[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam":3,"chapter-young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-181":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Young Master's PoV: Woke Up As A Villain In A Game One Day",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},500633,755,"Chapter 181 181: Failure And Salvation","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-181",181,"\u003Cp>Entry #131 — Disappointment\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>``IT'S NO USE! IT'S NO FUCKING USE!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can't! I just can't seem to keep them ALIVE!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don't know what the FUCK I'm doing wrong!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I've tried everything! EVERYTHING!``\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—----—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entry #134 — Soul Density\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>``I've come to realize something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Awakened have different levels of potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I used to wonder why.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why could I only ascend to [B-rank], while my childhood friend — the boy I grew up with like a brother… the boy who betrayed me — could reach [S-rank]?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why can't everyone continue developing their Origin Cards infinitely?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why can't we just keep absorbing Essence and leveling up our souls?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now I know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's because every soul has a Density.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I've confirmed this through my experiments. Even after fusion, some individuals retain their sense of self over their fused counterparts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how identical both Subjects are — in body, in background, in personality, even in powers — one of them always dominates the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And since I ensure the flesh is equally merged, that means the difference isn't in the body at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's in the soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some souls are simply heavier. Denser. And they always seem to hold higher potential than the ones they were fused with.``\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—----—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entry #135 — A Ray of Hope?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>``If I'm right — if souls really do have Density — then I must confirm it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I've done the math. But without observation, I can't be certain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, that leads to another question — how does one even observe a soul?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, wasn't that the whole point of this journey? Wasn't this why I started these experiments? To understand the soul?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is a soul?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where is it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It clearly doesn't exist on the physical plane, and it can't be seen by mundane people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even those Awakened with soul-related abilities don't fully grasp it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I asked one of them. He said the soul exists on another plane — like shadows. We could not see it, just its effects — like shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It exists in a metaphysical realm. But even he didn't really understand what that meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So how could I?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I must.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I must.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I must observe a soul and find a way forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not… if I fail… then what the fuck was all this for?!``\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>•••\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next few entries were either blank or filled with mad scrawlings — diagrams that made no sense, broken formulas, repeated words, chaotic crossings-out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I assumed this was when Rexerd finally broke. He went mad. More than he already was back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I figured he never found the answer. He had no way forward. The weight of that failure must've crushed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when I reached the last few entries…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…I realized I couldn't have been more wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rexerd did go mad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But not because he failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He went mad because he was too close to the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when he finally grasped that truth, it seemed it was far more maddening than silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>•••\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entry #I don't fucking remember the number anymore…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>``...I have seen it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had to do so much work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After countless months of research…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After analyzing ancient texts, decrypting dead languages scattered all over the Spirit Realm, wandering through places no human should tread…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After venturing into deadly catacombs and dungeons, and meeting an eldritch creature that asked me for something precious in return for answering one of my questions...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I finally found a way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A way to peek behind the veil of reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I found the backdoor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I looked through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shouldn't have…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I SHOULDN'T HAVE\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I SHOULDN'T HAVE\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I SHOULDN'T HAVE!!!!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>GODDAMN IT!``\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—----—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entry #Unnumbered — Hidden Truth…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>``I've learned things I shouldn't have.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People are after me. I know it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'm not paranoid. I'M NOT!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Monarchs are hiding things from the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Things like:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An ancient god in slumber, known as the Spirit King. I don't know much about it. But this god, known as the King of Corruption, is not merciful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another horrifying entity as old as time itself, known only as The Lord of Stories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A place where every knowledge is lost and found — Eternity's Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A plane of existence said to contain a book that possesses all knowledge that had ever existed, does exist, and will exist — Akashic Records.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A group of people called Warlocks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And more, MUCH more. So much more!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the most important secret… is the existence of the Threadweavers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They can see what I saw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What have I seen? I've seen the underside of reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I've seen the layer beneath the existence, the hidden framework under the surface of the physical world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our world isn't built. It's made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not from matter, but something resembling... codes? Strings of shimmering runes? Verses from the language of gods? Threads?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don't know. I have seen it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Threadweavers — they could touch those threads. Alter them. Manipulate the world… without an Origin Card. They could edit the reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of them are alive now. All dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this is not a myth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>THIS IS NOT A MYTH!``\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—----—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entry #Unnumbered — No Way Forward\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>``After witnessing the Underreality, I've come to a devastating realization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All my research was futile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You can't change a soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not as mortals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because our souls are our code. Our data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only those who can interfere with the Underreality — only those who can edit the code — can alter their souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Origin Cards? What are they?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They're not the physical manifestation of our souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They're just shards of divine artifacts… artificially attached to our souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They grow with us, yes. They're entangled with our souls on such a quantum level that when they break, our souls shatter too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they are NOT our souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I should've realized this earlier — when I fused those two C-rankers. Even after their malformed Origin Card shattered, they lived… they wept for several hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wouldn't have been possible if Origin Cards were truly physical projections of our souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which means… they're nothing more than high-level attachments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like Acquire Cards. The only difference is that they grow with the soul. Like a soulbound relic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which also means…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our Origin Cards aren't truly ours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We're NOT born with our innate powers. They're given to us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By who?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don't know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe… maybe the myth of the Nine Hands is true. Maybe our Cards are broken shards of the True Cards the old gods once gambled with to create the worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I don't know anymore.``\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—----—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last Entry — Salvation\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>``Turns out, long before the Syndicate of the Nameless Lords reached out to recruit me, they already knew about my research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had all the answers I sought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were just testing me. Waiting to see if I'd find them on my own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They offered me salvation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I took it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gave up my Origin Card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes. I was right. Our Origin Cards are NOT our souls, and so they CAN be extracted unlike what we were taught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looks like the Monarchs have been lying to us AGAIN.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>THOSE FUCKING BASTARDS.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are Warlocks! All five of them! Every last one!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How dare they?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How dare they be Warlocks… and still keep so much knowledge hidden from us?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those DAMN hypocrites!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'll help the Nameless Lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'll help them kill the Monarchs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'LL KILL THOSE FUCKING LIARS!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After discarding my Origin Card, I formed a contract with a Scrient — a type of Essent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'm also a Warlock now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My task is to assist Varion the Unbound in perfecting the Alchemy of Souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because even if the Alchemy of Souls was a failure…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…it can still create monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And we're going to need a full army of monsters… to kill the modern gods of humanity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'll kill them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'll kill the Monarchs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is my salvation.``\u003C\u002Fp>",1316,"2026-05-30T12:03:22.768Z","2026-06-01T04:31:10.979Z",1,"novelbin.me","8ebbbe80600782b0ce98b4cb5a28eda5f4f8a680bca7f23b7c686b7fcfa73e88","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-182","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-180",407,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyoung-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-cover.jpg"]