I've Become the King of Villains in the Game-Chapter 651 - 429 Underground Secrets_2

“This matter is somewhat complicated, but Mr. Bales indeed has perished… He first clashed with his archenemy, sustaining severe injuries, then was ambushed by another enemy of the same rank, which ultimately led to his loss of control.”

Chen Lun sighed.

Then, he took out the notebook that Mr. Bales had left behind and passed it over.

Orianna took it with a look of shock and urgency, flipping through it quickly, her face growing paler as she read, until she was utterly stunned.

After a long moment.

She sadly handed the notebook back to Chen Lun.

“I believe what you have said now…”

After a few seconds of silence, Orianna began to recount events from a few months ago.

It turned out that when Mr. Bales arrived in the Land of Matthaios, he had fortuitously met Orianna, and the Grand Lord had fallen in love with him at first sight… not only for Mr. Bales’s noble and unique temperament but also for his formidable strength.

This was a man Orianna had never encountered before.

But afterwards, Bales left without saying goodbye, leaving her to yearn day and night, fantasizing that someday Bales would return… or that perhaps one day the people of Matthaios could return to the surface, so she could go and find him.

Unfortunately, that day would never come.

“Do you know why the people of Matthaios cannot leave here and return to the surface?”

Orianna’s voice suddenly grew somber.

Before Chen Lun could respond, she continued:

“It is a punishment, the punishment of the Sun God for us, the sinners… Thousands of years ago, the continent collapsed and fell, a new continent formed above our heads, basking in that gentle sunlight, leaving us in endless darkness.”

Orianna’s eyes were lost in thought, as if explaining to Chen Lun but also as if talking to herself.

“We are the pitiful ones abandoned by the Sun God, left to fend for ourselves underground… Even reproduction can only rely on the ‘Dark River,’ but the descendants born from the ‘Dark River’ are all females, carrying pollution from birth and living short lives… It is unlikely in this lifetime I will ascend to a higher rank, the end is near for me, and it’s a pity I can’t meet Bales once more.”

Chen Lun listened silently, saying nothing.

At this point, Orianna looked up.

“Your coming here, it couldn’t have been an accident… In light of Mr. Bales, if there’s anything you need, I can help you.”

“Thank you.”

Chen Lun said.

“I want to know some things.”

“What things?”

Orianna asked.

“About everything concerning the Land of Matthaios.”

Chen Lun said, looking at her.

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Orianna seemed not surprised by this, she just nodded her head.

“Initially, Mr. Bales was just as curious about this place as you are… and we are no less curious and longing for the surface.”

She laughed self-deprecatingly, then began to tell Chen Lun about some things concerning the Land of Matthaios.

First, Orianna introduced the four queens.

They were all high-ranking Saints of Sequence Four, but they were different from the [Moon Sequence Four-Ferryman] known to Chen Lun.

The queens’ sequence was [Undead]!

‘Could it be a branch of the Moon Path?’

Chen Lun thought, surprised.

“The Land of Matthaios was abandoned by the Sun God, and furthermore, there is a ‘Gatekeeper’ guarding the only path to the surface, keeping us separated… Once the four queens joined forces to challenge the ‘Gatekeeper,’ hoping to lead us back to the surface, but ultimately they were defeated miserably.”

Orianna shook her head.

“You cannot leave here through the Spirit World?”

Chen Lun, recalling his own method of arrival, asked aloud.

“Yes… The bloodline born of the ‘Dark River’ harbors a curse that keeps us, the ‘Descendants of Darkness,’ from entering the Spirit World.”

Orianna smiled bitterly.

She then raised her gaze to Chen Lun’s handsome face.

“But the ‘Descendants of Light,’ born of normal male and female union, are not constrained, so they are the hope of the Land of Matthaios. The four queens once vowed to rear a very few ‘Descendants of Light’ to adulthood, allowing them to return to the surface from the Spirit World to find a way to save this land… This is what we are still doing, and continue to do, because it is the only glimmer of hope we can see.”

“No wonder men are so rare and precious in the Land of Matthaios.”

Chen Lun nodded, realizing.

Meanwhile, he thought to himself:

‘According to Orianna, the surface should have some ‘Descendants of Light’ from the Land of Matthaios, but I have never heard of them before… They must be adept at hiding their identities, secretly searching for a way to save their homeland.’

Chen Lun sighed silently.

He then asked about the polluted creatures.

Orianna told him that the environment of the Land of Matthaios was harsh, not only scarce in resources but also plagued by various polluted creatures, among which the Didak Bug People were the most troublesome for the people of Matthaios, their strength formidable, only the Grand Lords capable of killing them.

This information raised Chen Lun’s eyebrows.