Chapter 1339 1339: 1339: Divine Game: Graveyard of Bones 61

"We really are similar. We both play with timelines, both want to define rules and rewrite settings, and both fail to control another version of ourselves."

QM Rita didn't respond to that. Her attention was fixed on the flame at BS Rita's forehead. It had grown stronger, already past 80 percent.

Had BS Rita also grasped her divine talent word?

Rita was also looking at QM Rita. The ruined mark on the latter's forehead was now fully lit.

In this era, she was the first being to completely ignite her talent and truly break free from divine blessing.

The Order Clock rang for her. Graveyard of Bones celebrated her. At the far edge of the swirling petals, Rita could even sense awakened divine wills being drawn here.

The blue petals in the air had already reverted to their original form, white with a hint of red at the tip. But there were far more of them now.

Just like before in the lantern, when her flowers absorbed another flower's talent and turned it into nourishment, it was the same now. After devouring another Flower Crown Murder, her own underwent a complete transformation.

Flower Crown Murder (Mutated):

1. When any petal touches a target, it can drain health, mana, or energy. If the target's soul fire is burning intensely, each touch has a very small chance to drain 0.1 soul fire.

2. Each time you kill a target that has begun breaking free from divine blessing using Vine, your soul fire cap increases by 1.

3. When any Flower Crown Murder rests on another Vineborne's Vine, it can temporarily copy that Vine's traits.

This already mutated ability had finally reached the level of soul fire.

Even though the number of petals on the battlefield had halved, they still covered everything. Everywhere you looked, even in the sky, there were petals drifting.

The lightning had also changed drastically. There were no numbers to describe companion elements, but as its master, Rita could clearly feel the qualitative leap.

Now when using combo skills like Caged Bird, After the Funeral, or Flower Cry, she only needed one third of the Vine and lightning compared to before for the same power.

But her biggest gain wasn't any of that.

After witnessing betrayal firsthand, after seeing the choices of Undead Wildfire and Extra Chapter Rita, she finally understood the meaning of Sovereign.

"Remember this moment. I have nothing left to worry about. I no longer need to hide or compromise. I cannot tolerate being controlled by any skill or setting. I am uncontrollable."

Those words allowed QM Rita to grasp Extra Chapter through betrayal.

And they also allowed BS Rita to understand Sovereign.

No matter which timeline, no matter whether she was temporarily created or had lost her past, every version of her was rebellious.

Rita sighed as if regretful. "So I exited Wildfire Reignite second phase?"

Then she smiled. "Then I'll just load."

Save and Load was meant for the protagonist, wasn't it?

The petals turned blue again. Her black eyes once more became brilliant sapphire.

After understanding a new way to use Save and Load, she had already stored her strongest state. The second phase of Wildfire Reignite after absorbing the second Vine and lightning.

Now she loaded it. Everything returned to that moment.

QM Rita: "I feel like throwing up."

Rita laughed and raised her white gold sword. "Go throw up at the respawn point."

In an instant, one fifth of QM Rita's soul fire vanished. Twenty points spent.

She spoke coldly. "When your name first appeared in Extra Chapter."

At that moment, Rita felt everything about her begin to rewind.

Her soul fire vanished. The mark on her forehead faded. Her divine talent dropped back to SSS rank. Half the petals in the air dissolved.

The sword in her hand remained, but the destructive aura in the lightning calmed.

Even her attributes reverted from the clock arena state of breaking free from divine blessing back to her old stats.

She had been dragged back to the state she was in when she first entered Quiet Mountain and met QM Rita.

But QM Rita remained unchanged.

Rita knew this couldn't last forever. Even if QM Rita burned all her soul fire, she couldn't permanently lock her in that state.

But in battle, even one minute was deadly.

Chains dropped again, locking Wrathful Moon and Cat's Ideal.

When the blade came down, Rita couldn't use Absolute Freedom to escape, nor Dark Side of the Moon to imprison QM Rita.

But soon, her soul fire reignited.

She had set an automatic load. The moment her soul fire was sealed, it would instantly load her saved state, Wildfire Reignite second phase.

Rita glanced across the battlefield and immediately spent 30 soul fire.

"New rule. Quiet Mountain players' fatal weaknesses glow. Starsea players' fatal weaknesses disappear for the next minute."

In an instant, every Quiet Mountain player lit up with 15 to 17 red points. QM Rita included.

The battlefield froze for a second. Then the Quiet Mountain players roared.

"QM Rita!!! Hurry up!!!"

QM Rita didn't try to change BS Rita's settings again. Instead, she used the same ability on several key Starsea players.

Starsea Lightchaser.

Starsea Mistblade.

Starsea Maple Syrup.

Starsea Cicada.

Starsea JE.

These were the core fighters. Offense, defense, healing. They had already killed at least six Quiet Mountain players. If reinforcements hadn't arrived in time, they would have killed more.

"When your name first appeared in Extra Chapter."

When QM Rita first met them, none of them had begun breaking free from divine blessing. They were much easier to kill.

Rita tried to use Load on QM Rita, to swap in another timeline version.

It failed.

She noticed the smoke drifting from the lamps of Graveyard of Bones. QM Rita was spending massive amounts of soul fire, yet it kept recovering. The smoke was restoring it.

A gift from the bell? Maybe.

Rita waved her hand.

White gold lightning poured down over every Quiet Mountain player like a shower.

Amid the sound of waves, her own soul fire began to recover as well.

QM Rita: "...you really fight dirty."

Not just her. Even the Quiet Mountain gods were glaring at the Starsea gods with disdain and anger.

The Starsea gods remained silent, watching the battlefield.

QM Deceitful Bloom suddenly spoke. "I heard you're her teacher?"

Deceitful Bloom and Foolishness answered in unison.

"I'm not."

"I'm not."

QM Deceitful Bloom: ...