Chapter 1363: 1363 Divine Game: Graveyard of Bones 85

Rita sat cross legged beside the miniature Order Clock.

The tiny BS floated before her.

She took out the bullet she had obtained earlier while picking up the gods from the tavern.

"Adjudicator."

[Adjudicator] (BS Rita):

"When destiny’s pendulum halted because of you, from this moment onward, you are not only BS Adjudicator, but also Starsea Adjudicator."

When the Adjudicator holds Foolishness Game, if she wishes it, the chamber will inevitably fire "Adjudicator" the moment the gunshot rings out.

Aim the Adjudicator bullet at any world and fire. Your life and that world’s life will become connected forever.

You and your world become one.

As long as the Adjudicator remains the Adjudicator, the Adjudicator bullet will never leave, and after striking a world, it will immediately return to the revolver chamber.

The connection remains until the Adjudicator personally removes it.

She took out Foolishness Game, flicked open the chamber, loaded Adjudicator into it, then decisively fired at the little blue star before her.

Instantly, her health became tightly linked with BS. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Attacking BS meant attacking her, the Adjudicator.

Likewise, attacking the Adjudicator meant attacking BS.

Not only that, she also activated Doomsday Party.

For now, she had not deliberately assigned tasks to the citizens of BS, because even without tasks, BS was lively enough already.

B80, who had quietly welded itself onto BS Rita’s shoulder, asked curiously:

"What are you trying to do?"

"Steal authority?"

As she spoke, Rita carefully pushed the orange sized Blue Star toward the spot where the pendulum was about to arrive.

She was actually letting BS intentionally receive the pendulum’s strike?!

Clang!

Even though Rita had precisely controlled the angle so the pendulum only lightly brushed against BS, both Rita’s and BS’s health instantly dropped by thirty percent from just that single touch.

But it was also at that very moment that several tiny blue star fragments flew out from the Möbius strip, transforming into flames that shot directly into BS Rita’s forehead!

Rita held her breath and looked toward her soul fire limit.

120!!

But compared to joy, what surged within her was overwhelming fury.

Her suspicions had been confirmed!

This pendulum could not harm players.

But it could harm worlds.

And the reason those flames had flown toward her was because the order pendulum had triggered her passive ability.

[Gemstone Brilliance]:

"Attacking the world’s most valuable gemstone comes at a price."

Whenever a being attacks you, rules will transfer part of its wealth to you as compensation based on the damage dealt.

"Being."

The order pendulum was a sleeping being!

And these flames were compensation for attacking her!

Order Clock was nowhere near as rigid and merciless as it pretended to be.

It "favored" Byme, and therefore allowed Byme’s activity time to increase.

It valued Lynx Duke, so even though her soul fire was incomplete, it still buried her here.

And it absolutely was not compassionate either!

If this domain truly required silence and darkness, then why allow Starsea to exist at all?

It could control Quiet Mountain’s population, so why could it not control Starsea’s?

And what role exactly did Starsea play within all this?

Was the invasion sequence truly a path forged by living beings themselves?

Or had some existence deliberately guided it?

Back when Starsea Foolishness and QM Foolishness dueled, was that successful bullet truly their wish fulfilled?

Or had Order Clock intentionally allowed it?

Only living beings were full of variables.

Because every action concealed motives beneath it.

Why was it willing to reward them according to merit?

What kind of merit were war and destruction?

And what gave it the qualification to issue such rewards?

A terrifying phrase flashed through Rita’s mind.

The Creator’s Blessing.

Perhaps all these living beings—

All these blazing soul fires burning from suffering—

Were merely nourishment carefully cultivated by it...

And all those wars and massacres, games and confrontations, existed merely to raise poisonous insects in a jar.

Rita immediately issued a reward task to every BS player:

Cooperate with Doomsday Party and make noise to heal BS.

The earned honor points could be exchanged for equipment and items.

She intended to seize away every single one of these fragments.

Whatever that existence was collecting, she would take it away.

Rita sat beside Order Clock like an idle child.

Holding up the tiny BS, she repeatedly calculated the exact distance needed to receive the pendulum’s impact.

The blue fragments inside the Möbius strip floated like fireflies, slowly drifting into BS Rita’s forehead.

These soul fires were the finest possible fuel.

They transformed the flame upon her brow and elevated her soul.

Her earlier sensation had not been an illusion.

As more and more flames entered her forehead, her consciousness also began "seeing" the stories across those endless cycles.

And each story brought new understanding.

Gradually, her eyes narrowed slightly.

She resembled a meditating monk.

Only her hands never wavered, ensuring neither BS nor her own health ever fell below dangerous levels.

Her soul fire limit continued climbing.

200...

250...

500...

She could even feel her soul fire recovery speed increasing.

At first she recovered barely over one point every half hour.

Then two.

Then three.

But every time her soul fire exceeded ten points, Rita would immediately Save again, preserving her current state against any accidents.

As long as this state remained saved, even if something unexpected happened, she could preserve the maximum possible gains.

And even after canceling second phase, her attributes and soul fire would remain unchanged.

She rested one hand against her cheek like a temple monk striking a bell in meditation.

Ecstasy?

Satisfaction?

Pride?

No.

What she felt was only absurdity.

She stared at BS being struck repeatedly by the pendulum.

And through the river of time, she seemed to witness countless worlds shattered beneath that same pendulum.

Order Clock gathered soul fire through this method.

And now she was stealing it back in exactly the same way.

Sometimes fate truly had a dark sense of humor.

"What are you doing?"

BSCicada, whose maximum health had dropped to the danger line and been forcibly teleported beside her, had originally intended to complain.

She had been fighting quite happily after all.

But upon seeing BS Rita in this state, curiosity escaped her lips instead.

More importantly—

She could sense that BS Rita’s aura had become unimaginably vast and dangerous.

Just like long ago aboard the war cruise ship, when she had looked at Rita and felt as though she were witnessing walking history itself—

Now Rita resembled an endless Starsea.

Rita lazily lifted her eyelids to glance at her.

"Oh, it’s you. I’m getting stronger."

"...Childish."

BSCicada muttered softly.

But remembering Rita’s earlier warning, she immediately crouched beside the Order Clock and began researching it too.

She shoved her hand into the Möbius strip.

No reaction.

She carefully touched the pendulum itself.

Still no reaction.

But BSCicada refused to give up.

Any reward worthy of BS Rita personally warning others about absolutely could not be ordinary.

Rita ignored her and continued her own work.

Occasionally she would stand up, return to Quiet Mountain to pick up players whose health had recovered to safe levels, then come back and continue striking the bell.

At some unknown point, her divine talent had also undergone earthshaking transformation.

[Incomplete Order Talent: "Sovereign"]

(Current Progress: 92%┃Soul Fire: 27/2103)