[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-861":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},337048,598,"Chapter 858  The Awakening (2)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-861",861,"\u003Cp>Nameless returned to the material world ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with it, lost the warmth of emotions once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet what he had seen… what he had lived through…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A weight that never left him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tormented by it, he chose not to decide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He postponed everything—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until his existence was complete… until he could rebuild his shattered self.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And once he regained his power…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once he became whole again—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He decided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using his Aether abilities and his advanced aura control…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He severed those memories from his mind entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along with his Aether-born powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He later entrusted them to Gehrman—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who sealed them within his own body, making them part of himself…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carrying them until the day came to return them to their rightful owner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason he sealed his power as a Writer…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was because he understood what Agaroth truly sought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Demon King wished to leave the material world ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To witness the true Aether realm with his own eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To achieve that, he had once tried to devour Frey entirely… along with his power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And since then… he waited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For another opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nameless knew—without a doubt—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That he would one day face Agaroth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that he would likely lose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he cast his power away ... understanding that Agaroth would not devour him if that power no longer existed within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That… was why Nameless was later able to return through Frey ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And not fall victim to the monster that devours all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It also explained why the Demon King kept Frey alive ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Allowing him to grow stronger over time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Breaking the seal was one reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But more importantly…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was to restore Frey's power—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So that he could devour it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nameless of the past had never cared for the war against demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nor for saving the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But everything changed after he learned the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From that day onward, he became a true leader of the Shadow Sect ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Building the terrifying organization known across the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He abandoned his solitary nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entered the war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fought the demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And stood against Agaroth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end ... He sealed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the cost of his own life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before all that…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He planned for a distant future ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A future where the missing pieces of his existence would be gathered…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And his shattered self restored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A task he entrusted to Gehrman ... After witnessing countless possible futures through his foresight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an impossible mission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One that required Gehrman to wander across worlds for countless years ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following a prophecy left behind by his master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A prophecy that guided him in searching for a lost fragment ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fragment of an ancient being… lost since the beginning of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That prophecy was never precise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It branched into countless paths…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Endless possibilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earth was never the only destination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merely one… among hundreds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among thousands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Gehrman pursued every path… every possibility—wandering the vast cosmos in search of what his master had foreseen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blue-eyed man failed time and time again, each attempt ending in a dead end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Years passed… and time wore him down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With every failure, his vessel fractured a little more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His power waned… diminished… until the once-great Saint Gehrman lost his brilliance, becoming nothing more than an ancient shadow cloaked in black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A phantom drifting through the universe ... witnessing the rise of civilizations… and the fall of others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he endured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never once lost hope…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until the prophecy led him—to Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The planet where he finally found what he sought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The path he knew without doubt ... was the right one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the very beginning, Frey and Nameless had been fragments of a single whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither could truly exist without the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the Pure Vessel ... whose soul had been split, giving rise to separate beings…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orsted and Snow—both capable of existing simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey and Nameless were different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one could continue forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because both belonged to a being that existed beyond the confines of the material world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, Gehrman sought to restore Nameless… through Frey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To achieve that, both had to reach their absolute limits ... drawing out every ounce of power within them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why he pushed Frey so relentlessly ... forcing him to suffer again and again, until he grew stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the final battle against Agaroth…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He succeeded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey's body reached the ultimate stage of SSS.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He even awakened his power as a Writer—burning his very soul to do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus… the fusion became possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At last, Gehrman made his move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He brought Frey to the stage he had prepared long ago ... and placed every piece where it belonged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The armor and the sword ... containing the remnants of Nameless' power and his complete memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey's body—awakened to its peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the final piece…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last memory sealed within Gehrman himself ... one that required his death to be released.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, he relinquished it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in doing so… fulfilled his mission perfectly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From afar, Frey and the present Nameless witnessed everything—realizing that they had not only regained their own memories…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…but Gehrman's as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His suffering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of it… had now become part of Frey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through this, they came to understand—if only a little—what that blue-eyed man had endured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They saw his entire journey…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as they saw the journey of Nameless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They saw everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as they did, the two spoke ... about all they had lived through… all they had suffered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About the truth of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The truth of their family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what they must do from this point onward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was complicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey had discovered that his true family existed beyond ... within the Aether world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet at the same time…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had built another family within the material world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sister he cared for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People he wished to see alive… and well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through both him and Nameless…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new existence was about to be born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A being beyond which no other would emerge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The complete self… of the entity known as Frey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A version stronger than anything that had come before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A being capable of wielding both aura… and the power of Writers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A power great enough to rival that of the Demon King, Agaroth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the most important question remained ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For what purpose… would such power be used?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would it become the force that saves the world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or the one that destroys it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The burden was immense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No living being would willingly carry such weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A decision had to be made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A difficult one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unexpectedly…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Frey and Nameless—it was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment they stepped out of the light…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked at one another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the same thought reflected in both their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is no need to think… no need to decide.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The path has already been drawn.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey spoke, a trace of calm in his voice, as he walked beside Nameless through what remained of their inner world ..  their final sanctuary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sea of blood had vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along with it… every soul that had burned away in the last battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All but one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanatos' immortal soul—still burning quietly at the end of the spiritual world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing else remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing… except one thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A black blade, buried deep within the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind it stretched a jagged, winding path ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A path filled with darkness… and countless trials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A path they had chosen together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The answer was always there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The truth of this world changes nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It only gave us the strength… to walk that path.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding fast to the road they had chosen…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey and Nameless closed their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light erupted from them both at once—illuminating their inner world once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their forms began to fade…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Preparing for the birth of their complete, final self.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man who would walk the remainder of the path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one who would bring everything to an end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tragedy of the material world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Demon King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The First Writer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything… now rested upon his shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And both Frey and Nameless were certain of one thing—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would not fail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he was destined…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To become the strongest of all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man who never fell…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And never would.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All those sacrifices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All that suffering…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had been for his birth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final countdown began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey ... The most talented Writer among them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The son of the First Writer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man who authored the most perfect world of all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creator of Agaroth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one who halted the Pale Devastation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Londor was chosen as the stage of his return ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That dead planet… where all life had perished thousands of years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was reborn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From within an ancient grave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From beneath that lake of darkness ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the depths of absolute void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at last…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He returned.\u003C\u002Fp>",1487,"2026-05-30T03:41:46.111Z","2026-06-01T04:30:13.202Z",1,"novelbin.me","3b0825488d9f1cfb3cad0a04fb05757d0c43b13cd553939a0367a507a65db69e","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-862","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-860",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]