[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-859":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},337046,598,"Chapter 856  The Truth Behind Everything (3)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-859",859,"\u003Cp>Nameless recoiled instantly, tearing his hand away as he staggered backward, fear etched across his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stumbled until his back struck the shelves ... books spilling open around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From them erupted voices… screams, whispers, laughter, sorrow, rage, joy, hatred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cacophony of emotions that opened before him… revealing entire worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tears welled in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He collapsed to the ground, clutching his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What… what is this…\" he gasped, struggling to breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time in his life…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cried violently, his eyes reddening, pulsing with life they had never known before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body trembled ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until she stepped forward and held his face, her touch sending a chilling cold through him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment… he understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was completely at her mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet… he did not resist her touch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You understand now… don't you?\" she asked softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nameless answered in a trembling voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This place… this is… the Aether… no…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…the real world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body shook as the truth settled within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The material world… I…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's right,\" she said, nodding gently as she pulled him into a calm embrace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is not the material world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is your world… the one your hands wrote into existence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are a Writer… just like me… and like your foolish father standing over there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are a being far greater… far higher than any other creature.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey… was a Writer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abraham… was one as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the woman before him ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was his mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The First Writer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The title of First Writer was never bound to a single individual ... it was a mantle, granted to the strongest among them. It was not unique, nor eternal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this… was what Nameless came to understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the woman bearing that title had said, Writers stood above all other beings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They possessed the ability to create entire worlds—contained within vessels that resembled books, known as Codex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could shape those worlds… enter them freely… and even live within them, should they choose to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they often did. The countless books scattered around them were proof enough of that truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet not all worlds were the same. Some were simple, almost trivial ... like children's tales.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others… were far more complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like the one Frey had created.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have lived inside your world for far too long… to the point that you became a part of it,\" the woman said, holding Nameless within her grasp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Writers could enter their own creations, yes—but remaining within them for too long came at a cost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their identities would erode… until they became indistinguishable from the world itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that… was exactly what had happened to Frey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your existence is fractured… your self incomplete. You cannot remain in the real world for long in this state. Your world will pull you back soon enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So listen carefully to what I'm about to tell you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice froze him in place, as though something within him compelled absolute obedience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your world… was chosen as the battlefield for the great war against the Lords of the Mist.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is also where we concealed the Tool of Creation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The very tool you used—without permission—to create that abomination…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…the creature you named yourself—Agaroth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agaroth… had been created for one purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To destroy Odin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To end him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he betrayed his creator—turning against Frey, attempting to devour him… to escape the material world and manifest within the real one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that act alone… became the foundation for everything that followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the betrayal, after the war against the Pale Calamity… Frey's existence shattered completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He became bound to the material world—living it over and over again under different names… different identities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When a Writer dies within his world, he does not truly perish,\" she continued, her voice steady.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He awakens in the real world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But you… never returned. No matter how many times you died.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because your soul became attached… to that world… and its inhabitants.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She turned slightly toward the man behind her ... toward Abraham.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After you were trapped inside, your father entered your world to retrieve you… and reclaim the Tool of Creation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But he failed… and became trapped as well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your siblings followed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And that wretched creature… killed them all. Cast them out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agaroth had slaughtered every child who entered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Devoured them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he could not truly kill them—they simply awakened back in the real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That… was why Seth had appeared before Frey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The younger brother had come the closest ... had tried the hardest to save him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in defeat, he left something behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The System.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A guide… meant to lead Frey forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The father failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The children failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the mother… was forced to remain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To stand against the horrors of the Mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To preserve balance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Writers cannot interfere with each other's worlds,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But you and I… have always been exceptions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We stand above the rest.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So I intervened.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I created the demons… beings that feed solely on life itself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Creatures born to bring death… to eradicate all that lives.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was their purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To destroy the world… and force Frey to leave it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the first demon was born—Manus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But that abomination understood my intentions immediately,\" she continued, her voice sharpening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He seized control… crowned himself their king… and bent them to his will.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agaroth was never a demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was something else entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something darker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strong enough… to dominate them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I sent my followers after that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I ordered Audrey to find you—but that useless girl lost her way and became a captive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The other one… though capable… did nothing but watch from afar.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He took far too long… yet at least… he left behind the traces that led you here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her grip on Nameless tightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I need you here, Frey.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I need you with me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I need you to fulfill what you were meant to become.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are the only one capable of reaching my level.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And every second you remain in that worthless world… it pains me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice dropped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My patience is running out, Frey.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It has already reached its limit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Return… and end the monster you created.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or I will do it myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nameless heard everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every fragment of madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And through him… so did Frey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the present Nameless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her threat echoed in their minds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with it… realization struck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The mysterious continent that appeared out of nowhere…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her patience had run out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she chose to descend herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The future had fallen into chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at last… the truth behind everything was revealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abraham had done the impossible—entering the material world again and again, every time Frey appeared… becoming his father in every life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for his family…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were nothing but replicas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Copies Frey had unknowingly created—based on his real mother… his real siblings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why they resembled them so perfectly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were not real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Abraham was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only one who persisted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only one who reincarnated… over and over again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every catastrophe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every disaster that shook the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Agaroth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of it…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of it… stemmed from a single family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what a family it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had always been about family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the most terrifying of them all…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was about to descend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mother ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clea.\u003C\u002Fp>",1226,"2026-05-30T03:41:46.111Z","2026-06-01T04:30:13.202Z",1,"novelbin.me","41884f7bf41cb2f1f1ebfc84c03cb3ca0a64f5e3df2dcdbb21a29e6830634089","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-860","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-858",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]