This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist-Chapter 539 - : Divine Game: Chaotic Restaurant 59

Rita felt like her fellow players had nothing to worry about. These high-level players didn’t lack S or SS-level skills, and the losses from falling below rank 7999 were still manageable. Sacrificing the final rank in this Divine Game was better than risking the loss of a skill icon.

With 12 rounds of elimination, if players distributed their risks well, they could minimize the losses. Unlike her, no matter what rank she held, it was dangerous.

As she was thinking this, a new system prompt rang out.

[New Special Punishment: Event gift packs, Abyss-level and above players, as well as Cosmic Wanderers, will have their kill count increased by 1 if their position ranking exceeds 7999 during each round of elimination.]

The game patch was truly extensive. Looking at Octopus Bucket and Marmang-Crab’s slumped figures, it was clear they were feeling defeated.

Rita glanced around, and the players from the neighboring restaurants were also in similar positions. Some were squatting, holding their heads, others were leaning against walls staring at the sky, or lying flat on the ground, gripping their hair, or scratching their scalps in frustration.

Whether or not they could adjust their skill icons, the pain of the game mechanism was evident on everyone’s faces.

Even Rabbit 4 looked unhappy, confused, and troubled.

Rita frowned and thought deeply for a while. In the end, she took out the rabbit fur that could copy any item and used it on [I Just Want to Improve So Badly], then locked the newly copied [I Just Want to Improve So Badly] skill.

She couldn’t afford to lose [I Just Want to Improve So Badly]. It was her safety net for dealing with divine punishments. Without this skill, no matter if she won or lost in the Divine Game, her strength would drop drastically because of the game’s rule violations.

The Food God talent, which added attribute points, could never compare to this skill.

Of course, if she wanted, she could ask Eclipse Vanguard to help gather various skill crystals that increase attributes, but that would mean depending on Eclipse Vanguard… and eventually, she’d have to give up some of her advantages.

However, she couldn’t let go of using this skill.

Whether it was the event gift packs still remaining in the game, or the cosmic food customers, or the rare skill icon system—although she hadn’t used her stealing skill to steal a skill icon from other players yet, it was clear that turning skills into tangible items meant it was theoretically possible.

Given the numerous opportunities, she simply couldn’t ignore her greed.

This was the most challenging Divine Game she had played, full of dangers, but it was also the one where [I Just Want to Improve So Badly] could finally show its true value.

The best option was, of course... to use the copied rabbit fur to keep one [I Just Want to Improve So Badly] as a backup and use the other one as an active skill icon.

Even if she didn’t lose the skill icon in the end, having two [I Just Want to Improve So Badly] wasn’t a bad deal. Later, if anyone offered a high price, she might even trade one—though she doubted she’d be willing to part with it.

At this point, she turned her attention to Rabbit 4, curiously asking, "Do you have a heavy kill penalty too?"

Rabbit 4 shook its head but nodded slightly. "It’s pretty much the same."

It seemed like it was something that affected it as well.

Rita asked again, "So, after other event gift packs are killed, do they disappear? Does having a position mean you can keep playing?"

Mentioning this, Rabbit 4 clenched its fists in frustration. "No, if I get killed, another colleague will replace my spot!"

Just as B80234615 predicted, if it’s fun, the gods would find a way to get involved.

Thinking about this, she turned to look at restaurant 232. The two rabbits were nowhere to be seen. It wasn’t clear whether they had left right after hearing the game rules or if they had been kicked out because of their black-market status.

But what was certain was that the various factions and identities had been reassigned.

Before, there were gods, demons, and cosmic wanderers here, but after the Culinary Adventure began, there were only formal employees, black-market players, and cosmic food customers. What exactly cosmic food customers were, however, was still unclear...

Rita asked, "Do you know what cosmic food customers are?"

B80234615 replied, "I have a guess, but you probably don’t want to know."

B80234615 didn’t say anything further, but its cryptic remark made Rita begin to suspect something.

Rita asked, "It’s not a mechanical race, is it?!"

B80234615 replied, "I can’t think of any other possibilities."

Rita thought back to the one who had lost its antenna because of her, Y... What was it again?

After 18 star-sea years of classes, she couldn’t quite recall.

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Glancing at Rabbit 4, who was painfully tugging at its rabbit fur on top of its head, Rita asked, "...Do you know how many gods and demons there are in total?"

The rabbit downpour earlier had been quite overwhelming. There were at least a few hundred.

B80234615 responded, "I don’t know, there are only a few top-tier ones. I don’t know much about the ones outside the top tier."

Rita muttered, "..." This profession-related sickness is contagious? Why does it sound so much like a fan?

As their conversation continued, the sound of a countdown bell echoed from outside.

With each passing chime, the restaurant layout began to change, and the internal space expanded. A 200-square-meter dining area appeared between the kitchen and the cashier, filled with ten different styles of tables and chairs.

The night sky outside brightened in an almost visible manner, like the scene in a PowerPoint slide being switched, or like the night sky of this world was a stack of photos being flipped by an invisible hand.

When the last chime rang, the sky became completely bright, with a glowing, spoon-shaped object hanging in the air. It was perhaps the sun of this world.

At the same time, all the players heard another notification.

[New Surprise Egg Key Information for Lucky Employees: Players who obtained the Divine Game qualification before star-sea year 6797 and have participated in less than 15 Divine Games since that year will have a 50% increased chance of being hit by a Surprise Egg. If hit, there is a 20% chance of randomly losing a divine gift skill.]

This game patch just kept coming!

After cursing, Rita almost immediately realized the subtle nature of this game’s participation rule.

It related to a rule in the world battlefield. For example, Rita’s Divine Game rule was that if she didn’t participate within 60 days, she would permanently lose her qualification as a Divine Game player.

In other words, to keep her qualification, she had to participate in the game once every two months.

Since BS time and the world battlefield ran at different speeds, time in the world battlefield followed star-sea time, with 16 months in a year, each with 21 days.

Rita had observed this early on, noticing that she always played on the 1st, 8th, and 15th of each month.

That meant, in BS time, she played every 15 days, while in the world battlefield, that was equivalent to one Divine Game every 7 star-sea days.

In a star-sea year, the world battlefield would have 48 games. Players who participated in fewer than 15 games in a year were likely just passing time, using the minimum number of games to keep their qualification.

This rule was clearly meant to punish those who played passively.

As she thought back to how the battle chat had livened up because of her, she suspected that this change had something to do with her. But the thought seemed too self-absorbed, so she quickly pushed it aside, even feeling too embarrassed to tell B80234615.

B80234615 replied, "This rule probably has something to do with you."

Rita, surprised, responded, "Huh? Really? Haha, you think so too?! I mean... I sort of suspected that, yeah."

B80234615: "..."