Four Seasons City and Pine Bloom's followers took a while to fully descend, but BS Rita was in no hurry to leave. Hands in her pockets, she just stood there quietly waiting. Mistblade, who had not even settled her own territory yet, also showed no signs of rushing off.

Instinct told Pine Bloom it was time to shoo them. You can go handle your business. You can return Whale Falls in the Wind after you are done, just throw a duel at me when you are free.

Rita and Mistblade shook their heads at the same time and replied in unison, No rush.

Nivalis, who was teaching Sea Pony how to use a smartphone together with B80, watched the few players craning their necks at the sky for a while. Her gaze settled on Pine Bloom, and then she finally understood. She handed the phone to Sea Pony and flew to Rita's side, joining her in staring upward.

The Divine Game probably gave every player some time to say goodbye to their friends and family in Lania Kaia, so every follower's descent timing was slightly different.

But once a leader fixed their landing spot, that farewell time should have a limit. So it did not take long for them to see what they were waiting for.

A blazing red dragon dropped from the sky.

Right, no rule said a follower had to be the same race.

She was not a pet anymore, but her heart still followed Pine Bloom. So naturally she also received the prompt asking if she wanted to follow her to a new world.

In an instant, Rita and Mistblade both got busy, looking from dragon to Pine Bloom to dragon again.

Crab and BS Smoke Tune, sensing drama, quietly munched on virtual popcorn.

Pine Bloom did her best to relax her expression so they would not see what she was really feeling.

Then Y1130's voice sounded in her ear. Ah, my senior is here.

Everyone looked over. B80's head turned the fastest.

Pine Bloom said, I thought you were out of power. Also, you can use private chat.

Y1130 answered, I still have one percent. B80, can you help me? I want to watch.

Floating over with a power bank, B80 handed over the half drained unit. Y1130 detached from Pine Bloom's ear, changing from earring shape back into a metal cube, then pressed the Mechanoid power bank to its own little head.

Pine Bloom sighed. So, can you all see me?

In truth, no one here was actually afraid of her. Nivalis was already cupping her claws to her mouth and screaming at the sky with soul shattering enthusiasm. Lidian!

Pine Bloom quietly pulled out her hammer, planning to start with the BS Adjudicator.

But the red dragon did not stop. She just flew straight past and away. No matter how they looked at that back, it screamed cowardly retreat.

Rita patted Nivalis on the shoulder. Go after her. Do not let her run wild. Lidian is your responsibility.

A smile surfaced on Pine Bloom's face. Had your fun? Need me to send you on your way?

She was smiling, but everyone present felt that the earlier Pine Bloom who almost exploded and swung her hammer looked much more alive. Maybe she had not truly been angry then. The Pine Bloom smiling right now felt genuinely dangerous.

With the show over, Crab grabbed Sea Pony and jumped into the sea to calm its kin, and Rita regretfully took Mistblade and Smoke Tune away.

She placed Mistblade's city over the ocean as well, and in an instant it became a huge island.

The pure white Snowfield was set beneath the island city. This relic had a special trait. You could reshape your homeland however you liked and move it around at will.

The Homeland You Can Never Return To did not consume any of BS's original territory. If someone looked at BS from space right now, they would see that the planet had clearly grown larger.

Under Mistblade's control, Snowfield connected to Moonfox City and kept stretching outward. Rita could see BS's terrain directly in her mind. To her it looked like a gigantic fox tail, with the more complex main city right at the tail tip.

Rita's gaze shifted to Mistblade's white tails, each with a black tail tip.

The tails swayed in the wind. The black gemstone pendant hanging at the end of her dark hair dropped onto the thick fur. The gem's shape was that of a tiny blade, wisps of visible mist swirling around it. When it fell onto the soft fur, it pressed out a small hollow.

Mistblade flicked her tails, cutting off Rita's staring. Need me to send you off? Meaning, hurry up and get lost.

Rita thought, Why are you all like this?

Moonhares started dropping from the sky. Rita and BS Smoke Tune had not gone far when they heard their shrieks and cheers.

Snowfield.

Is this Snowfield?

Snowfield.

Moon Sovereign, is this the Snowfield you always talk about?

They heard Mistblade answer her people again and again with patient warmth. Yes. This is Snowfield. We are home.

Rita suddenly picked up a soft fragrance drifting from BS Smoke Tune. It was not Dawn Cicada's floral scent, but a cool, woody smell, edged with ice.

With her new understanding of Vineborne, Rita instinctively looked toward Smoke Tune's Vine. What she saw was like a sculpture of dead wood carved from ice, with not a single flower in bloom.

By the time Rita brought the most even tempered of the group, BS Smoke Tune, back home, Shadow.Q was already waiting at the villa's door. Seeing Smoke Tune, she stepped forward with a smile to greet her.

Smoke Tune really did have the best temper of them all, nothing like those unreasonable Vineborne Rita had encountered before. Even though she did not understand BS language, she still replied very gently with sign language.

After politely finishing half a cup of tea, she excused herself and went to the backyard to see the cats.

Once Smoke Tune left, a golden rain curtain surrounded Rita and Shadow.Q, shaping itself into a half dome that blocked all sound.

Even though she had been warned ahead of time and heard all the announcements, Shadow.Q still looked excited and happy. They really joined BS?

Yeah. Rita gave her a rough outline of everything that had happened. She also appointed B80 as a BS director, then sent the two of them off to meet with the legion commanders and work out a full plan as soon as possible.

Power was the most intoxicating and addictive thing. She used to think power was nothing in front of raw strength, but once she truly gained it, no matter how troublesome it was or how much time it ate up, she could not bear to let it go.

She would stay humble, learn, hand off anything she was not good at to people who were. But the right to decide everything had to remain in her hands. She would not give that to anyone.

After seeing Shadow.Q and B80 off, Rita went to the backyard and found Smoke Tune playing with the cats.

Rita sat down beside the Meow Tavern, then used Wrong Season to make five drinks and placed them inside.

Smoke Tune bent down to study the kittens in the little tavern. So this is my city?

Yes.

The city technically belonged to Rita. Even if the next game had another transfer accident, Smoke Tune would not be able to take it with her. She was only the city lord.

Watching her profile as she played with the cats, Rita asked, You are not reading private messages or battlefield chat?

Smoke Tune's voice was as soft and gentle as ever, but her words were perfectly justified. I am too scared to look.

Rita thought, Funny, same here.

After a few suffocating minutes of silence, Rita could not help saying, How about we look together?

They could not see each other's chat windows, but it still felt better to have someone next to you when you had to face the fire.

Smoke Tune immediately got up, walked over, and sat cross legged beside her, answering with action. From the speed she moved, it was obvious she had wanted this for a while.

They exchanged a quick look, and in that moment they both felt the same thing. The other's pathetic, panicking expression felt weirdly familiar and strangely comforting.

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