[{"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-216":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},500768,755,"Chapter 216: Surviving The Massacre [II]","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-216",216,"\u003Cp>That worked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As best as I hoped it would, at least.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment I finished speaking, I heard Michael yelling orders and gathering as many Brawlers as he could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the only other [B-rank] Awakened on the field aside from me, he was taking charge of the vanguard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With him managing the frontlines, I would have one less thing to worry about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And not much later, many other Cadets started falling into formations as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not all. Not fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But some. Enough to put up a serious fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even getting a trained military unit to fall into line after a bloodbath was hard. Getting Cadets — half of whom were on the verge of a breakdown — was nearly impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it didn't happen immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the process had started.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, I didn't have the luxury to see the formation complete — because the massive earthen hand holding back the cyclops suddenly… exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound was like a mountain shattering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not cracking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shattering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chunks of hardened rock blasted out like shrapnel. Some tore through buildings. Others slammed into the ground like meteor strikes. And a few hit Cadets and pulverized them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood sprayed like rain as bodies crumpled like piñatas — limbs bent in directions they shouldn't bend and screams cut short.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One such boulder — larger than a cart — came hurtling straight at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I only had a second to react.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I raised my golden blade and brought it down in a flash, cleaving the boulder in two mid-air like slicing through butter with a hot knife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sparks scattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fragments of glowing stone ricocheted behind me with thunderous crashes — one half of the boulder slamming into the remains of a building, the other gouging into the ground like a meteor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when I looked up…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All I saw was the cyclops — that goddamn fire-eyed Solbraith giant — emerging from the smoke and flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its smoldering body hissed with steam. Cracks split across its charred rocky skin like fault lines, glowing with pulsing magma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its single eye was flaring now — brighter and hotter and wider.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking into it felt like staring into the mouth of a volcano.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…A volcano seconds away from eruption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't even think before I willed the ground beneath me to rise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Multiple earthen walls, as tall as the giant and thicker than mountain ridges, surged upward before me and curled overhead like a bunker made of stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the very next instant, the Solbraith cyclops let out a guttural scream that shook the air — like thunder being strangled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its single blazing eye burned even brighter for a moment before a laser beam — a concentrated lance of incinerating fire, honed to a needle-point of destruction — shot out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It blasted straight into my barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—BOOOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impact wasn't just loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was cataclysmic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barrier detonated on contact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stone and soil evaporated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground buckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the sheer heat of the laser turned the air to plasma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was already diving to the side — but the shockwave from the attack still caught me mid-air and hurled me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though I wasn't hit directly, the heat was still unbearable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My cloak ignited at the edges and my skin felt blistered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hit the ground and rolled — once, twice — before slamming to a stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My ribs screamed in agony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My breath was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My vision blurred at the edges, pulsing with red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I coughed — blood and smoke — and forced myself back to my feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My legs were trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My hands shook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything hurt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I was still alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because at the very last second, I had triggered one of my defense Cards — «Scaled Hide».\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>⟨Scaled Hide — Temporarily turns the user's skin into a layer of semi-draconic scales. Great for reducing physical damage. Very effective against elemental attacks, especially fire.⟩\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The outer layer of my skin had hardened into dull, reptilian scales.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had protected me against the worst of the damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I took a deep breath and deactivated «Scaled Hide».\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scales cracked, then flaked off like brittle armor. My skin underneath was red. But intact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the dust cleared… and I saw the aftermath—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything the laser had touched was… gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a smoking trench carved clean across the battlefield, like someone had taken a blowtorch the size of a house and just dragged it through stone, steel, and people alike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air shimmered from residual heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground hissed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the middle of that scorched path were silhouettes — shadows burned into the earth like grotesque murals left behind after a nuclear blast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cadets who'd been caught in the beam weren't just dead. They were erased. Gone in less than a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only their outlines, made of ash and horror, remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then… their ashes stirred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of those charred remains, figures rose — twisted, half-formed humanoid shapes with blazing eyes and molten insides, their skin peeling with each step as if rejecting the memory of being human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They staggered for a moment…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then turned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And joined the swarm of monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that, they had become Solbraiths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked toward the eastern exit and saw the giant was still standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still burning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still glowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Still charging another shot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael and a few others were rushing in to engage it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even from here, I could tell…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't going to go well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck,\" I muttered under my breath, bracing to move—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that's when a worm the size of a small truck lunged at me from the right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its body was covered in jagged obsidian chitin, cracked in places where molten lava bled through like veins, dripping and sizzling with every motion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its circular mouth was full of rings of glowing, serrated teeth spinning around a crucible of fire, ready to melt anything it swallowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I sidestepped just in time to avoid being gulped down whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the worm twisted its boneless body mid-air and crashed down toward me like a collapsing lava tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impact shattered the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I threw myself backward, rolling just ahead of the main strike — but the shockwave still exploded outward, flinging burning shrapnel into my arms, chest, and legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I didn't stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before I even hit the ground, I retaliated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mid-fall, I swung Aurieth and a blazing arc of light exploded outward, slicing across the worm's midsection like a divine crescent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creature let out a screech that sounded like molten metal being scraped across glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It reared back, wounded…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But not dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course it wasn't dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought about pursuing it, but at that very moment, something else lunged at me from behind — a monstrous ant-thing, covered in cracked black plating and oozing magma from its joints, its mandibles wide and dripping molten fluid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I cursed and used my innate power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive stone hand rose from the ground and grabbed the worm mid-screech before swinging it like a flaming whip and crashing it straight into the ant-creature's thorax.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of impact was as grotesque as the impact itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monstrous ant's carapace cracked violently, then shattered, molten blood spraying out like ruptured pipes. Its mandibles twitched spasmodically before its body collapsed — crushed and splattered under the weight of its fellow monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The worm howled again — writhing in the grasp of my conjured stone hand, lava pouring from the gash in its midsection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I didn't let go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned around and hurled it overhead like a slab of meat before bringing it down on another swarm of lesser-Solbraiths that had cornered a group of Cadets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The worm flew through the air like a flaming boulder and crashed into the swarm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impact was thunderous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A geyser of fire exploded where the worm landed on the other monsters, crushing them like they were hit by a meteor strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I sighed as my giant stone hand crumbled into rubble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Cadets I just saved looked up at me — wide-eyed, trembling, faces streaked with blood and soot and horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go join the others!\" I yelled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hesitated—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then nodded and scrambled off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The situation wasn't much better than it had been a few minutes ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was getting there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If only we could take down that cyclops and get out of here—' I started to think…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But my thoughts stopped the moment I saw her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A white-haired girl — on her knees — silver rapier trembling in her grip. Her leg was badly injured. Blood spilled from a deep gash torn straight through her ankle, staining the ground beneath her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And looming over her… was a monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hideous, chitin-covered abomination — an ungodly hybrid of a mantis and a scorpion. Its twin scythe-like claws were raised high, each longer than a man. Its tail coiled like a whip behind it, ending in a barbed stinger that dripped molten venom — each drop hissing and scorching the spot on the ground it landed on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was going to kill the girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she didn't even seem scared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn't see her properly through the dark and smoke. But I didn't need to look at her face to recognize her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even from here, I could tell…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That young woman was my dear Shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>",1555,"2026-05-30T12:03:22.768Z","2026-06-01T04:31:11.943Z",1,"novelbin.me","ca32f9fa5c86e20967aa44e6263a18776fc4fa06ee03d625b26c56a8b4a9dd0c","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-217","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-215",407,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyoung-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-cover.jpg"]