[{"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-717":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},1532474,1991,"Chapter 717: Divine Game – Chaotic Blocks 108","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-717",717,"\u003Cp>Elsewhere, a few Fat Ducks had gathered together to watch the chaos unfold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How many more pulls do you need to finish your quest?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Still 83... but no one wants to play my gacha. Damn it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I had two capsule machines, I could scam these suckers too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She just says ’Draw a Divine Relic and graduate instantly’—and people fall for it hard.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re not missing capsule machines. We’re missing Divine Relics.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What if we went up and said, ’We don’t want to draw from this one, we want the one she’s hiding’?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She’ll tell you that one costs a full Divine Relic per pull.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Almost forgot.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You might not profit, but she never loses.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Honestly, if I didn’t know she had two capsule machines, I’d go take a few pulls myself...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No one knows her pet bought one too?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nope. The player who helped BS-Rita’s pet buy it barely chats in the battlefield channel. You know how it is—low-tier players never talk much, because no one listens to them...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"BS-Rita’s pretty good at it though. The moment she speaks in the channel, the world lights up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"True. Every time she says anything, she gets roasted instantly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita wasn’t in a rush to end the capsule game. Nor was she in a hurry to check the destination of the eighth Dull Game fragment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, she stayed put, playing gacha with these Overlords and Warlords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When new players failed to provide any god-contacting artifacts or interesting items, she announced a new rule:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you don’t have anything that can contact a god, or nothing I’m interested in, you can still purchase extra gacha pulls using a full nine-piece game item set. One complete set gets you 30 pulls.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sakura White Fox snapped, \"That’s daylight robbery!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To which BS-Rita replied, \"No, I’m giving you capsule pulls, aren’t I?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sakura White Fox: ...Fair point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After announcing the new rule, she capped her recycled Block capsules at 500g each before tossing them into the machine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some players might break even or make a small gain, but Rita would never lose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted Dull Game, but she also wanted a top ranking in Blocks & Me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On top of that, she was working a triple-layered scam—using the Divine Relics gacha game to pin the blame elsewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, if this was a game thatcoulddrop Divine Relics, then who was to say Cat’s Ideal hadn’t already been drawn?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it didn’t fool everyone, fooling one or two was enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whenever players hesitated, she’d start assembling items again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of the players claimed their items could contact a god, but Rita knew better. She just played dumb, pretending to be swayed by the item’s appearance and reluctantly accepting them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before each trade, she’d always check with B8017913—if no other fragments showed up in the marketplace, it likely meant a player was collecting them. That was reason enough to take the item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her downtime, she tossed more capsules into the machine—event packs, duck feathers, whatever she had on hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She made sure there were always at least 500 capsules in the machine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most players only drew after observing for a while. From her countless interactions in various languages, they knew BS-Rita’s story and answers well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She answered every question, no matter how often it had been asked, with patience and enthusiasm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at some point, the sharp-eyed players noticed something off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BS-Rita had stopped shouting her iconic line:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Play the capsule game! The one that might drop a Divine Relic!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when new players asked her directly whether the Divine Relic was still in the machine, her answer changed to:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can ask the others. They all know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black Spring–Yanshan was the first to catch it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The player who received that vague reply also sensed something was wrong and backed away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black Spring–Yanshan stepped forward, holding his stack of attribute Blocks, and didn’t hand them over right away. Instead, he asked, \"Is there really a Divine Relic in your capsule machine?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BS-Rita glanced at him without flinching, but her hand moved fast, reaching for his Blocks. \"Ugh, how many times do I have to answer that? You guys keep asking!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nope. Something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black Spring–Yanshan hadn’t been the first to arrive, but he wasn’t late either. He’d been here over forty minutes, watching everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, BS-Rita had been incredibly patient—and never dodged questions like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only that, but under her frustration now, he sensed irritation, guilt, and unwillingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slapped her hand away, stepped closer, and stared into her eyes. \"Was Cat’s Ideal already drawn?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BS-Rita snapped, \"Says who?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black Spring–Yanshan pressed, \"Then answer this: is Cat’s Ideal still in the machine?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He activated a Blocks item—Honest Child—forcing her to tell the truth in response to one question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita immediately sensed the item’s power. She had to answer truthfully... but she could still manipulate the tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s no Cat’s Ideal in this capsule machine,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She shut her eyes in pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Honest Child effect ended the moment she added the final word: \"anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black Spring–Yanshan cursed aloud. So did several nearby players who understood what had just happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita didn’t move. She didn’t say another word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She waited for the next wave of questioning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She needed this scene to solidify one thing in everyone’s mind: Cat’s Ideal was no longer in her possession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, another Blocks skill targeted her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time the player used a language she didn’t understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita: ...Hilarious. She had no clue what he was asking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t even bother asking B8017913 to translate. What if the moment she understood, the skill took effect?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She just shrugged and replied in one of that world’s major languages, \"Don’t understand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then added, \"I was only able to talk with you earlier because I used an item.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A player to her right handed a tool to Black Spring–Yanshan, who activated it, enabling direct communication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His next question: \"Do you still hold the ownership of Cat’s Ideal?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That one was tricky... Rita’s thoughts spun fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes,\" she said finally. \"The capsule containing Cat’s Ideal hasn’t been opened yet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd surrounding her either murmured as they mentally reviewed which players had drawn gacha here... or fell silent, staring at her with suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita sat down cross-legged, hugging the capsule machine to her chest, staring off into the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if her fate had been sealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if grief and despair, held back for so long, had finally broken loose and stolen all her will to think.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Retired for years, Rita’s old drama queen instincts kicked in full force.\u003C\u002Fp>",1099,"2026-06-06T06:15:15.640Z",1,"novelbin.me","a827f32b032bdcf77dccdcd2c9ebe9ac87a04beaa733189d52a0b3bf5296475d","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-718","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-716",1404,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-cover.jpg"]