I've Become the King of Villains in the Game-Chapter 485 - 343: The Depths of the Gloom Plains

Chapter 485: Chapter 343: The Depths of the Gloom Plains

The gray-black dense fog was constantly churning.

Boom after boom muffled by the fog failed to carry far.

Chen Lun’s fight with the deformed giant wolf persisted for several minutes, and after an intense battle, he finally smashed this troublesome pollution creature completely.

[You have killed a pollution creature ‘Moonless Shadow’! Gained 30,000 experience points!]

He slowly landed back on the ground, his breathing slightly rapid.

In his duel with such a high-level opponent, Chen Lun had to use every method in his arsenal, except for activating his “Pale Knight” form, to barely kill it. Roxanne was even a bit inferior to it.

This was even a pollution creature devoid of much intelligence, which with its mere combat instincts had pushed Chen Lun to this extent… This couldn’t help but make him even more vigilant, what kind of indescribable terror was contained within Immortal Realm’s source of pollution, phenomena like the “Inverse Giant Tree”?

Right in front, on the ground, lay a disgusting pool of blood and flesh remnants, which were slowly melting into a shadowy mud, gradually seeping into the black sand and stones.

Chen Lun rested on the spot for a while, and after the giant wolf’s body completely disintegrated and disappeared, he picked up the supernatural materials it had released. It was a blob of jelly-like black substance, quite high in quality.

He nodded in satisfaction, put away this piece of supernatural material, and continued on his way.

After traversing further into the depths of the plains, Chen Lun’s Spiritual Intuition began to send warnings.

This familiar feeling reminded him of his breakthrough in the Forest of Nature.

‘It’s very close, the source of pollution for the Haze Plains is likely right ahead!’

Chen Lun’s eyes sharpened.

Whoosh—

The gray-black dense fog in front of him suddenly dispersed, and he found himself having exited the foggy area and arriving in front of an open space.

Sizzzzzzz…

Incessant faint noises came to his ears.

Chen Lun endured the discomfort, raised his eyes to look ahead.

In his field of vision at the horizon, a distorted and chaotic mix of colors emerged, looking very much like the sky above the cottage by the lake. Far in the distance, there stood a black towering mountain range, its summit covered with a layer of pale snowscape…

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‘Something’s not right!’

Chen Lun shook his head, feeling something wrong with his vision.

The sizzling noise beside his ears continued to surround him, annoying him slightly.

His Sanity Value was rapidly decreasing. Chen Lun took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and employed Five Senses Perception to fully sense the black mountain range—

This time, a completely different scene appeared!

That “towering mountain range” was actually a giant corpse lying across the vast wasteland!

A massive corpse resembling a wolf-like creature!

Its long head hung low, obscured by the forelimbs, so that its face couldn’t be seen, only thick black fog billowing from its gaping mouth, shooting up to the skies. It cascaded down like a waterfall, forming the dense fog over the entire Haze Plains…

The black fur on its body stood stiffly, like a deep, dark forest, the ridges on its back forming the mountain peaks. Six uneven, varied-length legs made up the slopes, and a pitch-black gash across its belly resembled a mountain rift, from which black “mountain springs” flowed, forming a black lake around the carcass!

‘It… It is the pollution source of the Haze Plains?!’

Chen Lun was utterly shocked by the scene he perceived.

The aura emanating from the Carcass Mountains was unlike that of any ordinary pollution creature. It belonged to an entity of incredibly high standing! He even speculated that it was the corpse of deities!

“No, It might not be the actual source of pollution…”

Chen Lun refocused his attention on the “mountaintop,” the layer that covered the summit like snow. But it was actually not “snowscape” at all, rather a thick web of spider threads. Countless threads wove together forming a region of spider silk.

The source of the spider silk was from the corpse’s neck region, where an oval, gigantic white cocoon had taken root, still wriggling as if something unimaginable and terrifying resided within.

His Sanity Value began to plummet, immense pollution radiating towards Chen Lun through his perception.

He couldn’t help but shudder.

His Supernatural Knowledge of the Conspiracy Pathway started to flood in.

So similar to his encounter above the Forest of Nature, this confirmed his guess.

‘Indeed! Every region of Immortal Realm represents a Pathway, simultaneously housing a source of pollution resembling a spectacle!’

But what were that wolf-shaped mountain of corpses and the cocoon amidst the webs?!

In his mind, Chen Lun speculated based on what he had seen and heard, that perhaps the black wolf was killed by the white cocoon?!

He didn’t know; he couldn’t see the truth. But this was the only result he could comprehend.

Just then.

From the “Black Blood Lake” in front of the Corpse Mountain, bubbles began to rise and one after another deformed giant wolf started to crawl out—identical to the pollution creatures Chen Lun had previously fought.

The powerful monsters called “Moonless Shadows”!

After emerging from the lake, they collectively charged towards Chen Lun!

‘Again… one can never approach the pollution source, nor perceive it deeply. The warnings from Spiritual Intuition are very intense; that is a terrifying secret I must not touch!’

Chen Lun repeated his previous tactic, allowing the deformed giants wolves to run toward him. He stared at the mountain cocoon, letting the pollution attack him, then used the reserves of the Maggie Statue to offset the loss of Sanity, all while endless knowledge poured in.

A dozen seconds passed in a flash.

In the final moment before the wolves pounced, Chen Lun chose to leave.

His mind reached out to the cottage and he disappeared from the spot instantly.

Once again back at the safe Save Point, Chen Lun’s reaction was even more severe. He collapsed to the ground on the spot, rolling and clutching his head and retching continuously.

“Ugh! Ahh!”

After several minutes of dull, low groaning, things slowly calmed down.

Chen Lun lay motionless on the ground, his back soaked with sweat.

He gazed calmly at the ceiling and forced a faint smile.

Just like the last time, he had successfully acquired the complete knowledge of the Low and Mid Sequence pathways of intrigue!

“Sequence Nine—Thief” and “Sequence Eight—Locksmith” were already mastered, being repetitive, but “Sequence Seven—Assassin,” “Sequence Six—Shadowless,” and “Sequence Five—Mortician” were not in his possession… and now he had collected them all at once!

Although the Sanity reserves of the Maggie Statue had again decreased by nearly two thousand points, Chen Lun believed it was worth it. He felt as if he had discovered the real treasure hidden in the Immortal Realm!

‘However, this makes the crisis in Kazt Town seem like an almost impossible task… The Carcass White Cocoon is a high-level existence that I simply cannot contend with at present.’

Chen Lun sighed quietly.

Hours later.

Chen Lun returned to the real world for a while, took a Serenity Potion and a Thirst-quencher, and then rested for a bit.

In the deep of the night, he once again entered the Immortal Realm.

This time, he headed straight for the River of Blood region.

His goal was clear: to find the contamination spectacle there and acquire the corresponding Flesh Pathway knowledge. But this time, the process was not smooth.

At the bottom of the canyon, he searched carefully along the riverbank and scouted multiple times around the vicinity of Blood Lake, but never found contamination sources similar to “Growing-Backwards Giant Tree” or “Carcass White Cocoon”…

In the end, Chen Lun even braved the nausea and used “Spirit Breath” to dive to the bottom of Blood Lake… but apart from brawling with that humongous octopus monster, he came up empty-handed.

The octopus monster’s strength was also at the upper limit of the Mid Sequence, but Chen Lun was not in the mood to entangle with it any further, eventually choosing to leave and letting the creature thrash in Blood Lake for a bit.

Chen Lun felt some disappointment.

He temporarily gave up on Blood Lake.

As for the Crystal Mountain Range region, it was not suitable for him to venture to at this stage, so he eventually dispelled the thought of continuing to search for contamination spectacles.

‘I’ll look for it when I’m stronger.’

He exhaled deeply and left the Immortal Realm.

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Gem State.

In a city within a Red Calamity Area.

Polaris, Su Keying, Dongyang Chenxi, and others were gathered in an old warehouse.

“It’s hopeless, it’s hopeless… This task is probably doomed! All our efforts these days have been in vain!”

Doghead Gold leaned against a rusty iron pipe, lamenting.

Tutu and Kuchan Nana, two female players, glared at him and complained:

“Can you not talk so pessimistically? It’s really demoralizing!”

“But I’m not wrong…”

Doghead Gold crossed his arms and pouted.

The rest didn’t speak, just looked at Polaris, Dongyang, and Chenxi who were clearly troubled and thoughtful.

“I’m sorry, it’s my fault for not doing a good enough job on the intelligence work. I didn’t expect the Red Calamity’s difficulty to be this high… We should have chosen another city at that time.”

Dongyang said to the others in a serious tone.

“You can’t blame yourself, Dongyang. The fact that we could take on the Shelter mission at the outset was all thanks to you… And other Red Calamity Areas are not necessarily easier, given that this is a city-level Red Calamity, different from those small towns and villages we faced before.”

Polaris patted his shoulder and offered a word of comfort.

“We left Amber City and traveled such a long distance to get here, the initial investment is a sunk cost now. It’s not the time to be discouraged, we are only one step away from victory!”

At this point, Chenxi spoke up more calmly:

“That’s true, but how are we going to solve the task handed to us by the leader… If we fail because of our own shortcomings and cause the ‘Transcendent Union Army’ to fail, the punishment will be severe!”

Everyone’s expressions darkened once more.

The atmosphere briefly became tense.

This task offered generous rewards, not only including the Sub Occupation of “Imperial Army,” but also a high amount of Experience Points and some Mysterious Substances… most importantly, they could also complete the second part of the Circus’s Main Quest and accumulate Contribution Degrees!

They were unwilling to give up, yet faced enormous difficulties.

The whole task was led by a Shelter, guiding the summoned Transcendents or Transcendent forces together to confront the Red Apple Church in the Red Calamity Area.

It all went well at the beginning, but today, the “Transcendent Union Army” faced the last hurdle— the high-end combat power in the Church district.

Polaris and their small team were assigned by the leader to lure out and kill, one by one, three Priests from the Church district. The problem was, they were only Sequence Nine Transcendents, while the Priests belonged to the Mid Sequence, a huge gap between them.

Even if they used their Undying Bodies and exhausted their Resurrection chances to go all out, they also needed sufficient output… but it’s possible that their attacks couldn’t break through the Priests’ defenses, and the Circus’s ink bottle bombs were limited in damage to a Mid Sequence Transcendent.

Everything was at a standstill.

“Even Polaris, the strongest among us, has no way to fight a Priest… last time it was only with the help of ‘Jack’s Portrait,’ but such items are rare.”

Dongyang shook his head helplessly.

“Why don’t we go check the lake house, maybe the Circus’s store has updated in the last two days.”

Su Keying tentatively suggested from the side.

The others immediately shook their heads, not harboring much hope.

“Let’s go take a look then, now we need to seize every opportunity.”

Dongyang sighed.