[{"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-1329":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},1533140,1991,"Chapter 1329 1329: 1329: Divine Game: Graveyard of Bones 51","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1329",1329,"\u003Cp>\"On the 22nd day of Start the Game, when a group of Starsea players, fresh from a major victory, once again clashed with Quiet Mountain, one among them discovered a trace of the path forward… discovered the counterweight that belonged to Starsea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So that's how it is…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Order Clock is indeed fair. It does not favor either side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the pendulum strikes Starsea ahead of time, such a catastrophic punishment must be paired with an equally epic reward.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Rita truly took up the pen and began to pluck at the strings of fate, she did not write in exhaustive detail like she had imagined before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her strokes were cautious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her wording vague.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire passage leaned heavily into emotion, only lightly touching on the injustice, and she deliberately avoided specifying which player would discover that path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lynx Duke renaming Golden Scriptwriter to Fate Strings might itself have been a subtle hint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even without that, Rita would never describe fate too precisely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having experienced and written fairy tales herself, she understood one thing very clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when enough space was left for imagination could fate truly resonate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the fact that many Starsea players had migrated to Quiet Mountain during the Order Badge process, Rita completely ignored it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was that even comparable?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small group gained happiness at the cost of the entire Starsea suffering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From another angle, it was just Quiet Mountain poaching from Starsea. Strictly speaking, Starsea was still the one losing out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the distance, the sounds of battle were already growing louder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Six beams of light had converged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fight had begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita stared at the glowing blue text suspended in the air. After a long pause, she added another line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And the epic reward that belongs to Starsea… is precisely the reason Quiet Mountain players are going all out to hunt Starsea players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the scales of fate are about to tip toward Starsea.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The feather pen in her hand dissolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The glowing text in the air twisted like smoke, blurring before completely fading away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita immediately rushed toward the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before she even got close, amidst the explosion of skills and clashing weapons, a cold and familiar voice pierced through clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Quiet Mountain may be a dump too, but it's still better than Starsea's trash bin. Why are you all trying so hard?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita: who the hell talks like that? Asking for a beating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She dashed forward just in time to see the speaker finish the sentence behind a metal mask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And where did that hazardous waste from your trash bin go?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita ignited her soul flame instantly and shot back,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then you must be toxic waste from Quiet Mountain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment she finished speaking, she used Shift and sent QM Rita away without giving her a chance to reply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just because QM Rita still had one third of her soul flame left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just because Quiet Mountain Cicada, Smoke Tune, Mojie, and Frenzied Shark were all present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But because standing behind QM Rita… was Deceitful Bloom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Same face. Same hair. Same vine. Even the posture and outfit were nearly identical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Rita knew at a glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was not Starsea's Deceitful Bloom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starsea's version was dangerous, yes, but the way she looked at the world was not like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quiet Mountain's Deceitful Bloom looked at everything with indifference. As if all beings were nothing but insects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That infuriating gaze was exactly like QM Rita's.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Rita first arrived, just seeing those two side by side almost made her think she was looking at duplicates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Quiet Mountain Deceitful Bloom was facing off against the Starsea Captain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both sides had summoned their gods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only reassuring thing was that neither had made a move. They simply stood there like anchors of the battlefield, observing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And right now, both of their gazes were fixed on the drastically changed QM Rita.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita swung her blade at the visibly younger QM Rita, who no longer wore the metal mask, while complaining,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So what's the point of summoning gods… wait, wasn't it supposed to be asking for help?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Starsea player who summoned the Captain replied,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I just wanted to ask my teacher something. Didn't expect him to show up in person.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita: …\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This clingy behavior… would she end up like that after retiring?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The brief exchange didn't interrupt her rhythm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wind Says Nothing and Spring Scenery and Flowers were both fully activated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buffs stacked onto her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Player attributes had caps, but buffs could push them beyond their baseline fluctuations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her attribute clock arena, all four hands had rotated past the halfway point, now hovering between six and nine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment her lightning sword met QM Rita's, cracks of white-gold lightning spread across the ground beneath her feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like the earth itself was fracturing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anything that stepped on the lightning would be infected by Flower Crown Murder hidden within it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita could teleport to any area where Flower Crown Murder existed, effectively granting her free movement across the battlefield and enabling constant ambushes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On top of that, the siphoning effect of Flower Crown Murder continuously restored her HP, mana, and even that intangible sense of stamina and focus, allowing her to maintain peak condition in prolonged fights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a skill she had learned in Quiet Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flower Chime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at that moment, Quiet Mountain Mojie suddenly called out,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tide.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the lightning began to recede like a withdrawing ocean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But instead of returning to Rita, it gathered at Mojie's feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if he were the true master of the lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worse, her Flower Crown Murder lost connection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her golden lightning sword was still in her right hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the white flower sword in her left silently scattered and vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vines and lightning were both extensions of herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could use them freely, even simultaneously in combination techniques.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the lightning had been taken, the sword should still remain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why had the flower sword disappeared entirely?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze swept quickly across the lightning at Mojie's feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The white-gold lightning had turned pure gold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her flowers were not there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A faint white petal tinged with red drifted at the edge of her vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita followed it—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And found Flower Crown Murder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the hands of Quiet Mountain Cicada.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silver-haired, red-eyed Vineborne stood far across the battlefield, calmly holding the swirling petals in her palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At some point, Flower Crown Murder had crossed the entire battlefield to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, lightning surged beneath Rita's feet, carrying waves that siphoned away her life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One opponent could steal her skills and use them with full properties intact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another could take her vines entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both had their soul flames lit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Demon talents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if that was the surface effect… then their true abilities were likely far more complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as that thought formed, Rita noticed something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The petals spinning in QM Cicada's hand—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Were slowly decreasing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita: !!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since when did anyone get to eat her vines?\u003C\u002Fp>",1172,"2026-06-06T06:15:33.502Z",1,"novelbin.me","029718b6def18817f52abbce5d28eb939ad2d3b89ae6c8491245c575cd7837e7","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1330","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1328",1404,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-cover.jpg"]