Traveling through the game world, starting out as a third-rate villain

“Uh…”

I gritted my teeth and endured the pain surging through my body. My head was dizzy and my magic power was being consumed every second. The wound on my arm kept throbbing.

"Oh? You actually dodged it."

The pain from the dagger wound burned my arm, and I took a deep breath, trying to regain my composure.

Bang!

My heart rate was accelerating and my temperature was rising.

'Calm down.'

My instincts helped me avoid most of the damage, but I was still hurt, and the danger was far from over.

I forced myself to calm down, took a few deep breaths, and injected mana into my blood vessels and heart, slowing down my blood circulation and helping me regain my composure.

Glancing quickly around, my eyes locked on three approaching students, malicious looks on their faces.

One of them, who was tall, said with a hint of satisfaction: "You are quite good, not bad."

He was one of the people who had entered the dungeon with me, but I hadn't detected anything unusual from him or even noticed him before.

'This is not a good situation.'

My mind raced, processing the information I had gathered. Although I had no idea why they were targeting me, it was clear that I was in a very bad situation.

'My senses are failing.'

There is something wrong with these people. Although my attributes are not as good as those of high-ranking students, my [Perception] parameters are at least enough for me to detect their existence. After all, they are just low-ranking students in the academy.

This means that…

'They are hiding their strength.'

If they can bypass my perception and suddenly attack me, it means that they are hiding their strength. Based on my experience, unless the opponent is a high-level character, I can sense any hostility towards me.

'Or... there's something else wrong.'

Before I could analyze the situation further, the student in front of me had already taken action.

He took a step forward, and a surge of black energy surged from his hands, connecting directly to the remaining monster's body.

"roar!"

The two surviving Ruin Screamers suddenly began to ooze out dark aura from their bodies, becoming increasingly violent.

Their roars turned into angry screams, and their eyes flashed with strange lights. The dark energy in their bodies increased dramatically, making them even more powerful.

Bang!

As my heartbeat quickened, my body began to respond to the energy that permeated around me.

The energy was sickening... just like the feeling I felt every time I faced an enemy.

"Demonic energy."

Snap! Snap! Snap!

As I muttered to myself, another student in front of me, a girl with a hood covering her face, suddenly started clapping.

"You're really, really good." Her voice was filled with crazy excitement.

Even though her facial features were mostly obscured, I could still see a maniacal grin on her face.

"Can you give me a good show?"

As she finished her words, the Ruin Screamer, strengthened by demonic energy, became even more ferocious and pounced on me.

Their movements were faster and more unpredictable, and the aura of hostility around them was suffocating. I forced myself to stay calm, but the pain in my body made it difficult for me to move.

whoosh!

Even so, I managed to dodge a fierce attack from one of the monsters, whose claws narrowly scraped my throat.

clang!

Another Ruinscreamer lunged at me, its fangs nearly biting my arm. At the last moment, thanks to that feeling, I blocked the attack with my dagger.

I couldn't accurately estimate the monsters enhanced by demonic energy, and my dual daggers had a hard time keeping up with the accelerated movements of these Ruin Screamers.

'Calm down, Morse,' I reminded myself, relying on my training and experience. I couldn't back down now.

Even though the pain nearly consumed my thoughts and the pain in my body made it difficult to move, I couldn't retreat.

Because, the one in front of me is a half-demon.

'I need to at least see their faces.'

The battle turned into a violent dance of death.

whoosh!

At this moment, the Ruin Screamer suddenly rushed towards me, leaving a trail of dark energy.

It was so fast that I didn't have time to react. No, it seemed that something interfered with my senses, and my cultivated perception failed. I couldn't even activate the [Eye of Time] and [Speed] skills.

prick!

The monster's claws pierced my chest, and three sharp claws pierced deep into my body. My internal organs seemed to be burning, and the monster's dark magic power invaded my body, disrupting my physiological instincts.

"Ugh!"

I couldn't help but cough up blood, and the blood rushed up my throat.

"Too fast..."

My head was dizzy, my thoughts were confused, and my consciousness was on the verge of collapse.

"roar!"

With a piercing scream, another monster pounced on me and bit me hard with its fangs.

'At least... I can go back.'

This is a midterm exam, and the watches provided by the college have a transmission function that can send students back to a safe area when their lives are in danger.

However, as time passed, my consciousness gradually became blurred, and I could not feel any fluctuations of space magic.

'Um?'

What was supposed to happen…didn’t happen.

"roar!"

Amid the screams of the monsters, I barely glanced at the watch on my wrist. It should have displayed the number of monsters killed by each student through the connected server.

“No way…”

When I looked at my watch, the screen was blank.

'They severed the watch's magical connection.'

"Didn't you notice?"

Just then, the tall student's voice came into my ears.

Phew!

"Ugh!"

As he spoke, the first monster suddenly pulled out its claws. The wound was torn open and blood gushed out like a fountain.

"The connection between the academy and this space has been cut off." He continued, his eyes full of mockery, as if I was just an ant under his feet. "No one will come to save you, you will die here."

Bang!

The blood loss and dizziness made it impossible for me to support my body and I fell heavily to the ground.

"How pathetic." The hooded girl looked at me coldly, the smile on her face disappearing. "End him, Reina." She pronounced my death.

"Tsk, don't order me around." The tall boy waved his hand impatiently. "That's what I was planning to do anyway."

"roar!"

As he moved, the monsters screamed again, as if they were in a frenzy. More and more dark energy was injected into their bodies, and their aura was getting stronger every second.

"Heh..." However, as they were talking, I finally couldn't help it. The emotions that had been suppressed for a long time poured out like a flood.

"Hahaha..." I laughed out loud, finally releasing the emotions that had been suppressed for so long.

"What?"

Their expressions changed from mockery to confusion. The boy named Reina frowned, and his arrogant look began to waver. "What's so funny?"

I couldn't stop laughing. I was filled with irony. If the outside world was really cut off, wouldn't that mean I could play to my heart's content and use all my cards without any worries? The cameras monitoring me would probably no longer work.

"The situation has reversed..."

When I began to inject red mana into my body, the world around me seemed to be dyed bloody.

My thoughts, vision, feelings…everything was shifting.

The feeling of my wounds, pain, blood loss…became blurry.

'I want blood.'

At this moment, standing on the brink of death, I felt a clarity and joy I had never felt before.

"He's crazy!" Reiner yelled, stepping back. His companions exchanged panicked looks.

However, the hooded girl kept her twisted smile. "No, he's not crazy."

I'm pretty sure that my expression at this moment is exactly the same as hers.

"Go to hell!" Reina pointed at me and roared.

At this moment, the monsters pounced on me again.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Powered by dark energy, the Ruin Screamers are faster and more ferocious than before. Their movements have become unpredictable, and their attacks are filled with savage ferocity.

clang!

But I don’t need predictions.

I can feel it directly.

Standing on the brink of death, with the afterlife within reach, I gradually became something else.

Something... animalistic.

[Blood Moon Fang]

whoosh!

In an instant, my body rushed out...