[{"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-60":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},500712,755,"Chapter 60 Preparations","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-60",60,"\u003Cp>Our first academic day was over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was brutal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aghaa!\" I groaned, collapsing onto my bed. \"How am I supposed to survive a whole semester of this?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whose brilliant idea was it to mix an academic setting into a fantasy story anyway?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For crying out loud, I was in a world with magic and monsters!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I should be embarking on life-changing adventures and going on quests to save the world, not attending school!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fucking school!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Arghh!\" I whined again, teetering on the edge of tears. I hated school. Always had, even in my previous life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That didn't mean I wasn't good at academics, though. I was actually a fairly decent student. But just because you excel at something doesn't mean you enjoy it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haaa,\" I exhaled deeply. I had to move. There was no time to rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that our academic year had started, the first big event was going to happen soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the game, every arc had some fixed events you couldn't escape, no matter which storyline you took.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scenarios leading up to those events were also unchangeable to a certain extent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, canonically the first major fixed event in the game was Samael — who is me — coming in contact with the Summoning Card of Asmodeus, one of the nine Demon Princes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That Card was a cursed treasure, just like the Sword of Xaldreth that Michael possessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here's how it went down — in the game, Samael challenged Michael to a duel during the freshmen party.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And, unsurprisingly, he lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Word of his defeat spread like wildfire throughout the Academy, and soon everyone — commoners and nobles alike — was laughing at him behind his back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Samael, full of suppressed rage and seething with embarrassment, could do nothing but clench his teeth and bear the rumors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to snap Michael's neck, but he wasn't stupid. He knew he wasn't strong enough for that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, after continuously being mocked behind his back, one day Samael went to the Archives for a few hours, hoping to find some peace and quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Archives were the Academy's library, rumored to contain more books than a person could read in three lifetimes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the beginning of the semester, not many Cadets visited that place, so Samael thought he'd be left alone there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But instead, he found a strange Card in one of the reading room's hidden compartments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he touched it, a demon appeared in his vision, introducing himself as Asmodeus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asmodeus corrupted Samael's judgment with empty promises of power, manipulating him into committing a massacre during a class trip to the Spirit Realm — which was another fixed event that happened near the end of the first arc.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully, I had avoided both of those scenarios.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hadn't challenged Michael to a duel, nor had I ventured into the Archives to stumble upon a cursed treasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Though, I should probably go there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would be reckless to leave the Summoning Card of a powerful demon like Asmodeus just lying around in the Archives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew I should destroy it before someone else found it. But the odds of that happening were slim since cursed treasures were drawn to specific traits in people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take Xaldreth, for example. He was drawn to Michael's wraith — his raw anger at a world he saw as unjust and cruel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one possessed such clear, unbridled rage as him at that moment. So, Xaldreth called to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the same way, Asmodeus was drawn to Samael's insatiable lust for power — his burning desire to prove his father wrong for abandoning him and choosing his sister over him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Samael wanted enough strength to crush the world in his grasp. He wanted to stand above all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unlike Michael, he couldn't control his emotions and ended up succumbing to Asmodeus' corruption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far too easily, I might add.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So yeah, I doubted anyone in the Academy had enough unchecked ambition to pique Asmodeus' interest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But still!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving that cursed Card there in the Archives would just be reckless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew I should destroy it, but I couldn't. Because I knew Asmodeus wasn't just any demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a master of temptation. A whisperer of desires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His suggestions alone were enough to corrupt anyone! Even those with the most resilient minds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And me? I didn't have any mental defenses against him. Not yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, I didn't trust myself enough to resist his promises of power, strength, and revenge. I knew my weaknesses all too well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew I would cave in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, for now, I had no choice but to deal with this matter later — when I had acquired some sort of proper mental protection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For now, my focus had to be elsewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like the actual first event coming up in a few days — a team-building mission assignment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tomorrow, an Instructor would divide all the first-years into squads of five.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, they would put us to the test.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The team that was going to perform best according to their standards would be given their first mission as Hunters-in-training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what was the issue? The issue was named Michael.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>See, I'd played the game, so I knew exactly what the test was going to be. But I also knew that the only team that stood any chance of winning was Michael's.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the game, he single-handedly led his team to victory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one, not even Thalia Kaizer Theosbane or Princess Alice Vic. Draken, had a hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, I had to find a way to get into his squad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I already had a plan for that. So there wasn't going to be a problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after all that, there was Juliana. I also needed to deal with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My plan was to use her to kill Rexerd and then tame her. But if I couldn't pull that off, I'd have to just kill her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I usually had more confidence in my plans and my ability to turn the odds in my favor, but this was Juliana we were talking about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was as unpredictable as they come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had no idea how that crazy wench would react when I'd confront her. So, I had to be prepared to eliminate her if it came down to that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would be unfortunate to lose a pawn as valuable as her, but it is as they say — better to cut off a finger now than lose a whole hand later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haaa,\" I sighed again. There was a lot of work to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though all I wanted was to sink into my soft bed and relax for the evening, I pushed myself to get up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's start with getting into Michael's squad,\" I murmured to myself as I headed out of my dorm room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before I could even leave my bed, I heard a knock on my door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I frowned. Who would be visiting me at this hour?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Juliana, perhaps?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To my surprise, when I went to open the door, it wasn't someone who I expected waiting for me there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, I didn't recognize this person at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a boy — about two heads shorter than me — wearing glasses that covered most of his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a faint blue tint to his eyes, and he shifted nervously from foot to foot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"U-Um… can we talk?\" he stammered.\u003C\u002Fp>",1229,"2026-05-30T12:03:22.767Z","2026-06-01T04:31:10.979Z",1,"novelbin.me","07a2b7b951e01989dc09c8da35d697496719155e02f82066dfbce50ae53ea7bb","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-61","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-59",407,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyoung-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-cover.jpg"]