[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-483":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},336570,598,"Chapter 483: Stairs to Oblivion (1)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-483",483,"\u003Cp>– Frey Starlight’s POV –\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morning had arrived, heralding the start of a new day .. another step in this long journey known as life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt my body stiff as I stirred awake. For once, I had gotten a good night’s sleep, something rare as of late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since I obtained this superhuman body that set me apart from all other beings, sleep had become unnecessary .. no longer a need, but rather an escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A realm of dreams I fled to when the weight of the world threatened to crush me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I rose quietly, sitting up on the bed as I checked my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Running my fingers along my limbs, I could feel the power once again surging through my veins after the recent exhaustion I had endured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There wasn’t a single scratch on my bare torso. My body was flawless .. thanks to my regeneration ability, which had erased every trace of injury as if they never existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been three years since I reincarnated into this body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three long years of trials that forged who I had become.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could see it now so clearly .. the version of myself from the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That weak version of me, the one who once broke down in despair in his room upon realizing he’d been reincarnated into the world of his own novel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt as if I had climbed an uncountable number of mountains since then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had become stronger .. far stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had gained the kind of power that could shake the world... and crush the enemies that walked upon it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But deep down, I knew this wasn’t the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many mountains still awaited me ahead .. peaks far taller than any I had faced before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trials to come would only grow harsher, and I had known this from the moment I saw Wesker’s name in the final mission forced upon me by the System.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To face such horrors, I needed to grow stronger .. much stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had to keep moving forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had to become a monster powerful enough to stand atop the same stage where the titans of this world stood alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To achieve that... I knew I would have to pay a steep price for the power I sought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps I would lose myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps I’d lose something so precious I could never live without it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps life would break me harder than ever before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was bound to lose many things... but there was one thing I could never afford to lose, no matter the cost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That single goal I had set for myself .. the one that gave me the will to walk through hell itself if that’s what it took.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The goal that gave me the strength to keep moving, to keep fighting, no matter what stood in my way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In some way, I felt like I had started losing parts of myself .. even the emotions that once clouded my vision in the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brushing aside the long white strands of hair that had grown longer recently, I stared up at the ceiling of my room .. a room that trembled from time to time, proving the ship was still moving forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this rare moment of quiet during war, my mind drifted back to the moment I stood face to face with the half-demon Gvardiol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I’d be able to control myself in front of the man who had killed someone so dear to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man who killed Danzo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought I would go berserk the moment I saw him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had spent countless hours thinking of the perfect way to exact revenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A way to make him suffer. To kill him in the most excruciating, merciless fashion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to unleash every ounce of strength I had gathered through my training all of it .. on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when the moment of truth came...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those feelings vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if someone had doused the raging fire in my heart with ice-cold water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how long I stared at him... Gvardiol no longer felt like anything more than an enemy to be eliminated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like any other wretch from the Ultras.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another insect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A filthy creature this world would be far better without.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That way of thinking ..that mindset .. was what allowed me to survive the first round of war the way I did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it brought the best possible outcome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I earned the love of every soldier in the Imperial Army, making them follow me without even realizing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gave them hope when darkness engulfed their hearts. Showed them miracles when it felt like the world itself was ending.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I told them what they needed to hear at the right time, in the right place .. and I did it all with full intention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t do it out of love for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nor out of pity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I did it because I needed them to follow me in the future, so I could achieve the goal I had carved for myself long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I manipulated them .. all of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Me... of all people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as those above toyed with my fate and tried to bend it to their will, here I was, manipulating those around me in return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actions fit for people like Prince Aegon .. those I once despised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...I’ve changed. I truly have.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that’s okay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if I seemed like a hypocrite...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if I turned into scum...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people I truly cared for were few .. so few I could count them on one hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was only the beginning...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have to endure... until the very end.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firming my resolve once more, I broke free of my thoughts and tried to rise from the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I froze mid-motion when I felt a pair of slender arms wrapped tightly around my waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had been there since the beginning .. so much so that my body had grown used to them, and I’d completely forgotten.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside me, Sansa slept peacefully and quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite the dark horns that grew from the crown of her head, she looked like a sleeping angel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She really was... gorgeous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, I slipped away, pulling the blanket over her body to hide the curves my eyes had so often been drawn to .. unconsciously, at that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, we looked like a married couple. A peaceful pair living a quiet life in a modest home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And strangely enough... it didn’t seem like a bad thing. In fact, it felt like a beautiful ending I might actually wish for someday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that wasn’t who we were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We weren’t a serene husband and wife .. we were Frey Starlight, the monster, and Sansa Valerion, the demoness. Two beings destined to be the first to plunge into the flames of war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wherever we walked, death would follow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We’d come to terms with that a long time ago. And we were ready to keep moving forward, no matter the cost together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I pressed a gentle kiss to her forehead, then withdrew silently, leaving her behind as I left the room. I donned my black armor and prepared myself to face another day in enemy lands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"See you later,\" I said with a faint smile, closing the door behind me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment I did, I sensed her stir .. clumsily, at that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been awake the entire time. She hadn’t moved a muscle, but I knew. I could read her like a book. She was still shaken from last night, especially after I’d taken the lead the way I had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pretending to be asleep... how foolish. Especially when she knew I could hear her thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, I played along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because honestly, flustered Sansa was far more entertaining than the usual cold, domineering demoness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the kind of relationship I had with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I suppose the future held countless twists and turns for us. But one thing was certain.. Sansa was someone I genuinely wanted by my side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so I chose to keep her close. Because she was one of the few people I truly cared about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whatever the future had in store for us... we’d face it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Together.\u003C\u002Fp>",1380,"2026-05-30T03:41:22.347Z","2026-06-01T04:30:12.387Z",1,"novelbin.me","ad0326a200dc9e63ff88f5946b425cadfdc8a3577a7299adc10bdf0c4ec8b850","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-484","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-482",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]