[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-535":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},337088,598,"Chapter 535: Runes of Twentyfold Wrath (1)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-535",535,"\u003Cp>on its fringes, a single young man lay, his body propped against a jagged shard of debris left by the carnage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Phoenix Sunlight had thrown him far from the fighting, Frey Starlight had remained motionless for a long time, unconscious in the wake of his earlier frenzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that stillness did not last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite everything he had endured ..the pain, the bloodshed, the brutal battles ..his eyes opened once more from behind the black mask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Frey Starlight’s POV—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahh... what curse has befallen me now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment I returned to reality, a violent wave of searing pain tore through me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if every wound I had sustained until now had been waiting for this exact moment to hit me all at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like my mind would burst from the sheer flood of nerve signals my body was sending.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t move a single muscle. My body felt as if it had lost every bone—like I was nothing more than a pile of flesh and skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What... happened to me?\" I muttered in confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It took only seconds before I noticed the cursed battle raging nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I recognized many of the powerful auras clashing there, and slowly, my memory of what happened before I blacked out began to return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can’t believe I lost control of myself...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forcing myself through the pain, I dragged my body until I could lean against the trunk of a dead tree ..unknowingly placing myself in direct view of the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last thing I remembered was trying to test my strength against Dragoth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, everything flipped upside down, and I found myself transformed into a mindless killing machine, attacking everything in my path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That loss of control wasn’t an accident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, my mind was unstable... but breaking me required far more than that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt as though my body had betrayed me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instinctively, I pulled back my tattered clothes, exposing bare skin to assess my current condition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wounds and injuries had healed at a visibly accelerated rate thanks to my regeneration ability... but alongside the blood, another color crept beneath my skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A deep, pitch-black hue—something unnatural that had taken root within me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wesker’s Shadow...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That cursed thing was the direct cause of what happened earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the reason I had lost control of myself in such a pitiful manner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I found myself cursing under my breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I keep losing control of myself—and my power like this, it’s only a matter of time before it ends in disaster...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My current state was the perfect example.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t put this off any longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have to deal with it as soon as possible.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before that, there was another pressing matter in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The war was still raging on, and a brutal clash that could decide its outcome was unfolding right before my eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four against three ..it was far too close to call.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In this condition... there’s no way I can support them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fighting was out of the question; I could barely lift a hand at this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So instead, I opened my system interface, activating the Third-Person Player’s Perspective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’d been so fixated on what was happening in front of me that I’d forgotten about the ones I’d left behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somewhere far from my current position ..tens of kilometers away ..another battle had erupted, one that brought with it its own flood of death and destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diving into the third-person view, my consciousness drifted away, peeling back the fog of war to reveal the true state of the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far from the slaughter between the SS+-class monsters...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the rearguard, a completely different kind of battle was unfolding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the blood-soaked mist that blanketed everything, the Imperial soldiers stumbled blindly, unable to locate their enemy ..let alone engage them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had held their ground well at first; Snow Lionheart had managed to clash evenly with the Nightmare Lord—the Cosmos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the accursed Ludwig, they had dealt with him—somehow—by uniting their forces and trapping him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just when the Imperial troops thought they had a chance, the mist surged back once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this time... dozens of horrors from hell itself crept forth, threatening to swallow them whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knew where that swarm of Mist Stalkers had come from, slipping like phantoms into the battlefield. There were dozens of them, each one projecting a powerful illusion that ensnared almost everyone in its grip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mist Stalkers’ haze, mixed with that of the Cosmos...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a blend that condemned hundreds of soldiers to an eternal nightmare from which they would never awaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the Imperial ranks, a lone blue-haired girl staggered through the chaos, everyone around her already fallen victim to the illusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clutching a jagged, sharp rock, she trembled violently before stabbing it into her own flesh—using the pain to tear away the suffocating fog that threatened to strip her consciousness away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that way, Celene barely managed to stay awake, remembering Frey Starlight’s warning about the Mist Stalkers from before:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Close your eyes, and make pain your refuge.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the only way to survive the Stalkers’ illusions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the heart of this hell, Celene couldn’t help but wonder... what could she possibly do, blind and bleeding by her own hand?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how she turned it over in her mind, despair was all that filled her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in that moment of doubt, she made a grave mistake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She opened her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And there it was ..looming right before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A foul, hideous thing with a twisted face and an elongated body shrouded in a black robe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the very Mist Stalkers they used to frighten children in the old horror tales.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its maw stretched open, fangs jagged and dripping, as it prepared to swallow her whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Celene froze in place, unable to move a muscle. She was about to die, but she refused to believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I won’t die... he showed me the future...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trying to convince herself, she repeated the words over and over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had seen a future where she stood beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Stalker’s gaping mouth had already closed in, ready to crush her body in a single bite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With death mere inches away, Celene’s will cracked for a heartbeat, surrendering her belief to the primal fear of dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the end she feared never came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the last second, a massive beam of azure aura slammed into the Stalker, blasting it away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nightmare creature tumbled across the ground, howling in fury as it tried to regain its footing ..only for a colossal block of ice to crash down from the heavens, burying it completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, bolts of lightning and pillars of fire rained from nowhere, obliterating both the ice and the nightmare beneath it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Celene was left stunned by the sheer destructive force on display... until a voice she’d never heard before snapped her back to reality.\u003C\u002Fp>",1163,"2026-05-30T03:41:39.413Z","2026-06-01T04:30:13.202Z",1,"novelbin.me","308ce45bfb61bae0c7d0b3882486d0e84f79d692c3710f5c039fa7295b9c5429","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-536","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-534",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]