This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist Chapter 1026 - 1025 Divine Game: Player Relic 29

But how did Verdant-Windrush do it?

With their combat stats locked and only a handful of Player Relic skills available, how could anyone possibly kill a hunter?

Yet no matter how impossible it seed, the chance to reroll the invading world was right there. Any player whose world was in crisis would never let that chance slip.

If one player couldn’t do it, then the entire world’s Divine Ga players would gather and hunt together.

[Lania KaiaMistblade]: Desert map

[MarmangCrab]: Ice Cavern map

[Black SpringLoath]: Grassland map

[Yet OrangePomango]: Desert map

[Layered Peaks Ember]: Ruins map

[Porcelain Bloom Turric]: Volcano map

[MarmangLulumi]: Ice Cavern map. Crab, rember that thing I gave you for your birthday last year? I found sothing similar nearby.

Players who landed in the sa map imdiately began exchanging coded hints to confirm locations—after all, while gathering, they still had to watch for other players... and invading-world players.

A fresh wave of resource crates dropped from the sky. Rita and Y128 sprinted toward them in perfect sync.

Y128 asked, "Are you planning to cooperate with Lania Kaia?"

Rita’s expression hardened as she shook her head. "Not for now."

Because this system announcent hid a trap.

If the invading world within an invasion sequence changed, would the top invader of that entire sequence also shift?

For example: the sequence "Dawn → Lania Kaia → BS-."

If Rita killed a hunter and rerolled "Lania Kaia" into "Marmang," then what would the new invasion sequence be?

"Dawn → Marmang → BS-"?

Or would it beco "Nuclear Flash → Marmang → BS-"?

Her first priority was simply surviving long enough to win the wager. Fortunately, Y128’s goals didn’t conflict with hers—the longer it lived, the better its end-of-service rewards.

And thanks to Lightchaser’s little sprite doing work across the battlefield—even with only half of Y128’s stats and no weapon when she left—they kept hearing kill notifications credited to BS-Rita every few minutes.

With Lightchaser’s sprite essentially grinding kills for her, Rita and Y128 fell into perfect rhythm: fight when possible, run when not, stretch survival above all else.

Her Player Relic skill set had always been designed for "Survive Until the End."

Mystic Force was already active, and On Repeat had been applied to Unchanged Fate.

The passive version of Unchanged Fate now had a mixed but overall advantageous change.

Unchanged Fate (SSS, Passive): Any attack or damage you receive has a 50 percent chance to be nullified.

With these two skills and Romantic Tourist, Rita and Y128 not only survived the first hour with ease—they had opened at least seven resource crates. Y128 now carried two random recharge cubes, and Rita had gained three additional pieces of miniature equipnt compatible with their reduced size.

Then the prompt sounded—and their vision shifted.

Twenty-two maps rged into eleven.

Ten more hunters descended onto each map.

But that wasn’t the part that chilled every player.

As if the battlefield weren’t chaotic enough, a voice echoed across the sky along with the hunters’ arrival.

[Have you ever doubted the truth of the ga? Have you ever loathed the false rcy of gods, the laughable fairness they offer? What ignites the flas of war? Are the gods’ blessings rely a cruel joke?]

[Players, before this round ends, find the thod to awaken your Player Relic.]

[Your stories gave birth to your Player Relic. The thod to awaken it lies hidden in your past.]

[At the end of this round, any player who successfully awakens their Player Relic may ask the gods one question.]

[Warm reminder: cherish your remaining ti. "Hearthsmoke" burns for only one hour, and Player Relics can only be awakened while it burns.]

Rita turned toward the rapidly descending silhouette in the sky, her mind in complete disarray.

And one minute later, she finally heard the na she had been waiting for.

[Hunter Lightchaser has slain player Lania Kaia Bone Shade. Detected invasion sequence "Dawn → Lania Kaia → BS-." Dawn’s invasion of Lania Kaia 2 percent.]

At the sa ti, a figure materialized in front of her.

A na that had made her tremble every single ti it appeared during the past hour.

Ash Cinders.

And she was currently fighting a chanoid.

This wasn’t the first ti Rita had seen Ash Cinders’ battle style. Nor was it the first ti she had seen Ash Cinders fully ard—Rita had even used this exact equipnt while traveling the tiline.

Ancient-tier equipnt, nad Death Law. Usually a simple silver bracelet, but when activated, it transford into a massive sword and full armor set.

Its defining trait: it needed to lie dormant. Only when awakened did it burst forth with power far exceeding its tier.

But as far as Rita knew, Death Law had never awakened...

Just like Lightchaser rarely used her dagger anymore, Ash Cinders seldom used her true main weapon either. In Arisentna, she had no real opponents, so she spent her ti training with secondary weapons.

Should they run?

They couldn’t.

When Y128 tried to use Romantic Tourist, both of them received a prompt—the area was sealed.

Rita looked back.

A transparent barrier she knew all too well shot into the sky, its radius massive, covering nearly half the map.

Lightchaser’s skill. The very skill she used the first ti Rita t her in Kaladom.

Inside this barrier, all movent skills were disabled—and Lightchaser could sense every living creature within it.

Players from Isolated Isle could not see the miniature players on top of the chanoids. But players could still see one another.

Rita instantly recognized the chanoid Ash Cinders was fighting—Tiger EarQuex.

Tiger EarQuex seed to have used so kind of skill that locked her health bar, but it was obvious from her unstable stance that once the effect ended, she would die within thirty seconds.

And the mont she spotted BS-Rita, she started running straight toward them.

That cursed woman!!

Rita and Y128 imdiately bolted in the opposite direction.

As they ran, the kill notifications began flooding the sky—one na repeated over and over.

[Hunter Lightchaser has slain player Black Spring...]

[Hunter Lightchaser has slain player Crimson Zither...]

[Hunter Lightchaser has slain player Ground Cage...]

Rita sprinted while muttering nonstop under her breath—

"Oh no oh no oh no—"

"I’m dead I’m so dead—"

"She’s coming she’s really coming—"

Y128 snapped, "Can you run properly? Why does your side feel like jelly?!"

Rita shot back, "If you keep slandering I’m going to get mad!"

Soone ran up beside her—before Rita could strike, the person spoke first.

"Why are you running like that, stumbling all over the place?"