Villain MMORPG: Almighty Devil Emperor and His Seven Demonic Wives

Villain Ch 1601. The Emperor Can Bleed

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[Respawning in Safe Zone: Ront City.]

The light swallowed them—each one consumed by the glow of forced recall.

And then the world slammed back into color.

The skies above Ront City were blue. Too blue. Clouds fluffy, the sun warm like it hadn’t just watched them die.

The battle was over.

The ground didn’t rumble.

The air wasn’t filled with ash and blood.

No shadow of the throne.

No laugh of the Devil Emperor.

Just… silence. Then noise. Too much of it.

The spawn plaza was already packed—hundreds of players popping in, groaning, some laughing nervously, others dead silent. Revived, respawned, naked with defeat and death messages still flashing at the edge of their HUDs.

Father^Alex appeared in the center of it all.

He blinked, clutching his staff.

He just stood there.

For a full ten seconds.

Chest rising and falling. Hands trembling so violently he had to grip the staff with both hands just to keep it from slipping.

Then he slumped, sitting down hard on the stone step behind him.

“H-Hah…”

His breath caught.

“Oh God… oh God…”

He mumbled it like a prayer, like a curse, like it was all he had left to hold onto. His shoulders shook, not from crying, but from shock. From the afterimage of death. From the sound of bones snapping still echoing in his head.

He didn’t even see the players gathering around him.

Didn’t hear the murmurs.

Didn’t realize he was the center now.

Red_King was the first to break the circle and approach—armor slightly burned, but alive, posture uncharacteristically serious.

“Alex!”

Alex flinched at his name, then blinked up at the knight. Still dazed.

“You—” Red_King dropped to a crouch in front of him, his voice full of disbelief. “You hit the emperor.”

Alex opened his mouth. Shut it. Then, barely above a whisper. “It was… one HP.”

He held up his thumb and index finger. Barely a sliver apart.

“Just a scratch. That’s all.”

But someone laughed behind Red_King.

“Still a hit.”

Mastercraft.

The richest bastard in the game.

Cloak glowing. Rings sparkling like he’d walked out of a vault.

He pointed at Alex like he was some museum relic.

“Bro, that’s insane. You were the last one standing. You actually scratched the Devil Emperor. And you are a healer!”

Alex looked up, squinting. “It wasn’t— I mean… I didn’t think it’d actually—”

He stopped.

Because suddenly they were all around him.

Arcana, stoic, arm still glitching from damage.

Elio, wiping a trickle of blood from his chin with a slight wince.

Azura, bruised but grinning like she’d just seen a miracle.

And all of them were looking at him like— Like he mattered.

“Doesn’t matter if it was one HP,” Azura said, stepping forward, arms crossed but eyes soft. “You hit him. He bled.”

“Barely,” Alex muttered.

“But he bled,” Arcana said, voice firmer now. “He didn’t expect it. He flinched.”

Elio nodded. “He hesitated. I saw it. His face.”

Alex blinked at them.

It didn’t compute.

“Guys… I just got lucky. I panicked. I swung a quest dagger. That wasn’t strategy. That wasn’t heroism. That was—stupid.”

“Stupid works,” Mastercraft said, shrugging. “Against a guy like that? That’s a win. It’s a miracle, Alex! You just made a miracle!”

Azura crouched next to him, voice lower now. “You made him bleed. When no one else could. You showed us something we didn’t have before.”

Alex frowned. “What?”

“Hope.”

There was a pause.

Wind blew gently through the plaza. The fountain nearby gurgled peacefully.

Alex stared at his own shaking hands.

He could still feel it.

The cold. The grip around his neck. The burn of mana when he forced that last chant out. The wild swing. The moment his blade touched that devil’s skin.

He should be proud.

But all he felt was… tired.

“I watched all of you die,” he whispered. “One by one. I couldn’t save anyone. Not Red_King. Not Arcana. Not Mac. Valkyrie…”

His eyes dropped to the ground.

“I was useless.”

“No,” Elio said quietly. “You were the reason we lasted as long as we did.”

Arcana added, “You gave us the chance to try. Without you, we would’ve fallen in the first five minutes.”

Warlord patted his shoulder with a casual hand. “Honestly? I thought you were just the quiet support guy who stood in the back throwing heals. But you stood your ground longer than any of us.”

Red_King grinned. “And you got the final hit in. The only hit.”

Azura leaned in closer, voice softer. “You’re not useless, Alex. You’re our healer. Our wall. Our last hope. And now? You’re our proof.”

“Proof of what?”

“That the Devil Emperor isn’t invincible.”

Alex swallowed. His hands steadied—just a little.

He looked at his staff. At the polished wood. At the glowing sigils. He remembered how it dropped to the ground. How he reached for the dagger with nothing left. How he smiled at death just before the end.

That scratch?

That was his defiance.

A whisper in the face of oblivion.

And now the entire game was listening.

[World Chat]

SilverCrow13: OMG Father^Alex actually HIT the emperor??

PeachyMage: Anyone got the replay link? Upload it!!

NocturneBlade: Bro that -1 HP was more than any of us did all raid.

xX_Tankdaddy_Xx: DEVIL EMPEROR CAN BLEED.

VoidSinger_7: We’re not done.

Alex exhaled.

Still tired. Still shaky.

But… warm.

Surrounded.

Seen.

And for the first time since the battle ended—he smiled.

Just a little.

“Okay,” he said softly. “So what now?”

Red_King stepped back and grinned, fire back in his eyes. “Now? We prepare. We grind. We upgrade. We study every frame of that bastard’s moves. We do more.”

Azura offered him a hand, her smirk fierce. “Next time, we don’t fall. We don’t get wiped. We don’t give him the satisfaction.”

Arcana nodded, voice like steel. “Next time, he bleeds more than just one drop. We make him feel it.”

Elio added, “We fight smarter. Together.”

And Alex… took the hand.

Still trembling.

But not alone.

And for the first time—hope didn’t feel so far.

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