[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-581":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},337018,598,"Chapter 581: Frey Starlight vs Joseph Blattier (2)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-581",581,"\u003Cp>Blattier gave him no breath; in a blink he appeared overhead, driving his spear down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The attack was so vast Frey had to teleport to avoid it. The spear punched into the earth and shook it, carving a crater that plunged hundreds of meters below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey reappeared at mid-range, taking in the devastation wrought by a single strike from Blattier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is SSS. This is the level my worst enemies stand at—the level I’ll have to face sooner or later...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can I win...against power like this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes burned violet behind the slits of the Nameless mask. He readied himself to charge again with everything he had, while Blattier walked toward him with the calm of a king.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s pointless, Frey Starlight. This power is beyond your comprehension—far outside your league.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the power of a ruler—the power of an absolute standing at the summit of the world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blattier spread his arms wide, bathing in a deluge of light-aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the power that will bend the world to its knees!\" he declared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You talk too much,\" Frey snapped back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, his arms knit whole, and he vanished—reappearing directly before Blattier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ten Thousand Steps of Shadow—Supreme Art: Abyssal Wave!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In less than a second, Frey unleashed a catastrophic storm of shadow slashes, a barrage that rattled space itself, targeting every inch of Blattier’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Blattier simply raised his colossal shield and took the onslaught head-on, letting it devour the impacts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey’s strikes erased everything around Blattier, reducing the world to ruin—yet beneath the bishop’s feet the ground remained intact. That shield had blocked it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Peering from behind the shield, Blattier regarded Frey for a heartbeat, then spoke a single word:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rebound.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that command, the shield flared strangely—and a heartbeat later it discharged a violent counterforce, a wave that smashed through Frey and everything behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey was hurled away again through wreckage and splinters, only barely arresting his flight by driving both blades into the earth to anchor himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he finally steadied, he was stunned by how far he’d been thrown—and by the swath of devastation wrought by the shield’s rebound alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t hesitate—he launched himself again, reappearing before Blattier at the speed of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both blades hammered the shield, unable to break through, while Blattier thrust with his spear, aiming to crush him in a single blow. Frey twisted away at the last instant, flipping through the air and dropping in behind the bishop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Riding his blistering speed, Frey’s swords flared with shadow and darkness alike, drawing deeper and deeper on the aura within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even at that speed, Blattier kept pace, answering him cleanly and on time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They traded blows in a nonstop torrent—Blattier stabbing thousands of times, Frey striking with his blades just as many.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Auras collided. Steel screamed against light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little by little, fractures and wounds mounted across Frey Starlight’s body—but he didn’t care. Shadow Adaptation knit him together the moment he broke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He refused to back down, not for an instant, pouring everything he had into the fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want to know...how far I can go against power like this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Against true power—the absolute—how long could Frey Starlight stand?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This body I forged in blood and fire...this strength I stacked brick by brick after a road of calamities...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’My power, my skills, my gifts—every piece of me...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everything I’ve built in this dark life ..everything I’ve suffered on this long, brutal road! Tell me, Blattier! Is what I have...enough?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their chaotic exchange swelled and quickened until, to distant onlookers, it was nothing but a storm of black slashes constantly colliding with volleys of pure white light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clash spanned a colossal swath of land, swollen with overwhelming, absolute force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your strength is paltry, Frey Starlight!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Blattier’s roar, light surged, swallowing the darkness again in terrifying waves—but Frey snapped the tide back, unleashing more and more shadow-aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ten Thousand Steps of Shadow -Supreme art: Eternal Blackout!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SLAAAASH!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a single abyssal cut, space itself tore before Frey, and from that one stroke bloomed thousands of black arcs—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—a cascade of slashes that matched Blattier’s light on equal footing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blattier refused to let him breathe. He punched through the dark torrent, driving his shield, breaking through everything until he was suddenly in Frey’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant he closed, Blattier stabbed at light-speed, intent on blowing Frey’s head apart—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—but the strike froze midair, unable to touch him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Skill: Screenshot.-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time locked for one second. In that single second, Frey’s blades deepened to a darker night, his arms moving like ceaseless rocket batteries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With every fraction of that heartbeat, more and more violet gouges carved across Blattier’s armored frame—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one after another, strike upon strike—until that endless second finally ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In less than a second, Frey delivered over ten thousand blows—his current absolute peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet the overwhelming barrage did nothing more than scratch Blattier’s colossal shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey had thrown nearly all of the supreme techniques of Ten Thousand Steps of Shadow—the very pinnacle of that domineering style—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and still couldn’t pierce his opponent’s defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These tricks won’t help you anymore,\" Blattier said, firing a missile of light at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey crossed his blades in an X to meet it, but the cannonade pulverized him as if a mountain had been dropped on his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every bone in Frey’s body shattered; blood erupted from everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clenched his teeth, ignoring the catastrophic damage, letting that violet fire roar through him as it force-healed his flesh—and he dove back in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll break that damned shield even if it kills me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then let me see you try!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They slammed together again, trading blows as they ran and flew across the vast forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From afar, the spectators saw nothing but two beams—one of shadow, one of light—twisting and colliding as they streaked through the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shockwaves rolled on and on; the aura they were burning belonged to another realm entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a distance, Snow Lionheart watched the duel with Uriel Platini lattini lying behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aegon Valerion stood near Callistis; they too beheld the battle—though they clearly had no intention of staying, with Callistis already preparing to flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Snow’s eyes could see only the fight before him as a bitter truth cut into his pride:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can’t get between them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he tried to help Frey...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he could barely track their movements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I step in now, death is all that’s waiting for me...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blattier had become a monster far beyond their grasp—a monster who could kill Snow Lionheart with ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is SSS—a rank you simply cannot oppose unless you wield power of the same order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snow didn’t have it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And neither, yet, did Frey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet even so, he was still standing against Blattier—still holding out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snow clenched his fist, teeth grinding—furious at himself, at his own weakness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The human path... the demonic path...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d tried so desperately that he even ate the flesh of his own kind to grow stronger—and it worked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that strength looked pitiful beside what raged before his eyes now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just... what the hell do I have to pay to reach power like that?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What must he sacrifice? What exactly must he do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snow didn’t know. That ignorance—his weakness—hurt him most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All he could do was watch, helpless, as his friend fought a monster whose might defied human sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey was alone—and he knew it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the beginning, Frey Starlight had relied on no one but himself, and nothing had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He fought every battle with the strength he forged by his own hands—nothing else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Power he had paid dearly for, suffering even more to claim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now he stood against Joseph Blattier, who had sacrificed millions to reach where he stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a grueling fight. Blow by blow, Frey Starlight was losing ground, damage piling up without end.\u003C\u002Fp>",1314,"2026-05-30T03:41:39.916Z","2026-06-01T04:30:13.202Z",1,"novelbin.me","f637e099a41b7d6cf0f5c79b93062fda00f52d9e68c58689db1785adc8db2c3d","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-582","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-580",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]