Young Masters Pov Woke Up As A Villain In A Game One Day Chapter 318

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So, yeah. I turned my attention to Vaeghar.

And Vaeghar was going to be in trouble.

You see, everything that happened after he buried Lily behind the rubble in the cavern happened within the span of a few seconds at most.

So while Vaeghar managed to render my latest attack useless, he failed to notice Vince and Kang sneaking up on him in that same instant.

Thwack came the sound as Kang drove himself shoulder-first into one of the Moon Eater’s towering legs, spearing the back of his knee.

Vaeghar staggered forward with an irritated grunt, like he’d been bitten by a pest rather than slammed into by a partially transformed werewolf.

But Kang held on, digging his sharp claws into the Demon Prince’s coal-black skin, barely managing to even scratch it but still not letting go. Then he let out a loud howl and twisted, forcing Vaeghar to wobble sideways.

Vince didn’t waste a second. He sprang off a fractured ledge nearby and connected a vicious cross to the side of Vaeghar’s chin with all the force he could muster.

And it turned out that after being empowered by all his Enhancement Cards, reinforcing his body with the Essence Circulation Technique, and vowing not to use his powers for the next two days in exchange for a forty percent buff… he could muster a lot of force.

Enough to almost rival Alexia’s strength, even if for only a single, slightly mistimed punch.

Enough to still bring Vaeghar down to one knee.

Yeah. Not to brag or anything, but we made a heavily nerfed, extremely weakened Demon Prince kneel twice in one day while we were still teenagers.

Anyway, Vince landed in a roll, quickly jumped to his feet, and immediately fled the area. He’d poured everything he had into that single strike.

His job was done.

But Kang didn’t get the chance to pull away.

Or rather, by the time he did, it was already too late.

Vaeghar snapped around, twisting his twelve-foot-tall body at the waist, then grabbing the wolf-boy and yanking him off his feet.

Kang’s eyes widened in fright as he was slammed into the ground hard enough to crater stone, the impact punching the breath clean out of his lungs.

But before Vaeghar could follow up and simply crush him right then and there, a lance of condensed white light rocketed in from the side.

KWA-BOOOM—!!

The explosion detonated against Vaeghar’s torso, swallowing both Kang and the Demon Prince in a thunderous bloom of fire and light.

Even though we weren’t close to the blast, the shockwave still made our ears ring.

For a heartbeat, I thought Ray had overdone it.

And I was right.

Because when the light faded, Vaeghar was standing, looking just as unharmed as he was at the start of this battle.

It was Kang who was knocked out instead, even though he wasn’t even hit directly.

Still, at least the blast dragged Vaeghar’s attention away from the teen wolf and toward Ray.

The Eighth Demon Prince drew a claw back, preparing to let loose another one of his signature pressure waves.

—SWISH!!

But this time, several thorny, metallic vines erupted from the ground beneath his feet and lashed upward to wrap around his entire body and lock him in place.

That was one of Vince’s Cards. He’d planted it there earlier and only needed to lure Vaeghar into position.

Since the Moon Eater was already significantly weakened by the golden restraints at the edge of the caldera, we only had two goals now.

First, keep him there till I reach him.

Second, shove him back like before so we could retreat into the cavern, where he wouldn’t be able to follow us.

There was just one problem.

Vaeghar could collapse the space around his body and teleport. That made everything messy.

Why?

Oh, no reason.

Just that if he escaped to the center of the caldera, where he was comparatively strongest, he’d keep discharging those pressure waves indefinitely and inevitably kill us.

And from the look in his eyes, that was exactly what he was about to do.

We were still a couple of seconds away from him, especially me. I wouldn’t make it to him in time.

I could try to rush, but that would be reckless. Someone like him had to be holding something back. He had to have a hidden trump card that he still hadn’t revealed to us.

We were good, but there was no way we were good enough to have pushed him out of options so easily.

Unfortunately, not everyone realized that.

When Ray noticed Vaeghar was about to vanish, he propelled himself forward by detonating two quick explosions behind him, like a jet engine firing off.

In the blink of an eye, he was right in front of Vaeghar’s face, twelve feet off the ground. His hand slammed squarely into the Demon Prince’s forehead as he unleashed a third explosion.

I didn’t need to guess that Ray had put everything he had into that attack, emptying every last drop from his Essence reserves.

The result should have been calamitous.

…But it wasn’t.

KABO—

—Szriii

There was a blinding flash of light, followed by the start of a roaring shockwave like a truckload of TNT going off, but all of it was cut short. The immolating flames swirling out of Ray’s palm were suddenly snuffed out.

It all happened in less than a heartbeat, but what I saw sent a chill through me.

Ray’s blast had been… eaten.

Let me clarify— it wasn’t deflected, nor was it resisted.

It had been eaten, like literally!

The remnants of the explosion were dragged inward, spiraling into Vaeghar’s wide maw like smoke down a drain.

The Demon Prince inhaled everything — the light, the fire, and even the sound — slowly, as if savoring the taste, shiny orange embers shimmering around his jagged teeth.

Ray dropped in front of him and froze, not from fear, but because invisible pressure clamped down on his body and pinned him in place as if he was anchored by unseen weights.

Then thin streams of pale Essence were torn from Ray’s body, leaking from his eyes, mouth, and pores like ghostly mist and flowing straight into the Devourer’s gaping mouth.

Ray gasped, his face turning ashen, contorted by pain and horror. His jaw fell open in a soundless scream before he crumpled to his knees.

Vaeghar, still sucking in the threads of Essence unraveling from Ray’s soul, lashed out to plunge his claw toward his chest.

“No—!” Vince shouted and lunged forward. So did we all.

Because instead of pausing to hesitate or calculate, the blind girl just launched herself at them.

The ground cracked under her feet as she crossed the distance in a blur and cannoned her whole body into Ray, knocking him free of the draining grip just as Vaeghar’s claw was mere inches from his chest.

So she did save him.

…But it was too late for her to get out of the way herself.

KLAACH—!!