Young Masters Pov Woke Up As A Villain In A Game One Day Chapter 317

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Lily was down.

And Vaeghar was grinning… until he wasn’t.

Because still pinned beneath his claw, Lily’s body began disintegrating into twinkling specks of black light, like dark fireflies scattering in the night.

Vaeghar’s eyes widened just a fraction.

Then he whipped his head around to peer inside the dark cavern behind him and saw a young woman with long, ash-blonde hair and haunting violet eyes staring back at him.

Yes. This was our plan.

We knew Vaeghar would go for Lily, so we’d positioned her near the edge of the caldera, where she could not only bait the Eighth Prince with an illusion of herself, but also retreat to safety after doing her job.

Vaeghar acted quickly and swiped his claws again.

Another discordant thrum followed, just like before.

Lily braced herself and got ready to blast the cavern wall beside her to gouge out an alcove and dive into it if the demon were to unleash that same crescent pressure wave at her.

…But he didn’t attack.

Or, more precisely, he didn’t attack her

The crescent wave of pulverizing pressure surged forward, but instead of coming for Lily, it struck the top of the cavern entrance and carved through the stone ceiling like a scythe through wet clay.

Rock blasted outward, massive slabs shearing loose as the entire overhang collapsed in a roaring cascade of dust, debris, and boulders. All of it flooded down and drowned the entrance in a choking gray cloud.

Lily’s eyes widened as she understood what Vaeghar was doing.

And so did we all.

He had turned our plan against us.

He was cutting our seer off from the rest of us, removing her from the battle entirely.

And as if on cue, the entrance vanished beneath tons of rubble, and Lily disappeared behind it.

Okay. Now we were in deep trouble.

…Or at least, we would’ve been if this wasn’t also part of our plan.

Yeah. This time, I had to give credit to Vince.

He was the one who pointed out that even if Vaeghar couldn’t kill Lily outright, he’d either try to block the cavern to isolate her and cut her off from the battle. He’d make it so she wouldn’t be able to assist us.

That’s why we were ready for this scenario.

The moment Vaeghar turned back around, a shadowy creature, roughly the same shape and size as a jellyfish, came floating and blew up in a burst of black cloud around his face, completely shrouding his head and blinding him.

Then, a massive cannonball of molten lava, larger than several cars crushed together, plummeted from above.

It slammed down on Vaeghar and exploded into a river of white-hot rock that hissed and fumed as it made contact with the lilac pond’s surface, sending jets of steam pluming into the sky.

A few feet away, I saw my stone giant winding up.

The colossal golem had discarded its bat and dug out an enormous chunk of the caldera floor, shaping it into a rough sphere like you’d make a snowball.

Then I poured a good portion of my Essence into agitating its molecules until the rockball began to glow and sag, dripping like candle wax.

After that, using every ounce of its strength, the giant swung its arm like a pitcher throwing a fastball and hurled the lava sphere straight at the Demon Prince.

The attack was breathtaking, yes, but also exhausting. It drained a considerable amount of my Essence.

Thankfully, over the course of this journey, I’d expanded my Essence Pool significantly. If I was still a newly ascended B-ranker, I would’ve collapsed on the spot.

Hell, even now, my arms felt like they weighed a thousand pounds each, while my lungs burned with heat and exertion.

But the sight of Vaeghar being swallowed by the molten deluge filled me with satisfaction.

The lava hit him dead-on and buried his massive frame in boiling, churning rock sludge that rapidly started cooling and hardening into volcanic obsidian.

Then there was a moment of hesitation.

We were torn. Do we make a run for the cavern at full speed now, or stay cautious and keep our guard up?

Thankfully, we chose the latter.

Because from deep beneath the solidifying sea of obsidian, another pulverizing wave erupted outward and shattered it like ceramic, spraying its splintered fragments everywhere.

And just like that, Vaeghar was freed. He was panting a little, but other than that, we weren’t able to so much as spill a drop of his blood.

I clicked my tongue in frustration. “Fine. Let’s escalate it even more.”

The ground to the Moon Eater’s far right trembled and split apart, deep fissures snaking across the caldera as I shaped something even larger.

The earth bucked and molded itself into the form of a titanic dragon, its long body covered in jagged stone scales. The whole scene looked like a colossal earthworm slithering its way from underground.

Deep within the stone dragon’s yawning maw, I began heating the earth inside its stomach, melting it into liquid rock until the inlay between its scales started burning red-hot.

Then, with a whipping motion, the dragon retched and spat out the magma like a living cannon aimed straight at Vaeghar.

The torrential river of lava arced through the air with scalding heat, leaving a trail of sizzling distortion in its wake.

But Vaeghar was ready this time.

Having somehow shaken off the blindness inflicted by Juliana’s summon, he raised a claw before the lava could reach him and released another pulverizing wave.

Only this one was different.

The intensity was so extreme this time that the air itself seemed to fracture as invisible curves of pure spiritual force collided with the lava stream and shredded it apart mid-flight.

Spurts of molten rock and droplets of magma rained down, discharging vapours of scorching steam the instant they touched the lilac water.

We scattered to dodge everything — rock, steam, and even the displaced air. But Kevin wasn’t so lucky.

Oh yeah. Kevin was still there, enjoying the battle until one of the pulverizing waves hit him and… well, pulverized him.

I caught it in the corner of my eye, shrugged, and turned my focus back to the Moon Eater.

…Hey, I’m not heartless! But I knew Kevin would be alright.

At this point, I doubted anything short of Soul Severance or outright Existence Erasure could kill him.

As long as there were any negative emotions present around him, he’d survive. And there ought to be plenty of those in the midst of a battle as blood-pumping as this.