Villain Path

Chapter 11. Sneaky plan

As Shen was flying on his immortal sword back to his black castle, he couldn't stop shouting in his mind:

«You! A Vile System! Okay, these NPC, but you! You might have reminded me of mister's-deep-scribbler-number-one!! What was he doing there all this time?!»

[User number one has been dictating a new novel to me all this time,] System immediately shared.

Shen heard her comment as he walked through the corridors.

«I can't believe this setup!!»

[It didn't grow that much...]

As he reached the door, he stopped abruptly. «Wait a minute... He couldn't have specifically advised me to retire to meditation, knowing that it would distract me for such a long time... Because he's up to something bad...» Bad suspicions even more ingrained in the thoughts of Shen. Rubbing the aching seal on his right hand, he mentally prepared for the worst, pulled the immortal sword from its scabbard and pushed open the heavy doors.

"What... what the fuck?"

Life hadn't prepared him for this!

In the middle of the bridge leading to the crevice from which the Deep Darkness is slowly being pulled out, the main character was lying senseless!!

The evil cloud was about the same place where he had left it, but it came apart in the sides.

"What is the main character doing here?!"

Throwing the sword aside, Shen ran toward the boy.

"He came looking for you, what else," Yer said calmly.

"He's... he's not dead, is he?"

"Of course he's not dead! It is also protected by the aura of invulnerability of the main character!" Scribbler snorted.

Shen crouched down and turned the boy over on his back. His eyebrows twitched in surprise. And the main character has matured well in the three months that they have not seen each other! He built up the meat on the bones and finally began to look like a fifteen-year-old teenager, not a puny starving boy. Even cute became. He's about to start breaking fragile women's hearts if he hasn't already.

"And ... and how long has he been here?" Decided to clarify the Shen.

"It's almost a week," Said the evil prick-Yer.

"A week?! And you, fiends, didn't even bother to tell me?!"

The darkness snorted, as if to say, "How important!".

"Don't you care that the main character is lying next to the Deep Darkness for a week, you untalented bastard?? Or have you forgotten what happens in the story after he kills me? So I will remind you that he will come here in an attempt to curb the Deep Darkness, and absorb it all into himself! The darkness will engulf him for many years, and he will fall like a plague on the world!" he said aloud, turning pale himself, because an idea had crept into his head.

And apparently the same idea was visited by Yer.

"You know, I've really forgotten some of the details," He admitted, pulling one shadowy tentacle out of the dark clot, "And now I have an idea how we can get rid of all the problems in one fell swoop! Get him here! I will absorb it and become the main character!"

Shen paled as he considered the idea. On the one hand, it could help him to avoid a terrible death... On the other hand, old Yer was now acting and looking like a lunatic, and wanted to devour the child, which was somewhat wrong... what if he couldn't manage to devour it anyway? Then the hero who wakes up will never forgive the villain who treated him so cruelly. And although Shen could not imagine tortures more terrible than those that his current future was preparing for him, he was ready to believe that the main character, angry for such a setup, would be able to invent them!