[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-379":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},336936,598,"Chapter 379: The Final Round (2)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-379",379,"\u003Cp>—Frey Starlight’s POV—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hidden among the Nightmare Mountains, I sat alone—leaning against the icy wall of a towering peak that reached into the clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two nights had passed since the battle in the Puppet City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a broken body, I made a vow to never fall again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could feel every cell in this body burning, straining to repair the devastating injuries I’d sustained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I never lost consciousness—not even once. I wouldn’t allow myself to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trapped in a strange limbo between wakefulness and sleep, I kept my eyes half-open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Motionless. Frozen in place like a lifeless corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But life hadn’t abandoned this body. It wouldn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every so often, primitive nightmare creatures emerged from the shadows, creeping toward me with the intent to feast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t see them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I sensed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would draw close—very close—only to retreat the moment they breached the invisible boundary around me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in my semi-conscious state, those monsters seemed to understand that appearances could be dangerously deceptive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hours passed rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hours of silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hours where I lived through the same moment again and again...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew what I was seeing was just an illusion—yet I couldn’t escape it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surrounded by fire and shattered puppets, their broken limbs crawling toward me, trying to devour me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding Clana Starlight tightly in my arms, her trembling body clung to mine, refusing to let go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t forget the words she kept whispering into my ear...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her final words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t want to die.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She died... stripped of her humanity, turned into a puppet that plunged her blade into my chest, leaving a gaping, bloodied hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Puppet City. Simon Manus. And Clana...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew they would continue to haunt my nightmares for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when I’m awake... even when I’m conscious...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her ghost would keep appearing before me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had no choice but to live with it—and move forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sinking deeper into this whirlpool of dark thoughts, drowning my mind in shadows...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My brain shut down for a moment as a jolt, like a thunderous surge, struck my head and violently jolted me back to reality. I gasped, drawing a sharp breath, struggling to breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was still here, sweating profusely between the mountain chains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unlike my broken state before...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, I felt no pain—only a surge of explosive power that made me shoot to my feet, throwing off the black cloak wrapped around me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t grasp what had just happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tore off my shattered armor—riddled with holes and scars—and looked at my bare body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as I stripped it off, I stared at my chest, my abdomen... my arms and hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This body that should have been mangled with wounds—two bloody cavities, one from Val’s puppet, and the other from Clana ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been restored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fresh, powerful skin replaced the damage. Not a single scar remained from injuries that should’ve killed any human instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Struggling to comprehend this absurd regeneration, I released my aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A powerful violet glow erupted from my body, radiating pressure in every direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Class A...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My raw power had risen to Class A—without even using my swords or the rest of my abilities, which would easily push me into SS.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A raging strength that made me feel like I could do anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This body was no longer human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like a separate being—one that could recover from any wound the moment I willed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if I had never been human to begin with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt a burning urge to return to the Puppet City and bury that son of a bitch Simon Manus who killed Clana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to kill him—tear his body into pieces just like I did to his puppets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This fire burning in my chest...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted revenge—for Clana, who died in my arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the time hadn’t come yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are more important things to worry about.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully, I had enough self-control to turn my back and keep moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wrapping myself in aura, I bolted westward at high speed, determined to reach the rest of the elite class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clana was dead—and with her, the only clue I had to find the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I couldn’t just sit and do nothing. I had to go back to square one and search again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least this time, I had a lead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Go west—the direction Clana had mentioned before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I finally left the mountain range behind, I used Third-Person Perspective again to locate my friends ..and discovered much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elite class thought I was dead, so they’d all started moving toward the gate they’d found earlier. They had already covered a great distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them... except Ghost, who left on his own to search for me using his high-level assassin skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That idiot...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now I had to worry about him, too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were good friends...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ghost, Danzo... even Snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though I’d never given them anything, never really helped them since we met—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d shown they were willing to risk their lives for me, if it came down to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To me, they were among the few people in this world who truly mattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wouldn’t let them die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My father—Abraham Starlight. And Clana Starlight...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of them died for me. And that was more than I could bear already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t handle losing anyone else for the sake of saving me. The chains I already carried were enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why I decided to find Ghost first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Locating him was the priority. The others were together, and more than capable of surviving on their own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that thought, I accelerated even faster, tearing through the wastelands of the Ultras without a second glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finding Ghost—who was a master of concealment—was a difficult task, even while constantly using Third-Person pov on him...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My current running speed was already at its peak .. everything I could muster...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, I couldn’t help but push myself harder as a strange feeling took hold of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sinister premonition slowly crept into my heart the further I advanced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially when I began sensing a massive number of unfamiliar auras moving somewhere up ahead...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were so many of them...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if an entire army was marching—heading in the same direction I was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the hell is going on?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First Lord Godfrey and Gvardiol...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now these new signatures...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them... going toward the same place I was headed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t a coincidence .. there was no way it could be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wouldn’t be able to catch up to Phoenix and the others—they were already close to the teleportation gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what was the purpose of this army?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trying to find the answer...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was a trap set by the enemy...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or something else entirely...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had no choice but to run faster—faster than ever—praying from the depths of my heart that I would arrive in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>. . .\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>. . .\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far from Frey Starlight ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back to the demonic witch who had spun her web carefully around the entire Ultras Continent, turning it into her personal stage...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beatrice hovered in the sky, a powerful magical aura swirling around her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Witch’s Game... is about to enter its final stages.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A glowing magic circle pulsed around Beatrice as the players of the Ultras took their positions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This game will determine the fate of the entire Earth!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She burst into laughter as she continued weaving her spells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those fated to survive—shall survive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And those fated to die—shall die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Witch’s Game was perfectly fair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those who seek revenge will get their chance. Those who crave power and glory ..they’ll get their shot too! A game of desires at its finest! Kihihihi!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just as her maniacal laughter echoed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey Starlight came to a sudden halt, his expression darkening as a group of people stepped into his path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One look at them was enough to ignite the fury in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Leonides...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ancient elder of the Starlight family—alongside dozens of traitors from the same bloodline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same faction that once stood against his sister in the battle for control over House Starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leonides took a step forward, drawing his sword as an ominous aura surged around him—greatly amplified by his pact with a demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surrounded by other warriors, most of them ranked S...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Lion of the Starlight family roared with burning hatred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have no idea how long I’ve waited for this moment, Frey Starlight!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Revealing his mastery of the Stardust Style, now at the Eighth Star, matching Carmen’s level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leonides shouted with a face twisted by age and the toll of demonic blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of it... just to wield the sword once more with that borrowed power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The moment I kill you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But despite the explosive display of aura Leonides had unleashed—Frey Starlight walked toward him calmly, unbothered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His cold eyes no longer saw Leonides as human. And with a voice that made the immortal lion’s blood boil, Frey spoke:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Step aside, Leonides. I have no intention of fighting someone weaker than me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What did you just say?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all the pressure he had built up... these were the first words Leonides heard from Frey?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re going to die anyway. Your body won’t withstand the demon’s blood.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey could see it clearly ..Leonides looked several years older than the last time they met.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So go bury your pathetic corpse somewhere I won’t have to see it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You bastard!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Driven mad by Frey’s taunts ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leonides charged with a roar, accompanied by many other warriors, as Frey slowly drew his twin swords to meet them—welcoming them with steel and blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus began the first of many grudge matches...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, in the heart of the Ultras Continent.\u003C\u002Fp>",1639,"2026-05-30T03:41:22.347Z","2026-06-01T04:30:13.202Z",1,"novelbin.me","af1c8186eb04694c28c3a2013fea82403512b7a984b45dd5eac1cb23e228c693","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-71","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-70",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]