[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-224":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","THE VILLAIN'S POV",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},336661,598,"Chapter 224: Memories of the Fallen Star (1)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-224",224,"\u003Cp>-Frey Starlight's Pov-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come... to the place where it all began.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My father's words...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They still echoed through my mind, even as the blinding light swallowed me whole, ripping me away from where I stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt the world around me twist and shift at a dizzying pace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My father's memories.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With bloodshot eyes, I followed the sound of his voice ... the voice that stirred something long dead inside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warmth surged in my chest as I found myself standing in a wide, dimly lit room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single cradle sat at its center, bathed in the soft silver glow of the moon filtering through the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the cradle, a small infant slept .. his hair as black as ink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked... just like me. Just like Frey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I gazed at the tiny figure, my father's voice came alive again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I opened my eyes for the first time... I found myself inside the body of a newborn.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I kept staring at the sleeping baby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father's reincarnation was nothing like mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had he truly lived his second life from the very beginning as Abraham Starlight?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ignoring my swirling thoughts, I focused again on his voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At first, I was lost. I thought it was a dream. But dreams don't last this long.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Days passed before my eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I saw a man and a woman ..both with black hair .. caring for the child with overwhelming tenderness and love.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They must have been from one of the Starlight family's branch lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>my grandparents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once it became clear I wasn't dreaming, I realized I'd been reborn ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a new body, a new family, a new reality. But the same memories.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I watched as the tiny Abraham grew, day by day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I laughed quietly when I saw him stumble through his first steps, and grumble in frustration when he couldn't even manage the simplest things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I witnessed every moment while my father's voice .. warm and familiar ..narrated it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And deep down,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a part of me wished he'd never stop speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even as I came to terms with my fate...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could never forget the final moments of my previous life .. that blinding light, that moment when everything fell apart.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he never forgot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never forgot us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's why, the moment I was old enough, I began searching for you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trying to uncover the truth behind it all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the time he could walk and speak properly, Father began learning about this strange new world he had been thrown into.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with the knowledge of a grown man trapped in a child's body, he learned at an inhuman pace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was stunned to discover that people in this world wielded supernatural powers,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>living in a bizarre era that fused medieval and modern times together.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father consumed knowledge at an alarming rate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the deeper he dug,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the more he recognized the world he was now part of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As I pieced things together ... learning the names of the great houses, the territories, the history...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I realized I was living inside your story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one you used to tell me... over and over again, just for fun.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time he turned four years old,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was inside the novel his eldest son once created.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For me, it felt like your gift.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A second life, given after the first was torn away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And when I realized that...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>something else appeared before me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as his voice said so, I watched as a glowing point of light materialized before the four-year-old Abraham.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he touched it,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>an interface ...a system ..unfolded before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I blinked in confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't the Author's Tools I was familiar with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was something... completely different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A strange system window appeared,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>showing my stats, my level, like I was in some kind of game.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abraham Starlight – Level 1\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was nothing like the one I had received.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The system gave me missions. Completing them earned me Experience points,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>which I could then use to level up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time he leveled up, he could enhance one of his attributes ..strength, speed, and even his innate talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about it carefully...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father had been given one of those classic, game-like systems often seen in novels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simple. Practical. Ruthless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And back then... I foolishly believed you were there,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>watching me from behind that transparent screen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He truly, wholeheartedly believed… that I was the one who had given him everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, using all the experience from his previous life .. and that strange system that had appeared before him ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he threw himself into training, completing every mission assigned to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Days passed quickly as Abraham Starlight lived quietly in one of the Starlight family's branch houses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The branch families were marginalized, living far away from the chaos of the main house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, Father grew up in a peaceful, healthy environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lived his second life to the fullest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I made sure to treasure every second... training harder, living better .. as a tribute to the gift you gave me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His strength grew at an alarming pace, unnoticed by the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Day after day, Abraham Starlight trained with a sword, cutting again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a young age, he awakened the Starlight family's basic Light Affinity, earning the right to learn their secret combat style—the Stardust Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When my parents in this world gave me that technique, I saw the sorrow in their eyes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Stardust Technique was powerful, forming stars around the heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each star drastically boosted the user's power and enabled devastating attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the branch families were suppressed for generations;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they were only allowed to cultivate the technique up to the Fourth Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond that, they needed specialized secret methods ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>methods that the main family kept tightly locked away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I understood then. My parents were sad because they could only give me an incomplete technique. But even so... it was enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the system he had received would forcefully break through the limits they couldn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was grateful for their love and support, but... no matter how much I tried, I could never truly see them as my real parents.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, my real father's age far exceeded theirs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, the relationship between them stayed ambiguous .. parents who loved their son, and a son who saw them only as strangers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time flew by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I watched my father reach fifteen years old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And looking at him...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he looked exactly like me when I first arrived in this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father's voice continued narrating his journey:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After spending years completing the system's endless missions ...sometimes hard, sometimes twisted, sometimes outright bizarre ... a new idea began to form in my mind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, he believed that completing the missions would eventually lead him to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they never stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's when I realized...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the entity behind the missions wasn't you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was something else entirely.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world resembled the one I once described to him, yes .\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but some things… didn't match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, Abraham Starlight never gave up the dream of finding his family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even knowing he was walking blind,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he thought long and hard about how to reach us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, he came to a conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I turned fifteen, my parents offered to send me to the Temple Academy, since I had the talent for it... but I refused.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thought of living a \"normal school life\" again didn't appeal to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to stay hidden, out of sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My plan was simple:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I would train in secret, pushing my strength to its limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the time came, I would make a name for myself so loud and clear... that my real family would recognize me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would remain hidden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would train like a madman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when he became famous enough,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he would send a message only his real family could understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the whole plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was then that I finally understood why Father's name had echoed across the empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abraham Starlight, the Miracle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Third Lord of the Starlight Family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strongest of his era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of it...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>for one reason alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I just wanted to find my family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing those words…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>something twisted painfully inside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Me and my father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey Starlight and Abraham Starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We were the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of us had done everything… for the same exact reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father remained hidden from the world for years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I watched him train endlessly, awakening the High Star Affinity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His power grew monstrously fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It got to the point where his very body structure began to change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was turning into something else altogether.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that level, the system often sent him into the Nightmare Lands,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>forcing him to trigger major events from the shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father executed them all perfectly ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>without leaving a single trace behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abraham Starlight: Level 70.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Age: 20.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At just twenty years old,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father's strength was already comparable to those at the SS Rank of our world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He possessed a completely different perspective than I did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His method of training was something I had never even thought about ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a hellish regimen that allowed him to control his aura so perfectly, he abandoned the concept of internal aura pathways altogether.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply let the raw force flow freely inside him without restrictions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I kept wondering…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How did he even manage it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of pain did he endure to survive his own power burning his internal organs relying only on the system's force to keep himself alive?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had achieved something that even I ...the very author who created this world... thought impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On another front, after wandering the world and completing countless system missions,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father noticed something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After observing this world long enough, after piecing together all the scattered clues...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I became certain: I hadn't been transported to another world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I had said before .. Father was sharp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unbelievably sharp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something like this could never escape his attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the same world we once lived in… but far in the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1686,"2026-05-30T03:41:22.346Z","2026-06-01T04:30:12.387Z",1,"novelbin.me","2ec5f34c2fa9d522a345584d71189af0688447b15fd3d166a7e6bd03643bc458","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-225","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-223",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]