Young Master's PoV: Woke Up As A Villain In A Game One Day

Chapter 319: Fight Against The Moon Eater [VI]

Vaeghar’s claw punched clean through Alexia’s bronze armor.

Despite the breastplate shielding her, despite both her Essence and aura working overtime to fortify her body, there was no resistance at all.

The Demon Prince’s sharp talons burst out of her back as easily as a knife through a paper doll.

The sound that accompanied it was a sharp metallic clang, immediately drowned by a wet squelch of flesh and bone being torn apart.

Alexia gagged on her own breath. Her blood, as red as the eerie moonlight, sprayed like a geyser as all her Cards flared brightly behind her...

Then dissolved into shimmering motes of light, flowing back into her soul.

That alone didn’t mean she was dead.

Nonetheless, it did mean something vital inside her body had been damaged. Well, obviously, she was impaled.

But the dismissal of her Cards indicated she had lost both the focus and the will to sustain them. And a fighter as experienced as Alexia Von Zynx would never make such a mistake unless she was blacking out.

All around the caldera, I heard everyone who was still conscious shout her name and rush toward her all at once.

I didn’t shout.

I felt panic encroaching upon my chest, taking a hold of my heart in a wrenching grip. But it was replaced almost instantly, smothered beneath a sense of cold and steady calm.

As Michael and Juliana sprinted past me, I stayed back in my place and stomped my foot into the ground.

Then I waited until Vaeghar swiped his claws again, discharging that same, irritating pressure wave of his.

Only then did I make the earth shoot up beneath me at a slanting angle, launching me forward like a cannon shot and sending me over both the crescent arc of destruction and my companions.

The surrounding view blurred around me as I spun sideways in midair once.

Vaeghar wasn’t expecting me to use my allies as bait.

So he wasn’t ready to follow up immediately. All he managed was to weakly raise a claw toward his chin as I brought my axe around with everything I had.

THWAAACK—!!

The blazing blade of Scorched Oath bashed into the towering demon’s claw and the side of his face, all my momentum compounding into a single, brutal slash.

Of course, the spiritual pressure veiling his body was still far too dense for me to pierce. My blow amounted to practically nothing.

It didn’t even leave a mark.

But it was enough to jerk his head violently to the side.

A rippling shockwave rolled outward in the air from the point of impact, flattening rising steam plumes, splashing the lilac water, and cracking the ground beneath his feet.

Vaeghar let out a growl so low and threatening that it sent a chill up my spine. By the time his head snapped back, however...

I was already gone.

I had twisted midair earlier, landed hard, and rushed toward Alexia’s limp body.

The lilac pond was shallow here.

Her armor had already disintegrated into nothing. Streams of crimson blood continued to gush out of the large puncture wounds across her upper torso, staining the violet heather and mixing with the shimmering water until the pond around her darkened into a sickly shade of wine.

I slid to a knee beside her and caught her before her body could slump fully beneath the surface.

Her head lolled back weakly. Her fine lashes fluttered as frail, painful breaths rattled out of her chest. Her eyes were unfocused, and pupils trembling.

Bad.

This was really bad.

She was alive, but barely.

I lifted her. She was frighteningly light.

My clothes were soaked through almost instantly with her blood. Panic threatened to fracture the icy clarity holding my mind together, but I refused to let it yet.

Behind me, another rage-filled, terror-inducing growl shook the entire area. Vaeghar was clearly displeased that I’d slipped away from him so easily.

But before he could get anywhere near us, three small wisps of light appeared out of nowhere in his field of vision and blew up in brilliant flashes, like flash grenades going off at point-blank range.

Again, it wasn’t enough to harm him. But it wasn’t meant to.

Instead, it was meant to blind him.

At the same time, a blast erupted from the cavern entrance, clearing rubble in a violent outward sweep and opening a path.

I didn’t have to guess it was Lily’s work.

So with Alexia tightly cradled against my chest, I bolted toward it at the full speed that my B-rank physiology allowed.

In my wake, chaos reigned.

Vaeghar took virtually no time to recover, shaking off the sudden stun before whipping around in search of whoever had dared interrupt him.

His gaze swept the battlefield and swiftly landed on a blue-haired boy a few meters away.

It was Vince. Ray was slung over his shoulders in a fireman’s carry, unconscious after having most of his Essence forcibly drained out of him.

Because Ray had fallen far too close to Vaeghar, Vince had originally wanted to ignore him.

He really, really wanted to ignore him.

...He couldn’t.

So he’d risked a moment, dragged Ray up... but then he saw Vaeghar turning toward Alexia and me.

And he couldn’t ignore that either.

So, while cursing himself, Vince bought me a moment to escape. But in doing so, he revealed his own position completely and drew the Demon Prince’s full attention.

”Damn it,” he muttered under his breath. This was why he hated the idea of friendship. It makes you do stupid things.

Vaeghar snickered, stretching his lips into an inhuman grin that was far too wide, revealing rows of razor-like teeth that were far too sharp.

Then he reached out.

His movements were incomprehensibly fast for Vince to register.

One heartbeat, the demon stood several meters away.

One heartbeat later, he was right there in front of him, with his claws almost touching Vince’s ribs.

...Almost touching.

Because before they could’ve made full contact and disemboweled him, Juliana intercepted.

Maybe Vince was biased, or maybe it was because he was still a rank lower, but to his eyes, Juliana’s speed nearly rivaled Vaeghar’s even if it didn’t surpass it.

He couldn’t even tell when her katana descended.

All he knew was that when it did, it collided with the demon’s talons and smashed them downward with a sonic boom that nearly ruptured his eardrums.

And just like that, Vince Cleverly was saved. He could now live to see another day.

”Run!” Juliana shouted, and he did.

He sprinted past Kang’s unconscious body floating in the pond. Unfortunately, his hands were already full.

So with a grim apology, he dashed by and leapt into the cavern right after me.