This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist

With B8017913's help, Rita began hawking her wares in multiple languages.

This was the stomping ground of 18th- and 19th-tier players.

Before this round of the game started, the top 100 players had mostly come from Nuclear Flash, Tingo, and Sakura. But now, the rankings had shifted drastically.

Looking only at the top 100, the majority now hailed from Rage, Tiger Ear, and Skystep.

So, Rita focused on these six worlds, switching between their most common languages.

Of course, the top thousand players represented far more than six worlds—but the others had too few players to justify the effort. Just covering these six had already pushed her to her limit, with dozens of dialects between them.

She'd barely made it through.

But the moment she shouted, "Full Divine Relics! Pull one and you're done with the game!" the nearby players lit up and surged forward.

One player squeezed to the front and asked, "Are you serious?! There are actually Divine Relics in that capsule machine?"

Rita repeated the player's pronunciation via private chat to B8017913, who translated. Using broken grammar, she answered:

"If you've played any capsule game through an event pack, you'd know—the capsule system doesn't allow lies. Yes, my capsule machine has Divine Relics."

She smacked the machine she wore across her chest with both hands.

"Wanna spin? Single pull or ten-pull?"

A Fat Duck nearby twitched its beak but stopped to watch.

The player's face didn't change. He already knew the rule was real—he'd just wanted to confirm it.

But looking at the sheer number of capsules in BS-Rita's machine… he couldn't help but pause to think.

He asked, "What are the rules? How much for one pull?"

Rita turned on her five-star customer service charm and patiently explained:

"Each player can use attribute Blocks to buy up to three capsule pulls. If you want more, you'll have to offer me a specific game item fragment—or anything I find interesting. One pull costs 300g of 10th Month Theme Park's base attribute Blocks."

Compared to the 18g-per-pull price she charged back in 1st Month with the Fat Duck, this was highway robbery. But hey—Divine Relics-level rewards didn't come cheap.

She wasn't worried these players couldn't pay. If they didn't have the Blocks themselves, they could just borrow from teammates or pets.

A Demon Lord's pet wasn't going to be poor. Rita would take their Blocks, no questions asked.

She repeated her rules in every language she could manage, pitching them to every player that walked by.

And when someone pushed a wad of Blocks right up in her face, Rita grinned so wide her molars showed.

"Yes, yes! I take everything!"

…

Over in a nearby game, TingoAutumn Deer was starting to feel… off.

Something was missing. The game just didn't feel exciting.

At first, he thought it was something wrong with his own status, but no—everything checked out.

It wasn't until he was nearly knocked out of bounds that he realized:

There was no one watching.

All the queued-up players had gathered somewhere else. No one cared about this game anymore—no one was watching, discussing, or hyping it.

After the match, curiosity got the better of him, and he followed the crowd.

Honestly, no one could resist checking it out.

The energy from that crowd completely clashed with the icy, snow-covered aesthetic of the 10th Month Theme Park.

The circle was much larger than what he'd seen earlier during his match. It wasn't just players—a dozen event packs had clustered there too.

Dozens of languages filled the air, constantly overlapping.

He only understood one sentence: "Yes, yes! Don't push!"

Occasionally, players would squeeze their way out of the crowd, clutching capsule eggs like treasure, scanning their surroundings with wary eyes to see if anyone was following.

TingoAutumn Deer nudged a familiar player with his antlers.

"What's going on?"

"BS-Rita," the player replied. "She's selling capsule pulls. Claims there are Divine Relics and god tokens in there. One pull costs 300g attribute Blocks, and everyone's limited to three. If you want more, you've gotta give her a specific item she wants."

TingoAutumn Deer: !!!

"Oh, and the Divine Relic she's offering isn't broken down. If you pull it, it's a full Cat's Ideal."

TingoAutumn Deer: !!!

What the hell was she thinking?!

He didn't doubt the info. Everyone knew BS-Rita had the Divine Relic, and she did have god tokens. Back in Chaotic Restaurant's puzzle game, he'd fought other players over a white boat version of her…

No, don't think about that. It still pissed him off.

But it was obvious now why she was doing this.

Everyone knew she had a Divine Relic. As a 9th-tier player, she couldn't protect it. So instead, she turned it into a honeypot to harvest Blocks.

She wasn't just saving her Divine Game performance—she was fattening herself up with resources.

And she was playing it smart.

She prioritized attribute Blocks. She didn't recklessly demand item fragments—because she knew that most of the fragments these Demon Lords and Overlords carried were useless for resale.

If they had any resale value, they'd be keeping them. The fact they were offering them up meant they didn't want them.

But unless someone else happened to be collecting that exact fragment… it was worthless.

There were hundreds of thousands of items listed in the exchange. What were the odds BS-Rita could accurately guess what fragments were in demand?

Better to take guaranteed-value Blocks.

TingoAutumn Deer muttered, "Clever."

Several nearby players who understood that universal tongue echoed his praise.

Clearly, they were thinking the same thing.

It wasn't easy to give up a Divine Relic.

But BS-Rita's self-control and awareness were rare—and worth respecting.

Rita was nearly shoved into a corner. Her arms were full of attribute Blocks—she couldn't keep up with how fast they came in.

Whenever her stash hit 1500g, she'd compress the Blocks into a single large piece, load it into a capsule, and toss it back into the machine in full view of the crowd.

And that was why the number of capsule players kept skyrocketing.

Even if you didn't pull a Divine Relic or god token, you might still win 1500g Blocks!

In players' heads, a new equation had formed:

300g = 1500g = Divine Relic

Players: Wow… what a deal!

It felt like a massive welfare event—pure charity.

What do you call this?

Rita: "Taking from the wheat to feed the wheat."