[{"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-234":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},500786,755,"Chapter 234: Plan B Is Panic (But Strategically!)","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-234",234,"\u003Cp>I had no time to think.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One moment, I was blinking dust out of my eyes and trying to make sense of the hell-storm stampede barreling straight toward me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next, I was moving just as the first spider-monkey lunged at me with a loud shriek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound it let out was so unsettling — like a shard of broken glass being dragged across an old blackboard — it burrowed into my skull and made me regret having ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I immediately raised an arm, and the earth rose with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A colossal hand of stone erupted from the ground and caught the charging creature mid-sprint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, with a single thought, I made the hand close into a fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beast shrieked again in panic and agony as it was being squashed — before its body cracked and caved in. Its limbs contorted unnaturally. Its exoskeleton split like fruit under pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the hand uncurled, it dropped the crushed carcass to the jungle floor with a dull, lifeless thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even before the corpse hit the dirt—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another shriek rang out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More of its kind were coming from all directions now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One dropped from the canopy, hitting the forest floor in a twitching scuttle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another bounded from the trees to my left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then four more broke through the brush with inhuman speed — their limbs skittering and mouths foaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In mere seconds, I was being rushed by over a dozen of these abominable spider-monkey hybrids.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither of them were quite as large as the gorilla-spider from before. But they were definitely faster and hungrier and crazier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So my response was instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I conjured more hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Yes, I was spamming one move. So what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One after another, titanic hand-like constructs of soil, stone, and dead roots erupted around me — each one rising like the grasp of ancient giants clawing their way out of hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They tore through the clearing with seismic rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of the creatures were caught mid-air and slammed into the ground with bone-splitting finality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others were batted into trees. Their bodies snapped on impact like twigs hurled into stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One beast was torn in two — pulled apart by two opposing fists that crushed it from either side like a child ripping apart a toy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And still… they never stopped coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More of them poured into the clearing, wave after wave — like a living tsunami of hungry, rabid animals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They weren't just running toward me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were piling over each other. Crawling through the corpses of their own kind. Digging their claws into anything that moved — or didn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were driven not by reflexes or survival, but a primal kind of hunger that I feared would never end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a deeply wrong sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I was just taking it all in when one of the spider-monkeys landed on the back of a stone hand I had summoned to crush it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Startled, I watched as it skittered up the stony surface and crawled toward me like an actual overgrown spider — like gravity didn't exist for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its mouth opened with a hiss… and I swear its face split into four petals that peeled back to reveal rows of needle-thin teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then it leapt straight toward my head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I whipped the stone hand upward and smacked it mid-air like a gnat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its body collided with a tree, bounced once, then flopped to the ground in a twitching spasm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn't dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, I didn't have the luxury to worry just about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because ten more spider-monkeys came pouncing at me from practically all directions — from the branches, from the brush, from behind. One was even falling from the sky!?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aghh, fuck it!\" I cursed and discharged more Essence into the ground under me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground rumbled in response… before sizable strips of soil and stone tore free, rising upward to form tall walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These walls — these thick slabs of rock and tangled roots — then curved inward, pressing closer and grinding together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One after another, ginormous dome-shaped structures began closing and trapping dozens of spider-monkeys who had either rushed in too fast or were too slow to move away in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The walls snapped shut like bear traps, imprisoning the beasts inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I heard their muffled screams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They shrieked and scraped at the inner walls with their claws in a desperate attempt to dig their way out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they wouldn't make it in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that, I had caged dozens of those abominations for the time being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…And it still wasn't enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They just kept on coming!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn't care that I was stronger. That I was faster. That I could kill them with a snap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They just didn't care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because there were always more of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gritted my teeth and decided to hop back a few steps, when—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Splatch—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My left leg froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked down and saw a thick sludge of webbing clung to my shin and the ground, anchoring me in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I jerked my leg once. Twice. But it was of no use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The webbing had hardened around my leg like cement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was about to use more force, but another spider-monkey crouched nearby fired one more glob of webbing from the barbed end of its tail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sludge struck my right leg, anchoring that too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just like that, I was the one trapped now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both my legs were glued to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the horde was zeroing in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…That was when I saw Lily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She still hadn't moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the looks of it, she couldn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had collapsed unconscious on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gorilla-spider loomed above her, one segmented spear-limb already raised high. I realized then — it wasn't just going to kill her. It was going to devour her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, I could very well have left Lily there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hell, I was tempted to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the game — in one of the plotlines where Lily died during an event — Michael fell into a deep, gnawing depression. For the better part of the story after that, he was bitter and gloomy and completely useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I really didn't want to deal with that Michael.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…So I made a decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fighting was pointless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Winning was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But surviving?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That, I could manage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't waste time trying to free my legs. I simply willed the earth beneath me to move as a small army of spider-monkeys continued advancing on me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground obeyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It surged up beneath me like a rising tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dirt and stone parted under my will, forming into a mobile platform that started dragging me backward in a swift retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like I was surfing across a cresting wave with bare feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, I conjured another earthen hand — this one near Lily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It burst forth in a great upheaval of soil and dust, then snapped toward her limp body and scooped her up before the gorilla's spear-limb could pierce through her chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monster roared, but its prey was already gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stone hand lifted Lily gently against its massive palm and raced toward me. Within seconds, it was gliding beside the earthen wave I was riding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Together, we rushed deeper into the woods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind us, the forest exploded into shrieks, chatters, and rustling chaos as the beasts began chasing us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I reached for Lily — only to duck a split second later as a four-armed monkey jumped at me from the trees somewhere on my right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But long before it could reach us, a stone lance sprouted from the ground beneath it and skewered the creature like meat on a spit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every other spider-monkey that dared approach us met the same fate — impaled on jagged spikes or blocked by sudden walls of stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then I reached again and grabbed Lily's limp body from the earthen hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't cradle her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I slung her over my shoulder like a sack of grain and kept moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come to think of it,\" I muttered to myself, feeling the wind on my face, \"I seem to be carrying a lot of young maidens through battlefields lately.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lily groaned faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind us, the monsters were closing in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wave of earth was carrying us forward, but it wasn't enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I needed more speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Or just maybe more chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, a genius idea struck me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You see, this forest was too thick. Too lush. As a result, there was far too much oxygen in the atmosphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And more oxygen meant…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything was that much more combustible!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fire would spread here like madness on gasoline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A grin crept across my dirt-smeared face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I reached into my Soul Arsenal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…And summoned a Card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It materialized before me in a rain of light sparks, and the moment its rune flared up, fire sprang into existence in my hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next second, I was holding a whip of swirling flame, burning hotter and brighter than I ever remembered it burning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without any hesitation, I swung it wide in a blazing arc overhead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the forest around me exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>KAAABOOOM—!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trees ignited in an instant. Scorching pillars of fire rose skyward as the blaze leapt from trunks to branches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaves turned to ash mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vines withered and ferns blackened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire spread faster than it should have. It was greedy and it was ravenous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was perfect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind us, the shrieking paused for a beat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then returned louder and angrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beasts mindlessly tried to push through the flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were incinerated instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others didn't care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But one — one creature — plowed through the blaze like a mad bull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gorilla-spider.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its monstrous body barreled through the inferno — its black fur aflame and blistered skin crackling with heat. But it still didn't stop moving forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the rest of the creatures followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens, if not hundreds, of spider-monkeys gave chase. They were screeching and burning — flooding in behind the gorilla-spider like soldiers following their king to war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…But by the time they tore through the wall of fire—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lily and I were nowhere to be seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because we were no longer above ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>•••\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, this had been the plan all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'd used the fire as a distraction to erase our tracks and burn our scent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the forest had gone up in flames, I used my innate power to carve a hollow cavern into the earth… then dropped us inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had taken less than three seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I left narrow ducts for air — small and hidden, snaking between layers of stone — then sealed the entrance behind us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just like that, we vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire raged above. The monsters howled and clawed and searched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they'd find nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We… were safe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I slumped to the ground, feeling the adrenaline draining from my veins and exhaustion come crashing back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything was suddenly so still and quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heat from above trickled down in waves — turning the tempreture warm, but not smothering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I dropped Lily's body beside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was bruised and bleeding, her skin chafed and smudged with soot, her blood soaking into the dirt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I just breathed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In. Out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scent of ash began to seep through the vents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world above had become completely engulfed in fire and smoke and silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then… Lily stirred weakly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tiny sound escaped her lips — half a groan, half a cough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned to her and placed a hand over her chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her heartbeat was still strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She'd live.\u003C\u002Fp>",1938,"2026-05-30T12:03:22.768Z","2026-06-01T04:31:11.943Z",1,"novelbin.me","5460e6fc8e8ca3d9261ebf9b21fa2bc332cc4bc42c7b19a2a89831ce8af1a5dd","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-235","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-233",407,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyoung-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-cover.jpg"]