[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-582":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},337019,598,"Chapter 582: Frey Starlight vs Joseph Blattier (3)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-582",582,"\u003Cp>BOOOOM!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spear and swords crashed again, Blattier pressing Frey harder and harder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What good is this miserable struggle of yours, Frey Starlight?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another hit—Frey staggered farther back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You clearly can’t defeat me. You can’t even wound me, nor pierce this great shield tempered by the souls of millions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM!!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why keep fighting to deny the inevitable? In the end you’ll die—just like every fool who ever dared stand against the Church of Purification.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blattier kept talking—until Frey answered with an even greater surge of shadow-aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I told you... you talk too much,\" Frey said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blattier’s eyes flared white. \"You’re right. There’s no need for words anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His aura poured thicker, gathering at his spear’s tip—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—and he unleashed a roaring beam of holy light straight into Frey’s face, a torrent that erased the entire upper half of his body, down to exposed flesh and bone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blattier’s power kept swelling; he was finally starting to master his new might.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lunged again—and Frey did the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half a body of meat and bone, Frey still attacked, ignoring his wounds and forcing his limbs to move by sheer Shadow Adaptation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle was on another plane entirely... a level Frey had never faced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is SSS...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The opening step into the absolute power his deadliest enemies wielded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have to hold...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another explosion tore Frey apart further—and the ground with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have to hold,\" he whispered, forcing his body to move again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I fall to him, how can I even dream of facing the monsters beyond?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blattier was the trial—the wall Frey had to cross, whatever it cost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His foe was the weakest of SSS—freshly broken through, by crooked means that might make him less than others of the same rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Frey Starlight couldn’t endure here, there was no point in going on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fight dragged on; Blattier’s patience thinned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeding more power into his colossal spear, he swatted Frey away yet again—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then, gathering everything, raised his weapon to the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let me show you—the true power of a sovereign!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blattier’s body blazed; the sky itself split as if he’d opened a gate to another world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From that rift, a titanic spear took shape, its girth blotting out the entire island—packed with SSS-ranked aura, the kind only a handful in history had ever witnessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One annihilating strike—enough to erase the City of Eternal Night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blattier aimed it squarely at Frey, intent on erasing him outright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey stared up for a heartbeat, stunned—then clenched his teeth, every muscle drawing taut as he raised Velerion, the Black Terror, to meet the falling spear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All of it—every last drop of aura in me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every grain of strength, every shard of the being called Frey Starlight, he poured into the attack that would carry all of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within that young body, an aura also classed as SSS surged—equal to Blattier’s, perhaps even beyond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cut upward in a vertical arc to meet the spear, unleashing the strongest strike in his arsenal:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ten Thousand Steps of Shadow — Frey Starlight Style... Nameless Judgement!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a terrifying technique—no matter how many times he unleashed it, it never lost its splendor in the eyes of those who saw it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unleashing it at its fullest, Frey sent Nameless Judgement crashing head-on into the colossal spear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A vast vertical slash swallowed space itself—and threatened to swallow the spear with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light-aura and dark-aura clashed again, but this time on a wholly different plane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impact of those titanic forces hurled out shockwaves that shook not only the island, but the wide sea around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Across the planet called Earth, sensitives felt the flood of aura, unable to comprehend what was happening in that distant corner of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The collision was immense—but this time, the darkness overran the light. Nameless Judgement shattered the spear completely, then detonated in the sky in a breathtaking bloom that left every onlooker gaping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Blattier hadn’t expected Frey to repel a full-power strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seizing that instant of shock, Frey tore through the veiling storm of aura and appeared before Blattier, forcing his battered body forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was his one opening—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his single chance to wound the foe whose defenses he hadn’t pierced since the fight began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Face to face, at point-blank range, Frey Starlight swung Dark Sister, drawing more and more from the ocean of aura within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve never poured out this much aura in my life...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had pushed himself too far—but this enemy left him no choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had used Nameless Judgement once against a War Angel, and again now against Blattier. Twice should have been the limit; any more and his body would break beyond battle-worthiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But against an opponent of this tier, Frey knew he had to break his limits to have even a single chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drinking the very air from around him, Frey let loose a thunderous war-cry and cleaved for Blattier as the latter raised his shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another strike into which Frey Starlight emptied everything he had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nameless Judgement!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SLAAASH!!!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a third Nameless Judgement, he split the world again, engulfing Blattier in that torrent of overwhelming aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blow distilled Frey Starlight’s story to this point—the peak of the offensive power he had reached in his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A terrifying strike that could reach even those of SSS-class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From within the violet darkness, Frey’s eyes stayed locked on his foe,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>waiting for the result—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the result of his struggle and all the pain till now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t wait long. Out of the ruin and shadow,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blattier emerged again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still blazed with dazzling holy light, unbroken—but this time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his great shield was finally gone, dissolving into the air. And the left arm that had borne it was destroyed—obliterated by Nameless Judgement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had hurt him for the first time—but it wasn’t nearly enough. His enemy still stood, ready to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All that... just to cost me a single arm,\" Blattier said, a deep voice edged with anger, eyes flaring at Frey Starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey panted hard, fighting not to collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Congratulations. You managed to wound me and break my shield. Are you pleased, Frey Starlight? Your power reached me—I who stand here after sacrificing millions of souls...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blattier glanced at the ruined limb—then dismissed it. With a surge of blinding light, he renewed it, shaping a new arm from pure aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You don’t seem capable of giving more than that, Frey Starlight. It seems you’ve hit your limit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Step by step, Blattier advanced, colossal spear in hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Time to end this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle had entered its final phase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey Starlight had poured out everything in his arsenal, yet still couldn’t defeat his foe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blattier had finally taken real damage—but it was so trivial he erased it at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Between the two, the tide swung harshly against Frey Starlight, who neared defeat; his mind raced for any escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The longer the fight dragged on, the clearer the gulf became—the gulf between his strength and that of the monsters who belonged to that legendary class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Between Frey Starlight and Joseph Blattier—under the eyes of those watching from afar—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the war against the Church moved into its last act, poised to end at last.\u003C\u002Fp>",1200,"2026-05-30T03:41:39.916Z","2026-06-01T04:30:13.202Z",1,"novelbin.me","a1dde0f41818cbad12288102a2ec4b6d5fc7be348b27a1b541508a6a404cc892","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-583","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-581",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]