[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-became-the-patron-of-villains":3,"chapter-became-the-patron-of-villains-became-the-patron-of-villains-chapter-295":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Became the Patron of Villains",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},759585,1006,"Chapter 295 : Sin of Greed (6)","became-the-patron-of-villains-chapter-295",295,"\u003Cp>Drrrrrr~!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Alon murmured, eyeballs began to emerge from Blackie’s previously blank body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One, then two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two became four.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then four quickly multiplied, and red eyes spread across Blackie’s entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wood Spirit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Alon’s whispered command, Blackie’s tail slithered like a snake and wrapped around Alon’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Linked Chain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, black shadows and red eyes began spreading over Alon’s entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Transformation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blackie’s body, which had been resting on Alon’s shoulder, melted away like snow and vanished into his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, “Darkness.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shadows cloaking Alon’s body formed a black circle behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a halo, the black shadow gathered behind Alon’s head and quickly drew a massive ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately after that—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Reverse Heaven.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Alon chanted the spell, from the black halo that formed behind him—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fwooosh~!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A red eyeball appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alon’s fluttering black coat began rippling like a shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Woah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a sky scorched and filled with ash,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Milky Way began to form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘It feels peaceful.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was Alon’s first thought as he gazed at the Milky Way created in the ashen world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Reverse Heaven spell requires endless creation of stars to release ever-multiplying mana, forming a Milky Way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, this brought brain-melting pain, but now it was tranquil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I should’ve learned this earlier.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alon was only able to open this spell so effortlessly thanks to a spell he learned recently from Kylrus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spell’s effect was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It allowed Alon to fully merge with his shadow dragon—Blackie—and offload part of his mana calculations to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, Alon could calmly analyze the current situation with a clearer mind than ever before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Still, it's unstable. At most... I’ve got maybe two minutes left.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, the spell Alon received from Kylrus was extremely incomplete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was one reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alon hadn’t mastered Kylrus’s magic in full—he had only learned the portions necessary at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, the Awakening he learned from Kylrus had no other effects besides aiding computation, and its duration was frustratingly short.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was nearly identical to the time Alon could forcibly maintain Reverse Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even that much was enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hoo—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a light exhale, Alon leapt from the fortress wall, flicking the fingers of his gauntleted hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crackle~!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frozen earth spread across the ashen world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ash rushing toward him froze instantly, forming mountains of gray dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Landing atop one of those peaks, Alon formed a hand sign without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, as if waiting for this, the stars that embroidered the air like a Milky Way began to fall to the ground at his will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Hmm. For an unfinished prototype, it seems decent enough........... But Marquis, you really shouldn’t use this carelessly, okay?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Penia’s warning echoed in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was a valid warning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This spell had been created with Penia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only was it unfinished, but Alon hadn’t even come close to completing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, it wasn’t something to be used lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The uncontrollable power from the calculations wouldn’t just fall on the ash beings—it would destroy all of Greynifra.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, under normal circumstances, that would be the case.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that only applied when Alon no longer had the computational power to control the Milky Way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Alon had enough computing power and a solid image to control it, then the side effects could be mitigated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alon looked up at the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mana spheres floated across the ashen heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with his current computational support, they were too many to fully control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that didn’t matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because now, Alon had an image in mind that could handle it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bzzzzzz~!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Alon formed a hand seal, the mana spheres above his head turned into thin threads and spread in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he envisioned was the blue fissure Radan had shown him as a Magic Orb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While others saw only a crack, Alon had seen something else inside it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A rule that allowed the control of countless weapons at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack! Crackle~!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Red fissures appeared in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked identical in shape and function to the one Radan had shown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the ones Alon created were extremely crude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had simply cobbled together the structure as simply as possible to replicate it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mana consumption was so massive that other methods would have been more efficient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, Alon continued to multiply the fissures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Alon at this moment, the massive mana consumption from the spell’s crude form was practically irrelevant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like when Radan had summoned the Magic Orb—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red fissures that began forming in the sky quickly devoured it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What... is that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No way~”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This... This is the work of the Primordial Elf...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soldiers gazed in awe at the Milky Ways glowing red within the sky full of fissures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“......!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Whoa—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Historia, Seolrang, and Radan—who had just been slaughtering ash creatures—looked up at the sky in a daze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And finally, with all the mana spheres now under control, Alon stretched out his hand, fingers extended, toward the source of Greed—the Mother of Greed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Toward the sin of greed itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Launch.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spoke softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And from the sky, an uncountable number of flashes rained down toward a single point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light blinded everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No way…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the light engulfed everything, Ramu muttered in shock as his vision returned, his face dazed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even having seen it, he couldn’t believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ash Seeders, who had seemed ready to consume the earth itself, had all vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that wasn’t all?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ash particles that had been flying toward Fildagreen were now, quite literally, turning to ash and scattering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, hope began to rise in Ramu’s wide, astonished eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alon, the one who had caused all of this, didn’t look pleased at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was true that the Mother of Greed was no longer visible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was still there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With pale white skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And green eyes fixed intently on Alon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sin of Greed\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was still standing in that very spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her condition was far from good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body looked barely able to stand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her lower half had been blown away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her right arm hung loosely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And more than half of her face was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was in a state closer to death than life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, the reason Alon’s face was frozen—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regeneration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was healing those devastating wounds like it was nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At an unbelievable speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alon felt a wave of disappointment, but quickly gathered his thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, he couldn't give up on stopping the Sin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he tried to move his mana—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alon realized something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘My mana… won’t move?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just as he recognized this—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[How fascinating.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sin's voice echoed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the many paper talismans floating behind her fluttered down to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, as if by instinct, the three of them charged forward to stop her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seolrang appeared above the Sin in a flash of light, aiming directly for her head as he fell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rang-chang rang-chang—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Historia dashed to the Sin’s front and drew her sword in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four-Style—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Radan emerged from behind with a trident in hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What came next—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, what they heard—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>KABOOOOOM!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thunderous explosion rang out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aaaaargh~!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“P-Please, someone help!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were screams from the elves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Alon turned to look—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw the shattered fortress wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And beyond it—a desolate wasteland, everything inside annihilated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at the edge of that destruction—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tremble tremble\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stood Historia, gripping her sword with shaking hands, her entire body drenched in blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My... Lord—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t even finish her sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Run—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Alon understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That they had all been defeated by the Sin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he turned his gaze, just as he suspected, huge clouds of dust were rising from all around, as if bombarded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Why is something I clearly erased still lingering here?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sin of Greed had suddenly appeared in front of Alon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alon immediately tried to move his mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But still, it didn’t respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No—worse—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hack—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alon coughed up blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the Reverse Heaven spell was broken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then he realized why his mana hadn’t moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My magic—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Its structure was simple.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When using Reverse Heaven, Alon’s magic was deployed based on the mana spheres floating in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sin of Greed had reversed that structure and taken control of his mana instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like how Alon had just used a reverse method to control the spheres via fissures—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An utterly ridiculous feat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But something only a Sin could pull off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alon looked at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Milky Way had disappeared, and the world had turned gray once again, with the Sin standing against it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her blank, detached gaze looking down on him alone made him feel overwhelmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone who had once been filled with awe and hope now wore expressions of pure despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Milky Way Alon had created completely disappeared and the world turned gray once more—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[So, what will you do now?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sin, who had been staring intently at Alon, suddenly asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[There’s nothing more you can do.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...You’re well aware.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[And yet, you still haven’t abandoned hope.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason the Sin of Greed said those words was because she had noticed that the emotion in Alon’s eyes was not resignation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[What are you placing your hope in? You shouldn’t have anything left to try.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her words were true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how positively one looked at the situation, it was undeniably grim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three who had fought alongside Alon were rendered unable to battle by the Sin, and Alon himself wasn’t in much better shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he used divine power to engage in combat temporarily, with his mana under control, he had no remaining weapons to rely on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, despite that worst-case scenario—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alon\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Said calmly, “I don’t need to do anything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the beginning, Alon had never thought he could defeat the Sin with just one blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew all too well that something that incomprehensible—something capable of destroying an entire continent—couldn’t be dealt with this easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, the reason Alon still chose to strike the Sin was for two reasons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was to confirm whether this Sin of Greed, manifested in another person’s body, was the same Sin he had faced multiple times in the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the other—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The alarm’s already gone off.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[...What?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sin asked again, but Alon turned his gaze elsewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far off in the distance, smoke was rising beneath the World Tree encircling Fildagreen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where the other mana spheres, launched during Alon’s earlier attack, had landed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[...Was it just delusion?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sin of Greed, who had shown a hint of interest, soon erased that expression and looked ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, stood the elves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless elves, all staring at her in terror and despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[I'm bored now.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the Sin’s body, mana began to pour out explosively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Guh—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A simple act of mana release.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet that alone was enough for the Sin of Greed to scatter mana throughout all of Fildagreen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah... Ahhh…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s over... it’s the end…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elves shrank back in horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Magrina, who had been expressionless just moments ago, widened her eyes in realization of what was happening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Let’s just end this all at once.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was sure of her victory, and began to cast a spell—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she couldn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of a strange sense of discomfort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sin looked again toward the elves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were still trembling in fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Likewise, when she glanced below, Magrina still wore a stunned expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet—why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Ah.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she blankly observed the scene, the Sin soon realized the source of her unease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...‘They’re not looking at me?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elves were not staring at the Sin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Magrina wasn’t looking at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the moment the Sin grasped that fact—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She realized something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That the dull sky above had darkened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the once ashen sky of Greynifra, a wall had formed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if a surface had been built in the heavens—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t a wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[A... hand?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One so massive that it covered the skies above Fildagreen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A giant hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cold sweat ran down the back of the Sin of Greed, a being who had cast off desires and emotions to become a transcendent being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And only then did she—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realize.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[This is... something like me—]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That behind her, there existed a being just like her—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No. Please don’t think that way.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Said a voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t want to be treated as the same as you by Father.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Sin looked around, the first thing she saw was hair like living vegetation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You are—]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes. That name suits me just fine.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next thing she saw\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Were green eyes, radiant even in the dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And finally—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Longing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A woman who smiled and nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Call me Longing. I like that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive hand fell, sucking in the gray clouds like a whirlpool, descending straight onto her.\u003C\u002Fp>",2179,"2026-06-02T12:43:45.412Z",1,"novelbin.me","e92944912688ed04d984f4b34a033e8cef73e9a4fb344b4494818bfb63882576","became-the-patron-of-villains-chapter-296","became-the-patron-of-villains-chapter-294",479,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fbecame-the-patron-of-villains-cover.jpg"]