[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-866":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","THE VILLAIN'S POV",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":12,"novelImage":22},{"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},337053,598,"Chapter 863  A King’s Return (1)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-866",866,"\u003Cp>\"This is the end… Shadow Sect warrior.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After standing his ground against one of the strongest demons ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a bearer of the Hell Duke title at its peak ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the tide had turned, and Alexander Rybak found himself in a position no one would envy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maskith, who had relied solely on aura since the very beginning,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>suddenly drew forth an entirely different power ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a gray energy wrapped in black flickers, crackling like lightning in the dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its presence was faint compared to aura, barely enough to coat his hand ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and yet, the beam it released was impossibly fast,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>accomplishing what none of his previous attacks had ever managed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark gray ray pierced straight through Alexander's chest,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>tearing open a grotesque hole that exposed the void behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alexander slowly passed his hand through the hollow in his own body,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a look of disbelief carved into his face ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his absolute, indestructible form… violated by a single, trivial strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a complete shock to the proud warrior of the Shadow Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From afar, Wesker watched in silence, equally shaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What… is that power?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes remained locked on the fading gray beam, unable to comprehend it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how closely he observed, no matter how deeply he analyzed ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>not even the Eye of the King could decipher it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a force that existed far beyond his domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You fought well,\" Maskith said calmly, stepping forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If this battle had been decided by aura alone…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>you would have defeated me without question.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But the world is far greater than you imagine, Shadow Sect warrior…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and beings like you see only a fragment of it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the gray energy slowly faded,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alexander staggered in place, clutching his chest, barely holding himself together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No blood flowed from his wound ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his body was forged from that same dark substance that once consumed Frey within the tomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the absence of blood did nothing to dull the pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every ounce of damage. Every fracture of his existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maskith and Wesker closed in, intent on delivering the final blow,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>while Alexander struggled to remain conscious, caught completely off guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He understood that much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had lost the moment Maskith broke through his defense ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the moment that fatal strike landed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That gray energy…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it had felt like death itself—erasing everything in its path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With great effort, Alexander lifted his head, staring at his enemies ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>before slowly turning his gaze toward the distant tomb behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The place where his king slept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His blue eyes ignited with a roaring flame,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his teeth grinding against each other as he forced himself to breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With trembling resolve, he removed his hands from his chest ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>revealing the gaping hole without hesitation ... and clenched his fists once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ready to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sight alone stunned both Maskith and Wesker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You still intend to fight… even now?\" Maskith asked coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a wave of his staff, he unleashed a surge of dark aura,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>while Wesker followed with a flood of shadows,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>engulfing Alexander within a suffocating black storm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maskith no longer used Aether ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the battle, in his mind, was already decided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finish him, Wesker,\" he said, his gaze shifting toward the distant tomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll take care of what lies beyond.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body flared with energy as he prepared to move ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A crushing wave of aura slammed into him, halting him mid-motion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turning sharply, his expression darkened as he witnessed\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>an explosive eruption of power that shattered both his and Wesker's forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alexander Rybak had broken free.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body was engulfed in roaring blue flames,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his entire being consumed by a feral, unrestrained aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a monstrous roar, he unleashed his presence ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a pressure that spread across dozens of miles in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You're not going anywhere… none of you are!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His scream tore through the battlefield,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his metallic skin cracking under the overwhelming strain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This… was his last stand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final defiance of a warrior willing to give everything ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his life, his body, his very existence ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>just to delay them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even for a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even for a single breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he could stop them for that long…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he would accept death without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It should have been a pitiful sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But neither Maskith nor Wesker felt pity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alexander's aura exploded outward,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>compressing into a suffocating pressure that locked them both in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could not move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could not attack ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>all he could do was hold them there… just a little longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, standing at the edge of death,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his final act managed to restrain two monsters ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one at the peak of SSS, and another at its fifth stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under that crushing force… Maskith laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Incredible, warrior… truly incredible.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With great effort, he brought his arms together, resisting the pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this sheer will alone…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or something far deeper?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, he began to draw upon that forbidden power once more ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aether forming in his grasp as he fought against Alexander's overwhelming aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Such loyalty… worthy of respect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice grew colder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Allow me to honor it… by ending you with my strongest attack.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man steadied himself,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>forcing out the unstable negative energy once more ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a power that was destructive even to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He chose to use it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a final tribute to the warrior before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gray, dark energy flared violently between Maskith's hands ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then shot forward at terrifying speed, tearing through the air toward Alexander.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aether carved its path straight through Alexander's crushing aura pressure,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>dispersing it completely with absurd ease… until it reached him at last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Maskith aimed for the head—intent on ending everything in a single strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a fleeting moment, both he and Wesker saw it ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the vision of the Shadow Sect warrior's head erased from existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their minds… he was already dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But reality… told a different story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the final instant, a second gray beam erupted from nothingness ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>identical in nature to Maskith's own ... and collided with it before it could land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two forces devoured each other, vanishing in a deafening explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maskith's eyes nearly burst from their sockets at the sight ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his own power… reflected back at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wesker's expression darkened as he realized ... someone else had entered the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maskith's veins throbbed, his eyes burning red with intensity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wesker instinctively took a step back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was simple ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a masked man now stood between them and Alexander… having appeared from nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'What the hell is happening…?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demon could not comprehend it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt nothing. Not even a trace of aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could see him ... but the Eye of the King could not perceive him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No information. No reading. Nothing at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because it could no longer understand what it was looking at.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Floating in the air, Frey had finally entered the battlefield ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>catching Alexander Rybak's broken body, preventing him from falling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alexander stared at his king, his once blazing eyes now dimmed and weakened—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet filled with undeniable relief upon seeing him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My lord… I—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't speak. Say nothing, Alexander… you've done more than enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frey's eyes reflected calm… and a warmth Alexander felt clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Placing his hand over the massive wound in Alexander's chest,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a faint smile formed beneath the mask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I won't accept the loss of a great warrior… and a valued friend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So don't die, Alexander. Live… and fight beside me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a single motion, a gray energy surged from Frey's hand ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but unlike Maskith's, this one pulsed with a crimson glow… alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maskith stared at it, his expression shifting in ways it never had before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Positive energy…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A power far beyond what servants could ever wield…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had appeared before his very eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In one effortless act, Frey filled the hollow in Alexander's chest ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>reconstructing his body within seconds, restoring him to near perfection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life returned to Alexander's eyes instantly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even he was stunned, unable to grasp what had just occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the healing was complete, Frey rested a hand on his shoulder,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>patting him gently before issuing a quiet command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fall back. I'll take it from here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1378,"2026-05-30T03:41:46.111Z","2026-06-01T04:30:13.202Z",1,"novelbin.me","baca55f7af146a67d52f8a4c876db71c817afb99112be2a537deb736d10b125b","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-501","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-865","https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]