[{"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-223":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},500775,755,"Chapter 223: Escape [I]","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-223",223,"\u003Cp>The world stopped moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or maybe it justfeltthat way... now that a walking volcano had finally stopped trying to kill us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I caught myself on a jagged ridge along the cyclops’ back — breathing hard, ribs tight, and heart still hammering like we were mid-battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was far too much adrenaline in my veins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That tends to happen when you go toe-to-toe with a colossal giant made of fire and fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I took a long breath to calm myself and glanced around, trying to take in my surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Charred, stone-like flesh crackled beneath me. Smoke and steam hissed in the air. The cyclops lay lifeless — like a shattered mountain, half-buried in its own crater, its mouth frozen in a final, wordless gasp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, I felt something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something besides relief and exhaustion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt Essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A lot of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flooding the atmosphere around me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Right. Of course,’I thought. The cyclops was dead — and all its Essence was now leaving its body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t waste a second. I started absorbing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But sadly, I didn’t have much time. The battle might’ve been over — but the massacre wasn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were other giant monsters still present in the plaza.GreaterSpirit Beasts, just like the cyclops. And they’d soon begin converging toward the now unguarded eastern exit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We had to evacuate before that happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, not even a third of my core was refilled when I stopped and snapped my head up, scanning the battlefield from my vantage point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The swarm ofLesserSolbraiths wasn’t thinning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If anything, it looked worse. There were more monsters on the field now than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because more humans had fallen. More had turned. More had joined their undead ranks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battlefield still burned in scattered patches, and the vanguard was on its last leg. At this rate, they wouldn’t last five more minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And once the frontlines fell, everyone else would be slaughtered as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luckily, we had a way out now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuuu...\" I let out the breath I didn’t realize I’d been holding, turned... and then I saw her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alexia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I almost forgot about her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crumbled near the edge of the crater she’d created in the cyclops’ skull — by hammering my sword in like a nail — she lay sprawled, hair scorched at the tips, combat uniform torn halfway, ash clinging to her like warpaint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was on my feet before I realized I’d moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a sharp tug, I yanked Aurieth free from the cyclops’ back. Its flesh, now brittle and cold like burned charcoal, offered no resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sword slid loose easily, leaving a trail of cooling magma in its wake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I held it in my non-dominant hand and ran.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alexia!\" I dropped beside her, gently grabbing her shoulders. \"Hey! Are you okay?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked up and smiled dazedly through gritted teeth. \"Oh, just peachy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My stomach turned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was anything but.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her entire right side was a wreck — skin blistered, raw, and scorched. I figured it was an injury she sustained earlier — when I blasted her with that pillar of light during the test.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that wasn’t the end of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’d clearly taken more hits since then — probably while tearing through the undead horde of Solbraiths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But her worst injury was her most recent one — her right arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bone jutted out through torn muscle. Flesh mangled. Blood streamed down in thick rivulets. Her arm wasn’t just hurt. It wasshattered. The whole limb hung limp by her side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was pretty sure she couldn’t even feel it, let alone move it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And still... she smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In pain, yes. But smiling all the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I said I’m okay,\" she repeated, just as I opened my mouth again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stared at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then pointed down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That,\" I said slowly, \"doesn’t look okay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She blinked. \"...You do remember I’m blind, right? I don’t know what’that’is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I groaned. \"Your arm, Alexia.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She tilted her head. \"What about it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s broken,\" I said flatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She reached across with her left hand, touched it — once, gently... then a bit more urgently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She flinched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Oh,\" she murmured. \"I can’t feel it. How bad does it look? Also, why the hell is it broken?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I opened my mouth. Closed it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I briefly considered explaining to her the laws of momentum and why punching a Divine Sword into an ancient molten monster was not recommended medical behavior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I just sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You know what? It’s fine,\" I muttered, brushing ash from her shoulder. \"It’s probably for the best that you can’t see it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She scowled. \"Great. That’salwaysreassuring.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gave her a tired smile. \"Come on. Let’s get you to Michael. He’ll fix it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She nodded. I slipped an arm around her waist and helped her up, careful not to jostle her ruined arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her legs trembled beneath her — but she didn’t complain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Together, we began making our way down the side of the cyclops’ massive, still-smoking corpse. Its cracked, blackened hide hissed faintly beneath our feet like a dying furnace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>•••\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few long minutes of hiking down the slope of the giant’s skull, we finally hit solid ground — landing with a rough drop onto the uneven, scorched flagstones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I steadied Alexia before her knees gave out completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All around us, the plaza was still drowning in chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fires blazed in the distance. Screams echoed between collapsing columns and crumbling obelisks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spirit Beasts howled in the smoke as Cadets scrambled to regroup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But above all that noise, one thing stood out — the eastern exit behind us was wide open now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our escape path was no longer guarded by a one-eyed volcanic behemoth trying to squash us into human pancakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With one arm around the petite girl beside me, I started walking toward the front of the fallen giant’s head — where I’d last seen Michael.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, Lord Samael,\" Alexia hummed weakly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah?\" I asked, not slowing my pace. She had already lost too much blood. We had to hurry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I die,\" she said with a shaky breath, \"bury me in the shade of a cherry blossom tree. And do not — I repeat,do not! — let my family take my body. I will not spend a moment with those motherfuckers even in death!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wow. And here I thought blood loss would make her quieter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I rolled my eyes. \"Don’t be dramatic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Says the guy with the most annoyingly dramatic personality,\" she shot back, grinning faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gasped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before I could defend my entirely reasonable and well-balanced personality, I spotted Michael’s figure a few meters ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood near a group of Cadets — most likely the Brawlers who helped collapse the cyclops’ second leg — sheathing his blade with no urgency now that the immediate threat was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As we approached, his eyes swept over us... then narrowed at the sight of Alexia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh no,\" he said flatly. \"What did she do this time?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She fell from the sky,\" I replied. \"And punched myprecioussword into the cyclops’ skull like a goddamn nail.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael blinked. Then gaped. \"Wait! That was her?! I saw someone falling and wondered who might be that stupid?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it was Alexia’s turn to gasp — though with her current condition, it came out more like a wounded sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She gave him a strained smile and said, \"Hey, Mikey? Be a dear and fix my arm... so I can punch you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I, for once, was impressed that she was still threatening violence while half-dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael, on the other hand, just chuckled and stepped forward while reaching for her arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then placed a hand over it, looked into the distance, copied a random Healer’s ability, and started mending her wounds.\u003C\u002Fp>",1283,"2026-05-30T12:03:22.768Z","2026-06-01T04:31:11.943Z",1,"novelbin.me","4236cd2950ac4652b263ae0d02fa12116a7c85998249bc73eafccdfe9ac0a4f2","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-224","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-222",407,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyoung-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-cover.jpg"]