[{"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-281":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},500583,755,"Chapter 281: A Strategic Repositioning","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-281",281,"\u003Cp>It took us less than a minute to burst through the treeline and stumble into the clearing where our group had set up camp for the last two days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fog here was much thinner than in the woods behind us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Juli and I stepped through, huffing and puffing, every eye in the camp turned toward us in varying degrees of concern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael and Kang were still in the middle of discussing whatever topic they had been discussing before we left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Alexia and Lily seemed to have returned from their hunting trip and brought back a tentacled millipede for dinner — thankfully, I didn’t think we would have the pleasure to eat it tonight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael looked like he was about to walk over with a frown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before he could, Ray and Vince came tumbling out of the woods after us, both shouting over each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go! Go! Go!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Move, you idiots! It’s right behind us!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By then, I had caught my breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground started shaking again as the white wall of mist surged closer, rising higher than the massive trees and swallowing the forest whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone in the clearing stopped in their tracks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What... what is that?\" Lily breathed, taking an anxious step back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-I asked you guys to bring firewood! What the hell did you bring?!\" Michael exclaimed, grabbing his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Alexia’s face drained of color — and that girl almostneverlooked afraid. Her sightless gray eyes widened as she stared aimlessly into the mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With her Origin Card floating above her head, her voice trembled as she spoke, \"It’s alive.Allof it. The fog is emitting an aura that suggests it’s a singular living creature.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if on cue, the air turned colder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire in the middle of the camp snuffed out like something unseen had sucked the heat from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even our breath turned white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The temperature drop was sudden anddrastic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ray stumbled to a stop beside me, slightly bent over and panting. \"Long story short — giant monster made of mist, hates us, we ran, crab’s dead! Now hurry and pack up!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kang didn’t need to be told twice. He was already shoving food packs and supplies into the dimensional storage chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lily moved beside him in perfect sync, grabbing what she could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael turned to me, looking abitcalmer than the rest. \"Do you have a plan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes! Run!\" I pointed over my shoulder at Juli and Vince, the two traitors who were already halfway across the clearing. \"Follow those cowards!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alexia blinked. \"But you once said youneverrun.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I paused and rubbed my chin thoughtfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...True. Then let’s call it—\" I gestured toward the retreating pair with a shrug, \"—a strategic repositioning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blind girl gave me a look halfway between exasperated disbelief and bewildered amusement. \"So... running.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before I could reply, the mist reached us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it didn’t simplyrollin like mist is supposed to — oh no, itburstinto the clearing like an avalanche.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trees bent and cracked under the sheer pressure as the air turned from chilly to almost freezing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Move!\" Michael shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stomped my foot on the ground and called upon my innate power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The earth in front of us heaved, and a colossal wall of stone shot up from the soil, forming a barrier between us and the oncoming storm of fog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, it didn’t buy us much time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We started running as fast as we could, but the damn mist kept creeping along the edges of the colossal stone wall, seeping through every crack and pouring after us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The forest became a blur around us as we ran, slowly engulfed in the mist. Everything in our vision turned to white and gray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only sound I could hear anymore was the hard pounding of my own heart in my ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the Mist Monster itself decided now was time to make its grand appearance and hunt us down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tall and thin silhouette came into our view, its inky-black figure sharply contrasting the dense white fog all around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creature’s limbs were jointed all wrong, and its movements seemed eerily unnatural.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I dashed in to attack it head-on — but the beast simplyfadedaway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then it reappeared elsewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael rushed over and swung his longsword at it this time, but it slipped away just like before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It continued to emerge and vanish within the mist, lunging from multiple directions all at once — its claws flashing and its monstrous screeches rattling us to the core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Predicting its moves was nearly impossible, especially since it could make itself intangible and render all our attacks useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I won’t lie. We would have been dead within the first few minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing we could have done to change the outcome. We couldn’t hold our positions, and we were losing composure, making mistakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beast was strong. One clean hit from it could kill most of the people in our group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t a fair fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, actually, it wasn’t afightat all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We weren’t one step ahead of death — we were one stepbehind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully, we had a seer on our side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lily’s eyes glowed intensely violet as she shouted, \"Left first, then front!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael and I turned just as the creature lashed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His blade cleaved through the air where the monster had just been, while my transmuted spikes shot up from the ground to block the next strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a while, the two of us managed to keep the Mist Monster at bay —barely— until it changed direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of us had noticed that Ray was lagging behind at the back of our group. His severe blood loss made him sluggish and dulled his reflexes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monster decided to capitalize on this gap in our formation. It dispersed into the mist and darted straight for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ray looked ahead and froze, his mind running too slowly to react.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He managed to raise one hand, but it was too late. The monster’s claws were already slashing down toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was just a step out of reach for any of us to intervene in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone gasped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vince shouted his name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...And then a blur of orange streaked through the fog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Alexia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She moved faster thananyof us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somehow, she had been aware of Ray’s position — thanks to her extraordinary spatial awareness, I guess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had already placed herself in a position where she could reach him quickly in case anything went wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when it did, she slammed into him, twisted midair, and the two of them rolled once before she lifted him up and kept running — her arm cradling him in a perfect princess carry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ray blinked up at her, utterly dumbstruck. His face was mere inches from hers. \"I—uh— wow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alexia didn’t even look at him. \"Stop bleeding on me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I managed to catch a glimpse of the way Ray was looking at Alexia — as if he wasfinallyseeing her properly for the first time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Up until that point, she had only been just another highborn girl occupying space around him. Cute, sure, but nothing that caught his eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus, she was blind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was the point of pursuing a girl who couldn’t swoon over his drop-dead good looks every waking minute of the day?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he’d never considered her as someone of romantic interest... or even someone worth flirting with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, when he looked at her, hetrulysaw her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He noticed that her orange curls were a shade too close to tangerine. He inhaled her soft, citrusy natural fragrance. He felt just how delicate her shoulders were beneath her tunic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, when he looked, hegenuinelyappreciated her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And let me tell you — it was almost worth being chased by aGreaterSpirit Beast just to witness that moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost worth the pain, blood, and trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost worth the fear of death to see him fall for her so foolishly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That moment wasn’t anything dramatic or flashy like you’d see in old romcoms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were no slow-motion stares or grand orchestral swells in the background.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasmuchquieter than that — like a spark created between flint and steel, gone almost too quickly to notice but still there, buried deep, kindling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Ray’s heart had already begun to fan that little spark, probably even writing poetry about it too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to say something — maybe congratulate him for finding love in the middle of a Death Zone — but like everyone else, I was too busy running for my fucking life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind ruffled our hair as we sprinted through the forest. The mist kept roaring behind us, and the monster continued screeching somewhere in the haze, unleashing a flurry of erratic attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We kept dodging. And we didn’t stop.\u003C\u002Fp>",1462,"2026-05-30T12:03:22.768Z","2026-06-01T04:31:10.979Z",1,"novelbin.me","fc07979e5165352324b3c8f8e74ec3a522dbe57bae02a3c1029327b02a6f9e08","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-282","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-280",407,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyoung-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-cover.jpg"]