[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-450":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},336737,598,"Chapter 450: The Return of the Black Death","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-450",450,"\u003Cp>What entered her field of vision...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was a scene that could only be described as a nightmare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What... am I seeing...?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Carmen was not immune to the shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In all her long years of life ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had never seen such a massive number of corpses gathered in one place before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky was dyed red from the sheer amount of blood spilled here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood had formed a giant lake, so vast that both Ada and Carmen found themselves submerged up to their knees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before them ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mountains of corpses were piled one upon another, Stacked so high they looked like towering hills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Colossal Nightmare creatures, some of them surpassing the SS- rank...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mist stalker... Cursed Blades... Magma Golems... Grave Birds...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them were terrifying Nightmare creatures that had wrought destruction for countless years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet now... so many had been slaughtered that their bodies were no longer even recognizable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid this sea of death and blood, the corpses of the Nightmare creatures weren’t the only ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon closer inspection, the two women noticed other bodies...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their heads had been severed and mounted on tall spears, decorating the area like a grim warning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of human corpses lay scattered across the land, while the Nightmare beasts numbered in the thousands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoever killed those men had deliberately displayed their heads this way ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To serve as a message for anyone who dared approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It took Ada and Carmen a long moment to process what they were seeing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this heart of death, even breathing became a difficult task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only sound that echoed in this place was the cawing of ravens, feasting on the corpses of the Nightmares, enjoying their meal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just as Ada and Carmen began searching for the one responsible for this massacre ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Death itself came to greet them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without warning, Ada collapsed into the blood-soaked ground, while Carmen dropped to her knees, unable to stand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their faces filled with terror, the two women fell under the crushing weight of an aura that came from nowhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An overwhelming pressure that made the earth itself tremble beneath their feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was so suffocating that Ada nearly lost consciousness, If not for Carmen spreading her own aura, trying to shield her from the worst of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even with her efforts, the aura pressing down on them was something neither of them had ever experienced before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In horror, Carmen raised her gaze to the peak of the corpse mountain ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The place where the monster behind this aura stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just how much power does one need to release such an insane amount of aura?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a strange aura... yet familiar at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cold... and deadly... yet somehow gentle. Familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’SS+ rank? ... No. It’s far beyond that. Even Sir Alon has never unleashed something like this...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, Carmen thought it was Frey responsible for this terrifying pressure ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she dismissed the thought immediately. There was no way Frey’s strength had reached such a level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I need to get Ada out of here...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Carmen struggled to stay conscious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Keeping Ada in this place any longer was far too dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ready to dash away with everything she had, Carmen ignited her eight stars, casting one last glance at the figure standing atop the corpse mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at that moment, Carmen realized something terrifying:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this person wanted to kill them...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wouldn’t survive even a single minute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That sudden realization only deepened her despair... and fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But her fears were misplaced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without warning, the crushing pressure vanished the moment the young man withdrew his aura, finally allowing them to catch their breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Sorry. I’ve been having trouble controlling my aura lately.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice... was familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been a long time, and his voice was much deeper now ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was still him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man stepped forward, standing atop the mountain of corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At last, the figure revealed itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding a pair of black swords, wearing nothing but a torn black pair of pants, barefoot, his chest exposed ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With snow-white hair that had grown much longer .. He finally appeared before them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With trembling eyes, and a face stained by the blood of Nightmares, Ada stared at him, unable to comprehend what she was seeing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Frey...?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She called his name, Only for her brother to vanish without warning ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And reappear directly before them in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carmen could only stare at him, unable to track his movement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could she?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t moved at all .. He had simply teleported.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was covered in blood as well, but a faint smile crossed his face when he finally reunited with his one and only sister after all this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s been a while, Ada.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey extended his hand to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as Ada looked at that hardened hand,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She realized how foolish she had been to come here thinking she’d find the same person she once knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eight months might seem short .\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was more than enough to change everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man standing before her was the one the Empire called the Second Coming of the Great Abraham Starlight ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warrior the Ultras feared so much, they named him the Black Death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was Frey Starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staring at him, Ada hesitated before finally taking his hand, Standing up once again, glancing around at the horror surrounding them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Frey... what happened here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just standing there was suffocating for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Frey seemed perfectly at ease, as if he were standing in his own home ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not in the middle of a sea of corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staring at the mountains of bodies around him, Frey answered plainly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is my hunting ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve been hunting Nightmare creatures here for the past few months.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, both Carmen and Ada finally understood why no Nightmare beasts had attacked from the eastern borders during all these months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking closely at the terrain around them,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could see sword marks and destruction left behind by Frey as he hunted the Nightmares.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Nightmare beasts were not the only bodies in this place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What about those human heads...?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re Ultras.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey answered immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They showed up here four months ago. I think they were planning something, but unfortunately for them... they ran into me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They kept sending more forces ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I kept killing them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed the Ultras had been trying to carry out some kind of operation in the Eastern Nightmare Lands ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But their plans had ended in complete failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ada understood that much...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she couldn’t stop herself from looking at those heads mounted on spears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heads decorating this canvas of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why... why did you go this far?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She asked without thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Killing enemies was understandable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to go so far as to decapitate them and mutilate their bodies ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t something her brother—the one she knew—would do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Frey showed no reaction, answering calmly as if he had just been asked a foolish question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I did it so my enemies would understand what I’m capable of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so more of them would come seeking revenge.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Revenge?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes—so I can kill even more of them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing those words, Ada didn’t know what to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By placing the Ultras’ heads like this, he had planted fear into his enemies,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at the same time ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had fueled their rage, driving them to seek vengeance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey knew well that the high Blood of the Ultras were very different from the Lower Blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were much like ordinary humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They lived normal lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When their comrades were defiled this way, it was only natural that their anger would explode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that was exactly what Frey was counting on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is how he had killed hundreds of them during his time in the Nightmare Lands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After torturing several of them, I learned what they were trying to do recently.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey spoke with chilling indifference, his gaze fixed on the severed heads he had mounted himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems they’re trying to use the Nightmare creatures in the coming war by taking control of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately for them, they ran into me here...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they might have succeeded in the southern and northern Nightmare Lands.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey continued speaking, but soon fell silent when he noticed both Ada and Carmen staring at him in complete silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...What’s wrong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Killing...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Torture...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somehow, these words had become ordinary to him now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Things he could do without hesitation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if they meant nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...You’ve changed, boy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carmen finally voiced what was on her mind, wiping some blood from Frey’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the past, I could always tell what you were thinking ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when I look at you now...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I see nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boy named Frey had become someone entirely different now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one could predict how far he would go from here on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether that change was for better or worse ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ada stepped forward, wrapping him in an embrace, Uncaring of the filthy blood that stained them both.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m glad you’re okay, Frey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as you’re safe... nothing else matters.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether he was her naive little brother ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or a merciless monster ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ada Starlight didn’t care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That young man would always be her only family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Frey saw those thoughts clearly through his Affection System,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which made him hug her tightly in return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m back, Ada.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1572,"2026-05-30T03:41:22.346Z","2026-06-01T04:30:12.387Z",1,"novelbin.me","c2143a278f85d1a316a9c56df88ca36154be422d2cd7f618b270f9e7889261f6","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-101","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-449",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]