[{"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-660":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},1532567,1991,"Chapter 660: 660: Divine Game – Chaotic Blocks 51","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-660",660,"\u003Cp>The number of players in the cabin had risen to five.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chaos erupted once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Verdant Whisper · Windrush shot BS-Rita a cold glance. Without warning, she canceled her disguise skill, pulled out the final helm fragment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And threw it out the cabin window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, time seemed to crawl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita's eyes locked onto the flying piece. She blinked toward it instantly. A lightning web surged from her hand, spreading across the window—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The web flickered into existence just as the helm fragment sailed past the frame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She blinked to the outside—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fragment grazed her fingertips and spun past her, past the seventh player just being thrown into the cabin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want Steady Happiness!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words were rushed, jumbled—like the drunken rambling of someone yelling at the stars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita was bounced back by an invisible barrier. As she tumbled in midair, she aimed three casts of I Just Want to Improve So Badly at the spinning helm fragment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Missed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>———\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another explosion tore through the Ferris wheel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little gingerbread man looked up at the sky. Since BS-Rita had entered the ride, explosions had become suspiciously frequent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita let the wind toss her about as she spun through the air. Bathed in moonlight, she lifted the completed helm high above her head and laughed—loud, triumphant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"BS-Rita! I will make you pay for everything!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Verdant Whisper · Windrush's voice echoed from above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Rita paid no mind. Grinning like a child who had finally gotten her toy ship, she twisted the helm left and right, pretending to steer. Her rival's threat was nothing more than sea breeze whipping her sails.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Call me Captain!\" she shouted joyfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Across the plaza, B8017913, grilling skewers at the BBQ stand, twitched. The seasoning in its paw spilled heavily onto the meat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if by divine prank, Rita and Verdant Whisper · Windrush were tossed into the same cabin—again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The duel resumed the instant their eyes met.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Verdant Whisper · Windrush didn't use her ultimate this time. But with a third player in the mix, Rita darted back and forth, dodging while trying to conceal her newly acquired Cat's Ideal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using her counter-damage and AOE skills, she secured the final blow against Verdant Whisper · Windrush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, she only took three surface Blocks and kept fighting. She didn't leave the cabin to reset progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More surprising—she removed the curse she'd placed on Verdant Whisper · Windrush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Verdant Whisper · Windrush's eyes flickered with surprise. But the gesture did nothing to cool her fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That helm had been her most beloved artifact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita didn't do it out of mercy or guilt. She wasn't naive or softhearted. She understood how the game worked—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could've abused the system, constantly resetting duel progress and farming rare items off Verdant Whisper · Windrush. After all, she'd seen them—several full nine-piece sets inside her opponent's body, a true pirate's treasure trove.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Rita knew the value of restraint. Greed without control? That wasn't her style.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could always find a new target. What she wouldn't do was empty someone to the core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like she would never use Phoenix Seat unless she had no other choice, Verdant Whisper · Windrush likely had a last resort—something she wouldn't use unless pushed to the edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita had no intention of driving her to that point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She'd claimed her dream artifact—Absolute Freedom—and she was satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reviewing all of Cat's Ideal's abilities, she was certain: there was nothing else in her inventory more valuable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She left Verdant Whisper · Windrush behind, still fuming, and soared through the sky, munching on jerky. Her energy had dropped to 62; a few bites pushed it back up to 96.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time One-Person Party ended for the first time, 11 minutes had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita had visited 41 cabins and completed 64 full duels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had won 61 of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, she landed in a cabin with two other players. One of them was Mistblade—just 6cm tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita immediately activated Yes, I'm Fish Belly, what about it?, forcing her way past cooldown to cast One-Person Party again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I hereby declare—during the March Month Theme Park Ferris wheel game, all players are forbidden from altering their body size using non-artifact skills. Violation will result in your size tripling.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A timer lit up above everyone's heads once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Yes, I'm Fish Belly, what about it? and One-Person Party in effect, Rita followed up with Clock Reversal, halving the cooldowns of all her skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to her boomerang buff and the various cooldown-reducing foods she'd eaten, Fish Belly's cooldown was already under 54 minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, with the cooldown halved—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could reuse it in just 27 minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn't know how long this game would last. But being prepared never hurt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly, Unchanged Fate's cooldown would also be halved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the new decree kicked in, Mistblade instantly ballooned to triple her original size. Now, an almost 1.8-meter-tall moonfox hunched awkwardly inside the cabin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the oversized fluffball who had once invited her to March Theme Park, Rita gracefully drew a curve in the air with her right hand and smiled warmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Oak Owl tongue, she said, \"Mistblade, please have a seat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mistblade: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BS-Rita was spouting her nonsense again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn't even understand what that phrase was supposed to mean, but something about Rita's tone made her want to bite something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Mistblade now a giant target, Rita found it even easier to dodge. The other player hadn't broken the rules and thus wasn't punished, but with Mistblade acting as a walking wall, hiding became effortless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita had been wary of being caught in another chaotic free-for-all. But she'd already ridden the Ferris wheel more than halfway. No player she'd fought so far had managed to catch up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She suspected they were deliberately slowing down their duels to avoid her—but she had no proof.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hadn't even finished her current duel when she overheard the other player—Glazeweaver—muttering to Mistblade:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's slow down after she leaves. I really don't want to run into her again. I feel sick. What was her title again?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mistblade: \"...Shut up. You're making it worse.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita: \"...I'm still here, you know!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thirty seconds later, Rita was thrown from the cabin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she spun through the air, her eyes locked onto the next cabin in line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her duel count hadn't reached 100 yet, but there were only three unexplored cabins left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And those three cabins were exactly the next three on her path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No. She couldn't finish this game yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she could push her duels up to 100, she could edge her win rate even higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly—this game was perfect for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite all the explosions and lost Blocks, she'd earned over 300 Blocks so far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to players running on fumes, barely holding it together, and resigning themselves to defeat—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her energy was still full. She wasn't ready to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita began slowing her attack rhythm on purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was waiting—for the next wave of players to catch up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waiting for another explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waiting for a cabin reshuffle.\u003C\u002Fp>",1190,"2026-06-06T06:15:14.803Z",1,"novelbin.me","d2a89c4b0cf0b05e9b3c671e86480483f2ebb104313497e2b5f2f757291848f8","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-661","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-659",1404,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-cover.jpg"]