This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist

Rita truly felt regret and sorrow. She wasn't just saying this to B8017913; she had said it to Nivalis as well.

She regretted not having a skill like "Bedtime Tale", otherwise, she could have protected herself.

When Nivalis heard Rita's lament, there was no trace of annoyance or sadness on her face. In fact, she seemed even more regretful than Rita!

Nivalis: "Once we're out of here, I'll find Holy Cup and Emperor Umbrella and ask them to teach me a skill like that, then I can help protect you!"

Nivalis: "Actually, I can do it now! I still have one more chance to die, and I have three SSS-level skills I can use."

Nivalis: "If you get in danger, you must summon me. I really want to help you."

Rita thought to herself that maybe she had been wrong all along.

It was only the fragile things that feared getting hurt. While she didn't lie to Nivalis, her reluctance to ask for help at certain times might have been seen by Nivalis as rejection.

If she were in Nivalis's shoes, and facing a life-threatening situation, wouldn't she protect Nivalis if she had "Bedtime Tale"?

Of course she would.

Because compared to Nivalis facing death penalties, losing a bit of health wouldn't mean much to Rita.

She wouldn't hate Nivalis, feeling like she was at a disadvantage. Nor would she consider Nivalis a burden.

As for things like "I can help you but you can't ask me for help," that didn't matter to dragons.

They never cared for flowery words.

If there was calculation in the heart, even without saying a word, a dragon would know.

04:00 – Fourth Round

The game reset, and all players stood still.

Only eight types of beasts remained in the arena.

[Prompt: The rules from the third round remain]

[New settings: Pets being connected to their owners means their owners are also connected. All players must release at least one pet, and the distance between the pet and its owner must not exceed 0.5 meters. If the pet-owner distance exceeds 3 seconds, they will be considered eliminated.]

[From this round onward, if the player accumulates five eliminations, they will be sent as ingredients to the dark food street or the marketplace.]

[If the player accumulates ten voluntary eliminations, they will gain the status of a food customer.]

Rita scratched her ear with her paw, not expecting B8017913 to have such an amazing effect.

Pets that couldn't use any skills in the Match-3 game didn't really add much besides expanding the range of attacks on their owners.

Even if they had brute strength, skill mattered more in this game, and ranged combat was better than close combat.

Moreover, having pets connected meant the player would also be vulnerable to connection, increasing their difficulty.

In this round, smaller pets had the advantage.

What was smaller than an earring?

Rita licked her paw and tried to cover the earring near her ear with her fur as much as possible.

The game began again.

...

[Congratulations to player BS-Rita for completing an elimination]

[You will receive the death penalty of player Ayl.]

[Player Ayl chooses to exchange one SSS-level skill for their seventh revival opportunity in this round. You will receive the SSS-level skill as your prize.]

[Ding — You have received agility +11 from the kill reward.]

[You have obtained Ayl's SSS-level skill – Magic Soundwave]

[Magic Soundwave]: Consumes 2% mana to create a magical sound seed. When needed, it can cause a small-scale soundwave explosion with a 20% chance of deafening. Each seed lasts for 10 minutes. You can have up to 30 magical sound seeds at once, with no cooldown time.]

...

[Congratulations to player BS-Rita for completing an elimination]

[You will receive the death penalty of player Marmang-JJ.]

[Player JJ chooses to exchange two SSS-level skills for their eighth revival opportunity in this round. You will randomly receive one of the SSS-level skills as your prize.]

[Ding — You have received life recovery speed +0.1% from the kill reward.]

[You have obtained JJ's SSS-level skill – Help Me Up]

**[Help Me Up]: A healing skill, far superior to SS-level Mango Pomelo Sago and S-level Emerald Feast.

[Help Me Up]: Instantly restores 80% of health and recovers 1% of health per second for the next 2 minutes. This skill consumes 2000 mana, with a cooldown of 5 minutes.]

...

Magic Soundwave and Help Me Up were the standard rewards, but skills like The Old Blacksmith were rare and beautiful accidents.

But Rita welcomed everything, as she was still building her base. Anything she could get was a huge help.

However, despite all her precautions, she still ended up eliminated.

Her seventh death, and she lost one of her precious SSS-level skills.

Even so, she couldn't bear to use Survive Until the End to transform into White Boat and escape.

Greed outweighed her fear and self-control. As long as she saw hope and potential rewards, she couldn't convince herself to stop.

She couldn't leave; she wanted to kill the players who had died more than nine times. She wanted those extremely special divine skills!

Rita was hunting for her prey.

And countless players were hunting for BS-Rita.

Once the rules of the current round were announced, many players immediately began searching for the dragon.

Winter Sea·Frenzied Shark was looking, Lania KaiaPine Bloom was looking, even Tingo Autumn Deer was looking.

And there were players who vaguely guessed that Rita's divine ability had something to do with stealing skills—they were looking too!

Pine Bloom searched for a few minutes but didn't find her. Then, a thought flashed through her mind, remembering the earrings on Rita's ears:

"Do you think BS-Rita's earrings are disguised like yours, with mechanical chips?"

Y1148: "We're not like Forest Sea's birdies, just anyone could get us to follow by just waving a finger."

Pine Bloom didn't want to be suspicious, considering that earring accessories were plentiful and at least half the players in the battlefield wore them.

And she had seen the dragon carrying BS-Rita through the sky during the break.

Pine Bloom: "Do you have any skills that increase pet slots?"

Y1148: "If you have them, isn't that enough? I'm the king of mechanical races."

Pine Bloom: "You told me you were trapped by the mechanical races for thousands of years and then exiled from your homeland."

Y1148: "Yeah, what's the contradiction?"

Pine Bloom didn't know what to say anymore. But after contracting with Y1148, she immediately checked their skill library, and indeed, there were no skills for increasing pet slots.

She hadn't considered adding more pets after Li Zhou; she hadn't thought about needing more until she met Y1148.

Later, she quickly added two more pet slots for herself but hadn't yet gone to find Li Zhou.

During the Final Battle, she realized it was too late.

But she had prepared one more pet slot.

...

04:56

In the last few minutes, Rita scored again! And it was a familiar face!

[Congratulations to player BS-Rita for completing an elimination]

[You will receive the death penalty of player Pot Plant Pro.]

[Player Pot Plant Pro chooses to exchange a divine skill for their eleventh revival opportunity in this round. You will receive the divine skill as your prize.]