[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess":3,"chapter-i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-222":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I'm in Love with the Villainess!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},895382,1171,"Chapter 222: A Total Upgrade...?","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-222",222,"\u003Cp>[Darkame Flowery]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just a little more...\" I hissed through my teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I forced myself upright, pins and needles stabbing through my dead legs as I mashed spells from both[Holy Flame Manipulation]and[Dark Recovery]together on instinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was going horribly. The spell was a glitching mess—but the Hydra was still reeling from my first hit, still knitting its flesh back together. I had time. Not much, but more if I kept grinding time itself to a crawl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Holame Recoflame]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The hell does that even mean?\" I snapped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Juggling spells like this was way harder than I’d thought. I’d gotten lucky with my first fusion, but this one? That luck was dead and buried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was still healing me, technically, just... in the jankest, most half-broken way possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"C-come on...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I bore down harder, forcing my brain to line up the formula. You’d think[Holy Flame]and[Dark Recovery]would be way simpler than that insane new spell I’d just invented—but no.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apparently, this one was harder, even though it was just two spells slammed together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I guessed it made sense...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Breaking things is always easier than fixing them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My legs gave out again. I lurched forward, skull ringing as the side of my head smashed into broken concrete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"C-come on...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I couldn’t force this spell to stabilize in time, I’d die—either when the Hydra came at me again, or when my own insides finally tore themselves apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t matter how I went out. Every option sucked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"J-just a little... more!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Flamecovery]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shoved myself upright again, feeling surging back into my legs—stronger this time, but still shaky and wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I was close...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was so damn close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stupid math!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I screamed at the numbers spinning in my head and—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Dark Flame Recovery]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dark fire roared over my skin, swallowing me whole. For a heartbeat, I braced for agony—but instead of eating through my flesh, the flames stitched it back together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like watching a clip of burning wood played in reverse—the char peeling back, the black turning to raw, living flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My hand. My body. My crushing fatigue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of it rewound as the dark flames wrapped tighter around me, devouring my injuries instead of my life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Breakthrough Achieved]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Special Condition Achieved]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Bonus Level Granted]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Expert: Lvl 2]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I barked out a manic laugh, raw and too loud, magic roaring through me until my own voice sounded like it was blasting out of a broken megaphone, crashing against the False Hydra’s screeches and the hammering rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a second, it felt like I was the real monster here, not the towering abomination thrashing in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, you are so screwed...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I muttered it under my breath, then dragged in another shaky inhale and pried my jaws open, power condensing into a tight, blinding orb on my tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Malignant Heavenly Eclipse]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I unleashed the same spell again, this time aiming for what Ihopedwas the beast’s base—where all its necks converged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spell snapped to my target in an instant, a thin black line that drank in everything around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once it finished devouring everything in its path—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The line erupted, detonating into a shockwave that felt like it ripped a hole straight through the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Y-Yes!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t help it. I laughed, squinting against the blast as dust and dirt slammed into my face, stinging my eyes and blinding me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Direct hit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hydra’s invisibility was a wreck now; its form kept flickering in and out, visible more often than not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I had to admit...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was one ugly beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No wonder you’re invisible,\" I snorted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Capturing Spirit... 100%]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Confirm?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Choose Item to Store]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Item...?\" I muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, that was obvious. I didn’t have many options, and there was no way I was dumping this thing into[Endless Fang]. That left[The Serpent’s Amulet]—the lesser evil, and the one I was choosing only because I had no other choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hope this won’t be a repeat of the[Eye of the Profaned]...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Processing]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Panels swarmed the Hydra’s body, translucent system screens blooming into existence and slowly consuming it from the ground up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the beast didn’t just sit there and let itself be eaten.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SCREECH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It unleashed another shockwave, a deafening, distorted wail that almost sounded like a twisted song. Every raindrop around it exploded outward at hypersonic speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fast enough to kill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Dark Gluttony]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But not fast enough to break through me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My spell snapped into place, shadows opening wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The Serpent’s Amulet Resisted Memory Erasure]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The Serpent’s Amulet Resisted Memory Erasure]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just die already!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I roared, forcing[Dark Gluttony]to expand, widening its maw to swallow every lethal droplet hurtling toward me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While I held the line, the panels kept crawling higher up the Hydra’s body. Even the Serpent, still somehow standing, a shredded, detached thing clinging stubbornly to the monster, was getting swallowed by the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, just as the panels reached what looked like the Hydra’s final remaining head—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Completed]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[High-Level Entity Secured]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The panels slammed inward in what felt like a millisecond. One moment, a hulking pale beast covered with blue light; the next, a small blue cube hanging in the air, an arrowhead icon fixed on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t need a genius to tell me what came next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Dark Step]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I warped to a shattered ledge closest to the cube and launched myself off it, the stone crumbling behind me as I hurled across the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And... got it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My fingertip brushed the cube. Causing it to shimmer once before completely vanishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Entity Stored]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Dark Step]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I blinked out of the open air before gravity could claim me, reappearing on solid ground and skidding forward on leftover momentum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"T-That was kind of anticlimactic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I let out a short laugh. No deafening explosion, no blinding light show—just silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And an ominous system panel hanging in front of me, waiting for me to ask what it actually did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Entity Stored]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SNAP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I snapped my fingers, shutting down the killing field I’d spread across the battlefield. The moment it faded, I just dropped, lying flat on my back, staring up at the dark sky as the rain kept pouring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thought I wasn’t gonna make it...\" I exhaled, chest still heaving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, you did.\" Julius leaned over me, his head blocking the rain from my face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can’t believe I’m saying this... but you were a big help,\" I muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You did most of the work, though.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Julius crossed his arms, a small smile tugging at his lips.\u003C\u002Fp>",1083,"2026-06-03T05:52:53.768Z",1,"novelbin.me","5b36b5589c9fa7fb73db246be7feaeccd1589e2e91fede834264173de5f0858a","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-223","i-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-chapter-221",324,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-in-love-with-the-villainess-cover.jpg"]