[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-225":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},336662,598,"Chapter 225: Memories of the Fallen Star (2)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-225",225,"\u003Cp>He realized the truth I had spent two long years trying to uncover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unlike me, Father didn't despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he grew even more determined ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>more certain that he would eventually find us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his heart, he believed he wasn't the only one who had been given a second chance at life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He believed that fate had distributed chances equally among all our family members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so… he pressed forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, at the moment he fully accepted the reality of the world he lived in ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A mission arrived from the system.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A final mission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One that commanded him to enter the Eastern Nightmare Lands ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and reach its very end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I knew immediately… this task was on a completely different level from anything I'd faced before.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, the Nightmare Lands were ruled by four Nightmare Lords ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>not three, as in my era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each one was a monstrous entity whose strength exceeded the SS+ rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention the endless swarms of nightmare creatures that roamed the lands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But none of that stopped Father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took only a single sword,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>packed enough rations into a dimensional ring to survive a while,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and set off on his journey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike me .. who had been thrown directly into the Nightmare Lands ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father entered through the eastern Oclas Mountains,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and pushed forward in search of the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mission asked only that he reach the end of the Eastern Nightmare Lands ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but it gave no further instructions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was he simply meant to cross the continent?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or was there something specific he needed to accomplish?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father had no way of knowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he made the only logical choice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he would explore the Nightmare Lands fully until he found the answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Days passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then weeks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wandered for a long time across the Nightmare Lands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During my time there, I killed countless nightmare creatures…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and nearly died dozens of times myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He faced every imaginable monstrosity ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>from beasts with razor-sharp limbs, to humanoid abominations, to horrors that attacked the mind itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One particular battle caught my attention more than the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One day, a thick fog engulfed Father,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>causing him to hallucinate violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From my perspective, I clearly saw the entity haunting him:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive figure draped in black robes ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>its brain exposed atop its head ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>empty, hollow sockets where eyes should have been .. and a mouth full of jagged teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It circled Father like a predator ready to strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shuddered when I realized ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had once faced this thing too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had I really survived something like that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father was seconds away from falling into its illusion, but his quick thinking saved him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I watched, stunned, as he stabbed himself through the side with his own sword ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>using the intense pain to anchor his mind and resist the hallucination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a brilliant move, especially since he hadn't discovered the easier method of simply closing his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once free from the illusion,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father unleashed his true power ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>eight blazing stars spinning violently around his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strength comparable to the Second Lord of the Starlight family at the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with a single, devastating slash of his sword, he unleashed a wave of blinding light .. one that obliterated the Mist stalker in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the destruction he left behind as he stumbled back, panting heavily ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I realized once again just how terrifyingly powerful my father truly was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The journey continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was merely a third-person observer,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>drifting rapidly from scene to scene,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>barely noticing the passage of time ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>until I caught sight of the thick, rugged beard growing on Father's face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice soon confirmed it:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Six months inside the Nightmare Lands...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Six months of blood, filth, and fighting the unknown .. and yet the mission still stands, just as it did on the first day.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In half a year, thanks to the fact that he had reached the SS rank and developed skills far beyond anyone his age,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father had already explored most of the Eastern Nightmare Lands,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>facing almost every type of creature lurking there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I kept avoiding it... hoping I wouldn't have to confront it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I watched from afar ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as one of the worst nightmare creatures I'd ever seen revealed itself before me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A monster I hadn't even written about...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A being even I knew nothing about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nightmare Lords I had created numbered only three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's what I wrote.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's what I believed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the thing that now stood before me was not one of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its roar was unlike anything I'd ever heard ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a scream of sorrow, rage, and hatred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound alone made my throat dry up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a hulking beast, its body covered in thick, black fur, with two horns sprouting from its skull like a twisted crown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its face ... or what should have been its face ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was nothing but a hollow cavity where a mind should have been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creature clutched its head and screamed again .. a desperate, agonized cry that seemed to shake the very heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost as if it was pleading to all who heard it:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Give me back my brain... Give me back what was stolen from me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the message I instinctively understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was the same realization that struck Father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This creature was ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Amygdala... one of the Nightmare Lords.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father whispered its name, his voice heavy, as he drew the battered, scarred sword that had accompanied him through countless battles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To be honest... I wondered if I could even kill it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father leapt high into the air, eight stars igniting fiercely around his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light of the stars flared brilliantly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>piercing through the eternal darkness of the Nightmare Lands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn't know if I could kill it .. but I knew I had no choice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To move even a step closer to his goal ...he had to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it cost him his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle between Abraham Starlight and Amygdala was a catastrophe on every level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black behemoth let out a roar that shook the earth, spewing waves of black fire that consumed the sky itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wave of darkness .. cleaved clean in half by Father's blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a monstrous battle cry, Father hurled himself straight into the heart of hell,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>crashing into Amigdala's overwhelming darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This monster ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this nightmare ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>scorched mountains, rivers, and forests with flames that could never be extinguished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And still ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the light of the stars shone defiantly within the endless blackness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father's blade tore into Amygdala's filthy flesh, but the creature's regenerative power was horrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how deep the wounds,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it kept fighting .. driven not by thought,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but by pure, mindless instinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It continued to spew black fire from every inch of its body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I watched as Father cloaked himself in the aura of the stars, desperately struggling to survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single white dot against a canvas of endless black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They clashed over and over for what felt like eternity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3 Days passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their battle shook the very foundations of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amygdala wasn't an SS+ level monster for nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn't understand how Father survived that hellish onslaught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nor could I fathom how no one else noticed .. given the sheer scale of the aura disturbances they unleashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle was not in Father's favor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amygdala was a force of nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A walking cataclysm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those black flames didn't just erupt from its mouth .. they surged from its entire body, threatening to reduce everything to ash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the middle of it all…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father's light continued to shine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Were it not for the fact that he had shattered his aura pathways and allowed his body to harness aura freely,che would have been vaporized long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fight reached a deadlock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amygdala, covered in thousands of wounds, refused to fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side, after three straight days of brutal combat, Father had reached his absolute limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>gathering every last shred of strength he had left ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he leapt high into the sky, unleashing one final, suicidal attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gathered every ounce of Star Dust aura he could muster around his crumbling blade, and struck!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Amygdala unleashed a tidal wave of black fire to meet him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When white and black collided ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the world turned dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father's sword shattered .. but it pierced through Amygdala.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the other side, he too fell into the flames, losing consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle ended in a way that left me wondering ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who had actually won?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cold sweat drenched my back after witnessing the hellish battle I had just seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was this... what it truly meant to face an SS+ ranked nightmare?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Amygdala was far stronger than I had ever imagined,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I had to drain every last ounce of my power just to survive... It was a close fight. Death brushed right past me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything turned black as Father fell unconscious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I waited patiently, anxiously hoping for him to wake up so I could finally see the result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After that battle, I don't even know what happened,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his voice echoed again,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My mind was a complete mess from the exhaustion and the wounds I'd suffered during the fight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He drifted in and out of consciousness,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>barely able to open his eyes before being pulled back into the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, he should have died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he had succeeded in killing Amygdala, the Nightmare beasts would have surely devoured his body down to the bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that didn't happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I watched in shock as Father's battered body was dragged away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the ruins of death and destruction ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>where Amygdala's corpse now lay motionless after Father's final attack ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I opened my eyes again... what greeted me was stranger than any dream.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, lying atop the cold, hard ground of that ancient sect...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dragged all the way to that black mountain—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same mountain where I had once bled out and nearly died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The place that still remained a mystery to me even now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abraham Starlight woke up...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the Shadow Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>",1710,"2026-05-30T03:41:22.346Z","2026-06-01T04:30:12.387Z",1,"novelbin.me","8b96ba0be9e27667109cc0d77c0a22e90848aa305f0d476347628f7fb4a31eee","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-226","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-224",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]