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

Chapter 316: Fight Against The Moon Eater [III]On the current course, Kang would’ve slammed into the pond instead of being skewered.

So Vaeghar lunged forward and snapped his maw shut, his fangs closing on where Kang’s neck should have been.

But it wasn’t.

Because I dove in from the side at the last moment and hooked an arm around his chest, whisking him away.

Vaeghar’s jaws clamped down on nothing.

I hit the ground in a low skid, boots gouging to a stop before I released Kang and shoved him hard in the chest.

"Go!

" I shouted, pointing toward where Lily and Vince were standing at the cavern’s entrance.

Kang nodded once and bolted, steam rising off his partially transformed body as Vince immediately began deploying his buffs on the others.

By the time I turned back, Juliana had joined the fray.

And my God, was I glad I’d invested in her ascension.

She didn’t approach Vaeghar to attack so much as she overwrote the distance between them to overwhelm him.

More than once, her movements broke past the sound barrier in short but violent bursts.

All the momentum from her blistering speed was transferred to a compressed pinpoint at the tip of her rapier whenever she thrust it.

Every time that thin blade flashed forward and struck Vaeghar, it cracked the air apart with a loud sonic boom.

CRACK—!!

CRACK—!!

CRACK—!!

Every strike landed along the same narrow bands of space across Vaeghar’s torso, hammering relentlessly at the dense spiritual pressure around him like a chisel against stone.

Vaeghar snarled and swung a claw at her...

but by then, Juliana simply wasn’t there.

Her body rewound.

And I meant that literally.

Her body literally rewound in time, moving back at breakneck speed to retrace its own path in reverse motion.

I blinked once, and she was back where she’d been three steps earlier.

Then she jumped forward again, but Vaeghar had anticipated it and swung at her.

This time, she went backward midair like an invisible string from the sky had pulled her up.

This happened several more times.

Coupling her innate power with a Card that blurred her movements and another that made her invisible from time to time, it seemed that even a Demon Prince as mighty as the Devourer himself struggled to read her attack pattern.

Because there wasn’t one.

His attempts to land a hit grew increasingly desperate and futile, and every missed swipe only created another opening.

And Michael exploited every single one of them.

His sword painted dark arcs in the air, slashing deep into the demon’s pressure field and pushing him back bit by bit, even if never going deep enough to actually cut.

Ray didn’t stop either.

Three more lances of condensed white light screamed across the battlefield and detonated squarely against Vaeghar’s face like missiles.

KWA-BOOM—!!

KWA-BOOM—!!

KWA-BOOOM—!!

The explosions stacked and shockwaves overlapped.

And then, Alexia moved back into close quarters as well.

She let go of the golden lasso and swept in low without hesitation, striking the same knee I had hit earlier.

THWACK—!!

I don’t know whether it was because Vaeghar was simply overwhelmed by all of us, or her punch really was just that strong, but this time when her blow landed true, Vaeghar staggered back a full step.

He growled in frustration and snapped a claw toward the blind girl.

But Alexia vaulted over it and landed lightly on his shoulder like a monkey jumping onto a tree.

Using one of the long, thorny protrusions coming out of his spine as footing, she then began raining down a salvo of ruthless punches on the Eighth Demon Prince.

Each punch was reinforced with vicious bursts of aura.

Each punch slammed repeatedly into his neck and collarbone.

Brutal impacts boomed in rapid succession, stacking shockwaves so tightly that they distorted the already distorted air around Vaeghar even more.

THAAM—!!

THAAM—!!

THAAM—!!

Vaeghar actually grunted out loud as his massive frame buckled, his legs surrendering under the accumulated force of Alexia’s savagery.

Finally, he dropped to one knee.

He reached up to grab her, but Alexia had already flipped backward and landed cleanly several steps away.

That instant was seized by me.

Something stirred behind Vaeghar.

The earth folded inward, then upsurged, molding itself under my will as a colossal humanoid shape rose from the ground like a stone giant clawing its way out of a grave.

I manifested it only from the waist up, yet its torso alone was tall enough to dwarf small buildings, and shoulders broad enough to eclipse entire sections of the basin wall.

The giant’s body wasn’t smooth, but jagged and rocky.

And perched atop its head was a baseball cap emblazoned with two overlapping letters: N and Y.

And, as you might have guessed, he was holding a baseball bat in his hands.

The bat was crude and solid, but oversized enough to flatten a fortress.

Even in the middle of battle, I felt an unreasonable amount of satisfaction at my creation.

It was the first time I’d transmuted something that large and complex...

well, aside from the crabmobile.

Vaeghar had just enough time to register the presence behind him.

He began to turn...

but it was already too late.

The stone giant twisted at the waist, and the bat came swinging around in a barbaric horizontal arc.

THWAAAAAM—!!

The sound of impact was deafening.

When the bat connected with Vaeghar’s side, he was launched.

Let me repeat myself, he wasn’t merely knocked away.

No.

He was launched, like a ball hit for a home run.

His massive body was sent flying, the golden restraints on his limbs and neck rattling loudly as he skipped across the lilac pond before smashing through a section of the caldera wall like a meteor.

BOOOOM—!!

The cliff face was obliterated, rock and dust geysering skyward as Vaeghar vanished into the crater.

The aftershock rolled across the battlefield in a deep tremor.

The stone giant followed through on the swing like a professional, bat humming as it came to rest on its shoulder in the most unapologetically smug pose imaginable.

"That ought to have dealt some damage, right?

" I muttered under my breath.

Alexia smacked my forearm.

I winced.

"Right.

I jinxed us, didn’t I?

" I did.

We watched as loose stones clattered down into the newly formed crater and displaced petals drifted back to the ground.

Then the rubble shifted slowly.

From deep within the crater, a gravelly laugh came.

It sounded broken at first, then steadily grew louder.

"...

Magnificent," Vaeghar rumbled from beneath the debris, unmistakably pleased.

"To think mortal fledglings would force me to brace!

" Then the rubble exploded outward as he rose again, cracked stone and lilac water sliding down his shoulders, ember-bright eyes burning hotter than before.

He stood at the edge of the crater, staring down at us with a toothy grin that sent a shiver down my spine.

The shimmering golden cords around his neck and limbs were pulled taut like a vice, and I could visibly notice the strain it took for him to remain upright.

It seemed this caldera truly was the limit of how freely he could move.

So when pushed at the edge of it, he looked ready to fall.

Still...

he looked happy.

Until he vanished.

And reappeared right behind me.

Or he would have, if I’d still been standing there.

In truth, I had moved a split second before he teleported.

So instead of finding me there like a sitting duck, he was greeted by Michael’s sword, just as Juliana’s rapier thrust into the back of his knee and forced his leg to dip at an awkward angle.

Following that, Michael’s shadowy blade crashed into the side of Vaeghar’s neck in a sweeping arc of darkness.

CLANG—!!

The impact rang like steel striking an anvil, wisps of shadow screaming as they were shredded against the Demon Prince’s pressure field.

However, just like every other attempt we made before this one, the blow failed to seriously hurt Vaeghar, let alone draw his blood.

...

But it did move his head into the trajectory of an incoming lance of condensed white light that detonated upon contact with his face.

BOOOM—!!

Smoke billowed around his skull as Vaeghar snarled and twisted, straightening his bent knee with a sharp crack and lashing out to grab anyone within reach.

But there was no one.

Juliana was already gone.

and so was Michael.

For a brief moment, I saw confusion clearly written vividly on Vaeghar’s face.

How were we reading his attacks so accurately?

How was our coordination so perfect?

How were we reacting before he even finished moving?

The answer was simple.

And he realized it too.

Our seer.

Vaeghar’s gaze whipped to see Lily standing calmly at the cavern’s entrance.

Kang was on her right, and Vince on her left.

You see, our strategy was simple.

Alexia and I engaged Vaeghar from the right flank, while Michael and Juliana assaulted him from the left.

Ray functioned as long-range punishment, sniping with his lances whenever Vaeghar overcommitted.

Since Lily couldn’t shout instructions without the Moon Eater hearing them too, we’d devised a workaround.

Well—not we.

Juliana.

Her idea was for Kang and Vince to signal us using basic hand gestures.

Kang’s right arm would signal Alexia, while his left signaled me.

Vince’s right hand was for Michael, and left for Juliana.

If Ray was in trouble, then both of them would flash a combined signal.

With this, Lily could issue precise commands without shouting a single word, and we could fight in flawless sync.

While effective for us, it was obviously a problem for Vaeghar.

He could try to obscure her line of sight, but who knew what other plans we had prepared for that scenario?

So he muttered darkly in frustration, "You’re a problem.

" Then...

his towering form blurred, the air around him rippling like a heat haze, and in an instant, he was gone.

One second, Lily stood at the cavern entrance, calm and composed.

Next, her eyes widened.

She tried to move from her spot...

But Vaeghar’s massive claw slammed into her chest, pinning her to the ground with such speed that even a seer couldn’t react, and with such force that it sent cracks spiderwebbing across the stone floor beneath her.