I'm a Villain in My Own Game?

[Raul POV]

That night, after defeating the two humanoid monsters, Valeria and I settled inside an abandoned building to rest and sleep.

I was eating my last piece of bread to fill my stomach. Tomorrow, Valeria and I would have to start looking for supplies by hunting down other participants who had already entered the urban area.

Speaking of the green-haired girl, just as I had expected, she had managed to figure out a way to defeat those two monsters.

In the middle of a battle, you had to remain calm and analyze both your opponent's strengths and weaknesses. Only then could you exploit them and turn the situation in your favor.

As the person who had created her character, I felt proud of Valeria.

I hoped her intelligence would continue to serve her well, especially when the time came for people to depend on and trust her during the great disaster that would eventually befall this world.

The same went for everyone else.

I hoped they would all grow strong enough by the time their moment came to save the world.

At the moment, Valeria was sitting beside me, fast asleep. Her head rested against my shoulder, and I could clearly hear the soft rhythm of her breathing.

For some reason, Valeria had become much more comfortable with physical contact lately.

Before this, she had practically hated even being looked at by me.

Not that I disliked it or anything, but younger women simply weren't my type.

Well... Technically, my body was the same age as hers.

But inside this body was the soul of a twenty-five-year-old man.

Liana, my ex-girlfriend from my previous life, had the same long black hair as Raul.

However, the hair color I found most attractive in a woman was maroon.

But an ideal woman was nothing more than a fantasy that existed inside a man's imagination.

You would never find someone who perfectly matched that ideal in the real world.

I looked up at the night sky.

Countless stars were scattered beautifully across the darkness above.

I wished I could see this view together with Liana...

The woman I had loved more than anyone.

—Crack!

My thoughts were interrupted by a flash of yellow lightning that suddenly erupted somewhere to the north.

"That lightning..."

I immediately thought of a certain blonde-haired woman.

"Looks like she's angry."

I couldn't help but wonder who would dare disturb Elena while she was trying to sleep.

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[Elena POV]

Ugh...

Why was this happening to us?

At the moment, Geralt and I were running from the monsters roaming the urban area.

We should have been resting tonight after spending the entire day exhausted from fighting the endless waves of monsters that kept coming at us.

"Elena, in front of you!" Geralt shouted, warning me about the eight monsters blocking our path.

I gathered mana into my right hand before channeling it into the sword I was holding.

Yellow lightning began crackling around the blade.

"Lightning Whip!"

I swung my sword.

The lightning surrounding the blade suddenly extended like a whip, lashing across the eight monsters standing before me.

"Blazing Slash!"

I turned around and saw Geralt had just finished taking down four monsters at once as well.

**—Groaaahhh!**

A thunderous roar suddenly echoed through the area.

From the distance, I saw a three-meter-tall humanoid monster covered in sand approaching us.

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"Damn it! They just don't stop!" Geralt cursed, clearly irritated by the situation.

I calmly began walking toward the monster.

More monsters were appearing from behind the humanoid creature.

"That's enough..."

I muttered under my breath.

Ten monsters charged toward me from ahead.

"I said I need to sleep!"

I shouted in irritation.

"I'll slaughter every last one of you for making me this annoyed, you filthy creatures!"

I activated one of my **Profound Codices—Almerio del Lerampago**.

My entire body became enveloped in brilliant yellow lightning.

I was going to wipe them all out with my most reliable magic!

**—Swoosh!**

The wind howled as I accelerated forward, shooting toward the monsters at incredible speed.

There was only one thing occupying my mind.

Destroy them all.

**—Kreeeookk!**

The moment I reached the first monster, I severed its head before it even had the chance to react.

With this kind of speed, you would die before you even had the chance to blink.

Slash.

Slash.

Slash.

Blood splattered everywhere, staining my academy uniform red.

Only a few seconds had passed since I activated my magic, yet every single one of those filthy monsters was already dead.

Now, only the large one remained.

**—Groooaahh!**

It let out a deafening roar before throwing a massive fist toward me.

"Too slow..."

My body vanished from where I stood and reappeared beside it.

My sword immediately sliced into its sand-covered leg.

**—Groaaahhh!**

The monster screamed in pain as its body dropped slightly, forced onto one knee by my attack.

It swung its enormous arm toward me again, but I easily leaped into the air to evade it.

An attack that slow could never touch me.

Lightning once again coursed through my sword.

This time, I would finish it with a single strike.

"Lightning Strike!"

My body descended toward the monster as my sword tore through its body from the top of its head all the way down to its feet.

The monster's body collapsed.

Blood splattered in every direction.

"That's what you get for disturbing my sleep."

These monsters were ridiculously weak...

So far, nothing had appeared during this second-stage examination that could force me to fight seriously.

With my beloved sword in hand, I could finally fight at my full potential.

That was why I wanted to meet him.

I wanted to continue our unfinished battle.

I wanted to fight him while unleashing everything we had.

I looked up at the moon illuminating the night sky above this abandoned city.

I wondered what he was doing right now...

I wanted to repay him for what he had done to me during the first examination.

"We'll fight again, Raul..."

I muttered as I walked away from the battlefield littered with monster corpses.

"I want to experience that thrill of fighting a truly powerful opponent again."

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[3rd POV]

That night, on the third day of the examination, every participant who had survived had finally entered the urban area.

Many teams had already been eliminated while attempting to make their way through the city. Most of them had simply been unable to withstand the monsters lurking throughout the area.

Meanwhile, the participants who had formed alliances with others had managed to survive, although their logistical supplies were running dangerously low.

Tomorrow, the participants would inevitably begin fighting one another over food supplies in order to make it to the finish line.

"Hey, our food supplies will only last through tomorrow," said a man belonging to a group of eight, formed from an alliance of four separate teams. "Whatever it takes, we have to steal supplies from other participants tomorrow."

"Well... What kind of team should we target?" asked one of the mages in the group.

"If we only target teams that aren't traveling in groups, their supplies will definitely be running low as well. They probably won't have enough for all of us."

"You're right, Gisco," said one of the healers in the group, agreeing with his companion. "But if we target a large group like ours, the battle will be much more difficult."

They couldn't afford to fight for too long, either.

The commotion they created would inevitably attract monsters to their location.

"That's why we're lucky to have reached the urban area on the first day," Gisco said confidently. "We can set up an ambush and gain an advantage when the fighting begins."

Everyone nodded in agreement with Gisco's proposal.

While the seven members of the group were discussing their plans for tomorrow's battle, one of them was patrolling the building they had occupied as part of his guard duty.

"Ugh... I'm already exhausted. Why did they have to choose me for this?"

The man complained as he searched the abandoned building.

"Huh?"

He suddenly noticed a chest.

"What could be inside?"

The man approached the chest and forcibly opened it.

"Hehe~ Boy... Looks like my unlucky day just turned into my lucky day!"

He grinned from ear to ear.

"I can't believe I found some treasure in a place like this!"

The man reached inside and pulled out the contents.

It was a golden statue depicting a monster.

**—Shung...!**

Suddenly, a magic circle appeared around the statue.

The man was startled and immediately threw it away.

However, instead of shattering when it slammed against the floor...

The statue began growing larger.

"What the hell?! What did I just find?!"

The man stared at it in confusion.

"Hey, Farlo! What's going on? Why are you making so much noise down there?"

Several of his companions came rushing over to investigate.

"Ah, it's nothing," Farlo replied. "I just found this strange statue."

The statue continued growing.

Larger.

And larger.

It had now reached a height of two meters.

Then...

A crack appeared across its surface.

**—Kreeeakkk!**

The statue suddenly transformed.

Its golden shell shattered, revealing a horrifying monster underneath.

The people who witnessed the transformation stared in shock.

The harmless-looking statue had suddenly become a terrifying creature.

"A-attack that monster!" one of them shouted.

"Wind Cutter!"

Their mage immediately cast wind magic.

A blade of wind sliced through the monster, cleaving its body cleanly in two.

"Huh?"

Farlo stared at the monster.

"I thought it was going to be some powerful, terrifying monster! It's not much different from those weak goblins we've encountered!"

But his excitement didn't last long.

He noticed something strange.

The severed body parts of the monster began moving.

The upper half of its body grew a new lower half.

Meanwhile, the lower half grew a new upper body.

Before they knew it...

There were now two monsters.

"T-The monster can split itself!" the mage shouted.

They attacked again.

But their efforts only made things worse.

Every time they damaged the monster, it split apart again.

Two became four.

Four became eight.

And soon...

There were sixteen of them.

**—Kikiki...**

The monsters laughed at their futile attempts to fight back.

"W-What kind of monster is this?!"

The creatures began swarming the participants, using their overwhelming numbers to surround and attack them.

The participants desperately fought back.

But their attacks accomplished nothing.

Every attempt to defeat the monsters only resulted in even more of them appearing.

More and more.

Until the entire building was filled with them.

That night, the group of participants occupying the abandoned building was completely wiped out by a mysterious monster they had accidentally awakened.

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