistblade was locked in a focused duel with QM Mistblade.

Meanwhile, Starsea Cicada was struggling in a one-versus-two. She was the one who had rushed into Rita's range earlier.

All BS? Starting a team fight already?

Rita didn't hesitate. She dashed in, blocking QM Maple Syrup's pipe strike for Cicada while speaking casually, "Don't panic, citizens of BS. Your Adjudicator is here."

Starsea Cicada and Starsea Mistblade: "…"

Starsea Mistblade muttered to her counterpart, "Should've just died to you earlier."

QM Mistblade let out a tired chuckle. "Didn't expect you to settle for being under someone in Starsea."

Before Starsea Mistblade could respond, Frost Deer laughed. "Like Quiet Mountain Rita would listen to you anyway."

QM Mistblade: "…"

Starsea Mistblade: "Don't talk."

QM Mistblade: "Same to you."

The battlefield split neatly.

Mistblade versus Mistblade.

Rita versus Maple Syrup and Frost Deer.

Cicada, already at 20 percent HP, switched to defense.

Rita asked, "How long have you been fighting? You're out of soul flame."

Cicada replied, "Third round. Before this was Quiet Mountain Cicada. I died twice, she died twice. Those two just arrived."

At that moment, two system announcements rang out.

Quiet Mountain has successfully formed an Order Badge. Order Clock arrival speed +10 percent. Estimated arrival in 9 days.

Quiet Mountain has successfully formed an Order Badge. Order Clock arrival speed +10 percent. Estimated arrival in 6 days.

The Starsea players' eyes trembled for a split second.

Then their attacks became sharper.

Rita's white blade flashed faster. Mistblade's blood fog blade grew more violent. Cicada abandoned defense entirely.

The battle intensified.

Three marks above them flickered wildly. Anyone experienced could tell this was a major fight.

If it attracted Starsea players, fine. If it attracted Quiet Mountain… trouble.

Rita wanted to end this quickly.

Take one down first. Killing a Quiet Mountain player had to give something, right?

Her soul flame outline flared.

Sovereign Read.

QM Maple Syrup reacted instantly. The moment Rita's flame lit, she exhaled a ring of smoke that transformed into another Maple Syrup.

Damage transfer? A decoy? Too late.

Just like Rita's normal skills became useless against fully realized divine talents, Maple Syrup's tricks were the same here.

The original Maple Syrup vanished.

In her place stood another version.

A weary, hollow-eyed Maple Syrup.

From the Wildfire timeline.

The sudden switch was obvious to everyone.

Some people looked tired without truly being so.

But this Maple Syrup was genuinely lost. Only for a moment though.

She quickly adjusted and rejoined the fight.

In that timeline, the game hadn't reached version 3.0 yet. Her understanding of divine talent words was at the same level as when Rita first entered Quiet Mountain.

Her combat skill was strong.

But nowhere near current Rita.

Cicada asked, "If we kill her, does it matter?"

Unlike Divine Instruction, this wasn't about results. This was actual killing.

If Rita killed this alternate Maple Syrup…

Would that death carry over to the original?

Or would it just end the swap?

Too many possibilities.

And those possibilities defined the upper limit of this ability.

Rita had thought about this long ago.

And now… she finally had the chance to test it.

"I want to know too," she said calmly.

"Am I Starsea's Sovereign… or Order's Sovereign?"

Starsea Maple Syrup, who had just drained QM Maple Syrup's soul flame moments ago, was rushing back from the Graveyard of Bones spawn point. Beside her was Tingo Autumn Deer, who had been sent back together with her by Quiet Mountain's Frost Deer.

One was flying, the other sprinting at full speed. Both were worried that the QM Maple Syrup and Quiet Mountain Frost Deer they had painstakingly exhausted would get stolen by someone else.

After being sent back to the respawn point, their soul flames had fully recovered. If they ran into their Quiet Mountain counterparts now… wouldn't that just be a straight-up stomp?