[{"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-214":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},500766,755,"Chapter 214: Massacre [V]","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-214",214,"\u003Cp>Not much later, several more similar creatures rose from the ground in quick succession — smaller than the first, yes, but still colossal compared to us mere mortals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were Elder-ranked Solbraiths, one rank below Unholy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even from this distance, I could tell these ones had wings — massive leathery wings that they flapped once soared skyward, shrieking as they climbed higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that's when the screams began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"AAAAARGHHH!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"MY EYES! MY EYES!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'M BURNING! I'M BURGHH—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Panic gave way to agony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I whipped my head around and saw people across the plaza suddenly… combust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their eyes were on fire. Literally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White-hot steam hissed from their mouths and ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some screamed until their throats split open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others didn't even get the chance — they just collapsed, twitching, before their bodies erupted in flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the fuck! What the fuck! What the FUCK!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eeeeeik! Wha—What's happening?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh god…! OH MY GOD!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cadets around them reeled back in horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some tripped. Some scrambled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it didn't matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because it was spreading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one, more Cadets dropped to their knees, clawing at their faces, their skin splitting like cracked porcelain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Steam gushing from their mouths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some vomited boiling blood onto the broken tiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their screams turned wet and gurgling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came the fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They ignited, their whole bodies bursting into flame like paper soaked in oil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dozen. Then two dozen. Then more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My eyes widened in horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I raised my voice and screamed as loudly as I could, \"Don't look up! Don't look at those creatures!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for many, it was already too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at an Elder or Unholy Solbraith directly was enough to set the Essence inside your body ablaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they weren't even attacking us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn't need to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their mere presence was lethal to us lowly creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the power of Elder Spirit Beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somewhere to my left, another wave of Cadets dropped like flies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their cries were drowned beneath the rising cacophony of terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Of course,' I thought. 'Not everyone could've heard me through the madness!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not everyone even had time to process what was happening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gritted my teeth and scanned the plaza.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's when I saw it — a small, crumbling spire nearby, still barely standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without thinking, I rushed toward it and leapt to scale its half-broken side in a single bound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I landed on a broad ledge. Once there, I inhaled sharply and poured Essence into my throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I yelled again, my voice was amplified to the extent that it thundered through the plaza like I was speaking through a megaphone:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"DON'T LOOK AT THOSE CREATURES DIRECTLY! KEEP YOUR EYES DOWN! DO. NOT. PANIC!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, I saw some of them freeze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cadets who'd been caught mid-sprint, mid-sob, or mid-prayer snapped out of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then they looked away or covered their faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some turned and bolted for the exits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others rushed to find cover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But many still didn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They screamed as their insides caught fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some went limp without ever making a sound and collapsed like broken machines that had overheated and died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My hands clenched into fists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like watching a wildfire devour paper dolls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below me, a few team leaders finally snapped to attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They began shouting orders. Organizing groups. Dragging the stunned and the screaming to safety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was already a mess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was about to get worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—BOOOM!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if on cue, flashes of light and fire exploded near the western border.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't dare look directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I already knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selene was engaging the Solbraiths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—BOOOM! BOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—KWOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky trembled with each blast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came a different sound — a sharp crack that split the air like a whip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I finally looked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not directly — only from the edge of my vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the smoke and swirling heat, I saw the largest Solbraith — that Unholy titan — open its mouth (if it could even be called that) and unleash a torrent of fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now I don't know how many fire-breathing, sky-dwarfing monstrosities you've run into, but for me, it was an apocalyptic sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully, before that swirling tide of fire could rain down and roast us alive, it slammed into an invisible barrier — the physical manifestation of Selene's Will that encompassed the entire Night Sanctuary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even that wasn't enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not when the rest of the Elder Solbraiths rose higher into the sky… and joined in on the attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They opened their burning maws and rained streams of flame that could've even burned down the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their combined assault didn't look like a battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like a world-ending event.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sky-shattering wave of golden-crimson fire came mercilessly crashing down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selene's Will held.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a minute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a long, excruciating minute…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then it cracked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thin fissures spiderwebbed across the translucent dome — each one glowing white-hot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, with a sound like a church bell shattering underwater, the barrier imploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shockwave hit like a hammer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dust, ash, and debris exploded outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shielded my eyes and clenched my jaw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time the haze began to clear, Selene was already moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From where I was standing, she looked like a streak of argent light slashing across the smoke-blackened sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She darted between the Elder Solbraiths like a falling star trying to tear through a storm of fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that was all I could see of that battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because in the very next moment, the Unholy titan opened its crucible of a mouth… and screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, screamed wasn't the right word here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What it released wasn't sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A primal revelation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An ancient wrongness made audible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark clouds above us shuddered, recoiling like they too wished to flee. Violet lightning flared through the sky in frantic arcs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That screech didn't just fill the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It infected it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a noise made to shatter the foundation of the world. It was a guttural, blood-curdling, soul-wrapping screech that made the sky itself tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cadets who had managed to keep calm until now clutched their ears. Their faces twisted in pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some collapsed as their knees gave out and their bodies spasmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others convulsed. Their eyes rolled back as they choked on screams their throats couldn't form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even I…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even I felt a chill stab between my ribs, cold as frozen iron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My heart faltered. My hands trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There have only been a handful of moments in my life when I genuinely felt terrified. That was one of those moments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of those rare moments when I was so frightened that I couldn't even think clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wrong — That was the only word my mind could find.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything in that moment felt so very wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air, the world, the sky, the earth — everything was just wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something so wrong it gnawed at the edges of the soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unlike the others, I had no time to fall to fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because now, with Selene's barrier shattered…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing left shielding the Sanctuary from what was to come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—SKRREEEEHHH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just as I feared, in the very next moment, the earth heaved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground bubbled in several spots, then ruptured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bulging fissures cracked open all across the field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then as if summoned by their lord's cry, from those fissures came the swarm of monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not dozens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not scores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But hundreds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of twisted and abhorrent things crawled out of the ground like demons from the underworld.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worms, longer than caravans, burst forth in coiling hunger — their onyx-scaled bodies gleamed like dark blades under moonlight. Their vertical maws split open in unnatural halves, full of layers upon layers of sharp teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind them came insects the size of horses — mantis-shaped creatures with scythe-like limbs and magma spewing out from their hollow eyes. Lava pulsed through the cracks in their chitinous hides like blood flowing through veins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were malformed arachnids — with too many legs and not enough faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some slithered, others flew, a few simply crawled and screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And all of them — every last one of them — was a Solbraith.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Way weaker than the Elder and Unholy titans above, yes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But still the same species.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because once a living creature was burned by a Solbraith's flame, it would rise again as one of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stripped of name, stripped of all identity and memory — retaining only its Soul Rank and an endless hunger to burn everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it…\" I muttered under my breath as my eyes swept the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had already descended into chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cadets were scattered, screaming, praying, running, bleeding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some tried to fight, but got butchered before they could even swing their weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One Solbraith marched forward, melting the cobblestone beneath its steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another snatched a Cadet in its jaws. The poor boy barely had time to scream. Then the creature vomited ashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those smoldering ashes twitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then rose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The body of the Cadet who was eaten reformed — not as a boy, but as a creature of jagged onyx scale and blazing hunger-filled eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn't human anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had become one of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he started attacking other Cadets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A third Solbraith pounced and brought down an entire crumbling tower in a single lurch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole scene was like a vision of hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, that's what it looked like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hell made real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Team leaders were doing what they could — dragging Cadets by their arms, shouldering the wounded, shouting desperate orders — but the monsters were faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faster and smarter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too smart, even.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were coordinating, flanking, surrounding, and cutting off escape routes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That shouldn't have been possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spirit Beasts didn't coordinate. Not the low-ranked ones, at least.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were wild and primal and animalistically stupid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unfortunately for us, all Solbraiths were connected through a mental link.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could think as one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Act as one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In many ways, they coordinated better than even humans could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just like that…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Massacre truly began.\u003C\u002Fp>",1657,"2026-05-30T12:03:22.768Z","2026-06-01T04:31:11.943Z",1,"novelbin.me","ce202dd640c7ab3327b657848a383da0689873a90ffe92965d8512c1f91db6c9","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-215","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-213",407,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyoung-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-cover.jpg"]