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

Chapter 275: Five-star Suite

A whole day had passed.

The overall mood of the group was still not very good. No one wanted to travel.

Thus, we unanimously decided to take a rest day or two.

A slow pace was much better than distractedly rushing through the Death Zone, after all.

So we only walked until we found a large, hollowed tree. Its cavernous interior was spacious enough to serve as our makeshift base for now.

The gouged trunk was so wide that all of us could comfortably sit inside, with plenty of space to spare.

Moss covered the walls like natural padding, and the heavy scent of damp wood stuffed the air.

It wasn’t exactly luxurious, but compared to our options of either camping out in the open or getting cooped up underground, it felt like a five-star hotel.

There was just one problem.

A very hostile, very toxic tenant had already inhabited our five-star suite and was refusing to vacate the place for our use.

“It’s a snake! It’s a giant snake!” Ray shouted, pointing his camera at the absurdly gigantic creature before us.

“Oh, gee, thanks, Ray,” Vince replied with a mock smile of gratitude before snapping, “We could all see that it was a snake, you moron!”

Alexia coughed into her hands.

That earned her a solid three seconds of silence, followed by Vince blinking down at her in dawning horror. “Right. Uh. My bad. Not everyone.”

“Can you guys shut your squabbling and focus for a second?!” Michael barked, voicing exactly what I was thinking but was too busy to say myself.

Because in front of us was a snake at least twenty-five feet long, with a pair of human-like ears, and a smaller second head sprouting from its neck.

Its scales gleamed a sickly green under the crimson moonlight, patterns shifting as it slithered, muscles rippling beneath its wet, leathery hide.

Two fangs, each as large as a person and sharp enough to grind stone to dust, jutted from its maw in a downward curve.

Every breath it took sounded less like breathing and more like the hissing of a steam engine.

According to my appraisal, it was classified as a Lesser Beast — putting it in the same class as upper [B-rank] Hunters.

This… thing… was inside the hollowed tree.

And when we, in our infinite wisdom, stepped into its nest, it attacked us and then followed us back outside.

“Right. So what do you think, chat? On a scale from ’oh, crap’ to ’we are so screwed,’ how bad is our situation? Comment down below on our chances of survival!” Ray said into his camera with his usual stupid grin, then turned to Vince. “And what do you think, Vince?”

Vince groaned into his hands. “I think I should’ve written my will before coming here.”

“Focus!” Michael barked again, dodging the snake’s whip-like tail.

“And don’t any of you numbskulls dare use any kind of explosives. We don’t need to attract more monsters to our potential campsite!” I yelled before unleashing a barrage of earthen spikes to skewer the beast. But the damn thing was too slippery and too fast.

“No explosives? But explosions are my whole thing!” Ray protested while dancing back to avoid the snake’s coils.

I wanted to smack him at this point, but didn’t yet have the opportunity.

Because in the very next second, the snake lunged straight at me, its jaws gaping wide enough to swallow me whole.

I hopped back and once again transmuted the ground before me into a jagged ridge of stone — but the goddamn creature was still faster.

Its long, sinuous body twisted and curved before coiling like a spring and lashing forward, bulldozing through the stone spikes I had created like they were made of cardboard.

It crashed through them all and just kept coming at me like a speeding train that refused to slow down.

Michael charged in from the left just then, brandishing a longsword He swung for the joint beneath the serpent’s jaw, but—

“Michael, left!” Lily’s urgent voice rang out from behind. This text is hosted at novel[f]ire.net

As if on cue, the smaller, second head sprouting from the snake’s neck hissed and spat a stream of green venom straight at him.

Michael didn’t hesitate to pivot and slide out of the way just as the venom splattered where he’d been standing a heartbeat ago.

The ground melted and bubbled, smoke rising up from the corrosive puddle.

“Appreciated!” he called back.

I used that moment to ready my next attack.

The earth around the snake shuddered fiercely before rising to take the shape of two colossal hands made of packed dirt and stone. They reached for the beast like the grip of a titan, aiming to crush it in place.

But the serpent’s body shimmered for a split second… and then blurred forward — faster than the human eye could track.

The colossal hands slammed shut on empty air, grasping nothing.

“Son of a—” I started, but before I could finish cursing, something came whistling through the air.

—Kwisss!

A projectile — small, silver, and impossibly fast like a high-caliber bullet shot from a sniper rifle — struck the giant snake square in the side of its maw, jerking its head violently to the left.

Thwaaam—!!

The impact that followed echoed like thunder, scattering droplets of blood through the air.

That hit should’ve blown half the snake’s skull off.

But its scales…

Those damned scales held strong. They were so thick that they could very well have been metallic. The projectile left only a shallow dent in them, piercing nothing.

A few feet away, Juliana clicked her tongue in irritation.

She reached into her outfit and fished out another kunai, twirling it between her fingers before drawing her arm back to take aim.

Now, don’t ask me where she kept all those kunai — at this point, I’d stopped trying to figure it out.

“Fine. Let’s see if it can tank another hit on the same spot,” she muttered and hurled the dagger forward with a flick of her arm.

The blade whistled through the air once again — and in that moment, Juliana activated her innate power to accelerate its time.

The kunai’s speed suddenly increased tenfold.

It turned into a streak of silver light that zipped straight toward the same point on the snake’s scales she’d hit before.

And it should’ve struck the mark.

…But it didn’t.

Because the snake’s second, smaller head moved down and caught the kunai midair — between its fangs — before spitting it away with a hiss.

Juliana’s lips twitched. “…Okay, I hate that thing.”

“Seconded,” I muttered just as the snake’s main head dove at me.

But I didn’t move from my spot. Because Michael dashed in again.

This time, he managed to plunge his longsword into the serpent’s flank, cleaving through one of the overlapping scales.

His blade didn’t cut deep — but it did cut.

The snake let out a shrill, ear-splitting cry that rattled my bones probably because I was the closest to both its mouths.

Then it jerked back and started thrashing violently as its focus split between Michael and Juliana.

“Got its attention!” Michael shouted, skidding backward while the beast reared up.

“Good! Hold it down now!” I yelled, quickly summoning the axe that Michael had so generously gifted me — the Scorched Oath.

It materialized in my grasp in a swirl of shimmering light particles.

By this time, Alexia Von Zynx herself had decided to grace us unworthy mortals with her presence on the battlefield.

She rushed in with a… a lasso in hand.

Yes, a lasso.

And no, don’t ask what a blind girl was doing with a lasso, either.

She spun it once, twice, then snapped it toward the serpent’s maw.

The loop glowed midair and expanded before tightening around the snake’s muzzle like a vice.

“Got it!” she grunted, heels digging into the dirt as the lasso snapped taut.

The serpent roared and flailed against the restraint in fury — but before it could break free, Kang leapt beside Alexia and grabbed the rope.

Together, they pulled with everything they had. The lasso glowed brighter under the strain.

But even then, their effort wasn’t enough.

The snake was as strong as it was enormous, and any second now, it looked ready to yank them both in.

Fortunately, Vince intervened before that could happen. He drew every Support Card in his arsenal and buffed both Kang and Alexia, drastically boosting their physical prowess.

At the same time, Lily tossed a Card onto the ground near the serpent’s tail.

Shraaak—!!

From that spot, a tangle of thick vines exploded upward and wrapped around the beast’s body, shackling it to the ground.

Michael followed up next. After copying my ability, he conjured multiple colossal hands of stone and made them hold the serpent down like an executioner pinning its prey.

“Keep it steady!” I shouted.

The beast bellowed in defiance. Its strength and speed were monumental, but against the combined force of six of us, it was utterly immobilized.

Now was the time to kill it.

I jumped.

The air brushed past me as I soared upward, then came crashing down, landing square atop the serpent’s massive skull.

I then raised Scorched Oath high above my head, its obsidian blade veined with molten red — and brought it down with tyrannical force.

—THWAAAM!

The sound was deafening.

The snake’s scales shattered like glass beneath my strike. It convulsed in agony, its smaller head snapping toward me in blind rage.

But before it could reach me, another streak of silver cut through the air with a sharp fwoosh!

It was one of Juliana’s kunai.

And it pierced straight into the serpent’s right eye, embedding so deeply that the second head spasmed… then went limp and collapsed to the side.

Not that it was needed. I could’ve handled it myself.

But what irked me even more was that Juliana didn’t even look pleased with her own shot.

She simply stepped back to reposition herself, her expression calm and disinterested.

“Such a show-off,” I rolled my eyes.

Then I raised my axe again and drove it straight down into the serpent’s main skull. The blade tore through bone, muscle, and finally brain matter.

The beast let out one last screech before its entire body sagged and slumped lifelessly to the ground.

The battle was over.

And now, we could finally enjoy our well-earned five-star suite.