[{"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-78":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},699897,934,"Chapter 78: five remained","reincarnated-as-the-final-villain-s-vessel-chapter-78",78,"\u003Cp>’Cold... cold...’These were the thoughts filling Izel’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had barely endured the heat in the first stage, only to find herself here now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Freezing inside this liquid... and as if that weren’t enough, she was drowning, choking on the water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mind knew that she wouldn’t die here, that none of this was real—but the sensation was vivid, overwhelming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several times, she restrained herself from opening her mouth and taking a breath. She knew—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of the air her mind demanded, water would rush in, freezing her internal organs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I need to endure... I can’t retreat here... I don’t want to lose again.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Izel encouraged herself, trying to waste time and ignore the pain that seeped into her bones from the cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted to scream more than once, but in the end, she managed to hold herself back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt as though an eternity had passed while she was here, yet she knew it was nothing more than an illusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In reality, only a few seconds had gone by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked around, downward, where there should have been a bottom to these waters... but there was nothing except darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same was true above her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She turned her head and looked around, seeing her fourteen fellow trainees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, they had been fourteen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, there were only twelve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Talia had been eliminated, along with someone else, it seemed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes caught sight of Jin, clutching his throat as bubbles escaped from between his lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was clear he was struggling to survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clenched his teeth, trying to calm himself and his body, which had begun to lose control due to drowning in the freezing water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few seconds passed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with each passing second, Izel felt the water grow colder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chill crept into her bones, freezing the cells of her body as she suffocated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bubbles rose from somewhere close to her...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She turned her head to see Jin opening his mouth wide, trying to draw in a breath—only for cold water to flood in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grabbed his neck, trying to endure a little longer... but in the end, his lips moved, forming a simple word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Give up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the word formed on his lips, Jin disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eleven people remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Izel wasn’t in a much better state. She felt on the verge of losing control of her body and opening her mouth to scream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Should I give up... maybe this is enough,’ she thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even back in that furnace-like desert, she had managed not to think about giving up—but things were different now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was too much... far too much for a seventeen-year-old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, the desire to give in began to take hold of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes caught sight of another person disappearing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a girl with dark hair—Valia. Then, moments later, someone else vanished as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’No... I can’t endure any longer.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She clenched her teeth as the pain reached an unbearable level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps this stage was nearing its end... but Izel could no longer continue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her lips moved as she prepared to give up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Water rushed into her mouth, reaching her stomach before she even realized it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Unbearable... unbearable...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that final thought, Izel Ashvil disappeared, followed by Naira, another girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eight people remained... no—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another young man was eliminated, leaving seven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the seven remaining, Ivan Rexel was on the verge of giving up as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But somehow, he managed to endure until the end of the second stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The water vanished, along with the suffocating sensation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, the atmosphere became mild.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huff... huff.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ivan gasped for breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally...\" he muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked around, finding himself in a black void containing nothing at all. The others were nearby, the same situation as him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Which lunatic designed this test?’ Ivan thought as he finally rested after suffering through both extreme heat and extreme cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few seconds after entering this space, winds began to strike them from below—or whatever direction this was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With each passing moment, the wind grew stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ivan looked down to find a gray point approaching them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s not the wind that’s blowing... we’re falling.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone fell through the black void toward those glowing gray points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With every moment, they became clearer, while a familiar sound entered Ivan’s ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sound that shouldn’t have been here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It resembled dozens of electric saws spinning at the same time... and with each moment, both the sound and the gray points grew clearer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They turned out to be saw blades, directed straight at them...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is madness... this is madness...\" Ivan shouted into the black void, his voice swallowed by the roar of the saws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to circulate the essence within his body, or do anything useful—but it was pointless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew that right now, they were nothing more than ordinary humans, utterly powerless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ivan and the others drew close to the saws, their screams drowned out by the deafening noise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just before Ivan’s body could be torn into pieces... he made his decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Give up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Six remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What does it feel like to be cut apart by a saw?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If someone had asked Leona Starlin that question a day ago, she would have said she didn’t know...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, that question had been answered in Leona’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Painful... unbearable... intolerable... I’ll go mad.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of these were descriptions of what had just happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone’s bodies passed through dozens of saws, torn into pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their heads were severed, their limbs reduced to fragments falling through the black void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even so, they were still alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leona felt every single moment as she passed through the saws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How her flesh and bones were cut apart... the pain that assaulted her consciousness...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, she didn’t scream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not because she didn’t want to, nor because she was strong—no.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But because her head had been separated from her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, something strange began to happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pieces of her body gathered and fused together once more, perfectly, returning Leona to her original state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That might have been a good thing—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If only she hadn’t arrived at another set of saws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, before they could cut her apart, she spoke a single word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Give up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, five remained.\u003C\u002Fp>",1040,"2026-06-02T09:38:17.164Z",1,"novelbin.me","68ec8732cdecd5423282584cb2d03c3b6bec9bb116f5990e9aae1c84d8d9791b","reincarnated-as-the-final-villain-s-vessel-chapter-128","reincarnated-as-the-final-villain-s-vessel-chapter-127",183,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freincarnated-as-the-final-villain-s-vessel-cover.jpg"]