There were 29 bumper cars still speeding around the arena, colliding in chaotic chases.
Nivalis was tailing a specific car — the one that, if rear-ended, would light up their third magic note.
Everywhere their car had passed, flowers had blood.
Back when Rita used this skill in the food street as a black-market rogue, the flower colors didn't appear. But after using it repeatedly in the amusent park, she noticed the blooms changed hue each ti.
When she fought the rabbits: red flowers.
In the claw machine: pink.
Now: purple — soft lavender, deep violet, pastel lilac.
But no matter the color, she still hadn't found any pattern to the buffs the flowers provided.
Currently, their bumper car was the fastest on the field.
That other car, the one with a lone surviving player — they'd managed to survive Rita's combo of [Midnight Exile] and [Family Bucket]. Definitely not your average player. But with Nivalis hot on their heels, there was no way they'd safely retrieve their downed teammate within the 10-second limit.
Letting another bumper car rear-end them three tis ant losing out on so Block distribution.
But failing to pick up a teammate in ti ant chanical penalties — including malfunctions.
Between the two, the choice was obvious.
Just as the opponent's bumper car slowed near the entrance to pick up their teammate, Nivalis rear-ended them without hesitation.
Thump—!
With a deep drumbeat, one of their steering wheel's magic notes lit up.
They'd scored it within 30 seconds of the ga starting.
The arena stirred again. All 100 bumper cars were now reactivated and surging back into the chaos.
The Arcane version of [Family Bucket] not only increased the number of cloned skills and targets by 10, but still retained its 5-minute duration. The massacre resud.
This wasn't like the space pirate ga. There, being hit three tis as the chest ant losing Blocks. Rita couldn't afford to take risks.
Here, as long as she didn't die, she wouldn't lose anything.
She wasn't about to waste this chance to rake in Blocks.
Nivalis kept hunting new targets to bump.
anwhile, Rita's rampage was starting to draw the entire arena's aggression.
Nearly every player began focusing fire on her. Under the overwhelming hatred and visual effects of her slaughter, her passive — [Yes, I'm Fish Belly, what about it?], which made her seem "non-threatening" — was completely overridden.
Nivalis whipped the car side to side, trying to dodge incoming spells. It was chaos.
Rita: "Just focus on driving!"
As she said it, she jumped from seat to seat, eting attacks head-on.
Arcane Skill: [Bone Shield Armor] — Seven spinning bone shards orbit her. Each has durability equal to 50% of her max HP. When a shard breaks, she instantly heals 20% HP.
Arcane Skill: [Hyperdrive] — Multiplies Agility x5 for 5 minutes.
Arcane Skill: [If You Can Kill ] — Sets her minimum HP threshold to -800% instead of 0%.
Rita stood tall on the seat, continuously firing arrows. She didn't care who she hit. If you were in their path, she'd take you down.
B8017913 clung to the edge of the car, grabbing fallen Blocks and tossing them in as Nivalis sped by.
Thanks to the [Absurd Story] item Rita had brought into Divine Ga, every attack she suffered triggered reflected damage.
In just over ten seconds, all seven bone shards shattered. Rita's HP dropped to -335% — and that was with constant healing from [Fourfold Spring], [If You Can Kill ], and procs from [Absurd Story]'s absurd recovery traits:
10% chance: 1% of damage heals instead.
1% chance: all of the damage heals instead.
Under a barrage from nearly the entire player base, both effects triggered repeatedly.
Still, Rita didn't take chances. She activated:
Arcane Skill: [Pick Up] — instantly restores 100% HP, and continues healing 1.5% per second for 2 minutes.
She even lifted her leg to block a red projectile heading for Nivalis — the mont it touched her, it turned around and flew back the way it ca.
B8017913 was running full logistics mode:
Picking up Blocks.
Stacking them on Rita.
Tracking which bumper cars had been hit, and how many tis.
Warning if a car was about to hit them a third ti and score a note.
If they wanted max rewards, they couldn't just kill — they had to light their own notes while preventing others from lighting theirs.
Players kept disappearing. So died to Rita's arrows. So were killed by reflected damage. The ground never stopped raining Blocks.
Knowing Rita was collecting [Ga Machine That Loves Gas] pieces, Nivalis would favor larger Blocks whenever possible — so long as it didn't interfere with their main goal.
Rita hadn't let go of her bow once since the match began.
Their car remained the fastest on the field.
Even though her scouting glasses [Unfazed by the Strange · Incomplete] didn't show much info, they gave her enough:
Erald Crane – Desert Bloom (Tier 9)
Erald Crane – Fragrant Berry (Tier 8)
Erald Crane – Dormant Root (Tier 5)
Ghost – Echoveil (Tier 10)
Tiger Stripes (Tier 12)
Dark Garlic (Tier 9)
Potted Raise (Tier 12)
Rita saw the nas, and her heart burned with joy. This was how things were supposed to be.
Compared to the hardship she'd endured before — this was paradise.
But this level of aggression had a cost.
When they entered the queue, her Stamina was at 95. Forty minutes of waiting had only burned 1 point.
But in just 5 minutes of fighting, her stamina had dropped to 75.
Nivalis and B8017913 had started at the sa level.
Now, Nivalis was at 87, and B8017913 at 89.
Still, Rita had no intention of stopping.
In less than five minutes, she'd gained 67 Blocks.
If not for the constant barrage of fog, smoke, and other visual distortion skills — and the 5-second pickup window on dropped Blocks — she could have earned even more.
There were still 25 minutes left.
But her current stamina wouldn't last through an entire match at this intensity.
Unwilling to slow down, and hoping for a stamina loophole, she tried using the Arcane version of [Sanma] to cook and eat a grilled fish.
No stamina restored.
So, no exploit there.
But Rita didn't care.
As long as [Spring Scenery & Flowers] was still active,
she wasn't slowing down for anything.
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