[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-475":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},336562,598,"Chapter 475: The Ones He Saw (1)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-475",475,"\u003Cp>But one second. Just a single second .. that was all it took to erase that smile forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The line between life and death... was razor-thin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So thin in that cursed place...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What now...?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selene asked, her face frozen in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was she supposed to do, when she barely had the strength to remain conscious, let alone stop her bleeding?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she tried to make sense of the chaos flooding her mind, the war around her only raged harder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More brutal. More violent. Stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ultras’ shells fell like rain .. hellish rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nightmare creatures continued their assault from below, threatening to drag them all into the abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, amidst the chaos...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A blazing comet streaked through the sky, hurling molten flames so intense they resembled volcanic eruptions from the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That fire instantly incinerated the nightmare creatures, annihilating them without mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The comet... was just one man. A man who appeared, destroyed the monsters, and vanished as soon as his task was done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But while his attack killed the enemy, the collateral damage caused the ship carrying Selene to catch fire, worsening her predicament.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selene collapsed as the burning vessel beneath her began to sink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right after that fiery blast, a barrage of lightning struck .. followed by brilliant blue flames and chilling ice that froze everything it touched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone was manipulating the elements as if they were nothing... destroying everything around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His strikes were so overwhelming, they showed no mercy .. neither to friend nor foe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trying to endure it, Selene watched it all with her own eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many were in her shoes... people trapped beneath the wreckage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People who drowned in the sea. People who fought for their lives until the bitter end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But some were killed not by the enemy... but by the reckless attacks of the very titans they had relied on to protect them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure, those attacks killed the enemy too... but at what cost?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, the ones who killed them were their own allies...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was total chaos. And the death toll soared every passing second, reaching astronomical levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the Empire’s side, the elite squad held their ground fiercely, annihilating most of the nightmare creatures on their own ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially that woman who tore everything around her apart with her shadow blades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enemy was strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But their allies... were just as strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching all of this with her own eyes, Selene couldn’t help but grasp the painful truth ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The law that ruled this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The strong will always survive... and the weak will have no choice but to die. Die... as if their lives meant nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing the worthlessness of her own life, Selene once again began to lose the will to live.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because even if she survived now, what awaited her was nothing but death later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that state... she couldn’t help but wonder.. was strength truly the only thing that mattered in this world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was strength the sole measure of a person’s value?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surrounded by blood, fire, corpses, and death... Selene cried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This isn’t fair...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why did they have to die, forgotten by all, while others lived on to be praised?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She never chose to fight in this war. She was only sixteen .. a mere child who knew nothing of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she had been forced to come, because of her weak lineage and lack of power...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she saw Snow Lionheart deliver his speech, she had felt inspired ... thinking she would fight bravely and see her homeland win.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted to be part of that epic... a childish dream, rewarded by a brutal awakening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hadn’t even been able to fight .. falling victim to the horrors of war from the very beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had done nothing but sit inside a pit of death, witnessing the cruel truth of this world with her own eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This isn’t fair...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why were they brought to this place?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only to have their lives thrown away?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the vanguard, led by monsters like Snow Lionheart, held such overwhelming power... then why bring them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why didn’t they just handle everything on their own?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why did they play with our lives like this...?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many of the soldiers who died weren’t killed by the enemy’s brutality... but by reckless strikes that didn’t distinguish between friend and foe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Be it the Ultras or the Empire’s elite squad ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were nothing but monsters. Monsters clashing above an anthill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they... were the ants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary soldiers. Cannon fodder. Slaughtered in the first clash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pitiful souls... doomed to die in the most horrific way imaginable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It broke her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How her life had been priced so cheaply... condemned to die in a hell like this, without anyone even knowing she existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just when Selene thought she had seen the worst horrors war could offer ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More horns of war sounded in her ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warhorns that marked judgment day... for her and every wretched soul caught in the titans’ war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Snow Lionheart’s team dealt with most of the nightmare creatures, they suddenly found themselves surrounded by Ultras forces emerging from the shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed the Ultras had used the monster attack and ongoing bombardment as cover... to sneak their ships into the heart of the Empire’s army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the start, the Ultras outnumbered the Empire three to one. And now, after the nightmare creatures had decimated many of the Empire’s ships...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The situation had grown even worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifteen thousand Ultras launched a frontal assault with their warships, while twenty thousand more flanked them from the east and west.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A perfect pincer move .. trapping the Empire completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their pressure was overwhelming, threatening to wipe out Selene and everyone else to the last soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Collapsed where she lay...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selene could only sit there, bearing witness to the final horror of war ..trying to be a witness to it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her small, blurred eyes couldn’t see much .. but she tried, at the very least, to record the final moments of those who had suffered like her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if only for a while... she wanted to remember them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted to remember them... at least until her own life was lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re not cannon fodder.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the second round began .. while the titans of the Empire and the Ultras clashed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selene remained where she was, holding on .. using her wind to keep her ship afloat as long as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle had reached a new level of brutality. Among the Ultras forces were monsters ..some were Hollows, others even Lords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battles between them and the Empire’s elite unleashed terrifying destruction...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as a result... the soldiers continued to die, one after another, at a horrifying rate...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selene saw them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A seasoned warrior lost his life to a sudden ambush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young duelist died after recklessly charging into the front lines, only to be caught in the crossfire of a battle between two monstrous beings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wounded soldiers bled out... simply because the holy light cast by Saint Yorasha and Uriel never reached them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are human.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As tears and blood streamed down her face, Selene kept watching ..until the very end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are human... just as much as they are. No, even more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no one saw them. Not once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the so-called \"heroes\" of this war, they were nothing .. insignificant, forgettable, disposable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If their lives had held even a fraction of value, then surely the Saint and her candidate wouldn’t have left them to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing that separated them was power. Just power. Nothing else.\u003C\u002Fp>",1262,"2026-05-30T03:41:22.347Z","2026-06-01T04:30:12.387Z",1,"novelbin.me","54d4784c69d5532a8eab7ff1f5280e1f746d09f770db002404b2d3cea2546857","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-476","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-474",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]