[{"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-27":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},699819,934,"Chapter 27: I wanted to live","reincarnated-as-the-final-villain-s-vessel-chapter-27",27,"\u003Cp>I stood there in front of Elliot Sivrax, the person whose perspective I had seen this world from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I understood him... and I knew just how strong he truly was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, even at my best, I didn’t think I could defeat him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A beautiful white light enveloped his sword... it was the Light element.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then I felt it, and saw the aura in the air moving violently, interacting with his sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next moment, Elliot swung, forming an arc of light... the distance between us was several meters,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but the strike ignored the distance and appeared right in front of me... I had predicted it, so I was already moving and dodged it by a hair’s breadth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light arc passed, continuing across the arena floor, leaving a deep scratch in the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I stepped to the side, Elliot appeared beside me, swinging his glowing sword. The sword moved at insane speed thanks to the Light element.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I also layered my sword with aura, just as I had done with Izel, and swung all my strength toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our strikes collided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The place was flooded with intense brightness, the ground cracked and shattered beneath our feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of us were pushed back several meters, and a small crater formed between us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without wasting any time, Elliot appeared in front of me again, his sword swinging toward me, drawing another arc of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We clashed again, and I felt my body tearing, my bones trembling... he was unbelievably strong, even for Rank Two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I pushed him away, arcs of light formed and shot toward me... one of them could have sent me out of the arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I barely dodged, only for him to appear in the perfect position to strike me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when I tried to imitate Rank Three, I could do nothing but defend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Honestly, I didn’t expect to find someone here who could make me give my all,\" Elliot said with a cheerful smile on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked like someone bored until he found something interesting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gritted my teeth and blocked his sword, which carved into my flesh and spilled my blood again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn this Light element... it made him insanely fast, so much that I barely had time to respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elliot vanished from in front of me before my sword could reach him and stood at a distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swung his sword multiple times, sending numerous arcs of light toward me. Then I felt gravity intensifying around me, my body growing heavier and slower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn... even my aura was nearly depleted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wasn’t someone who could spend my aura without thought, especially since he had an amount comparable to Rank Three while he himself was Rank Two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gritted my teeth... I couldn’t lose here, not when only a few minutes remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three arcs of light reached me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stepped to the side, twisting my body to avoid the first, but the second was already on me. I condensed my aura on my sword and struck at the light arc... I felt my hand burning, the skin around my fingers melting before the attack shattered into sparks and dissolved into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third was far, so I avoided it easily... only for Elliot to appear in front of me again with his cursed sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I twisted my body to dodge his sword, but it carved a wound along my ribs. I ignored the pain and kicked toward him, forcing him to retreat to avoid it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ridiculous... he was ridiculously strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I knew why he was this strong...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he was blessed... chosen by a powerful ancient entity like \"The Devourer\" to impose its will on this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this stage, even he didn’t know that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But honestly, it infuriated me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the effort I had made, all the pain I endured...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My escape from the lab, killing everyone there without feeling a thing...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just to lose here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was this world telling me that I was just worthless trash in front of this hero?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My power and will meant nothing when those who watch the chessboard from above move the pawns to their will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gritted my teeth hard until I was about to break.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I dodged the light arcs spreading destruction across the arena, blocking Elliot’s enhanced strikes that cracked the bones in my hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t even heal myself again, and all I had left was a tiny bit of aura, just enough to reinforce my body and keep up with the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My body, which had healed before, was now worse several times over...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I refused... I refused to lose here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two lives...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two cursed lives, each worse than the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A head filled with the ugliest memories and thoughts... and even with all of this...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to live.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not live as a weak loser like my first life,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nor trapped within the cold walls of an underground cage where you wake up to pain and hunger like this life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to live free... free to experience all the things I had been denied in both my lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted power... power to protect my freedom... to achieve everything I wanted...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I wouldn’t lose again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wouldn’t feel weak again,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nor bury anyone with my own hands again, like I did under that tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t want this... I didn’t want to lose at the very first step of my new life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I pushed myself beyond my limits... and plunged into the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I forgot everything around me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stopped counting the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In my head, there was only one thought:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I cannot lose... I must not lose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the observation room, everyone sat in silence, eyes fixed on the final battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Daren, who couldn’t stay quiet for more than a minute straight, was silent, his eyes glued to the fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unaware, he found himself tense. His eyes caught the timer:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time remaining: [00:00:54]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"More... more... more...\" I screamed inside to keep standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time stretched, I was being pushed back by Elliot, able only to leave him some superficial wounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, at a certain moment, things calmed, and Elliot stood at a distance from me, his sword glowing brighter than ever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spoke no words... yet I still understood him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was happy... happy to be in this battle, because he had found someone his age capable of enduring combat against him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I wasn’t happy...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t even know what I felt... maybe it was weakness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elliot’s sword blazed so brightly it nearly blinded me. Clearly, he intended to finish the fight with this strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He twisted his body and prepared to swing his sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt the immense amount of aura in this attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, in the next moment, his sword moved, forming a giant arc of light that blocked the entire space in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no place to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew that if I survived this, I would win.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[00:00:03]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gathered every last drop of my remaining aura in my sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[00:00:02]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when the attack reached me, I swung with all my strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light engulfed my vision, blinding my eyes. I felt my body burning,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the armor activated to carry me away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[00:00:00]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the light in front of me vanished,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and darkness flooded my vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Final Rankings:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1.Caius Astroweild [10325]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2.Elliot Sivrax [5673]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3.Izel Ashvil [4573]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>4.Leona Starlin [4485]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>5.Ellen Asterval [2650]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>6.Kyle Astro [2170]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>7.Garon Blackfall [1923]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>8.Ivan Rexel [1470]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>9.Naira... [1345]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>10.Valia... 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