[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reincarnated-as-the-final-villain-s-vessel":3,"chapter-reincarnated-as-the-final-villain-s-vessel-reincarnated-as-the-final-villain-s-vessel-chapter-166":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Reincarnated as the Final Villain's Vessel",{"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},699775,934,"Chapter 166: Nightmare Flower[10]","reincarnated-as-the-final-villain-s-vessel-chapter-166",166,"\u003Cp>As Kyle watched his sister burn alive, her screams shaking the depths of his soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twelve-year-old Izel sat at the dining table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The delicious aroma of the luxurious food rose, teasing her nose, yet all she did was lower her head and stare at her bowl filled with soup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, she saw the reflection of her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Empty eyes with dark bags beneath them, lips frozen in a blank expression as if every trace of emotion had vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little girl looked as though she had lost hope in life at such an early age.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Around her, there was no one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Literally no one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just her and this lonely emptiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An emptiness that gnawed at her from within like a disease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Izel remained frozen like this for a while before the spoon slipped from her hand as she placed it on the table, then pushed herself back along with the chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chair scraped against the floor as Izel got down from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was her laughter or her gentle smile, they had long since disappeared, and all that remained was emptiness...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little girl walked through the corridors of her empty home...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her father was gone, and her mother was gone... only she remained here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, listening to those screams echoing through the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mother’s screams... the screams of a small child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those sounds burrowed into her head, spreading an unbearable feeling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Izel didn’t know why she was still walking here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the more she walked, the louder and louder the sounds became...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, walking turned into running... she ran and ran through her home, calling out in a torn voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom... Dad...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom... Mom... Dad... Dad... no... don’t leave me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was true that wounds were painful... and losing someone you cared about was even more painful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having your view of someone shatter was terrifying as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for Izel, this was pain... her pain...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little girl fell in the middle of that empty mansion, her knees hitting the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tears streamed down, soaking the marble floor as her arms wrapped around herself, hugging tightly in search of some warmth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of her sobbing echoed in the emptiness, and around her, beautiful blue flowers sprouted, blooming fully and illuminating the place with a heavenly blue light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a vast hall, pillars rose from the sides, supporting the high ceiling, while a path stretched across the marble floor, connecting the entrance to the stairs leading to the throne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The throne of the Solaria Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The throne carried by Asterval and inherited for generations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And also the cause of all their problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, beautiful paintings depicting stories of the past could be seen upon that marble floor, but today they were hidden beneath a sticky red liquid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That liquid flowed from the corpses scattered at the edges of the hall... the corpses of the other Asterval members and its branches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even from the body lying before the throne itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid all of this stood Ellen, who had witnessed the massacre... a massacre that had taken her entire family...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath the stairs and within all that blood, she knelt on her knees, all strength leaving her body as her trembling eyes stared upward, despair taking over her expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, above, sat the one who caused all of this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zen Asterval... with the same cheerful smile and confident gaze filled with madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He smiled as he leaned slightly forward, staring at Ellen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you see, my dear sister... this is only the beginning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The beginning?\" a broken murmur escaped her lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the blood around her, blue flowers grew, blooming more than ever before, their blue radiance filling the world in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An instant enough for Ellen to change just as her surroundings did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world rebuilt itself, and Ellen found herself somewhere else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Around her, the sound of explosions rose from everywhere as she felt the ground trembling beneath her feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even among those loud noises, screams could be heard... but one was different...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before her and all around her, buildings and houses collapsed while pillars of smoke rose from everywhere into the sky itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sky that had once been blue... but was now dyed with suffocating gray smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everywhere, battles erupted and blood was spilled while souls rose and left this world forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her trembling red eye caught sight of civilians running everywhere, trying to escape this disaster that had fallen upon them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A disaster called war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A war waged against the neighboring empire without prior warning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instigated by a single person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new emperor... Zen Asterval.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caius’s POV.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn this rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of all times, it chose to fall now... now when my dear companions had fallen into the trap of an annoying creature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least it could have done so on a bright day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only sound I could hear was the wind blowing fiercely against me, and it only got worse as I ran at full speed while the torrent of rain struck me relentlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt as if someone was directing a pressurized water hose at me without stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside me, Elliot was going through the same thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every piece of ground our feet landed on was either extremely slippery or filled with water that sometimes reached our waists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I barely avoided us falling into a deep ravine thanks to my senses... that would have been really troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An hour had already passed since I began sweeping the area around our camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We circled our resting spot at a distance of about a kilometer, allowing me to scan the largest possible area in the shortest time before moving farther away and doing the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Elliot was with me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Didn’t find anything?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His shout pierced through the storm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gritted my teeth in annoyance. \"You know... I’ll tell you when I find it, so stop asking every five minutes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know... it’s just a habit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was about to curse him, but I stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because I soon found what we were looking for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About a kilometer away from us, and dozens of meters underground, there was a powerful spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it was only at the beginning of Rank 5, it was still several times stronger than us... at least in its specialty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And unfortunately for the flower, we weren’t under the influence of its cursed power... at least not yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned my head toward Elliot, speaking loudly so he could hear me through the storm. \"Found it... it’s a kilometer to our right.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Great.\" He seemed happy that we finally found what we were looking for, though I doubted that was the reaction he was supposed to show.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We quickly changed direction, heading straight toward the location of the Flower of Nightmares.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As we ran through the storm, I gave Elliot some instructions on how he should deal with this creature...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Be careful, no matter what, don’t let it touch you directly... and of course, don’t touch it either, or you’ll return to the beautiful dream world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But this time, directly under its mercy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Got it.\" Elliot nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was what I had read while researching the Demon of Dreams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were many monsters of this type.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of them, like the Demon of Dreams that doesn’t exist in the physical world, were much weaker physically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, this flower existed here, which meant it would be stronger than the Demon of Dreams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We continued moving through the rain, and with every passing moment, we got closer to the Flower of Nightmares until only a hundred meters remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get ready... there’s a big pit ahead, and it’s below.\" My shout echoed, warning Elliot beside me. He nodded as a massive hole appeared before us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or more precisely, it seemed the concrete ground had collapsed, connecting to the basements and tunnels below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, torrents of water formed by the rain poured downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We quickly reached the edge and were able to see what lay there...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the bottom of that deep pit, the rushing water fell before dispersing into the tunnels and disappearing somewhere... showing that the infrastructure of this place was still functioning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But more importantly, at the center of that pit, on a raised piece of debris among the falling torrents, was what we were looking for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive flower several meters wide, its large petals blooming, each the size of an adult human, revealing its heavenly blue color while shining with a beautiful ethereal light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the darkness of the storm, it was like a beautiful angel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I feel sleepy...\" Elliot’s voice slipped into my ear, sounding lazy as if he was truly about to fall asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But only for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, I stepped back, extending my hand and pulling Elliot with me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of us, from where we were standing, a thick wooden root rose up, shattering the concrete floor as if it were nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Debris scattered under the rain as we drew our swords in response to this welcome.\u003C\u002Fp>",1503,"2026-06-02T09:38:17.164Z",1,"novelbin.me","b098f954fea31d3a7359b32f9aa5014beb9c5fd0775c78975f2fec2befb91d67","reincarnated-as-the-final-villain-s-vessel-chapter-167","reincarnated-as-the-final-villain-s-vessel-chapter-165",183,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freincarnated-as-the-final-villain-s-vessel-cover.jpg"]