[{"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-224":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},500776,755,"Chapter 224: Escape [II]","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-224",224,"\u003Cp>The eastern exit was now open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, of course, escaping wasn’t going to be easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You see, the cyclops’ massive corpse had collapsed right in front of the exit gate — not fully blocking it, but still close enough that the retreating Cadets couldn’t exactly waltz through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So they had to circumvent a mountain-sized corpse while undead abominations tried to barbecue them alive from all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strategic retreat was already one of the hardest maneuvers to pull off on any battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now add undying fire monsters to the equation, and you’ve got yourself a lovely recipe for disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet —somehow— we were pulling it off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Squad leaders barked orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Top-ranking Cadets rallied groups of survivors and the injured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Supporters who could enhance coordination linked Squads together like living communication towers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was still chaos. But it was a somewhat manageable mess now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cadets rushed past the fallen cyclops’ shoulder, some leaping over blackened debris, others dragging wounded friends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Screams. Shouts. Roars. Explosions — all of it blended together into a single, suffocating tide of noise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Michael was kneeling beside Alexia. His palms were glowing faintly over her mangled arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, Alex, I’m doing the best I can,\" he said, voice calm but hurried. \"We don’t have time for a full restoration. I’ll close the wounds, reinforce the bone — but you’ll probably have a few scars.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sounded like a tailor apologizing for a rushed hemline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alexia raised a brow. \"Do I look like I care about that stuff?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael was about to make a joke about noblewomen and vanity — how seriously those elite girls take their appearances...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then he actually looked at her face. At the ash stuck to her cheeks. Then at her still-smoking hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Right,\" he muttered. \"My bad.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I leaned slightly over the cyclops’ shoulder, peering past the jagged ridge of its collarbone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The retreat path curved around its ribs, sloping down toward the eastern gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From here, I had a clear view of the right flank — and the mess unfolding there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A handful of Brawlers and Scouts were falling behind. They’d been covering the others, holding off theLesserSolbraiths that were swarming in from the sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of them — a noble girl I vaguely recognized — stumbled. Her foot caught on a cracked slab of cobble. She hit the ground hard, rolled once, and didn’t get up fast enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ALesserSolbraith lunged for her. Its jaw stretched wide, fire bubbling between rows of bone-black teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I knew — she wouldn’t be able to do anything in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My Origin Card flashed into existence above me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost immediately, the ground beneath the monster convulsed — and a massive earthen hand erupted upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It snatched the Solbraith mid-pounce, the monster’s molten body thrashing violently in the stone grip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, without a second thought, I commanded the hand to hurl the creature across the plaza — straight into a different pack of Solbraiths closing in on another Squad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of burning flesh colliding with burning flesh was oddly satisfying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl on the ground just stared at me, eyes wide with disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The squad I’d just saved turned as well. One of them pointed at me, looking utterly speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Move!\" I shouted, nodding toward the exit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t need to be told twice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They joined the others and raced out of the plaza.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I didn’t stop there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I conjured more stone hands, one after another — shackling, grabbing, and flinging monsters wherever I could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tried to keep as many Cadets from being turned into charcoal as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I helped a lot of them escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, as much as I’d love to claim otherwise...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wasn’t an all-powerful god.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes I reacted too slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other times, they were too far outside the range of my ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And occasionally, I had to choose — who to save... and who not to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For every Cadet I managed to pull to safety, two more died deaths so gruesome they chilled even me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My breath came out sharp. My fingers trembled from exhaustion. The Essence I’d absorbed from the cyclops was already burning away faster than I could manage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By then, Michael had just finished healing Alexia’s arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There,\" he exhaled, his face slick with sweat. \"That should hold it together. Now join the others and get out of here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alexia stood, flexed her fingers, and frowned up at him. \"I can help with the retreat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nope,\" I chipped in. \"You’re in no condition to help.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She opened her mouth to argue—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Michael cut in, \"He’s right. And beyond the injuries, I can tell you’re painfully out of strengthandEssence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But you both are in no better shape either!\" she shot back, scowling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re [B-rank],\" I said, gripping Aurieth tighter in my hand. \"We get to be hypocrites. Come back and complain when you’re on our level.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"T-That’s not how that works,\" she muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael raised a finger. \"Actually, that’s exactly how it works. Welcome to the Awakened hierarchy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before she could respond with another bout of defiance... a thundering tremor rippled beneath our feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then a long, echoing howl followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the kind of howl that freezes your blood and reminds yourfight-or-flightresponse that there’s a third option:freeze and hope whatever monster made that sound eats someone else first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned toward the plaza’s center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And there, lumbering through the broken columns and collapsed ruins at the far end, was anotherGreaterSpirit Beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like a dog... if dogs were the size of fortresses and had three heads with bodies made of obsidian and smoke. Liquid fire oozed from between its rock-like plates. Lava hissed between its claws with every step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each of its many eyes glowed like twin furnaces of hatred and locked on the cluster of retreating Cadets ahead of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t even rushing to kill them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t need to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It knew it was fast enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Cadets ahead of it weren’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck,\" Michael muttered. \"It’s coming this way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I nodded grimly. \"Alexia. Get out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked like she wanted to argue again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she didn’t get the chance to even open her mouth this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because I conjured an earthen hand behind her to grab her by the leg, spin her around, and yeet her toward the exit — like throwing out a stubborn cat that refused to leave the kitchen during a fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She yelped midair. \"Samael, youabsolute—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But her voice was drowned by the chaos, so I didn’t hear whatever unladylike curses she threw at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael activated his Origin Card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind roared around us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ash fell like black snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the three-headed colossus of a dog opened its maws and unleashed a wave of hellfire, incinerating everyone in front of it. Around twenty Cadets were burned to a crisp right before our eyes in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So what’s the plan?\" Michael gulped. \"And please,pleasetell me you have a plan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shrugged. \"It’s too strong. Probably stronger than the cyclops. And it has no obvious weakness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ihatewhere this plan is going,\" Michael whispered in a way that could’ve been a sob.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m low on Essence,\" I said. \"Not enough to fight. But I can conjure twenty — maybe thirty — earthen hands. I’ll use them all to start launching Cadets toward the exit, like I did with Alexia.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You... want to start throwing people?\" Michael blinked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’ll copy my ability and do the same,\" I continued. \"We can evacuate at least eighty people if we act fast.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael stared at me like I’d just proposed murdering them instead. \"Samael, they’llbreak bones! Not everyone can reinforce their bodies like Alexia!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t care if they break their damnskulls,\" I replied flatly. \"They’ll live to cry about it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, it wasn’t a careless suggestion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, I knew launching people like ragdolls could injure them — I was familiar with how gravity works — and yes, that might lower their survival chances if they had to keep fighting after escaping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I had my reasons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the game, once the massacre began, it took Selene roughly thirty minutes to suppress the numerousAncientandUnholySolbraiths she was up against.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, the moment she got an opening, she teleported the Cadets away to theGolden Sanctuary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now when the massacre started here, there were about five hundred Cadets in the plaza.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest were eliminated during the test — so I had no doubt most of them were already taken to safety. Some might’ve even made it back to the Night Castle in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, around twenty-five minutes had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over two hundred Cadets were already dead... orundead, since they’d been turned into Solbraiths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which meant maybe three hundred were still alive. Well — a little less than that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe a lot less.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And about half of those had already evacuated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So if I could save just a few more — fifty, maybe even a hundred — I could keep the death toll from hitting the same number it did in the original story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In hindsight, this was a terrible day to start the massacre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why Samael triggered this event the dayafterthe test in the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But regardless... I just needed to save a few more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a few.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, after five minutes, Selene would be able to teleport us all out of this hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just five more minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We just had to survive until then.\u003C\u002Fp>",1575,"2026-05-30T12:03:22.768Z","2026-06-01T04:31:11.943Z",1,"novelbin.me","ccb293130ca36f6c397071ef2bfe9958e33ae11aa0bdd3826be2c846d431a81e","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-225","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-223",407,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyoung-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-cover.jpg"]