This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist-Chapter 308: High Tower · Peach Jar · A Heavenly Start
The moment her second leg crossed the threshold, the darkness instantly vanished.
It was as if the world had flipped with the blink of an eye. Her ears were filled with the sounds of battle cries and the explosions of skills, as if someone had suddenly unmuted the game and turned the volume all the way up.
As the world around her snapped to life, a battle axe was coming down on her head. Rita’s combat instincts kicked in immediately. Although her body was still catching up, she instinctively tilted her head, ducked, and sidestepped, narrowly avoiding the blow.
In front of her stood a young minotaur, full of killing intent. He was only level 5, but Rita could tell he had seen blood. The intensity in his eyes was different from that of an average player. She rushed in, using a precise technique to lock his arm, grasping his wrist. Using his own momentum, she swiftly slashed his neck with her knife.
Behind her, wings sprouted from her back, her skin tone, height, and appearance changed. She was now an Oak Owl.
Around her, all the Oak Owls were fighting on the ground, while the high-level Oak Owls and other alien races fought in the skies—places not meant for low-level players like herself. Rita began swinging her knife haphazardly, running around the battlefield, all while checking her own status.
Her first action was to check her personal stats and make sure her Divine Gift information wouldn’t be exposed.
Peach Jar - Level 11
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Divine Gift: Blazing Fire (D-rank)
Skill 1: Fire Control: You can manipulate a cluster of flames.
Skill 2: Seriously Annoying (Passive): Increases fire-based skill damage by 10%.
Skill 3: Fire Vortex: Creates a fire vortex centered on you, drawing in enemies to the fiery storm.
Attributes:
Strength: 19
Constitution: 18
Intelligence: 26
Agility: 28
Luck: 4
Charm: 5
Crap, she had turned into a little fire dragon.
And her stats... everything had changed. What she had worried about—exposing her true information—hadn’t happened. The attributes displayed were real for the body she was inhabiting at the moment. Her strength and speed were so low that they felt completely awkward, and her luck was only 4—she was clearly not having the best of starts.
Eclipse Vanguard had also been concerned that they wouldn’t be able to contact each other once inside the Tower, and that had indeed happened. Inside the Tower, her friends list was different, as if they had entered an entirely new game system, a new world altogether.
The good news was that her Divine Gift and other skills she had already integrated into her soul were still usable. The five items Nivalis had bound to her—Curio and the translator—hadn’t malfunctioned. They were still in a virtual space, and whenever she needed them, she could summon them.
Then, there was the most anticipated skill: Moment of Reversal.
When she first rented the skill, it had a time limit attached, but now it had turned into—Rental Status Abnormal: @#!!@￥#%￥#!…Can be used once every 30 natural days.
The rest of the skill’s details and rental duration had turned into gibberish, but at least it still worked—though the cooldown had been extended. Walk Through Time and Space from Wrathful Moon had also turned into nonsense. It was clear that there were some trade-offs with her new status.
Rita focused on her current situation. Various alien races were in the fray, and the Oak Owls were surrounded by 11 different alien species. She rolled on the ground, grabbed a gun that was clearly crafted by a goblin, and started shooting.
The battle dragged on for several hours, and during that time, her HP dropped below 20% several times, often due to unlucky reasons—like skill shockwaves from aerial battles hitting her, or getting struck by fireballs, arrows, or even bullet casings. The most absurd moment was when an alien corpse almost hit her, but thanks to her Phantom Shift, she dodged just in time, narrowly escaping death.
Every time she had to use a healing skill on herself, an Oak Owl would shout her name.
—"Peach Jar! Here!"
Then, they would throw her a fruit that, when eaten, restored health. These fruits were different from healing potions in that they didn’t have a cooldown, and as long as she needed them, she could eat them endlessly.
Small Oak Owls, with their nimble movements, constantly darted around the battlefield. They reserved their healing skills for those in dire need and tossed fruit to those in less urgent situations. They all had special pouches filled with an endless supply of fruits.
These small Oak Owls were not only agile, but also had buffing skills that could enhance their allies.
Rita treated the situation like a combat training session. She started rolling, slashing, and using a bow, but at times, she would instinctively attack the Oak Owls. This made her slow down a bit to avoid hitting them.
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She threw away her damaged long sword and picked up whatever weapon she found on the ground. The enemies were weak, making it a perfect chance to hone her close combat skills.
After a long day, Rita felt a great sense of accomplishment. She had killed hundreds of aliens, and maybe after some more time, she’d get promoted. After all, her last name was Peach! What kind of a start was this? A shiny golden one! Once she got promoted, she could embroider a little star on her uniform using Eclipse Vanguard’s code.
Heh, maybe she’d even end up commanding Shadow.Q and the others.
After the battle ended, she followed the other Oak Owls back to their treehouses, thinking she could finally have a hot meal. But just as she thought she could rest, a large Oak Owl called her outside and led her to a wooden house.
"Peach Jar, starting tomorrow, you won’t need to go to the battlefield. You’ll stay at the cooking house and make food."
Rita: ?
What happened to her "heavenly start"? Now she was being sent to the kitchen?!
