[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-472":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},336559,598,"Chapter 472: The Starlight Requiem (2)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-472",472,"\u003Cp>It devoured everything in its path ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including Gavid Lindman and Gvardiol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>V’s fire attack consumed a massive section of the battlefield, ensuring I had nowhere to dodge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His strike harmed his allies too ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gavid Lindman used his Phantom Form to become fully intangible,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Gvardiol’s metal body simply withstood the flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither of them suffered any damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I, on the other hand, was completely incinerated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black flames scorched me so thoroughly that most of my body was reduced to charred flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stench of burning skin and meat filled my nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I must’ve looked horrifying ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I realized that when I saw the reflection of my face on my blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had been burned to a crisp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even as a walking lump of coal ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I kept fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dodging their attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Returning damage with every clash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three of us moved so fast, the eye couldn’t track our movements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clash of blades was the only sound that echoed through the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A whirlwind of swords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A blazing metallic inferno that consumed everything around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He can still fight like this... even after all that?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gavid Lindman, stunned by my tenacity, couldn’t understand how I was still standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorry, but pain doesn’t mean much to me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Continuing to fight them both while enduring V’s scorching flames...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My enhanced senses registered everything happening around the warzone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My awareness expanded ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking in every detail, including the dire situation behind me, where the Empire’s forces were struggling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After taking massive damage from the Nightmare Beasts, the Ultras ships launched a full assault ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Encircling the Empire’s forces from all sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had deliberately avoided the zone where I was fighting Gvardiol and the others ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead focusing their power on the Empire’s fleet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That must’ve been Gavid Lindman’s plan ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A command he gave at some point while I was busy battling Gvardiyol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had to be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, wear down the Empire’s fleet with Nightmare Beasts and destroy most of their ships ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then finish off the rest with a massive final assault from the Ultras main fleet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had already guessed the Empire wouldn’t send its full strength from the start ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And would begin with a smaller vanguard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why they sent 35,000 men, a force overwhelming compared to what we had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for me...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite being a potential threat,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were confident I wouldn’t survive a deathmatch against all three of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what was happening now only proved them right ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had become a charred corpse, covered in dozens of horrific wounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gavid Lindman and Gvardiol had beaten me to pulp, While V burned me again and again in perfect coordination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though I kept resisting until the bitter end, It was becoming clear how this battle would end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was what it meant to face three warriors .. each beyond SS rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if I managed to unleash SS+ level power myself...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3 vs 1 was still nearly impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He’s going to fall soon.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was probably what Gavid Lindman thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fact I’d lasted this long was already a miracle in itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the end... how dull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this is all you’ve got?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gvardiol spoke, his voice tinged with disappointment as he began to lose interest in me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had expected to fight some kind of monstrous legend .. But his opponent had fallen faster than he ever imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made him realize that he had overestimated me...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using one of his trump cards against a mere boy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle was already over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abraham Starlight had been a special case ... And it was a mistake to compare his son, Frey, to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miracles only happen once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Starlight family... had already used up theirs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey Starlight had been completely defeated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man whose very name struck terror into the hearts of the Ultras...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...was now on the verge of collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your death will mark the beginning of the end... for the Empire, and everything it stands for.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they ripped his body apart,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gavid and Gvardiol continued to spit poison into Frey’s ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If this were Abraham Starlight, he would’ve handled the situation with ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the son... is nothing like the father.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the very beginning, comparing him to the Starlight family’s greatest star had been nothing but a fantasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Death?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A meaningless title .. earned only by killing a handful of the weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey Starlight built his reputation on a lie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that lie was finally about to collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his features burned beyond recognition, The so-called Lord Starlight had never looked more pathetic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Time to end this.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Readying his blade once more,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The masked V prepared to deliver the final blow .. watching Frey from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His opponent looked utterly defeated,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That much was obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, for some reason...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>V couldn’t stop staring into those eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those eyes of the Lord Starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They glowed with a violet light,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing still shining in his charred, broken form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eyes... calm, deep, and composed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eyes that made V question ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What exactly was Frey Starlight seeing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was he even here in the first place?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had held out well... longer than expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that was all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, he would fall like the rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, V couldn’t shake that gnawing feeling ..A strange discomfort that refused to leave him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if something was deeply, horribly wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And right as that foreboding thought surfaced...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey ..charred and broken .. curled his lips into a pitiful smile, Before speaking, his voice strained and low:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Abraham Starlight is Abraham Starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I... am simply Frey Starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m not a copy of my father, Nor his second coming. I am who I am. That’s all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said those words...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Teleporting between Gavid Lindman and Gvardiol with seamless, perfect precision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The movement was so clean,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So fast, That there was no way to perceive it at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gavid Lindman scowled, narrowing his eyes at Frey’s newly revealed skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’His spatial ability... it’s on par with Mergo’s...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A teleportation of that caliber wasn’t something one could just learn casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Frey executed it as if it were second nature.\u003C\u002Fp>",1038,"2026-05-30T03:41:22.347Z","2026-06-01T04:30:12.387Z",1,"novelbin.me","432f5df79f59484297ced14a0cb40dd0f29deb0f19caf73f705cfa2418478bcb","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-473","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-471",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]