NOVGO.NET Chapter 1830: I DIED TO BONDAGE
Chapter 1830: I DIED TO BONDAGE
Villain Ch 1830. I DIED TO BONDAGE
[Warning! The villains will come to claim what’s theirs!]
The system alert painted itself across every player’s screen in bold, demonic red.
Font? Dramatic.
Effect? Pulsing like a heartbeat.
Subtext? You’re about to die.
And the servers?
Split.
Players who didn’t participate in the event—those just here for XP farming, market flipping, or casual fishing—barely blinked. “Not my circus,” they thought. “Not my corpse.”
They kept fishing. Farming. Sitting in towns pretending to AFK while secretly watching the drama unfold.
Because even if you weren’t a target, that didn’t mean the villains couldn’t kill you.
It just meant they probably wouldn’t.
Probably.
For the rest?
The marked ones?
The players with glowing epic-tier loot—the ones holding fragments of the Emperor’s stolen relics?
They were ready.
Or so they thought.
Some fled. Straight into forests, caves, undercity ruins—wherever the map dimmed and detection signals lagged.
Some stayed, encircled by their guildmates, buffs active, mounts summoned, strategies memorized.
Teams clustered.
Healers prepped.
Tanks braced.
Eyes locked on the sky.
They were waiting for it.
The storm.
The dramatic reveal.
The villains descending from the clouds.
Laughter. Chaos. Some edgy villain monologue before fire rained down.
Instead?
Nothing.
Just…
Silence.
Too quiet.
Far too quiet.
Like the server itself was holding its breath.
And then—
The first ding.
[System Alert: Player “SaintBlade7” has been slain.]
[Item Reclaimed: Crimson Gauntlets of the Emperor]
[Slain by: The Vampire Queen.]
Global chat barely had time to react before the next one hit.
[System Alert: Player “HyperAngel_77” has been slain.]
[Item Reclaimed: Wings of the Ashborne]
[Slain by: The Siren.]
Then—
[Player “Miranova” has been slain.]
[Item Reclaimed: Sealbreaker Ring of Shadows]
[Slain by: The Fox Demon.]
And another.
And another.
Ten.
Ten marked players.
Dead in less than five minutes.
No flashy entrance.
No boss music.
No warning.
Just instant elimination.
Clean.
Efficient.
Terrifying.
World chat exploded.
FrostLancer12 : wtf just happened.
LeafSong_88: I didn’t even see who killed me!!!
Zennoir: Was that a fkn kraken?? there was just WATER. Then BLACK.
xXShadowChickXx: Help. Help. HELP.
GorePaladin69: It was the succubus for me. She TIED ME UP. I DIED TO BONDAGE.
DrakeValor: I swear someone whispered “goodnight” in my ear before I exploded.
AngelCore_Juno: WHERE IS THE EMPEROR??
He was everywhere.
And nowhere.
Because while the others moved like predators—swift, savage, surgical—he moved like a shadow given purpose.
The Emperor didn’t rush.
He didn’t shout.
He didn’t need theatrics.
He simply appeared.
One blink—
You were standing, breathing, aiming.
The next?
His sword was inside your chest.
No animation.
No spell circle.
Just the realization that your character’s vision had tilted 45 degrees and your screen was fading to black.
[Player “Iron_Valhalla” has been slain.]
[Item Reclaimed: Cloak of the Dread Star]
[Slain by: The Emperor.]
In guild chats across the server, panic broke into strategy.
“GROUP UP!”
“STICK TOGETHER!”
“IF YOU’RE MARKED, DON’T GO ALONE!”
“USE INVISIBILITY! HIDE! ANYTHING!”
But it didn’t matter.
Because the Emperor and his seven monsters didn’t fight fair.
They didn’t wait.
They didn’t hesitate.
They claimed.
Players hiding in treetops found vines tightening around their throats—Zoe’s abyssal grip yanking them into the dirt.
Guild leaders cloaked in invisibility got caught mid-cast by Alice, who yanked their souls outside their bodies and incinerated them before the loading bar hit 30%.
Tanks surrounded by twenty allies suddenly found themselves alone in a circle of bone—Jane’s necromantic prison locking them in.
Vivian?
You heard her before you saw her.
A sultry giggle.
Then a whip around your neck and a soft, mocking.
“Say my name, cutie.”
And Allen?
He didn’t leave corpses.
He left warnings.
Players vanished.
Their names struck through in the interface.
Their item gone.
Their presence erased.
Only the system kept track.
[Slain by: The Emperor.]
[Slain by: The Emperor.]
[Slain by: The Emperor.]
Whispers started to change.
No longer just panic.
Now dread.
“He’s hunting us. One by one.”
“We can’t see him.”
“This isn’t a raid. This is a massacre.”
They were right.
Because Allen wasn’t playing to entertain.
He wasn’t here to show off.
He was here to take back what was his.
His armor.
His relics.
His legacy.
And if they didn’t give it back?
They’d give up their characters instead.
Somewhere in the East Zone—Ravenspire Outpost—the guild HolyFang Order had dug in. Barricades up. Buffs stacked. Healers chanting from behind glowing runes. Their front line gleamed with gold and white plates, shields larger than doors, every man in rank like this was an actual crusade.
They weren’t NPCs.
They were players.
But they looked like a painting—ready to defend their prize.
And their prize?
An epic-tier accessory [Sanctified Ember Ring], one of the throne relics—looted hours ago from a mini-boss, now marked with that burning, ominous red tag [Marked by the Throne]
Guildmaster Vash_the_Loyal, a level 194 Paladin and one of the top 50 tanks on the leaderboard, stood tall at the center. His helm rested on his hip, face calm. He’d been playing since day one. Been in wars. Watched guilds rise and fall.
He’d seen the Emperor in clips.
Read the forums.
Heard the screams in world chat.
But he wasn’t afraid.
They had barriers.
They had crowd control.
They had faith.
“We’re not moving,” Vash said into the guild comms, voice steady. “They’ll come. They always do. Just hold the line.”
Then—
A breeze.
That was the first thing he noticed. The banners fluttered the wrong way.
The second?
His danger sense spiked.
Something cold whispered against his back—an instinct only veterans developed.
He pivoted fast, blade raised just as the shadow struck. Metal screamed as his barrier flared. His healer’s Barrier barely saved his life, absorbing a near-lethal blow that felt more like a guillotine than a sword.
He grunted, eyes darting.
The figure—gone.
His squad raised their weapons, scanning—
“What the hell was that?!”
“Check above!”
“I didn’t even see a thing—”
Then the voice.
So casual. So calm.
But it cut through every layer of defense.
“Hellfire Rain.”
Vash’s eyes widened.
“GET OUT OF RANGE—!”
Too late.
The sky ignited.
A glyph pulsed above them—black and red, spinning like a cursed sun.
Then fire fell.