[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-477":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},336564,598,"Chapter 477: The Man Who Turned the Tide (1)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-477",477,"\u003Cp>Shizkclar Bay...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The place that witnessed the first round of the War of Darkness .. those cursed waters that became the grave for countless wretched souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A battlefield of misfortune where the Empire had lost much. Whether in the past, when Maekar launched his assault on the Ultras and was utterly defeated by Beatrice...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or now, as war began anew and the Imperial forces found themselves trapped in a masterfully laid ambush set by the Lord of the Ultras, Gavid Lindman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unlike the previous time... this battle did not end in a complete defeat for the Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because by the end of it, the entire world witnessed an overwhelming display of raw power .. when Frey Starlight split the entire bay in half with a single strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Allies and enemies alike could hardly comprehend what they had just seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After bringing down Gavid Lindman and his allies, Frey Starlight immediately returned to the Empire’s fleet using his teleportation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing among the crumbling soldiers of the Empire, he passed through them one by one, channeling his power to transfer aura to each of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to his SSS-rank aura reserves, Frey possessed more than enough strength to support them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With every touch, a gentle violet glow flowed calmly, refreshing those who had been moments away from death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That violet glow was strange. Though it carried an ominous, cold, and deadly nature...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It brought a completely different effect to the Imperial forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t just transferring aura .. he was giving them much more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With each pulse of that strange energy, the soldiers of the Empire began to understand him...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They began to understand the young man who had declared his name to the world before his devastating attack—Frey Starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike those monstrous warlords who fought blindly, treating the soldiers as cannon fodder... as worthless lives ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw them. He acknowledged their existence. He gave meaning to their lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a mystery. Once known as the filthy Lord Starlight, the disgrace who should’ve died long ago...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The odd champion of the Victoriad, who was blamed for countless deaths the very day after his victory... the man who publicly insulted Emperor Maekar Valerion during his trial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the vanguard squad’s fighters .. Frey Starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until now, he was nothing more than a monster in their eyes... a small monster with far too much potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A criminal who should have perished, but was kept alive by the Empire’s rulers, to exploit his power... to act as a shield .. and die when the time came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every single Imperial soldier present had their own negative view of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But strangely enough... all of it vanished in mere seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hatred, the resentment, the disdain—it all transformed into something entirely different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With teary eyes .. some bleeding tears ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soldiers of the Empire stood one by one, their bodies lifted by the sheer force of Frey Starlight’s aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if their limbs had been torn off... their guts spilled... even if they were burned alive...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the pain was so unbearable it made them long for death...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They forced themselves to stand ..and followed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through wreckage and ruin, they could not look away from him... as if bewitched by some unknown magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Selene was among them, trying to stay with them until the very end, even though she could no longer walk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All she could do was push herself forward using her wind aura, dragging her body along the ground without a care for how she looked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that’s what it took to stay near him .. then that much, she was more than willing to endure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of 10,000 Imperial warriors, after the grueling battle they had fought against both the Nightmare Beasts and the Ultras ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only 4,000 barely remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of the 121 ships that formed their war fleet, 64 were lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were dragged under by nightmare creatures, others destroyed by enemy artillery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surviving vessels were in no better shape, and the waters they now sailed were no longer the cursed sea...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But had turned deep crimson from the horrifying amount of blood spilled by both allies and enemies alike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among corpses and devastation, the Imperial forces stood .. all behind Frey Starlight, following him blindly, entranced by a kind of sorcery none of them could understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey had his back to them... but then he suddenly turned around, his black eyes still glowing with that terrifying violet light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Soldiers of the Empire, the war is still raging. It is far from over.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gripping his swords, Frey pointed Dark Sister to the right... and Balerion to the left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surrounding what remained of the Imperial forces .. the enemy was still there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey’s attack had only wiped out the forces positioned in front of them. He hadn’t touched those to the left and right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, even though he had annihilated 15,000 enemies...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ultras still had 20,000 troops lying in wait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>10,000 to the right... and 10,000 to the left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, the enemy still had twice the forces of the Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention, the Empire had already lost 6,000 men...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ultras had merely stopped attacking for the moment .. likely because they hadn’t yet recovered from the shock of what just happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had witnessed it with their own eyes ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment in history so awe-inspiring, it would one day be passed down not in reports or books, but in legends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a rare few in this world could annihilate 15,000 enemies with a single strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And unfortunately for the Ultras...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one of them stood with the Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A monster of the same caliber as Abraham Starlight himself once was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing at the front, the man seemed capable of marching forward for eternity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Soldiers of the Empire,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I stand before you now as someone who’s endured the same hell each and every one of you has faced.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The enemy outnumbers us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are more savage than us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More ruthless than us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’ve slaughtered countless of our brothers and sisters.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Standing here, looking into your faces ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I see despair. I see sorrow. I see fury... and I see regret.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve seen it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have witnessed the struggle of every last one of you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I may not know your names.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I know something far deeper.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am a witness to the story of fierce men, and unbreakable women ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warriors who chose to die standing on their feet, Not kneeling on their knees.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Behind us is a homeland. Wives and husbands. Brothers Sisters waiting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And before us .. an enemy who thinks he can steal away everything we lived for.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let this day be remembered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In my name .. Frey Starlight, son of Abraham Starlight ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let the sky rain down hell upon them!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They outnumber us?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then so be it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here and now .. I’ll prove to you that a single one of you... is worth a thousand of them!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are not mere soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You are the stars in the night sky of this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And we .. we are the ones who will write history.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Follow me now .. not toward victory,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But toward immortality.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let the earth quake beneath your march,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And let our enemies learn...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The meaning of fear.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his thunderous speech concluded, Frey Starlight raised his black sword—Dark Sister .. to the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And once again, the world witnessed a breathtaking scene...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the midst of the night,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>upon a battlefield drowned in fire, blood, and death...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey’s sword blazed like a beacon of light,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>guiding the way through the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ten Thousand Steps of Shadow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything slowed down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each word Frey spoke carved itself into their memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Frey Starlight’s Style: Nameless Judgement.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the same technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same world-splitting move that had cleaved Shizklar Bay in half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now .. he was showing it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Proving to all that his words were not empty boasts, but a promise fulfilled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a single swing of Dark Sister,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the very fabric of reality shook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And once more, the world turned upside down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His attack had not weakened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had become even stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if the very gates of hell had burst open in the face of the Ultras stationed to the right ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faces frozen in horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frozen by the death that now loomed above them...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a death they could neither sense nor flee from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once more, Shizklar Bay was split apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And 10,000 more Ultras warriors were erased from existence.\u003C\u002Fp>",1421,"2026-05-30T03:41:22.347Z","2026-06-01T04:30:12.387Z",1,"novelbin.me","d20aaa2fa73bcf3a5695bc9c0a33927d009198769c2a4b8ae3acf0514a5c7f81","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-478","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-476",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]