Chapter 1353: 1353 Divine Game: Graveyard of Bones 75

Rita stood up again. "I really have to go now. You wouldn’t want to stop me from saving Starsea, right?"

The King had no way to refute that. His wrinkled cat face scrunched up even more in displeasure.

Rita felt personally attacked by aesthetics. After staring at hairless cats for nearly three hours straight, she now found them... kind of cute.

"I really have to go. I still need to fight Quiet Mountain, and I have to find Order Clock to exchange rewards."

At that, Rita suddenly sat back down, flashed the King a bright smile, and asked, "Is there anything I should pay attention to when exchanging rewards?"

The King suddenly said, "Do you know how I lost my fur?"

Rita replied, "Go on."

"It was plucked off by people like you." The King snapped, "There’s nothing you need to pay attention to. Now get lost!"

Rita was not annoyed. The King had already helped her a lot. She promised she would visit again when she had time. Then the ship’s helm behind her turned on its own, and Rita disappeared from this stretch of time with Nivalis and B80.

The moment she landed, she had B80 and Nivalis sort through useful information in the battlefield chat channels. She herself rushed straight toward the small Order Clock in front of her to figure out how to exchange Adjudicator rewards.

She could not help but wonder if the secret QM Foolishness mentioned about the clock included this. It was just that the punishment for revealing it might be too severe, so she could not say it outright.

Once again, she crouched in front of the small clock whose base contained Starsea and Quiet Mountain.

The fragments of deep blue starlight that formed Starsea and Quiet Mountain continuously scattered and reassembled. Rita reached her hand in again. Just like last time, a fragment of starlight settled in her palm and refused to leave.

"—How old are you?"

Rita went silent.

Was she stuck in some kind of time loop?

She turned back to look at Mistblade. "Aren’t you going to fight QM Mistblade?"

Mistblade sighed. "I can’t really beat her. Her demon talent has progressed further than mine. The extra ability she has just happens to counter me."

Rita asked curiously, "You’re a Warden. How does she counter that? Isn’t her talent ’Sinking’? It doesn’t sound stronger than yours. If you represent judgment and she represents falling into darkness and sin, then your Warden should restrain her."

At that, Mistblade looked genuinely troubled. "She can designate a target and make them sink for her. My Warden got pulled in. It turned and started fighting for her."

Rita paused. "...Good thing she didn’t use that on me earlier."

"I asked her about that too." For once, Mistblade’s usually serious face showed a hint of childish frustration. "She said she didn’t dare. Because if she made you sink, QM Rita would definitely go into a Fury."

Rita sighed wistfully. "What kind of blessed life is she living? Why are both Quiet Mountain Cicada and QM Mistblade so careful around her? They don’t even dare show me any disrespect."

That tone felt off.

Mistblade immediately turned and stared at BS Rita with suspicion. "Don’t go down the wrong path."

Rita clenched her fist. "No way. I’m going to become Starsea’s emperor too!"

Mistblade said flatly, "You already are."

Rita lit up. "Since when? Why wasn’t I notified?"

"When you added that setting that makes Quiet Mountain players drool when we hit them," Mistblade replied with a complicated expression. "We were going to keep fighting, but because of your setting, QM Rita added one on their side too. So we called it off."

"She made you drool too?"

"No. She was even more childish. She made it so that every time we use a skill, we automatically shout ’Mom, Mom.’" 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

What a waste. Why wasn’t she there to see that?

If she had known, she would have added that setting to Starsea too.

Seeing Mistblade’s expression grow more dangerous, Rita quickly hid her disappointment and asked, "...So what does being Starsea’s emperor mean?"

Mistblade smiled with aristocratic elegance. "Quiet Mountain’s emperor is the player Quiet Mountain wants to kill the most. Your Majesty, you are now the player Starsea wants to kill the most."

That was not her fault!

But seeing Mistblade’s green eyes blazing with anger, even her tail fur slightly puffed up, clearly still not over what happened earlier, Rita gave a shy smile and turned back to continue studying Starsea and Quiet Mountain.

Still, she added a subtle reminder, "You should study this more. It’s very important."

"What does it do?" Mistblade reached out, just like last time, trying to catch the drifting Starsea fragments.

"I can’t say. The punishment would be too much for me."

Mistblade did not press further. She simply stayed and studied the small Order Clock alongside BS Rita.

"—How old are you?"

As the third Starsea mark floated up to join the first two, a voice sounded behind them.

With the scent of alcohol mixed with grass and that slightly hoarse voice, Rita, still sitting cross-legged, did not even turn around. "Not even close to your age."

Maple Syrup walked over and crouched beside BS Rita. She planted her spear into the ground and looked at the focused expressions of BS Rita and BSMistblade.

"There’s a secret here," she said with certainty.

Rita had no intention of hiding it anyway. Otherwise, she would not be openly studying it like this.

"Yeah. It’s very important. I’ll get punished if I say it, and I’m still figuring it out myself."

To be safe, she matched the level of hints QM Foolishness had given. Not a word more. She had no intention of accidentally adding more fatal weaknesses after finally reducing them.

Mistblade and Maple Syrup were both smart. Hearing that, neither pressed further. Instead, they stayed to study it, observing what BS Rita would do. After all, she clearly knew more, so her direction was more precise.

And it was.

Rita first tried calling BS, hoping to report to Order Clock, but there was no response.

Then she ignited her soul fire and tried feeding it into the blue starlight fragment in her palm.

This time, something happened.

All the blue starlight fragments turned into flickering flames, and Rita’s soul fire instantly recovered by 50 points.

[You have received a blessing from Order Clock. Can only be triggered once per Starsea day.]

The blessing was nice.

But it was not what she wanted right now.

She casually shared the discovery with Mistblade and Maple Syrup.

At that moment, B80’s voice sounded in her mind.

"Think about how you became the BS Adjudicator."