[{"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-242":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},500794,755,"Chapter 242: Main Characters... Assemble! [V]","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-242",242,"\u003Cp>\"Okay, this... is not good!\" I muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Calm down,\" Lily whispered back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I scowled. \"Iamcalm. Shut up!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...I wasnotcalm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Juliana and Alexia, two of the most important heroines, were about to become... tree food!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, it may sound harsh, but I could maybe afford to lose Juliana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, she was a key figure in many plotlines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And, sure, losing her would make dealing with some of the upcoming events extremely difficult — but not outright impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, losing Alexia so early in the story was a whole different matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she died here, stopping the Total War, and killing Arthur and the Western Monarch would becomesignificantlyharder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, not just harder — downrightsuicidal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So yeah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t let Alexia die in this godforsaken place, or I might as well just give up and open a tea stall instead of trying to fight the Spirit King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I took a deep breath and summoned my Appraisal Card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>«Identity»\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Card manifested in a swirl of light particles and floated up before my left eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It turned transparent like a clean-cut shard of glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when I looked through it at the tree-monsters below, it showed me their stats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>====\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Name: Not Recorded\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Species: Unidentified\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Estimated Rank: Minor-grade Spirit\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Description: Not Available\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Advised Action Based on User’s Level: Engage with caution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>====\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, that didn’t help much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Appraisal Card was created by Rexerd. It contained a vast database of all kinds of Spirit Beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was based on records of monsters cataloged by humanity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>AndNoctveil Wilds... wasn’t exactly a well-explored region. This jungle hadn’t been conquered by humans yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, I doubted anyone from earth had ever stepped foot anywhere near this forest in decades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So most of the creatures that dwelled here were unknown — classified as’unidentified’simply because nobody had filed proper reports on them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, appraising those beasts wasn’t completely useless. At least I knew their rank now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a nod to myself, I turned my gaze toward that humanoid-thing made of vines and roots — the one sitting like a king on that wooden throne beneath the massive tree, wearing a crown of spiky branches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>====\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Name: Not Recorded\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Species: Unidentified\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Estimated Rank: Lesser-grade Spirit (Close to Greater-grade)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Description: Not Available\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Advised Action Based on User’s Level: Do not engage alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>====\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeah. Just as I feared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That thing was aLesserSpirit Beast, on the verge of ascending toGreater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t as strong as theSolbraithCyclops I faced during the Massacre, but not weak enough for me to be able to take it on without any problem either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The suggested action was to not engage alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which made sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because aside from that crown-wearing creature being a serious threat, the entire canyon was infested with a horde — no, anarmy— of those tree-crab monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were its minions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hunting downthatmany beasts would require a full party of multiple [C-rank] and at least two [B-rank] Hunters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Charging in there head-on without any backup would be actual insanity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, we didn’t have much time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because those tree-crab monsters were now skittering toward Juliana and Alexia, ready to plant their baby trees in them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...Okay, that sounded so much more disgusting than I actually meant for it to sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But my point was — we hadnotime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I dismissed«Identity»and summoned another Card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lily widened her eyes at me. \"Wait, Sam! We need a proper plan of attack.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shrugged and stepped to the very edge of the ledge. \"Sure. Here’s the plan — burn them down.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, a flaming arrow blazed into existence in my grasp, burning hotter and brighter than it usually would.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The oxygen-rich air was feeding the flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I bent my knees slightly, pulled my arm back — then whipped it downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Swooooo!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The arrow whistled through the air, falling fast into the dark canyon below... and lit it up in a ring of orange-red glow, like I’d tossed a burning match into the mouth of a pitch-black well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beasts noticed the incandescent radiance and snapped their focus up at us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But by then, it was already too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—FWOOMPH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The arrow struck the ground andexploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fire surged across the underbrush and clung to the vines like oil on dry paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shrieks rose from the tree-crab monsters — inhuman screeches and cries of pain that echoed off the canyon walls as several of them caught fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their bark-like skin hissed and cracked like timbers in a furnace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I still didn’t stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several more flaming arrows rained down like a salvo of missiles. When they exploded, it was as if a cluster of tiny stars had been spawned there to banish the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—FWOOMPH! FWOOMPH! FWOOMPH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air turned thick with smoke and heat and the choking stench of burning bark and boiling sap. Roots flailed and flames devoured everything in their path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the bigger tree-crabs tried to bolt toward the cliff wall and climb it — its numerous root-legs scrambling faster and faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a well-placed shot turned its trunk into cinders mid-rush. It let out a rattling screech before toppling backward into the inferno.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many more of its kind met the same fate, their wooden bodies exploding into fiery chunks the moment my arrows struck them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of it happened in mere seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...But none of it was enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because in the very next moment, the crowned beast lifted its vine-woven head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The glowing white flowers it had for eyes locked onto me before it let out an ear-splitting howl that seemed to vibrate inside my skull more than out in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then it stood up from its throne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And a deep groaning rumble resounded through the canyon — like a large boulder being dragged through gravel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh no,\" I muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh no,\" Lily echoed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, dozens of roots burst from the scorched earth, sprawling outward into defensive barricades around the Tree King’s minions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes. I named it Tree King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, my naming sense is immaculate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire flickered, dimmed, and then choked out — snuffed by a sudden growth of thick, damp roots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I sent two more arrows flying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But more roots sprouted from the soil and coiled together to form a massive hand-shaped construct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—SNAP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive root-hand caught both of my flaming arrows mid-air — like they were nothing more than toy darts — and crushed them. Embers sputtered out like dying fireflies, swallowed by its barky fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the fuck?\" Lily took the words out of my mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because seriously.What the actual fuck?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That creature could manipulate plants?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the middle of a jungle?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seriously?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was such a broken power to have in themiddleof afucking jungle!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget Tree King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forest Lord was a way better name for that bastard!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So be it,\" I said, summoning my Origin Card. \"Time for Plan B.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Which is?\" Lily asked cautiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I grinned like a maniac. \"Hit them harder.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with that... 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