[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-438":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},336725,598,"Chapter 438: The Price of Life and Death","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-438",438,"\u003Cp>25 days had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the Silver Dragon Guild,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stood frozen, unable to move,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as its master—and Danzo’s father—Adam Smasher embraced me tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you, my boy... thank you for everything you’ve done for my only son...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing his words of gratitude, I didn’t know what to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It happened when I went to visit Danzo as usual .. only to run into his father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your presence brought a smile back to his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You restored his energy and his health.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could never repay you for what you’ve done...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But please, accept my deepest thanks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his massive arms pulled me into a crushing embrace, I saw tears welling in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must have been hell for him ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>watching his son return to him as a broken shell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had done everything he could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the end, it wasn’t enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, one day, I came—alongside Uriel—and brought his son back to life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To him, I must’ve looked like a ray of hope piercing through the darkness surrounding them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My son didn’t just gain a friend...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gained a brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank you for everything you’ve done for him, Frey.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With tired, hollow eyes blackened from exhaustion, and a clenched fist, I listened to his words, unable to give him any reply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank me for what, exactly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to ask him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hadn’t done anything for his son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Danzo was the one who had helped me time and time again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was the one who preserved what little humanity I still had left—the part of me I never wanted to lose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, when the chance finally came for me to return the favor,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stood powerless,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>receiving praise and gratitude from his father, who didn’t even realize his son only had a few days left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You shouldn’t be thanking me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You should be cursing me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I clenched my teeth, trying to hold myself together...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>trying to say something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the end,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>nothing came out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was already nearing the breaking point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I just stood there, frozen,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>until Adam Smasher finally let me go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He smiled as he bid me farewell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take care of each other, both of you. You’re like sons to me now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, Adam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’re so wrong...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your only son is the one lying in that bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one else.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time remaining: 5 days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Relentless effort does not guarantee success.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how hard you try,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no matter how much of yourself you pour into it, Success is never promised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s always out of reach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only 3 days left...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only 3 days remained...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a few fleeting hours separated me from facing the turning point ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a point that could break something deep inside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m exhausted...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lying there in the Library of Existence, isolated and alone in its vastness,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had finally reached my limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hadn’t slept, hadn’t rested, hadn’t given in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I did everything I could, surrounded by endless books.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t find the answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you want me to kill him with these hands of mine?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If death was his fate...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then why was his life thrown onto my shoulders?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had died somewhere far away in the Ultras Continent, the pain wouldn’t have been this bitter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was afraid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I was angry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Angry at how Danzo’s life had been toyed with ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>like some lab rat, his life prolonged on purpose just so it could end at the ’right’ time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had lost to Gvardiol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He should’ve died then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that damned hybrid kept him alive on purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now I was the one suffering the consequences of his actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the hell am I even thinking?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forcing myself to stand,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I rose again and looked around the endless space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had reached my limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing more I could do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After just a few seconds of standing,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>my legs gave out beneath me, and I collapsed to my knees on the ground, broken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please... show me the way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I whispered, exhaling slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I beg you... just this once .. show me the way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who was I even speaking to now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I was drowning in exhaustion, buried beneath hopelessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t think clearly anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wounds on my body ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>perhaps time could heal them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the fear carved into my soul...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>who would erase that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear of what was coming...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please... show me the way...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If saving Danzo meant finding one book in this endless sea of knowledge,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then no matter how much I searched, I would never find it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This entire place was just a space my mind had created ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and so, I begged myself,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To show me the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To give me what I sought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was meaningless,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but if it showed anything, it was the depth of my despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, to my shock ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impossible happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without warning, without my will,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A miracle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It appeared from nowhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t know where it came from or how it had gotten here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a black, ominous book rested in my hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t know if this was truly what I sought,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but I found myself opening it desperately, frantically searching for the answer hidden inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the moment I opened it ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My consciousness was thrown far away, into another world of memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have touched the forbidden.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were laws upon which this world was built...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laws the Engineer had once spoken of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I wanted to save Danzo,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I realized I had no choice but to break one of those laws if I hoped to survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The completed Devil Seed was something unique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cursed tool invented by one of the most terrifying demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A soul resided inside that seed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And unlike Sansa’s incomplete seed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>where the seed fused with the body—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Danzo’s seed had fused completely, and the soul had merged with him as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had become one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And one...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>cannot become two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What I was trying to achieve ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was freeing Danzo, from Danzo himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was neither realistic nor logical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this world, escaping a completed Devil Seed was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s what I realized the moment I opened that book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What I was about to attempt to break ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was the Law of Life and Death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The very same thing Nameless had once tried to defy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opening that book,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the past was illuminated before me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And my mind was torn apart by a cold voice that shook my soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is no life without death.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I heard it clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was that... Nameless’ voice?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I began to sink into the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No life without death .. that’s what he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So then, what had he done to reach that higher law that stood at the top of the world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in that moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And my expression darkened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I stared at a horrifying sight unlike anything I had ever seen, my whole being trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What did you do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slaughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his own hands...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He killed them one after another ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ended their lives, snuffed out the flame of their existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, he defiled their corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kill, kill, kill...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then more killing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All to achieve what he desired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To satisfy that twisted, diseased passion of his.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did whatever it took to get what he wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What... is this?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had never seen this before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The truth... about Nameless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He wasn’t some great king, like they called him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was blood, and for blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t noble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t righteous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t anything like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He was insane!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wherever Nameless went,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>disaster followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Giant black birds would soar ominously in the sky wherever he appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And soon after, calamities would strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He killed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He killed every type of creature, one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Death, death, and more death ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and even more death beyond that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He caught them all, and dissected their corpses one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cut them down to the smallest pieces,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>until their blood became seas and oceans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nameless spared no one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither the weak nor the strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither the young nor the old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither the poor nor the rich.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He killed them all, and did whatever it took without hesitation to achieve what he sought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And more blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never faltered,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and he never stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alone,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he did what not even the demons themselves dared to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frozen in place before that terrifying sight—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the horrifying experiments that entity carried out,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I found myself stumbling backward,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>retreating in horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was naive...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A king? A mighty warrior?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bullshit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could I have forgotten?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He was a monster. A monster as terrifying as Agaroth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To reach that level...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there was no way he did it through normal means.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was insane ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>without limits or chains to bind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as it meant achieving his goal,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he would do anything,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>without a second thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so it led to a massacre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And oceans of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staring at those catastrophes, I finally understood what had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He did it... and the demons bore the blame for what he had done.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing the truth, all I felt was disgust at what I had seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His past was dark ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but no one had ever truly known him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he left no one alive to tell the tale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, the world thought the demons had committed these atrocities,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>because such horrors matched their ways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the truth was far from that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real monster\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was the man behind that dark mask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was how Nameless challenged the Law of Life and Death ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and reached the level he had attained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing this,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despair washed over me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How was I supposed to comprehend what I had just seen?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those horrific experiments,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that sea of slaughter...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All for the sake of surpassing the limits of flesh and blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the power I needed to save Danzo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But reality was far crueler than I imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because to reach that insane level,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I would have to sacrifice everything,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>become a monster like him...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and do what he did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Break the highest Law of Life and Death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that simply wasn’t possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike teleportation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>you couldn’t learn this just by witnessing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From the very beginning... there was never a way to succeed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When this book appeared before me,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it wasn’t offering me hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was offering me despair ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>crushing the last shred of my will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can’t save him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can’t...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swallowed by the bitter truth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I finally sank into darkness ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>defeated once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were really going to make me do it...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Make me kill Danzo.\u003C\u002Fp>",1796,"2026-05-30T03:41:22.346Z","2026-06-01T04:30:12.387Z",1,"novelbin.me","a373607809139c49f6ee33b61049d2f977e12da338117b26a5f345b212539681","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-439","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-437",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]